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Politely declining to touch the income gap
HOLDING ONE'S BREATH while waiting for presidential candidates to address the gap between rich and poor is a sure way to asphyxiate. (Boston Globe, 8/19/08)
Guts and glory
AS MIDDLE-AGERS at the Beijing Olympics exalt the iron abs of 41-year-old swimmer and mother Dara Torres, the gold medal for guts goes to 81-year-old Vahram "Vee" Sookikian. Three days before the games began, Sookikian jubilantly bore his backpack on spindly legs back into base camp at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, N.M., the oldest national high adventure camp ... (Boston Globe, 8/16/08)
Tough tasks await Obama on march to convention
AS BARACK Obama vacations in Hawaii, his staff is on heightened image alert in these two weeks before his official nomination for president. The problem is not Republican John McCain. It is the Democratic dysfunction erupting and festering all around him. (Boston Globe, 8/12/08)
Poor will suffer more on warming
ABOUT 16 months ago, the United Nations panel on climate change cited a vast and growing divide between rich and poor nations in their ability to withstand the effects of global warming. Other experts described the same problem in graphic terms. "Like the sinking of the Titanic, catastrophes are not democratic," Henry Miller of the Hoover Institution told The New ... (Boston Globe, 8/9/08)
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A New England cheesehead fantasy ends
Derrick laments the playoff loss of his beloved Packers and warns Pats fans not to take the Giants too lightly.
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