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February 2009 Archives
9:43 AM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Lucia's O'Reilly's "Sodom and Gomorrah,'' acrylic on burned paper, with thread, fabric, book rings and rod. This is part of her show Hard Passages, at the Newport Art Museum, through March 22. XXX Dining out involves discretionary income, which......
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5:35 PM Wed, Feb 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. -- Robert Frost XXX It's difficult to put up any new-energy facility anywhere, it seems.......
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5:12 PM Tue, Feb 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Will President Obama need to declare a bank holiday to give federal regulators time to start to really clean up the banks? The condition of the big banks is so murky and their accounting so dubious, that the Feds......
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10:05 AM Mon, Feb 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." -- Mark Twain Read the terrific article "What's Wrong With Rhode Island,'' by John Maggs, in the Feb. 7 National Journal. XXX They move......
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3:13 PM Sun, Feb 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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This is by Terrence McCarthy, a former Hartford ad executive now living in North Carolina. I might have been conceived in the state of Vermont, but I couldn't, until today, conceive of going back there. My parents eloped to......
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9:34 PM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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"We have learned from history that enlightenment, liberation, and doom may go together. For every avenue liberation opens, two are closed. Within Mozart's cheerful daylight secularity there is always an otherworldly darkness. And the freedom he expresses is never......
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6:18 PM Thu, Feb 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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On Feb. 27 through Aug. 23, the RISD Museum of Art presents Yousuf Karsh: Portraits of Artists and Facing Artists: Twentieth Century Portraits from the Collection, two complementary exhibitions that, the museum says, highlight portraits of artists by the......
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4:41 PM Wed, Feb 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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-- Little Harbor, at Woods Hole, by Mrs. S.I. Snow, in 1921, back when the shoe manufacturers summered there, long before the arrival of the private-equity wizards. XXX It's amazing that the very people who spend their lives watching......
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8:51 AM Tue, Feb 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this......
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12:22 PM Sat, Feb 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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"The cemeteries are full of 'indispensable men.''' --- Charles DeGaulle And so the winner-take-all psychosis in American business grinds on for about the 30th year, including at "nonprofits.'' (Where the profits are taken out by the senior execs and......
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6:58 PM Fri, Feb 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photo by writer and photographer Charles Pinning, taken at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, as comment on the foreclosure crisis: Mr. Pinning's quote for this: "He that dies, pays all debts,'' by Stephano in Shakespeare's The Tempest.......
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12:12 PM Thu, Feb 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum may soon be closed because of the university's money woes (some caused by Bernard Madoff). But it's still open, with three fine shows that began Jan. 15. Folks might want to see the museum's......
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6:49 PM Wed, Feb 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Debt-for-Diploma System Student-loan debt saddles college grads long after they earn degrees Tamara Draut is vice president of policy and programs at Demos, a national pubic-policy and research organization based in New York City. She is the author of......
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6:00 PM Wed, Feb 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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The fastest way to get the economy going again, and of course reduce suffering: Boost Food Stamps, Medicaid and unemployment insurance. XXX While adjunct instructors get paid only several thousand dollars a course, 150 University of Massachusetts employees raked......
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10:15 PM Tue, Feb 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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For some reason, Timothy Geithner reminded me of this picture by English artist Aubrey Beardsley, an outre star of the decadent 1890s. Perhaps the stock markets tanked after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's Tuesday discussion of the financial bailout redux......
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7:00 PM Tue, Feb 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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The poll numbers of Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, who got very attractive mortgages from the top echelon of Countrywide, the dubious mortgage company that helped bring on the panic and recession that have been roiling America, have been falling.......
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5:36 PM Tue, Feb 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Tavern Scene -- By William Hogarth, the 18th Century English artist who was one of the finest illustrators of drunkenness and other temporarily pleasant pastimes. The column below is by David Warsh, an economic historian, former writer for The......
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6:42 PM Mon, Feb 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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We'll see more public outrage about the arrogant types who run some of America's financial institutions. Let's hope things don't get violent. Members of a non-profit housing advocacy group, Neighborhood Assistance Corp., demonstrated Saturday at the Greenwich, Conn., home......
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4:18 PM Fri, Feb 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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I'd guess that most people think that Vermont has long allowed "gay marriages.'' In fact, though it was the first state to permit civil unions between people of the same sex, it hasn't yet gotten around to allowing out-and-out......
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3:58 PM Thu, Feb 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg is a perfectly respectable choice for commerce secretary -- stolid, careful, pro-business -- sort of a throwback to the Eisenhower administration. Or, Calvin Coolidge, whom he resembles in some angular way. He is also......
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6:35 PM Wed, Feb 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell's proposed 2010-11 budget would eliminate 23 commissions. That's the way to do it -- cutting expenses permanently by ending the organizations that create them.......
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8:58 AM Wed, Feb 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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President Obama should have chosen the first time around the man who would be far and away the best choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services -- physician and former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber -- instead......
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4:51 PM Tue, Feb 03, 2009 | Permalink |
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New England may not be a big enough market these days to support all its colleges. Thus the Franklin Pierce Law Center exploring a potential merger with the University of New Hampshire is a reasonable idea. Franklin Pierce is......
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6:47 PM Mon, Feb 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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Providence Place Mall kiosk. Purveyors of dreams, relying on iconography as old as the catacombs of Rome. Death's heads with bejeweled crown and seraphim's wings. A griffon from the Middle Ages--or a video game. Lions, tigers, and bullets. Next......
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