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Many committee members are especially sensitive to the idea that large changes may not be able to muster the supermajorities--three-fourths for constitutional amendments, two-thirds for bylaw amendments--needed to enact them...
...During yesterday's teach-in, PSLM members said Harvard should move faster to enact a living wage...
...brink of a new day in Iran, Khatami should take note that there is a certain carelessness to an excessively careful approach. Given the support of like-minded reformers in Parliament, he should seize the opportunity to enact reforms and usher Iran into an era of freedom and prosperity...
...forward-looking plan that Zacarias, 70, didn't have the clout to enact. He wasn't popular enough--the school board recently bought out his contract after a bitter power struggle--but even fellow reformers think his plan was too much, too soon. Says board member David Tokofsky: "You've got the unions who want their say. And, of course, there's the facilities issue: Where do you send all these eighth-graders if you can't send them to high school?" The district now says it will stop advancing low-achieving students only in two grades (second and eighth...
Stewart convinced several Houses to enact some form of UKA. Quincy was by far the most ambitious, and became the only House to allow non-Quincy residents to swipe in 24 hours a day, seven days a week...