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...Take up a sport that is not associated with a country club. Anything that can be played in the backyard goes down well. The Kennedys still own the patent on touch football, and Bush expropriated horseshoes. Badminton or volleyball might do nicely. And keep running, as long as you look funny in the shorts. Beware of Lycra. Caveat jogger: pin to your locker a picture of the ashen-faced Jimmy Carter collapsing near Camp David to remind yourself that you have moved to the tropics and that running in the heat should be kept at a stately pace...
Instead of trekking to Foxboro to catch an afternoon Patriots' game, Cantabrigians may find the team moving to their backyard, if an East Cambridge site is chosen for a multi-million-dollar stadium...
...contracting firm of Iglesias y Torres, then bought out the company and Anglicized the name to Church & Tower. He lives behind high walls in a Spanish-style mansion in south Miami and drives a bulletproof blue Mercedes. He is sentimental enough to have planted six royal palms in his backyard, one for each of Cuba's provinces. "I am more Cuban than American," he says. "I prefer eating plantains to American food...
...shelter] will bring drugs, cocaine into the neighborhood. We sacrifice, they bring that into our backyard," says Dr. Won K. Pak, an acupuncturist in Central Square and a 20-year resident of the neighborhood...
...bring it into my backyard," Pak says. Any other place, that's fine...