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...NCAA does not want to any tournament games to be contested on Astroturf. And it doesn't want to play any games on neutral territory, for reasons of fan interest and atmosphere...
...Cambridge, 14,415 rent-controlled apartments, more than a third of all units in the city, are likely to go on the open market. While Harvard has remained neutral on Question 9, Harvard Real Estate, the University-affiliated owner of 709 of those units and the largest landlord in the city, stands to gain considerably from the rent increases...
Questions 6 and 7 will also likely have a detrimental effect in the long term. Proponents claim the new graduated tax will be revenue-neutral. While this may be true for the next fiscal year, the state legislature will almost certainly take advantage of their newly gained lee-way to raise taxes to higher levels in the future...
...forget about General Raoul Cedras and his golden Panamanian parachute. Consider only that President Clinton last week bestowed one of the highest presidential honors on one of the world's chief thugs, President Hafez Assad of Syria. The usual place for meeting the likes of him is some neutral site like Geneva. (One comes away less soiled that way.) Yet Clinton decided to pay court to Assad in Damascus. It was the first visit by a President to a nation on the U.S. list of terrorist states...
Even fringe candidates for office must be invited to participate in political debates on public TV or be told -- in "viewpoint-neutral" terms why not -- the Supreme Court said today in letting stand a lower court decision. The rationale for denying an invitation would have to satisfy an extremely high standard, because the lower court ruled that appearing on public TV was a candidate's First Amendment right. The 1992 case originated in Arkansas, when the Arkansas Educational Television Commission didn't invite Ralph Forbes, an independent U.S. House candidate, to a debate. Forbes sued; his lawsuit was first dismissed...