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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 ...

  • Cardinal skips Boston College graduation over Irish prime ministers role

    Enda Kenny , who supports a bill in his country that would allow abortion.A few dozen protesters, some playing bagpipes, demonstrated at the college during the morning graduation ceremony. They held signs with messages that included ';Boston College Keep Your Pro Life ...

  • School Attended By Boston Bombing Suspect Launches Task Force

    DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- The college where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended has formed a public safety task force in the wake of the April 15 attack. University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth officials will review emergency planning and academic and financial policies related to maintaining ';student in good standing'; ...

  • UMass Dartmouth names post-bombing review task force

    The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has named several out-of-state officials to make up a task force that will review school policies and procedures in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, when federal agents zeroed in on the southeastern Massachusetts campus and arrested several students.Led by Montana State University president Waded Cruzado, the task force will look at ...


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Edward Scissorhands [DVD]

Edward Scissorhands [DVD]

In one way or another, all of Tim Burton's films are about misunderstood outsiders. Even when working with a well-known superhero in his 1989 hit "Batman," Burton still managed to focus on how others misperceived the Dark Knight as a menace rather than a crime-fighting crusader. In his biopic "Ed Wood" (1994), he portrayed Edward D. Wood, Jr., often considered worst director in the history of ... ...

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  • BPD Driver suspected in cyclist’s death “cooperating”

    A truck driver believed to have struck and killed a visiting Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist and her bicycle in the Back Bay yesterday afternoon has been located and "is talking to detectives and cooperating with the investigation," Boston police tweeted.The driver, whose identity has not been released, is not currently facing charges."It appears he didn’t ...

  • Feds nix Bulger lawyers’ bid for name of confidential FBI informant

    Federal prosecutors are refusing a request by James "Whitey" Bulger’s defense team to turn over the name of a confidential FBI informant,The informant spoke to FBI agents about conversations Whitey henchmen Kevin Weeks and John Martorano may have had with other individuals regarding what they would say if ever called to testify, defense attorneys J.W. Carney Jr. and Hank Brennan ...

  • Conn. court blasts prosecutor reverses conviction

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The state Appellate Court has issued a ruling blasting a Connecticut prosecutor for repeated misconduct and ordering a new trial for a man serving life in prison for the killing of a Waterbury bar owner in ...

  • Mass. transportation secretary People are going to need to pick up E-ZPasses

    Cash will not be accepted at Tobin Bridge tolls beginning early next year, and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is hoping to transition several other major thoroughfares to electronic-only payment systems within several years, the state transportation secretary said today. Richard A. Davey said the changes will reduce congestion and operating costs at the tolls, and the department ...

  • Gomez Markey OK June 5 Mass. US Senate debate

    BOSTON (AP) - Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democrat Edward Markey have agreed to their first debate in Massachusetts’ contentious special U.S. Senate ...

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