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...least six people died in clashes with police during a 48-hour strike to protest the spiraling economic crisis. The strike, which organizers said closed 97% of businesses, came as the U.S. Coast Guard struggles to stem a growing exodus of Dominicans trying to flee by boat to Puerto Rico. MEANWHILE IN DENMARK ... If You Can't Do The Time The government ordered an inquiry following a report in the Ekstra Bladet newspaper that convicts were paying stand-ins to serve their prison sentences for them. The paper said that the substitutes, who charge between...
...might as well be Puerto Rico. This is a blatant disrespect to all of the blacks that live in D.C.,” he added...
...We’ve just been working very hard the past few months, and the training trip in Puerto Rico really paid off,” she added...
Both the training in Puerto Rico and the Northeastern meet were valuable experiences, according to the team, in preparing for this particular event—especially for the younger members of the team like Wilson, Blondin and Giesbrecht...
Benzino, who is black and Puerto Rican, may have helped The Source, but it wasn't long before his friendship with Mays was also hurting it. In 1994 Benzino and his fledgling rap group, the Almighty RSO, went to editors at The Source, threatening to "put n_____s in body bags" if their album wasn't positively reviewed. (Benzino maintains he was kidding.) The editors knew that their boss was managing the group, and on those grounds, they refused to cover the band at all. But as The Source went to press, Mays inserted a three-page profile...