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...food is cheap and exquisite, and the electric atmosphere is both friendly and engrossing at once. But the experience is a foreign one for the most--the spectacle of that painted statue parading down Salem St. with hundreds of howling citizens begging to pin whatever they can afford onto its breast is both repelling and gracious. In America, money seems to accomplish more than prayer, and the religious festival originated in its current form at the turn of the century, when Little Italies sprawled across cities like Boston and New York, full of poor but faithful immigrants...
...Marina Del Rey factory and will turn out 12,000 boards this year. There are a wider, more stable version for kids and beginners ($595), the standard model ($745) and the "Rocket," with foot straps for better control at high speeds ($795). Sailrider Inc. of South Salem, N.Y., this year will produce 3,000 units of a similar craft ($679) made of cy-clolac, a high-impact plastic, which along with its rig weighs 60 Ibs. Windsurfing International has licensed a Dutch textile firm to make and market the board in Europe, and at least 60 European companies are producing...
...College on the Charles" was almost the "College on the Beach"--in the 1630s, when the Overssers of the hypothetical institution, now known as Harvard College, were searching for a location to settle, they came close to accepting an offer of 300 ocean-bordered acres of land in Salem, Mass. Instead, they chose Newtowne, which was renamed Cambridge the year the school opened...
Islam is frequently stereotyped as unmitigatedly harsh in its code of law, intolerant of other religions, repressive toward women and incompatible with progress. Salem Azzam, Saudi secretary-general of the Islamic Council of Europe, feels that the present resurgence is considered "retrograde and reactionary" because Westerners confuse what is happening in Islam with a revival of Christian fundamentalism. "Not only is this a baseless and arrogant assumption," says Azzam, but it is tantamount to "a return to colonialism?indirect but of a more profound type." Defenders of the faith further argue that Islam is not monolithic, that it is compatible...
Golf 432, B.C. 435, Salem State, 435 at New Seabury C.C. Women's lacrosse 12, Bowdoin...