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Technology's new challenge, ideally at least, is to re-empower voters and revitalize democracy through more direct popular representation. Pitfalls do abound. The same technology able to identify and link citizens and political institutions will also necessarily facilitate nationwide identification systems and increased governmental surveillance. This will undoubtedly prompt...
Several councillors had wanted to amend the ordinance to empower Cambridge police to arrest offenders, to set a 30-day sentence for anyone found guilty of sale or possession of a machete and to ban in addition the possession of the knives.
Sometimes the results are invigorating. Frustrated by poorly run public schools, activist parents are changing the face of American education with reforms from school vouchers to charter schools and the private management of public schools. ``I've seen schools that have been totally transformed,'' said Diana Nelson, a mother of...
Two former Education secretaries, Republicans William Bennett and Lamar Alexander, say the Cabinet department should be abolished and its work left to the states and communities. "Most federal programs can be done elsewhere," said Bennett, who headed Education under President Reagan. Alexander, who held the post in the Bush Administration...
The U.N. population summit in Cairo was predictably fractious and confrontational -- but it ended in surprising harmony. The 180 participating countries approved a plan calling for governments to earmark $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to support family planning, health care and programs that empower women, on the amply...