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...With a burst of firecrackers and a platter of fried rangoons, Harvard Square rang in the Year of the Ox yesterday. A group of about 50 people—accompanied by two multi-colored lions who performed a traditional lion dance—paraded from Winthrop Park on JFK St. to the Hong Kong Restaurant on Mass. Ave. The advent of the Chinese lunar calendar came on Jan. 26, but the celebration typically continues for about a week. The event was organized by the Hong Kong Restaurant and the Harvard Square Business Association. After the procession, families piled into...
...output. “Thunderbolts” is a particularly disappointing example. The song provides none of the hooks Newman is known for, instead serving up a drone of piano chords and a phoned-in vocal performance. “Prophets” also goes nowhere, occasionally threatening to burst out into a glorious melody but instead settling for a chorus that is neither coherent nor interesting. These tracks and others suffer from the album’s extremely poor production. Almost every song sounds flat, with the drumming particularly marginalized. Only “The Heartbreak Rides?...
Representatives from a Boston environmental group burst onstage and briefly commandeered a talk given on campus by a coal company executive yesterday evening. The activists, members of Rising Tide Boston, a self-proclaimed environmental and social justice group, came to the front of the room during the talk’s question and answer period and unfurled a banner stating “clean coal is a dirty lie” while listing grievances with coal as an energy source. As two of the activists held the banner, another questioned the speaker, CEO of Arch Coal Steven F. Leer...
...problem with the stimulus package as it is conceived now is that it may simply be too broad. It lets water run through breaches in the dam while hoping to strengthen parts which have not burst. It's a hard way to keep the water...
Roars of “Yes!” and “No!” burst from viewers as Steelers lineman Harrison scored a last-moment touchdown at the end of the second quarter...