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It was truly inspirational to view the ceremony honoring some of the incredibly brave survivors of the June 6, 1944 D-Day assault on the beaches of Normandy. What tremendous courage and heroism! They deserve our everlasting thanks and gratitude. And then there are those who did not survive the assault
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"These crowd madnesses recur so frequently in human history that they must reflect some deeply rooted trait of human nature. … There seems to be a cyclical rhythm in these movements. A bull market, for example, will be sweeping along and then something will happen — trivial or important — and first
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De Gaulle By Julian Jackson Harvard University Press August 2018 928 pages In his magisterial biography of de Gaulle, Julian Jackson has done us a great service: he has distilled the thousands of books and articles about Charles de Gaulle into a brilliant, fascinating biography. He has written, in fact,
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Christian Di Spigna has done a great service to citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: he has written a superb biography of Joseph Warren – the great Boston-based revolutionary leader, who was killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill. He titles the biography: Founding Martyr – The Life and Death of Dr.
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It's 7 p.m. on a weeknight, and around 100 professionals from commercial and investment banks, brokerage and investment management firms, and other financial service companies are meeting in Boston. Arriving after work, the attendees have put their workday routines aside for a couple of hours, gathering for
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Rick Green, the Republican candidate for the Massachusetts 3rd Congressional district, which Niki Tsongas is vacating, is in some sense a modern version of the Horatio Alger story. He has the Midas touch. Whatever he has tried has turned to gold. An Air Force brat whose father was a pilot,
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"I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big
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