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Paving the way for a fall election battle, opponents of the state's recently passed Gay Rights Acts announced yesterday they had collected more than enough signatures to place a referendum calling for repeal of the landmark ordinance on the November ballot...
...supporters of the repeal said that the landmark ordinance gives gays and lesbians a special protection which other state residents lack...
...last December of the Georgian-style Gulf station which used to grace a Mass Ave. lot across the street from the Harvard Union. "In order to clear the way for a posh new hotel, Harvard razed a building it owned just days before it could be declared a historic landmark," write authors Zachary Robinson and Oscar Hernandez. Just about 500 days. The Gulf station would have turned 50 in June of this year--at which point Harvard still could have destroyed it with permission from the city Historical Commission. It's a minor point, but it makes me wonder...
Bush's abortion record is hardly a model of consistency. When he ran for the 1980 G.O.P. presidential nomination, Bush supported the Supreme Court's landmark abortion-rights ruling, Roe v. Wade. A few months later, as Ronald Reagan's No. 2, he adopted his boss's anti-Roe stance. On his own now for a year, Bush has led the charge against Roe by vetoing four abortion-funding bills -- heavy lifting to qualify for the Right-to-Life Hall of Fame...
...world's largest version of the landmark American fast-food chain rang up 30,000 meals on 27 cash registers, breaking the opening-day record for McDonald's worldwide, officials said...