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Just before her election the Daily Pennsylvanian reported enigmatically that the Committee on Student Affairs had voted to "abolish the curfew for Senior women, in principle...
When he discussed the various justifications of a war on poverty, for instance, Harrington glossed over the traditional "brotherhood" arguments, and gave more considerable time to the "cash-and-carry" argument. In the long run, he said, it will probably be much cheaper to abolish poverty than to continue maintaining it with government funds...
...bankrupt" system of teacher certification by which states dictate what courses a potential teacher must take in college to get a public-school license. The result, he charged, is that colleges are forced to teach insipid "Mickey Mouse" courses that turn out uneducated teachers. Conant's solution: abolish the state rules, free colleges to upgrade teacher training, make classroom performance the test of certification...
...present, Cambridge is the only major city in the United States which uses the PR system in its elections. Proposals to abolish the system have been defeated four times since it was first used in the city in 1942. The last defeat came in 1961, when voters retained the system by a margin of only 455 votes...
...week to vote away what little freedom they have left. Up for decision in a national referendum were two proposals put forth by President Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's "Osagyefo" (Redeemer). The first would empower him to fire any judge of the High Court or Supreme Court-which would abolish Ghana's technically independent judiciary. The second, and more important-copied almost verbatim from the Soviet constitution-would make Nkrumah's Convention People's Party the country's only legal political body and, like Russia's Communist Party, "the vanguard of the working people...