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...April-Agro controversy has also been clouded with a nativist suspicion of Demel and his new methods. Claridad, official newspaper of the pro-independence Puerto Rican Socialist Party, refers to Demel as the "Jew Cuban," and local planters refer to April-Agro as "the Israelis." The English-language San Juan Star, in urging the Governor to delay action against the experimental farm, pointed to "a deep-seated resentment against 'outside' farmers changing the way agriculture has been traditionally carried out." Hernández-Colón has stayed out of the dispute while his agriculture secretary attempts to negotiate a "painless" takeover...
...quote two other academics who refer to A.I.A.'s activities as "spying" and "ideological espionage." A.I.A. will obtain information from students regularly enrolled in courses. The lectures they attend are not secret, and the students have every right to tell anyone what has been said...
...they witnessed a show of conspicuous consumption beyond their imaginings. Inside Imelda's boudoir were two queen-size beds on an elevated platform, and a grand piano. The former First Lady's washbasin was made of gold. Downstairs, in a not-so-bargain basement, the woman who used to refer to "my fellow poor" had left behind some 2,700 pairs of size eight shoes, five shelves of Gucci handbags and 38 of her 105 clothes racks, designed to carry 80 outfits each. Around the château hung life-size portraits depicting the former First Couple as a scantily clad...
...refer to the latest terrorism in Paris in the past tense, as if the attacks were over [WORLD, Sept. 29]. Unfortunately, the paranoia of Parisians and the street patrols have not ended. Soldiers continue to stand on busy corners, and avenues are choked with cars and taxis carrying people afraid to ride the Métro. I wish I could have felt comfortable reading your story as an after-the-fact commentary. But the security checks and sirens remind us that it is not over yet. Carolyn Grose Paris...
...group of chairs has worked with the Faculty Council to invoke powers granted in the Council’s charter that have long gone unexercised. Both groups refer to a clause that grants the Council advisory power over “allocations of space” as evidence that it should have more of a decision-making role in Allston development...