Word: neighborhoods
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Vellucci is a past master of the Cambridge political style take care of the small things voters want make sure that the people in your area get their share of city services and milk ethnic and neighborhood sentiment for all the votes they're worth. That's the way it's been in the City-at least since 1941, when Cambridge adopted the Proportional Representation (PR) system, which places a premium on getting a solid-not necessarily large-group of voters to back a candidate year in and year...
...carpenter named Terry Cooke confided that he was one digit away from the winning number in a $28,000 lottery. "I don't know whether I'm lucky or unlucky," he said. At the time the remark mystified the neighbor. Last week, after police swarmed into the neighborhood in search of Cooke, he understood. Cooke, actually Ronald Arthur Biggs, 39, was the only man still free of the 15 who halted a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train in 1963 and looted it of $7,300,000. Caught and sentenced to 30 years in jail, Biggs escaped...
...year associate law professor at Boston College began looking last March for a $30,000 four-bedroom house within walking distance of his job and in a neighborhood with reasonably good schools. He and his wife are still looking-even though they have raised their limit to $40,000. "We're in a bind," says the professor, who now pays $275 a month for a six-room apartment three miles from his work. "We cannot find a decent house, and we cannot afford to stay in an apartment...
Thus, though the Shady Hill project has been debated for over 15 years, the character of the project and its impact on the neighborhood remain to be seen. Much still has to be settled during the coming months of negotiation and cost-cutting...
Given the difficulties of financing and winning neighborhood acquiescence, it will be some time-probably at least a year-before bulldozers actually begin work on Shady Hill. Whatever detailed plan is finally adopted, the University may end up losing more friends than it makes through the Shady Hill project. Too many divergent interests are involved-from those of junior faculty anxious for lower rents through neighbors wanting a park or design improvements that cost more money to low-income community residents anxious for a piece of the Shady Hill...