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...meantime, the City Council has approved, on the City Manager's suggestion, a $60,000 grant from the Committee on Criminal Justice, Dept. of the Commonwealth of Mass., for a Police-Community Task Force Program that was thoroughly repudiated by significant segments of the Cambridge community a year and one-half...
Chayet said last week that the defense has yet to sit down with Flanagan and discuss the case, but a key question in the motion for a bill of particulars asks the state to disclose the "date(s) on which the Commonwealth contends the alleged decedent named in the indictment became a human body, human being, or person." Whether the lawyers will accept Flanagan's "live-and-kicking" thesis remains to be seen, but it's a good bet that Flanagan will make his case first as the prosecutor in the Edelin man-slaughter trial, which begins probably in October...
...news in the Cambridge theater world: Sweet Eros and The Bear have shut down along with Theater Two, largely because of continuing harassment from state and local authorities combined with substantial financial difficulties. Back in the spring this enlightened Commonwealth passed new obscenity laws that made the Victorians look like Linda Lovelace in drag. The State Fuzz promised to bust the show once the new laws were passed, and because policemen always keep their word, they busted it again and again and again. The shows producers decided to try to comply with the state's puritan tastes and removed...
Rafael Hernández Colon, 37, wrote a brilliant thesis as a law student in Puerto Rico, outlining the cultural, political and economic advantages of the island's commonwealth status. After serving as Secretary of Justice, President of the Senate and head of the Popular Democratic Party, Hernández in 1972 upset the incumbent and became the youngest Governor in Puerto Rican history. Today, with his old thesis for a platform, Hernández is concentrating on improving his island's troubled economy. To increase efficiency, the commonwealth is purchasing the telephone company, and to reduce high...
...photograuvres in this show are exceedingly beautiful, but not only because of the way they are composed or shot. These portraits treat their subjects with just an incredible amount of respect, and the humanity and dignity that emerges is nurture for the soul. The school is located at 537 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston; the gallery is open from...