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...morning debate, questions directed at town leaders relate to the interests of individual neighborhoods. By the afternoon, talk focuses on the good of the town. When the votes come in at day's end, environmental projects have risen to the top of the list, while flashier "prestige projects," including a park and some bridges, have dropped to the bottom. Fishkin is elated. "The public is smart," he says. "Under the right conditions, it's smart in China just like it's smart in Britain or smart in Bulgaria...
...after three months of battle with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Summers has risen to Guevara’s height of pop-culture martyrdom with a new t-shirt modeled after the famous image of the Argentinian guerilla leader...
...after three months of battle with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Summers has risen to Guevara’s height of pop-culture martyrdom with a new t-shirt modeled after the famous image of the Argentinian guerilla leader...
...Congress passed legislation limiting the benefits that states can offer to undocumented immigrants. Congress said that states could no longer offer them in-state tuition rates. For New Mexico’s undocumented immigrants, this meant the cost of higher education had just risen by as much as 400 percent. Immigrants also lost access to scholarships that are available to all New Mexico students who maintain a certain GPA. Working immigrant families found themselves priced out of the market. Their children, who had broken no law, now had no opportunity to get a college education. The rhetoric at the time...
...assistant director of the AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. One major obstacle, researchers agree, is a lack of federal funds. "The Administration is giving lip service to this disease but not the funding," complains Immunologist Allan Goldstein of George Washington University. Federal allocations for AIDS research have risen steadily from $5.5 million in 1982 to $106.5 million this year, but much of the money has come at the expense of other health programs and much of the initiative has come from Congress, not the Administration. Says Congressman Henry Waxman of California, who has been leading a drive...