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Expressing his support for United States-Puerto Rico Status Act (HR 856), Tito Roman, regional director of the Massachusetts Regional Office of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, spoke to an audience of about 15 at the John F. Kennedy School last night...
Juan Flores, who will be a visiting professor at Harvard in the spring, told an anecdote about a place he visited in Puerto Rico populated by Puerto Rican-Americans who had returned to Puerto Rico. The people there spoke English better than Spanish, he said. They "went home, but not quite home," he said...
...murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks as a sort of Nietzschean thrill; Clarence Darrow, with a magnificent speech against the death penalty, got the idiots off with life imprisonment. Nathan Leopold was released in 1958 and lived to the age of 66, strolling upon a beach in Puerto Rico...
...that they may be operating out of expropriated property, foreign hotel companies like Club Med (France), Sol Melia (Spain), Golden Tulip (Netherlands) and Delta Hotels (Canada) grabbed prime spots and locked up lucrative hotel-management contracts. Cuba now has some 200 hotels offering 27,000 rooms--more than Puerto Rico and the Bahamas combined. "It's a profound disappointment that we are enjoined from building hotels and a tourism infrastructure there, while our competitors from around the world are allowed to enter and pick the fine sites," laments Marilyn Carlson Nelson, vice chairman of Carlson companies, a $20 billion travel...
...services." In fact, many programs that aim at life transformation--most notably the hugely successful Alcoholics Anonymous--consider belief in a higher authority a critical component of change. Studies have found that Teen Challenge, a Christianity-based residential drug-treatment program with 130 centers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, has a 70% success rate for those who finish the program, far better than secular treatments. Of course, helping the addicted is one thing, solving the problems of the poor is another...