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Mourners raise candles for bomb victims two days after multiple explosions at the Boston Marathon killed three and injured 176 in Cambridge, Massachusetts April 17, 2013. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)


Another Boston Massacre

Another Boston Massacre

I was visiting the Boston area, where I grew up, when two explosions went off on Monday at the world-renowned Boston Marathon, killing at least three people, including an eight-year-old boy, and injuring more than 170. The bombings untethered a wave of familiar...
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A runner tapes a sign combining a Boston Red Sox logo with a yellow ribbon on a corner street post where Massachusetts Street intersects another roadway Monday, April 15, 2013, in Seattle.(AP)


Boston’s Beloved Day, Dissolved in Chaos and Tears

Boston’s Beloved Day, Dissolved in Chaos and Tears

BOSTON, Associated Press—It dawned chilly, clear and blue, a parsimonious but perfect serving of New England springtime that—because it came on the third Monday in April—unquestionably called for a celebration. The kind of morning just right for an 11:05 a.m. first...