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							 Crap-ass Valentines 
							
							 
						
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							  Lifespan CEO George Vecchione's compensation is tops in the region  
							
							 
						
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							   Recent elections, as you may have heard, have been about change.   
							
							 
						
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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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							   It's no secret that daily-newspaper journalism is in huge trouble.   
							
							 
						
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							   Jason Voorhees's bloody hands have developed green thumbs.   
							
							 
						
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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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							  In April 1999, two weeks after I started on the job at the  Providence Phoenix , the FBI raided City Hall, formally unveiling the federal investigation that would land Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci Jr., Rhode Island's rascal king, behind bars.  
							
							 
						
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							   You know what I haven't done in a while, for plenty of very good reasons? Listened to the whole cotton-pickin'  Billboard  Hot Country chart! Yee-haw!   
							
							 
						
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							  Boston's Irepress weren't supposed to be an instrumental band. What they've evolved into just happens to be too stylishly sinuous to lend itself to lots of words.  
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							  Lifespan CEO George Vecchione's compensation is tops in the region  
							
							 
						
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							   Recent elections, as you may have heard, have been about change.   
							
							 
						
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							  Incredible, but true: until this past Friday, America was on a fast track to outlaw grandmothers selling children's sweaters for charity.  
							
							 
						
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							  Imagine if you scouted Boston's pre-eminent hip-hop artists — from the grimiest coke-slinging corner cats to the roughest coke-sniffing bar rats — and teamed them up with virtually every underground MC who's made noise in the past three years.  
							
							 
						
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							  A list of hospital CEOs' compensation  
							
							 
						
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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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							  It's what's on the outside that counts.  
							
							 
						
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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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							  Their name sort of gives them away.  
							
							 
						
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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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