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Graham has no one but herself to blame. She should have learned her lesson last November. In a hotly-contested City Council election, she barely beat another political newcomer, Jonathan Myers, for a seat she has held since 1976. Instead of recognizing that her political base is fading, Graham blames her near-loss in that election on the complexities of the Cambridge proportional representation system, which encouraged liberal voters to support another progressive incumbent, David E. Sullivan, whom most people felt was facing a more serious challenge...
...give them a reason to vote for her," as well as an argument against Thompson, he said. Thompson, a school department truant officer who formerly served as assistant to the city manager for community relations, campaigned against Graham's attendance record and the fact that she held two public offices at once...
Nothing in Net: The Harvard defense has yet to be scored upon, with senior keeper Hall earning a pair of shutouts last week. Hall had help from classmate Chad Reilly in the MIT game. Reilly came in with Harvard already ahead 1-0 and held the Engineers scoreless for the final 46 minutes of action...
Even dramatic new evidence of widespread cocaine use by pregnant women probably underestimates the extent of the problem. Addressing a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences held in Bethesda, Md., last week, Dr. Ira Chasnoff of Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital reported that a study he directed of 36 U.S. hospitals found that at least 11% of 155,000 pregnant women surveyed had exposed their unborn babies to illegal drugs, with cocaine by far the most common. "There are women who wouldn't smoke and wouldn't drink," he says, "but they can't stay away from cocaine...
Certainly, the charm of the tiny competitors cannot be dismissed. How, we wonder, can ones so young and so small compete with such fierce determination and concentration? The commentators may speak of "women's gymnastics," but these are adolescent girls. If the 1987 world championships, held last October in Rotterdam, are any indication of things to come, the four events will be dominated by four teenagers: Rumania's Aurelia Dobre and Daniela Silivas, and the Soviet Union's Elena Shushunova and Svetlana Baitova. Most of them weigh less than 90 lbs. and do not clear...