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Massachusetts is especially risky ground for Democratic intruders because state primary rules allot delegates to candidates only if they win 15 percent or more of the vote. Those who fail to meet that threshold will have nothing to show for whatever effort they invest in the state. And local Democrats say the governor's lead is prohibitive, leaving them with little to do, and rivals with little hope...
Never mind that there's snow on the ground this morning. Two days ago the weather topped 50 degrees, and I took the T to Park Street and walked down Commonwealth to Kenmore Square...
...Israeli army, already under fire for its conduct, found itself embroiled in another controversy over a ghastly incident in the West Bank village of Salim. There, army officials said last week, Israeli soldiers forced four suspected riot leaders to lie on the ground last Feb. 5 and ordered an army bulldozer driver to push a mound of earth over them. Miraculously, the victims were dug out alive by villagers after the soldiers left. Army officials ; announced that two soldiers had been arrested for allegedly participating in the incident...
...expensive for most tables. Even the country's largest export crop, coffee, has been endangered by mismanagement. Some 6,000 workers were dispatched last month to the northern part of the country to salvage what they can before millions of pounds of unpicked coffee beans rot on the ground...
...that they will be unredeemed corporate fortresses. Most of the ground floors will consist of shops and restaurants. Furthermore, Developer George Klein has promised to install elaborate commercial signs on the facades. On 42nd Street, Klein and his partners at the Prudential Insurance Co. have agreed to acquire most of nine architecturally precious old theaters (many now showing sex-and-mayhem movies) and spend $9.2 million to renovate those that become nonprofit playhouses. (A new hotel and merchandise mart are also envisioned for the same stretch of 42nd Street.) Finally, Klein and company will spend $81.8 million to spruce...