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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Everett 48 Somerville 0 EVERETT -- Facing a team it aspires to emulate, it was an uncomfortable return to earth last night for the Somerville Highlanders.
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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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ST. LOUIS -- The Red Sox were the bold-faced headline on the 2004 season, the town crier in Kenmore Square. The long-suffering franchise fought its way through a cursed history to deliver a World Series triumph
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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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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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Some are unusual but compelling, while others are rather gruesome.
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On this much, both sides agree: It was a tragic, chance encounter on a quiet street here last spring that left 18-year old Michael Colono dead and Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson accused of murder for stabbing the local Cambridge man five times with a pocketknife.
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Bostonâs victory in Game 2 of the World Series turned, in part, because of one of those understated, blink-and-itâs-gone moments.
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THOSE of us who sat through a truly miserable evening at Hampden four-and-a-half years ago, which culminated in Mike Tysonâs controversial 38-second stoppage of a petrified Lou Savarese, could not have imagined we had seen a potential British world
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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 tears and the blame mix uneasily in âReservation Road,â a grim, mechanistic thriller about death and suffering, life and healing among the civilized.
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BOSTONâAnyone who believes the Blue Jays get criticized too harshly in Toronto ought to take a stroll down Yawkey Way. That&#39;s the festive street in front of Fenway Park that gets closed off for pre-game
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BOSTON -- Agony sells for only so long. Eventually, the charm of it all goes stale and diehard loyalists start looking like so many masochistic morons.
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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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The sight of a sobbing orphan stranded in a landscape of death and disaster moves people deeply.
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There's too much history &#151; quirky, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking chronicles passed from generation to generation &#151; for Red Sox Nation to get cocky now.