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Going into last night’s Cambridge School Committee election, one of Patricia M. Nolan ’80’s campaign advisers told her not to count on success. “Almost no one wins the first time,” Ethel Klein, who now works as a pollster in New York, told the rookie challenger. But defying conventional wisdom, Nolan came out above all other candidates, as she and 28-year-old Cambridge teacher Luc D. Schuster unseated incumbents in an election process that rarely favors the underdog...
...School Committee elections, handwritten posters surfaced commanding voters to “vote no on Nolan,” referring to Patricia M. Nolan ’80, who ended up being the first candidate to be elected. (Please see related story, page...
Environmental consultant Craig Kelley was poised to claim a seat on the Cambridge City Council, beating out three-term incumbent David P. Maher based on preliminary results from today's election. The eight other incumbents were poised to win reelection to the council. Challenger Patricia Nolan '80 stood to win a seat on the School Committee based on the preliminary results, along with fellow challenger Luc D. Schuster. Incumbents Marc McGovern and Ben Lummis were poised to lose their seats. Members of the Cambridge Election Commission announced the results at the city's Senior Center tonight. -Check thecrimson.com for updates...
...heart-breaking conclusion. Meanwhile, the new, tourism-obsessed, environmentally threatened South Africa festers in the background. A masterpiece of understatement, The Whale Caller is the real winner among this year's crop of South African fiction. What about future vintages? Next year will see new novels by Mark Behr, Patricia Schonstein and other young whites who have made their mark since apartheid's fall. Expect more from Damon Galgut and Pamela Jooste, as well as nonwhite stars like Achmat Dangor, E.K.M. Dido, Niq Mhlongo, Mongane Wally Serote, Miriam Tlali, Zoe Wicomb and countless more. Now that all citizens...
...pressure to conform will go on, of course, until the equation changes--in other words, until there are more women of color in a position to call the shots. For now, says Patricia Gillette, a San Francisco labor lawyer, being a minority woman in business is still "a double whammy." But in the meantime, companies that recognize and boost the hidden talent within their ranks will profit in more ways than...