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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THE OLD Christmas carolâs âlittle townâ is now a city larger than Charleston, and itâsa depressing place. Four years ago, more than 91,000 tourists visited in a year to see Bethlehemâs religious
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Wearing a Red Sox cap or a Patriots jersey no longer identifies the cityâs citizens as connoisseurs of pain.
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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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Physician's assistant Jill Roncarati searched the streets of downtown Boston as the snow fell, peering inside train stations and bagel shops. She was looking for homeless people who needed medical care, and especially for one woman who had broken her leg and was living outdoors on crutches.
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Colin Riley has gone obediently to Mass since boyhood, but he was mumbling apologies for raw words the other day to a statue of Jesus in the quiet sanctuary of St. Albert the Great. He was seething over efforts to close his church and others around Boston.
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Sprawled on the floor of South Station in Boston at 3 a.m. on a February night, Stephane Lasme could only yawn and rub the exhaustion from his eyes. This much was clear: It had been one long journey.
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Zana Briski's documentary about children growing up in Calcutta's rough and squalid red light district is moving, charming and sad.
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As the last rays of sunlight fade on the ghetto alleyways, ratty looking palm trees take on the form of sick old men and there&#39;s menace in the air.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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In Boston, witnesses are still intimidated in almost every case involving gangs or other violent crime.
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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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BOSTON - If there is to be a statue, it should be shaped like David Ortiz. It should be massive and menacing and brightly lit as darkness descends.
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Those strangers waiting at the doctorâs office may share a pain that others canât understand.
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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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BALTIMORE -- No one will ever really know, of course, whether the stress fracture in Tim Wakefield's rib cage was the fault line on which the Red Sox' season began to crack.
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The âAmerican Experienceâ documentary âGrand Centralâ is such an entertaining wallow for New York PBS viewers that itâs disconcerting to note that it was produced in Boston.