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Remnick on President Obama’s Speech in Tucson
The New Yorker’s David Remnick comments on President Obama’s speech in Tucson on Wednesday.
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Watson Wins Test Match in Jeopardy
Today in the Boston Globe’s “The Source” – correspondent Carli Velocchi reports that “Watson” – the IBM supercomputer that will take on two high-powered former Jeopardy champions in a February contest – won a test round! Humans have often speculated about computers: What exactly can we make them do? How…
Read More »President Kennedy’s Archives on the Web
The boston.com headline reads “JFK Archives Open to the World.” Read the article here describing how the Kennedy Library in Boston did it. UMass Lowell wants to do the same with the Martin T. Meehan Papers, Paul E. Tsongas Papers, and other documents and materials associated with the members of Congress who…
Read More »A Message About Guns from Sarah Brady
See this new feature from www.aol.com with Sarah Brady’s message about improving the nation’s gun laws.
Read More »“Blue Does Not Equal Liberal” by John Edward
John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and is an adjunct professor of economics at Bentley University, contributes the following column The state of Massachusetts bucked the national trend in the 2010 elections. While most states were trending “red,” Massachusetts preserved its’ “blue”…
Read More »Kad Barma, Snow Tracker
See Choosing a Soundtrack/Kad Barma for snow tracking info. He linked from Rob Mills.
Read More »John Kerry’s Thoughts on ‘Gridlock & Globalization’
Here’s the link to a Washington Post item about a speech given by John Kerry this week.
Read More »Attending a Celtics game
This past Monday night I traveled to the TD Garden to see the Boston Celtics play the Houston Rockets. The last time I had seen the Celtics in person, the starting lineup consisted of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish, Danny Ainge and DJ Johnson, so my pattern of going…
Read More »All Courts closed today due to snow
At 5 am, the Massachusetts Trial Court announced that all courts in the Commonwealth will be closed today due to the major snowstorm that struck the region overnight. Since the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds is located within the Superior Courthouse in Lowell, it too is closed for the day.…
Read More »It’s the Fear Thing
January 12, 2011
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Election 2010, History, Lowell
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Blogger Robert Wright of the NYTimes writes about the fear factor that’s part of the toxic political talk these days. Read his opinion here. His comments relate to Andrew’s latest post.
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