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...streets of its rich residential heart, Back Bay and Beacon Hill, are shady and civilized, block after block of stately 19th century town houses. The symphony and principal museum are among the world's best. Fine colleges help make the city an enormous intellectual hot tub, at once invigorating and smug. Now Boston's boosters can brag about more than old-shoe gentility: over the past decade a decrepit waterfront district has been intelligently transformed into a swank commercial and residential quarter whose centerpiece, the Faneuil Hall-Quincy Market showplace, draws natives and tourists by the millions...
...their own lives. Seeking the same goal, the brothers of Weston have developed new forms of prayer and work that draw them into the outside world in ways uncharacteristic of contemplative monks. Small and simple, a fledgling beside centuries-old Benedictine monasteries, Weston Priory has become a beacon of new directions in monasticism since its founding in 1953 by German-born Abbot Leo Rudloff. At the time, Rudloff, who also headed the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem, had modest hopes for Weston. But it proved more robust than he had imagined. He says now, "It's like...
...women usually picked to symbolize change and re-evaluation are those like Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, who have achieved a popular success that has turned them into celebrities. Steinem therefore becomes an articulate and snazzy figurehead, Fonda a role model whose movie trajectory (from bimbo to feminist beacon) mirrors very neatly the way in which women are supposed to see themselves. Watching and listening to them, though, is not as striking by half as tuning in on a single studio audience of the Phil Donahue Show. Fifteen years ago, these same women might have been sitting in the same...
Only when he safely reaches the living room of his Beacon Hill apartment does this man reveal his true sell. After turning on the tube and grabbing a beer from the fridge, he strips away his gray pinstriped three piece suit only to show--aha--that all day long he has been wearing Boston Red Sox boxer shorts...
...never met a Harvard representative until this semester. "With Jim King's presence, things just sort of clicked," Michael A. West, assistant to Rep. James Collins says. "The University gets a perspective articulated over here that it wouldn't ordinarily get," West adds. He further explains that politicians on Beacon Hill "don't identify with Harvard. They're not Ivy League. Jim talks their language...