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McGregor and Spiegelman flicked through slides of other Boston-area shopping districts—including Harvard Square and Central Square—in order to prompt the fifty-some residents present to offer suggestions about what would attract people to a new shopping district...
...Since Lindbergh is the American approximation of the Prince of Wales, the crime is particularly astounding. ... It is a deplorable conclusion, but it is irresistible, that unless prompt steps are taken to end the disgusting tyranny under which the great country apparently groans, it will become increasingly difficult to count America any longer among the forces of modern civilization." -- London News-Chronicle...
AFTER THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT TRIED TO BLOCK YOUR CHAIRMANSHIP, DID YOU MAKE ANY PROMISE TO PRESIDENT BUSH ABOUT HOW YOU WOULD VOTE ON JUDICIAL NOMINEES? My commitment was to give his nominees a prompt hearing and report them out of committee. I couldn't make a promise on a vote. I'm not going to assign my voting status as a United States Senator...
...Sixers stand out as particularly glaring examples. In all of these instances, the city’s heart was broken. Each time the city went so far as to outfit City Hall’s William Penn statue with the home team’s cap, only to suffer prompt and devastating defeat...
...Ratzinger has recently re-emerged as the top papal candidate from within the Vatican hierarchy, joining other front runners such as Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan and Claudio Hummes of Sao Paolo. Vatican sources have told TIME that the length of the current papacy - now more than 26 years - may prompt the Cardinals to seek a shorter-term "transitional" figure. Ratzinger, 77, may fill that bill. His reputation as a hardline doctrinaire has given way to a sense that he knows how to balance old-school tradition and modern pragmatism...