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Glaeser’s new post will likely force him to hob-nob with Boston politicians. “I would fear for my life if my baseball opinions were known publicly,” Glaeser said...
...twenty. Four men were chosen to stay behind to protect the building and watch over the family's elderly blind matriarch, too ill to move. The doors and windows are covered with plastic taped to the frames. A small yellow bird, like a finch, known locally as a "taral hob" or the bird of love, is kept in a cage just outside. "When it dies we know we might too," says one of the men, Ali Rauf Noori. "There are no guarantees here in Chamchamal, that's why everyone has evacuated." These men sent their wives and children away...
...House of Blues offers conclusive evidence that anyone who says they are bored of Harvard Square, let alone Cambridge or Boston, is simply not paying attention. A regular port of call for numerous off-the-beaten-track international bands, this past Saturday night the HOB hosted Boukman Eksperyans, a Haitian band whose music is a stew of global influences anchored in the traditions of “vodou” spirituality...
...find that this Administration, with a war to worry about and a honor-and-dignity-of-the-office mandate to maintain, did indeed act with particular rectitude in this case despite its Enron ties (or, again, perhaps because of them). Maybe we'll decide that Republicans, who hob-nob with rich business leaders all the time, are therefore better inured against their more inappropriate requests...
...reminded this week of the fact that long ago, my family used to take vacations in places other than Las Vegas. As a six and seven year old, I would whine for a "glamorous" destination where I could hob-nob and sip champagne with celebrities while my older brother complained that our family was rapidly losing its intellectual edge and we needed to sharpen our minds in a cultural environment. So my weary parents opted for the middle-ground: a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Be it Montana, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, South Carolina or Virginia, we'd shack...