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QUESTION 1 ON TOMORROW'S BALLOT is a vaguely worded and dangerous attempt to restrict access to safe abortions in Massachusetts. Supporters of the proposed amendment to the state constitution claim that it would only threaten public funding for abortions. If passed, however, the amendment will have much broader consequences than right-to-lifers have been willing to publicize...
...work of a colleague who has the disease. The AIDS victim had stayed away from his job for a year, awaiting settlement of his $1.5 million lawsuit against the utility. He had charged the company with revealing his condition to his co-workers, who had then begun to threaten him. In California, debate continued over Proposition 64, on the ballot for consideration by voters in November. If passed, the proposition would give health officials the right to quarantine all AIDS patients and carriers of the virus. Perhaps the best news for AIDS patients last week was that shipments of azidothymidine...
Unfortunately, while taxes in Massachussetts are below the national average, 67 percent of voters support Question 3, which would repeal a seven-and-a-half percent surtax on income and limit the growth of state revenues. That would threaten existing programs, not to mention an expensive clean-up effort. Vote yes on 4 and no on 3. It's time to face the problem and the cost...
...failed tenure bids of two prominent junior professors reflect biases inherent in Harvard's appointments process that threaten to frustrate a highly publicized plan to promote more junior professors to tenure...
...Harvard patrolmen do a good job protecting all of us. Under contract provisions which are standard for police unions, the patrolmen are barred from striking, picketting or taking job actions which would threaten the public safety. All they can do is bargain with the University in good faith. Harvard should do the same...