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Martha Lawrence, active in Neighborhood Ten--a Cambridge community association--and a Brattle area native, admits that the neighborhoods exert little political influence and are not in contact with the city manager. But she is quick to point out that associations did get together to fight the Kennedy Library and museum. "We have shown you really can fight city hall," says Lawrence of the battle to keep the complex out of Cambridge...
...both acknowledge that Harvard can't exert the political leadership needed to unite the fragmented groups and "get Cambridge back on the tracks," as Jones says. However, Sullivan and Jones are optimistic. Sullivan speaks enthusiastically of the future because, although the city has no community power structure, Cambridge is getting out of the cut-rate service low-tax mire that Eddie Crane dredged it through. But Jones pins his hopes a different plane--he claims he is looking ahead to the future. He's waiting for the emergence of another power broker like Eddie Crane...
There were even those who believed that peace would exert its own form of pressure on the Proves. "The consequences of the truce breaking down are too grim to imagine," one of the eight Protestant clergymen who helped to arrange the cease-fire said earlier last week. "If this fails, it will be a fight to the finish." With a vengeance that seemed to prove him right, the peace was shattered shortly after the I.R.A. announcement, by a bomb explosion at an army post in northern Belfast...
...Strange Appeal. Social psychologists have long been aware that disasters can exert a strange appeal. The sharing of a common threat pulls people together and creates a sense of purpose and adventure. "If you're in a rut, locked into your career," says Marvin Geller, director of Princeton's counseling services, "you may hope for some cataclysmic event to shake you out of it." Nostalgia for the '30s, fed by TV shows like The Waltons, can make the harsh realities of depression seem attractive...
...Some restrict the amount of stock that can be held by foreigners. Ownership of large blocks of shares, of course, does not necessarily give the shareholder control of a corporation's operations. As a result, the law more often limits the degree of management control that aliens can exert in specific industries...