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Social Justice
‘The Embrace’: ‘The hug the city needs’
As Boston unveiled its latest and perhaps most radical work of public art Friday, "The Embrace" was as much a remembrance as it was a 38,000-pound call to action. What are you embracing? Who are you holding? Have you been held lately? Continue reading →
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World
Iran hangs former defense ministry official over spy claim
The hanging of Ali Reza Akbari, a close ally of top security official Ali Shamkhani, suggests an ongoing power struggle within Iran's theocracy as it tries to contain the demonstrations over the September death of Mahsa Amini. It also harkened back to the mass purges of the military that immediately followed Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Continue reading →
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LETTERS
When the world is running down
If we manage to find our way through the problems humanity is facing to a future where humans survive, that will be good for us. If we don’t, that will be bad for us. Either way, the world will go on. Continue reading →
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Obituaries
Casey Hayden, a force for civil rights and feminism, dies at 85
An important organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during its push for civil rights in the early 1960s, Casey Hayden was the co-author of two papers that called out sexism within that organization, and in society in general — documents that are credited with helping to inspire second-wave feminism. Continue reading →
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Obituaries
Henry Grossman, photographer of presidents and Beatles, dies at 86
Henry Grossman, a photographer who was best known for his formal portraits of celebrities and other public figures — but who also, less famously, immortalized the Beatles on film in thousands of unscripted antics while juggling a side career as a Metropolitan Opera tenor and a Broadway bit player — died on Nov. 27 in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 86. Continue reading →
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