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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Net neutrality isn’t just an issue for millennials and techies. The Federal Communications Commission’s December decision to change the rules governing access to the internet will affect us all. Your eyes glazing over? Our attitudes won’t be so…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The creepiest image from Donald Trump’s announcement that he was withdrawing from the Iran deal was new NSA chief John Bolton’s looming presence as the president exited the podium. It’s too soon to tell whether Bolton will get…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Getty Images It was June 1990, Severance Green at Wellesley College. Blue sky, warm sunshine, graduating seniors and their families waiting to hear from two commencement honorees, Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of Russian premier Mikhail Gorbachev, and Barbara…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Getty Images Renaming Yawkey Street next to Fenway Park as Jersey Street, its original name, should be a no-brainer. The reputation of the Boston Red Sox under the leadership of the late owner Tom Yawkey reinforced the sense…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. President Trump hints he wants the death penalty for drug traffickers. (He’s an unabashed admirer of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.) Is the President calling for the death penalty for doctors prescribing Oxycontin, Percocet, morphine, and other pain killers? After all,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston Herald photo Every time you renew your driver’s license in Massachusetts you have a chance to say whether you’d donate an organ upon your death. Waiting lists for cadaver transplants can be six to eight years, far…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Since the evacuation of the HMS Birkenhead in 1852, “women and children first” has been the code of conduct to protect the most helpless among us from impending disaster. Today we look to them not only to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Every day, as I either skirt around or clunk into and out of potholes, I’m reminded of our crumbling infrastructure and of the lame political promises of the Trump administration to fix our roads, bridges, airports, water and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The images will last forever, I am certain. The bustling narrow streets of the Old Quarter area of Hanoi, the water puppet show dating back to the 10th century, the 11th century Temple of Literature honoring scholars and men…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Ronald S. Haeberle//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) So many places drew us away from the breathtaking landscape, the mouth-watering cuisine, and inviting art galleries and toward the American experience in Vietnam. Toward places familiar from books and contemporaneous television…
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