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Errol Smith, chief executive officer of Smith Friday Enterprises and vice chair of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), the California state referendum that repealed affirmative action programs in state hiring and university admissions, shared some of Zelnick's criticisms...
...today, two years after a state-wide referendum eliminated municipal rent control regulations, only Bologna can afford...
Rent control was narrowly repealed in a 1994 statewide referendum. But residents in Boston, Cambridge and Brookline, the three communities with rent control regulations, voted overwhelmingly to keep protections...
...removed the final shred of choice students had in upper-class housing selection; it imposed a rigid, centralized bureaucratic structure on Harvard's largest student organization; it rebuffed an attempt to make its Ad Board more accountable to students; it's dean of students threatened to intervene in a referendum administered by the students government; its dean of the College urged the Faculty--the Faculty! --to re-evaluate the students government, which should derive its authority from students in the first place; it refused to seat students on the committee charged with selecting a new dean of the College...
Even though Stoyanov is mostly a figurehead, his landslide election last November was read as a referendum against the Socialist government. What has to be put right, he says, searching for a compromise, is "not just a matter of mismanagement" but of "almost criminal, Mafia-like forms of governing the country." Stoyanov admits that if he cannot get the parties together, he will be legally bound to let Interior Minister Dobrev form a government. That could turn the next referendum over to the angry masses on the streets...