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The book is structured around the encounters between an elusive narrator and Austerlitz, to whom Austerlitz tells his story in instalments, “speaking not so much to me as to himself,” says the narrator. So marginal is the narrator’s presence in the...
Tuesday’s Cambridge municipal elections were a landmark for the city, marked by the election of the first Asian-American City Councillor and the first write-in candidate, according to new results released by the Cambridge Election Commission yesterday.
The Cambridge City Council uses a unique and complicated election system in which voters rank nine candidates. Those who are ranked first on 10 percent of ballots are declared elected. Any extra ballots they receive beyond the 10 percent quota are redistributed to the candidates marked next in preference on...
Iran's opposition movement brought its struggle back to the streets of Tehran on Wednesday, turning the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover - typically marked by government-sanctioned displays of anti-Americanism - into a protest against the government. Defying police orders to disperse, hundreds of people gathered at a...
The burly mayor is unlikely to have felt many qualms about confronting muggers. A former schoolmate, talking to Johnson's biographer, described his subject as an "absolute berserker" on Eton's rugby fields. Johnson's career, both in journalism and in politics, has been marked by a fearlessness that not...