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Sixty years ago, working-class day students commuted daily by subway from Charlestown, Boston and surrounding areas, unable to afford suites in Harvard's recently built undergraduate Houses. Labeled "meatballs" or "untouchables," they lived separate existences from wealthier students...
...order did little more than mix "poor blacks" with "poor whites." But it would be naive to imagine that most suburban whites would obediently put their children on the bus to the inner city. Suburban families might have thrown fewer rocks than did the working-class whites of Charlestown and South Boston, but I suspect that when the dust settled, many would have put their children in private or parochial schools, or found other means of evading the order...
...cross was returned to Louisbourg on Permanent loan during a ceremony held Wednesday at the Charlestown Navy Yard...
Look for the tell-tale signs ofgentrification--the too-freshly painted fireescapes and Volvos parked along the street as youleave the North End. Then cross the Charles Riverto the predominantly Irish Charlestown and BunkerHill Monument, a 220 floor obelisk thatcommemorates one of the first battles of theRevolutionary...
...other suspects, Keith A. Leahy, 24, and Brendon F. Smith, 24, both of Charlestown, were shot as they attempted to escape in a getaway car with $281,000 in cash...