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There is no "political boss" in Cambridge, and the City's politics resembles a sputtering engine more than a smooth-operating machine. Each politician creates his own core of supporters, and each takes care of his own obligations. As a result, Cambridge politics is personalized politics, which exists on man-to-man contact and the trading of favors...
...variety of textured paving. Kids are going to climb all over the sculpture anyway; they made sure that it came with built-in handholds to make it easy for them. Ground-level planting beds are sure to be trampled; they were raised so that their rims serve as benches. Smooth surfaces invite childish scribbles; here they are rough to discourage them. Women are afraid of mugging; gay, indestructible plastic-globe lamps replaced the previous dim lighting. Finally, the existing plane trees were saved and new ones added so that even without grass the plaza is green...
Playing David. He could not have picked a better year to play David. The late Representative William Green's once-smooth Philadelphia organization had turned increasingly fractious under Democratic City Chairman Francis Smith. It broke down when it backed State Senator Robert Casey, 34, a Scranton attorney, for the gubernatorial nomination. Shapp, guided by Joseph Napolitan, a J.F.K. pollster in 1960, mercilessly-derided Casey and exalted his own independence by calling himself "the man against the machine...
...Christopher, 58, a Greek-born, self-made dairy tycoon, is as nubbly as Reagan is smooth. He points proudly to his distinguished mayoral record, seeks to widen his liberal-Republican base by supporting such conservative causes as fiscal integrity and increased support for local police. Most important, he asserts, he is the only Republican with sufficiently broad support to win in November; recent polls, his aides note, show him beating Brown by a margin of 15%, whereas a Reagan-Brown battle would be a dead heat. The same polls, however, show Christopher trailing Reagan in the primary race, and most...
...sine qua non: a sense of belonging to a nation. The Thais have both. Though various ruling officers have come and gone since a 1932 coup gently displaced the King as absolute ruler, Kings and soldiers have combined, in a typical Thai equilibrium of accommodation, to provide a smooth chain linkage of government. The Thai sense of nationhood is partly the result of never having felt the trauma of colonial conquest. Even more, it resides in the charisma of the throne, reinforced by the nation's pervasive Buddhism. In Buddhist theology, the King is one of the highest...