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...Ward Eight, Precinct Three, polling station, set up in the lobby of Quincy House, saw a lot of student traffic yesterday—but only from a distance. Few of the students passing through on election day stopped to cast ballots. The eight red-and-blue voting booths remained empty throughout most of the day, leaving the five election officials and one Cambridge police officer there with little to do. The election supervisor there would not provide comment. But, at 11:30 a.m., three-and-a-half hours after the polls had opened, only 27 people had cast ballots...
...focused his campaign on student issues. DeBergalis missed the final cut by 137 votes, but his unexpected success demonstrated that the power of incumbency in Cambridge was not invincible, if the right candidate came along who could harness the power of a previously untapped constituency.With Cambridge voters preparing to cast their ballots today, there appears to be little potential for another DeBergalis-style surprise. In a council race that looks strikingly similar to two years ago, all nine incumbents are running for reelection, and again, pundits predict a sweep.While many of this year’s challengers say they tried...
...back to the drawing board – but if more robust solutions of this sort can be found we might be able to sidestep the politics altogether.Harvard is an institution that idolizes free speech, in a country that holds these values sacrosanct. It behooves us to cast a wide net in searching out violations of these principles. Our own firewall should perhaps offend our sensibilities as students, but the restricted intellectual freedom of Chinese citizens ought to offend our sensibilities as people, and we should actively seek to restore these rights to them.Matthew A. Gline...
...Anthony D. Galluccio, the perennial top vote-getter on the council, was the only candidate who reached the quota of about 1,600 votes needed to be elected. With all 33 precincts reported, the number of votes that each candidate received, out of a total of 15,994 votes cast...
...eyes, their mimed interactions are so vivid the mind imagines their mouths following the gestures of Rau-Murthy (as Saavitiri) and Suratha Elango ’06 (as Yama). The final vignette was similarly impressive. In their portrayals of the Hindu mythological heroines, the all-female South Asian cast doubly confirmed the strength of Indian females and left little doubt about their legacies. —Staff writer Vinita M. Alexander can be reached at valexand@fas.harvard.edu...