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Boston has long been a metropolis resentful towards outsiders, and it takes little to be deemed foreign by the local establishment. When New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft proposed to move his franchise to South Boston, local politicians lashed out at Kraft’s proposal and lampooned him as an ignorant outsider—this despite his being from Brookline. Around the same time, de facto Red Sox chief John L. Harrington proposed to build a new stadium for his team. Although the stadium plans were ultimately shelved, local pols took the Hyde Park native seriously and agreed...
...name of redevelopment, but not, mercifully, its oldest hotel. Located a dumpling's throw from the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, the extravagant, 90-year-old building formerly known as the Grand Hôtel de Pékin is now the Raffles Beijing, beijing.raffles.com. When Raffles Hotels & Resorts-owner of Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel-took over the management reins last year, it led a no-expense-spared effort to restore the sort of style the hotel enjoyed in the days when the likes of George Bernard Shaw, Sun Yat-sen and Henri Cartier-Bresson graced its rooms...
...daughters from Nazi-occupied Holland. For nine months, they tried to secure visas - first to the U.S. and then to Cuba - until that window shut. Just three letters of the file were written by Otto Frank, all addressed to university friend Nathan Straus Jr., son of a co-owner of Macy's department store and head of the U.S. Housing Authority. Straus and Frank's brother-in-law, Julius Hollander, regularly corresponded with two private Jewish agencies, the National Refugee Service in New York and the Boston Committee for Refugees. Straus also contacted the State Department on Frank's behalf...
...Crimson and the Tigers (10-11, 4-3) entered Lavietes on Friday tied for first in the Ivy League, but the top only has enough room for one team. With the two squads facing off, only one would leave with the coveted spot.After the final whistle sounded, the rightful owner of the top position was clear. Harvard was firmly planted in the driver’s seat the entire time, as the Crimson led Princeton from start to finish to claim a definitive victory.“I think we played pretty well overall,” Hallion said...
...devoted her scholarly career to the study of the South—with particular attention to issues of gender and race. “She is clearly one of the most distinguished historians in the country,” Hahn says. Her 1982 biography of a South Carolina plantation owner and senator, “James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery,” won the Southern Historical Association’s prize for the year’s best book. And “Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South...