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Charter is moving from big to magna. It has agreed to buy the ailing Commonwealth Oil Refining Co., which operates a 160,000 bbl.-per-day Puerto Rico refinery, for $650 million. And last week it was completing plans to build a 100,000 bbl.-per-day refinery in Alaska, as well as sewing up the rights to 75,000 bbl. per day of North Slope crude...
...universal principles" behind all religions and bring on the "New Era" of world spirituality. Several Tibetan Buddhist groups ply their trade, the biggest being the Boylston Street Dharmadatu, connected to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the founder of the Naropa Institute in Boulder. The Hare Krishnas have a communal house on Commonwealth Ave., and members of Unification Church and Divine Light Mission also have local ashrams. Scientology operates a mission and consults for a school in Cambridge. Transcendental Meditation has a large house on Concord Ave. where they teach classes and promote Maharishi International University, "fully accredited education...
...first elected Governor, Muñoz effected an economic miracle with "Operation Bootstrap," a series of programs that brought electricity and schools to the countryside and offered tax exemptions to American companies opening plants on the island. His proudest moment came in 1952, when Congress granted Puerto Rico commonwealth status, giving it more autonomy and entitling it to federal grants without extracting income taxes. In the 1970s, he left retirement to defend this achievement against those who favored statehood or independence; misguided bickering, he warned, was "sapping the strength of the people...
Ironically, the land use bill passed last year does not limit Harvard's expansion. The university, protected in the constitution of the Commonwealth, is currently exempt from any regulations the city passes. But this exemption may not stand much longer. A bill repealing Harvard's exemption on this particular issue has already passed State Senate and House committees. The Commonwealth is expected to adopt the legislation later this year...
Sullivan said he expects no increase in state aid this year, and added that the Commonwealth may charge the city as much as $500,000 more than this year to make up for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) deficit...