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...proposed West Cambridge community center. Three-term councillor David P. Maher—whose father, William, also served on the Council in 1966—was the only member who failed to retain his seat in November municipal elections. Political newcomer Craig Kelley is set to replace Maher at the Council’s first meeting on Jan. 2. Councillor Timothy J. Toomey Jr. led the Council in thanking Maher for his service and presenting him with a ceremonial plaque and resolution. “I know this is only a temporary hiatus for David,” Toomey said...
...some of the requisite skills to being a semi-competent chair? I was horribly persistent and wrote a scrut. I learned so much in my editing sessions with Rachel E. Dry ’04, listening quietly as she and Liz F. Maher ’04 talked in the office. But also, I shot for associate editor and got it. And in my year as associate, I learned: in the production suite, in the newsroom, in the FM office. I watched in awe as Mollie H. Chen ’05 worked her organizational magic, and as Sarah...
...army of vigilant lawyers, and the U.S. both required and monitored assurances that countries would treat their prisoners in accordance with international human rights norms - for example, that they would not be abused or tortured. President Bush says the U.S. does not condone torture. But in one 2002 case, Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was intercepted while changing planes in New York City and shipped via Jordan to Syria. He was held for a year, and says he was beaten. Before 2001, it would have been inconceivable for the U.S. to send anyone to a country with Syria...
Immediately after 9/11--when seeing anything other than evil behind terrorism got Bill Maher and Susan Sontag lambasted--there was a limited audience in the U.S. for complex terrorists. But four years and a controversial war later, a few works are starting to hang flesh on those stick villains. In addition to Syriana and Sleeper Cell, there's The War Within, a film about a plan to blow up New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and Paradise Now, about Palestinian suicide bombers. Salman Rushdie has taken up the subject in his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown...
This windfall was the final blow for Maher, who fell behind the challengers into 11th place and was eliminated...