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Having spent the summer living at home on the suburban North Shore of Long Island, I have come to appreciate the holistic nature of Cambridge. This is not to cry about a dearth of activity in the 'burbs, which also have the shopping, movie theaters, houses of worship, educational institutions, parks, restaurants and government buildings we find here. But it is to decry the decentralization of life found in suburban America, the separation of businesses from residential communities and schools; of churches and temples from the village green; of wealthy neighborhoods from those less affluent...
Employees at Peter Kiewit Sons, a construction giant in Omaha, Nebraska, build tunnels, off-shore drilling platforms and hydroelectric-power dams. A lot of these folks can now afford to have things built for them--say, a new house or a swimming pool. Some 1,000 Kiewit workers and retirees reaped an estimated $3.3 billion windfall last week when the long-distance phone company WorldCom agreed to acquire MFS Communications, a provider of local phone service, for about $12.4 billion in stock. The deal completes WorldCom's strategy of becoming a vertically integrated phone company that will challenge the Baby...
When former Cambridge mayor Alice K. Wolf emphasized the importance of a "grassroots" effort in fighting crime, there were actually few civilians in attendance, and when participants joined hands across the bridge, their chain only stretched across about 60 or 70 feet of the bridge, reaching neither shore...
...blast will fade into the background and life will return to normal. Memorials will be held, bodies will eventually float to the surface and relatives will bury their dead. For now, all that remains are the quiet whispers of the waves, lapping up against the shore...
...always took cabs and smoked expensive cigars even when he couldn't afford it." He also loves to eat, and it shows, although diabetes and bypassed arteries now require some no-calorie alternatives. So Puzo devours books. Volumes of classic and contemporary works fill the house in Bay Shore, Long Island, that he bought with the first money he earned from The Godfather. His daughter Virginia runs the household, and Carol Gino, the nurse who cared for his wife Erika before she died 17 years ago, is his loving companion. Sons Anthony and Eugene look after his financial interests...