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Puritan New England offered few outlets for fun; throughout the region, Harvard Commencement was known as a bacchanalian celebration, the great holiday of the Commonwealth...
...website provides links to both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Federal Election Commission...
Last week, for the second time in 13 days, Washington was forced into a 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...
Like many others, Ward says making MCAS a graduation requirement punishes students for failures of the Commonwealth's education system...
...Tripp Jones, executive director of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, an economic think-tank, said health insurance and job training benefit workers more than wage increases...