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Brett Donham, chairman of CCA's housing and land use committee, said last week, "Harvard hasn't done its homework. It hasn't shown a real need to redraw the boundaries, a need to purchase new land or whether it really has the means to build new dormitories...
...decision of which Warren was most proud was Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which extended the one-man, one-vote principle. His majority opinion on Reynolds, which forced nearly every state to redraw its electoral boundaries, showed Warren at his most eloquent: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests . . . A nation once primarily rural in character becomes predominantly urban. But the basic principle of representative government remains, and must remain, unchanged-the weight of a citizen's vote cannot be made to depend on where he lives...
Deeply embarrassed, federal prosecutors confessed that the indictment had been hastily drafted; because of the case's complexity, the feds finished preparing their charges only four days before the statute of limitations was due to run out. The prosecutors vowed to redraw and resubmit the charges in as little as three weeks, though they have six months. "The matter is going back to the grand jury because we feel we have a case," said U.S. Attorney V. De Voe Heaton. Added another federal prosecutor: "This thing isn't dead yet, not by a long shot...
Thus, it concluded that a school committee may redraw districts, including several neighborhoods and more than one school within one district, but that it must not draw districts that are large and gerrymandered. It did not specify the maximum size of a district, but suggested that the state draw up criteria. Shortly afterward, the state set down 3 1/2 miles as the maximum distance any high school student (9-12 grades) could travel, three miles for intermediate (grades 6-8) students, and two miles for elementary (kindergarten-fifth grade) students...
...perfect. It doesn't provide equitable salary and wage distribution. In some cases, it doesn't provide the right labeling on packages. There have been defects in autos. These are the kinds of cancers that can really destroy our system. So the Government has to redraw the rules under which enterprise will operate." However painful the adjustments, many businessmen will probably have to accept new and restrictive rules in order to preserve the U.S. business system they cherish. For in the long run, prosperity and domestic tranquillity require economic as well as social justice...