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After its longest deadlock since 1948, the Cambridge City Council selected political moderate Sheila T. Russell as mayor, thereby ending the four-year reign of Kenneth E. Reeves '72. Irked by Reeves' attempts to expand mayoral power, councillors turned to Russell because she was a voice for restraint and it...
In contrast to Reeves, Russell is known as a listener and a consensus builder, who promised to "bring the mayor's position back down to the scope intended by this form of government," says Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio.
"I'm going to be my own person. Ken Reeves had a totally different style," Russell says. "He didn't try to compete with me, and I'm not going to compete with him."
Like Reeves, Russell aptly fulfills her ceremonial duties as Cambridge's head of government.
Russell lacks the sartorial splendor and ethnic heritage of Reeves, her predecessor. But she had no problem driving a two-year-old youngster through Rindge Park on a rider lawnmower on that afternoon.