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...work. It’s not like we have welfare,” Archer says. “We have almost everything we need. If they decide to buy this place we need to have one just like this.”The proposed location is only about one mile away, situated near Shaw’s Supermarket and major bus routes. Though the site is currently under review, Charlesview Board members say it is the best one offered so far. If they accept Harvard’s offer, their plans will then come under review by the Boston Redevelopment...
...finished Boston” to their list of achievements. Cheered on by friends, family members, and Wellesley girls offering kisses, over 22,500 official runners and many more “bandits” running without bar-coded bibs raced 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to downtown Boston yesterday. The bibs allow event organizers to track injuries and hospitalizations. While the marathon’s top contestants finished in a little over two hours, Harvard students and staff joined runners from 94 countries and all 50 states in the 110th annual Boston Marathon. Their stories from along the track tell...
...crossed the finish line and was treated at a medical tent for dehydration and heat stroke. “I’m happy it’s there for my safety,” he said. More than 22,500 athletes are expected to run the 26.2 mile race today. Every year medical personnel receive upwards of 800 runners who require attention; when temperatures spike, that number can exceed 1,700, according to an assistant commissioner of the state Department of Public Health, Nancy Ridley. Organizers will use hand-held scanners to record the name, age, gender, and medical...
After 43 years, Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian Mafia's elusive capo dei capi, the boss of bosses, was run to ground just a mile west of the town of his birth, Corleone, a place made famous by the fictional protagonists in Mario Puzo's saga The Godfather. Provenzano had run the enormous La Cosa Nostra crime organization by way of messages on slips of paper, called pizzini, smuggled out from his hiding places over the years. But Cortese finally found him by following peripatetic packages of clean laundry from the home of Provenzano's wife in Corleone. Each delivery...
Unlike Sharon, who would conduct freewheeling gabfests with his aides without ever settling on a course of action, Olmert insists on reaching decisions at the end of each meeting. His stamina is honed by daily six-mile runs; someone who has advised both men says that "by 5 a.m. Olmert knows everything, because he has read all the papers on the Internet. I don't think Sharon knew how to turn on a computer." But Olmert shares Sharon's preoccupation with the survival of the Jewish state and an abiding skepticism in the Palestinians' willingness to accept that. "He mistrusts...