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Citizens grappling over rent control face a key decision as soon as this week, when a Supreme Judicial Court ruling will determine whether voters will get the chance to ban the price ceilings from Massachusetts...
...ruling will determine whether a statewide vote on rent control would violate the state constitution's guarantee of "home rule," which is essentially the right of individual communities to make decisions for themselves...
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, facing tight budgets and possible shutdown since the end of the Cold War, may breathe easier thanks to Czech President Vaclav Havel. Last night, President Clinton accepted Havel's offer to house the broadcasters in the former Czechoslovakian parliament building in Prague -- rent-free. The stations, based in Munich for four decades, said the move would shore up their 1,500 employees' morale, but TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says few really want to leave their comfortable German surroundings. The Czechs, he adds, are only too happy to import a prestigious Western operation...
...scholar Antonio Cassese, says that makes the creation of the tribunal "a turning point in international relations. For the first time," he says, "the community of states is rendering a justice that is not that of the victors, imposed at the very time when the air is still being rent by the clash of arms and cries of pain...
...Simpson is not just a famous former football star. Through his sports commentaries, his Hertz Rent-a-Car commercials and his movie roles, he has created a persona: manly and likable, the classic good-guy jock. Whatever actually happened last week, we now know that this persona was not entirely accurate. Good guys don't beat their wives until the police have to be called, as apparently happened more than once in the past...