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...survivors," says Peretz, who bought the magazine in 1974, pointing out that the magazine currently enjoys a near-high in both circulation and advertising. "It's been a stunning success. I would dare to say that there is no journal of opinion that provokes the kind of discussion and dispute which the The New Republic does...
Recently, the CSB said it will allow the Tasty to move back into the Reed Block building near its original location, but tension still exists between the bank and some Cambridge residents...
Although Nixon and Kissinger repeatedly assertthat the U.S. and North Vietnam are near a ceasefire, December, 1972 rolls around without thematerialization of a peace accord. It proves to bea month of contradictions in other respects aswell. One day after Kissinger tells the publicthat the two sides have almost reached agreement,President Nixon orders stepped-up bombings ofNorth Vietnam (December 17). A 100-persondemonstration in Boston is held to protest thisdecision, but it does not compare with student-rundemonstrations held a year earlier...
...this summer, from the all-female Lilith Festival (with neo-soul star Erykah Badu joining Sarah McLachlan and others) to the Furthur Festival (headlined by the Other Ones, a new band featuring members of the Grateful Dead), probably no one has taken a longer, harder route to a city near you than Maryam Mursal. She fled Mogadishu, Somalia, with her five young children in 1991 at the height of her native country's bloody civil war. Bribing and buying her way through Kenya and into Ethiopia, she eventually journeyed to Denmark, where she resumed her career as a singer...
BOWING OUT. MARION BARRY, 62, shameless mayor of the District of Columbia for four controversial terms (interrupted by a stint in prison) that left the city insolvent and under near total congressional rule; announcing he will not seek re-election when his term expires...