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...York City, more than 80,000 otherwise healthy children in the U.S. will have lost their mother to AIDS. In most cases the fathers have already died or are absent. Hardest hit: children in New York City; Washington; Miami; Los Angeles; Newark, New Jersey; and San Juan, Puerto Rico...
After his election, Carey announced that "this is no longer a union that's going to be run by millionaires." He promised to sell the perks of power -- the Teamster jets, the limousine, the condominium in Puerto Rico. However, Carey had personally begun accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property, most of it in sunny vacation spots. Weeks after taking office in 1992, Carey bought some posh beachfront property on Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida, for $340,000. The purchase, which included a $125,000 down payment, is under investigation by the Independent Review Board, the three- member federally...
...example, for some time now there has been strife between the Puerto Rican and the Dominican cultures in the United States. The conflicts arose for many reasons, some of which had to do with Puerto Rico's ongoing struggle with nationalism. But both cultures were so adamant about distinguishing themselves from each other that they paid no attention to their many similarities. This same thing is beginning to happen at Harvard...
Complaints like one last week from Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell about Russia's "neo-imperial ambitions" provoke ferocious indignation in Moscow, particularly among those who feel Russia has been left standing penniless and irrelevant at the edge of the world stage. "People are sick of the Puerto Rico-ization of Russian foreign policy," says Vladlen Sirotkin of Moscow's Diplomatic Institute. "For too long, we have kept the West under the impression that a positive foreign policy is when we go along with everything the West does...
Seven Massachusetts officials, including House Speaker Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge), used campaign funds last December to pay for a trip to puerto Rico that crossed the line between business and pleasure...