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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 ...

  • Markey’s fight strategy Duck ’n’ cover

    If you haven’t been paying much attention to U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey’s Senate campaign, that’s just fine with Markey.Debates? He hasn’t agreed to any against GOP opponent Gabriel Gomez.Releasing his tax returns? He’ll get to it - ...

  • Kelvin Sampson expected to interview with 76ers Suns MAY 20

    12:42 AM ET 05.20 | Kelvin Sampson is a hot name on the NBA head coaching market, as he's in the mix for four of the six current job openings. Sampson has already interviewed with ...

  • LeBron James Heat respond to Frank Vogels next team in our way comment MAY 19

    Heat . "Oh, it's exciting," he said. "But this is not about getting back at Miami. You're in the final four, you're competing for a championship, you're competing for a championship. And they're just the next team that's in our way. And that's how we're approaching ...

  • Bicyclist killed near Kenmore

    A woman in her 20s died yesterday after she was struck by a vehicle while riding a bike near Beacon Street and Charlesgate West, police said.Police said the bicyclist was struck shortly after 3:30 p.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene near Kenmore Square. The investigation was ongoing and "no violations have been issued at this time," police said last night.The identity of the ...


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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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  • Robert Kraft punts on talking about Boston Globe dealings

    If New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is mulling a move into the news business, he wasn’t ready to broadcast it yesterday.When asked about last week’s report that he is looking at a possible bid to buy The Boston Globe, Kraft offered what was essentially an extended, slightly enigmatic no comment:"Our family looks at a number of different investments, and we like to talk ...

  • Train crash to take toll on road traffic

    Train service will remain disrupted and even road traffic between Boston and New York could slow to a crawl today as tens of thousands of Connecticut commuters try to find other ways to get to work after a train derailment injured 72 people and destroyed 2,000 feet of track, officials said.As lines for bus tickets grew at Boston’s South Station yesterday, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. ?Malloy ...

  • Injured cop ‘We got the job done’

    The possibility that transit officer Richard "Dic" Donohue Jr. was accidentally shot by another police officer in the wild Watertown gunbattle that left him bleeding from a near-fatal femoral artery wound doesn’t faze him, the recovering T cop said yesterday.What matters to Donohue is not that his nightmare started, but that Boston’s was brought to an end with the death of ...

  • Boston Marathon bombing victim looks forward to MBA

    Brittany Loring, 29, will don her cap and gown to receive an MBA today and her law degree Friday at Boston College, with shrapnel still in her leg and scars on her face and neck from last month’s Boston Marathon bombings. She spoke to the Herald’s Christine McConville yesterday about her injuries and her future."I have a lot of things coming up that are really important, and I ...

  • Officer shot in Boston Marathon showdown wants to return to work

    MBTA Police Officer Richard Donahue makes his way on crutches as his wife, Kim, follows him out of the gym at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston's Charlestown section, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Donahue almost lost his life after being shot during the crossfire with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in Watertown, ...

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