Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Palandjian said the condominiums will offer "sweeping views of Cambridge and the Boston skyline...
Intercontinental purchased most of the property in 1993, and acquired the remainder of the property--which had been occupied by the Holy Cross Church--in 1995 in a deal with the Archdiocese of Boston...
...first, the 9 a.m. watering ritual struck me as odd, only because even in my native Boston suburb, where water is plentiful, we have rules prohibiting midday plant watering during the hottest months. But as my summer in Jerusalem and the Middle East continues, I have become increasingly attuned to drinking, washing, watering, swimming, cleaning and flushing--anything that involves the precious molecule, H2O. Water availability and attitudes towards this natural resource are subtle yet omnipresent symbols of the different worlds which coexist here, as well as a source of conflict between them...
...rainfall this past winter. Hydraulicists constantly make guest appearances on radio and television talk shows, issuing warnings about some obscure "red line" threshold of water supply, a minimum that we are precariously nearing. Here, in the privileged middle-class West Jerusalem, with a lifestyle and surroundings very much like Boston, these warning fall on deaf ears. And, for many of the Palestinians, especially the inhabitants of villages that draw their water from wells, statistics and fancy talk about drought patterns matter very little. There is never enough water during these summer months...
...dissimilar to his abruptly lyrical Hamlet in the "What a piece of work is man" speech. Amblad and Green share a rare stage chemistry; it will come as no surprise to the audience that they have played these (and other) roles together before. They performed with Sabrina Howells of Boston University.in a production of The Compleat Works this past spring at the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Burke, who in the time between play-episodes serves as the straight-man, becomes funny in his own right as the unforgettable chef in the Titus Andronicus cooking show...