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...with everything on target--their key, their inflections, even their infusion of reverence--but the choir introduced a soloist who sent a shiver down the spine of every patron in Symphony Hall. Terence Wey, a boy of no more than 14 years of age, sang the prayer with a passion and penitence that could have touched the most phlegmatic atheist. Wey's shrill reverberations outshone the rest of the choir and were responsible for evoking an applause more thunderous than any of the tepid clapping earlier in the program...
...each 24-ton steel beam in the hole at South Station. The really interesting facts surface at the site; they come from people wearing hard hats who spend hours at a time 140 feet underground. And for the guy (or girl) who still hasn't given up a childhood passion for cranes and big drills, on-site glimpses of the massive holes in Boston can't be matched...
...common thread is that the members of this new boomer bulge have the financial stability to retire comfortably and interests and passion that are leading them in new directions. About one-quarter to one-half of all clients seeking the help of financial planners these days are early retirees between the ages of 50 and 55, notes Michael Chasnoff, a Cincinnati, Ohio, financial planner and chairman of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), which represents fee-only planners. And of the 20 million or so self-employed people...
...shoes and garbage suffuses the narrow makeshift corridors. Cooking noises mingle with the gurgle of kitchen-side urinals. On tiny TV sets, a few men watch home videos of kin and country long left behind, for some as much as a decade ago. Others stare at the distant passion of porn tapes smuggled in from the old homeland. Each night the sounds of aching and loneliness drift down to the streets of Chinatown...
...Boston area, has appeared in films such as The Crucible, Amistad, The Proposition and Mermaids and in theater productions including The Widow's Blind Date, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, and The Primary English Class. Peabody was able to portray Miss Moffat's struggles and hopes with incredible passion and strength, yet managed not to overshadow the freshman cast or dominate the play completely. Her depiction of Miss Moffat was perfect--like most of the characters in The Corn is Green Moffat is a complicated and emotional person and not without a humorous side, despite her stalwartness...