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20-20 hindsight on Boston 2024
THE RIVER SEINE is at the center of the Paris Olympics, and to showcase its new cleanliness, the city’s mayor recently plunged into the waterway. To Massachusetts political geeks of a certain vintage, Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s soaking may have reminded them of …