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Healthy obsession: Harry Smith, senior softball

Jun. 22, 2009
Harry Smith, 62, of Belmont plays softball from winter through summer and into the fall. Then he takes a softball vacation. Why: I have all this equipment I might as well use it. I went to Cuba last November and played against some local guys from Havana. The...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch