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ACCORDING to news accounts, at 3:30 a.m. Monday the first of what would soon be 4,000 Palestinians gathered on the Temple Mount, stockpiling stones, bottles, and other heavy throwables. Although it was a regular Muslim workday, the large crowd had excellent reason for being up so early. Soon thousands of Jews would be assembling to worship at the Western Wall in celebration of the fifth day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkoth...
...interview last week, Carr cited an anti-CLT speeches to the first year class by the presidents of Mount Wachusett Community College and Framingham State as instances of state university officials using their positions to influence votes. He also referred to a first-year orientation meeting at the University of Lowell in which students were told that the university would lose its accreditation if CLT passed...
...return of the buffalo -- the fulfillment of a prayer in an old Indian song -- even tracked down the site near Jordan, Mont., where the Smithsonian's William Hornaday in 1886 found the last of the wild bison. He killed 25 of them, took skins and skeletons back East to mount. Those shaggy monsters roamed the National Museum of Natural History along Washington's Mall for almost 75 years...
...failures mount, the industry's insurance fund has dwindled to alarmingly low levels. -- A bright future for natural gas. -- Michael Milken's friends lobby for a lenient sentence...
...with city banks currently reluctant to loan the money the area needs to rebuild itself, the renaissance of Central Square seems increasingly remote, Woodbury says. And meanwhile, the complaints about the homeless continue to mount...