Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter of unfinished business, the council voted 9-0 to enact an amendment to the city's zoning ordinance to encourage affordable housing projects in the School Street section of Area 4, a low-income neighborhood near East Cambridge...
...best possible way to experience him. He draws the group in, using the microphone expertly, letting a rich Midwestern gruffness emerge in his voice--it's the political equivalent of a Garrison Keillor radio monologue. "There's justice that this is where the presidency begins," he says, "in a neighborhood, on a front porch, on a summer night." He likes the line so much he repeats it, rhapsodizing about "running for the highest office in the land the same way you run for mayor," and never mind that Bradley never ran for such a lowly post. He offers well-modulated...
...would Giuliani really harm an important cultural institution that serves an otherwise art-starved neighborhood? Sure. By week's end, staff members were uttering his favorite words: "No negotiation." It's unclear, however, whether the mayor actually has the legal authority to refuse a check to an entity promised one in the budget he signed. The case will doubtless end up in court. There are constitutional issues too: the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot penalize artists solely because their work is disagreeable...
...keep them entertained while waiting for the video to start. Too bad their programs weren't half as good as their marketing pitch. The daily news show was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't. Girl's Locker Talk was a cheesy sex-talk show, and In the Neighborhood was just plain strange: viewers got to follow a guy wandering around Venice Beach, Calif., trying to pick up women and hanging out with eccentric friends...
Members of the surrounding neighborhood offered their initial reactions to the proposal at a public meeting held Monday...