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Victoria Snelgrove, a 21-year-old Emerson College student, was one of approximately 80,000 fans in the Kenmore Square area near Fenway Park reveling in Boston’s historic win early last Thursday when she was shot in the eye by Boston Police with a rubber bullet dispersing pepper spray. She died around 1 p.m. the next...
...flurry of new finds offers even more evidence that the pigeon you see in the park had an ancestor that ruled the earth. Writing in Nature over the past two weeks, Chinese and American paleontologists announced the discovery of one dinosaur that evidently slept curled up in a posture identical to that of a sleeping duck and another that is the first tyrannosaur ever found with feathers. The discovery of the tyrannosaur is significant because that family of dinosaurs is believed to be among the closest relatives of modern birds...
...Motion Picture Association of America has given Team America: World Police an R rating for "graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language--all involving puppets." That about sums up the new martial-arts musical marionette movie from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Inspired by the '60s British TV and movie series Thunderbirds, Parker and Stone have fashioned a naughty, handsome, sporadically funny pre-election recruiting poster for U.S. military values at their most myopically heroic...
Although not up to the sublime level of a typical South Park episode, the film has a fine array of raunchy gags, from a volcano of vomiting to the already notorious sex scene comprising many positions and much anatomically incomplete nudity. Parker, Stone and their marionettes also have fun at their own expense, detailing things puppets can't do (shoot pool, dance, plausibly engage in martial arts). The real kick, however, is in the grandeur and detail of the production design, by Jim Dultz and David Rockwell. Paris, Cairo, the Panama Canal, the inside of Mount Rushmore and a terrorist...
...Boston subway system is the oldest in America; its first station, Park Street, opened...