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...alienated landscape of most childhoods through the eyes of a vampire girl. “True Blood,” based upon a book series by Mississippian Charlaine Harris, plays heavily on the inherent rape-like violence of vampires. Meanwhile, it implicates the presence of racial tension in the South by featuring these fanged characters who threaten the “blood” of others. These attempts have made honest and artistic efforts to expand on the form, rather than irresponsibly misappropriate it.Vampires aren’t going away any time soon. Americans love the possibility of fang-baring...
Harvard has held land occupied by CSX since 2000, when it purchased 47 acres of land adjacent to the Charles River and in between Harvard and Boston University from the Mass. Turnpike Authority. Three years later, it acquired another 91 acres directly south of that parcel...
...spokeswoman Lauren Marshall emphasized that the state’s latest announcement “changes very little regarding the state of Harvard’s property at the moment” and that it would be “premature” to begin planning in Allston Landing South, where CSX operates its Beacon Park railyard. But she noted that discussions with the State and CSX “provide optimism that...opportunities for regional economic benefit from this property are closer to a reality...
Sparkman's body was found on Sept. 12 near a small family cemetery in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Clay County, about 18 miles south of the county seat of Manchester. According to published reports, Sparkman died of asphyxiation. Kentucky state police, who are in charge of the investigation, with FBI assistance, have not determined whether the death was a homicide, suicide or accident, but an assistant director at the Census Bureau's southern office says the police have told them it is an apparent homicide. (See pictures of this summer's tea-party protests...
...life is fair, then the International Olympic Committee will next week declare that Brazil has been chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and thus become the first South American nation to win one of sports' greatest honors...