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...measure cannot be altered or rejected by Cambridge, Boston or Brookline--the three Massachusetts communities with rent control laws. And the act effectively makes moot a two-month court battle over the way the nine Election Day ballot referenda--including the initiative to abolish rent control--were conducted...
...credentials. And then there is Giacomo Biffi, 66, the Archbishop of Bologna. Biffi, for whom John Paul reportedly has a soft spot, likes to bait Italy's liberal press with his diatribes against gays, feminists, AIDS victims, unwed mothers and pro-choice activists. He has led a campaign to abolish the music of Mozart and Schubert from the Mass, and he once likened ordaining women as priests to celebrating Communion with Coca- Cola. Says he: "Defending the truth as it has been revealed by God is the most elementary and necessary act of charity toward others...
...Like the White House reform bill that was introduced earlier this year, the G.O.P. plan would deny benefits after two years. Unlike Clinton's plan, however, it would not provide jobs for those who can't find them. In a far more radical move, Republicans are also seeking to abolish more than 100 federal programs and replace them with grants to states, which would be free to do with them what they pleased, even if that meant not much...
...padlock an entire federal agency. Hearing of this, Republican leaders late last Friday began work on a new budget plan to close four agencies: HUD, Energy, Education and Commerce. The bidding war exasperated one official. "Now we're in a situation," he said, "where if we don't abolish three agencies, we look weak...
Congressmen are grownup student-council members, so will they have enough extracurricular activities to participate in if Republicans abolish funding for caucuses? Yes. Here are just a few of the unaffected caucuses...