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Boston Children's Museum President Stepping Down
by globe staff the longtime president of the boston children's museum is stepping down from his post next june after 15 years, according to a statement issued today. louis b. casagrande has informed the museum's board that he will leave...
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Forums To Be Held On Boston School Closings
by james vaznis, globe staff the boston school department today announced a series of community forums on superintendent carol r. johnson's sweeping plan to expand, consolidate, and close schools, which will be unveiled tonight. a forum will be held in...
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Japan Stocks Slide On Worries About Us Economy - boston Globe
tokyo— japan's stock market fell to its lowest level in more than three years on growing fears that even a passage of the proposed u.s. financial bailout package can't stop the american economy from slipping into a recession. a spate of dismal u.s ...
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World Stocks Hit Fresh Lows On Bailout - boston Globe
london (reuters) - world stocks fell to a fresh three-year low on friday as concerns grew that washington's $700 billion bailout package might not be enough to prevent the u.s. economy and the rest of the world from slowing down further. u.s. house ...
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South Boston Fire Victim Charged With Forgery
by david abel, globe staff the mother of two girls who died in a south boston fire last spring pleaded not guilty today to charges that she forged a $1,000 check from her neighbor. anna reisopoulos/globe file photo anna reisopoulos,...
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Boston Stoplight Tune-ups Seen Saving Gas, People's Time
by globe staff boston drivers waste hundreds of thousands of hours stuck at traffic lights -- and hundreds of thousands of gallons of precious gasoline as their cars idle. now the city says it's moving to adjust the lights --...
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Impala Platinum In Deal To Rival Angloplat - boston Globe
johannesburg, south africa— south africa's impala platinum is set to buy two small companies in a deal that sets it up to rival anglo platinum as the world's largest producer. impala says most shareholders have backed its offer to buy mvelaphanda ...
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Pumped Up - boston Globe
sharon - darkness and fog shrouded the ranch houses receding into the inky blackness of this forested suburb. standing in the damp grass of a field, wearing galoshes, shorts, and a long-sleeved t-shirt, steve connolly held aloft a portable work lamp ...
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Jacoby Ellsbury Watch: Former Osu Star Does It All For Boston In Game 1
jacoby ellsbury has picked up where he left off in the postseason. on wednesday night, the former madras and oregon state outfielder helped lift the boston red sox to a 1-0 lead over the los angeles angels in the american legion division series. game 2 is 6:30 p.m. pt friday, with boston’s ...
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Sovereign Bank Shares Plunge 72 Percent
sovereign bank is the latest financial institution caught up in financial turmoil, according to today's boston globe. shares fell 72 percent  monday - a striking loss even on a day when the market as a whole fell sharply after the u.s. house rejected an emergency bailout package for the nation's troubled financial sector. the stock closed at $2.33, down $6.04.
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Financial Chaos Threatens To Besiege Universities - boston Globe
amid a deepening financial crisis that has sapped college endowments, college and university officials are grappling with the growing fear that the wall street turmoil could cast a shadow over nearly all their operations. administrators at small ...
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No Fatal Slips As Biden, Palin Tussle For The Title Of Reformer - boston Globe
washington - in their sole debate, vice presidential candidates joe biden and sarah palin battled last night for the title of defender of the middle class, arguing over taxes, iraq, and the mortgage crisis as each claimed to represent the force for ...
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Mccain Backs Red Sox As 'sentimental Favorite'
(jim davis/globe staff/file 2007) boston red sox pitcher curt schilling campaigned with senator john mccain last november in new hampshire. by globe staff senator john mccain described the red sox as his "sentimental favorite" to win the world series,...
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Boston To Host 2010 National Governors Association Meeting
by matt viser, globe staff the national governors association today announced that boston will host the nation’s governors for its annual meeting in 2010, providing governor deval patrick with a major platform to showcase massachusetts. the meeting, which is scheduled...
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Patriots Tackle A 10-day West Coast Odyssey - boston Globe
foxborough - professional football is a game of routine - meet, watch film, practice, lift weights, play a game. however, there is nothing routine about the road trip the patriots will embark on today. most nfl trips are misnomers. they're really ...
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Short Stop? Lowrie In It For Long Haul - boston Globe
anaheim, calif. - it was a medium-speed ground ball to the left of shortstop. as jed lowrie glided toward it, everyone interested in the fortunes of the boston red sox was thinking the same thing: "whew! we're out of the inning." in 45 games as the ...
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Alan Lupo, Columnist For Globe, Herald, Chronicler Of Working-class Boston, 70
in one of his last columns for the boston herald, alan lupo mused in april that having neared the biblical count of three score and ten, he was entitled to spoil himself. ...
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Boston Ending Canadian Drug Importation Program After Few City Workers Enroll
a boston program through which city workers can buy low-cost canadian prescription drugs will receive its last shipment of drugs in december, after the canadian drug supplier terminated its involvement because of a lack of participants, the boston globe reports. according to the globe, the program never attracted "more than a few dozen participants" (drake, boston globe, 9/26).
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Beckett On Target To Start Game 3 Sunday - boston Globe
anaheim, calif. - it lasted just 65 pitches (according to john farrell ) or 67 (according to terry francona ), but josh beckett's bullpen session yesterday seemed to cause a sigh of relief for the red sox and perhaps yet another bit of frustration ...
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Wanted: Divine Intervention - boston Globe
anaheim, calif. - meet the los angeles angels. twenty-five players, 25 couches. really. these guys don't need doc halladay, dock ellis, doc medich, doc rivers, or dr. j. they need dr. melfi or dr. phil. they need lucy of "peanuts" to set up a booth ...
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