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...class oppression in the late '60s. The Lucy Parsons Center has been an anchor for the politics and culture of Cambridgeport, as well as greater Boston's new and old left, progressive, punk, labor and intellectual communities. We will not allow it to suffer the eradication that has befallen so many of our institutions in these neo-Calvinist times...
...penning poetry, has Willard follow the Babe's career the way fans all over the country did back then. Barry Moser's drawings have just the right shading of nostalgic mist. The author, it should be noted, does not use the word curse to describe what has befallen the Red Sox since they sold Ruth to the Yankees, but he does admit the move was unaccountable...
...from the perspective of one student, Edward H. Wu '96, the Class of 1996 is "infamous," referring to the string of tragedies, traumas and arrests that has befallen this particular group of students...
Panelists blamed the failure on the numerous scandals and controversies--including election fraud and failure of officers to follow council bylaws--that have befallen the council in recent years...
...child, could distinguish some nominal victor from vanquished? Scores of thousands of Croatian Serbs flowed to Serbia, Bosnian Croats to Croatia and Muslims from centuries-old homelands in Bosnia to the last strongholds of their community. As foreign observers adduced evidence of a terrible death that may have befallen 5,000 or more army-age Muslim men in Srebrenica, an eastern Bosnian town conquered by Serbs last month, the U.N. began to document deeds that were perhaps just as appalling, albeit much less extensive, against some Serbs uprooted by Croatian troops two weeks ago: burned, pillaged houses and the bodies...