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The memorial to President John F. Kennedy is shaped as the stump of a fallen tree, symbolizing a life cut short. Surrounding it are acres of pristine forest, planted long ago in his honor, with other adjoining acreage for his brother Robert, and still another for his son John Jr.
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Common Core supporters have been asserting that before Common Core's emphasis on skills, all our teachers did for 50 years was ask kids to memorize facts. So implies Alfie Kohn in The Schools Our Children Deserve, in arguing that students didn't understand what they used to
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There's a chill in our drafty house as I write this, sitting next to our fireplace. No logs are burning because that would be a mess, with chocolate melting over the shoes and the hearth. It is early morning, December 6, the feast day of St. Nicholas, the
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"Country over Party" outgoing U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) wrote on the $100 check he sent to Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones (D-NARAL). Jones, now trailing Roy Moore, the Republican, by a few percentage points, told Chuck Todd on MSNBC in September that he doesn&
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The most jarring image of the past couple weeks appeared in the New York Times, alongside a surprisingly positive profile of 33-year-old conservative pundit Benjamin Shapiro. It was a photograph of Mr. Shapiro's supporters at the University of Utah. One of the students was wearing a "Reagan
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The recent tax reform proposals by the Republican Congress and a recent public Torah reading made me think about tithing. In one of the first verses in Saturday's Torah reading Vayeitzei ((Jacob) departed from …), the Jewish Patriarch Jacob promises G-d a tenth of everything G-d gives him after
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"This is how the world works You gotta … — Taylor Swift, 2017
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The Stan Rosenberg era is ending not with a whimper but with a bang. When Governor Charlie Baker thinks you need to be investigated, you know the end is near. This is the same Charlie Baker who doesn't think the whitewashing of a Massachusetts State Police report on
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