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Until then, Harvard will focus on training in Cambridge, and travel to Puerto Rico for its annual mid-season training trip during the winter vacation...
...while we’re taking credit for things that other people discovered using minimal federal funding, why stop there? In fact, anything produced and transported in the 50 states (and such exotic lands as Puerto Rico, among other colonial interests) must necessarily use taxpayer dollars allocated by the government—at the very least, in the form of roads or law enforcement—so our humble president has certainly got some countable successes to notch on to his bedpost. Heaven forbid we forget that George W. Bush was the first—in fact, the only?...
...think Major League Baseball should let you bid on the Chicago Cubs? -Miguel Santiago, Guaynabo, Puerto RicoI'm interested, but there isn't really more to say beyond that. The first step was being approved as a potential bidder, which I've been through, but the process has not progressed much further. I'd love to be able to do, but we'll see what happens...
...left with a world that even just five years ago would have seemed topsy turvy: an Indian software firm that employs 500 people in Puerto Rico, a Chinese auto-parts maker with R&D centers in Detroit and Ontario, Calif. If you're a region trying to hang on to business, geography offers little protection anymore, especially as free-trade zones proliferate in countries from Dubai to Mauritius, and burgeoning heavyweights like Turkey take out full-page ads in US magazines boasting about their university graduates and gains in GDP. "Your competitors are in your backyard...
...does your heritage affect your music? -Rudy Rodriguez, Corpus Christi, TexasIt influences everything that I do-being Puerto Rican and from New York. I think you can hear it in my music and in the choices that I make...