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Long, tapered fingers -- with nails impeccably lacquered and polished like fine porcelain -- caress the air lightly as Lily Dumont talks.
Make no mistake, these are the hands of an artist.
As graceful in providing punctuation for her precise sentences as they are in serving the tea which has been placed between us on an ornate antique cart.
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DARTMOUTH -- In the aftermath of a student drinking party that had police calling for backup from six different communities, selectmen are calling for a meeting with university officials.
Officer Kenneth Vincent, who is also a Dartmouth selectmen, said the school and students need to understand that parties of this size are not welcome in town.
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- Gunmen fired on a convoy of Serbs returning to their homes in the American sector of Kosovo, killing one and wounding others, NATO said yesterday.
Elsewhere, two Montenegrin women -- aged 50 and 70 years -- were found dead Monday in their home in the western city of Pec, the NATO command said without releasing further details.
By Irwan Firdaus, Associated Press writer
DILI, Indonesia -- Indonesian soldiers looted the abandoned U.N. mission in East Timor yesterday, just hours after 110 U.N. personnel and 1,300 East Timorese were evacuated and flown to safety to end a 10-day siege.
Office equipment and computers were carted away and vehicles were trashed by the soldiers -- "the very people we asked to secure the compound when U.N. staff moved to the Australian consulate," U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said in New York.
By The Associated Press
BOSTON -- Elected officials, religious leaders and gun control activists gathered on the Statehouse steps yesterday to demand that lawmakers in Washington pass tougher gun laws.
The American Jewish Congress sponsored events around the country. The organization hopes to collect a million petition signatures demanding action.
BOSTON -- Five years after a Boston Globe columnist died from a chemotherapy overdose at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 13 nurses have been formally reprimanded by the state, even though they were delivering a dosage prescribed by a doctor. Nurses around the country are furious.
"It's not right and it's not fair and it's not just to scapegoat these individual nurses," said Margaret O'Malley, a registered nurse from Gloucester.
WASHINGTON -- Chris Weddle, a college student with just one credit card, had received numerous calls from telemarketers offering plans that would supposedly protect him from being held liable for charges he did not make.
He resisted time and again, saying he did not need additional safeguards beyond those guaranteed by federal law.
WASHINGTON -- America's trade deficit soared to another record high, but the overall economy remained unfazed as consumers went on a buying binge in August.
The Commerce Department reported yesterday that retail sales jumped 1.2 percent last month, the biggest increase in six months, as consumers snapped up new cars, furniture and clothing at a rapid clip.
By Samantha Critchell, Associated Press writer
Being cuddled and nuzzled by supermodel Christy Turlington isn't a bad way to spend an evening. But for Pepe the Chihuahua, it was all in a night's work.
Turlington and Pepe were co-hosts of Animal Mukti, a fund-raiser for the Humane Society of New York held at the Jivamukti Yoga Center. The event combined "animal-friendly" food and fashion with the lessons of freedom and nonviolence taught in yoga.
NEW BEDFORD -- New Bedford's Jason Pires will try to shake off the rust from six months of ring inactivity when he moves up a level to take on Arthur Johnson in a televised co-featured 10-rounder Oct. 1 in Salem, N.H.
Despite having only 22 fights, Johnson is a seasoned veteran with an 18-4 record and 11 knockouts. Three of those losses were to world champions, including IBF junior bantamweight champion Mark Johnson and recently dethroned WBA bantamweight champion Johnny Tapia.
Jonathan Comey
Thoughts while recovering from Week 1 of the NFL season ...
I find myself wishing that the baseball season ran from, say, Feb. 1 to Aug. 30.
Sure, there would be an awful lot of "snow-outs," and teams would have to move their spring training camps to Belize or Costa Rica. But at least the season would be over come NFL time.
All year long, I've been enjoying the Red Sox (and baseball in general), but from the first kick of the regular season, football took total ownership of my attention.
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By Derek Vital, Standard-Times correspondent
NEW BEDFORD -- Score round one for the Police.
The New Bedford Police of the SEYAA defeated Poirier Post from Greater New Bedford Little League 2-1 in the first game of a best-of-three city championship series at Clegg Field last night.
The Police earned the win by breaking open broke a 1-0 tie in the fifth, when Jason Madeira led off with a single to right. Andrew Saunders' fielder's choice erased Madeira and, after a Rafael Soto popout, Jose Raposo drew a walk.
There are certain things that a community would rather forget, and often enough they have to do with animals, pets in particular. When the New Bedford Housing Authority tries to evict a woman who relies on her little dog to hear things for her -- the doorbell, for example -- the story makes the news. When the town of Swansea throws the dog officer overboard because he billed the town for euthanizing and landfilling hundreds of dogs that he couldn't account for later (among many other misdeeds), the story makes the national news and the town is mortified.
TIVERTON, R.I. "There she is, our ideal ..." WHOSE ideal, exactly, is the Miss America song lyric describing? There are still too many Americans whose perfect "Miss" is a statuesque young thing who twirls the baton like nobody's business and who wants to keep the world safe for democracy between manicures. There are, however, increasing numbers of women and men in this country who, thankfully, have understood that our young women need role models of substance so that girls will worry more about excelling in ethics or pre-med and less about how they look in a bathing suit.
Joanna McQuillan Weeks
If your children think that fruits and vegetables come from the supermarket, you can bring them one step closer to the genuine source by participating in Family Fun Day at the New Bedford Farmers' Market Saturday.
The market, which runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays on the Ashley Boulevard side of Brooklawn Park, will be bustling with special activities, according to Chris Wychorski. She is director of market operations for the Federation of Massachusetts Farmers' Markets.
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NEW YORK -- Risotto, the tasty Italian specialty increasingly found on restaurant menus, Italian or otherwise, inspires ardent devotion in its addicts.
Can rice really incite passion? Apparently, yes.
"Risotto requires passion, precisely because it is not a dish that comes out in five or 10 minutes," says Luca Marcato, chef-owner of Luca, a Manhattan restaurant.
The new Saturns have arrived, and for the first time mid-size sedans and wagons are among them.
When Saturns first came to market in 1990, the company planned to keep them small, according to Jill Lajdziak, vice president of sales, service and marketing. Saturn owners, she said, "came back to us and said they wanted to stay with our brand ... but they told us, 'You don't have something for me to grow into."'
Every time I pull into the parking lot outside my apartment, a battle begins anew.
It's nasty. A veritable fight to the death.
And unlike an out-and-out modern, physical war, this fight is inches away, right in my face.
ATLANTA -- Your vehicle's cooling system is a working example of the rule of physics stating that heat will always move toward a cooler area or object.
The coolant absorbs the intense heat created by the engine. The water pump's job is to circulate the coolant, up to 7,500 gallons an hour, throughout the cooling system. It moves the hot coolant from the passages in the engine out to the radiator, where the liquid gives up its heat to the air flowing through it. The "cooled" coolant is returned to the engine, and the whole cycle starts over.
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