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							  Thousands of American Idol hopefuls lined up  very  early outside the Gillette Stadium to register and secure an audition for the show.
							  Bruce Springsteen, Wilco, Elvis Costello and more at Bonnaroo 2009 in Manchester, Tennessee
							  Even Matt Lauer deserves a better fate than to watch his career die at the hands of Brad Silbering.
							  Unless you are a spectacularly moronic Masshole hell-bent on getting shark-shanked, New Englanders are more likely to be mowed down by a molasses tsunami or felled by Lizzie Borden's ax than they are to die in the maw of Jaws.
							  PJ Harvey's two albums with John Parish are not her best work. (Go ahead and argue it, if you like.) The first,  Dance Hall At Louse Point , was a surprise departure from her game-changing  To Bring You My Love , an album that sold far less than Madonna records but packed as much cultural impact -- back when rock albums and cultural impact were still on speaking terms.
 
				
					
					
							
							  Abortion is dominating the headlines — and giving new resonance to the radically pro-choice gospel of Katherine Ragsdale, dean of Cambridge's Episcopal Divinity School.
							  On September 16, 1994, 62 children in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, said they saw a spacecraft land near their school.
							  The race to elect a new mayor of Boston has been in progress for several weeks, and at last there are indications that the candidates are capable of intelligent thought — at least about improving the city's public schools.
							  A federal judge in Bangor, Maine, has recognized a new right of fetuses that could become a key element in the nation's ongoing abortion debate.
							  It's no mystery why the New York Times Co. threatened, two months ago, to shutter the  Boston Globe  unless the paper's unions provided $20 million in concessions.
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