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Many things frighten politicians, but none more than change forced upon them from below by a shifting electorate. But change is coming to Cambridge--fundamental new developments that may realign the city's politics, force new alliances, move the sources of power...
...very difficult and it's going to take lots of work and discipline, which I have to develop," Fletcher says. But the challenge doesn't frighten him away from setting high goals, as it did not frighten him in choosing to pursue his offbeat thesis...
...crafty sisters of charity used a barge to smuggle seven leprosy patients up river from New Orleans while telling suspicious residents of the nearby town they planned to establish an ostrich farm on the abandoned Indian Camp Plantation grounds, Carville still contains enough of a "leper colony" aura to frighten the most stoic newcomer...
...toward rivals. The reasoning was developed by John Sears: after his previous campaigns, all Republicans knew where Reagan stood, so there was no longer any need to fire up the conservatives. Rather, the necessity was to maintain what seemed like a long lead by shunning any rhetoric that would frighten away moderates. Thus...
...years old. A year ago, the thought that the draft [Feb. 4] would be brought back some time used to frighten me. Now I feel that if a young person is not willing to fight for his country, he has no right living here...