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QUOTE OF NOTE: "I will be the first member of Congress to vote to scrap the federal income...
...hard not to sympathize with the taxi drivers' need to support themselves. The city of Cambridge should reduce or scrap the $85,000 medallion fee for taxicabs and let them compete fairly with the shuttle...
...billion over the next six years. Each dollar spent by states today is matched with $3 to $4 in federal grants. In exchange, the federal government mandates various programs and sets eligibility standards. Congressional Republicans, however, would shift all funding to block grants, thereby allowing states to scrap any programs and any requirements they choose...
Gangly Gerald Conlon is a young Northern Irishman going through all the normal foibles of adolescence--stealing scrap metal, starting riots, having his kneecaps threatened by the IRA--until his father ships him to London to 'straighten out'. When a series of IRA bombs terrorizes the city, Gerry is one of four Irishmen wrongly accused, tortured, railroaded, and imprisoned by the nasty Brits. Gerry's da is imprisoned along with Gerry, and later dies in jail, all of which makes for excellent drama and is a great showcase for Lewis' mesmerizing intensity...
Granted, Fenway Park's seats are not La-Z-Boy cushy, and an occasional rodent may be spotted, but it is intimate in a way newer, larger parks are not, and many Boston-area fans are in no rush to scrap baseball history in favor of creature comforts. No matter how well planned or executed, a new park will not hold the history, tradition and purity of the game that live on in the stands and on the field of Fenway. Every visit there holds the echoes of Carl Yastrzemski's 3,000th hit, Carlton Fisk's winning home...