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Since a 1994 statewide referendum abolished rent control in Boston, Brookline and Cambridge, rents, housing prices and turnover in the area's housing market have all risen dramatically...
Lately, though, installing software feels like a cross between talking to a telemarketer at dinner and a national referendum on health care. Do you want the program to be your default browser? Do you want to overwrite an earlier version of DirectX? Do you want to register online now or the next time you reboot, or should we remind you every two weeks for the rest of your life...
Four other states--New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Kentucky--are considering halting executions, while Oregon opponents are seeking a voter referendum this November to abolish them...
...Israel's bombing attacks were a message to Syria's President Hafez Assad, whom the Israelis accuse of fostering the escalation," says TIME Jerusalem correspondent Eric Silver. "That perception is widely shared among ordinary Israelis, and the attacks may have severely weakened Barak's chances of winning his promised referendum on any land-for-peace deal with Syria. The prime minister is rapidly losing his wonder-boy image, and many of his ministers may be privately losing confidence in their leader...
...constitution outlines two methods for removing a representative from office: a two-thirds vote of the council following a petition signed by 10 council members, or a campus-wide referendum with two-thirds of the student body calling for removal from office, following a petition by 10 percent of the student body...