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Cambridge residents at last night’s City Council meeting had one word for leaf blowers: leave.Three speakers at the session complained about the nettlesome noise, environmental damage, and potential health consequences caused by the blowers. And at the meeting, City Manager Robert W. Healy announced the creation of a task force to investigate the possibility of a city-wide ban.But Healy’s announcement doesn’t mean the controversy is likely to blow over.The task force includes four Cambridge residents as well as representatives from an equipment manufacturer, a landscaping firm, relevant city departments...
...when one party controlled all the levers of power, compared to 12 when the President had to deal with either one or both houses of Congress being controlled by the opposition. (He counts all laws that were included in articles by The New York Times wrapping up each congressional session, http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dmayhew/data3.html)...
...great camp,” Fraser says of the four-day tryout session. “It was great for my experience and just great hockey...
...defendants, chiefly Hussein's half brother Barzan Ibrahim.? But as often as not the proceedings in the early part of the trial went forward quietly, with Hussein acting bored. He'd sit for long stretches with his head resting on one of his hands. Sometimes, as court was in session, he'd zone out altogether. At least once he wrote some bad poetry while proceedings went on, reading the verses he penned aloud during one of the breaks...
...even the horrific testimony of victims seemed to affect him. One after another, people who'd been tortured by Hussein's henchmen offered stories of victims being hung from their feet and given electric shocks.? In one session, Hussein nearly shouted down the first witness who appeared in court to detail the atrocities...