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After failing to turn in the paperwork necessary to appear on the ballot for November’s Cambridge City Council election, five-term incumbent Councillor Marjorie C. Decker is attempting to become the first candidate in recent history to wage a successful write-in campaign.On Wednesday, Decker, a Cambridge native, sent an e-mail to supporters asking for backing and donations and explaining her sticker campaign, which distributes stickers with her name on them so that voters can affix them to ballots.In addition to hiring an attorney to ensure that all goes smoothly on and after election day, Decker...
Both Hujar Orr and Matteson agree that the term has outlived its usefulness in the Le case. When an investigation of an individual reaches the point that police are able to obtain search warrants for DNA evidence, they argue, it's time to stop dubbing someone a person of interest - and start calling the person a suspect...
...began the next chapter. After lengthy negotiations, Billy Theodas secured a long-term lease and, in 1999, completed a vastly expensive restoration, footing much of the bill personally. Today, the 29-room hotel again boasts French colonial styling, with four-poster beds and marble bathrooms. The formal dining room, La Belle Epoque, serves French cuisine and seasonal local fare...
...these students were sent packing in mid-June. They are now streaming back to start the new school year, swelling the size of the student population to levels not seen since the election. The government is already hinting that it may shut down universities for the entire fall term. (See pictures of the turbulent aftermath of Iran's election...
...demonstrations that led to the fall of the Shah 30 years ago - were recently forced to defend themselves for hours in front of a disciplinary committee. "I am tired of going to university, which always looks like a prison," says a young woman who was suspended for the coming term from Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran. "Every day, they harass us by any means - threatening to reject us or suspend us [so we will] be quiet." (See pictures of the faces of contemporary Iran, caught between tradition and modernity...