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...their first year, most Harvard students can quickly rattle off the streets which cross Massachusetts Avenue south of the yard. Dunster, Holyoke, Linden, Plympton, Bow. A recent proposal by the Cambridge City Council would add a new name to the list: Halberstam...
...block between Chestnut and Linden Streets stood the home of Cambridge selectman Sylvanus Plympton ’80. (That’s 1780.) He and his wife Mary died in the 1830s, and four decades later, a nostalgic city council decreed that Chestnut would henceforth be known as Plympton Street...
...some, including this newspaper’s leadership, as heresy. The post office can’t be too eager, either. But Cambridge has a long tradition of rechristening its thoroughfares: Holyoke Street was once Crooked Lane; Charles River Road yielded to Memorial Drive. In 1982, the Cambridge city council worried that Harvard was about to drop the Kennedy name from its School of Government. So they promptly turned the road outside the school’s front door into John F. Kennedy Street. It had three previous names...
...Latin Mass Benedict, who recently made it easier for priests to celebrate the mass in Latin (the norm prior to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s) will be sprinkling Latin throughout his visit. But the highlight may be at his 5:30 p.m. Wednesday prayer service and meeting with the U.S. Catholic Bishops, which will have numerous Latin passages, and his Sunday 2:30 p.m. Yankee Stadium Mass, where the Creed, normally recited here in English, will be in Rome's mother tongue...
...Sadr, who was thought to be undertaking intensive religious studies in Iran over the past several months, is rumored to be back in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, where he keeps a political council. Salah al-Ubaide, a member of Sadr's Najaf council, said Sadr and his followers were still open to a political compromise that might end the current standoff-but held out little hope...