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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 ...

  • Markey Gomez on trail agree to debate

    The Haitian music was loud and the bass was heavy on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan when US Senate hopeful Edward J. Markey began to dance. Smiling broadly next to state Representative Linda Dorcena Forry, he began with a slight shuffle and then moved his whole body to the ...

  • Conn. lawmakers to announce mental health proposal

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Lawmakers, advocates and the mother of a child killed in the Newtown school shooting are unveiling a new proposal for child mental health at the state Capitol complex in ...

  • Mass. energy summit to focus on cutting costs

    NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley will host an energy summit to bring together experts in the field for discussions on ways to reduce energy costs and improve the state’s ...


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Drive

Drive

Drive, which won Nicolas Winding Refn the Best Director prize at Cannes last spring, is a sharply etched, finely tuned homage to the existential road movies of the 1970s like Vanishing Point (1970) and Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) in which the nature of human existence was fuse ... ...

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  • Sen. McCain to attend rally for Mass. GOPs Gomez

    BOSTON (AP) - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez is hoping to get a needed boost of cash and enthusiasm when U.S. Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican and fellow Navy veteran, stops by for a fundraiser and morning ...

  • Courts expand e-filing to self-represented parties

    Starting last Saturday, self-represented parties were able to request access to the Judicial Branch’s e-services system. Court clerks must approve access requests, allowing people to file documents, read papers and perform other tasks on their cases by ...

  • Boston University honors Marathon victim among nearly 6700 graduates

    In a bittersweet commencement ceremony that highlighted how closely its fate is intertwined with the city around it, Boston University bestowed degrees on nearly 6,700 graduates, including posthumous degrees awarded to Lu Lingzi, the graduate student killed in the Marathon bombings, and Binland Lee, a senior who died in a fire in her off-campus apartment last ...

  • Local WWII veterans given opportunity to visit Washington monuments that honor them

    WASHINGTON – As Robert Johnston, 90, stood at the World War II Memorial 67 years after serving in the Marines, he thought of his best friend who was killed at the Battle of Saipan. Johnston, a second lieutenant who earned a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts at Saipan and Iwo Jima, said being able to visit the memorial for the first time gave him a chance to ...

  • R.I. urges baby boomers to get hepatitis C test

    Rhode Island’s health department is encouraging baby boomers to get tested for Hepatitis C, saying adults born between 1945 and 1965 are five times more likely to contract the ...

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