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Economy deflates
hopes for casinos

The buzz whipped up just months ago by the prospect of casino gambling in Massachusetts has dissipated, silenced by a sharp decline in the national casino industry that has eroded the promise of thousands of new jobs and fresh riches for state coffers. (By Matt Viser, Globe Staff)

Bush defends war in trip to Iraq

President Bush, on the first leg of a surprise farewell visit to two war zones, yesterday defended his handling of the war in Iraq but warned that it was "not over" yet, nearly six years after he launched the invasion that toppled a brutal dictator but left Iraq, and the president's legacy, struggling to recover. (By Tina Susman and Caesar Ahmed, Los Angeles Times)
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A parking deal for the chosen ones

For more than a generation, it has been perhaps Boston's most covert bargain, a city-owned parking lot in the North End where the lucky, the affluent, and the politically connected had assigned parking for just $55 a month - a rate that went unchanged for 26 years. (By Kate Augusto and Matt Collette, Globe Correspondents)

Harvard pursues an unfamiliar discipline

It's as if an heiress had lost her trust fund. At Harvard University, the talk of billion-dollar losses in its massive endowment has blown in a new age of austerity across the campus. (By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff)

Antidepressants may damage more sex lives

Sexual "numbness." Lack of libido. Arousal that stalls. Such sexual symptoms have long been known side effects of the popular Prozac class of antidepressants, but a growing body of research suggests that they are far more common than previously thought, perhaps affecting half or more of patients. (By Carey Goldberg, Globe Staff)

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