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After a December 1999 referendum to raise the termbill fee narrowly failed to gain a majority of student support, council leaders convinced Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 and the Faculty to unilaterally raise the fee from...
...proposal similar to the successful California proposition is planned as a referendum for this fall’s election in Massachusetts...
...response, the education committee of the state legislature approved a bill to counter the referendum said Rep. Alice K. Wolf (D-Cambridge...
...bill approved by the committee gives local school districts control over the type of bilingual education to implement, rather than being forced to provide only Structured English Immersion, as the ballot referendum would require if successful...
...stronger rival. (In any developing combat situation, it also gives the Pakistanis a useful tactical presence behind Indian lines in Kashmir.) Pakistan is loath to ease the pressure in Kashmir without guarantees that its political demands over the region - for its fate to be determined in a U.N.-supervised referendum - will be addressed. Restoring peace in order to maintain the status quo, from Pakistan's point of view, simply strengthens India's grip on Kashmir, and that's something Islamabad is reluctant to countenance. But it's far from clear that Washington can cajole India into any political concessions that...