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Comment on: Obama wins an ugly victory - Opinion - The Boston Globe
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Comment on: Anant Agarwal believes an online education from MIT and Harvard should be available to all - - Boston.com
The MIT campus in its "summer slumber"? Wrong... the place is busier during the summer than during the teaching terms. more »
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Comment on: State should explore new floating bridge - Letters - The Boston Globe
A floating bridge wouldn't really help, since the bottleneck isn't the width of the bridge; it is the capacity of the fixed approach roads on either side. Suppose you could float a 6-lane bridge next more »
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Comment on: A Boston-Cape Cod train would ease traffic woes - Editorials - The Boston Globe
Yes! Bring the train back. A couple of runs daily from Boston to Hyannis could only help. more »
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Comment on: Woman charged with robbing bank in Boston and then handing out cash to children - Boston.com
Why punish the cab driver by confiscating his $20 fare?
That seems unreasonable.
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Comment on: Melrose High athletes disciplined after school receives drinking photos - Melrose - Your Town - Boston.com
This is absurd. Who among us didn't do this in high school? How do photos establish illegality anyway? They could have been drinking lemonade and smoking clove cigarettes. A quiet phone call to the pa more »
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Comment on: 'Women professors find gains at MIT'
Commenters rogersmithiii and ImmoralCompasss above miss the point. Bias, either overt or unconscious, hinders women at every step from search to hiring to involvement in decision-making to promotion. more »
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Comment on: Women%20allegedly%20used%20stroller%20for%20shoplifting
"After purchasing a pair of socks, Bettencourt said, Kohl's
loss prevention officials stopped the two women..."
I'm confused; why did the Kohl's officials purchase socks
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Comment on: 'Police make arrest in Chelsea hit and run'
Have to agree with stevetimm on this one. Writing "The driver of the vehicle that struck him then allegedly fled the scene" is just stupid. It's an established fact that when the police arrived, the g more »
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Comment on: 'Aide reportedly challenged professor’
In response to Rollone's comment: yes, having a human code the videos seems unavoidably subjective. Two possibilities: have a human do it, but make sure that s/he does not know the hypothesis being te more »
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Comment on: 'State’
This is completely insane. Racing from landmark to landmark while a cop follows, noting violations? What happens when one of them hits a pedestrian? Boston Police and DAs, are you listening? These TV more »
Oh, please. Before you publish future columns, why don't you think for one minute about whether you would feel the same way if the parties were swapped. Had Romney won, would you really be writing abo more »