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Born in a Newark tenement, Rodino remains a resident of the same Italian-American community he has represented in Congress since 1948. He has never faced a serious challenge to his seat in New Jersey's Tenth District, and has successfully outclassed growing opposition from his district's black residents, who outnumber the whites. Rodino has been able to win by consistently wide margins because he stays close to his bedrock Italian-American constituency and his liberal voting record makes him attractive to black voters. He has also persistently and successfully refuted charges linking him to his state...
Leonard J. Russell, who has placed tenth in the past two races for city council, finished fifth in yesterday's count and it appears likely that the Independent will be among the nine councillors sworn into office next January...
...concept of herem had died out by the time King David established his monarchy at the beginning of the tenth century B.C., but expansionist wars were still permitted when approved by the priestly court, the Sanhedrin. Since the Sanhedrin no longer exists, the only permissible war for Jews is one of self-defense. After the disastrous Jewish war against the Romans in the first century and Bar Kokhba's last desperate rebellion in the second century, the Jews were forcibly scattered so widely that making war became virtually impossible...
...early sixties, the MBTA Yards were the prime proposed location for Harvard's next house--dubbed Tenth House. Immediately after Kennedy's assassination, Winthrop House students asked Harvard to name Tenth House after the late president, but University officials wanted to avoid conflict with the Kennedy Library and deferred on the choice of names, finally selecting Mather...
After Demarco and Rojas, only 20 seconds separated the next eight finishers. Bill Collins and Mark Curtis of Cornell staved off Harvard's Jeff Brokaw to place third and fourth. Jim Keefe took seventh, Andy Campbell ninth and Dirk Skinner tenth to round out the scoring for the Crimson...