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...Jose and Julio Rosa say they are just humble Puerto Rican fishermen. But the brothers know how to hook marlin-size political symbolism. Last Thursday, when they heard that 216 of their protesting compatriots were rounded up by U.S. federales for occupying the Navy bombing range on the small Puerto Rican island of Vieques, the brothers Rosa jumped into their 38-ft. lobster boat--aptly named Garata, or Quarrel. The two men, each in his 40s, headed for a Navy installation on mainland Puerto Rico. Their mission: to pick up the detained demonstrators who had been removed from Vieques after...
...they tied Puerto Rican flags to the bow and played cat and mouse with Coast Guard ships patrolling the channel, the Rosas saw more than 15 other Vieques fishing boats slicing through the translucent blue water to join them. "This is the Borinquen I want to see," said Jose, using the indigenous name for Puerto Rico. "We're learning to stand up for ourselves, for once...
...doubled to $80 billion on Villalonga's watch, and in February he reaped a $17 million windfall from his options. It put him at the center of a political tempest in the run-up to Spain's elections in March. The left-wing opposition to conservative Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a boyhood friend of Villalonga's, attacked Aznar's coziness with the Telefonica chief and the Prime Minister's tacit approval of the stock-option scheme, which the opposition characterizes as a brazen display of corporate avarice. United Left party leader Francisco Frutos branded Villalonga a bad role model...
North House--whose members include Alfred Bennett '00, Andrew C. Eggers '99, Altay M. Guvench '03, Jose L. Sandoval '01 and Wellesley College student Becky Warren--could win $10,000, a contract with a small record label and the chance to be published in Rolling Stone magazine as part of the "MusicOMania" online contest...
...These projects will fund a positive cash flow for schools," says David Theriault, manager of national institutional accounts at PG&E Energy Services in California, Staszenski's partner in a proposed retrofit of San Francisco's public schools. A recent PG&E retrofit of 25 schools in San Jose is expected to generate a $581,194 return over 15 years, says Theriault. The school district is using the money for asbestos abatement...