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After congratulatory speeches and much ribbon-cutting, these four stations opened this past spring as part of the 3.2 mile MBTA northwest extension costing $574 million...
Since 1977, a mile and a half of the thoroughfare alongside the Charles River--known as Riverbend Park--had been closed to automobile traffic from 11 am to 7 p.m on Sundays...
...singers Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter took to the stage last week, it was Plains, Ga., that was on their minds. As a longtime friend, Nelson was there in his bushier-than-ever beard to help the Carters celebrate their hometown's 100th birthday. The party began with a five-mile road race; the former - President and still earnest jogger came in 314th out of 437 with a time of 40:35. He did better during the parade down Main Street, leading the way with Rosalynn past 7,000 cheering visitors and kinfolk. Brother Billy is both these days...
Wilson Goode heard the gunfire at his home a mile away. He and a group of advisers were tensely sipping coffee and orange juice while waiting for Leo Brooks, the field commander, to call from the scene. After the first shots came a lull, then more firing. Goode grew agitated and paced back and forth. "It sounds like machine-gun bullets," he said, and later, "What about the children...
Then she is back for her best number, carried onstage in a reclining posture by her backup dancers, looking like Madam Recamier in her salon, twirling a long rope of pearls and camping a mile a minute. "This is," she sings to a pop reggae beat, "a material world. And I am" pause "a material girl." Luxuriating in materialism, poking fun at greediness -- she is performing for adolescents who feel deprived if their cars don't have quadraphonic cassette players -- Madonna is singing that she is available to the highest bidder, then denying that. And at the end, she pulls...