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Environmental consultant Craig Kelley was poised to claim a seat on the Cambridge City Council, beating out three-term incumbent David P. Maher based on preliminary results from today's election. The eight other incumbents were poised to win reelection to the council. Challenger Patricia Nolan '80 stood to win a seat on the School Committee based on the preliminary results, along with fellow challenger Luc D. Schuster. Incumbents Marc McGovern and Ben Lummis were poised to lose their seats. Members of the Cambridge Election Commission announced the results at the city's Senior Center tonight. -Check thecrimson.com for updates...
...David P. Maher (incumbent...
Challengers Craig Kelley and Sam Seidel ranked ahead of incumbent David P. Maher in the count of first-place votes, according to members of the Cambridge Election Commission, who announced the tallies around 10 p.m. tonight to the candidates and Cambridge political observers gathered at the city's Senior Center for the biannual vote count...
...smart restaurant with his wife Asma or driving his family to their weekend retreat in the mountains. Since succeeding his father Hafez as President in 2000, Assad has left the dirty work of running Syria's ruthless intelligence and security organs to two members of his clan--his brother Maher, 37, commander of the Presidential Guard, and his brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, 55, chief of Syrian military intelligence. They haven't always got along. About five years ago, Maher shot Shawkat in the stomach during a family dispute. Assad played the conciliator and eventually brought Shawkat, who is married...
...fitting analogy, because like the fictional New Jersey Mob family, the Assads could be facing the end of their run. A long-awaited United Nations report last week implicated the Syrian regime in the assassination last February of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri--and specifically fingered Maher Assad and Shawkat as playing leading roles in the violent conspiracy. The report, by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, reconstructs the events that it says led up to the car-bomb murder of Hariri, including the August 2004 meeting in Damascus during which Bashar Assad threatened the billionaire Lebanese politician...