Students from the St. Mark’s School Music Program show off their talents during a recent visit from University of Massachusetts-Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley. (Harry Brett photo) More in Scenes
 Paris called and Cambridge answered
Daniela Caride
When a family friend told Stephanie Guirand last summer he wouldn’t be able to cosign her college loan, the young Cambridge resident began to despair. Full story
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Obama: ‘Time to turn the page and stand for change’
Nedra Pickler
DES MOINES, Iowa — Barack Obama declared last Thursday that he is the only candidate who can bring true change in Washington, hoping to persuade Iowa voters to give him the first victory in the Democratic presidential race.
Making his case against Hillary Rodham Clinton without naming her, Obama said, “The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result.”
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 African head wraps to uplift the spirit
Daniela Caride
Surrounded by mystery books at the Egleston Square Branch Library in Roxbury, fashion designer Imani McFarlane stimulates her audience’s imagination.
She folds, twists and drapes green patterned fabric around Benahla Earth’s head. In less than a minute, the simple piece of rectangular cloth becomes an African head wrap built around the model’s contained locks. Full story
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