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...candidates point to local anger over a 2004 property tax reassessment that sent some homeowners’ taxes skyrocketing. But the City Council moved in September to lessen the burden on homeowners by tapping into the city’s budget surplus. And incumbents have also come out in favor of easing property taxes for residents.With incumbents and challengers sharing similar platforms, no opposition candidate has emerged as distinctly as DeBergalis did two years ago, “It would be easier for me if I was the only one focused on that, no doubt about that...
...isolated within the Administration. An intense internal debate has erupted over whether new Pentagon procedures for handling captured terrorists should adopt the Geneva Conventions' ban on cruel and degrading treatment. A senior Administration source says National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top military officers favor including the Geneva standards, while Cheney has managed to round up only a few senior Pentagon civilians, such as Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Cambone, to back his opposition to them. Adding to the pressure is the growing international controversy over what amounts to a clandestine CIA prison system...
...season opener against Dartmouth, the Crimson’s forecheck got stronger as time wore on and footraces continually fell in Harvard’s favor...
...Princeton in the Ivy opener, Raimondi and Wilson again had a major hand in the Harvard offense, getting in on all three goals. Raimondi scored the first two times for the Crimson, the second on Wilson’s first assist of the year. Raimondi then returned the favor on a goal by Wilson that proved to be the game-winner. In last weekend’s 7-0 season-opening win against Robert Morris, Wilson’s two goals were less integral, but many feel that she is at her best when working with Raimondi...
While specific legislation has not yet been drafted for the proposed social programming board, Capp said at last night’s meeting that one possible option would be to dissolve CLC and the First-Year Social Committee in favor of the new board “that would be able to function more or less independently from the UC...on a day-to-day basis...