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							   Nearly everyone in Massachusetts felt the pinch of the recession in 2009 — even Beacon Hill lobbyists had to tighten their belts.   
							
							 
						
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							 Photos of Mariah Carey on her 2010 world tour 
							
							 
						
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							 Karen Schmeer, the brilliant local film editor whose work on Errol Morris's documentary  The Fog of War  helped win it the Best Documentary Oscar in 2004, died January 29 in a tragic accident, struck by a getaway car as she was crossing a street in Manhattan. She would have turned 40 on February 20. 
							
							 
						
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							    After years of shrinking audiences and low-grossing Best Picture nominees, the Academy this year is hedging its bets.    
							
							 
						
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							 J.D. Salinger was 91 when he died in his New Hampshire home on January 27, 45 years after he published his last known story, "Hapworth 16, 1924," in the  New Yorker . 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							   Wakinyan RedShirt has made three films in his life:  Lego Star Wars ,  Bionicle Heroes , and  The Wolf Show . But perhaps his greatest flick, he says, is his latest.   
							
							 
						
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							   Nearly everyone in Massachusetts felt the pinch of the recession in 2009 — even Beacon Hill lobbyists had to tighten their belts.   
							
							 
						
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							 Karen Schmeer, the brilliant local film editor whose work on Errol Morris's documentary  The Fog of War  helped win it the Best Documentary Oscar in 2004, died January 29 in a tragic accident, struck by a getaway car as she was crossing a street in Manhattan. She would have turned 40 on February 20. 
							
							 
						
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							   Buoyed by President Barack Obama's campaign slogan, many had hopes for change after his election.   
							
							 
						
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							   Jenny Ulysee was inside her stepmother's hair salon in Mariani, Haiti, when the January 12 earthquake caused a nearby building to buckle and collapse onto the roof of her family's business.   
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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