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    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 ...

  • Patch work plan in place to replace train service

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Metro-North officials have a fleet of 120 busses ready at the Bridgeport train station to help rail commuters make their way around the scene of Friday’s train accident and help get them get to New ...

  • Visiting MIT scientist killed while riding bike

    MIT said in a statement that Miura had been at the university since the fall and worked at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...

  • Warwick police to identify body found in park

    The body of a white male in his 60s was found in a trash barrel along a bike path in the park on Saturday. Police say the barrel had been covered with ...


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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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  • Retired US Supreme Court justice features in forum

    BOSTON - The JFK Museum and Library is hosting a forum that will feature retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.The Monday afternoon event in Boston will include a discussion of Stevens' career on the bench and his view of the American legal system.President Gerald Ford nominated Stevens to the court, and he served from 1975 to 2010.He also wrote a memoir about his time on the ...

  • Winslow Homer studio tours to begin June 23

    SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) - The Portland Museum of Art has announced the dates for its summer tours of the Winslow Homer studio in ...

  • URI students create greatest good aid calculator

    SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - Students at the University of Rhode Island have created an online calculator for an international relief agency that helps make the case that cash donations after natural or other disasters are better than donated ...

  • Dress like Bob Dylan and get in free says museum

    WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - The Worcester Art Museum is offering free admission to anyone who dresses up like Bob Dylan on May 24, which will be the musician’s 72nd ...

  • NH Senate to vote on bill to push back last call

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Granite State bar patrons hoping to join neighboring states in being able to belly-up to the bar in the wee hours for a final round could see some daylight as the Senate will vote on a bill this week to push back last call from 1 a.m. to 2 ...

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