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...four takings initiatives, which are largely funded by libertarian activist Howard Rich, a New York real estate investor, are modeled on a 2004 Oregon initiative. Measure 37 effectively overturned the country's strictest planning regime, a 30-year-old law that concentrated growth in cities while protecting farmland and open space. So far, aggrieved property owners have filed 2,724 claims seeking $6.1 billion in compensation. Under the law, local authorities can "pay or waive," and so far, strapped for funds, they are mostly choosing to waive zoning rules. As a result, some Oregonians fear that sprawl will soon strangle...
Though he does not consider himself to be an activist in the strictest sense of the word, Amutah is a part of the small group of progressives who work to keep an open dialogue on life at Harvard. He is one of the main writers for the liberal campus blog Cambridge Common, and he contributed to the controversial online Disorientation Guide to Harvard that launched earlier this month...
California's new greenhouse gas legislation signals a massive commitment to fighting global warming on the part of the world's sixth largest economy. But can industry rise to the challenge of what amounts to the nation's strictest curbs on carbon dioxide emissions...
...community. Co-chair of Bisexuality Weeks Mallory R. Hellman ’08 said she did not like the term. “I don’t think that it’s inclusive enough,” she said. “If bisexuality is, in the strictest sense, being equally attracted to men and women—that’s a very conventional, straightforward, limited definition.” Ochs encouraged a loose definition of the term bisexual. “When we try to over-define bisexuality as exactly equal attraction to two sexes...
...Number of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan whose deaths in American custody are known or suspected by investigators to have been the result of criminal homicide 3 Years of imprisonment, the strictest punishment yet meted out to any U.S. soldier for prison abuse