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...groups on the left and right. Nowhere more so than in Germany, where the Wandervogel, a popular, free-spirited, back-to-nature youth movement whose nonpolitical ideals had survived World War I, found itself hijacked in the '30s by the Hitler Youth. By 1939, membership of the Hitler Youth stood at 8.9 million...
...received notice the Colts were interested in his potential on NFL draft day, when they offered him a tryout to include meetings, orientations, and physical, drug, and flexibility tests beginning last Thursday. After a long weekend of learning everything from plays to lingo, Farbotko did not know where he stood. Ready to talk to Colts coach Tony Dungy after practice ended, the tight end found himself instead in the general manager’s office signing himself into what he hopes will be an NFL career. “Now I’m excited,” Farbotko said...
...Charles? Was he now drafting plans for Boston to secede from the union in a fit of “dirty water” driven lunacy? I took a closer look at the Herald’s front page and my mouth swung open in horror. I stood paralyzed in shock for fully thirty seconds—stiller than Mitt Romney when he’s ambushing varmints on the hunt. A paparazzi-snapped candid of a Bay State hero’s dastardly betrayal stared me in the face. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had been photographed mid-stride, smugly...
...Combo admits as much himself when he attempts to befriend the only black member of Woody's gang - the cheekily named Milky - reminiscing about how, when he joined the "original" skinheads back in the late 1960s, they all stood proud under the banner of racial unity. When Milky begins to talk about his extended family, Combo's eyes well-up. Half-ashamed, half-envious of what he misses most, Combo is poised on a knife-edge before the film turns toward its hideous, and inevitable, climax...
Last week marked another sad milestone in the history of Harvard Square, as yet another independently owned business shuttered its doors. The latest casualty is the Greenhouse Restaurant and Coffee Shop, which has stood at the nexus of Harvard square for 30 years. The Greenhouse’s closing is but the latest reminder of the trend of locally owned businesses shutting down, and being supplanted by private chains—the most recent examples being Qdoba and the International House of Pancakes. While many have expressed concerns that Harvard Square is losing its tradition of supporting locally owned establishments...