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...narrowing my search from there. Yet here I am, two and a half years later, and while I’ve been to the Museum of Fine Arts more times than I can count and I’ve gazed at the windows of the art galleries on Beacon Street, I still can’t really say I know Boston. It was only after I spent the past semester in Paris over just four months, visiting dozens of museums, galleries, arts fairs, and artists’ studios, that I realized how little I get out of Harvard Square...
...scholar, I always found his contributions to the law admirable, and his manifest concern for the plight of the most vulnerable of our citizens made his a beacon worth following," Tribe wrote in an e-mail. "I’m sure his reflections will prove enlightening at a time of national soul-searching and peril...
...movements on the planet - and ideas that are now in a contest with the Church for dominion over Latin America. The leftist Democratic Revolution Party or PRD has controlled Mexico City since 1997, and passed a wave of other reforms, making the capital into what advocates say is a beacon of social progressiveness. The changes have been possible because of Mexico's federal system, which gives the capital's assembly the power to pass local laws. In 2007, the assembly approved same-sex civil unions as well as allowing abortion in the first 12 weeks of any pregnancy. The following...
...says, and he's got the gray hairs to prove it. That's because CityCenter came within a whisker of not opening at all, even as it was billed the most expensive private construction project in American history and thought of among locals as a beacon of the city's resurgence from the depths of recession...
...sightings came in from all over. Someone believed they'd seen Clemmons getting off a bus in the University District, home to the University of Washington, in the northeast part of the city. Another call came in suggesting that Clemmons had been spotted at Jose Rizal park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of south Seattle. Officers were dispatched to bus and train stations. As the search grew more frantic, frustration and fury over the murders grew too. In a demonstration of restrained anguish at a midmorning press conference during the search, Lakewood police guild president Brian Wurts said emphatically, "This...