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...even if Bush is adamant on testing a new missile defense system, the ABM treaty should be amended rather than entirely dissolved. The pact has been amended before, and this process would be a far better option than the complete abandonment of a landmark agreement that has been the keystone of disarmament policy for decades. The progress made earlier this year on reducing American and Russian nuclear stockpiles appeared to be a step in the right direction, and we are confident that Bush could find a compromise with Putin to amend the treaty. Even if such a compromise is eventually...
...long opposed using these records for law enforcement purposes out of the fear that it will lead to a national gun registry. He has repeatedly claimed that retaining the records is illegal, even after the Supreme Court has ruled otherwise. As a senator in 1998, Ashcroft tried to amend the law, but his amendment was defeated. Now the attorney general is seeking to change the law on his own by refusing to enforce it, preventing the FBI from accessing the information and attempting to have all the records destroyed 24 hours after the background check is completed...
...even in our own neighborhood. But subsequent calls by City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan and others to close the Pit, though well-meaning, are misguided. The Pit and those who frequent it do not pose any significant danger to the surrounding community, and the City Council was right to amend Sullivan’s original proposal and to focus on protecting Pit regulars rather than protecting Cambridge from them...
...Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) releases its report in a month’s time, the living wage campaign has already transformed its public presence from a single-issue lobbying group into a movement focused on perennial issues and engaged in a near-permanent effort to amend the University’s labor policies...
Dixon proposes that the City Council have greater control over education than the current state Proposition 2 1/2 requires. Instead of having the City Council simply approve or reject the School Committee’s budget, Dixon says he wants the council to be able to amend the school budget...