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    <title>Bettnet.com &#45; Musings of Domenico Bettinelli</title>
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    dc:title="Old Ironsides won&#39;t be silenced"
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    dc:subject="Travelogues,Massachusetts,Boston"
    dc:description="&amp;lt;div style=&quot;text&#45;align:center;&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://www.bettnet.com/blog/images/uploads/ironsides.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;ironsides.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;536&quot; height=&quot;179&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Charlestown is a neighborhood of Boston, just north of the city across the Mystic River, which was once known as a tough place (whenever a bank robbery or armored car heist appeared in the news, it seemed inevitably to involve a &#8220;Townie&#8221;), but in recent years has been gentrifying, especially along the waterfront. Many of&#8230;"
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    dc:title="Bullying law includes &quot;hate speech&quot; provision"
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    dc:title="Buying back gov&#39;t hack vacation time: $50M"
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    dc:description="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;My colleague George Martell, an award&#45;winning photojournalist, is in Haiti over the next few days with Cardinal Seån O&#39;Malley, six weeks after the massive earthquake that left an estimated 300,000 people dead. Cardinal O&#39;Malley was to arrive in Haiti on Monday to see firsthand the recovery efforts and to bring the love and concern of the people of Boston to their brothers and sisters in need. The Cardinal is a member of a recently formed Haiti Advisory Group that will assist the US Church in&#8230;"
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    dc:description="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;I saw a link on Twitter to a post on Digg.com entitled &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/odd_stuff/What_Happens_After_I_Die_2&quot;&amp;gt;What Happens After I Die?&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;. Being a curious Catholic sort, I clicked on the link, which took me to another site, a completely black web page that scrolled down &#8220;infinitely&#8221;.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;My first reaction: &#8220;Har, har. Oh, what wit. How clever you are. When we die we are annihilated. That&#8217;s hysterical We sure showed those religious types.&#8221;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;But then&#8230;"
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