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...around Cambridge, but he says he isn’t taking any chances with this election. His election standings have varied widely over the past two decades. In 1993 and 1995, he led the council with number-one votes—in Cambridge, council candidates are ranked, not selected outright. In 2001, he was eighth by this standard and, in 2003, fifth. Reeves says that despite being a council veteran, he’s always seeking out new voters.“You are always introducing yourself to people who are new,” he says.Reeve...
...last week 27 more Americans died in insurgent attacks, many of them in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, which includes Fallujah. But Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi security forces aren't ready to assume the burden of imposing order in violent Sunni areas. While the city isn't an outright failure, a military official says the hope that Fallujah could soon serve as a model for U.S. success now looks like "perhaps the result of overzealous expectation...
...become one of the first known British casualties in 1984, when “nobody understood the disease. There was this tremendous ostracizing of the victim and the victim’s family out of ignorance and fear.” Early AIDS cases were hushed up or denied outright: “He kept getting things mysteriously wrong with him. It was very difficult to talk about. But eventually [AIDS] came to touch everybody somehow.”So shaken by the past, Hollinghurst unsurprisingly chose the 80s to inform both the setting and the tone...
...school Mountain Goats fans may look at “Love Love Love” with skeptical eyes, but to dismiss it outright is unwarranted. Unabashedly gentle, sincere, and un-ironic, the song represents Darnielle’s successful translation of his meticulous songwriting sincerity to uniquely personal content...
...Keening” is also more than a simple issue play, for the same reasons. The woman’s simple but eventful life, eloquently told without any overt action onstage, is ultimately far more affecting and natural than a play with a single focus and outright onstage violence would have been. We are lulled into the woman’s unhurried, calm yet expressive way of thinking and speaking, so that when intense emotions do break into the story, they are felt rather than observed...