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...incumbent Joseph G. Grassi had the lowest expenditure of any candidate, which McGovern said was because Grassi relied heavily on the votes of few faithful wards. Grassi did not reply to requests for comment. But Councillor Sam Seidel still believes money or incumbency are not the only things that matter. “A lot of it is hard work and shoe leather,” he said. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu
...main runways and took off into the bright sky late Sunday morning. First, there were only five people on board, while more than 100 watched intently from a nearby hangar. Second, the plane was the first commercial jet ever to fly on biofuel, a fuel produced from plant matter instead of petroleum or other fossil fuels. "This is the first stage on a journey towards renewable fuel," Virgin founder Richard Branson told reporters in the hangar shortly before takeoff, his voice drowned out every now and then by the roar of overhead planes. "It's the equivalent of those exciting...
...fixation on politics distracts from the things that matter most. I implore you, those who pore over every rise or fall in the polls, who hash out the byzantine intricacies of health care or foreign policy, to do a simple thing: Embrace the anarchy in your life. I don’t mean for you to take up a black flag, riot in the streets, or shoot President McKinley. I mean something that is more human than political wonkery, something you forget as you are overcome by primaries and polls. Politics is important, but some things in life should remain...
...three more that will start stumping for their favorite horse at the drop of a hat. These people have become so immersed in the argument against one political camp or ideology that they’ve entirely forgotten the argument against politics at large: namely, that nothing should matter this much...
...inconclusive results for Israel of the monthlong war it fought in the summer of 2006 against Lebanon's militant Shi'ite Hizballah meant that another confrontation was probably just a matter of time. And with the February 12 assassination in Damascus of a senior Hizballah commander continuing to roil the waters of the Middle East, that much-anticipated second round could be drawing nearer...