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							   It's no secret that daily-newspaper journalism is in huge trouble.   
							
							 
						
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							   As with Best Picture, the themes of death, aging, and difficult love dominate the two Shorts Oscar categories this year.   
							
							 
						
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							   Teens with special powers? A government conspiracy?   
							
							 
						
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							  The Czech choreographer/Nederlands Dans Theater director made an evening out of five pieces —  No More Play, Petite Mort, Sarabande, Falling Angels, and Sechs Tänze  — he'd created between 1986 and 1991.   
							
							 
						
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							  In lieu of action, character development, or plot,  The International  offers architecture.  
							
							 
						
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							 The Massachusetts-bred street artist Shepard Fairey returned to his home-turf this month to "bomb" the Phoenix offices, conduct interviews, and unveil his latest work at the ICA. 
							
							 
						
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							   Recent elections, as you may have heard, have been about change.   
							
							 
						
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							  Joss Whedon continues to fight the darkness  
							
							 
						
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							 Pierre Morel's talents as an action cinematographer served him well when he directed  District B13.  
							
							 
						
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							  I travel to Manhattan a lot, and since 9/11 have found Amtrak's Acela service out of Back Bay Station a far more pleasant and hassle-free way to get there than flying.  
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							  Lifespan CEO George Vecchione's compensation is tops in the region  
							
							 
						
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							   It's no secret that daily-newspaper journalism is in huge trouble.   
							
							 
						
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							   Whatever your race — and whatever you think of his résumé, or his politics, or his yen for tax-cheating cabinet nominees — Barack Obama's arrival in the Oval Office is something to celebrate.   
							
							 
						
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							  If you find yourself groaning through the first five minutes of Jeremiah Zagar's Academy Award-shortlisted feature documentary about his artist father Isaiah, you might just be its target audience.  
							
							 
						
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							  The Portland Symphony is in trouble. The unresolved dominant-seventh chord — a $2 million loss over the past eight years, and a possible shortfall of $220,000 this year alone — would be a setback for any company. But for the symphony, this is more than that.  
							
							 
						
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							  A few months back, one of my best friends from high school slept with the guy to whom, years earlier, she had lost her virginity.  
							
							 
						
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							  A list of hospital CEOs' compensation  
							
							 
						
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							   Shepard Fairey and his show "Supply and Demand" arrive at the Institute of Contemporary Art like a guerrilla general emerging from the jungle after his forces have taken the capital.   
							
							 
						
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							  R. Crumb's Underground at MassArt  
							
							 
						
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							 Man, has this been an interesting few weeks in sports crime, featuring some of the weirder cases you'll  ever  hear about. 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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