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Councillor Kathleen L. Born's surprise announcement Monday night that she will not be seeking reelection this fall adds a new element of potential for "new faces" to jump into the fray in the upcoming City Council election...
...says Guillaume Parmentier, head of the French Center on the United States. "Familiarity, in this case, breeds not exactly contempt, but it can breed misunderstandings." Still, the web of economic and cultural connection across the Atlantic is so vast that it's hard to envisage how political ties could fray past the danger point...
Last night, on the eve of the school committee meeting, the Cambridge City Council joined the fray, passing a resolution urging the school committee not to "sacrifice" the high school redesign that Evans engineered last year...
...things work out as Barak and Sharon probably hope, it may mean a reshuffling of the deck chairs. It could produce a unity government under Sharon that would last a while. But then that was precisely why Benjamin Netanyahu stayed out of the fray - without a new parliamentary election to change the balance of power, it's simply rearranging the deck chairs on what might still be a political Titanic...
...Northern hegemony, and for Americans who honor the valor and bravery of soldiers from the North and the South. But Republican politicians get into trouble when some pro-Confederate groups--who go beyond simply honoring the soldiers and seem to show sympathy for slavery--join today's political fray. One of John McCain's backers in last year's crucial South Carolina primary, for instance, was the editor of Southern Partisan. At the time, Bush and McCain were dodging the question of whether South Carolina should keep flying the Confederate battle flag over the state capitol, because they didn...