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...numbers of single mothers remain small, the ranks are rapidly rising. The National Center for Health Statistics reports that from 1980 to 1988 the birthrate among unmarried white women between the ages of 30 and 34 surged 68%, and 69% for those 35 to 39. Merle Bombardieri, a Boston-area psychotherapist, says that of the almost 1,000 women contemplating single motherhood whom she has counseled, about two-thirds are heterosexual and one- third lesbian...
Safire himself commented on how "Boston-area colleges" have re-invented the meaning of a word once used mostly in the context of probability theory and state lotteries...
Stith, a 1979 graduate of the Divinity school who has worked in Boston-area churches for the past 11 years, warned the picnickers of ongoing racial polarization. He cited the 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, N.Y., and the letter bombs recently sent to NAACP offices as examples of a "racist terrorism" which is becoming more and more common...
...Harvard Boston-area fundraiser Ernest M. Monrad '51 on the delay in the University's massive capital campaign caused by President Derek C. Bok's departure...
...Beaux Arts Trio has come to enjoy great respect and popularity among Boston-area chamber-music fans, who regularly traverse the Charles River to hear the small classical music ensemble play at Harvard. Under the auspices of the Winthrop House Music society, the group has, for several years, filled the immense, lofty space of Sanders theater with clear and precise strains of time-honored music...