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East Cambridge stretches from the Charles River to the Warren Street railroad tracks and is bounded by Broadway Street and the Cambridge-Somerville line...
Whether by refusing to admit a boat carrying helpless Jewish refugees into an American harbor, or by opting not to bomb the railroad tracks to the death camps, the United States government fell far short of moral perfection in its policy towards the Holocaust...
...President talks amiably with the virtual President, even as his lieutenants prepare for war. Last week Democratic whip David Bonior threatened that if the Republicans try to railroad bills through, "we'll blow up the tracks." Perhaps they will try. But pure obstructionism won't help Clinton or the Democrats, and there are now two engineers driving the train...
...charge that National Standards offers what Cheney calls "a warped view of American history" and that its criteria for including or excluding landmark events and persons are "politically correct to a fare-thee-well." For example, Harriet Tubman, the African American who helped organize the pre-Civil War underground railroad, is cited six times in the guide, whereas Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is mentioned only once in passing. Students are expected to know about the 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights (mentioned nine times) but not about the uncited Wright brothers or Thomas Alva Edison, whose...
...only are the characters in Man is Man unreal, they also inhabit an artificial, dreamlike world. The sets by James Murdoch are disjointed and angular, with ramshackle flats giving way to railroad tracks which slices the stage diagonally. The sounds of this world are also curie; a disembodied voice announces military maneuvers, and the cool mellow jazz of the onstage quintet--featuring most notably Alex Barnett on clarinet--provides an otherworldly, impressionistic musical undercurrent. The cuminsting battle scene is recreated with nightmarish intensity through the efforts of the sound and light crew...