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...Indian counties on the grounds that the state failed to clear them with the Justice Department as required by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The tactics being challenged include some targeted successfully by black voters in the South in the 1960s, such as "packing"--concentrating minorities in one district to minimize their political influence. The issue of voting rights is "the last battleground of the Indian wars," says Jennifer Ring of the Dakotas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is bringing the suit. In a state where Indians make up 8% of the population, the suit could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Indian Battleground | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

Capuano said his loyalty was first to the residents of his 8th Congressional district, then to the state of Massachusetts, then to America and finally to the world...

Author: By David Weinfeld, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Capuano Defends Trade Barriers, Democratic Party in IOP Speech | 8/9/2002 | See Source »

...seven-story building covered with white tiles at 669 Chuan Sha Road suggests that FLA regulations aren’t always followed. In the Pudong industrial district of Shanghai, off a pot-holed street glistening in the 90 degree heat, rises Shanghai C&F Arts & Crafts, Inc—the sole factory of Harvard licensee C&F Enterprises of Newport News, VA, according...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In China, Harvard’s Apparel Proves Elusive | 8/9/2002 | See Source »

...summer. Tiny dorm rooms—shared with one or two others—rent for roughly $200 per week per person. And for those extremely high prices, tenants aren’t granted access to any of the university’s other facilities. Even worse, the District slaps onto these rooms its enormous 14.5 percent hotel...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, | Title: Tales From the Sublet Jungle | 8/9/2002 | See Source »

...stiff stroll up Mount Parker road to the rarely-frequented Sir Cecil's Ride. The three-kilometer-long, narrow dirt path snakes its way west, ducking through thick forest. If your timing is right, you will emerge just as the sun sinks behind the skyscraper-studded retail district of Causeway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

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