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...With 96 percent of precincts reporting, Patrick had 56 percent of the vote to Healey’s 35. Independent candidate Christy Mihos took 7 percent, while Green-Rainbow candidate Grace C. Ross ’83 won 3 percent...
...fight,” acknowledging the many Latino security guards on Harvard’s campus. Another refrain was, “What’s outrageous? Security guard’s wages. What’s disgusting? Union busting.” Gubernatorial candidate Grace C. Ross ’83 of the Green-Rainbow party spoke out at the rally in support of unionization. “Not only does [Harvard] have the money, but it has the power to make things right,” Ross said. The crowd blocked traffic at the intersection of Broadway...
...nine covers--including Gram Parsons' $1000 Wedding and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah--are so good that Nelson resists the temptation to oversell them and returns to the effortless speak-singing that made his greatest hits so poignant. Best of all is a closing minor-key version of Amazing Grace; Nelson and Adams add an Animals-like organ to this most clichd of spirituals and take it on a trip to the House of the Rising...
Alice Munro spins tales that showus, again and again, and with wondrous grace, how much can be done in a simple short story. Yet the 74-year-old Canadian does it by breaking every rule ever taught in a writing seminar, setting up a master class along the sidelines. Her latest--her 11th--collection of stories, The View from Castle Rock (Knopf; 349 pages), marks a departure from her usual examinations of women in rural Canada leaving home to remake their possibilities by drawing instead on family documents, historical records (from 19th century Scotland) and what feels like memoir...
...That notion must have drifted over to Bristol. After two features and dozen of shorts whose wit and grace proved that stop-motion deserved to survive in the digital era, some of the Aardmanites agreed to go to California and make a computer-generated feature with the company's American partner, DreamWorks. (Not Park; he stayed home...