On TV yesterday, I watched parts of various games, and gave the Patriots quite a bit of time. Beating the Jets is always a good thing. I haven’t felt good about that team since Joe Namath stopped playing. Although the Jets got close a few times, the contest was a…
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See bbc.com for a report on a popular and innovative adaptive reuse of an abandoned elevated subway track in New York City. Is this an option for rethinking the Textile Memorial Bridge/University Ave. Bridge if the bridge is not demolished?
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If you are cynical about politicians and politicking, you may want to skip this movie. Not one of the main characters in this story fares well. You definitely do not want to be these people on screen. The story reinforces citizens’ worst assumptions about politics. But politics is only the…
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High School Friday: Dracut at Lowell: MyFoxBOSTON.com Congratulations to Lowell High School for being featured on Fox News Boston’s “High School Friday”. Lowell beat Dracut, 35-20, and got some excellent statewide exposure from this Boston TV feature. Check out the Fox News Boston website for more video, photos, and stories.…
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Mr. Jobs’s legacy will be ‘the blending of technology and poetry. It’s not about design per se; it’s the poetic aspect of the entire enterprise.’ James B. Stewart today writes about Steve Jobs’s passion for great design in a long article in the Business Day section of the NYTimes. If…
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The Nashua Telegraph has an interesting article this morning about a former GOP Senate candidate’s plan to build a new media empire across the New Hampshire landscape – even dipping down into the Massachusetts end of the Merrimack Valley. The hot times of a New Hampshire presidential primary season may…
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I picked this up from Cliff at Right Side. Virginia Postrel writing on bloomberg.com. A good read on Steve Jobs’ influence. For more of Cliff, go here.
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Today’s NYTimes includes an article by Meredith Hoffman about Leymah Gbowee and the Nobel Peace Prize. Leymah heard the news while in New York promoting her book, “Mighty Be Our Powers.” Read the NYT report here, and get the paper if you want more.
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Web photo by Jim Bishop, courtesy of Eastern Mennonite University. Winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a big deal. When I learned this morning that Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, now Ghana, had been awarded the Prize in a three-way share with two other women, the President of Liberia and a democracy…
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This past Monday while at the lunchtime lecture at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, I ended up at the same table as the main speaker, Professor Karl Case. Besides previewing his remarks to the entire crowd, Professor Case mentioned a singer he enjoys by the name of Loudon…
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