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...marriage has begun, and life has not changed for the citizens of the Commonwealth, with the exception of those who can now marry,” State Sen. Brian Lees, a Republican who co-sponsored the original amendment, said on Wednesday. “This amendment, which was an appropriate measure or compromise a year ago, is no longer, I feel, a compromise today...
...common among most Americans. You referred to Jennifer Lopez as the daughter of "Puerto Rican immigrants." Since when are Puerto Ricans--U.S. citizens by birth--immigrants? And the people who responded to your poll identified Puerto Rico as a "country" of ancestry when in fact the island is a commonwealth and part...
...more than 500,000 men from his country and New Zealand who traveled overseas to fight in World War II. The sacrifices they made are chastening to recount: Australia lost nearly 34,000 killed; New Zealand's 12,000 toll was the highest per head of population of any Commonwealth nation - at 6,700 per million, more than Britain's 5,100 or Australia...
...were doomed. Here in New Guinea, wrote Winston Churchill in his history of the conflict, "the tide of war" had turned. One measure of the intensity of the fighting is the fact that of Australia's 20 Victoria Crosses in the war, 12 were won in the Pacific. The Commonwealth's supreme decoration for bravery has been awarded only 1,355 times since its institution in 1856. All of the medals are struck from bronze cannon captured at Sebastopol in the Crimean War; one is still in the hands of Ted Kenna, the last survivor of that heroic dozen...
Adams, a graduate of the College and of Harvard Business School, is a former Dean for Finance and Business at the Harvard Medical School. He also served as the Commissioner of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from...