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Cambridge politics may change more slowly than the city. But in two years, the ballots will be lying in piles around the elementary school gym again, and once more they'll tell a story of the city's history, of its divisions and unities, and perhaps, most murkily, of its...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Counting Change in Cambridge | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

And Lee was no fool. The management that traded him to Montreal, that benched him during the gasping stretch of the 1978 season in favor of Pawtucket sweetmeat, was. With more than 50 years worth of cameras and newsclips and Causeway St. anecdotes, there's Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Sparky...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Heroes and Fools | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

If a candidate exceeds this quota, the extra ballots are redistributed to the piles of ballots for number two choices. If no one tops the quota figure, then the candidate with the lowest number of ballots is declared defeated and his ballots are redistributed, again to the second choice candidates...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Proportional Representation -- Voting By Number | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

The premise is as wrong as the solution is unlikely. The councilors are not divided on anything except the issues, on which they represent their constituents. They laugh, they dance, they eat, they even talk together, sometimes until 2 a.m. at council meetings. But all the jovialty and talking does...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Style of Things to Come | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

But all the piles of facts and figures power plant officials and witnesses mustered to the defense proved ineffective. When a state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) hearing officer said MATEP could not install its diesels, the University was stuck with a white elephant and increasing town-gown tensions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turn It On | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

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