Winter Hill is in the White House

11/5/2008 9:15:00 AM

On top from left Jason Marges, Claire Redfield and, below, Evan Wexel were three of hundreds of Tufts students who marched from campus to Davis Square Tuesday night singing "America The Beautiful." Photo by George P. Hassett Boy,there were a lot of people voting on Tuesday. Winter Hill is in the White House George P. Hassett Winter Hill, after decades of infamy as a capital of gangsterism, took the White House Tuesday. Barack Obama, who lived in a basement apartment at 365 Broadway from 1987 to 1990, became the first black president as Democrats reversed decades of Republican power in a nationwide political shift. However thin it may be, Obama - who was raised in states across the country and whose worldview was shaped in New York City and Chicago - still brings a piece of Winter Hill with him into history.

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