Archive for June, 2012

Abigail vladeck, john melcher






Abigail Sarah Vladeck and John Robert Melcher are to be married Sunday at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, a building in Boston that houses a youth arts organization. Rachel G. Bratt, who received permission from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is to officiate. The couple met at Tufts University, from which each received a master’s degree, the bride in urban and environmental policy and planning, and the bridegroom in civil and environmental engineering. They were students of Ms. Bratt, a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning.


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A victory over pain

To the Sports Editor: Re ”My Left Arm,” May 27: Bravo for Bob Ojeda’s description of his pitching career despite lifelong arm pain, and for reminding us what modern professional sports has lost: the heroic effort to play despite career-threatening pain.

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A steel town’s chronicler and conscience

CORRECTION APPENDED HAVING grown up in the steel-mill town of Braddock, Pa., during the Berlin Wall crisis, the Suez crisis and the Cuban missile crisis, the filmmaker-to-be Tony Buba was suffering from ”existential fatalism” by the end of high school. ”I thought I’d be dead by 21,” Mr. Buba recalled. He joined the National Guard. He got a job in a mill. ”Then, suddenly, I’m 24, working on an assembly line and thinking, ‘Jeez, I’m not dead yet.’ ” So he took money he had saved to buy a Corvette and went to college. From there an outsider film career was born, one that ignored Hollywood and instead concentrated on his blue-collar hometown, and a body of work that will be celebrated beginning Friday at Anthology Film Archives in New York with Tony Buba: The Bard of Braddock. The series will showcase documentary features, shorts and one bona fide fiction film.

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4 are acquitted by pakistan in times square bomb plot

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court on Saturday acquitted four men accused of assisting Faisal Shahzad, the Taliban-trained militant who tried to explode a car bomb in Times Square two years ago, a lawyer and several relatives said. Malik Imran Safdar, a lawyer for one of the men, said prosecutors had failed to prove their case against the defendants during a 20-month trial that was conducted partly inside a jail.

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36 hours: oxford, england

OXFORD is not a college town — it is the college town. Its namesake university’s 38 colleges are so steeped in scholarly history they make Harvard and Yale seem like baby-faced freshmen. To wit: Oxford’s New College was last considered ”new” in the 14th century. (Even the obsolete term ”New World” is newer.) Students here get into the act, many dressing in tweed coats, sometimes even with elbow patches, and ordering pints of cask ale at pubs that have been in business for nearly four-fifths of a millennium. But Oxford has a modern side, too: night spots blare house and electronic music; restaurants serve modern takes on local food and exotic ethnic cuisine; and comfortable boutique hotels and bed-and- breakfasts beat medieval lodging houses for comfort any day. (Just don’t ask for a place to hitch your horse.) Friday

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30 seconds with michael king: drawing top athletes into the fight game

Michael King, 64, knows something about heavyweights – television heavyweights. He spent most of his career in charge of King World Productions, which distributed ”Wheel of Fortune,” ”Jeopardy!” and ”The Oprah Winfrey Show.” King, a longtime boxing fan, long dabbled in sports. He once owned part of the Yankees, the Devils and the Nets. In recent years, he moved full time into boxing, in search of the next American heavyweight champion.

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What kind of victory?

To the Editor: Re ”The Hunch, the Pounce and the Kill” (May 27), which told of how a hedge fund manager and others outmaneuvered JPMorgan Chase in credit derivatives trading and emerged as winners as the bank lost billions.

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Weather threatens to accelerate wildfire in new mexico

Since early May, it has scorched more land than there is in New York City’s five boroughs, sending billows of smoke from the canyons of southwestern New Mexico across the border to Arizona. On Saturday, officials said the wildfire in the Gila National Forest was 17 percent contained but warned that expected thunderstorms could exacerbate it with lightning and strong winds.

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Wall street and the average reader

UNTIL May 18, the Facebook story seemed to ride an ever-higher wave of media attention. The number of mentions of Facebook in The New York Times over the previous 12 months had risen to heights never seen by other technology companies (with the exception of Twitter). In the weeks leading up to the initial public offering of Facebook stock on May 18, The Times repeatedly spoke of a ”frenzy” around the company and strong demand for its stock, at one point even linking the company’s young founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, to ”a line of revolutionaries stretching back to Gutenberg.”

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Voisin, auto innovator, gets a show of his own

INSPIRED by the selection of a 1934 Voisin as Best of Show at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance last year, a major exhibition is being assembled to honor the largely forgotten man behind the machine, Gabriel Voisin, a French automaker and aviation pioneer. The exhibition, set for November at the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif., is the idea of Peter Mullin, the owner of the museum as well as the award-winning C-27 Aerodyne and 16 others.

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