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Cambridge’s proportional representation (PR) is part of the “Plan E” charter that sets out the city government. Plan E is one of five possible town charter systems that the state legislature established in the late ’30s. The law requires that whatever voting system Plan E cities follow was in use in 1938, the year the state enacted the legislation...
Other Plan E cities such as Lowell, Worcester, and Medford have since gotten rid of the PR aspect of the charter—leaving Cambridge as the only city in America with PR...
...state legislature repealed the law that allowed Plan E cities to use PR. But after legal wrangling that went all the way to the Supreme Judicial Court, Cambridge prevailed and continues to use PR to this...
...atmosphere. At the dawn of the 20th century Paris was the place for them. It was fun: it had cabarets, cafés, dance halls, bars, brothels, an underground railway, even neon lights. The artists gathered in steep and semi-rural Montmartre and later in Montparnasse, St. Germain des Près and the Latin Quarter. Groups of friends evolved into artistic movements, each with an "-ism" of its own. Even World War I couldn't cramp the city's style. "Paris, Capital of the Arts 1900-1968," which opened last month at London's Royal Academy of Arts...
...choose our winners because they have made a lasting and significant contribution to the field of entertainment,” says HPT press manager Joanna S. B. O’Leary ’03,who is apparently already comfortable with hokey-sounding PR platitudes. The HPT executive board meets over the summer to consider which stars to honor. O’Leary, who is not directly involved in the selection process, does not detail the selection timeline but emphasizes that the executive board knows who is booked for Man and Woman of the Year well before the information...