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...equally interested in the cabaret doorman, the homeless straggler, the aging streetwalker he engages in conversation. A man of huge cultivation, he clearly models his journals on Proust and Boswell: thus silvery evocations of the musical soir?es of Tokyo high society are followed by disheveled erotic adventures in the park on the way home. Richie's especial fascination seems to be with faces and deceiving surfaces, designs and strategies, and he is always wise to his own acts. "Another country, I am discovering, is another self. I am regarded as different, and so I become different?two people at once...
Baseball was a different game when the Red Sox last won a World Series. Even between the glory years of 1915 and 1916 championships, the Red Sox lost to the Harvard baseball team 1-0 at Fenway Park. By winning in 2004, the Red Sox have banished the jeers of “1918”, stopped the tears—at least the sad ones—of millions of fans and proved that they can be a force in the game of baseball today. The inevitable movie will be made down the road, but it will never...
...Sept. 9, 1993, Christopher Simmons, aged 17, brutally murdered Shirley Crook in St. Louis. The teenager tied her up in duct tape, electrical cable, leather straps and a towel before driving to the nearby state park to push her off a bridge into the Meramac River. Although Simmons bragged to his friends before the crime that his age would shield him from the consequences, he was sentenced to death. The Missouri Supreme Court, however, overturned the decision, citing “evolving standards of decency” that should otherwise prevent sentencing minors to death...
...Park’s trajectory has been the exact opposite of Hemenway’s decline. Danehy, a former landfill, was recently reclaimed by the city and transformed. A run at Danehy is almost a double workout, especially for someone from a River House. Getting to this park north of the Quad is half...
...Danehy Park...