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...more year, but his being taken as No. 1 pick by the Celtics was enough to revive fans accustomed to the annual championships brought home by Boston stars Bill Russell and John Havlicek.The man in front of me spoke with such obvious nostalgia and enthusiasm. He had stood in the very same line back in 1978, eager to get a good look at the Celtics’ future. The man standing next to him—a stranger until that morning—had been in the same line. Twenty-nine years and a new arena later, they were back...
...Shean, a New Yorker who visits Bartley’s whenever she is in Boston. “It’s these little places that make Harvard Harvard.”But since the 1997 closure of the Tasty Sandwich Shop—a 24-hour mecca that stood for 81 years in the heart of the Square—few such holdouts of gritty, grungy, old Harvard Square remain. Their replacements—fast casual, ethnic fare, and fine dining—speak to an increasingly sophisticated and Disney-fied Square. Some long-time residents wax nostalgic...
When Jackie M. Robinson ’09 was looking for college scholarships his senior year of high school, one offering institution stood out as a natural choice: the Jackie Robinson Foundation. “I definitely applied hoping I would get in because of my name, but it didn’t work out that way,” says Robinson. After he was initially rejected, Robinson finally got the scholarship. The foundation’s Web site calls it both “a vehicle to perpetuate the memory of Jackie Robinson?...
...hundreds of monks, students, and other Rangoon residents approached the police, stood in the road and began to pray. Then the soldiers and police began pulling monks from the crowd, targeting the leaders, striking both monks and ordinary people with canes. Several smoke bombs exploded and the riot police charged. The monks and others fought back with sticks and rocks. Many others ran, perhaps four or five of them bleeding from minor head wounds. A car was set alight - by the soldiers, some protesters claimed - and then there was the unmistakable crack of live ammunition: the soldiers were shooting into...
...marriages, according to Paul Murphy, an assistant to Utah's Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. But the FLDS, with communities in Canada and Utah, plus compounds in Texas and South Dakota, has resisted change. What the response will be to the imprisonment of the Prophet is difficult to gauge. Sharpshooters stood on rooftops circling the small St. George courthouse as the verdict was read. But the reaction from the two dozen FLDS followers in the courtroom was muted...