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...deal will protect Watertown’s property tax base for a half century. Local politicians and newspapers hailed it as generous and precedent-setting...
...Harvard has] clearly decided to mitigate any injury to Watertown’s tax base. I think that that’s wonderful,” says city councillor Anthony D. Galluccio. “I would be very interested to hear Harvard explain why these same principles are not equally important to its home city...
...dogface at an Air Force base in Texas a year after Pearl Harbor. I don't recall that first year's anniversary as comparable in any way to the crescendo of media hype now being thrown at us over Sept. 11. While we feel compassion for those who lost loved ones, we need to look ahead. As a great nation, we should try to overlook our religious and ethnic differences and work with other nations to alleviate poverty and disease and create an environmentally safe world for future generations. Such a common goal would be a far greater memorial than...
...bond between father and son seems rivaled only by that between a first-base coach and his team. In a move rarely expected outside Yankee Stadium, two men in the stands at Chicago's Comiskey Park charged the field during the top of the ninth inning and attacked Tom Gamboa, first-base coach of the visiting Kansas City Royals, and began beating him. The Royals immediately cleared the bench and piled on the two men, identified as WILLIAM LIGUE JR., 34, and his 15-year-old son. Security guards entered the fray and dragged the shirtless duo off the field...
...rebel-held city after a military uprising turned into a civil war. The children, including 100 Americans, were trapped for a week inside their boarding school in the country's second-biggest city, Bouake, by heavy fighting between government and rebel troops. French soldiers drove the children to their base at an airport near the capital, Yamoussoukro, 65 km to the south. U.S. special forces in C-130 cargo planes had arrived hours earlier to evacuate the children and other Westerners to neighboring Ghana. MIDDLE EAST Siege of Ramallah Israel defied U.S. criticism and a U.N. resolution calling...