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Once the only supermarket serving Cambridgeport and Riverside, Stop and Shop's plans to expand its site and build a superstore were derailed last summer when the City Council refused to grant it a zoning permit. Many residents are currently without a market within walking distance...
Harvard should permit students to send obscene, annoying and anonymous electronic messages and should offer unlisted e-mail accounts, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) argues in a report distributed to administrators yesterday...
Contrary to the impression left by some press reports, the use of commercially prepared ANFO is carefully monitored. People who want to buy it must produce a federal permit or a license issued by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They must also have a permit from the Department of Transportation to move the ANFO, and various state or local permits to use it. In addition, most of the people who buy and sell ANFO know one another. Any stranger who wanted to buy a large amount of ANFO would immediately arouse suspicion. Theft of any quantity would...
...will seriously erode civil liberties," complains James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute. "I think it would be terrible if the legislation passed in this atmosphere." One provision that has angered the bill's opponents would permit the deportation of aliens who donate money to activities sponsored by groups that the President has determined are involved in terrorism, even if the money was earmarked for ostensibly peaceful purposes, such as schools or medical assistance. That could affect fund raising in the U.S. on behalf of nonviolent undertakings by Arab groups that also have paramilitary wings. That, says the American...
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) -- two of Washington's most steadfast deficit hawks -- today proposed legislation to permit Americans to deduct every dollar they save and invest. The plan, asimplification of the tax codealong the lines of the Individual Retirement Account, arrives just as federal income tax reform is shaping up as a major issue in the1996 presidential election. GOP senators and White House hopefulsRichard Lugar of IndianaandArlen Specter of Pennsylvaniahave already embraced a "flat tax," andBob Doleis thinking it over...