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Bilious boating; Bay State Banner bailout: Violent Fairfield

4:43 PM Fri, Jul 17, 2009 | | Comments (2)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

inline;"> ''Tokyo Canal, Houseboat,'' by Mario Cooper (watercolor). At the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, 84 Lyme St., Lyme, Conn; (www.lymeacademy.edu); (860) 434-5232. This picture is part of an exhibition of Mario Cooper's and Dale Meyers's works that runs through......

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 Tags  Landon Storrs   Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts   Mario Cooper  

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Global payments; Climbing at Carnegie Abbey; Anti-turbine tribes

6:01 PM Thu, Jul 16, 2009 | | Comments (2)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Massachusetts is considering a "global" payment system to replace the existing fee-for-service system that reimburses health-care providers for the costs of individual medical procedures. Bravo! About time that a state took a cold, hard look at the current fee......

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 Tags  Cape Wind   Carnegie Abbey   Global payment system   Mashpee Wampanoag; Aquinnah  

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Goldman Sachs: Our boss; N.H. paper no more

kent.jpg 6:31 PM Mon, Jul 13, 2009 | | Comments (2)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"Wreck of the D.T. Sheridan'' (circa 1949), by Rockwell Kent, oil on canvas, at the Portland Museum of Art. This painting reminded me of the cold stones that comprise most of Maine's ''beaches,'' and of Kent's brilliant (black and......

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 Tags  Claremont Eagle Times   Matt Taibbi. Rockwell Kent  

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The trouble with Republicans

9:28 AM Sun, Jul 12, 2009 | | Comments (3)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

From Jeremy McCarter's June 29 Newsweek piece, ''Reagan Was Wrong: To conservative Cassandra Henry Fairlie, Republicans sowed their present-day destruction from the start.'' {British journalist Henry} Fairlie's critique of American conservatism began with a GOP heresy: that by embracing......

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 Tags  Henry Fairlie; Jeremy McCarter  

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