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...chosen to receive the honor through a series of conversations among PBHA volunteers and alumni, culminating in a deciding vote by PBHA student officers...
...feel as if your radical acts have been successful? How do you measure progress? The Mount Rushmore action happened right before Congress was supposed to take a very close vote on the acid-rain bill. That bill did pass shortly after that, requiring a 50% reduction, so that one was successful. Certainly the whaling campaigns have been successful. We've seen from experience that this kind of aggressive approach can be more successful than the insider, smoky-backroom approach larger environmental groups are using...
...looks like Harvard isn't the only powerful institution currently freaking out (read: overreacting) about the spread of swine flu with its Purell propaganda and single-bedroom quarantines. Yesterday, The Massachusetts House approved a bill (with a vote of 113-36) that would give health officials the authority to isolate infected individuals and mandate vaccine administration, as well as perform a few other questionable practices. (We're guessing that these don't involve delivering get-well meals to those quarantined...
...analyst and editor with the Cook Political Report, says any political grist for Republicans will probably depend on the level of opposition in Congress and how the issue is raised. Republicans could look for allies within the ranks of conservative Democrats to try to bring the bill to a vote in Congress - a big if. If so, the issue could become ammunition to be used against incumbent Democrats in midterm elections next year. Says Duffy: "It might be a vote that Republicans wouldn't mind making them take...
...completely confident" in its passage. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has also pledged to sign the bill. If that were not guarantee enough, a precursor bill that allowed Washington to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions sailed through 12 to 1 in May, with the sole opposition vote coming from council member and former mayor Marion Barry. The Democratic-controlled Congress, which can reject legislation affecting Washington, is not expected to block the bill, nor is the White House expected to object. And prospects for any referendum effort to halt same-sex marriages appear equally dim. When opponents sought...