Human Frailty and Pain on Bostonâs Mean Streets
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With âGone Baby Gone,â Ben Affleck has taken a satisfyingly tough look into conscience, to those dark places where some men also go astray.
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By M.R. KROPKO LORAIN, Ohio - He glances through the chain-link fence at hulking, dark buildings and weeds growing tall in pavement cracks. The chilling scene on a gray November day makes John &quot;Larry&quot; Wargo sigh with sadness.
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To Understand the tortured relationship between the great city of Boston and the equally great city of New York - in life as well as in baseball - look no further than Game
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Michael Murphy's quietly disturbing play reveals the dubious role that Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the Archbishop of Boston, played in a tragedy that irreparably damaged hundreds of families.
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Kathy Farrell could be forgiven for entertaining the possibility that her beloved Boston Red Sox might be cursed. During an April game at Fenway Park, she stumbled in the
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand : The deaths and beatings that followed last month&#39;s demonstration in southern Thailand have left an indelible mark on the psyche of the Muslims living
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It&#39;s a scenario only too familiar to those of us who drive the mean streets and main thoroughfares of this city - except that, in this case, it&#39;s the start of an editorial by Stanford University psychology professor Brian Knutson published today in
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ATHENS: Seldom have sporting moments of inconceivable pain and delirious joy covered more emotional ground yet been so difficult to distinguish.
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Boston isn't the cheapest place to do business. Living and housing costs are steep. And you can't play golf year round.
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This was the afternoon before Game 4 between the Yankees and the Red Sox, a beautiful October afternoon on Newbury St. in Boston, one of the great walking streets anywhere.
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In Boston, witnesses are still intimidated in almost every case involving gangs or other violent crime.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 21 -- Even by the hard-bitten standard of the livelihood they chose, it was a cruel time and place to be lost at sea, tossed in the heaving, frigid swells, a few days before Christmas.
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These are strange days to follow the Celtics as emotions and optimism fluctuate quarter to quarter.
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The stunning 29-28 loss to the Dolphins Monday night in Miami was not the proverbial wake-up call for the Patriots. But it was a grim - and rare - reminder of how vulnerable
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Martin Scorsese's latest gangster flick brings florid dialogue and moral ambiguity to the mean streets of Boston.
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There's too much history &#151; quirky, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking chronicles passed from generation to generation &#151; for Red Sox Nation to get cocky now.
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No wild celebrations. No high-fives between strangers on city streets. No violent confrontations between police and unruly throngs of fans. In just a few years, sports-crazy Boston has been transformed from a city desperate for a championship into one with such an embarrassment of recent riches that winning has seemingly become almost blase.