LOCAL NEWS
Deval Patrick aide to lead state's immigration officeAn aide to Gov. Deval Patrick who has been in charge of the governor's ethnic media outreach will be the new executive director of the state's Office for Refugees and Immigrants, Patrick announced last week. More » |
Backstories amplify A.R.T.'s 'Porgy and Bess'Before the opera came the drama. Some fans of "Porgy and Bess" may be surprised, but DuBose Heyward and his wife Dorothy adapted his own story about the titled Charleston, S.C. couple into a play eight years before the 1935 collaboration with George and Ira Gershwin. More » |
Obama visits Ogletree's Martha's Vineyard homeOAK BLUFFS, Mass. - President Barack Obama put in a brief appearance Saturday at the home of his friend and one-time teacher, Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree, as he continued his Martha's Vineyard vacation. More » |
'The Help:' Rebirth of a painful genreFor two years I managed to avoid reading "The Help." I didn't read it because I didn't need to. Whenever hordes of white women of casual acquaintance start coming up to me at cocktail parties or on the street and grasping my hand and telling me that I have to read this "wonderful" new book I can safely assume several things: More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
After long struggle, MLK has home on National MallOn the 48th anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech, a towering memorial will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as a man of peace among the many monuments to wars and presidents in the nation's capital. The road to this weekend's dedication, however, has run through hurdles of all kinds - not unlike the long struggle over King's legacy itself. More » |
GOP using redistricting to shore up House majorityWASHINGTON - The odds of getting re-elected have gotten better for Rep. Renee Ellmers and other Republican freshmen in the House - thanks to GOP calculations in redrawing congressional maps. The 47-year-old nurse who ousted seven-term Democrat Bob Etheridge by fewer than 1,500 votes last November will be running next year in a newly drawn North Carolina district that's less swing and more Republican. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Obama says 'rule is over' for GadhafiChilmark, Mass. - President Barack Obama said Monday that Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi's "rule is over" although elements of his regime continue to resist rebels who have taken control of much of the capital. More » |
Libya rebels hold most of Tripoli, face resistanceTRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan rebels claimed to be in control of most of Tripoli Monday after their swift advance on the capital heralded the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year regime. But they still faced some fierce resistance, with scattered gunbattles erupting, and the mercurial leader was nowhere to be found. More » |
