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...April 8, 1999: Longtime Cambridge political fixture and current Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 announced he would retire in January 2000 following a 36-year career on the School Committee and then the City Council. "Term limits have finally reached me," Duehay joked. In his career, Duehay dealt with many of the major problems the city has confronted in the past four decades--including racial unrest and student protest in the 1960s and the housing tumult following the loss of rent control in a statewide referendum in 1994. Duehay said he believes there has been a substantial improvement in town...
...Living Wage Campaign held another rally--featuring speakers Cornel R. West '74 and Cambridge Vice Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio--as part of its continuing efforts to convince Harvard to adopt a $10 minimum "Living Wage" for all University workers. Though the rally did not produce any guarantees from the administration, it did show the increased presence of the campaign, which had obtained the support of about 100 faculty members and the support of a Cambridge City Council ordinance. "This is the most significant wave of student activism since the 1960s," West said. "It shatters the stereotypes that young students...
During the last year, Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 and City Councillor Sheila T. Russell announced their impending retirement from Cambridge politics...
Robert Winters, a Harvard math preceptor with an interest in local politics, says that these two long-serving politicians--Duehay has been on the council for 28 years, Russell for 14, and both have served as mayor at one time or another--form the spiritual backbone of city government...
...message: Brutality will not be tolerated, it will be prosecuted, and there will be convictions. Moreover, the police's blue wall of silence can be broken.? On the political front, the convictions will take the edge off an issue that could have been used to seriously wound Mayor Giuliani?s expected candidacy for the U.S. Senate. ?Although it is never great for a mayor to have such brutality go on in his police force,? says Cohen, ?the convictions will back Giuliani?s contention that the system worked...