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November 9, 2008 - November 15, 2008 Archives

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Tanking colleges' confab; Mainiacs for wind; local papers; precision vs. immediacy

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

With college endowments tanking and tuitions and fees surging, I plug the New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE) Dec. 5 conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: "Higher Education in a Troubled Economy: How New England's Colleges......

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 Tags  Blethen   blogosphere;NEBHE   college endowments   Maine   Portland Press Herald   William Cohen   wind  

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J.C. Leyendecker

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

The people who run the National Museum of American Illustration, Judy and Laurence Cutler, have come out with a new book -- this one entitled J.C. Leyendecker, about that illustrator of lifestyle dreams in the first half of the......

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 Tags  J.C. Leyendecker   Judy Cutler   Laurence Cutler   Museum of American Illustration  

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Captives of cacophony; Worcester's rowdy students; Dr. Ted

1:10 PM Tue, Nov 11, 2008 | | Comments (2)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

This is the golden time of year when the last of the beautiful leaves drop from the beautiful trees -- and then everything is ruined as yard crews and languid homeowners get out their shrieking leaf blowers and create......

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 Tags  CVS   Edward Kennedy   greyhound racing   leaf blowers   slots   Worcester  

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Newspapers' one-day nirvana

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Courtesy Dartmouth Jackolantern When Obama was elected last Tuesday, daily newspapers sold out, as people rushed out to buy a keepsake. Printing out a Web page just doesn't do the trick when it comes to historic moments.......

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 Tags  newspapers  

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