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...punishment, but as a sign of God's "many providences." Dissenters would always be welcome here - the city, he said, would be a "lively experiment." It worked. The motto on the city seal is no obscure Latin phrase, but the salutation used by the local Indians to greet Williams: "What cheer?" Visitors[an error occurred while processing this directive] to Providence, an hour's drive southwest of Boston, will find many answers to that question. Think of Providence as an eminently walkable museum - bring good shoes to handle the hills and cobblestones - with exhibits built in clapboard, bricks and mortar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhode Trip | 6/22/2006 | See Source »

...will actually visit his dream? Junker imagines both Nazi sympathizers as well as people who make the long trip to Sugar Creek simply to show how much they hate the idea of a Hitler museum. Either way, Junker says, he?ll greet them with his ready smile and firm grip. ?This isn?t about hate,? he says. ?Take hate out of it. It?s about understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Monument to Hate | 6/16/2006 | See Source »

...Nutritional compromises are sometimes made in the interest of the larger lesson.) Depending on location, the week could include a visit to a farm to see ingredients at the source. Week Three concentrates on etiquette and table manners. And Week Four features the big night. Children set the tables, greet their parents and politely pull out chairs for them to sit down. Kids prepare as much of the meal as is safe and age-appropriate and then join their families for the first of what is hopefully many successful family dinners. Week Five is all about discussing the event, planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dinner-Party Project: The ABCs of Breaking Bread | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...They greet his sardonic understatement with appreciative howls. The speech starts with a warm celebration of the site?s achievements (including the somewhat dubious claim that Jon Tester owes his primary Senate victory in Montana to them and not to his opponent?s zipper problem) and then becomes self-congratulatory, boasting about the insurgent primary challenge to Joe Lieberman, where the incumbent now leads by only 55-40. The message of these triumphs? That the ?riffraff? has triumphed over the elite. It?s all very empowering, though the speech?s crescendo is about how the liberal blogosphere propelled Stephen Colbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ambitious Pols Make Their Pilgrimage to Yearly Kos | 6/9/2006 | See Source »

...meet to form a bowtie-shaped intersection hazardous to pedestrians. But in its modesty there is a sense of community that Harvard Square lost long ago. Inexpensive housing rings the crossroads; in the mornings, residents, many of them optimistic immigrants hoping to grab a piece of the American dream, greet each other in the Dunkin’ Donuts, on the way to work. Unused warehouses and office space line some streets, but far more are filled with identical row houses, with children playing in cramped side yards. Neighbors hold conversations from their porches in good weather, fanning themselves to stave...

Author: By Brian J. Rosenberg | Title: Allston's Ambivalent Metamorphosis | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

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