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Chinese Nationals at Boston College Up 1,200 Percent Since Early 1990s

Matthew McDonald

The percentage of foreign students at Boston College has been climbing steadily, and is now more than 12 percent of the approximately 14,000 undergraduates and graduate students. Some 793 of the 1,751 foreign students at B.C. are from China, which amounts to 45 percent.

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AG Healey: Republicans Should Give Back Donations from Steve Wynn

Matthew McDonald

The Las Vegas casino mogul, who is building a casino in Everett, Massachusetts, paid $7.5 million to settle a claim by a manicurist that he pressured her to have sex against her will in 2005, according to The Wall Street Journal. Steve Wynn denies the charges against him from several employees, but he resigned as the finance chairman of the Republican National Committee; Maura Healey, the Massachusetts Attorney General and a Democrat, says Republicans who got campaign donations from Wynn should give them back.

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