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Much of the Portuguese-speaking community in Cambridge remains in the city because members purchased homes years ago when property values were lower, and homeowners now rent to newer immigrants well below the market rate, according to Pinto...
...contemplates whether or not to disobey his uncle and venture out into the forest, Aidan tells him, “You learn more from the trees and rocks and see more miracles in the forest than in any other place—this is what the abbots knew long ago.” Moore links the two visually, showing similar symbols inside the abbey and outside in nature. In the forest, two orphans, a girl and a boy, one from the natural pagan world, and the other from Christianized civilization, meet and become friends. She teaches him to climb...
...funny how fast the Beltway consensus can change. A few months ago, health care reform was dead. Then it got undead. Financial regulatory reform was supposedly dead too, but now that Republicans have supposedly learned that pure obstructionism is a losing play, it's being treated as a done deal. Democrats like Obama's economic adviser Larry Summers and Senate Banking Committee chairman Christopher Dodd are saying it's going to pass, perhaps as early as next month. So are key Republicans like Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who recently put the odds of passage...
...hard to recall now, in our video-saturated world, the dramatic impact of that first grainy videotape of real combat operations. U.S. Army General Norman Schwarzkopf wowed the world 19 years ago during the first Gulf War, when he swapped his maps and pointer for a large video screen. "I'm now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq," the general said as the screen showed the fellow crossing a bridge moments before a U.S. bomb obliterated it. The effect was instantaneous, putting anyone with a TV inside the cockpit to witness death and destruction...
...Several years ago, Tokyo's bustling Shinjuku ward began a lonely-death awareness campaign. It hosts social events to draw people from their apartments, distributes a newsletter to the elderly and monitors their well-being by, for example, checking to make sure they're taking out their trash. Other wards have followed suit, but as accurate lonely-death statistics are often unavailable, success is difficult to measure. "If you live alone, it's inevitable that you may die alone," says Yoko Yokota, assistant supervisor of the ward's division for senior-citizen services. "What Shinjuku ward wants...