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							  The end times do indeed commence on December 21, 2012.  On that date, this fragile blue orb of ours will suddenly cease to be a very fun place to live.
							  Jazz as the language of love is the theme of this hitmaker's 12th album, an achingly pretty tribute to the spirit, pace, and sound of the bossa nova.
							  Although he's an MIT astrophysicist, John doesn't use science to go at the mystery so much as pints of whiskey and lunatic calls to the FBI.
							  Real-life quantum leaper Richard Goodwin was sort of a 1960s political Zelig — everywhere you looked, there he was.
							  Like Steven Soderbergh in his  Oceans  series, Tony Gilroy seems to have decided to take a break from making serious movies like 2007's Oscar-nominated  Michael Clayton .
 
				
					
					
							
							  To state the obvious, this isn't a great time to be out of a job.
							  I haven't eaten much Dominican food since the South End's excellent Miami Café closed. But Alex's Chimis, a humble, 12-seat counter-service storefront, has rekindled my fire for the cuisine.
							  The  Phoenix  is predictably cheap with expenses for "On the Cheap," which makes it challenging to review restaurants with broad menus without dipping into my own wallet.
							  Pink Rides Providence   , a bike-sharing program born out of two RISD juniors' desire to share the joys of cycling with their fellow students, is scaling up.
							  If the  Phoenix  were grading the recent performance of Governor Deval Patrick, we'd give him somewhere between a B and a B- for pure policy, but between a C- and D+ for political skill.
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