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...springs have passed since some 50 women stood a fruitless vigil outside Agassiz House, while the Radcliffe Board of Trustees voted to abolish the Radcliffe Forum. The protest has long since ended. The decision, so "unacceptable" then, has been accepted, and by many, approved. The Office of the Associate Dean has replaced the Forum as Radcliffe's umbrella office for seminars, speeches and programs on women's issues. Everyone agrees that much has changed...
...consensus is that PR voting, though confusing to new voters, works. A movement during the last several years to abolish the PR system in Cambridge--used also in New York City School board contests--seems to have died, Duehay says...
...word, Mitterrand moves to nationalize key companies François Mitterrand intends to be remembered as a man who keeps his promises. Since his election last May, France's Socialist President has launched proposals to increase public benefits, raise taxes on the rich, return power to local governments, abolish the death penalty and slow down the West's most advanced nuclear energy program. Last week, fulfilling a pledge so controversial that many Frenchmen thought Mitterrand might actually back off, his ministers approved the most sweeping takeover of private industry seen in Europe since the immediate postwar years...
...label he rejects, but there is little doubt that he has become a point man for Marxist groups. Benn's left would take Britain out of the European Community, unilaterally scrap all of Britain's nuclear weapons and bar U.S. cruise missiles from British soil. It would abolish the House of Lords, nationalize all important industries and redistribute the nation's wealth. "If we stick to our guns, if we are not diverted," Benn urges his supporters, "we have it in our power in this year 1981 to take the first step forward to bring socialism...
Congress, however, already possesses some legitimate authority over federal courts. The Constitution, for instance, gives Congress the power to "constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court," and legal experts generally agree that the power to create implies the power to regulate and even abolish. Moreover, the Constitution awards the Supreme Court complete appellate jurisdiction, "with such exceptions, and under such regulations as Congress shall make." Experts disagree on the import of this little-exercised grant of authority. Some agree with Northwestern Law Professor Martin Redish that "if Congress truly desires, it can do almost anything it wants to the jurisdiction...