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...which made me especially sad that the administration of Amherst Regional High School in western Massachusetts decided to cancel a scheduled production of "West Side Story" after a group of concerned Puerto Rican students and parents submitted a petition saying that the musical promotes stereotypes and is racist...
...which two teenagers, Tony and Maria, fall for each other against the backdrop of inner-city New York gang fighting. The musical's script, by Arthur Laurents, updates Shakespeare's tale of Capulets and Montagues by casting a gang of white New Yorkers against a gang of Puerto Rican immigrants...
...candidate for the U.S. Senate, Clinton cannot ignore the issue of Israel-Palestinian relations. Nor can she continue to avoid questions on Palestinian statehood. She cannot continue to flip-flop, like she did on the issue of clemency for 16 Puerto Rican separatists in September. She will have to put forth her own education plans, instead of merely criticizing Republican tax cuts. And instead of straddling the fence as she did last October, she will have to decide for certain whether she roots for the Mets or the Yankees...
...favor of milk price supports--these moves made her seem craven, ham-fisted. When the progressive copied her husband's tactic of using party soft money to finance early TV spots, she looked no better than he. And when Bill Clinton granted clemency to a group of Puerto Rican terrorists--a move that some of Hillary's key Latino backers had lobbied for--she was silent at first, then condemned the move, angering the very interest group she was pandering to. Smooth...
Speaking in both Spanish and English, the students lit candles in memory of David Sanes, who was accidentally killed seven months ago during U.S. Navy test bombings on the island, which sits off the Puerto Rican coast...