Word: local
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This year's local elections are crucial. For the first time since the early 1960s, three of the City Council incumbents have decided not to run for re-election. Although each of the three--Saundra Graham, David E. Sullivan and Alfred E. Vellucci--represent viewpoints that often differ dramatically in the city, they have all generally aligned themselves with the city's "progressives." And in recent years, they have played a crucial role in maintaining the five-member council majority that supports rent control...
...November 7, all politics will be local politics. Only student protest can ultimately check Harvard's administration, and only national politics can ultimately solve the housing crisis. November's election will not provide a sufficient solution to Cambridge's problems, but it is a necessary part of the solution. The future of our city does indeed hinge upon the outcome of this local election. Don't regret later that you could have made a difference: register to vote today...
...billion worldwide. They are joined by the CITES secretariat, a Lausanne- based bureaucracy that monitors the ivory trade. Together, the industry and regulators argue that a legal trade based on ivory from natural elephant mortality and culling produces revenues for wildlife management and for the benefit of local African communities as an incentive to protect the herds...
...serving a twelve-year prison sentence for trading in illegal ivory. Indonesia's former Ambassador to Tanzania, Hoesen Yoesoef, was found trying to smuggle more than 200 tusks out of the country last January. Other illegal ivory was found in the hands of a Catholic priest, a leading local journalist and officials of the Iranian and Pakistani embassies. More than 280 tons of illegal ivory has left Tanzania in the past three years, says Costa Mlay, director of the country's wildlife department...
...third of seven children of an impoverished Appalachian coal miner who moved north to seek work, Braden was born and raised in the industrial town of Monroe, Mich. On his way to play football one day, Vic, then 11, passed the local tennis courts just as someone opened a can of balls. "You could hear the fizz," he recalls. "I could smell the rubber. It was an amazing kind of olfactory thing. I made up my mind I wanted one of those things...