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...room are his trips to the antigraft court, the Sandiganbayan, which he decries as "a waste of money. The cars, the helicopters, the riot squad, it costs too much." But he has no choice as he presses himself into a black, bulletproof Toyota Land Cruiser with his lawyers. On Commonwealth Avenue his jeep passes graffiti sprayed on the meridian: FREE ERAP, POLITICAL PRISONER; and then swings into the guarded parking lot behind the building...
Last year, Harvard College received a total of $878,000 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, according to Clantha McCurdy, associate vice chancellor of financial assistance at the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education’s Office of Student Financial...
...should have very little impact on our institution,” she said. “This is really an issue for just about every other institution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...nearly 60 years, the U.S. Navy has conducted naval exercises in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Day and night, naval officers perform aerial bombings and missile tests on part of a populated American commonwealth. The residents of Puerto Rico have made their opinion quite clear, regularly voting the Navy out while protesting violently through intrusions on the Navy target range. But the Navy continues bombing. The fact that America is a superpower does not give the U.S. military permission to take over a populated island and pollute it for the purpose of strengthening the armed forces...
...Navy contends that it is vital to Puerto Rico’s economy due to the $14 billion in aid that the commonwealth receives from the United States. This implies an imaginary link between economic aid and the Department of Defense. A territory should not have to be a target range for the United States military in order to receive...