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Judith Bracken, a candidate for the District Council from District 9, the Allston-Brighton area, said that because there was no mayoral election this year, the public had less interest in the local races...
...Frank scandal "stained" the institution he serves? Perhaps, but certainly not as much as the many members of Congress who regularly use their positions for financial gain and sell their votes to the highest bidder, as the staff editorial rightly points out. Has he abused the public trust? If, as is expected, the Ethics Committee finds that Frank knew nothing about the prostitution ring being run out of his Capitol Hill apartment and clears him of any wrongdoing, the answer is no. Finally, will this episode irreparably impair his ability and effectiveness in fighting for the liberal causes that...
BOSTON--A bill to outlaw discrimination against gays and lesbians in housing, employment, credit and public accommodations cleared a parliamentary hurdle yesterday in the Massachusetts Senate, making it eligible for floor action...
...country is truly as serious about winning the drug war as it was about winning World War II, Harvard should make an equally determined effort to help remove drugs from American cities. Members of the Kennedy School brain trust such as Lecturer in Public Policy Mark A. R. Kleiman and Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management Mark H. Moore have already contributed to the federal government's drug policies...
This interaction between Harvard and government authorities should continue, but on a larger scale. In an interview yesterday, Kleiman suggested the creation of a drug center along the lines of Harvard's inter-disciplinary effort to combine research and public policy questions stemming from the spread of the AIDS virus...