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Designed as an extension of the city's 1979 "removal permit" ordinance, C 1/2 would prohibit landlords from selling off individual units from a block of rent-controlled apartments...
Lalji said that the ACSRT will probably issue a statement on Monday asking the University to prohibit direct investments in tobacco companies...
...recent trend throughout the U.S. toward restricting offensive speech on campuses is disturbing. Although racist, sexist and homophobic speech should be abhorrent to all, attempting to prohibit them is not an adequate solution...
...general, and in the University in particular, we should carefully guard the distinction between that which we censure, or morally condemn, and that which we censor, or prohibit. Offensive speech deserves moral condemnation and vigorous rebuttal from the University community. Indeed, any liberal community has a responsiblity to condemn and rebut offensive speech. Standards of acceptability must exist, but they need not and should not be set by the University administration. What is important is not that purveyors of offensive speech be disciplined, but that they be loudly and publicly condemned by the community...
...affiliates, and even then not before testing the waters. When it does jump in, it tends to do so with both feet. That was one important reason the N.R.A. lost its battle to repeal a Maryland law that set up a Governor-appointed committee to prohibit certain handguns. The gun lobby enraged Governor William Donald Schaefer, a supporter of the law, by distributing a broadsheet that accused him of "untruths" and "flip-flops." That made the popular Schaefer so angry that he became an active campaigner against the N.R.A...