Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Students Association (BITSA) hosted a conference at Harvard aimed at helping students explore the challenges of being first-generation Taiwanese-Americans. About 200 students registered for the conference, "Old School/New School: Bridging the Taiwanese-American Past and Future," known as BITSA...
...Marius made Boston his home, becoming an ardent Red Sox fan. Lewis said he attended a baseball game with Marius every year, and was treated to stories of minor and major league baseball games that Marius had seen "40 or 50 years ago" in Tennessee...
...Boston Globe dropped a bomb with its front-page article Friday, "Harvard heeds the call of hungry students," which announced the College's decision to create a "fourth meal" at around midnight...
...Director Peter Altman of the Huntington Theatre Company from adapting Nobel-prize winning author Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel, The Last Hurrah, into a theatrical event. Speckled with scheming politicos, snooty aristocrats and down-to-earth Irish-American folk, O'Connor's novel, a sweeping panorama of '50s Boston political scene, seemed a perfect recipe for dramatic success, right? Wrong...
...zeal to promote Boston-themed plays, Altman thought he found an easy answer in the colorful Last Hurrah, the notorious parody of four-time Boston mayor James Michael Curley's last-ditch bid for re-election. What he got, however, was an unreasonably large and unmanageable cast of characters, many of whom are demoted to ornamental, cardboard cut-out status in the three-hour world of the theatre. There's Amos Force (Keith Perry), the conservative Yankee who will do whatever it takes to see the Irish mayor lose; Francis Jr. (John P. Arnold), the mayor's playboy, finger-snapping...