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...fact, it may be a question whether human beings really want seasons at all. Civilization's ambition for centuries has been to mitigate them, even to abolish them. The seasons in many developed latitudes are rough and unpredictable. Man wanted to subdue them, domesticate them. The logic of Progress has been to lift humanity out of the yearly cycles and into a higher trajectory. Progress was designed to be an ascendant journey, linear and always brightening, not a mere pointless circular plod around the calendar...
...bills, introduced by Rep. William G. Robinson (R-Melrose and two other republican lawmakers, abolish the plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and allows the defendant to plead guilty, not guilty, or guilty but insane...
...machine's 50 ward bosses have offered their nominal nominee much help, and last week Alderman Roman Pucinski became the eighth of them openly to endorse the Republican. He said he could not ask his present workers to support Washington, who has pledged to abolish the patronage power of the party machine. Said Pucinski: "Why should I give him the guillotine with which to chop off my head?" At one rally in a Democratic neighborhood last week, formerly staunch Democrats serenaded Epton with a campaign song to the tune of Bye Bye Blackbird...
James E. Higgins '83, chairman of the Massachusetts College Republican Union and associate editor of The Harvard Salient, has been urging students on various campuses to abolish the automatic collection of PIRG fees from students when they register for classes or as part of the term bill...
...jobs in fiscal 1983. The largest single item, a supplemental $1.25 billion in fiscal 1983 for community development, is intended to produce 80,000 jobs in light construction. Other big-ticket jobs boosters: $200 million for the Economic Development Administration (which Reagan had hoped to abolish), $202 million for small-business loans, $200 million for rural water and sewer grants, and $100 million for summer jobs for youths. Also included in the final bill was about $375 million in humanitarian aid, including $100 million for a food program for poor women and children, $75 million for the distribution of surplus...