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Residents of an apartment building at 20 Prescott St. were evacuated last night after the Cambridge Fire Department responded to a false alarm reporting smoke in the building...
That prediction assumes the wholesale flight of American companies if they must pay full corporate taxes. False alarm, the statehooders reply; the U.S. is expanding trade with Latin America, and Puerto Rico is a natural gateway. While affluent Puerto Ricans would have to pay federal income tax for the first time, the working poor and the unemployed would get higher benefits as welfare payments rose to meet mainland levels. Rossello promises that for every new dollar going to Washington, three would return in the form of higher assistance. Senator Ruben Berrios, head of the Independence Party, quips...
Others managed to find humor in the situation."I don't have to worry about a power outagekeeping my alarm clock from going off," said LoriB. Daniels '95, who lives in the Leverett towers...
...specifying what the U.N. would do to rebuild Somalia while the blue helmets kept security throughout the country. The resolution assigned them some so- called nation-building tasks -- setting up regional councils, for example, looking to eventual nationwide elections. That complex and time-consuming mandate might have set off alarm bells in Washington. But since U.S. forces were being cut from 28,000 to 4,500, and because things were going so well in Somalia, none were sounded. In fact, the House of Representatives in May decisively passed a resolution endorsing the nation-building mission and favoring...
...interesting to read Boston Globe columnist Bob Kuttner's October 1st editorial entitled "Tsongas sounding a false alarm with deficit reduction plan," having just finished Steven Wardell's editorial "The Most Evil Tax of All" (Crimson, Oct. 1). The two articles assume very different stances concerning the priority which our citizenry should accord to reducing the budget deficit...