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Another significant upcoming performance for the Bosstones is a New Years Eve jam ("The Last Blast of '97") at the Worcester Centrum. A couple of their favorite contemporary bands, ska veterans Bim Skala Bim (yes, they're still around and making great music) and the street-smart punk posse Dropkick Murphys, open up the wholly Providence and Boston-based concert...
...most illuminating and eloquent is Tobias Wolff's explication of his short story "Powder"--which centers on a father and son's attempts at making their way home for Christmas Eve in the midst of a snowstorm. The urgency of memory, the need to mediate all the past's heart-break and humor, infuses Wolff's story with dead-pan beauty. Reminiscent of Raymond Carver's classic "Popular Mechanics" (minus the bloody conclusion) in terms of its powerful brevity, "Powder" is the best work included in the anthology...
...festivities began on Wednesday, the eve of the anniversary, with a luncheon for 800 at which Prince Philip toasted his wife. "I think the main lesson we have learnt," he said, "is that tolerance is the one essential ingredient in any happy marriage...You can take it from me, the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance." The next day, Nov. 20, the couple attended a service in Westminster Abbey, where they had been married. The abbey was also the site of Diana's funeral three months ago, and as Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry walked...
...wasn't supposed to be this way. On the eve of the Pacific century, Asia's two most powerful economies were supposed to be pumping out wealth for the rest of the world--not threatening to suck it dry. But banks in Japan and South Korea now groan with bad debts that could push both countries into deep, prolonged downturns. In Japan, public confidence is at a postwar low and nobody wants to spend a yen. Korea is cash strapped and politically rudderless, with a presidential election just four weeks...
...YORK: Forget JFK? On the eve of the 34th anniversary of the most infamous presidential assassination in history, more American adults who were alive at the time remember where they were when they heard about Princess Diana's car crash than when they heard about the Kennedy shooting...