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Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf has lived within walking distance of Harvard Square for 35 years...
...past 10 years or so, Wolf has seen the Square undergo a gradual metamorphosis that she says she finds "disappointing." Many of the distinctive specialty shops and family-owned retail stores she used to walk by are gone, replaced by big-name chain outlets and trendy yuppie havens. Where once she saw a panoply of individualistic store fronts, she now sees a high-rise facade of modernized merchandising...
...reception attended by a number of Massachusetts mayors--including Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf--and state legislators, Sisulu praised Boston for its pioneering role in establishing sanctions against South Africa...
Even if the court does release him on his own recognizance, it seems unlikely that Wolf will spend much time in jail. Germany's Constitutional Court is now deliberating over whether former East German spies and intelligence officials can be prosecuted for simply having done their jobs. The issue was brought before the court in July when a Berlin judge suspended proceedings against Werner Grossmann, Wolf's successor as chief of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung, the foreign-intelligence department of the Stasi secret police. It would be a violation of the German constitutional guarantee of equal treatment, the judge contended...
...vagaries of postunification law are not the only factors working in favor of Wolf, who told the magazine Der Spiegel that he only wants to live quietly in his Berlin home and write a children's book. He has extensive knowledge that Bonn's intelligence officials would like to tap. There are estimates that as many as 400 former spies from his old organization remain under cover in Germany and may be working for the KGB or other intelligence agencies. Wolf has sworn in recent interviews -- and he is already adept in Western ways, reportedly charging tens of thousands...