Word: towns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Chinese Anglican Church draws 1,000people to Sunday mass," Lee says. "People wouldrather come into town than have the church moveinto the suburbs."CrimsonHector U. VelazquezTHE GLASS SLIPPER: This theater forexotic dancing is one of the few remaining adultentertainment businesses...
...delicate and perhaps impossible task is to transform China's economy without fomenting social upheaval--a phenomenon with which he has had some experience. Born into poverty in the city of Changsha, capital of Hunan province and home town of Mao Zedong, Zhu obtained an engineering degree from elite Qinghua University in Beijing. Considered an up-and-coming cadre, he was purged as a "rightist" in 1957 for criticizing government policy, then purged again in 1965, at the start of the Cultural Revolution. Rehabilitated in 1979, he worked his way up fast, and in 1988 was named mayor of Shanghai...
...love it. The only town on the planet where a civility-campaign slogan could be, "You talkin' to me?" And the best part is that everyone in New York, with the lone exception of Giuliani, has caught the irony. "He's got a lese majeste personality," observed ex-Mayor Ed Koch. "If you say anything critical, off to the guillotine...
...town where it seems everyone who's from here is really from Ireland, where the basketball team (the basketball team?!) is called the Celtics and where the world's largest St. Patrick's Day celebration (out of Ireland) is held, you know you'd miss out if you didn't check out some of the St. Patty's Day celebration. Just for starters, Ireland's most mainstream and highly-acclaimed traditional music group The Chieftans will be performing at Symphony Hall tonight. On the theatre front, look for Pulitzer winner Frank McCourt (of Angela's Ashes fame...
...chapter describes the intrusion by the men of Ruby, Oklahoma--"the one all-black town worth the pain"--into a nearby former mission-school known colloquially as the Convent. Five women, fugitives each from justice, abuse or a lover's caprice, are living in the Convent at the moment when the men invade one morning and shoot them...