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...Wreath Project, a self-employment program for people who are homeless, poor or mentally or physically ill, has set up shop outside Au Bon Pain...
...Wreath Project has stands in four other locations, including one at Wordsworth Abridged bookstore on Brattle Street...
Inevitably, though, the athletes will make a splash -- as they have since the ancient Games. The antique spectacle was especially ferocious, even if the prize was not gold, silver or bronze, just a simple olive wreath from the sacred tree outside the Temple of Zeus in Olympia. But those leaves were the sole prize; there was no concept of place and show -- only winning. Contestants cried, "The wreath or death!" In fact, the Greek word for contest, agon, has become rather painful in English. But the rewards of victory were enormous: places of honor, money, sinecures and the admiration...
...shut, blinds are drawn, the symbolic drawbridge is up, and the castle is meant to seem inviolable. At the Buttafuoco home, the style is defiance. A steady stream of traffic, automotive and human, proclaims this a happy house where nothing has gone wrong. On the door is a wreath entwined with pink ribbon and dotted with pink and white flowers. At the high school the official posture is no comment, frequently laced with off-the-record worry that the headlines will somehow cheapen the whole place. Last week a mother snarled at a reporter, "There's more than one student...
Even Barbara Bush, whose relations with Nancy Reagan have been distant at best, attacked the book as "trash and fiction." She specifically disputed one episode: Barbara Bush did not, as the book relates, give Nancy Reagan a white vine wreath one Christmas -- a wreath Nancy supposedly had gift-wrapped and sent to a friend in California. Every window at the White House, the current First Lady pointed out, already has a wreath at Christmastime. "If you're going to make up a story," she said, "you can make up a better one than that." Nancy called Barbara Bush last week...