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...reaction to President Clinton's problems, the increasingly negative tenor of the campaigns and the strong economy. We hope that Massachusetts, never a state to follow the national trend, will be different. When citizens go to the polls next Tuesday, we urge them to cast their vote for L. Scott Harshbarger '64 for governor of the Commonwealth...
...handling the emotional impact of the killing. Meanwhile, writer-reporter John Cloud and senior correspondent David Jackson traveled to Hawaii to gauge public sentiment there toward gays on the eve of a ballot that would empower legislators to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage--the first vote of its kind in the country. "Hawaii is a relatively young state with a multicultural population, so citizens have traditionally been very tolerant," Cloud says. "But Hawaiians are going through a wrenching internal debate: Should they extend the spirit of aloha to gay couples even if same-sex marriage does...
...program has won over skeptics by emphasizing its grass-roots structure and its alliance with respected nonprofit organizations around the country. Members are selected by and work for such groups as Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Habitat for Humanity. AmeriCorps prevailed on a key Senate funding vote in July by 58 to 37, winning over such former Republican critics as RICK SANTORUM of Pennsylvania and Daniel Coats of Indiana. On Friday, Clinton will preside at a White House swearing-in ceremony marking the program's 100,000th member--a benchmark the Peace Corps took more than 20 years...
Benjamin Netanyahu may be under fire at home, but don't expect him to be toppled. As West Bank settlers barricaded roads, right-wingers in Israel's parliament failed on Monday to pass a no-confidence vote over the Wye agreement. "The opposition has promised to back Netanyahu over the agreement," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "That doesn't mean they won't push for early election so that they can unseat him and take forward the peace process themselves...
...Unsurprisingly, that message didn't play too well in the sticks; Cardoso allies lost at least six of the other 12 governorships in Sunday's vote. But TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim Padgett says that support from Covas should be enough: "Governors are very powerful in Brazil -- the states are where most federal money goes, and austerity measures have to start there." Since Sao Paulo is Brazil's industrial and financial powerhouse, any attack on Brazil's pervasive and gargantuan bureaucracy depends on Sao Paulo's cooperation. Let the cutting begin...