Word: moratorium
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...What's the rush?" Baumamn said. "It seems to me an act of good faith for Harvard to support that. A moratorium sets the framework for the process...
Cambridge resident Phyllis Baumamn said the University should support the Loose Petition--a moratorium on development in the Riverside area for 18 months. Residents have collected signatures supporting the petition...
...bill is unlikely to pass in the Republican-controlled Congress. But several states are pursuing similar reforms. Ohio legislators introduced a bill this spring calling for a moratorium on the state's testing. After parent protests, Wisconsin shelved its all-or-nothing graduation test; the state now judges students on a portfolio of their work, including test scores, grades and letters of recommendation. Legislators in Massachusetts are considering a similar proposal. Florida has forsaken rote multiple-choice exams in favor of tests with longer essay questions and math problems requiring students to show their work...
Illinois Governor George Ryan, a Republican, triggered the first major shift in death-penalty politics last January, when he declared a moratorium on executions in his state after no fewer than 13 death-row inmates were freed when new evidence cast doubt on their guilt. Then came Pat Robertson, the religious broadcaster, who called for a national moratorium. Next Wednesday, Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon will introduce a major bill in the Senate that would compel states to use DNA testing in all relevant cases. Also next week a highly touted study...
...Governors Bush stands out: during the four years Ann Richards, Bush's predecessor, was Governor, 51 Texans were executed--about half of Bush's just-under-two-a-month pace. While Texas' notoriously weak governorship puts certain constraints on Bush (he lacks, for instance, the power for a sweeping moratorium), he's got some discretion when it comes to the death penalty: he can stay executions, and most important, he appoints Texas' powerful 18-member parole commission. All the current members owe their jobs to him. Until this week, Bush showed no inclination to temper his state's death-sentencing...