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...also planning to campaign in Cambridge, which is home to two City Councillors and a local lawyer who are among the candidates vying for the State Senate seat, according to Alpert...
CRASH-Bs, which stands for Charles River All Star Has-Beens, started off as a way for Olympic and National team caliber rowers to keep winter training interesting, adding excitement to the erg by creating a local competition. But what started off as a small-scale indoor regatta in Newell Boathouse has grown to a large-scale international competition bringing the best rowers from across the world to Boston University’s Agassiz Arena. Once there, they spend six to eight minutes in a kind of pain that could have been easily obtained for much less money. (Of course...
...philandering worked in his favor politically, especially with a demographic chunk that usually shies away from liberalism: American working guys. It made him more accessible. Here was a fellow who got it on with faded lounge singers and then celebrated with a Double Quarter Pounder and fries at the local McDonald's. If that ain't pickup-truck nirvana, what is? Democrats haven't produced many such men of the people; they produce law-professor presidents, a theme Palin launched in Nashville that we will be hearing a lot more frequently in the future...
That kind of local journalistic reaction is uncommon. Georges Michel, a senior political journalist for Radio Metropole, says that despite the frustrations of covering the trial, the majority of Haitian journalists have not paid close attention to this story because there are much larger issues in Haiti. "We have other concerns, like finding water, finding food, living on a day-to-day basis, finding some money to survive, looking for our dead friends and dead relatives. Everyone has immediate concerns," says Michel...
...timing is terrible. In recent months, Toyota City - which boasts Detroit as a sister city - has shared some of the pain felt by its American counterpart. The region is still suffering from what locals call the Toyota shock. After the Lehman bankruptcy, when the worst of the financial crisis bit and the U.S. car market collapsed, Toyota reduced production and shed temporary workers, sending a damaging ripple through the region. The scars are clearly visible on the town's streets, riddled with closed shops and restaurants. Ryuichi Watanabe, an agent at the local branch of the Able property brokerage, says...