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Environmental consultant Craig Kelley was poised to claim a seat on the Cambridge City Council, beating out three-term incumbent David P. Maher based on preliminary results from today's election. The eight other incumbents were poised to win reelection to the council. Challenger Patricia Nolan '80 stood to win a seat on the School Committee based on the preliminary results, along with fellow challenger Luc D. Schuster. Incumbents Marc McGovern and Ben Lummis were poised to lose their seats. Members of the Cambridge Election Commission announced the results at the city's Senior Center tonight. -Check thecrimson.com for updates...
...challengers in the Cambridge City Council race stood ahead of one of the incumbents after first-place votes were counted from today's elections-but under Cambridge's unusual voting system, it remained too early to determine whether the challengers would earn one of the nine seats on the council...
Mansfield stood his ground, properly calling those examples marginal and ultimately irrelevant to his core argument. But many have not been so steadfast with reality. When the proposition of changing Tuft’s “heteronormative” housing confronted the university’s president, he found it hard to respond in the logical way—that heteropresumption is the way of a world where the huge majority are straight—and instead invented a nonsensical excuse underpinned by a worry that sexually transmitted diseases would increase if the sexes were mixed...
...plentiful on the Geisha set. For Hatsumomo's final, incendiary face-off with Sayuri, Gong Li stayed on the set all day, crying, never getting out of character. Marshall recalls, with awe in his voice, that "hour after hour, as people worked around her, lighting and moving cable, she stood there weeping, because she couldn't leave that feeling. I've never seen anything like that in my life." After the actress filmed her last scene, she couldn't let go. "When Rob Marshall announced that I had wrapped my role and was leaving," she says, "all of a sudden...
...Harvard, the win was a first in several respects. By defeating the Lions, the Crimson snapped a ten-game losing streak, winning for the first time since a Sept. 21 victory against then-No. 15 UConn. It was also the first collegiate win for sophomore goalie Siobhan Conolly, who stood tough in the net but did not have to make any saves thanks to an inaccurate Columbia offense. Perhaps most importantly, however, it was the final win for Harvard’s senior class. Ivy League champions just one year ago, putting this season in perspective is a difficult task...