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...current estimate is 2004, but many Bostonians agree that they'll be dealing with the Dig for at least another 10 years. The entire cost of this monstrous public works project--the biggest engineering feat since the Panama Canal--is $10.8 billion; 70 percent being funded by the generous U.S. government after years of haggling and 30 percent by exploited Massachusetts tax payers watching the prices of highway tolls skyrocket over the years...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Dig This. | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...news so much is that it's a pain in the ass. Bostonians are confused about why the dig is taking so long and wonder why their apartments now look out into giant cement mausoleums. One possible explanation for the overwhelming length of this project is generous snack breaks for the workers. Granted these guys work hard, but do $27,000 a month of taxpayers money need to be spent on little Debbie snack cakes? Another big fund-sucker is the fish initiative that concerned many local environmentalists. To ensure the safety of the Greater Boston fish population, workers...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Dig This. | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...ahead with the press conference. If you say yes, then you let us know, and immediately all pressure from PlannersBanc will cease. If you then do your part at the press conference, it will cease for good, and the bank will restructure the loans on the most generous terms imaginable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom Wolfe: A Man In Full | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...today in his Parkinson's-induced silence, Ali has had time to sift through the Muslim blarney and has returned to the more generous wisdom of the late Malcolm X, whom he regrets having deserted. "Malcolm was a very, very great man," he tells the author in his now halting speech. Odessa Clay's sweetness has manifestly overwhelmed Cassius Clay Sr.'s blather, and there is nothing left about their son not to like. At which point Remnick trips, for the first and only time, on his way out the door by tacking on a routine death-of-boxing editorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celebrating The Greatest | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...opened. When theybegan to play, my friend said, "Oh no! They havefeelings they'd like to share with us!" And indeedthey did. Or I think they did. Lots of bands thesedays make it difficult to tell what they'resinging about. Victory at Sea played what I wouldin a generous mood call meditative songs, but whatI will instead call droning and boring songs, thatwent on forever. A guitar/bass/drums trio likeShellac, they'd play the same thing for a minuteor so, and then the singer would shout out thesong's lyric, which was obliquely personal. Andthey'd repeat it five...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Steve Albini Primer for the Young Folk | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

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