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...phrase “EVERYONE IS PRICELESS,” in all-capitalized letters, graces the murals on Bow Street behind Tommy’s House of Pizza and Tommy’s Value. The pastel yellow background and the spontaneous strokes of paint that border the brick wall add a note of whimsy to the sweeping proclamation. The big block font looks like someone took a giant rubber stamp and, while passing by the industrial-sized trashcans one day, decided to label the walls behind them with a self-esteem booster...
...noting Arts First as well as the Harvard Music Performance Series and the WINC Coffeehouse as notable exceptions. Instead, students often seek out nearby clubs and bars more receptive to less established talents. For many, the first destination is at the corner of Church and Palmer St., inside the brick walls of Club Passim...
...Quentin Compson. Drowned in the odour of honeysuckle. 1891-1910.” This seemingly inscrutable epitaph is inscribed onto a brick-sized plaque on the eastern railing of the Larz Anderson Bridge, just down JFK St. The plaque commemorates one of the most notorious freshmen ever to grace Harvard’s campus. Alienated by Northern academic culture, consumed by memories of his Mississippi home, and still lusting after his sister Caddy, Compson was looking for a way out on June 2, 1910. After a day of wandering aimlessly in Boston, he tied a pair of tailor?...
...Makasan found himself lining up outside the Thai military headquarters in Pattani to collect his father's corpse. Military officials described to Makasan how, together with 31 other men, six of them from Som, his father attacked a police checkpoint, killed two officers, then retreated inside the crumbling, red brick Krue Se mosque to launch a defiant stand against the might of the Thai military. When the automatic-weapon fire had ceased and the tear gas had cleared nine hours after the siege began, all 32 lay dead, their bodies lying in bloodied heaps on the stone floor...
...Tillman was part of Operation Mountain Storm, a campaign launched in March by U.S.-led forces against Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters who have been regrouping in sanctuaries along the border with Pakistan. On Thursday his special-forces unit was on patrol with Afghan militia near the isolated mud-brick village of Spera, about 25 miles southwest of the nearest U.S. firebase, at Khost...