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...standoff on America's tropical fringe. But while the Elian raid has torn Miami asunder, the Vieques episode could help Puerto Rico unify. For the past century, the island has been a U.S. commonwealth--a hybrid that gives its 4 million people many of the benefits of Yankee citizenship, such as U.S. military protection, but without the full burdens of citizenship, such as federal income taxes. It has also left them with a murky political identity, fractured among those who want independence, statehood or the status quo. Vieques, and the crusade to halt the bombing there, "marks the first time...
Barrios said he helped spearhead a recent bill providing two million dollars in funding for assistance programs to help immigrants who want to gain their citizenship...
...still have some concerns on the impact on citizenship," Galluccio said...
Dunn said she and Knowles discussed changing the prize so it could be awarded on the basis of academic merit--a departure from the "citizenship' criteria of recent years, but still in keeping with the donors' original intentions...
...addition, while the Fay Prize has in the past been partly academic, but also based on citizenship--"conduct and character...