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...divestment from Shell Oil (Opinion, Nov. 19). As Mr. Sachs pointed out, this November marks the third anniversary of the execution of nine human rights activists, including Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa, by the military dictatorship of Nigeria. This is only one of the dictatorship's many major human rights violations encouraged and supported by Shell, which provides more than 50 percent of the government's funding...
That challenge has got harder for the slim G.O.P. majority in the House, where big ideas can falter on just six votes. Speaker-elect Bob Livingston and his team are promising tax cuts, more money for defense and a new way of bookkeeping that will do away with the accounting trick of using Social Security money to mask budget deficits. Enacting such a bold program while keeping the budget balanced will mean pinching funds that pay for programs to which voters seem attached, such as low-income home-energy assistance and environmental enforcement. Moderates within the G.O.P. are likely...
...years, the community devoted the major portion of its federal and state legacy and a good share of local money to providing improvements to keep the slaughtering plant in our community [for Seaboard and its predecessor]," says Sparks. "In retrospect," he says ruefully, "the money could have been better used...
Kraft, like so many other franchise owners in all of the major sports, felt the state owed him a living. He demanded, and eventually received from Connecticut, a publicly financed stadium, a raft of tax breaks and numerous financial guarantees. Were it not for the strong opposition of House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan), the state likely would have given in to Kraft's demands...
...report says that Harvard Square has the fourth highest rate of commercial burglary of the major business centers in Cambridge, and that many of these crimes involve homeless individuals in search of shelter...