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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the early result indicated that all the incumbents are likely to hold onto their seats. If no significant shifts occur as votes are transferred under the city's proportional representation voting scheme, the only new face on the council will be Independent Daniel Clinton--replacing Independent Kevin Crane, who did not run re-election...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Council Balance Unchanged; W. Sullivan Wins Most Votes | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

...that the philosophical and administrative centers of power are up for grabs. All nine council slots (and all seven chairs on the school committee) will be filled. should one council seat stop holding a liberal derriere and end up under a more conservative posterior, the following things might well occur: rent control, the program perhaps most responsible--for better or for worse--for the way Cambridge looks today could gradually disappear; condominium conversion could start to boom again as it did in the late 1970s; strict zoning aimed at neighborhood preservation could be loosened; and the administration...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Predicting the Unpredictable | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...opinion the loveliest sounds in all opera occur in the final act of Verdi's Tommaso Jefferson, when the desolate exile sings an aria to a lost ladylove in America: "O, Susannah, non piangere per me!"(O, Susannah, don't you cry for me!). But I am an old man and I digress. If you want to know more about these colorful characters, you can purchase my book Romantic Rebels, which is a mere ?4.9 at the Coop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Yorktown: If the British Had Won | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...missionary career in China, but first he must spread public awareness of the Lord by himself acquiring worldwide renown. His sister fears that fame will corrupt the purity of his soul, but she needn't worry. Liddell refuses to race in the Olympic preliminary heats because they occur on Sunday; instead, he delivers a sermon in church...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Running on Empty | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...relations at the library, yesterday confirmed the figures but said that the library had expected lower attendance. "We opened in October 1978 and our 1979 attendance was high because of the initial interest," he said, adding, "It is quite usual for a 20-per-cent-drop in attendance to occur in museums from the first year to the second...

Author: By Julian A. Treger, | Title: Library Denies Attendance is Problem | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

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