Few words written about Muhammad Ali, who died last week at age 74, will reveal anything more about the man than those he himself wrote and/or spoke. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” — Muhammad Ali In the mid-1960s the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion was unquestionably white […]
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Clinton should have exposed Sanders when she had the chance
Here’s my basic problem with Bernie Sanders. To put it bluntly, once a Trotskyite, always a fool. Personal experience of ‘60s-style left-wing posturing left me allergic to the word “revolution” and the kinds of humorless autodidacts who bandy it about. The Bernie Sanders type, I mean: morally superior, never mistaken and never in doubt. I’ll […]
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Cape Cod Times (Mass.), June 2: The Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act (aka Obamacare) requires behavioral health be addressed by the legal, medical and insurance communities on par with physical health. There has been progress, at least in Massachusetts, but work remains in order to overcome the weaknesses in various systems and the stubborn […]
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Council should fulfill duty on Young School
Providing education in a venue that was intended to be a temporary fix (13 years ago) is less than ideal, and frankly embarrassing. It’s time that the citizens of Saco provide what every child deserves: an optimal place to learn. The School Construction Committee worked diligently for over two years assessing the needs of all […]
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The Republican of Springfield (Mass.), May 27: Hillary Clinton’s decision to set up a private email server – and a private email account – on which she conducted all of her official business as Secretary of State was unwise in the extreme. That, boiled down, was the finding of the State Department’s inspector general. And […]
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Insurgent candidates attack nomination process
The process for selecting presidential candidates is under attack. Politicians ranging from liberal Democrats to Trump Republicans don’t like it. Some candidates, unfamiliar with party rules, have felt the process put them at a disadvantage. The Republican and Democratic parties are not government organizations, and, under national party guidelines, each state party is free to […]
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Changing bodies, changing lives (the non-puberty edition)
Our bodies are jerks. When we’re young, they’re seemingly invincible vessels – prone to the odd scrape or broken bone, but generally lithe and gazelle-like, spriting us from one location to the next with a bouncy newness we take for granted. Then we get older and they betray us, degenerating into a taut coil of […]
