Word: downtowners
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...magazine currently has fewer than 10 staffers working out of a suite on Winter Street in downtown Boston...
Corker said he will move from Pforzheimer House, where he has lived during the past year, to an apartment downtown. He also said that he’s likely to take up office space in Apley Court—a freshman dormitory that will be vacated next year due to remodeling of the Hasty Pudding building...
Corker said he will move from Pforzheimer House, where he has lived during the past year, to an apartment downtown. He also said that he’s likely to take up office space in Apley Court—a freshman dormitory that will be vacated next year due to remodeling of the Hasty Pudding building...
Those words would haunt Hariri for the rest of his life. Seven weeks after his meeting in Damascus, he resigned. Almost four months after that, he was dead, assassinated on Valentine's Day in rebuilt downtown Beirut, the jewel of his political achievements, as he prepared to launch a bid to reclaim power and rid Lebanon of Syrian influence. In death, Hariri managed to obtain the prize he so desperately sought in the final months of his life. After his assassination a million Lebanese poured into the streets, galvanizing international opinion against Damascus and forcing the withdrawal of Syrian troops...
...while Hariri is a martyr who transcends Lebanon's sectarian divides-his grave in downtown Beirut has become the city's most popular tourist attraction-the circumstances surrounding his assassination are still cloaked in mystery. The bombing site remains cordoned off by police tape, the street littered with the gnarled remains of cars burned by the blast. A U.N. fact-finding mission concluded in March that the Syrian regime bore "primary responsibility" for the political circumstances leading up to Hariri's assassination, though Damascus has denied any involvement. A U.N. team arrived in Lebanon...