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STEPHEN COLBERT continues endless campaign to have everything named after him--this time a room in the space station...
...replace that sort of old craft,” Walo said. In the 19th century, when the houses were constructed, Massachusetts Avenue was the most prestigious street in Cambridge, said Charles M. Sullivan, the executive director of the Cambridge Historical Commission. Merchants, who traveled through the Porter Square railroad station, contributed to the wealth of the area. At one point, 69 wood-front mansions lined the avenue, Sullivan said. But the area began to become more commercial in the early 1900s as the city’s population grew. According to Sullivan, there were no apartments or stores on Massachusetts...
...open-air trip on the highway, which probably did bad things to our lungs but helped ease my motion sickness from our wobbly descent to the airport. It also gave us a nice visual primer of the capital, which we were using only as a way station. Looking back, I would have liked at least another day in Phnom Penh to take in the culture - the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda, for example - and the laid-back, late-going bar scene. As it was, we had time only for dinner at the Foreign Correspondents' Club (363 Sisowath Quay, Phnom Penh...
...Teacher Gu, bewildered by the nature and personality of the child he has fathered and retreating further into the arid haven of his intellect in order to cope with her demise. But there are less obvious people the death marks: Kai, a public announcer on a government radio station that spews out continuous propaganda; Kai's husband Han, a man on the make in the provincial government, who harbors dreams of greater influence; and Nini, a deformed girl, eldest of six daughters, who is nothing more than an unpaid, unloved servant to her family...
...Sovereign Bank and Bank of America were all closed from approximately 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., according to Reda Bichri, an employee of The Body Shop. The Harvard Coop and Crimson Corner News Stand also closed for this timeframe, Nicholas said. Red line trains bypassed the Harvard Square station for those two hours, a transit worker said, and all Harvard Yard gates along Mass. Ave from Johnston Gate to the Widener gate were also closed, according to Harvard security personnel. The last bomb scare to threaten University property occurred in February 2000, when a phoned-in bomb threat and reports...