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    As a youth I grew up watching the Boston Celtics dominate the NBA. Eleven World Championships in thirteen years. I can’t remember for sure something like that, I think. But of all the NBA championships and winning seasons I followed, the Celtics’ 1968-69 season I remember the most.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It is the end of the beginning; I wish it were the beginning of the end. I have seen every minute of these riveting, often jaw-dropping sessions. While the events were known in their broad contours prior to…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. We may be transfixed by the January 6 hearings, but, when Donald Trump is back invading our dreams at night after 18 months absence, we can benefit mightily from a summertime escape into fiction. Horse by Geraldine Brooks is…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Women’s reproductive rights; pollution regulation and climate change; separation of church and state; Native American rights; gun safety – the alt-Right U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a series of severe blows to hopes for an enlightened society. In…

The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. In the last 24 hours, the Supreme Court has made it easier to kill people as long as it’s with a gun, but it has barred women from removing from their own bodies embryonic or fetal material not viable as human…

In honor of Pride Month 2022, here’s a story we first posted in 2014: Moody Gardens By Mehmed Ali and Beth Brassel Between 1950 and 1970, Lowell, Mass., saw its status as an industrial dynamo erode. The textile industry shrank to almost nothing and many residents quit on the city,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. President Biden ran on the promise to bring out country together.  Yet, as Tom Friedman recently pointed out in the NY Times, the President has been more effective at strengthening bonds among our allies abroad than in healing divisions at…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Two weeks ago, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a California law that blocked anyone younger than 21 from buying a semiautomatic rifle. In a 2-to-1 decision, two Trump-appointed judges waxed poetic about the importance…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My dad was one of the first generation of type 1 diabetics to survive because insulin was available. We worried about him as over the years he developed one after another of the complications of this potentially deadly…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (author of A Gentleman in Moscow) follows Emmett Watson, an 18-year-old just released from a juvenile work farm for accidentally causing the death of a fellow who had been bullying him. Having survived his…