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  • Boston bombers slain affiliate not an Islamist says widow

    Ibragim Todashev, an affiliate of slain Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was himself killed by US security personnel, was an aspiring athlete who took no interests in politics or radical Islam, his widow said. "We avoided talking about politics because we had nothing to do with it," Rene Manukyan, who was married to Ibragim Todashev, told Voice of Russia radio. Todashev, a 27-year-old ...

  • Facial recognition technology quickly identifies Boston Marathon bombing suspect

    Researchers at Michigan State University including an Indian professor were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, using the latest in automatic facial recognition technology. In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a research ...

  • Bruins beat Rangers in NHL finals

    Gregory Campbell scored two goals on Saturday to secure a 3-1 victory for Boston over the New York Rangers to see the Bruins into NHL Eastern Conference finals.Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask made 28 saves as Boston won the best-of-seven second-round playoff series four games to one.They will now face the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference finals for a chance to play the Western champs for ...

  • Why Are The Bruins So Good Let Lundqvist And Tortorella Explain

    BOSTON (CBS) — If you go back and check every single series prediction from every single hockey mind in the world prior to the Bruins-Rangers second-round playoff series, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone crazy enough to take the Bruins in five games. Most everybody anticipated a long, grinding series that would go six or seven games. As for the winner, the predictions were pretty ...

  • Boston tragedy warning shot for Indy 500

    Indy 500's elite club may welcome new member Security at tomorrow's Indianapolis 500 will be ramped up, as race officials of one of the year's biggest one-day sporting events respond to last month's deadly Boston Marathon bombings. Officials of the race, which routinely attracts crowds of about 300,000 to the sprawling 4km oval, said the added security steps include closing ...


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My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The end of the summer 2002 movie season is here, with the studios having taken in some $3.3 billion. There were plenty of big-budget blockbusters that pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office (Spider-Man, Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II), yet the movie that people can't quite stop talking about is My Big Fat Greek Wedding, now better known as " ... ...

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  • Bruins excited for Pittsburgh ready for the challenge

    Pittsburgh here they come.After an exhausting, heart-wrenching, dramatic seven-game quarterfinal series with Toronto, the Bruins put away the Rangers tonight 3-1 and with some ease. The B’s take the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series, 3-1, and move on to the Eastern Conference finals against the Penguins. The B's lost all three games to Pittsburgh this year, ...

  • Boston Calling Day 1

    boston calling day 1What's a little rain among friends?All the best music festivals have to deal with inclement weather. Woodstock partiers wallowed in the mud. It's poured buckets on folks at Glastonbury, Bonnaroo and Newport.That's how it was Saturday at the inaugural Boston Calling music fest at City Hall Plaza. On day one, a capacity crowd of 19,500 packed the pavilion and ...

  • Fourth Line Gives Bruins The Edge Once Again

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  • Boston Marathon runners finish race interrupted by bombs

    Boston Marathon last month was interrupted by two deadly bombs completed the final mile Saturday. Cheered on by supporters, the runners jogged from Kenmore Square to the finish line, The Boston Globe reported. "It's a great way to show the strength of Boston and the camaraderie in our city," runner Liza Marie Felici, 28, of Dover said. "There's a sense of closure . ...

  • Bruins finish off Rangers in five

    Gregory Campbell scored the winner and the clincher as the Boston Bruins ended the New York Rangers' season with a 3-1 win in Game 5, giving Boston a 4-1 series ...

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