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...never going to die. We rent loads of movies, know how to operate a computer and (as Harry Shearer pointed out in an excellent New York Times article) are more likely to pay for our CDs than download them. So we?re not about to retire to our front-porch rockers...
...which reminds me - if you?ll allow an aging mind to meander toward today?s subject - of a feature that aired on ?CBS Sunday Morning? last July 6. Correspondent Martha Teichner, who bought a home on Seabrook Island, S.C., because of its porch, interviewed Michael Dolan, author of ?The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place,? and accompanied him on visits to a number of Southern homes. The gentry still have front porches (some skirting three sides of the house), still sit out there and gas, keeping alive the oral-communal tradition. We learn that the porch...
...clutches a list of voters as she trudges door to door. Stepping up to the porch, she knocks gingerly, waits a few seconds, then knocks again...
...distinguish between which properties belong to Harvard and which to Cambridge. Our fellow Cambridge residents are often quick to remind us that it is their neighborhood too. For this reason, it is also their responsibility to ensure the safety of our city. The act of leaving on a porch light that adds a little illumination to a dark street is a small gesture that makes a difference. Installing motion detectors in the dark spaces between houses and business establishments is another means by which our neighbors can do their part. The City of Cambridge and Harvard University should work together...
...Falahi, a former Iraqi ambassador to Lebanon who headed the mukhabarat in southern Iraq from 1996 to '98, was a typical victim. Last month, on a morning when the power was out, he was sitting with his cousin Shahab Ahmed Hamid, catching a cool breeze on the front porch of the office of their Baghdad transportation company. Three men appeared in an old government truck. According to Hamid, the men initially said they wanted to discuss a business deal in Basra. But they soon pulled out pistols, hustled al-Falahi into a waiting black BMW and drove off. Two days...