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...Jurists on our Commonwealth's historic high bench uniformly possess the quality of fairness or at minimum the appearance of fairness or at minimum the appearance of fairness," the committee said in a written statement. "Fried fails to pass this basic test...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Fried's Possible High Court Nomination Irks Tenant Groups | 4/18/1995 | See Source »

...strange kind of ratchet that would require consent of the people of the Commonwealth as a whole before a locality may impose rent control, but then that would foreclose, in the name of local autonomy, that same general authority from thinking better of it and withdrawing the consent," Fried wrote in the April 29, 1994 brief...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Fried's Possible High Court Nomination Irks Tenant Groups | 4/18/1995 | See Source »

...tree are lookouts, who meet groups of would-be immigrants arriving from Santo Domingo and direct them to hiding places in safe houses and the surrounding jungle. Makeshift boats--weighted down by rocks and submerged in the stream near town--are waiting to take the travelers to the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where they can easily board a flight to New York City. Even the chickens have a role in this secret commerce: three times a day a boy delivers slaughtered birds and boxes of white rice to the refugees, who may wait days or weeks for their boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANGEROUS TIDES | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...Secretary of State is the chief information officer in the state," Diette said. "He wants to make sure that people in the Commonwealth have a clear source on information that can be very complicated and wants to eliminate as much confusion as possible...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Groups Concerned About Pamphlet | 2/28/1995 | See Source »

...civilized society, you would have to force the army into politics with a stick. They should not be concerned with who is in power today, be it Czar, General Secretary or President. Presidents come and go, but the motherland always remains. We are not in a normal state. The Commonwealth of Independent States is, in fact, an alliance of abnormal states. That is why all this madness is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AWAITING HIS NATION'S CALL: RUSSIA'S GENERAL LEBED | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

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