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Bookstore Celebrates 200 Year Anniversary

The Boston Globe | Brian Benson | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

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The store - the second oldest in the country after a bookstore in Pennsylvania - features a fireplace, reading nooks, and a popular weekly author seri...

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Harvard Stops Free-Tuition Program For Students Pledging To Go Into Public Law

AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University's law school will stop offering a year of free tuition to students who go into public service law after gr...

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Is There a Local Hackathon in Your Area?

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 12.01.2009 | Home

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Just two weeks after announcing the Great American Hackathon, there are a dozen events planned across the country. The great govtrack.us creator Josh ...

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FAO Schwarz - A Magical Place for the Holidays

City Guide. | City Guide | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

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More than 145 years ago, Frederick August Otto Schwarz, namesake of the world-famous retailer FAO Schwarz, and his three brothers from Westphalia, Ger...

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Boston LIVE On Twitter: Local News, Sports, People

Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

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Follow the latest in Boston LIVE through our curated Twitter lists: local news, local sports, and local people via tweets. Do you know a tweeter who'...

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Winifred Duane, 84, mother of State Sen. Thomas Duane

Chelsea Now | Chelsea Now | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home

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Winifred Duane, the mother of State Sen. Thomas Duane, died Thurs., Nov. 5, at age 84. A wake was held at Redden's Funeral Home, 325 W. 14th St., on N...

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Mr. President, 'Change' Is Your 'New Frontier'

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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The Republicans' strategy of slowing down change couldn't be more evident than in the perpetually extending health care debate. But they have been successful at promulgating the idea that they, too, are touting change.

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Report: Fiber Optics Not A Real Thing

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home

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BOSTON—Members of the world's engineering and telecommunications communities admitted Tuesday that fiber optics, the supposed technological......

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An Even Insider Guide Than Your Insider's Guide to the Starz Denver Film Fest

Angora Holly Polo | Posted 11.11.2009 | Denver

Reviewed: Official Rejection, Passenger Side, Truffe, The Vicious Kind, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Harmony and Me.

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LimoLiner cuts Boston fare to $69, ends Hartford route

NewYorkology | NewYorkology | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

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It's not quite a cut-rate $1 advanced fare, but the luxury bus between New York and Boston, LimoLiner, will reduce its one-way fares to as low ...

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Barney Frank: POT BUST Took Place With Congressman Present

Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was present during his partner James Ready's marijuana arrest in 2007, according to a police report. Ready was arrested ...

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At Season's End, Withering Thoughts on November Baseball, Interleague Play and the Designated Hitter

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports

The temperature in New York is 48 degrees as I begin to write this, three hours before the start of the sixth game of the World Series at Yankee Stadi...

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Dudley, Massachusetts Makes It Illegal To Own More Than Three Cats Without License

AP | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home

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DUDLEY, Mass. — A Massachusetts town has made it illegal to own more than three cats without getting a special license. Voters at a town meeting...

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Wal-Mart Considering Expanding Into Urban Areas

ft.com | Jonathan Birchall | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

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Walmart has stepped up efforts to mobilise local political support for new store openings in US cities and urban areas that were last month identified...

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NYC's Most Prolific Bomber to Speak at UMass???

NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 10.30.2009 | Home

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His United Freedom Front set off more bombs in New York, its suburbs and all the way up to Boston than any other terrorists. And now the ringleader, ...

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Another Homegrown Terrorism Case

Lydia Khalil | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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Just because homegrown plots constitute the majority of those uncovered doesn't mean that homegrown terrorism is the greatest threat.

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Jay Carciero, Psych Patient, Is Killed After Attack On A Doctor

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home

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BOSTON — A man stabbed a doctor while being treated at a psychiatric office at a Boston medical building Tuesday and was fatally shot by an off-...

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Mass. man says Brazilian husband denied US asylum

AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

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BOSTON — The Massachusetts husband of a gay Brazilian man says his spouse has been denied asylum that would allow them to be reunited in the U.S.

Tim Coco said Monday that the Obama administration did not act on a Friday deadline in the case of Genesio "Junior" Oliveira, effectively denying his request. The Justice Department did not immediately return messages.

Oliveira had sought asylum because he said he was raped as a teenager. His request was first denied in 2002. He returned to Brazil after losing an appeal in 2007, two years after he and Coco married in Massachusetts.

The Associated Press does not typically name rape victims, but Oliveira allows his name to be used.

In March, Sen. John Kerry asked Attorney General Eric Holder to grant Oliveira asylum on humanitarian grounds.

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Video: Boston Fed Holds Annual Cape Cod Conference

MSNBC | MSNBC | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

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Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, discusses the economy and the path to financial stability with CNBC's Steve Liesman.�...

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Boston-area man arrested in alleged terrorist plot

Fox 31 | Fox 31 | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home

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Federal authorities today charged a Boston-area man with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists as part of a plot to ``kill, kidnap, mai...

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Boston Terror Arrest: Tarek Mehanna Arrested For Planning Attacks On Shopping Malls

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

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BOSTON — A Massachusetts man and two friends tried and failed to get into terrorist training camps and then plotted to kill two prominent U.S. p...

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Boston's Condo Auction Experiment a 'Complete Failure'

Curbed | Curbed | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home

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Over the weekend developer Vornado Realty Trust auctioned off 10 luxury condos in The Bryant, a new 50-unit brick building on the border of Boston's...

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Boston's Curio.House: Solar Decathlon

Hearst Communications | Hearst Communications | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

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To make energy-use data available to the homeowner, Team Boston created a Web-based energy-monitoring system, in which 24-7 real-time feedback helps u...

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New York Times calls off sale of Boston Globe

AP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

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BOSTON — The Boston Globe is off the market.

The New York Times Co. said Wednesday it won't sell the newspaper after all, following "careful consideration and analysis."

In a regulatory filing, the company said it was still weighing its options for its other major New England property, the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass.

In a memo sent to Globe employees late Wednesday, Times Co. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and CEO Janet Robinson acknowledged the "long and painful process" that led to the decision to keep the paper.

"The Globe has significantly improved its financial footing by following the strategic plan it set out at the beginning of this year," Sulzberger and Robinson wrote. "All along, we explicitly recognized that a careful restructuring of the Globe was one possible route and, thanks to your hard work, that is precisely what has been done."

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Dollar loses punch and crude hits $75 at the close

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

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NEW YORK — Oil prices on Wednesday rose above $75 a barrel for the first time in a year because of a weak dollar and the belief that the upcoming holiday shopping season will bring more traffic to the roads.

Benchmark crude for November delivery added $1.03 to settle at $75.18 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The last time crude finished above $75 a barrel was Oct. 14, 2008, exactly one year ago.

Also helping to lift energy prices was the Dow Jones Industrials Average, which hit a new annual high and pushed past the 10,000 mark for the first time in more than a year.

Oil prices have wavered mostly between $50 and $70 a barrel since May with signs of an economic recovery emerging slowly. But a plunge in the dollar convinced many investors to pump money into crude and other commodities as a hedge against inflation.

Still, there are scant signs of definitive uptick in demand for fuel and refiners have been shutting down facilities for that reason.

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