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Religion. Powell took a highly eclectic approach: he voted to allow Pawtucket, R.I., to place a creche in a municipal Christmas display, but also to strike down an Alabama law authorizing a moment of silence in public schools. Justices Rehnquist, Byron White and Antonin Scalia want to go further than...
The latest wave of demonstrations broke out two weeks ago to protest the selection of Roh Tae Woo, chairman of the ruling Democratic Justice Party, as its nominee for President in the national elections scheduled for later this year. But in contrast to the first disturbances, which involved only a...
MIXED-UP GOVERNMENT. The power structure of megacounties is a kind of elective feudalism: a series of petty neighboring baronies lacking the authority and, frequently, the will to police development. "Essentially, we're a city without municipal governance," complains Jack Knuepfer, chairman of the Du Page County board. "We're...
In fact, the policy of property divestment drew such vociferous criticism from Cambridge residents that local politicians turned the issue into a referendum question on the 1985 municipal ballot. And 50 percent of the city's electorate told Harvard to stop.
The renewed confidence is largely due to the backing the HUCTW received this winter from the AFL-CIO's largest union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). The national endorsement has brought the Harvard labor movement financial support, research assistance and the right to be called...