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...Heights,” now playing at the Boston Opera House through January 24th. “In the Heights” is reminiscent of other musicals about New York, resembling a cross between “Rent” and “West Side Story.” It takes a cross-sectional look at the intersecting lives of Latino immigrants and their children living in Washington Heights, aspiring to that most nebulous and elusive of entities: the American dream...
...hammer me, but I can't call you out on it?" - In response to criticism that he read slanderous, profane Facebook comments aloud to the students who wrote them (The Metro West Daily News...
...latest activity is further west, about 10 miles north of Old Faithful Geyser and nine miles from the gateway entrance town of West Yellowstone, Montana. One quake at 2:31 p.m. Mountain Time registered a 3.7 magnitude. It followed five earlier quakes of at least magnitude 3. (See pictures of a volcano awakening in the Philippines...
...neighbor - has only exacerbated the problem. Other differences are a result of Hispaniola's long and often violent history - even TIME called it a "forlorn, hate-filled little Caribbean island" in 1965. On the eastern part of Hispaniola, you'll probably speak Spanish; in the west, it's more likely to be French or Creole, a division that's the result of centuries of European colonization and numerous power struggles. (Not to mention the decimation of Hispaniola's indigenous Taino people - who, of course, spoke none of those languages...
...That street-fighter turned into a powerful administrator. From 1977 to 2000, Basu served as West Bengal's chief minister - the longest-serving state leader in Indian history. He presided over sweeping land reforms, lifting millions of farmers out of poverty. "Transforming one-crop land to multicrop land and providing land to the landless was his greatest contribution," says Mohammed Salim, a colleague of Basu's in government. By the 1980s, West Bengal had gone from a famine-plagued state dependent on food subsidies to a surplus grain producer. "But that's where it all ended," says Rajat Roychowdhury...