To do groundbreaking work, attract legions of followers, and eventually watch them leave you behind . . . it can’t be easy, or particularly pleasant. The consolation, of course, is that if you have this particular problem, you’ve attained a level of influence that most people can only dream of. Which is why, in the end, we should envy Gene Sharp rather than pity him. To be hailed in your lifetime as a seminal figure is reward enough. Pissing off Hugo Chávez is just gravy.
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- Oran Café
Recently, Boston Chowhounds steered me to Oran Café, a two-month-old Moroccan restaurant in East Boston that has much in common with Angela’s.
- The political virgins
At this incalculably critical time — with a fiscal nightmare threatening billions of dollars of state-government spending and momentous budget decisions to be made — everyone in Massachusetts wants to be represented on Beacon Hill by someone with clout.
- Ecco Restaurant and Martini Bar
An East Boston bistro? Kind of doesn't have a ring to it — especially since we're not talking about Orient Heights or Jeffries Point.
- Elite Restaurant
Some meals can bring you back vividly to your childhood, perhaps because your sense of smell and long-term memory are centered in adjacent areas of the brain.
- Letter Rip
Hollywood celebrities who fancy themselves pols and pundits don’t just bring impassioned everyman views to the legislative banquet.
- Good news, bad news
It will be the best of times. Or, perhaps, it will be the worst.
- The problem with heroes
Even the hardest-hearted news consumer had to wince this past week when the private autopsy results of Paul Cahill and Warren Payne were leaked to some of the press.
- Hindsight
“I’m not much on rear-window ethics,” quips Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece.
- From the ashes
Honest, perceptive, and keenly felt, The Good Life — the story of two couples’ furtive, hesitant stabs at happiness in the brave and fearful new world of post-9/11 New York — is McInerney’s most mature and affecting book yet.
- Feel-good movie of the summer
With the upcoming November elections poised to determine the future of Congress, what better gift could Republicans ask for than a popular Hollywood movie that conjures the image that for five years has granted them power and impunity? Watch the trailer for World Trade Center (QuickTime) Off-Center: Oliver Stone's trite take on 9/11. By Peter Keough
- Know nukes
I’ll never shake the sense memory of that numbed shiver.
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