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Meanwhile, many of the 65 towns that voted against 2½ are demanding to be exempted from it. Cambridge, a Boston suburb where voters opposed the tax-slashing measure, is planning to introduce a home rule bill in the state legislature that would allow the city to override 2½. Otherwise, Cambridge officials estimate, they will have to cut more than $7 million from the school budget and possibly lay off 470 of the school system's 1,300 employees. "It is the most illogically conceived piece of legislation in this or any state," says Cambridge City Manager James...
...centrist, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 58, who was discredited by scandal 3½ years ago, but has been battling ever since to regain the leadership. Peres and Rabin have served in Cabinets together, and they even live within two blocks of each other in the same Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Aviv. Yet the two men are barely on speaking terms. They
...most glaring and obvious fact that appears from the data collected from our celestial neighbors is that none are even remotely similar to earth. The cliché, "There's no place like home," rings true. Whatever else space exploration may provide, it will surely not be the new "suburb" into which to move when the neighborhood goes...
...English Teacher Cyril Lang: the books he was teaching were not approved for tenth-graders by the school system's curriculum experts. Some parents had complained as well. But Lang went right on using the books in his classes at Charles W. Woodward High School in the plush suburb of Rockville, Md. Lang even based exams on them. School Superintendent Edward Andrews took that as "insubordination and misconduct in office." Last October he asked that Lang be suspended without pay, a request that the Montgomery County School Board last week began to consider in private hearings...
...short, unshaven young men in blue jeans and olive-drab flak jackets walked up to the door of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's modest house in the Tehran suburb of Jamaran. They were immediately ushered inside. The two visitors had been mere university freshmen until a year ago. On Nov. 4, 1979, they joined an estimated 500 other militants in seizing and occupying the U.S. embassy. Now, while their comrades downtown were preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of the siege, the two young men were reporting to Khomeini to elicit his "guidance" about the vote by the Majlis...