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...school-zone statute was enacted in 1989 as part of then-Governor Dukakis’ plan to “make school drug-free by 1990.” It imposes a mandatory minimum two-year prison sentence, and no more than 15 years, if defendants are convicted of possession with intent to distribute. In Massachusetts there is no set number for what constitutes intent to distribute and can be based on a variety of factors, including how the drugs are packaged...
...attack on the center. “It wasn’t just a vandalism act by a kid,” she told The Crimson. “There’s a reason behind it.”The incident prompted a visit from Edward J. King, then-governor of Massachusetts, who announced a statewide anti-arson campaign. But despite a $1,000 reward posted to apprehend the culprits, Cambridge authorities could not uncover any information as to who might have set fire to the House.—Staff writer M. Aidan Kelly can be reached...
...legislation now awaits Romney’s signature. A Romney spokesman said yesterday that the governor will sign the bill. “This is essentially a not-perfect bill but almost a political miracle in today’s climate,” said Blendon. The governor has the power to veto individual elements of the bill, including the provision fining businesses that fail to insure their workers. This is not the first time that Massachusetts has sought to provide health care to all. Then-Governor Michael Dukakis, also a Harvard Law School graduate, signed a so-called universal...
...water or a telephone. The other is the scion of a rich and powerful political dynasty. But Alberto Gonzales and George W. Bush have joined in a largely successful effort to build a more muscular executive branch. Drawn to the quiet lawyer's up-by-his-bootstraps story, then-Governor Bush persuaded Gonzales to leave his lucrative law practice in Houston and become his general counsel in 1994. Bush later put Gonzales on the Texas Supreme Court, and when Bush moved north, he made Gonzales White House counsel and, earlier this year, the nation's first Hispanic Attorney General...
While seventeenth-century records attest to Iacoomes’ academic prowess—he impressed then-Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop in a 1663 Latin oral examination—he was shipwrecked off the coast of Nantucket as he returned to Cambridge from Martha’s Vineyard. He died sometime in the summer of 1665—before Commencement, which in the seventeenth century took place at the end of the summer...