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...this newest attempt to confound democracy, another branch of government has entered the fray. The state referendum repealing rent control won't be able to take effect until the courts decide whether the conduct of the vote was constitutional, a Suffolk Country appellate judge ruled last Friday...
Currently, students can obtain condoms in the school through its Teen Health Center, in on-campus branch of Cambridge Hospital...
...Cambridge branch is part of a state-wide effort organized by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health as a year-long experiment...
When Defense Minister Pavel Grachev appeared before the Russian parliament two weeks ago, everyone expected that his visit would be the political equivalent of a burning at the stake. His numerous critics were eager to toss a branch onto the fire that seemed about to consume the career of the 46-year- old paratroop veteran of the Afghan War who was promoted to Defense Minister three years ago. As the general who oversaw the final withdrawal of his country's army from eastern Germany last August -- an exercise most Russian soldiers still find humiliating -- Grachev has become the embodiment...
Arafat's spirits were temporarily buoyed when 10,000 Gazans rallied for him last week. Among them were several hundred Fatah Hawks, a military branch of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Hawks, who had been ignored of late by Arafat, swore, in chanted slogans, to defend him and the Authority. The militiamen then drove around the Gaza Strip, brandishing their guns and shouting slogans such as, "We shall shave the beards ((of the Islamists)) with our shoes...