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...During a series of heated council hearings, opponents of the referendum testified against its legality and threatened to bring the issue to a higher court if it were to pass.Two major concerns were the possibility
...nuclear weapons and was proposed to take effect on Oct. 1, 1985. Those who rallied behind the referendum claimed that the city would not be completely nuclear-free even if it were to pass, however. Major exemptions to the law would have included nuclear medicinal research and any other nuclear research not intended primarily for the development of weaponry...
...even offshore balancing will only limit China’s power, not erase it. China still leverages its sway over North Korea to keep the West anxious, and its recent veto on a major Asian development bank project also illustrates its might...
...Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism and the Nieman Seminar for Narrative Editors will be suspended for the 2009-2010 academic year, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced last week. The suspension of these programs constitutes a major reduction in spending for the Foundation, which attributed its decision to a university-wide need to make budget cuts in response to the recent economic downturn. “Like most parts of Harvard, we’re facing the necessity of making cuts, and the narrative conference has become a very expensive undertaking,” said Nieman Foundation Curator...
...philosophically impotent, hoping that a sufficient number of voters is trained to cheer for the same old issues like opposition to taxes and gay rights. Clinging to them so stubbornly has led the GOP to shoot itself in the foot Cheney-style on a number of occasions, doing a major disservice not only to its own voters, but to the country as a whole. But rather than bolster its image with fresh policy proposals, the party’s current strategy seems to be to take a time-out and keep its fingers crossed for an epic presidential mistake...