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...weeks ago on this page, we came out against attempts by the City of Cambridge to subvert the abolition of rent control called for by the recent passage of Question 9. But now it appears that the opponents of rent control have thought up yet another way of stalling its repeal...
...right that Cambridge now claims to subvert that decision is really not a right at all. A local community has the right to defy a barger political entity if and only if it thinks fundamental rights have been violated. In this case, the city would have to persuade the courts that the removal of rent control infringes on the defined liberties of its inhabitants. And that will be a hard case to make...
...student of international politics, I see political warfare," Hosein said. He said the West was using "dirty tricks" to subvert the values of Islam...
...eight other city schools: let someone else run them. Amprey proposed giving a five-year, $125- million contract to Education Alternatives, Inc., a Minneapolis, Minnesota, ! corporation that operated three schools in three states. Handy was among many citizens who opposed the plan: "I saw it as a subterfuge to subvert the educational process and to experiment with African-American children...
...critical works and the editor of hundreds more, and a Vesuvian source of erudition and opinions. Bloom believes, among many other things, that a body of great literature of imperishable value exists, recognizable solely by its intrinsic aesthetic merits; further, that those who try to use or subvert the great works for extraliterary purposes, i.e., anything smacking of social engineering, are barbarians; and further still, that these barbarians are not at the gates but are largely in charge of American education and the nation's debased institutions of public discourse. His The Western Canon: The Books and School...