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HARVARD Square is currently a tenuous balancing act--part commercial boom-town, part residential neighborhoods. One end is increasingly dominated by high-rise developments and ritzy boutiques; the other has remained free from pricey stores and restaurants...
...hostages in Iran had just come home, so the little eagles in cages on the nightly news finally disappeared. And Reagan had just taken office. He has been the president of my adolescence all the way to my first tenuous steps into adulthood. As the child of liberal parents, I had soberly assessed the possiblities of a religious-right wing autocracy and found it likely, not to mention the likelihood of my life ending in a ditch in Central America...
Character assassination by innuendo is hardly new, but these tactics are really all the militants have left. The legal case against the Fly Club (if indeed it ever emerges from MCAD at all) is tenuous at best. Even Perspective now admits that if the clubs are really private property there is (or should be) no further debate. In a choice between the continued existence of the final clubs and government assumption of the right to tell private citizens with whom they must associate on their own private property, the clubs must win. The freedom of association guaranteed by the Constitution...
Although only tenuous evidence can be presented that repealing the prevailing wage would result in lower taxes, repeal advocates have continually stressed this as a major campaign issue. As Mark Erlich of the Committee for Quality of Life said, "the phrase `tax savings' is a code word that people accept on faith. Our feeling is that we need to educate the public on a fairly complicated issue. In an age where simplistic arguments are winning, it is gratifying to have won so much support for this issue...
Finally, the referendum implies that the actions outlined above will lead to "peace for all states in the region including Israel." Certainly this sentiment is a worthy and noble goal, but the connection between it and the rest of the referendum is tenuous at best. It is unclear how the referendum's policies would accelerate peace in the region; in fact, they would appear to impede the process. They call for unilateral concessions by Israel, when we should be calling for negotiations by both sides. In addition to criticizing Israeli violations of Palestinian rights, we should denounce...