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Fall of 2000: The residents obtain a building moratorium from the City Council to block all construction in the area. The city manager appoints the Riverside Study Committee, made up of residents and a representative from Harvard, to create a new zoning plan for the entire neighborhood...
...2000—the beginning of the most recent incarnation of the old battle—Harvard proposed a modern art museum for the site. Neighborhood activists, strongly opposed to the proposal, took their case to the city council and fought for and won a moratorium on all building in Riverside...
Although there are stumbles along the way (a moratorium on cliched intros and interludes seems long overdue), Outkast still manage to pack more innovation, musicality and enjoyment into these two albums than most rappers do in their careers. It’s clear, however, that Big Boi has served as a much-needed anchor for some of his partner’s wilder musical tendencies. —Will B. Payne
...Clark's first days as a candidate were anything but smooth. Besides his waffle on the Iraq vote, he seemed uncertain about how to answer some straightforward questions that more experienced candidates handle with ease. When the Miami Herald asked his position on the death penalty, Clark endorsed a moratorium on executions, then pleaded, "Stop. Stop. I promised I wasn't going to take a strong position." His campaign first said he would participate with the nine others in this week's Democratic debate in New York, then said he wouldn't because he was committed to making a paid...
...believe the state has executed innocent people. National polls have generated similar results. In a Gallup poll released in May, 73% of the respondents said they thought at least one innocent had been put to death in the previous five years. Yet only about half of Americans favor a moratorium on executions to ensure that those on death row should be there. In other words, most of us believe the death-penalty system is broken--and we don't care...