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Ballot Question 9--the controversial proposal to abolish rent control in Massachusetts--drew an estimated 70 percent of Cantabrigians to the polls yesterday, according to officials of the city's Election Commission...
...promise. Microsoft and Visa said today they're developing software that by late next year will keep Visa card numbers private by issuing passwords to customers. After that, the firms said, other credit card companies will also be able to use the software. That big-hearted clause drew grudging approval from MasterCard, Visa's main competitor, which said it was "committed to a strategy of supporting the consumers' ability to use card-based payment products anywhere, anytime they choose."Post your opinion on theNew Mediabulletin board.Last Night's TIME Daily
...move was backed by 35 council members, but also drew 26 opponents. Twenty-two members were absent...
Thanks to its grotesqueries, the Mutter is beginning to trade offbeat obscurity for popular renown. Five years ago, it drew just 4,300 visitors; this year's attendance will be nearly four times that. Says Worden, who has appeared on David Letterman's show three times: "We're getting better known because we're just so interesting." The museum's photo calendar, she adds, sells briskly. The first ones, issued in 1993, are now collector's items, at $40 apiece. Each picture, like each exhibit, is a memento mori, a ghoulish reminder of our own mortality, malevolently fascinating, weirdly beautiful...
Indeed, the North-Robb race has proved to be a rich source of comic material. David Letterman drew up a Top 10 List of mock campaign slogans for North. No. 7 was, "A man of convictions. None of them pending." (North's three convictions in the Iran-contra case were overturned on a technicality.) And Garry Trudeau featured North as arrogant and a chronic prevaricator in his syndicated Doonesbury comic strip last week...