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...Assembly. According to the Indian tally, even areas that had solidly supported the Chogyal a year earlier voted overwhelmingly for his opposition. The newly elected Assembly's first act was to submit a resolution calling for closer ties with New Delhi. Three weeks ago, the Assembly voted to abolish the monarchy and merge completely with India. The Assembly hastily organized a referendum and within 72 hours announced that the people of Sikkim had voted to relinquish their sovereignty by the suspiciously top-heavy margin of 59,637 to 1,496. Although there was little debate before...
...HISTORY Department's recent decision to replace the senior general examination in comparative history, abolish the pre-1600 requirement, and liberalize the department's rigid distribution requirements, is a welcome step in the right direction. It could signal a change in the department's prior position, which has been characterized by inflexibility and refusals to reform...
...walking a tight political line: he said he wasn't out to destroy the club system and social amenities as they were then practiced. He told a group of alumni in 1929. "The policy of Harvard for a score of years has been leading up to this result: to abolish social segregation on the Gold Coast...
...HISTORY Department recently ended two years of debate on whether to abolish or restructure its general examinations by offering senior concentrators eight precious hours of its senior faculty's time...
...moderately conservative. Thus the paper has retained a power base among the rich while occasionally fighting for progressive causes. Julio Mesquita, grandfather of the present director, Julio de Mesquita Neto, was the son of landowners who gave up law for journalism. During the 1870s the paper crusaded successfully to abolish slavery. After the monarchy was overthrown, Mesquita supported the creation of a republic. Later, many regimes tried to suppress O Estado, and Mesquita was once imprisoned briefly...