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Boston viewers may respond in the same way. But the Hub may never get the chance to protest the firing of a dependable local newscaster on channel 7. It's hard even to remember the last...
...essence of prison life is that it is boring, boring by definition and by design. Yet there are accidental Expressionist stage-set touches: Stateville's round, four-tier cell houses, each with its all-seeing gun tower at the hub; in a prison shop, a row of machine tenders, each man in a khaki shirt with WORK painted on the back; on a guard's desk a canvas bandoleer, in every numbered pouch a safety razor for daily distribution on death row; a jarring, hand-lettered sign, NO SNICKERS, that in fact refers to the commissary's candy-bar supply...
...after what some scholars regard as the most important dig in New World archaeology, this hub of Aztec civilization has again become the subject of intense interest. Excavating in the very heart of bustling Mexico City, archaeologists have succeeded not only in unearthing the battered remains of the Great Temple but also in recovering some 6,000 objects: statues, wall carvings, pottery and jewelry as well as human and animal sacrificial remains. Some 100 choice examples from the dig have gone on exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York until...
...convention's featured speakers, Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, told the delegates the city's poor race relations record is improving, adding that in NAACP convention could not have been held in the Hub five years...
Some where in the Hub, there is a highly respected corporate executive who fills his days sitting in on confidential board meetings and making important business decisions. After work--he most surely stays at he office until at least 6 p.m. --he maintains his guise, closing deals with clients over dinner...