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Monthly Archives: July 2013
“This Town” captures a place and time
Tom Wolfe’s 1987 masterpiece Bonfire of the Vanities captured the greed, class, ambition, and politics of Reagan era New York City. So, too, does Mark Leibovich’s This Town capture early 21st century Washington, D.C. Bonfire, however, is fiction and This … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan, Ben Bradlee, Bill and Hill, Bonfire of the Vanities, Carville and Matalin, Dick Gephardt, Edleman PR, Evan Bayh, Mark Leibovich, Obama, Robert Gibbs, Sally Quinn, Steve Schmidt, This Town, Tim Russert, Tom Wolfe, Trent Lott
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Anthony Weiner more than a sick joke
Yesterday may have been National Hot Dog Day, but Anthony Weiner has nothing to celebrate. Anthony Weiner is a …..Good taste prevents me from playing with the punning headlines of the New York Post and Daily News. I’m sure there … Continue reading
Zimmerman verdict gnaws at us
Arrests were made overnight in Los Angeles and Oakland as crowds protesting the “not guilty” outcome in the Trayvon Martin murder case turned violent. Had the verdict gone the other way, others would have protested. Even though, according to juror B37, the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged FL police, George Zimmerman, Sanford, stand-your-ground law, Trayvon Martin
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Nervous at All Star break
I’m a life-long Red Sox fan, though I have some fair weather tendencies. I even admit to some fair weather anxieties. The major one is that, if the Red Sox are in first place at the All Star break, I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Uncategorized
Tagged AL East, All Star Break, Clay Buchholz, David Ortiz, Jacoby Ellsbury, Red Sox, Stephen Drew, Victorino, wild card spot
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Charlotte Golar Richie: the next mayor of Boston?
I have crossed paths with Boston mayoral candidate Charlotte Golar Richie at various times over the last few decades, but without getting a real sense of her as an individual. Certainly, I knew her from her bio: Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya; two … Continue reading
Warren unfairly under fire on affordable housing
Newton Mayor Setti Warren is catching flak from some Garden City liberals for withholding $1.4 million in city-controlled federal money for a ten-unit building in a former fire station in the Waban section of Newton. The so-called Engine 6 project would house nine … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics
Tagged affordable housing, chronically homeless, Engine 6 project, Newton Mayor, Setti Warren
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Book ideas for summer nights
My family’s return from a glorious week in London shows how salutary it is for a political junkie to purge herself- albeit temporarily – of politics. So before I get sucked back into the nearly unspeakable frustration of focusing on the ongoing national … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Uncategorized
Tagged A Nervous Splendor, Bring up the Bodies, Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson, Frederick Morton, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Herman Koch, Ian Mcewan, Milary Mantel, Scott Stossell, Summer reading, Susan Hertog, Sweet Tooth, The Dinner, Thunder at Twilight, Wolf Hall
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