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Boston in the fall is really a city upon the hill. But the religious fervor is not only limited to a renewed commitment to church-going. The religious ethos of Boston can be best felt outdoors. At Walden Pond, surrounded by basic natural elements--trees and water--you can imagine the epiphanies of Thoreau. Orchard House, home to Alcott family, Emerson House and The Fruitlands in Harvard, Mass., the religious communal farm of these New England thinkers and other transcendentalists, represent a quasi meeting of the minds, a convergence of the intellectual and the spiritual. The town of Salem...
Most of all, Boston in the fall exudes a sense of history. In addition to the Old North Church, Old North Bridge, Boston Common and other revolutionary war memorabilia, the history of Boston encompasses the city's social and cultural influences. The mills of Lowell, the delicious Italian aromas of the North End, the blocks of Irish pubs of South Boston, noodles galore in Chinatown and the fish markets of Fanueil Hall all testify to the varied waves of immigrants and newcomers who have left their mark on Beantown...
...workers will soon begin training kitchen staff at two Harvard-affiliated homeless shelters in food safety procedures, administrators said. But the new procedures have also left the shelter at the First Church of Cambridge, which has no Harvard affiliation but had been receiving donations from HDS for 12 years, without further gifts of food from the University...
Snow fell Friday at Shepard's funeral in Casper, where the flags flew at half-staff and hate groups demonstrated not far from St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Winter, beautiful and wicked, is coming to Wyoming...
WASHINGTON: How's he doin'? President Clinton spent the weekend raising millions of campaign dollars and riding high on a couple of hot-button issues -- the murder of Matthew Shepard and the marathon Mideast peace talks in Maryland. The former is to the '98 election what black church burnings were in 1996 -- the kind of hate crime that Clinton can really get his teeth into; a battle he doesn't have to fudge. The latter, even his opponents agree, has given the President some much-needed stature. Indeed, they're both such winners that Clinton is doing his best...