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Articles from April, 2012
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park, we bring you "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," a Vocabulary List based on John Updike's canny account of the Park on the day of Ted Williams' last at-bat.
The essay first appeared in The New Yorker magazine on Oct. 22, 1960.
The good times were back on Wall Street, the news report said. Executives of an banking firm were staying at "some luxury digs in New Dehli." But, the report added, "This is not a pure junket, to be sure." The executives would also be conducting some business.
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