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...looks quite messy and even threatening,” Vice Mayor Henrietta Davis said. “We need to take more aggressive steps. We need to advocate for the citizens...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council To Address Central Sq. Issues | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...Former Mayor E. Denise Simmons added that the City Council currently does not have a specific economic plan to develop Central Square...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council To Address Central Sq. Issues | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

Cambridge Mayor David P. Maher applauded the Congress’s initiative at the grassroots level to push through proposals for concrete steps the city can take...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock and Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Climate Congress Has Three New Proposals | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...Rangel and Paterson's father Basil were members of Harlem's Gang of Four, along with Percy Sutton - a civil rights activist, lawyer and local power broker, who died Dec. 26 at 89 - and David Dinkins, who served as mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993. The group inherited a tradition passed down from trailblazers like Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whom Rangel unseated in 1970, and together shattered scores of racial barriers, attaining offices once dismissed as off-limits and paving the way for the ascension of black leaders around the country. In the process, they turned Harlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rangel, Paterson and the Fall of a Harlem Dynasty | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...There is, perhaps, another factor as well. Instead of coming up through Harlem's political machine, the newest batch of African-American leaders - stars such as Obama, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Alabama Representative Artur Davis, Rangel's colleague on Ways and Means - have risen through the traditional channels of the U.S. meritocracy, says David Bositis, an expert on black electoral politics at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington. "These guys are Ivy league, corporate-law-firm types," Bositis says. "You're talking about a very different political system than what Basil Paterson, Dinkins and guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rangel, Paterson and the Fall of a Harlem Dynasty | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

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