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...year of Litvinenko’s birth, the Cold War reached its climax. JFK and Krushchev came very close to igniting a nuclear Apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a couple of months before Alexander was born in a remote Russian village. After making a good impression with the intelligentsia at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he moved up in Soviet bureaucracy. In 1988, as dissent became pronounced all throughout Eastern Europe, Litvinenko joined the infamous KGB, the counter-intelligence agency and symbol of Soviet realpolitick in the West...
...store with a Harvard-appropriate emphasis on scholarly nonfiction in many languages, started at 8 Mt. Auburn St. People now must leave Cambridge and go to Tufts’ Davis Square in Somerville to visit it. (Last year, the tiny but gratifying Raven Used Books opened at 52-B JFK St. hoping to fill this niche; suffice it to say, the shop has an uphill battle...
...changing your habits on one day, but thinking about a lifestyle commitment to consuming less and producing less waste,” Probert said. Today, though, is Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the online shopping season. Berk’s shoe store, a locally-owned corner shop on JFK and Winthrop Streets, is one business that is expanding its reach by emphasizing online sales. Marc Pinansky, Berk’s manager, said online sales have increased at least 30 to 40 percent over the last year and said the store hopes the numbers will rise even further...
...Eliot Street location and the Soldiers Field Road branch at 2.26 miles.) Regardless, having an IHOP in the Square will be much more convenient, Hunter said. But Rose said she hopes IHOP doesn’t put Leo’s Place, the American food joint on nearby JFK Street, out of business. “The only competition I see is the hung-over dining hall chicken, the one stuffed with cheese and broccoli,” said Catriona C. Duncan...
...award, established by John Shattuck, chief executive officer of the JFK Library Foundation, also emphasizes youth involvement in public service...