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...government grows bigger in England, so does the feeling that England should formally adopt a bill of rights. The Sunday Times victory in the Thalidomide case will at least increase the pressure on Parliament to strengthen the right of free speech. But there are some characteristically British obstacles in the way of real reform. One is that Parliament is loath to give up its traditional supremacy over the courts, which would happen if judges were allowed to declare laws unconstitutional. Another is the sheer slowness of change in Britain. But after his success at Strasbourg, Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans...
Libby L. Shaw, a spokesman for the Office of Development at SPH, said yesterday the school will allocate part of the money to strengthen a series of executive programs in health policy and management...
...little, you lose a little. The drive to end University investment in South Africa and to strengthen the Afro-American Studies Department received a morale boost and lots of free publicity from Monday's boycott of classes, but the gains were costly--the boycott alienated some students, and the protest apparently had little effect on University policy...
...committee also recommended rejection of a bill that would allow Cambridge to strengthen its rent control by outlawing eviction of tenants from apartments for condominium conversion...
...demonstration on Thursday organized by the Committee to Strengthen Afro-American Studies brought about 350 students to the steps of Memorial Church, but the cold weather thinned the crowd before the program ended...