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...arguments pro and con are not easily grasped by most Americans, who do not quite understand what it feels like to be a U.S. citizen from Puerto Rico. While living on the mainland, both Calderon and Colon could vote in federal elections. They lost that right by going home; the island elects one delegate to the House of Representatives, who can vote only in committee. Moving back also means a lower level of federal benefits. But there are some advantages. While in the States, the two men had to pay federal income tax; on the island they pay none...
Russell, who is endorsed by the CambridgeAlliance for Change, says rent con-B-8COUNCILCrimson File PhotoMayor KENNETH E. REEVES...
...Wonderful" Matt Dillon plays Gus, a New York City electrical worker with Con Edison, and Annabella Sciorra plays his ex-wife Leonora, who left him so she could make something of herself and now attends college. The two have since moved on to other love interests; Leonora, known as Lee, has been seeing her English professor (William Hurt), and Gus has been contemplating moving in with his devoted girl-friend, Rita (Mary Louise Parker) Contact between Gus and Lee is typically unamicable, filled with mutual accusations concerning who brought about the failure of their marriage. Their squabbles can't conceal...
...There's been so much controversy over Fine," Reyes said, "that maybe it was `Ha, ha, ha, there is a new con- troversy over the meeting notes...
That's a hard one? Reflecting on the man who learned to like himself in prison, Bloom notes that in the mind of this ex-con, "the problem lay with his sense of self, not with any original sin or devils in him. We have here the peculiarly American way of digesting Continental despair. It is nihilism with a happy ending...