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1960 campaign stop in New York state. Vidal lost his bid for New York's 29th Congressional District. Gore Vidal, 86, Was Writer, Polemicist and a 'Public Scold' - Source: Uploads by PBSNewsHour
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Gore Vidal, 86, Was Writer, Polemicist and a 'Public Scold' First and foremost a writer, Gore Vidal never shied away from expressing his thoughts to the public, from appearances on the Johnny Carson Show, to his essays in The Nation. Jeffrey Brown talks to Middlebury College's Jay Parini, who says Gore never stopped writing, reading and thinking in his lifetime. From: PBSNewsHour Views: 0 0 ratingsTime: 08:58 More in News & PoliticsSource: Uploads by PBSNewsHour
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Fault Lines - Puerto Rico: The fiscal experiment Dozens of university students are arrested for demonstrating against a tuition hike. But Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno remains steadfast in charging students more to help close a $3.2 billion budget gap. The students' fight is representative of a larger debate in Puerto...
Rico, and in the US, about how to solve a severe budget crisis -- and at what cost. Gov. Fortuno, a hawkish fiscal conservative, laid off 20000 government workers in 2009, and suspended all labor negotiations, just like governors on the US mainland are doing today. But two years later Puerto Rico's labor unions are still scrambling to reorganize a largely unemployed population -- nearly 17 percent. Puerto Rico is in its fifth year of recession, and expected to be the world's slowest growing economy if its situation doesn't improve. At question is the degree of economic and social responsibility the US has to its commonwealth state. Fault Lines travels to Puerto Rico to investigate America's legacy as the Island's ruler, and the harsh economic policies that are being imposed on the people who live there. This episode of Fault Lines, "Puerto Rico: The Fiscal Experiment" first aired June 27, 2011 on Al Jazeera English. english.aljazeera.net Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com Follow us on Tumblr: ajfaultlines.tumblr.com See all episodes of Fault Lines www.youtube.com Meet the Fault Lines staff: www.youtube.com From: AlJazeeraEnglish Views: 65338 1032 ratingsTime: 23:29 More in Shows
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boxing olympics london 1/08/2012 Ortiz Marcano is eager to continue his island's fine Boxing tradition after moving into the last 16 of the Light Fly Weight category with a 20-6 win over Ghana's Tetteh Sulemanu. Steeped in the stories of fighters like the great Felix Trinidad and two-weight world champion Daniel Santo...
s, the last Puerto Rican boxer to win an Olympic medal in 1996, the nation's young team is targeting further glory. Ortiz Marcano, who celebrated his 18th birthday last week, is one of four teenagers in the five-man Puerto Rican squad. The team's fifth member, Middle Weight Enrique Collazo, has already been knocked out of the tournament. He certainly relished his Olympic debut, arriving in the ring with a huge smile on his face and proceeding to showcase a series of flashy moves as he took apart his opponent, establishing an 8-1 lead within three minutes. Ortiz Marcano said: 'I was smiling going into the ring and coming out of the ring because that is how I feel and I don't want to change anything. I told my corner they had to keep smiling too. I fought well and I have a lot more to come.' Spain's world number seven Jose de la Nieve Linares was surprised 14-11 by Carlos Quipo Pilataxi of Ecuador. The veteran Spaniard paid the price for a sluggish first round and struggled to match his opponent's workrate. Earlier in the Light Fly Weight division, Cuba's Yosbany Veitia Soto scored the biggest win in the competition so far as he overcame Australia's Billy Ward 26-4. Filipino Mark Barriga also ...From: SamiChannel100 Views: 3335 1 ratingsTime: 01:12 More in Sports
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Authors Gay Talese, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal, from left, gather at a 1993 party after the Actors Studio's benefit production of George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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CBS News SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An updated penal code signed into law Monday by the Puerto Rican governor increases prison sentences for homicide, assault and other offenses as the U.S. island territory struggles to contain crime and the widespread perception ... Puerto Rico Updates Penal Code, Increases Sentences For Violent CrimesHuffington Post all 103 news articles » |
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Brookfield Dance Students Reign Supreme at Competition
Brookfield Dance Students Reign Supreme at Competition
There is no question - the students of the Brookfield Fred Astaire Dance Studio can dance .A Taking to the floor at the Fred Astaire World Championships in San Juan, Puerto Rico from July 18 through 21, students Ingrid Totten and Amanda Levine along with their professional dance partners and instructors Elmar Schmidt and Marcel Helms stepped, spun ... (more)
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There is no question - the students of the Brookfield Fred Astaire Dance Studio can dance .A Taking to the floor at the Fred Astaire World Championships in San Juan, Puerto Rico from July 18 through 21, students Ingrid Totten and Amanda Levine along with their professional dance partners and instructors Elmar Schmidt and Marcel Helms stepped, spun ... (more)
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6:53 AM 8/2/2012Fla. Puerto Ricans could play a key election role - U.S. News & World Reportvia puerto rico politics - Google News on 8/1/12 Fla. Puerto Ricans could play a key election roleU.S. News & World ReportBy LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ, Associated Press. ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Retired police officer Hector Rodriguez is a self-described fiscal conservative and a military hawk, with one son in the Army and another in the Coast Guard. When it comes to social issues ...and more
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Tommy Ramos and the Olympic Games
Puerto Rico is proud of Tommy Ramos, a Bayamon-born gymnast who has qualified for the Olympic men’s gymnastics rings final to be held on August ... Read more...http://www.puertoricoreport.org/tommy-ramos-and-the-olympic-games/
Tommy Ramos and the Olympic Games
Puerto Rico is proud of Tommy Ramos, a Bayamon-born gymnast who has qualified for the Olympic men’s gymnastics rings final to be held on August 6th in London.
As a native-born Puerto Rican, Tommy Ramos is a U.S. citizen. He could have participated in the Olympics as a member of the U.S. team. Had he done so, he would have been the top finisher in the rings qualification trial for the United States, just as he was for the Puerto Rico.
There are many reasons why Ramos may have chosen to compete on behalf of Puerto Rico instead of the broader U.S. The support back home is certainly passionate. Not every Olympic athlete has the option of playing on two teams; certainly Ramos’s choice was one that most residents of the fifty states simply don’t have.
But does Ramos’s choice also have negative consequences? More broadly, are there drawbacks for Puerto Rico, as a territory, being treated differently than the fifty states? After all, the federal U.S. government has never stopped Puerto Rico or its other territories from competing in the Olympics or even in a beauty pageant – historic sources of pride for the idyllic Island.
Yet Puerto Rico could be ordered to end its Olympic participation by the U.S. federal government because it is a territory. Congress has this power under the U.S. Constitution’s Territory Clause, and Secretary of State Colin Powell used it in 2003, when members of Puerto Rico’s ruling Commonwealth Party (also known as the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico or PDP) contacted numerous Caribbean countries in an attempt to conduct international diplomacy. In a memorandum to the Belize Embassy, Secretary Powell forcefully explained:
The Department is aware that Puerto Rican government officials have approached a number of countries . . . seeking treatment normally only accorded to a sovereign state. The two most recent examples were in Nicaragua and Panama where the Puerto Ricans pressed government officials to sign cooperation agreements which contained language normally reserved for pacts with foreign states. In November 2002, Puerto Rico attempted unsuccessfully to elicit recognition as a sovereign state at the Ibero-American summit in the Dominican Republic. The department reiterates that the U.S. federal government is responsible for Rico’s foreign affairs.
Fortunately for Puerto Rican Olympic enthusiasts, Congress is unlikely to end the territory’s Olympic participation any time soon. So why can’t Puerto Rico have its own special Olympic team and celebrate its uniqueness from the rest of the United States? What would be the harm?
The problem is that Puerto Rico’s Olympic team comes as a package deal with other aspects of its status as a territory. For every Olympic athlete, there is a Puerto Rican living stateside who moves to Puerto Rico only to discover she can no longer vote for President, even if she has children serving in the U.S. armed forces. Puerto Rican veterans not only lack the power to vote for President, but they also are deprived access to the same level of health care given to their fellow soldiers in the fifty states. And, of course, Puerto Rico is does not have full representation in Washington. The territory is inadvertently left out of legislation and purposefully excluded from federal laws that directly impact Puerto Rico, in areas including health care. There are national policies that could help Puerto Rico’s economy and security that the territory simply cannot access. It’s sole, non-voting Resident Commissioner cannot do the work of the six Members of Congress and two Senators Puerto Rico would have as a state.
Penn State is also proud of Tommy Ramos, who is an alumnus of the school. A six-time All-American, Ramos is credited with helping Penn State achieve its NCAA-record setting 12th national championship in 2007 and Big Ten title in 2008.
The word “Commonwealth” has very little meaning but has caused a great deal of confusion. The state where Ramos went to college – Pennsylvania – is often called a Commonwealth. But its legal status is that of a state. Puerto Rico is also referred to as a Commonwealth, but its legal status is that of a territory.
As a Pennsylvanian, Ramos could not participate in a Pennsylvania-only Olympic team. As a Puerto Rican, he can participate in Puerto Rico-only team. But he is not a full participant in his country’s proud democratic tradition, which is on display for the world to see.
As a native-born Puerto Rican, Tommy Ramos is a U.S. citizen. He could have participated in the Olympics as a member of the U.S. team. Had he done so, he would have been the top finisher in the rings qualification trial for the United States, just as he was for the Puerto Rico.
There are many reasons why Ramos may have chosen to compete on behalf of Puerto Rico instead of the broader U.S. The support back home is certainly passionate. Not every Olympic athlete has the option of playing on two teams; certainly Ramos’s choice was one that most residents of the fifty states simply don’t have.
But does Ramos’s choice also have negative consequences? More broadly, are there drawbacks for Puerto Rico, as a territory, being treated differently than the fifty states? After all, the federal U.S. government has never stopped Puerto Rico or its other territories from competing in the Olympics or even in a beauty pageant – historic sources of pride for the idyllic Island.
Yet Puerto Rico could be ordered to end its Olympic participation by the U.S. federal government because it is a territory. Congress has this power under the U.S. Constitution’s Territory Clause, and Secretary of State Colin Powell used it in 2003, when members of Puerto Rico’s ruling Commonwealth Party (also known as the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico or PDP) contacted numerous Caribbean countries in an attempt to conduct international diplomacy. In a memorandum to the Belize Embassy, Secretary Powell forcefully explained:
The Department is aware that Puerto Rican government officials have approached a number of countries . . . seeking treatment normally only accorded to a sovereign state. The two most recent examples were in Nicaragua and Panama where the Puerto Ricans pressed government officials to sign cooperation agreements which contained language normally reserved for pacts with foreign states. In November 2002, Puerto Rico attempted unsuccessfully to elicit recognition as a sovereign state at the Ibero-American summit in the Dominican Republic. The department reiterates that the U.S. federal government is responsible for Rico’s foreign affairs.
Fortunately for Puerto Rican Olympic enthusiasts, Congress is unlikely to end the territory’s Olympic participation any time soon. So why can’t Puerto Rico have its own special Olympic team and celebrate its uniqueness from the rest of the United States? What would be the harm?
The problem is that Puerto Rico’s Olympic team comes as a package deal with other aspects of its status as a territory. For every Olympic athlete, there is a Puerto Rican living stateside who moves to Puerto Rico only to discover she can no longer vote for President, even if she has children serving in the U.S. armed forces. Puerto Rican veterans not only lack the power to vote for President, but they also are deprived access to the same level of health care given to their fellow soldiers in the fifty states. And, of course, Puerto Rico is does not have full representation in Washington. The territory is inadvertently left out of legislation and purposefully excluded from federal laws that directly impact Puerto Rico, in areas including health care. There are national policies that could help Puerto Rico’s economy and security that the territory simply cannot access. It’s sole, non-voting Resident Commissioner cannot do the work of the six Members of Congress and two Senators Puerto Rico would have as a state.
Penn State is also proud of Tommy Ramos, who is an alumnus of the school. A six-time All-American, Ramos is credited with helping Penn State achieve its NCAA-record setting 12th national championship in 2007 and Big Ten title in 2008.
The word “Commonwealth” has very little meaning but has caused a great deal of confusion. The state where Ramos went to college – Pennsylvania – is often called a Commonwealth. But its legal status is that of a state. Puerto Rico is also referred to as a Commonwealth, but its legal status is that of a territory.
As a Pennsylvanian, Ramos could not participate in a Pennsylvania-only Olympic team. As a Puerto Rican, he can participate in Puerto Rico-only team. But he is not a full participant in his country’s proud democratic tradition, which is on display for the world to see.
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