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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An area of Boston, Massachusetts, bordering on Boston Harbor south of the main channel. Nicknamed Southie, it is home to a large Irish-American community.
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The 12 tweets sent by the account seem to go out of the way to name South Boston landmarks, mentioning Sully's burger and clam shack, morning walks on Castle Island, and Joseph's Bakery & Deli on K Street.
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The Obama administration today said it will spend $22 million to push forward the renovation of the Old Colony housing development in South Boston, which is already undergoing the first phase of a multi-million dollar makeover.
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Politicians, writers, and notorious criminals have called South Boston their current or former home.
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SO called, in that part of said city called South Boston, under section three of chapter two hundred and sixty of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty, and in respect to the grade and manner of crossing said street by its railroad tracks under any other right, if any it has, to such laws and regulations as the legislature may here - after from time to time deem necessary for the public safety and convenience, and any deed or deeds of the terminal lands of said railroad company there situate which are given by or in behalf of the Commonwealth to said company may so provide.
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Sidenote: I'm defining "South Boston" the same way the Boston City Council does, that is, all nine precincts in Ward 6 and precincts 1-7 in Ward 7.
Swing State Project jeffmd 2010
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In 2008, in the 16 precincts constituting "South Boston" (or Southie), Obama beat McCain by a margin of 3,100 votes, or roughly 59-39.
Swing State Project jeffmd 2010
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Only Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People is even about a woman, the salty, working-class Margie from South Boston, played with sharp dignity and empathy by Frances McDormand.
Jill Dolan: Tonys 2011: Where Are the Women? Jill Dolan 2011
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Only Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People is even about a woman, the salty, working-class Margie from South Boston, played with sharp dignity and empathy by Frances McDormand.
Jill Dolan: Tonys 2011: Where Are the Women? Jill Dolan 2011
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Only Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People is even about a woman, the salty, working-class Margie from South Boston, played with sharp dignity and empathy by Frances McDormand.
Jill Dolan: Tonys 2011: Where Are the Women? Jill Dolan 2011
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Lindsay-Abaire, who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Rabbit Hole," his absorbing study of a grieving family that became a movie with Nicole Kidman, is working in a more acerbically comic vein in "Good People," the story of McDormand's Margaret Walsh, a hard-luck single mom and lifelong denizen of heavily Irish working-class South Boston.
In New York, 'Good People' a sign of hope for this theater season 2011
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