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Benjamin Thompson Associates--the firm responsible for designing New York City's South Street Seaport Boston's Quincy Market and Cambridge's Crate and Barrel building--will serve as architects for the project Banker said...
This year I have a new perspective on the NIMBY phenomenon. I live in Quincy House, and my bedroom looks directly not the Dewolfe Street construction site, where Harvard Real Estate is building two five-story structures eventually to house University affiliates. Sure, Harvard could use the housing space; but frankly, I'm sick of the noise, and I wish it weren't in my back yard...
...movie brings homelessness home by presenting it not as a cause for charity but as a recognizable human misfortune, almost inevitable given the circumstances. Grant's direction is both sensitive and street-smart (filming was done in Pittsburgh). Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic...
...first sight upon landing in St. Thomas is half a DC-3, broken like a baguette and tossed off to the side of the runway. Piles of debris remain lumped by the roadside in many places, but most streets are clear. This does not mean that traffic is exactly flowing, since stoplights are still broken. Most places now have electricity, but few have television, and the phones can be temperamental. But for the tens of thousands of tourists who tumble out of the cruise ships into Charlotte Amalie each week, the effects of the storm are almost hidden. Most...
...strode toward a table of legislators slated to take seats at the parliament's opening the next morning and opened fire. One diner was killed, another badly wounded. As the gunmen left the restaurant, they told a security guard nearby that all was well, then disappeared down a dark street...