Word: yes
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...Question 1: Should the Massachusetts Legislature be empowered to regulate or prohibit abortion?12% YES 84% NO .Question 2: Should the government give public funding to non-public schools? 24% YES 71% NO .Question 3: Should all drivers and passengers be required to wear safety belts while traveling in motor vehicles on public roads? 28% YES 67% NO .Whom would you choose to be the next governor of Massachusetts? 57% Dukakis 6% Kariotis .Whom would you choose to be Cambridge's next Congressman? 49% Kennedy 16% Abt Five percent of the undergraduate population was polled in a telephone survey conducted...
...Question 6 would allow voter registration with an affidavit sent by mail instead of requiring a visit to City Hall. The measure is an excellent way to extend the opportunity to vote to citizens who are disabled or work all day. Yes...
...last week, The Crimson has endorsed incumbent Governor Michael Dukakis, Saundra K. Graham for state representative, a no vote on Question 1, a no on Question 3, a yes on Question 4 and a yes on Question...
...Cooper vs. Aaron, a 1958 decision prompted by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' defiant resistance to the court's earlier landmark school-desegregation ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education. In a unanimous decision, the Justices pronounced that their decisions were the "supreme law of the land." Nonsense, said Meese. Yes, a Supreme Court decision "binds the parties in a case and also the Executive Branch for whatever enforcement is necessary. But such a decision does not establish a 'supreme law of the land' that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore...
...these pictures tell a story? Yes, a little one, about Jack and Zack (Waits) and the chatty Italian murderer (Roberto Benigni) they meet in prison. Planning their escape or simply getting to tolerate each other, they are three shaggy humans looking for a way out, and they communicate their anxiety through a kind of existential slapstick: Godot meets the Three Stooges. If you can get into the rhythms of Waits' disk-jockey patter, Benigni's fractured English and Lurie's sullen explosions, you may find Down by Law mildly ingratiating. Otherwise you will sympathize with the jailbirds as they mark...