Word: bedford
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However, all traces of the body were removed by then. So she went to Bedford and remained in seclusion. But during the first snowfall people see the ghost of this young woman walking through the Yard toward Holden Chapel in a long black mourning dress. There are never any footprints left where she treads, and it is said that she disappears as suddenly as she appears without leaving a trace...
...BEDFORD POST Fall brings an explosion of color to the dense forests and backcountry trails of Bedford, a posh village just an hour north of Manhattan that's a favorite with the horsey set. Bedford is also home to such bold namers as Glenn Close, George Soros and Richard Gere, who recently opened the Bedford Post, BedfordPostInn.com, with wife Carey Lowell. With its in-house yoga studio and elegant gardens, Gere's B&B is the town's most ambitious stab at a true luxury hideaway. Housed in a 247-year-old building, each of the Post's eight rooms...
...Tyson's attraction to any biographer is that he carries epic achievements and contradictions within him. At first he was a variation on the proverbial 97-pound weakling: an overweight street kid from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. He got beaten up regularly by the local toughs - "Very few of them," he says, "are functioning adults right now" - who lured him into street crime. As a 12-year-old in a detention home he was discovered by Cus d'Amato, who had trained and managed Floyd Patterson to the heavyweight boxing title in the '50s. Cus saw potential...
...Kiessling, director of the Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation in Bedford, Mass., and an associate professor at the Medical School, expressed a similar sentiment...
...chance of keeping people out of prison for good, and they do so for a lot less money than prison would cost the state. That's the idea behind the New York Justice Corps pilot program, in which $4.8 million is being spent in the South Bronx and the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn to fund 275 young offenders (18-to-24-year-olds) working to restore community centers and weatherize homes over two years. "We are making an investment in the community but also helping people see these former inmates as assets for the community," says Debbie Makumal, director...