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Making an exception from the election laws for New York’s mayor would go against America’s democratic tradition. But his example, and the need for continuity that New York currently displays, demonstrates how term limits remove flexibility and choice from our elective process. There is little to fear in allowing city voters to elect the mayor of their choice...
...issues like adoption. And in other parts of Europe there's no protection at all. Although the registration of so-called domestic unions is a hot political topic in Italy, for example, homosexual unions there are not legally recognized in any form. But if societies - and the governments they elect to office - approve of and encourage these new forms of family life, they must be prepared to pay for them in the form of child care and tax allowances - for both married and unmarried parents. "A lot of pressure could be taken off the mothers and fathers if there...
...EAST TIMOR Nation in Waiting More than 90% of voters flocked to the polls in their first chance to elect their own government in the territory's turbulent history. East Timor will become the world's newest nation next year after the 88 M.P.s chosen in the ballot are sworn in. The Fretilin party, which led the fight for independence from Indonesia two years ago, was expected to win an overwhelming majority...
Such were the headline findings of a survey released last week by the American Medical Association. "The majority no longer perceive college binge drinking as a right of passage," declared J. Edward Hill, chair-elect of the AMA. "They see it as a major public health threat." But was there really a time when parents liked knowing their college freshmen were getting shloshed twice a week...
...true local form, Southie seems to be pulling out all the stops to elect their ‘hometown boy’ to Congress...