Hearing big news in Puerto Rico; not so much overseas
The Yahoo! Newsroom - Tue Jul 14, 9:04 pm ETFrom the newspapers: Sotomayor, the Princeton freshman
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"Sonia! Sonia! Sonia!"
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Tue Jul 14, 8:02 am ETFar from the subdued Senate hearing room in Washington, Sotomayor was cheered like a rock star by hundreds who gathered to watch the hearing Monday at a Hispanic advocacy group's conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Diss a culture at your own risk
National Catholic Reporter - Tue Jul 14, 3:38 pm ETAmidst all the coverage of Sonia Sotomayor's first day of confirmation hearings, one sentence jumped out at me. Lynette Oliver, who runs a women’s support group in Puerto Rico, told the Washington Post that she brought a small Puerto Rican flag to wave at the hearing.
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A family affair
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - Mon Jul 13, 2:42 pm ETFor Sotomayor's cousins in Puerto Rico, the hearings are cause for a family reunion.
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Arguello remembered as a gentleman
The Press-Enterprise - Tue Jul 7, 2:15 am ETAlexis Arguello, the gentleman champion from Nicaragua who left an indelible mark on the sport of boxing with his kindness outside the ring, and ferocity inside it, died last week from a gunshot wound to the chest at age 57. His death comes a year after winning an election as mayor of Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua. It also comes one week after he traveled to Puerto Rico to honor the ...
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Congress considers referendum on Puerto Rico's political status
Miami Herald - Wed Jun 24, 9:21 am ETPuerto Rico's top political leaders are heading to Washington, D.C., Wednesday to battle over a bill that could result in the first congressionally mandated referendum on the future of the island's political status.
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Bank bailout gave British rum $2.7B boost
The Cincinnati Enquirer - Sun Jun 28, 5:41 am ETIn June 2008, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John deJongh Jr. agreed to give London-based Diageo Plc billions of dollars in tax incentives to move its production of Captain Morgan rum from one U.S. island -- Puerto Rico -- to another, namely St. Croix.
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Peterson honored in DC!
Fightnews.com - Wed Jun 17, 5:26 pm ETInterim WBO Junior Welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (27-0, 13 KOs) was recently honored with a resolution by the District of Columbia City Council for winning the title on April 25 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Peterson stopped Willy Blain in the seventh round.