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Kennedy sets off a free-for-all; bad news for Loughlin and Dennigan ... For some time now, we at Casa Diablo have been aware of what is either a heinous conspiracy involving the timing of local news revelations or just another unfair law of nature ... For some time now, we at Casa Diablo have been aware of what is either a heinous conspiracy involving the timing of local news revelations or just another unfair law of nature. It goes like this: when a dramatic, "game-changing" (the phrase of the

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Update: Unclear if Warwick building had fire alarms

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 6:52 p.m.

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Journal photo/ Mary Murphy ... Hours after firefighters extinguished the flames, smoke was still rising from the ruins of an apartment building in the Trafalgar East apartment complex Wednesday morning ... WARWICK, R.I. -- A four-alarm fire gutted a building at the Trafalgar East apartment complex on Post Road in Warwick and sent residents out into the rain before dawn Wednesday morning ... About 50 residents -- many in their bed clothes, some holding pets -- were standing outside the building

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Amid the gloom, a one-man optimism offense

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 6:33 p.m.

Chins Up Dept ... Seven or eight years ago, with the state's economy aflutter and Providence in ascendance, Scott Wolf thought Rhode Island was finally starting to shed its inferiority complex ... Seven or eight years ago, with the state's economy aflutter and Providence in ascendance, Scott Wolf thought Rhode Island was finally starting to shed its inferiority complex ... But alas, he says, the Great Recession has the body politic engaged in the old ritual of self-flagellation: we are, once

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Looking for a new kind of mayor

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 6:23 p.m.

Recruitment ... Perhaps you've seen the ads ... Perhaps you've seen the ads: ... Wanted: Mayor. Start Date: January 1, 2011 ... must inspire intelligent and transparent decision-making across all arms of city government and deliver services that support the well being of all residents ... A local group calling itself "Uncaucus" has posted them on Craigslist pages all across the country. But no, enticing as it may seem, they aren't really looking to recruit a far-away hero to come rescue

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A Palestinian student remembers his Israeli friend

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 6:18 p.m.

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Crossing Lines ... Schaefer, the Brown University student recently killed by a suspected drunk driver on the streets of Providence, left behind hundreds of friends, including soldiers in the Israeli army, with whom he served for three years before coming to Brown ... ... BEYOND THE CONFLICT Jarbawi ... The morning he found out that Avi Schaefer was dead, Sami Jarbawi thought of all the things the two men had hoped to do together and now wouldn't — cook, run, maybe hike. Along the way, they

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A.T. Cross turns profit in difficult 2009

Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 6:11 p.m.

A.T. Cross Co. announced Wednesday that it made $1.9 million in net income, or 13 cents per share, in 2009, compared with $500,000 the year before ...

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David Byrne to give lecture about his global bike travels

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 6:07 p.m.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- David Byrne, author and former lead singer for the New York-based new wave band Talking Heads, will talk about how bicycling can transform cities as part of Mayor David N. Cicilline's second annual Senator Claiborne Pell Lecture on Arts and Humanities ... Byrne's latest book, "Bicycle Diaries," is an account of his bike travels through the streets of Istanbul, Buenos Aires, London, and other cities. He'll be joined by Samuel Zipp, a Brown University professor and Thomas

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Update: Providence officer pleads not guilty to assault

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 5:35 p.m.

By Michelle R. Smith ... Associated Press ... PROVIDENCE, R.I ... -- A Providence police officer caught on video beating a handcuffed man with a flashlight pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a felony assault charge ... Journal photo/ Kathy Borchers ... Providence Police Detective Robert DeCarlo, 45, right, is arraigned in Providence Superior Court before Judge William E. Carnes Wednesday morning ... Detective Robert DeCarlo, 45, also pleaded not guilty in Providence Superior Court to simple assault

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Cubism and collage

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 5:15 p.m.

M.F. Husain at Brown, Keith Waldrop at AS220 Project Space ... Maqbool Fida Husain has long been known as one of the grand old men of Indian art ... ... ABSTRACT SIMPLIFICATIONS Husain’s Chariot ... Maqbool Fida Husain has long been known as one of the grand old men of Indian art. The New York Times refers to the 94-year-old as "India's most famous painter" and one of the "great Indian modernists." In recent years, his notoriety has taken a cruel twist as Hindu nationalists, offended by

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The Manhattan project

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Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 5:14 p.m.

B. Dolan breaks north on Fallen House, Sunken City ... "Was I a coward to abandon the broken down mechanics that crowned Biggie Smalls as the king of Atlantis?" asks Providence-based wordsmith B. Dolan ... ... "Was I a coward to abandon the broken down mechanics that crowned Biggie Smalls as the king of Atlantis?" asks Providence-based wordsmith B. Dolan on "Leaving New York," the opening track from Fallen House, Sunken City (Strange Famous Records), where Bernard Dolan documents his time

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