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DiDomenico won the race by just 135 votes, according to the Boston Globe, narrowly defeating Cambridge lawyer Timothy R. Flaherty...
Cambridge’s candidates Flaherty, E. Denise Simmons, and Dennis A. Benzan garnered 46, 31, and 13 percent of the city’s votes, respectively. DiDomenico won 6 percent of Cambridge ballots—173 votes—and Michael J. Albano earned the remaining 3 percent. Less than 1 percent of the 2,921 votes cast by Cambridge Democrats went to the final candidate, Charlestown lawyer Daniel C. Hill...
...many states that Clay lost, and probably cost abolitionists the presidency decades before the Civil War. In 1912, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Eugene Debs created a jumbled electoral confusion and allowed Woodrow Wilson to waltz to the presidency despite the fact that Taft and Roosevelt combined had won far more votes for a more conservative agenda...
...outside the Broward County clinic who says he makes the 11-hour drive from Tennessee every month just to get his medication. He says he is prescribed medicine for chronic neck pain stemming from a forklift injury but cannot get the medicine he needs anywhere near his home. He won't divulge what he is prescribed. "I'd rather not say, but it's helping me," he says. "I'm not a junkie." The medicine allows him to keep working as an excavator, he says. "They help people that can't get medication that they need," he says. "Thank...
...What could turn a self-confessed social-networking addict so virulently against Facebook? Last month, the website announced a planned test to start sharing users' personal details with handpicked third-party websites to help those sites better personalize their services to people. Aigner complains that Facebook users won't necessarily be notified when this happens and the onus will be on them to use the opt-out function to stop their personal details from being passed on. And that, she says, leaves many people, especially youngsters, in a vulnerable position, since they may not be aware that their personal data...