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							  U2, live at Gillette Stadium, September 20, 2009  
							
							 
						
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							   Given all the conflicting emotions, it was tough to form an opinion on Kanye West's VMA bum rush against Taylor Swift.   
							
							 
						
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							   Defiance and punk used to go hand in hand, like peanut butter and jelly, or S&M leather wear and pogoing.   
							
							 
						
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							 Silverglate's thesis is as provocative as it is simple: justice has become sufficiently perverted in this nation that federal prosecutors, if they put their minds to it, could find a way to indict almost any one of us for almost anything. It is a truly radical notion. 
							
							 
						
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							 Is Boston in the midst of a ballet boom? You could certainly believe that if you attended Boston Ballet’s fourth annual season-opening gala last Saturday. 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							 Silverglate's thesis is as provocative as it is simple: justice has become sufficiently perverted in this nation that federal prosecutors, if they put their minds to it, could find a way to indict almost any one of us for almost anything. It is a truly radical notion. 
							
							 
						
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							  C-dust pinch-hits for fairy dust in  The Donkey Show , Diane Paulus & Randy Weiner's disco-set riff on  A Midsummer Night's Dream . Forget the juice of "a little western flower" with which fairy king Oberon and hench-sprite Puck mix up the libidos of the hormone-drenched characters charging through Shakespeare's Athenian wood.  
							
							 
						
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							   Boston is thoroughly dominating NBC's fall line-up.   
							
							 
						
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							   At the 2003 Venice Biennale, Damián Ortega presented what has become his signature sculpture,  Cosmic Thing . He dissected a 1989 Volkswagen Beetle and suspended the individual parts in mid air so that they resemble a 3-D assembly diagram.   
							
							 
						
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							 The results are “normal.” I breathe a sigh of relief. But should I be relieved? It’s been two years since I heard a registered nurse tell me “You have HPV,” and I am still getting scraped from the inside out, still making appointments to see doctors, and still terrified that I’ll get cancer. 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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