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...have different clientele," said John Sudbury, owner of Cafe Liberty in Central Square. "There are yuppies going into Starbucks and goth people and MIT nerds going into my place...
...legend goes that Valentine's Day originated in the Dark Ages, when the Bishop of Terani and a priest in Rome were both jailed for their heresies during the prosecution of Claudius the Goth. Both] named Valentine. The two clergymen decided to launch a campaign for their freedom and wrote many letters to citizens. protesting their imprisonment. One of the two men became a saint and the tradition of sending letters on his birthday continued over the ages...
...Athens; the answer is generally yes-but wait. There is an enduring ecology of excellence in the world. It is a good idea to remember Thomas Merton's question: "How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in Western Europe, when Goth and Frank and Norman and Lombard had mingled with the rot of old Rome to form a patchwork of hybrid races, all of them notable for ferocity, hatred, stupidity, craftiness, lust and brutality-how did it happen that, from all this, there should come the Gregorian chant, monasteries and cathedrals...
...Just as Goth stonecutters who chiseled ornate facades for Europe's grand Gothic cathedrals were master craftsmen of the Middle Ages, tool-and diemakers are premier artisans of the industrial era. Instead of granite or limestone, their medium hard metal. They create the tools that can cut metal into precise patterns and the dies to mold it into complex shapes...
Eastern coach Goth Stamm of Otianti State College in New York felt the East was better with the pair than without, so yesterday he had them telephoned and told to expect their airplane tickets later this week...