Nations come and go. Some come and go and come back again. Israel and Palestine both have their own supposed God-gifted historical entitlement to the same Holy Land; once known as Canaan, once known as Philistia or Syria Palaestina, once divided into Israel and Judah. Long before Muhammad there was Abraham. Long before the Israelites […]
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LC Van Savage: When sports break out at a fight
Is it only Americans who love to brawl at sporting events? Probably not, but I’m an American and live here, so for this column, I’ll focus on just our country. I want to know why we act so stupid and uncivilized by fighting and brawling at athletic games. It’s embarrassing. Creating these endless donnybrooks at […]
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The Maine Idea: Roberts has one chance to salvage Court’s reputation
As Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York neared its end, attentive observers sensed the ex-president was likely to found guilty. While Prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s team presented a clear, tight, well-supported case, the ex-president’s attorneys were all over the map. Whether that was due to poor lawyering or their client’s insistence on denying everything […]
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Gordon L. Weil: Don’t gloat or groan over Trump verdict
You can’t gloat or groan about the Trump guilty verdict. It was a bad day for America. His critics seem to glory in highlighting his felony conviction as the first for a U.S. president. His allies strive to dismiss the entire trial as being nothing more than pure politics. The pundits run wild with speculation […]
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Letters to the Editor: Beauty standards; saving Bath Golf Course; election endorsements
Bath Golf Club on the ballot We are among the minority investors who helped purchase the Bath Golf Club more than a decade ago, and we are voting “YES” on the June 11 ballot measure. We are strongly opposed to plans of the majority owner to monetize the course by diminishing it and building cluster […]
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Giving Voice: Stretching and its opposite
Summer is a time of stretching at Tedford. We have cleared clutter and set up desks for two brilliant interns, who will bolster both our client-facing work and administration. An expanded corps of volunteers are tabling all over town at community events and fundraisers, including Brunswick PRIDE this Sunday, Big Top Deli next Saturday, June 15, […]
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Just a Little Old: Reflections on the Bowdoin College commencement
My mother once told me that her father (my grandfather, William B. Kenniston) wrote and delivered the class poem at his Bowdoin College graduation in 1892. I haven’t checked the veracity of that story, because I like to believe it is true. Anyway, that’s just one of the many reasons I’ve attended Bowdoin graduation ceremonies […]
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LC Van Savage: Emily and Amy
A book I think would be great reading, in case anyone is interested, would be a biography of the life of Emily Post, who as everyone knows, was the give-all and end-all of proper etiquette. If you wanted to set one foot out of your baronial home to mingle with the affluent well-heeled, you’d better […]
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Alexandra Paskhaver: Playing up playgrounds
I miss playgrounds. Not just because playgrounds symbolize a carefree, joyous attitude toward life, but also because when I was a kid, I could cross the monkey bars without having vertigo. Now, the only thing I do well on playgrounds is warm up the benches. I keep my seat better than members of Congress. Speaking […]
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Tom Purcell: Memories of my free-range childhood
It was the first time in my childhood I had an excuse for coming home late for dinner, but nobody — not even the cops — would listen. In the summer of 1972, when I was 10, Tommy Gillen and I built a dam in the creek on the other side of the Horning Road […]
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