Today's Boston Globe reports on the naming of former Olympic Gold Medal winner Tenley Albright to the National Women's Hall of Fame. Albright's is a wonderful story of accomplishment, from polio victim to champion ice skater to Harvard Medical School-trained surgeon to brilliant innovator and tackler of societal challenges in health and medicine. (Plus, she is a …
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Would Donald Trump tone down his junior high school playground bombast? Or, for that matter, would he say anything substantive in response to a policy question? Would Jeb Bush show some "cojones" in confronting Trump? Would Carly Fiorina get in Trump's face, stand up to the braggart who had dissed hers? Would John Kasich be able …
When late CBS newsman Daniel Schorr was asked about his move from radio to television, he reportedly observed, "If you can fake sincerity, you've got it made." It's in that spirit, and mindful of her declining poll numbers, that Hillary Clinton is getting tweaked again. The effort has been brilliantly satirized by my friend and …
Figuring out how I feel about the Iran deal has been a struggle. But, as I have read more about it and talked with informed people over the summer, I come to the conclusion that, while the deal is far from perfect, it is a worthwhile step to take. Opponents complain that the deal leaves open a …
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Federal Judge Richard Berman nullified Tom Brady's four-game suspension Thursday, and suddenly all was right with the world. Signs at the final preseason game declared with relief "Tom Brady is Free" and "Richard Berman for President." Why not? Even if there was no clear exoneration of Brady or declaration of the Patriots' innocence, and even if …
It would be very tempting to leap to support the Green Line extension through Somerville to Medford. After all, anything that modernizes our nation's oldest mass transit system is a good thing, and this particular plan was promised years ago to environmental advocates as part of the deal that brought us the Big Dig. Somerville …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 