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...because Cambridge’s ban would, in effect, amend an earlier regulation from the city council, only the votes of five councillors could make smoking illegal in bars and restaurants...
...last night, the group’s re-discovered constitution came into the spotlight as HRDC members voted to amend it for the first time in six years, mandating that future HRDC-produced shows involve a marginally higher percentage of Harvard affiliates...
...software, according to reports by the New York Times, would allow government surveillance of e-mail, credit card and banking records and travel documents. While more extensive legislation is needed to completely open the floodgates of heretofore private information, wording in the current HSD bill is enough to amend the Privacy Act of 1974, which put limits on what the government could do with personal information. Civil libertarians say the IAO program infringes on basic privacy rights, while proponents of the system say it only takes necessary measures - investigating suspicious spending or email threats - to make everyone as safe...
...immediate issue precipitating the split was the failure of the two sides to agree on Labor Party demands that Sharon amend his budget to reallocate funds away from the West Bank and Gaza settlements that form a central part of the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians and instead spend the money on sectors of Israeli society left vulnerable by the country's shrinking economy. But there's nothing new about either the government's support for the settlements or the economic woes of millions of Israelis, which has Israeli analysts opining that ben-Eliezer is simply reaching...
...Texas, where a majority of the nearly 5 million uninsured are Latino, the state legislature approved legislation last year calling for a study on the cross-border health-care issue. The results will be presented to legislators next year, when they will decide whether to amend state law to allow for cross-border insurance...