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October 2008 Archives
5:01 PM Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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The College Board says that the average total cost of tuition and fees at four-year public universities rose $394, or 6.4 percent, to $6,585 for in-state students this year. At private colleges, which rule the roost in New England, prices......
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5:50 PM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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That great New England institution The Christian Science Monitor, owned by the Church of Christ, Scientist, is becoming the first national newspaper to drop its daily print edition and focus on publishing online. Thus the Boston-based paper (see the Mother......
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3:20 PM Wed, Oct 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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Officials plan to have many trees infested with evil Asian longhorned beetles in the Worcester area cut down before they (the insects, not the officials) spread to imperil all our region's beautiful maples. Something good, besides stopping these little hungry......
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5:16 PM Tue, Oct 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Perhaps every little town should have this sort of place as a community center in these anomie-ridden times. The St. Johnsbury, Vt., select board has approved a plan to bring exotic dancers to a downtown sports bar, Front Row Sports......
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6:06 PM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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We'll be a hearing a lot more of this excuse: The AP reports that a Colorado man named James Comstock has pleaded guilty to trying to haul 170 pounds of marijuana to make a sale near a bar near Yale......
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8:40 AM Fri, Oct 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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The American Ruling Class, a movie made during 2005, during the last Wall Street boom, is the story of two young men, one desirous of immediately making a mint on Wall Street, the other drawn to Art (for a while).......
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6:45 PM Thu, Oct 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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How silly. A bunch of people calling themselves Defenders of Vermont launched a petition drive to force the Burlington, Vt., municipal cable-TV system to cease running English-language broadcasts of Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based news network. The group, which called Al-Jazeera anti-American......
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7:30 PM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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All hail the creators of "slydial,'' yet another service that makes it easier to avoid having to talk to an angry or at least loquacious person. Caller ID and voice mail have already made it possible to at least delay......
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11:45 AM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | Permalink |
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Things can't be all that bad! A bunch of officials from Wachovia, the, er, "troubled'' big bank that will be taken over by Wells Fargo, probably with some money from you and me -- the ingenuous taxpayers -- left......
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8:45 AM Thu, Oct 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Everything becomes quaint, or at least commercial, with the passage of time, even such horrors as murder. Thus we have the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast, in Fall River, having duked it out in court with The True Story of......
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8:31 AM Thu, Oct 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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There is a delightful chapter ("You're Tied up at Home'') in Harper's Magazine publisher John R. MacArthur's new book, You Can't Be President, about the effort of a bunch of citizens in Portsmouth, R.I., to stop Target from building an......
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4:41 PM Mon, Oct 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Many Massachusetts citizens will be tempted to vote next month to repeal the state's income tax -- a move that would wipe out 40 percent of state revenues. It may sound devil may care but it's on the ballot!......
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5:14 PM Fri, Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Commuters on track Massachusetts is buying a train line from CSX transportation to expand rail commuter service between Boston and Worcester and, let us pray, to ease the way for commuter service between Boston, Fall River and New Bedford.......
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