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After 38 years in the Boston area, the New England Patriots announced last week they will leave Massachusetts in 2001 for a new stadium to be built in downtown Hartford, Conn. The move, which comes after negotiations with Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft to keep the Patriots in the Commonwealth failed, is hardly surprising: The sad state of professional sports has finally arrived in Boston...
...their products, parts of the industry resemble a Wild West boomtown, where some 800 lightly regulated U.S. companies compete ferociously with fly-by-night hucksters. "When you open a bottle of nutritional supplements, you don't know what's inside," says Jeffrey Delafuente, a pharmacy professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. "There may be some ingredients not listed. You do not know how much active ingredient is in each tablet. They can make all kinds of claims that may not be accurate...
...will overpower the political will of the more trustworthy 98 percent. Although the effect of these laws on the voting power of minorities may be significant, as a whole their repeal would do little to sway elections. Massachusetts allows its felons to vote even while in prison and the Commonwealth has not yet dissolved into anarchy...
Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci yesterday appointed Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 to lead an effort to lower taxes and to create new jobs for the Commonwealth...
Recover your musical Rudolf bed slippers and obnoxious jingle-belled neck ties from the moth balls and mosey on down to the Annual Gingerbread House Competition. This Christmas festival showcases a smattering of crafts and edible goods, representing the efforts of more than 300 contributers. Commonwealth Pier, Northern Ave., 742-3973. $7 for regular tickets, free for children under...