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...Various university and preparatory school alumni associations will be renting out tents in a spectator area named the “Reunion Village...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big Crowds Expected For Head of the Charles | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

Founded in 2007, the funk/reggae/rock group has quickly evolved from garage band status, landing shows in various well-established Boston venues, including Kings, the All Asia Café, and the Midway Café. The band’s most recent success was the release of its first album, “All the Good,” on iTunes this past September...

Author: By STEPHANIE R. MCCARTNEY, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Music (fresh)Man | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...Perhaps most significantly, one of the new laws is aimed directly at the powerful heads of Russia's various mafia clans, who rarely get their own hands dirty. Under the statute, leading an underground criminal group is now punishable by life in prison. "As a rule, [the dons] don't directly participate in criminal acts, and so they go unpunished," Oleg Morozov, deputy speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, wrote last month on his party's website. "The president's legislation gives more precise definitions of what can be called a criminal conspiracy and a criminal organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will New Laws Help Russia Take Down the Mafia? | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

Social change may happen fast, but no one stops polluting unless an Indian cries on TV. My point isn't that activists and advocates don't shift the way we think; public opinion shifts in various ways, the prolonged explanation of each of which has made Malcolm Gladwell millions of dollars. My point is simply that, everything being equal, a dictator can make an Indian cry fastest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tough-Love Dictator of My Dreams | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...this two-part, hour-long episode, the entire office heads to Niagara Falls for Jim and Pam’s wedding (finally!). Various things go wrong—Michael failed to make a reservation and has to sleep in the ice room, Pam’s conservative grandmother finds out she’s pregnant and threatens to leave the wedding, Pam has to drive Andy to the hospital when he tears his scrotum while trying to do the splits, etc.—and Pam gets upset because she feels like the wedding has been usurped and ruined...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Recap: "Niagara" | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

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