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...Today Marrero, at 57, believes he was too poised around those hazardous materials for his own good. In an affidavit filed last month in the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico, where Marrero now lives, he says he is legally blind, uses a wheelchair, has battled colon cancer and chronic pulmonary illnesses, and was recently diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, among other ailments. "I've been sick in some form or another since I was 25," says Marrero. He was stationed on Vieques, he adds, "for too long...
...question was set to go to trial in Federal District Court last week, but the matter was delayed at the last moment while the two sides explored a settlement. The city's law department declined to comment on the case...
...District Judge David Cercone ruled in March that the citation, along with the $119.75 court costs imposed by a city court, was clearly unconstitutional. The question, however, is whether the city has a pattern of tolerating this kind of constitutional violation. The ACLU says it found 188 cases from 2005 to 2007 in which people were cited under similar circumstances, despite an entry in the police department's training manual making clear that vulgar speech is not illegal...
...summer surprises. The bargain-basement sci-fi epic District 9 surged on ecstatic reviews and fanboy support past $100 million. With Inglourious Basterds - and may I never have to type that misspelled title again - Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt got people to sit through a 2½-hr. film mostly in foreign languages; it too has surpassed $100 million domestic, and is nearing that abroad. And female stars whacked their male counterparts in the season's comedies. Movies featuring Sandra Bullock (The Proposal), Katherine Heigl (The Ugly Truth) and Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) all outgrossed films starring Will Ferrell (Land...
...July arrest of black Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Cambridge officials announced last Thursday. The group’s members hail from across the country and include the dean of the Rutgers School of Law, the Philadelphia Police Commissioner, a United States District Court judge, a former FBI assistant director, and a U.S. State Department senior advisor who worked on Arab-Israeli negotiations. “This is a historic opportunity for the city to emerge as a stronger community,” said Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy in the press...