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Your statement that the destruction of my wrecked "web" brought down several Boston trust companies is perfidious. Under any other form of government, it would call for a challenge to a duel. For this time, I shall refrain from perforating your hide on condition that you make public amend by printing this letter verbatim...
...other council business, Cambridge residents representing the Campaign to Save 2000 Homes and the Eviction Free Zone asked city councillors to amend an inclusionary zoning proposal that was included on the agenda...
...democracy, you cannot throw out anelection, even though technically it's possiblefor the board to vote to amend the constitution[to do so]," Campbell said. "I think it'spolitically unconscionable...
...marriage: ignite a national backlash. Lower-court decisions in Hawaii allowing same-sex marriages led other states and eventually Congress to pass the bills outlawing them. (The Hawaii Supreme Court will probably rule on the issue soon, but next year Hawaii's voters will have a chance to amend their constitution to ban same-sex marriages.) The New Jersey case, says Arne Owens, a spokesman for the Christian Coalition, "will serve as a wake-up call to people, because what we see is another effort by the homosexual lobby to advance their agenda, and here they're doing...
...obtain fast-track authority to negotiate multilateral trade deals. Because he knew he would lose, the President asked the House to postpone a scheduled November vote on that authority, which would have enabled him to strike trade bargains that Congress could accept or reject but not amend...