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There was something about the scheme that just did not compute. Under a recent contract between the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. prison system, 45 inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in Lexington, Ky., were set to work entering data from thousands of applications for FHA insurance into a computer. But Beverly Hirsch, 36, who is serving a 40-year sentence for credit-card and check fraud, was surprised to see that some forms carried not only information on applicants' income and debts, but their bank-account and credit-card numbers as well. "The information...
...word has not spread to branches of the college either, such as the Lincoln Laboratory for Research in Lexington...
...surprised myself by actually stopping to read the little plaques on these buildings when I walked by, and by feeling a small thrill at the fact that I was standing on the very spot where mobs once gathered to protest "taxation without representation." As a native of Lexington (you know--as in Lexington and Concord) I was spoonfed local history from a tender age, and I'd thought I was hardened to that feeling of historical wonder--in Boston at least. But somehow, the North End called it back...
...American Revolution started at the Battles of Concord and Lexington...
Today's current Minutemen, from the University of Massachusetts, have not been true to their namesake. Instead of defending all of Concord and Lexington as the 1776 men did, the 1988 Minutemen have had trouble defending their own goal line...