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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Summer reading 2015 would not be complete without Go Set a Watchman, the book that Harper Lee reportedly wrote before she published To Kill a Mockingbird. It is told from the perspective of Atticus Finch’s daughter Scout (now…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A late Labor Day and temporary physical disability have extended my usual orgy of summer reading, with both non-fiction and fiction offerings to share with you. Because time is running out, I’ll keep the list short. In the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Most weekend mornings, a small group of men gathers at the front table of Peet’s coffee in Newton Center to gab about breaking news, politics and whatever else catches their fancy. It’s hard to imagine the gathering without one…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. In 1990, my husband and I visited Prague, including the old Jewish section – the synagogue, the cemetery, and the tiny adjacent museum displaying drawings done by Prague children during their imprisonment in Terezin, the Nazi concentration…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Walter Palmer’s pleasure in life is apparently hunting and killing large animals, legally or illegally. In the last few days, millions of people around the world have come to know that the American “sportsman” has slain Zimbabwe national treasure Cecil,…
Read More »photo Boston Globe The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who has long seemed in thrall to the Boston 2024 Olympic bid, said at a press conference this morning that he refuses “to mortgage the future of the city away.”…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A serious debate over the bid to bring the 2024 Olympics to Boston was a good idea. What took place Thursday night wasn’t. Promising a no-rules, informal format, the two moderators (the Boston Globe’s Sasha Pfeiffer and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Former Massachusetts House Speaker Sal DiMasi used his office to enrich himself to the tune of $65,000, securing a state contract for Cognos, which paid him on a monthly basis for his efforts. The third House Speaker…
Read More »photo Washington Post The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When John F. Kennedy was asked how he became a hero in World War II, he said, “It was involuntary. They sank my boat.” But it wasn’t the Japanese sinking of PT 109 that made JFK a…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Jeb Bush put his foot in it last week when explaining his aspirations for improving the economy. His assertion that “people need to work longer hours” continues to prompt outrage. Even looking at it in context doesn’t help…
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