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  • Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...

  • Dalai Lama to Louisville crowd Forgive the Boston bombing suspects

    Boston Marathon bombing suspects.';Forgiveness does not mean you accept their wrongdoing,'; the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, said, The Associated Press reported. ';No. You must oppose [it]. But the wrongdoer? For that, forgiveness. You should not keep negative feelings, anger, for that.';The Dalai Lama was in Louisville as the last stop of a multicity sweep through the ...

  • Man who worked at youth club faces charges of sex abuse

    Paul Collins, a former worker at the Arlington Boys & Girls Club was arrested Friday in Centerreach, Long Island on charges of rape of a child with force and indecent assault and battery of a child. He returned to Massachusetts Saturday ...

  • Marathon bombing survivors receiving diplomas

    Brittany Loring sustained severe injuries from the bombing at the finish line at the Boston Marathon. Brittany will graduate from Boston College with a dual degree in Law and Business (JD/MBA) in ...

  • MIT scientist killed in hit-and-run crash

    Kanako Miura, 36, a visiting MIT scientist, was killed after apparently being struck while on her bike at the intersection of Beacon Street and Baystate Road at about 3:30 p.m. ...


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Fatal Attraction [DVD]

It was William Congreve who wrote in his first play, 1693's The Old Bachelor, "Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." That now-infamous line--turned into an axiom after 300 years of repetition--may have derived from a comedy, but taken by itself, Congreve might as well have been writing about the premise of Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction ...

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  • Boston to swap parking for parklets in 3 districts eyes a 4th

    A "parklet" fills parking spaces on Valencia Street in San Francisco. Boston has named three business districts where similar facilities will replace parking spaces. Parking spaces are set to become "parklets" in Allston, Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill three neighborhoods selected by City Hall for the installation of miniature parks. According to the City of Boston the portable ...

  • NY man faces child abuse charges in Mass.

    ARLINGTON, Mass. (AP) - A former Arlington man charged with sexually molesting children at the town’s Boys and Girls Club in the 1970s has a court ...

  • 911 call helps police with Vt. attempted break-in

    SWANTON, Vt. (AP) - Vermont State Police say a youth’s phone call to police reporting someone was trying to break into his home has led to an ...

  • Salem man dies after getting struck in Gloucester

    Police say 29-year-old Michael Linscott was struck by a vehicle on Saturday morning at a Gloucester housing complex. He was taken to Addison Gilbert Hospital where he was later pronounced ...

  • Fire destroys home in Bennington Vt.

    John Scutt, Bennington Rural Fire Department assistant chief, tells the Bennington Banner (http://bit.ly/13FwcLi) the fire on Silk Road just south of the Route 279 overpass was contained within an ...

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