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...tree and have it appeal to Boston residents of all faiths. The actual result, however, was to illustrate how much politicians pander to political correctness. As mentioned previously, the lighting of the Christmas tree has been an event for the past 64 years. Moreover, it is the 34th year Nova Scotia has given a tree to Boston out of thanks for the aid Boston provided to Nova Scotia when a munitions ship exploded on Dec. 6, 1917. So when the name change was announced, outrage predictably followed. Donnie Hatt, the logger who chopped down this year’s tree...
...renaming of the tree on the city-run website promoting the Dec. 1 “Official Holiday Tree Lighting.” According to the Boston Globe, Menino tried to distance himself from the effort to rename the tree, saying that he would continue to call the Nova Scotia spruce a “Christmas tree” regardless of the official name given by the Boston Department of Parks and Recreation. “I grew up with a Christmas tree, I’m going to stay with a Christmas tree,” Menino told...
...formulaic? By all means. Comparisons to other, more renowned artists abound on the first listen. In González’s Rome, beautifully-proportioned busts of Simon and Garfunkel adorn museums and villas. Mark Kozelek (of the Red House Painters) paints riffs on a Sistine ceiling for bossa nova Pope João Gilberto...
...appearances and bylined columns in Canadian newspapers have fueled suspicions that he may be testing the waters for a potential run. In March, Ignatieff delivered the keynote address at the Liberal Party’s national-policy convention. He also met with top Liberal Party officials in Quebec and Nova Scotia in May, according to news reports...
From his home in nearby White River Junction, Vt., Levenson drives to Dartmouth-Hitchcock in his 1988 stick-shift Chevrolet Nova. He does all his murals--for which he charges only the cost of materials--in the oncology section because his mother and the first of his three wives died of cancer. "The patients' conversations feed me--they keep me alert," says Levenson, who places an empty chair next to his easel to invite kibitzing while he works...