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...Harvard not to cover one of the great continuing civilizations of the globe seems to me to be an enormous gap," says government professor Roderick MacFarquhar, a China expert who was instrumental in creating the comparative Fairbank seminar...
...Boston and a broad coalition of political groups. Yet mail-in has failed in the past due to the intransigence of officials and the indifference of the voting public. Only 2 percent of the electorate know that the issue will be on the November ballot, according to the latest Globe poll...
...recent Boston Globe article referred to a former member of the Rent Control Board who earns over $100,000 and lives in a controlled apartment. Given that the average controlled rent is about $300 per month, including heat, this man is probably paying well under 10 percent of his income for rent. Low-income people are often paying 50 percent or more of their income for rent. How can any intelligent person call our present system of rent control "progressive?" How ridiculous...
However, others are divided less strongly or cleanly between political orientations, and one has split liberal organizations that usually cooperate. Despite an information booklet mailed to every registered voter by the Secretary of State's office, voters are apparently ill-informed: according to a Boston Globe poll released Sunday, only 42 percent of the voters had any idea which questions were on the ballot...
Question 6, on voter registration by mail, has met little opposition, but according to the Boston Globe's recent poll, only 2 percent of Massachusetts voters knew the question was on the ballot...