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According to Maher, most zoning proposals before the council require the votes of six out of the nine councillors. But because of the written dissent of landowners who own about one-fifth of the property in the city, including Harvard and MIT--which together own about 15 percent of Cambridge--last night's proposal required a seven-councillor majority, he said...
...ZIMBABWE Internal Strains Parliament again postponed debate on a controversial media bill amid reports of growing dissent within the ruling zanu-pf party. As human-rights groups noted increasing incidents of political violence and the U.N. delivered food aid to once-productive areas, local reports said a parliamentary revolt led by rebel M.P. Eddison Zvobgo had forced the government to amend proposed new information laws. Bills curtailing political activity and election campaigning have already been passed into...
...Ashcroft's confirmation hearing this week, the winds of opposition will suddenly be funneled into a single human voice. White's 1999 nomination for a federal judgeship was famously torpedoed by Ashcroft, who charged that White, an African American, had "pro-criminal" tendencies. Exhibit A for Ashcroft: White's dissent in favor of a death-penalty defendant accused of murdering four people, including three police officers. Ashcroft's opponents charge (and Ashcroft denies) that his criticism of White was motivated in part by the nominee's race. Exhibit A for the opponents: Justice Ronnie White...
...damaging a witness will he be? White has given no public indication of what he will say. He's likely to make a strong case that his dissent in the murder case had to do with faulty evidence, not sympathy for criminals. But will he discuss the racial issue or let it hover unspoken? White is said to be still angry about what he sees as Ashcroft's mischaracterization of his views. That anger could give the hearing enough punch to remind TV audiences of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill battle of a decade...
...sheriff's wife five times during a holiday party; she died in front of her family. He wounded another deputy and killed two more outside the sheriff's office before he was captured. His insanity defense was unsuccessful, and the Supreme Court upheld the sentence. But in his dissent, Judge White argued that Johnson had been represented by incompetent counsel...