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...There might be public pressure on electors to cast their votes on behalf of the winner of the national popular vote. Imagine the din from radio talk shows, the threats and promises aimed at these electors. A few might withhold their votes unless their candidate agrees, say, to ban the RU 486 pill...
...Shays-Meehan Act, which would ban foreign and soft money contributions, rein in campaign advertisements posing as issue advocacy and increase the disclosure of political expenditures...
Daniel D. Moriarty, assistant provost, said the letter had argued that Harvard would be morally and ethically correct to ban Napster access...
...point was made even more strongly in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty debacle. The Senate's rejection of a treaty signed by the President left in disarray U.S. efforts to curb nuclear proliferation around the world. And it allowed the likes of India and Pakistan to simply shrug and promise to consider adopting the treaty when Washington does...
...Jacobson, nemesis of the multibillion-dollar U.S. food industry, relishes the attention. In the three decades since the soft-spoken microbiologist co-founded the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, he has enraged the restaurant industry (fettuccine Alfredo: "a heart attack on a plate"), forced a ban on sulfites at salad bars after a rash of fatal allergic reactions, shamed McDonald's into excising beef tallow from its French fryers, roused moviegoers against artery-clogging coconut oil in popcorn and successfully lobbied for nutrition labels on all supermarket processed-food items...