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...front after school. Everyone was on a first name basis. The old men muttered as they shuffled along the street, heads down. The town buzzed with chiacchiere—the rumor and gossip that flits between extended family. There were no Starbucks stores, but there were lawn chairs on every street corner, where residents sat and watched the day go by. So does that mean close enough is close enough? Would buying authentic ingredients in the North End be a good enough substitution for the real thing? Well, no. The North End is not Italy, and even the neighborhood?...
...long ago, the little dogs raced together down the stairs, then flew out the door and onto the porch. The boy barked at the world and the girl nipped his heels. They ran to the lawn and peed on the same patch. The little boy galloped like a pony in tall grass. The little girl followed him to the pond. The boy chased off blackbirds. The girl barked as if she had helped. After the little boy died of old age, the little girl sat for many weeks at the top of the stairs facing the front door. That...
...return could not come too soon for Mary Croom-Fontenot, an activist in New Orleans who works with local churches to help organize the post-Katrina rebuilding. "Twenty minutes out on this lawn in the heat does not suffice," she said, after McCain held a press availability in the Lower Ninth Ward on Thursday. Like some others, she said she thought McCain's visit to the neighborhood, which included two military trucks for carrying photographers to capture McCain as he walked through, was overly focused on the national media, not the actual community. "What we saw was a designated seating...
Meanwhile, the rest of us wrestled with our choices: do we swear off meat, swap canvas for plastic, ditch the lawn, change the bulbs, wonder if it's too late? "I hope this movement is not a fad," one activist told a TIME reporter after the first Earth Day 38 years ago, "but the signs are not encouraging." On the one hand, less than three months later, President Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. The air and water got cleaner, DDT was banned, leaded gas phased out, recycling phased in. On the other hand, the world's population has nearly...
Being Pope has its privileges: the first foreign visitor to be greeted on the tarmac by President Bush; 12,000 well wishers on the White House South Lawn, more than for the Queen of England; 21 guns, fife and drums, and a cake for his 81st birthday. The anticipation of Pope Benedict XVI's visit was so great, the response was so warm, it was as though his hosts were trying to raise him up, a Pontiff in many ways still in the shadow of his predecessor, John Paul Superstar. And no one seemed more eager to cast...