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...These residents?? status as indigenous, even, seems dubious. Although the Galapagos were discovered in the sixteenth century, the islands were left abandoned and uninhabited until 1832, when Ecuador, the nearest mainland nation, claimed possession. Settlement before some 30 years ago was on a piecemeal scale. Several plantations cropped up, but they were fueled mostly by forced and temporary convict labor...
...unusual slew of drug-related violence in Cambridge during the last two months has prompted city leaders to expand the local police presence and increase public outreach in an effort to quell residents?? unease...
...Haas said the police department has taken measures to ensure residents?? safety, including bolstering regular walking patrols and deploying supplemental bike patrols...
...Simmons, who issued a statement last week pledging to address residents?? concerns about safety, said she and the City Council would be working closely with the police department, as well as representatives from the Cambridge Housing Authority and private real estate management companies, to formulate proposals for curbing crime and violence...
University President Drew G. Faust publicly reaffirmed Harvard’s support for federal legislation that would allow illegal immigrant students to become permanent residents??a position shared by the Association of American Universities and all three representatives to the US congress whose districts include Harvard. “The DREAM Act would throw a lifeline to these students who are already working hard in our middle and high schools and living in our communities by granting them the temporary legal status that would allow them to pursue postsecondary education,” Faust wrote in letters...