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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo PBS Viewed in isolation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress last week was masterful. It projected superficial respect for President Obama (if you overlook his trashing the negotiation process to date and speaking to Congress…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Republicans may be in a snit about President Obama’s initiative on Cuba, but polls show that 55-60 percent of Americans favor his efforts to create a new beginning in our relationship. And that makes sense. But normalization…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. As I process my brief experience in Cuba, I am left with many questions, especially about the Cuban health care system and the status of religion. Mostly, I can convey what we were told by guides and academics. I pass…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo Jim Barron Sports is a hot topic in Cuba. In Havana’s central park, there’s a “hot corner,” not unlike Hyde Park in London. But, instead of debating politics, the participants are intensely arguing about baseball, and the minutiae of each…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The end of the U.S. embargo of Cuba is long overdue. It serves no purpose today. The goal was to bring Fidel Castro to his knees, but it hasn’t worked for 55 years. Now the torch has been passed to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. As Sun Country’s flight 8830 touched down in Havana the morning of February 25th, the flight attendant announced, “Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to Havana.” A cheer went up, people clapped, and some eyes misted over. It was an…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Forty years ago, Italian postal workers faced a backlog of 20 million pieces of mail following a series of strikes. Unlike London, which faced a similar problem and simply took a couple of weeks to eliminate the backlog,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The question during the 2014 gubernatorial campaign was often “Will the real Charlie Baker please stand up?” Today, Governor Baker stood before a meeting of the New England Council, the real Charlie Baker, the one I knew from…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Bob Simon was the kind of journalist whom Brian Williams could only dream of being. There was no finer writer or story teller, no more courageous correspondent, no better example of the highest achievements of reporting, than Simon, described by…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. In Mumbai, train service was once so slow passengers rioted and burned train stations. In Bangkok, a one-way commute can take four hours. Manila’s public transport relies on Jeepneys, modeled on WW II jeeps and hazardous to passenger comfort and safety. But…
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