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...damage to property values. The initiative exempts health and safety regulations, he points out, and current zoning laws would still apply, protecting beaches and steep slopes, for instance. As for future laws, he argues, "if you own a piece of property that's zoned one way, then it is unfair for the government to change the rules." While California's initiative affects only future government actions, Washington's Initiative 933 allows landowners to file retroactive claims for changes in zoning rules over the past 10 years...
...country's policies. I hope the world understands that the Republicans are not representative of all the American people. Christine Buxton Geneva Equal Time I had to laugh at time's asking News Corp. chairman and ceo Rupert Murdoch if Fox News had done anything that he thought was "unfair and unbalanced" [Oct. 16]. Your magazine is anything but fair and balanced. Your coverage of the Foley scandal seemed as if it had been written by the Democratic National Committee. Diana Clary Allen, Texas, U.S. I chuckled at Murdoch's claim that Fox News chief Roger Ailes "has been insistent...
...laugh at TIME's asking News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch whether Fox News had done anything that he thought was "unfair and unbalanced" [Oct. 16]. Your magazine is anything but fair. Your coverage of the Foley scandal seemed as if it had been written by the Democratic National Committee...
...founded HFTI as an undergraduate and helped to coordinate last night’s event. A coffee farmer from Ethiopia, Tadesse Meskele, said that cooperation among farmers to send their products directly to markets could help raise living standards. “The growers remain poor because of unfair trade. Farmers go barefoot and they don’t have the possibility of sending their children to school,” said Meskele, who is the founder of Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union. Instead of going through collectors, distributors and exporters, Oromia has allowed farmers to bypass the middle...
...recent poll by the Detroit News showed people in Michigan have complicated, if not contradictory, views on the subject of affirmative action. When read the statement "even though affirmative action may be unfair to some individuals, the good that it has done makes up for that," 45% of respondents said yes, while 42% said no. Although 75% praised the virtues of a "diverse student body," 53% said "affirmative action wrongly sends a message to minorities and women that they are not capable enough" and 60% disagreed with the notion that "affirmative action is needed to compensate minorities and women...