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...Getty began in the mind and pocket of the man whose name it bears: J. Paul Getty, the oil billionaire who in 1974 had installed his collection of Roman and Greek antiquities, French furniture and medium-level European paintings in a preposterous $17 million replica of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, overlooking the Pacific at Malibu. Those who sneered at this as the Disneyism of a crackpot Scrooge McDuck were staggered when, after Getty died in 1976, it turned out that he left his museum almost $700 million--the largest endowment ever given to a cultural institution...
While plebiscites over the past 45 years have decided in favor of continuing the current commonwealth status, Roman traced the increasing support of the statehood option and described the commonwealth or free-associated state as obsolete...
Current opposition to the bill comes from the "natural human resistance to change," Roman said...
...Roman said last night that statehood may be one of the only ways to ensure more representation for Puerto Ricans...
...interview after the presentation, Roman denied the statement that his discussion favored statehood over other possibilities...