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Making history with Hillary

Hillary Clinton should play the “woman card.” In spades. Clinton has never been a natural politician. She’s not in her husband’s class as a campaigner, or Barack Obama’s, for that matter. The crowds greeting Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump this year have generally been larger and more enthusiastic than her audiences. What she offers as […]

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Fatigue: A scourge of humankind

Staving off tiredness should be considered an artform. It may not quite have the bohemian hipness of sculpting or jazz, and you don’t see awake people on display at the Louvre. But it requires a special set of skills, and maybe the odd chemical or two. Being a human is so counterintuitive sometimes. You’d think […]

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Readers’ Forum

You awake to the scattered hollers of men in the neighboring houses, and from the many you collect that Isaac Davis, your captain and trusted leader, has called upon his minutemen. It’s dawn; you can barely see as you rush out the door, equipped with your musket and gunpowder, bare of any official uniform. As […]

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Editorial Roundup

The Concord Monitor (N.H.), April 29: The professional football draft is under way. As with all things NFL, it’s a shiny spectacle with intriguing plotlines and twists. Breathless coverage makes it the sports equivalent of a soap opera, and dedicated fans devour and digest each selection. They cheer, groan and taunt as if one pick […]