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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Driving down the Mass Pike the day after Boston was tapped for the 2024 U.S. summer Olympics bid, there on the WGBH electronic billboard, the five Olympic rings logo against our beautiful skyline. A frisson of excitement. Wow;…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. In Paris on Sunday more than 1.3 million people solemnly marched a cold and windy 3.2 kilometers from La Place de la Republique to La Place de la Nation The crowd moved along the symbolically significant Boulevard Voltaire,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The late Governor Mario Cuomo, a stirring orator, told the once significant The New Republic in 1985, “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose” In a clear break from his predecessor Deval Patrick, Governor Charlie Baker may…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If I were technologically proficient, I’d edge this blog in black. How profoundly sad is the grievous slaughter of 12 yesterday in Paris, journalists and their police protectors at the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. What…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When two-term Massachusetts Senator Ed Brooke woke at 3:30 in the morning on November 7, 1978 the election was already over. And just after 8 p.m. that evening, as the first votes trickled in, his long-time aide Roger Woodworth…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If a clean slate is a time for optimism, then Day One of the New Year should be a time to anticipate the coming year with a sense of the glass more than half full. On the political scene,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’m not Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, or Joyce Kulhawik, and I don’t pretend to be. But this is a heavy season for movie going, with the industry trying to distribute its best in anticipation of the next round of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I confess to being seduced by Governor Deval Patrick. Not literally, of course, but almost always being won over by his charm. It happened the very first time I met him at a house party, nine years ago, when…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barrons own blog. I have never been a fan of Al Sharpton. I look at him and see Tawana Brawley, the late eighties phoney rape case that Sharpton embraced in such an inflammatory way. I have always seen him as someone who has…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. John Winthrop Sears would have been 84 years old last Thursday. He died November 4th. As far as I can tell, he was the last of a breed. Family and friends gathered the evening of his birthday at…
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