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Today’s preliminary election features five contenders, including a Brighton lawyer and the director of a volunteer organization, competing to fill Jerry P. McDermott’s seat on the Boston City Council. Two of the candidates will go on to the next round of voting...
...field implications of this home date, a near must-win against a Bears squad that is just a hull of its recent self (Ivy champs in 2005), take the back seat in the run-up to the above-the-field wattage. The lights that now ring the roof of Harvard Stadium will illuminate a football game for the first time, with kickoff set for a fashionably late 7:30 p.m. A 6:44 sunset with allow the Harvard fans observing Yom Kippur to arrive in time for the coin flip with clean slates and empty stomachs...
...When I came into that game I was just all adrenaline,” O’Hagan says. “At the end, I didn’t slow down enough and I was flying by the seat of my pants. I was just out there almost being reckless in some sense and wasn’t patient enough last year, and that’s where I got into a lot of trouble...
...flood. The fancy word for his approach is psychogeography, a philosophical attempt to reimagine the life of cities that was dreamed up by France's Situationists in the 1950s and dusted off in recent years by Ackroyd and other writers for whom chronology and factual detail take a back seat to analogy and intuition. Thus in Thames, Ackroyd flits effortlessly between themes like baptism or the symbolism of swans and gossipy tales of old London. A contemplation, for example, on the melancholy induced by looking into the waters from a bridge segues into a roll call of famous suicides...
...practical political terms, Ghanem's death has reduced to just three the slim lead held in the 128-seat Lebanese parliament by the anti-Syrian majority known as the March 14 block, which forms the backbone of the Western-supported government. Lebanese parliamentarians are expected to convene on September 25 to elect a new president. The current incumbent, Emile Lahoud, a close ally of Damascus, is due to step down on November 24. Most analysts doubt that the election will be held on Tuesday and expect the crisis to continue right until the end of Lahoud's term...