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...leading off an article with “NEW YORK—” or “BOSTON??” or “TIKRIT, Iraq—,” the author is attaching a seal of reliability to the story. It lends authority to the report, as if the writer gains more credibility for having seen the place with his or her own two eyes. It affords significance to the location from which someone is reporting. (Ironically, the datelined piece you are reading right now has almost nothing to do with the fact...
Indeed, all of our participants are from Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan—Boston??s poorest communities. Where Best Buys are replaced with Rent-A-Centers, and only a confusing (and often routinely late and slow) system of buses connect their community, their Boston isn’t on any tourist map. Instead, like much of the rest of low-income America, it is a mecca for obesity...
Menino emphasized that Boston??s summers programs for youths of different economic backgrounds were among the very strongest in the country...
Harvard, which is slated to announce plans for its campus in Boston in the coming months, has been working hard to find common ground with Boston??s leaders, who became irate this spring at Harvard’s purchase of a 91-acre plot which includes part of the turnpike as well as the area’s major rail yard...
Alan J. Stone, Harvard’s vice president of government, community and public affairs, underscored Harvard’s desire to help solve Boston??s transportation problems as the University expands...