Word: beacons
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...parental units are gone, and with a day left of summer, it seems as though the last strains of a saccharine melody are still ringing in our ears. The clock above the Citizens’ Bank proclaims the minutes and hours to our little world—a beacon to students late for class and a constant reminder of the exacting pace of college life. Cambridge is a far cry from rural Canada, where I spent my summer camped in an eastern township of Quebec and had to chop wood in order to get a hot meal...
...election and they may start getting ideas of their own. Before you know it, the world's despots would be forced to hold local elections or deal with rowdy citizens who have had a taste of democracy and again look to the U.S. as a beacon. There could be no accusations of unilateralism, and less need to invade. People everywhere will have made their choice in the one election that really matters. Honestly, we don't want too much. Treat us like the 51st state (hey, you already do!) and give us 50 electoral votes in the complicated U.S. system...
...Suffolk District, which includes Cambridgeport and the MIT area as well as Boston’s Back Bay and Beacon Hill neighborhoods, unofficial results showed Martha Walz handily defeating Kristine Glynn for the Democratic nomination...
...Building will soon become Downtown by Philippe Starck. Prices at the 326-unit conversion are a bit more accessible ($500,000 to $3.5 million), and the lap pool, basketball court, and yoga and Pilates studio should appeal to Wall Street traders looking to unwind. For uptowners, there's One Beacon Court, architect Cesar Pelli's 55-story tower, where a top-of-the-line penthouse reportedly goes for $26 million. Jacques Grange designed the interiors down to the bathroom hardware. Not a bad place to hang your hat. --BY KATE NOVACK
...soon to call Iraq a failure. In turn he sounds like Truman, Johnson and Reagan when he says war and its aftermath are always hard and messy, that a failed state would be a disaster causing dominoes to fall, that a free Iraq would be a beacon to the world. Asked again last week what his greatest mistake was, he is ready with an answer. "Had we had to do it over again," he says, "we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success, being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done...