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Lifeline To Oppressed Easthampton Ninth-Graders: How To Fight The Power and Stay Cool
Dear Easthampton High School Freshman, That's what you are, right? A freshman?
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Is The New York Times A Foreign Agent?
Does the New York Times have to register with the government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? The act has been in the news lately in connection with the wide-ranging probe by special counsel Robert Mueller into foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Mayor Walsh’s Instinct Is Right on Plastic Bags
Update 12:14 p.m. Monday, December 18: Mayor Marty Walsh has signed the ordinance banning thin-film plastic bags. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's hesitancy to sign an ordinance banning thin-film plastic bags from supermarkets and drug stores is a good sign.
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Abortion-Funding Signature Shortage Is the Start of Something Beautiful
The recent failure of pro-life activists to get enough signatures to put an anti-abortion-funding ballot question on the 2020 statewide ballot is no failure at all. It's never fun to set a goal, work hard, and not make it. But neither is it always that important. In many
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Brown To Self-Identify As Diverse
How do you solve the problem of not enough "diversity" among your graduate students? Let your applicants define how diverse they are for you.
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How To Kill and Get Away With It
Perhaps one day the United States will be free of having to listen to Planned Parenthood call for unlimited abortion access in the name of women's rights, but today is not that day. Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's CEO, was at it again recently. In an interview
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Politician’s Free Coffee — 504 Pounds of It — Is Just The Start of a Real Corruption Story
BOSTON — The federal indictment of a former Massachusetts state senator, Brian Joyce, gave some headline writers an opportunity to focus on the comic element of his alleged scheme. The Democratic politician pleaded not guilty. He was charged in part with having accepted 504 pounds of free coffee from a franchise
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The Year 2017: ‘Out, Out Brief Candle!’
"And all our yesterdays have lighted fools" — William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act V, Scene V) The struts and frets of 2017 confirm we are on a portentous path to a dusty death.
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