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Comment on: BSO names Andris Nelsons music director, suceeding James Levine - Boston.com
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Comment on: Andris Nelsons new music director of BSO - - Boston.com
To the BSO's board, to members of the orchestra, to Tony Fogg and Mark Volpe...bravissimo!
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"One might argue that sociopathy, as some researchers have said of autism, is maleness taken to a dysfunctional extreme." One might also wonder if this observation by the article's author, Julia M. Kl more »
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Comment on: Looking at a top contender for the BSO music director post - Music - The Boston Globe
A rumor recently spread through the subscriber fold that Daniele Gatti was about to be crowned Music Director, and the universal reaction was disappointment. As a longtime patron and follower of the B more »
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Comment on: Boston Marathon Bombing suspect transferred to federal prison hospital in Devens - Metro - The Boston Globe
You apparently haven't been following the case, Stephanosky. The most compelling witness so far, Jeff Bauman, said he was face to face with Tamerlan Tsarnaev and watched him put his backpack down and more »
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Comment on: Letâs study Tamerlan Tsarnaevâs brain - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Hey, History, please read my comment below before jumping to any conclusions about Whitman...
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Comment on: Letâs study Tamerlan Tsarnaevâs brain - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Barbara258, if you think this is "the most unworthy [you've] ever read in the Globe", I wonder if you've ever stumbled across any op-eds by Jeff Jacoby? Regarding Charles Whitman's tumor: as one now more »
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Comment on: Letâs study Tamerlan Tsarnaevâs brain - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Hi, Barbara258...Nimitta here. If you think this is "the most unworthy [you've] ever read in the Globe", I wonder if you've ever stumbled across any op-eds by Jeff Jacoby? Regarding Charles Whitman's more »
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Comment on: Letâs study Tamerlan Tsarnaevâs brain - Opinion - The Boston Globe
It's not so clearcut here, Cap'n - 'whomever' is fine in this instance, although 'whoever' can also be used. 'Whomever' can be thought of as analogous to the pronoun it stands for, following the prepo more »
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Comment on: BSO announces new season, tour of China and Japan - Music - The Boston Globe
Imagine, the BSO playing Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart...the nerve! And talk about boring - do we really have to listen to Adès/Polaris, Ives/Orchestral Set No. 2, Turnage/Speranza, Penderecki/Concert more »
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Comment on: Doctor: Dead bomb suspect had wounds 'head to toe' - News - Boston.com
No it doesn't.
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Comment on: Obama sends Congress $3.77 trillion spending plan - Nation - The Boston Globe
"Gotta give liberals credit--they never stop trying to bleed those of us who work dry." Speak for yourself! I work but make a bit less than $250K a year. The president's plan helps me, as does the Aff more »
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Comment on: Letâs not get carried away with praise for Margaret Thatcher - Letters - The Boston Globe
You're right as usual, migh....DOWN WITH PUBLIC EDUCATION! BURN THE LIBRARIES!
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Comment on: The essence of Thatcherism - Opinion - The Boston Globe
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Comment on: The essence of Thatcherism - Opinion - The Boston Globe
So true, salemreader. Here's former London mayor Ken Livingstone: "She created todayâs housing crisis. She created the banking crisis. And she created the benefits crisis. It was her government that more »
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Comment on: The essence of Thatcherism - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Ah, rdh-nh, you're being a bit selective in your statistics. Poverty almost doubled in the UK during Thatcher's tenure, steadily rising from 1982 on and peaking during her final year in office. It beg more »
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Comment on: The essence of Thatcherism - Opinion - The Boston Globe
"The US is embracing now the kind of nanny statism that took the UK to the brink in the 1970s, and food stamp use, poverty, and anti growth policies have us back in a new "malaise"." Hmmm...did food s more »
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Comment on: Time has come to make Fenway our faded field of dreams - Sports - The Boston Globe
Kill your parents, ricard0??!!! More like replacing that beat up '77 Econovan that's been sitting up on cinder blocks forever with a brand new, all wheel drive model that can run in any weather and of more »
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Comment on: Science, truth, and consequences, in Nora Theatre Companyâs âOperation Epsilonâ - - Boston.com
A fine play, acted superbly, with an evocative set and costumes. Incredibly moving and provocative...don't let the rather barren title fool you - 'Operation Epsilon' was the best night at the theater more »
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Comment on: Useful idiots, then and now - Opinion - The Boston Globe
I appreciate your taking the time to reply, NH, but it doesn't sound like you read any of the research, nor reflected on the differences it points to. Your generalization was aiming at some sort of ps more »
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Comment on: Useful idiots, then and now - Opinion - The Boston Globe
NatHawthorne: "IMO, one of the defining differences between liberal and conservative policy is this: liberals tend to craft policy based on the way people **should** behave and conservatives craft po more »
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Comment on: Useful idiots, then and now - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Oops, WNG, you forgot to mention Ronald Reagan (Saddam Hussein)... You, Jeff, Richmond12, and several other commenters seem to think that 'useful idiocy' is a liberal/left phenomenon. Alas, no - it op more »
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Comment on: Lame old story from Carl Crawford - Obnoxious Boston Fan - Boston.com
"If burying people in the media made them better players, J.D. Drew would have..." Um, OBF? I think that's the point Carl is making: burying people in the media DOESN'T make them better players. In re more »
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Comment on: With best picture Oscar, Ben Affleck comeback is complete - Movies - The Boston Globe
Yes, stakiinnh, I'm sure 'Lincoln' could never have won because Lincoln was a Republican. And of course 'Argo' won because it took place during a Democratic administration. Oh, and what a silly phrase more »
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Comment on: With best picture Oscar, Ben Affleck comeback is complete - Movies - The Boston Globe
LEOTHELION4: "It had an unoriginal plot..." YES! I for one am just sick to death of movies that depend on the hackneyed old plot device of freeing a group of hostages by pretending to be a Canadian cr more »
The BSO's letter to subscribers answered all your questions, ccpphh. Nelsons will conduct 10 programs in 2014-15, and at least 12 thereafter. He plans to live in Boston, and the BSO/Tanglewood will be more »