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...since the abolition of rent control by statewide referendum in 1994, the fate of 700 formerly rent-controlled Cambridge apartments owned by Harvard has become a major issue...
Schloming, founder of SPOA, compares the referendum to the civil rights movement...
JERUSALEM: Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu's political future awaits a Friday count of some 154,000 absentee ballots. With 99.9 percent of the vote counted, Netanyahu maintains a razor-thin lead of a few thousand votes over Prime Minister Shimon Peres. In an election many saw as a referendum on the country's peace process, Israel appears almost evenly divided. An unofficial count shows Netanyahu with 50.3 percent of the vote to 49.7 percent for Peres. Israel's course toward peace has been pursued aggressively by both Peres and his Labor Party predecessor, Yitzak Rabin, assassinated last November. Netanyahu...
...audience goes away thinking about conventions overturned. "If we don't encourage our young artists," Brustein recently told the Harvard Gazette, "we will have a country without a civilization, without a culture." Next fall the Institute moves into its 10th year, a landmark for any school, but a referendum of sorts on how well the Institute lives up to its own expectations...
...Florida a plan to build 47 casinos was defeated in a 1994 referendum after the state pegged expected crime and social costs at $2.16 billion a year--far higher than the likely $320 million to $470 million in gaming-tax revenues. Frank Fahrenkopf, president of the American Gaming Association, calls such calculations "educated guesses, at best--and pure fabrication, in some cases...