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Next Monday marks the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' landing in the West Indies, and recent debates over the nature of that "discovery" promise to make it the most controversial Columbus Day yet. In ethnically and racially diverse Cambridge, almost everybody seems to have a different take on the Italian sailor and the era of colonization he initiated...
...million fast, noting with horror that "for the first time in history, the Democrats have been beating us." Sure enough, Clinton-Gore bumper stickers are becoming a badge of wealth. Best measure coming up: the competition to contribute as much as $250,000 for the chance to spend Columbus Day weekend in Little Rock, being briefed by Clinton staff members...
DOES GEORGE BUSH BELIEVE IN ANYTHING SO DEEPLY that he would rather lose the election than abandon that principle? To hear the President before the Knights of Columbus on Aug. 5, his opposition to abortion passes the test: "I promise you again today, no matter the political price -- and they tell me in this year that it's enormous -- I am going . . .to stand on my conscience when it comes to matters of life." Since then, and despite the Republican Party's screaming pro-life affirmation of Bush's public stance, the keepers of the faith have winked and nodded...
...Columbus Avenue Restaurant has been a soulfood tradition for more than 35 years. RobertMorgan, the one and only "Bob the Chef," beganselling food during the late 1950s at Mud Kelly'sBig "M" nightclub. The restaurant has been at itscurrent address since...
...next 500 years proved an uplifting time for the Catalans. They were years of economic expansion and political self-assertion. Before Columbus ever sailed for the New World, the allied kingdoms of Catalunya and Aragon already possessed a far-ranging Mediterranean empire. And in what was to become a predictable pattern (aside from the city's prodigious capacity to re-invent itself time and time again), the citizens of the city fought for their rights during many nerve-fraught periods. Their successes are notable: the Usatges, for instance, dates from a century before the Magna Carta and is essentially...