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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 ...

  • Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title

    Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...

  • Slow pokes Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles

    QUINCY, Mass. (AP) -- Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell are getting some help easing back into the wild - from an ...

  • Cada Boston marathon runners in Colorado vow to run it again

    Boston native and Fort Collins resident Celeste O'Conner (at right, in gray shirt) nears the finish line of the Boston Marathon April 15. (Provided by Celeste ...

  • Red Sox ask Doubront to even up series in Windy City

    The White Sox are three games below .500 and six games behind the American League Central-leading Indians, but they've remained confident, and recently, the results on the field have taken a turn for the better. Chicago has won five of its last seven games and six of its last nine, including Monday's 6-4 win over the Red Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. The White Sox will play 16 of their ...


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The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) [DVD]

The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) [DVD]

In the early 1950s, with the help of noted film theorist and critic Andr Bazin, 20-year-old Franois Truffaut began writing regularly for the Parisian film journal Cahiers du cinema. He quickly gained a reputation as an uncompromising and often vicious critic with a clear-cut sense ... ...

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  • Jury Convicts Massachusetts State Trooper for Extorting and Threatening Local Bettor www.privateofficer.com

    --A federal jury in Boston today convicted a Massachusetts State Police trooper for extorting and threatening a local bettor. The jury, which deliberated over two days, convicted John Analetto, 49, of Belmont, on one count of extortion specific to a threatening phone call he made to a bettor in the gambling business. The jury was hung on the other count of extortion. From October through ...

  • Mass. residents warned of black bear seen in towns

    Officials say it's possible the bear is looking for food, and police recommended that residents take down bird feeders and remove other sources of food from their ...

  • Mass. police search for 2 missing children

    Police said they were looking Monday for 8-year-old Patrick Nguyen (n'wihn) and his 10-year-old sister Sarah Nguyen (n'wihn). The children are of Asian ...

  • City to roll out bike lanes kiosks

    Boston’s roads are set to get more crowded as the city is adding up to 20 miles of new bike lanes and more Hubway rental kiosks - and may build "cycle tracks" on major roads from Roxbury to the Public Garden - even as officials probe the latest tragic biking death."We look at this as good urban planning as to how we can re-program our streets to explore alternative modes of ...

  • Weston pretty sure that there was a bear

    Things are getting wild in Weston, where cops say, yes, they’re pretty sure that was a bear that residents spotted yesterday.Several calls lit up the Weston police phone lines before 9 a.m., with reports of a bear in the area of Concord Road. Police officers never actually laid eyes on the bear but said they believe it is the same bear that was spotted Sunday in Lincoln.In May last year, a ...

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