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Being from California, all of this was once as new to me as it must sound to you. But I was lucky enough to be here for Patriot's Day as a pre-frosh. My father and I took in the sights from the shots in Lexington to the sea of mylar heat blankets that marked the finish line at Copley. My favorite Boston memory is walking to Kenmore Square from Fenway in time to see the camera truck zoom by, inches in front of Moses Tanui, one mile and 385 yards from victory...
Radcliffe College supporters will gather today at 1 p.m. in Radcliffe Yard amid a sea of the institution's black and white colors to prove that students care strongly about the support Radcliffe provides...
...first rays of a Mediterranean morning bathe the island in languid warmth, its unique features emerge in gentle relief: towering megalithic monuments, colonial facades, a pristine expanse of beach. Along the palm-fringed harbors, sailboats nudge their moorings, and beach lovers prepare for another round of sun, sea and sand. This is an island of captivating contrasts...
...vacation on the French Riviera usually evokes visions of the Casino in Monte Carlo, topless celebrities in St.-Tropez or glamorous hotels like the Negresco in Nice. But I like to get away from all that and head for a tranquil monastery on an island in the Mediterranean Sea a mile off the coast of Cannes. The monks at the Abbaye de Lerins on Ile St.-Honorat have, I admit, always been my kind of guys. Early to bed and early to rise, they lead simple, structured and disciplined lives. Silent and humble, they meditate and chant and are ecology...
Life has not always been tranquil at the monastery, founded at the end of the 4th century by St. Honorat. Five hundred monks were massacred in 782 by Saracen pirates, who frequently conducted raids until a fortified monastery jutting out into the sea was built in 1073. Both island and monastery changed hands numerous times before they were turned over to the current order of Cistercian monks...