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...Greenfield also added that he believed the same would be true for Sundquist, who—when things were looking so-so for the Petersen-Sundquist campaign last year—sent hundreds of personal e-mails to students, a task typically reserved for campaign staffers...
...rules and regulations.” It is precisely those rules and regulations that will inhibit the ability of Tuesday’s winner to act. City politicians have no formal role in the planning negotiations, which are limited to the property holders, the BRA, and the Harvard Allston Task Force. Task Force Chairman Ray Mellone said that the candidates’ promises to impact the development process might be hard to keep once elected. “Both candidates seem to be talking about all the university expansions, but they don’t seem to have a clue...
...players to build positive momentum and to uncover any weaknesses that can be addressed during the winter. For Nguyen, who earned a berth in the national indoor tournament with his second-place finish as the ITA Regionals in Princeton, N.J., two weeks before, the weekend’s task was to prove he could hold his own against players from the highest echelons of college tennis. Though he lost both of his matches, he succeeded in doing just that.“When you see these guys off the court, you see they have a lot of skill...
Quality-of-life issues are the task of any local government. But few places bring quite as much passion to the day-to-day problems of city life as Cambridge does. Case-in-point: the rat problem. Though the councillors themselves have rarely delved into discussions of the city’s rodent infestation in the past two years, citizen speakers are often eager to bring the pest problem to the councillors’ attention. The Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) operates a rat hotline, where citizens can report rat sightings or get help keeping rats from entering their...
...this contest, Turkey needs U.S. support to weigh in with Iraqi Kurds. Ridding the region of the PKK may sound like a difficult task, but starting a dialogue between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdish leaders that would lead to peaceful cohabitation in the region will prove more difficult still. With reporting by Pelin Turgut/Istanbul