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...live comfortably in Cambridge, which has some of the highest real-estate prices in the country. Davis and other councillors pointed out that while the number of housing units has steadily increased in the past 50 years, each unit accommodates fewer people. And with the demise of rent control in 1994, inflation-adjusted rents have increased substantially. Councillors said they were surprised by other changes in the city’s demographics, such as the fact that it is becoming more racially diverse. “I think these trends are really profound,” said Councillor Sam Seidel...
...sports such as javelin throwing, all predate the quasi-Shi'ite form of Islam they later adopted (Alevi means "follower of Ali," the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad venerated in Shi'ism). They say the Koran is open to interpretation, and temper its teachings with such Alevi dictums as "control your hand, your groin and your tongue...
...divine typhoon that left only the keel and structure of the church unchanged." They discerned in the Council a call to greater church democracy, and an assertion of individual conscience that could stand up to the authority of even the Pope. So, they battled the Vatican's birth-control ban, its rejection of female priests and insistence on celibacy, and its authoritarianism...
...republic." He has since denied that he implied a separatist movement for Santa Cruz or the other three eastern states: Beni, Pando and Tarija, which will hold similar votes this summer. But critics say the remark betrayed an underlying goal of the country's eastern elite: gaining total control over Bolivia's vast natural gas reserves and its most fertile land...
...From that, my belief was that Rumsfeld's intent appeared to be to minimize and control further exposure within the Pentagon and to specifically keep this information from the American public...