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Longtime observers say the city is split between progressive and traditional Democrats. The city's high tenant population and white collar workers back the issues-oriented Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), which at the age of 42 is the nation's oldest municipal party. They are opposed by ethnics and landowners who support the more conservative Independents, who have controlled the city's neighborhoods for years...
...University by reading this issue of The Crimson than the average Harvard student learns in four years. The fact is that Harvard students come here to pursue their own goals, often regardless of what goes on around and above them. Many are never aware of the forces behind the oldest, most prestigious educational institution in the country...
...joins six others at the top in the long-lived, seven-man Harvard Corporation, the University's top governing body. At 335 years, the Corporation is the oldest incorporated, self-perpetuating body in the Western Hemisphere. Technically, it exercises complete control over every aspect of Harvard. Together, the men oversee Harvard's massive $600 million annual budget, a job that has come to occupy most of their time. No small task for just seven men, the Corporation members oversee University investments, conduct fund drives such as the successfully concluded $350 million capital campaign, manage the budget for twelve different faculties...
...shook the Kremlin with a dramatic burst of changes at the top. Grigory Romanov, the man who some Western analysts believe had been Gorbachev's rival for the Communist Party leadership before the General Secretary's March 11 accession, was unceremoniously dropped from the ruling Politburo. One of the oldest and most familiar Kremlin figures of all, Andrei Gromyko, who has been his country's Foreign Minister for the past 28 years, was raised to the prestigious but largely ceremonial post of President, a position that had been vacant since the death of Konstantin Chernenko on March 10. Immediately thereafter...
...Andropov and Chernenko. Instead, Gorbachev rose in Moscow's columned Great Kremlin Palace to declare that his duties demanded such "intensity" that he should concentrate on the party leadership. He then nominated Gromyko, 75, who he described as an "eminent political figure" and also, significantly, as "one of the oldest party members." Then came the second part of Gorbachev's surprise. Gromyko's replacement as Soviet Foreign Minister would be Shevardnadze, 57, the vigorous, innovative Georgian who had been named to full Politburo membership only the previous day, filling the Romanov vacancy...