Her group would meet each Sunday at the church of Santa Rita in Miramar, Havana's grandest district, say the rosary, hear mass, and then walk ten blocks in silence along Quinta Avenida on the green verges under the palm trees.

ECONOMIST: Laura Poll��n

On Boylston Street, three blocks from the site of the marathon explosions on Monday, several dozen people gathered almost in complete silence.

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