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Celebrants moved into the Club's second-floor Massachusetts Room, overlooking Commonwealth Avenue, for a sit-down dinner...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Dean Lewis Turns 50 | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

DIED. ROBERTO SANCHEZ VILELLA, 84, Governor of Puerto Rico from 1964 to 1969, who helped transform the U.S. commonwealth from an agricultural backwater into a modern industrial center; in San Juan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 7, 1997 | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...only allowing same-sex blessing ceremonies in Memorial Church could have such far-reaching implications. Unfortunately, blessing ceremonies are a far cry from weddings, and although Governor William F. Weld '66 recently decided to recognize gay marriages performed in other states, homosexual marriages remain unsanctioned in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Let Gays Marry in Memorial Church | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

According to representatives from the Campaign to Save 2000 Cambridge Homes, the recent rent increases and evictions have been brought about by the termination of the "protected status" of low-income tenants by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Residents Hold Vigil to Protest Rent Increases, Evictions | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

...Soviet republics as new international ones. He has at several key moments repudiated the bellicose claims of his noisier opponents. Yet plenty of questions--and among Russia's neighbors, plenty of anxieties--persist about how Moscow will handle its relations with the other 11 members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. If it develops as a genuine commonwealth of genuinely independent states, it will have the support of all its members and of the world at large. But if Russia tries to make "commonwealth" into a euphemism for domination of its neighbors, then the C.I.S. will deserve to join that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGING THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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