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...much as his voting record is liberal, Vellucci's style is old-fashioned. Favors and--before the city manager tightened things up--jobs are important, and issues play a secondary role for most voters in East Cambridge, Vellucci's stronghold. "There's another playground I helped put into the neighborhood. Isn't that what a city councilor should do?" he says. On a less benign level, there probably have been as many Velluccis working for the city, state and county as Cabots and Saltonstalls have gone to Harvard...
Along with the new lights, the Common has a new playground for children, a new baseball field, new fences, simplified pathways, more benches, and trees in place of shrubs that were potential cover for muggers, Lockhardt said...
Most of the passengers aboard Lufthansa Flight 181 were vacationers homeward bound for Frankfurt from the balmy Spanish playground of Majorca. Shortly after the Boeing 737 took off from Palma, two Arabic-speaking men and two women pulled out pistols and grenades and ordered the pilot to change course. So began a terrifying odyssey for the 82 other passengers and the five-man crew. For 2½ days, they were held in the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Early this week, they were flown to Aden, South Yemen, after being refused permission to land...
...last December a funny thing happened. Blackman brought his bag of tricks, many of which do their best to stretch the Ivy rules, back to a familiar playground...
MacDonald left to posterity a course of unkempt terrain, steep-faced bunkers, and mammoth greens that looks like a playground for some bygone race of giants...