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...lawsuit filed by council candidate James I. McSweeney asks the Massachusetts Supreme Court to abolish PR voting, although he hopes to gam election under the system in Tuesday's elections...
...related news on the Washington front, Rudenstine said that the direct lending program, of which the University has been a pilot member, had survived Congressional attempts to abolish it. He added, however, that the program still faces an as-yet undetermined level of cuts...
Both bills abolish the entitlement status of welfare, place a five-year limit on benefits, and provide welfare funds to states in the form of block grants. These measures would do much to break the cycle of welfare dependency by encouraging work and returning decision-making power to state authorities. But while both of these bills provide badly needed reforms of the current system, only the House version of the bill even begins to attack the central problem of the welfare system: the growing rate of illegitimacy...
...course, student apathy or the difficulty of dragging bracketed professors back to campus probably make this compromise unworkable, and shopping will still be a hassle no matter when it happens. Better yet, why not abolish shopping altogether...
...CAMPAIGN BY RELIGIOUS RIGHT political groups and their allies in Congress to abolish federal support for arts and culture is especially hypocritical given that these same people complain about the quality of music, television and movies that the marketplace provides. Why are self-proclaimed "pro-family" groups so eager to do away with the institutions that provide quality educational alternatives to pop culture? ELLIOT M. MINCBERG, Executive Vice President and Legal Director People for the American Way Washington