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...During the two weeks before the vigil, a 13-year-old was shot and killed outside his home in Dorchester and a Pop Warner football coach was shot in the leg on the basketball court that the BSA chose as the scene for its press conference...
...make government work for people,” Sullivan says. “I have customers in my business, and I have to get back to them right away. The city should work the same way, and a councillor’s job is to do the leg work, respond to the people who have issues, and give them honest answers...
...identifying information that is programmed into these online texts, making them easier to search and locate. It’s important to get metadata right because metadata is how these online works can be located in the vast ether of the digital world, and also gives digital works a leg up on hardcopy books. According to Weinberger, “Books create an ethos in which thoughts succeed by being self-contained. The web creates an ethos in which works succeed also by linking outward from themselves. Both have value. You can do both digitally.”In addition...
...veranda at the governor's residence in the southwestern Venezuelan state of Barinas, Narciso Chavez stands up, lifts a leg and stomps the ground several times, laughing. He is demonstrating the country-and-western dance moves he learned years ago at bars near Daytona Beach. Nacho, as he's nicknamed, studied English in Florida, had a son with his American girlfriend in Ohio, and claims he's still the best English teacher in his hometown. More to the point, perhaps, he's the younger brother of President Hugo Chavez, which may be how he came to be stomping around...
...curators, not knowing this was the world’s last specimen, decided to burn it in a bonfire. They set the feathers ablaze on Jan. 8, 1775, according to Pinto-Correia’s book. Lore has it that one curator wrested a head and leg from the flames, Berry said.Those remains now reside in a gray box at the Oxford Museum of Natural History, according to Berry, who takes a group of Harvard student to the museum each year.But the fire did not destroy demand for the dodo. Decades later, in the Victorian...