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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) [DVD]

Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) [DVD]

When most people think of Ingmar Bergman, they immediately think of aesthetically dense, serious, dark filmsthe kind that virtually define foreign art. Images that spring to mind include the hooded white visage of Death from The Seventh Seal (1957), the faces ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Woburn cop honored for bravery in shootout

    A heroic Woburn cop who shot a gun-wielding jewel thief while a fellow officer lay seriously wounded humbly accepted the Congressional Badge for Bravery yesterday, saying the honor belongs to all who raced to the bungled heist."We all acted as a team," said Mark Gibbons, 55, recalling the September 2011 scene outside Musto Jewelers, where four suspects were on the loose - including the ...

  • Irish P.M. Enda Kenny applauded at Boston College graduation

    Boston College graduates gave Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny a standing ovation Monday while a small group of anti-abortion activists protested outside. ...

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