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I am sure we’ll see this skit many more times. It will surely make the best of Saturday Night Live shows in coming years.
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Lowell “Boxer’s Life” – Micky Ward and “The Fighter”
Irish Micky Ward and Mark Wahlberg Boston Herald sports and boxing writer Ron Borges has a timely interview with Lowell’s Irish Micky Ward in today’s edition. In a few days Paramount Pictures will release the long-awaited, shot-in-Lowell movie about Ward and his fighting career culminating (in the movie) with his victory…
Read More »Interesting Stories from Recent Newspapers
Catching up on accumulated dead-tree newspapers from the past few days, I found a greater-than-usual collection of interesting stories. Here’s a sampling: Fox versus Fox The New York Times reports on how the animated Fox television program, The Simpsons, has taken several shots at its corporate companions, Fox News. One…
Read More »The State of Science
The media has been full of stories today about the press conference held by NASA to announce a paper published in Science. They haven’t done a very good job of explaining what scientists have found, so I’d like to try to clear some things up. I’d also like to use…
Read More »UMass Lowell Field Hockey Team Going to Nat’l Title Game
December 2, 2010
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PaulM
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With a win over Stonehill College in Kentucky today, the women field hockey players of UMass Lowell earned a place in the national championship game on Saturday. Get the details on today’s game and info on the championship game coming up here courtesy of UMass Lowell Athletics. UML’s Katie Enaire…
Read More »Blogger meet-up this Saturday
This Saturday (December 4) anytime between 9 am and 11 am, everyone is invited to stop by Top Donut at 700 Aiken Street in Lowell (at intersection with VFW Highway, just across the river from Lelacheur Park) for a Greater Lowell Blogger Meet-up. It’s just an opportunity for folks who,…
Read More »UML’s Meehan Seeking Suffolk Seat?
December 2, 2010
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Marie
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The scoopers at the Boston Herald’s InsideTrack are speculating this morning that UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan may have re-set his sites on a university presidency – this time it’s Suffolk University. Meehan who took himself off the list of candidates for the UMass presidency fanned the flames of the Suffolk…
Read More »Trillions and Trillions of Stars Now
Who says there’s nothing new under the sun? Or should I say nothing new about what we think we know under the sun? Remember when Carl Sagan used to say “billions and billions” in his unmistakable voice? Scientists from Yale and Harvard now say there are three times as many…
Read More »Economic Patriots. . .
December 1, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Current Events, Election 2010, History, Lowell, Politics
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Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, this week wrote about wealthy Americans who are saying they are more than willing to pay their fair share of taxes, and a little more if needed. Read her column in The Washington Post here, and get The Nation if you want more. I picked…
Read More »“The Veil of Ignorance” 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 which deserves to be read by everyone. ————————————- Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise Thomas Gray If ignorance is…
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