Word: whoever
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...like the chicken and the egg. Everyone believes that whoever wins the Democratic nomination for state representative and state senator in Cambridge automatically wins the final election. Thus, no Republicans bother to run for office in this city. And so the Democrats continue to sweep every election. This year is no different. If you were hoping to find heated political contests in Cambridge, you should have looked for them in the Democratic primary...
...death of John Paul last week, after only 33 days as Pope, left the world stunned, and prompted TIME'S third cover story on the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church in two months. Whoever is elected as John Paul's successor, and wherever he leads his church, TIME will report on the man and his achievements with the vigor that Henry Luce, half a century ago, felt they deserved...
...Whoever rules Cambodia in the foreseeable future will reign over a devastated land. According to refugees who have escaped into Thailand, the once lush province of Battambang in Western Cambodia is bare of all fruit and bereft of most of its people. In eerily deserted villages, papaya trees stand like bean poles, their fruit, then their leaves, having been torn off by starving peasants. According to the British Foreign Office study, since 1975 an estimated 2 million Cambodians have died of starvation and disease as a result of a campaign to drive city dwellers into the countryside, where there...
Coach Singleton is high on Cuccia but stresses that he is not a shoo-in to start for the freshman team. "Whoever knows the system best will start. It doesn't matter how much talent you have if you don't know the system...
...Morningside Heights in New York City during the repressive '50s. His was a working class Irish-Catholic neighborhood ("We were a National League neighborhood," he adds), and Carlin's archetypal second-generation Irish street-guy was roaming the trashy streets at night mad, contriving ways to defy whoever crossed his path. Unlike many of his friends, Carlin went to a "progressive Catholic school" and was spared such stimuli as corporal punishment and uniforms. He looks back on his on his "class clown" days and sees ironies that were never apparent to him at that...