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Cambridge Convention incumbents and candidates all have histories of advocacy for these issues. The reformers, although they have not had a majority except from 1968 to 1973, claim credit for organizing coalitions within the city council that instituted a number of progressive reforms, including rent control. The reformers also claim responsibility for hiring City Manager James L. Sullivan, who has reduced the tax rate for three years running despite the lower tax base caused by rent control. Progressives also say they have reduced patronage jobs and hired professional administrators, as well as providing opportunities for citizen input in government...
...CUrSe-and banning is the most insidious punishment in South Africa. Reserved for an elite 150 or so of the government's political enemies, it amounts to an emotionally destructive public Coventry. For five years, Woods may not meet with more than one other person at a time except for members of his family; he may not write for publication or be quoted-he has become, as a result, a public nonperson. Although forbidden by South African law to quote Woods on any subject or even echo his thoughts, TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter was able to spend...
...accompanies his wife and son as far as the steps of the modern stone-and-glass Santa Chiara Church. He watches them enter and returns when Mass is over to accompany them home. In a country where husbands often leave churchgoing to their women, the scene is not unusual-except for one thing. The man is Enrico Berlinguer, secretary-general of Italy's Communist Party and an atheist who nonetheless is willing to accommodate the steadfast faith of his wife Letizia...
Phase II will include the addition of a hockey arena/auditorium, a Varsity Club Alumni lounge complex, a gym, and a renovation of existing out-dated facilities. Except for $1 million specifically earmarked for the hockey complex, all money pledged to date will be used in Phase...
...title of a story you've heard some place before, then you're only partly wrong. Writer-director Andy Borowitz '79 says that his new musical comedy is based on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." But it's also, Borowitz claims, "a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical except the leading man doesn't have good posture." "America has been begging for a good family musical about a hunchback for a long time," Borowitz says (only partly joking). With its big, brassy production numbers, "Gars and Goyles" will probably not let America, or Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid, which has not produced...