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BOSTON:Like Dublin, Boston punches above its weight in culture, arts, entertainment, sport, politics, food and fun. Not a night passes without some event worth going to, writes JOAN SCALES

WHEN Senator John Kerry, the former US presidential hopeful, looks out of his window each day and sees tourists staring at his house, can he guess what they are saying? It goes along the lines of: “Is that what you get for $14 million? Is that his car? Where’s the Secret Service? His house is right on the street? Does his wife live there, too? Who cleans all those windows?”