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...world. We saw her as a Gandhian, dressed in "khadi," or handspun cloth, tirelessly travelling through the villages of India. We saw her at the White House, resplendent in her brocades, charming President Kennedy. We saw her as an international leader of the non-aligned movement and the Commonwealth of Nations. We saw her haggard face as she knelt upon the ground examining the remains of the plain crash which had claimed the life of her son. We saw her at home, in jail, at conferences, at rural project inaugurations. We saw her everyday, in the newspaper, on the movie...
That, in a nutshell, is what the Commonwealth's Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) will be deciding sometime this month. Do you okay Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), which has already cost the University $302 million--six times more than originally projected? Or do you decide that the risk of four people suffering lung cancer from nitrogen dioxide emissions is too great and therefore prevent the site from generating electricity? To put it more bluntly: are those hypothetical lives really worth $75 million apiece...
...government consultant on Puetto Rican constitutional affairs, about which he wrote his book Puerto Rico, Middle Round to Freedom. His work helped form the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Maass said...
...Windsors' attic must be quite a sight. Consider only the old hats Prince Charles, 35, must have tossed up there. At one public moment or another, he has gamely donned a cowboy hat and an Indian headdress. Just returned from a four-day visit to the Commonwealth state of Papua New Guinea, Charles has of course acquired yet another item for his collection of ethnic headgear. Upon his arrival at the tropical island of Manus, Charles was officially named...
...other theaters which go out of their way to show unusual movies are the Nickelodeon in Boston (600 Commonwealth Ave.) and Coolidge Corner in Brookline (290 Harvard St.), both on modeled and expanded, and it offers a good selection of foreign, offbeat, underground, and gay films. The Coolidge Corner is a little more mainstream, tending towards interesting revivals...