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...will honor the memory of Michael Colono by continuing to fight for justice on behalf of him, his family, and the Commonwealth," the statement said...
...outbreak began in August but was not confirmed until Nov. 29. Officials in Uganda deny they waited to publicly identify the highly contagious virus until after Queen Elizabeth II and 53 other heads of state had met in the capital, Kampala, on Nov. 23 for a Commonwealth summit...
...same time that Harvard is making plans to expand across the river, Boston College (BC) is preparing to expand across the street. BC will invest $700 million over the next 10 years in the construction of a new complex of buildings across Commonwealth Avenue from its main campus, the college announced Wednesday. As in Harvard’s Allston development plans, BC is putting interdisciplinary science at the center of its expansion. BC’s new Brighton campus will feature an integrated science complex designed to facilitate research spanning multiple fields, as well as facilities for the fine arts...
...domestic politics, they can cultivate a statesmanlike image on the international stage. No such luck for Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister: a nasty scandal brewing in the U.K. followed him all the way to Uganda. It was there, he says, on the eve of his return from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala, that he learned that the Labour Party's General Secretary Peter Watt had accepted donations for party coffers in a potentially criminal breach of the rules on party funding. Watts has admitted that he knew some donations originated from a wealthy businessman named David...
...July 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court validated proposed constitutional amendments that would outlaw same-sex marriage, opening the door to a possible referendum that could overturn the 2003 ruling by re-defining marriage in the Commonwealth...