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by Paul Bass | November 28, 2006 4:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Where do you buy French and Belgian table linens? Downtown New Haven, as of Tuesday, official opening day for Metaphore, a store selling “elegant” European merchandise, at 46 High St. … Westville poet Shulamith Chernoff reads from her new collection, The Stones Bear Witness, at Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, Thursday at 6 p.m. Click the play arrow above to watch a sample… Do you, like Mary Tyler Moore, turn the world on when you smile? Then you may qualify as one of those “downtown ambassadors.” The Town Green Special Services District is now directly running the ambassador program; wages have gone up and new positions are open. Click here for details… The city’s only “organic day spa” has opened, in Westville. Click here to read a release about it… Teacher, doctor, business owner: Each in her or his own way has felt the pressure of Connecticut’s health care crisis — and has an investment in seeing the state legislature pass true universal health care this coming session. Click here, here, and hear to hear their stories from a new campaign by the Universal Health Care Foundation…

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