Word: thompson
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About 50 people packed into the center's meeting room to hear the first half of the debate, in which 28th district candidates Jarrett T. Barrios '90, Dennis Benzan, David A. Hoicka and incumbent Alvin E. Thompson shared their visions...
...their opening statements, the candidates emphasized their achievements and used the opportunity to highlight what many said was a sense that Thompson--a part-time Pforzheimer House security guard and part-time school truant officer--had not represented Cambridge to the best of his ability in his 10 years of service...
...Thompson responded to criticism by citing accomplishments in his 10-year tenure at the State House. Through his "aggressive leadership," Thompson said he was proud to have helped win Cambridge the fourth-highest level of funding in the State...
...could go on and on and on for what I have done for Cambridge," Thompson said. "The last two years have been good years for Cambridge...[and] I want to continue...
...Sharif declared on Pakistani television. And it truly is a tit-for-tat: Five atomic devices were detonated at the Pakistani test site near the Iran-Afghanistan border, matching India bomb for bomb. Such an overtly macho action is hardly unusual in subcontinental politics. As TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says: "Pakistan is trying to return to the status quo ante...