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BOSTON—With his hand on a Bible originally used by his father as governor of Michigan, W. Mitt Romney was sworn in Thursday as the 70th governor of Massachusetts, pledging to end a culture of political patronage on Beacon Hill...
...that the tanker Vicky had collided with the submerged wreck of the car transporter Tricolor in the English Channel. A spokesman for the British maritime union NUMAST said the accident "beggared belief." How could the tanker have failed to register the five luminous buoys - one equipped with a radar beacon - surrounding the wreck, the French naval ship guarding it, and French, British and Belgian coastguard transmissions every 30 minutes to all traffic in the vicinity? And how could the captain of the Vicky have missed the wave upon wave of media attention that has broken over the Tricolor...
Curry is as visual on campus as he is visible. He is most often heralded as a beacon of dressy-chic style. He devotes 20 hours a week to working at the Banana Republic on Newbury Street, a job that has ensured him an extensive wardrobe of chic business casual. He has worked in retail for the past five years, including stints at the Gap in Harvard Square. Yet his Mather dorm room has taken on a very un-Banana tone since he desperately sought to fill his empty common room in his first year. At a fabric store...
...it’s not as if Beacon Hill fat-cats were the only ones playing games with language. Indeed, another measure which appeared on the ballot in certain local districts could also be seen as manipulative. This measure, which appeared as Question 4, 5 or 6 in various districts stressed the “strict fundraising and spending limits” involved in the Clean Elections law while avoiding any explicit mention of taxpayer dollars...
Lewis pointed to what he called a “renaissance of young people” happening all over the world as a beacon of hope. Everywhere, he said, young adults are spending time to volunteer in AIDS-devastated countries and to donate whatever they can to the crisis...