Politician would like to see daughter get another shot on ‘Idol’
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (CP) – 23 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Sen.-elect Scott Brown says he’d like daughter Ayla to have another crack at “American Idol,” where judge Simon Cowell once described her performance as robotic and empty.
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I almost forgot. They have a CD to hawk.
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Kitten dropped, discovered in Boston city mailbox
AP
Tue Jun 16, 9:19 pm ET
BOSTON – Officials said a two-pound, eight-week-old kitten was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston and later found unharmed among envelopes and packages. According to the MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center, the kitten they’re calling “Postina” likely was stuffed Friday through a […]
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Images: (Title) via shillpages.com; (Top two) Village of the Damned via reelstreets.com (third) eindiders.com (Fourth) Village of the Damned via koreanfilm.org
If the vandalism bothers them, they should change careers.
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Owners trash, strip their foreclosed homes
Fixtures, cabinets, tubs, sinks, even stairways face wrath of dispossessed
By Jerry Kronenberg
Boston Herald
Monday, April 28, 2008 -Jack O’Leary has seen foreclosed homes where ex-owners put paint on the carpets, anti-bank graffiti on the walls or took everything but the kitchen sink - […]
which gushes over the excesses of mega-corporations, this latest insult to the American system is a mere trifle.
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(From Dr. Pepper Contest website–with added ideas not contained in original.)
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New promo campaign angers Boston
1 hour, 7 minutes ago
BOSTON - Less than a month after highways and bridges were shut down during a bomb scare touched off by […]
“Illegal Immigration Hardliner Mitt Romney Hires Undocumented Workers To Tend His Lawn
The Boston Globe reports today that for the past decade, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has employed a landscaping company that relies heavily on undocumented Guatemalan immigrants. The company, Community Lawn Service with a Heart, also tended to the lawn at Romney’s son’s house.”
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“R.I. pumpkin may be largest ever
Sun Oct 8, 2:39 PM ET
WARREN, R.I. - Despite heavy rains that stunted pumpkin growth, a Rhode Island farmer has set what could be a new record for the largest pumpkin in the world.”
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‘Huge concrete panels were removed from the tunnel after a section of the ceiling collapsed last night, killing one woman. (Globe Staff Photo / George Rizer)
State Police identify victim in tunnel collapse
By John R. Ellement and Andrew Ryan, Boston Globe Staff | July 11, 2006
Transportation officials this morning have begun removing the three-ton […]
The Boston Globe
Honorary degrees redux: Tributes to Updike go on sale
By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff
June 1, 2006
One can picture him sitting there in flowing robes, smiling his warm, wry smile, as the words are read aloud before a sea of admiring graduates.
In 1998, Bates College, reaching for the highest of rhetoric, lauded him for his […]
Catholic World NewsBoston archdiocese opens books, showing $46 million deficitBoston, Apr. 19 (CWNews.com) - The Archdiocese of Boston has released a full audit of its financial accounts, showing a $46.3 million deficit for the fiscal years 2005-2005.
Cardinal Sean O’Malley had promised a full public accounting of archdiocesan financial affairs, as he argued against a proposed […]