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...difficulties in having the Board vote directly on divestment has prompted the petition candidates themselves to look for more long-term means of opening up Harvard's method of governace. Seidman said that she is disturbed by the power of the nine-member Executive Committee, which sets the agenda for meetings and makes special decisions such as choosing the membership for the joint committee...
...question of the cause, it's a question of the individual method chosen by a cause," Daniels said. "The issue is whether any interest group should be allowed to put up a monument on someone else's property whenever and wherever they choose," he said...
...trying to choose a contraceptive these days face a frustrating task. The list of safe, reliable alternatives seems to keep getting shorter. Driven by fears about adverse side effects, many women scrapped first the Pill, then the intrauterine device. Large numbers found themselves forced back to a centuries-old method, the diaphragm. Last week the Food and Drug Administration added a new option by approving the marketing of another ancient birth-control device, the cervical...
...Mafia bosses and drug dealers where it hurts -- in their profits. But the law allows government agencies to carry out "administrative seizures" that do not require the owner to be convicted of any crime. Police and federal agents in New York City and Los Angeles have been using that method to impound the cars of drive-in drug buyers whose purchases would bring merely a misdemeanor charge in court. U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab, who proposed zero tolerance to the White House drug-policy board after a successful pilot program in San Diego, says its purpose is likewise...
Students today say that the activism of the 1980s, although it attracts less attention than did the protest movements of 20 years ago, is a more effective method of achieving lasting change. "The 1960s were characterized by the baby-boom surge in youth culture, but the student movement that sparked in 1965 collapsed in 1971. What we have now is a much more enduring organization," Perkins says...