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Afghanistan at heartAfter the US invasion of Iraq, Stephen Landrigan took part in some antiwar protests. So even he was surprised to find himself sitting in a wing chair in the living room of his West Roxbury home Tuesday night, agreeing with President Obama’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. (12/3/09)
Loyal to the mission
When he was getting his degree in international development at the Kennedy School at Harvard, the closest Michael Baumgartner got to Helmand was a restaurant of the same name in Cambridge. God’s work on the block
So, a priest, a rabbi, a minister and an imam walk into a prison . . . Progress adjourned
I didn’t plan on writing a column today. In fact, I had no intention of writing the rest of the year. Abandoned to violence
Two weeks ago, Carolyn Henderson was parking on Westville Street in Dorchester, on her way to work at John Marshall Elementary School, when she heard a noise. When actions trump words
Hyatt Hotels had a magnificent debut with its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange a couple of weeks ago. The Pritzker family that controls the hotel chain raked in a cool $950 million on the IPO, so maybe they can use some of the money to pay the hospital bill for Viola Joseph’s 5-year-old son. Veteran tells ‘their stories’
Bill Durette grew up in the Bunker Hill projects in Charlestown, and when he was a kid he’d watch the parades go by and count the lines of men wearing ribbons and medals. It seemed like they went on for miles. A veteran battles back
When he was 17 years old, Willmont (Bill) Griffin dropped out of high school and joined the Marines. Two years later, he was on a helicopter, a CH-53, just before Saigon fell and he pulled terrified people onboard and saw the end of a war and grew up pretty quick. |
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