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One of the most famous passages in the Old Testament comes from the Book of Ecclesiastes: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." One look at the recent happenings on Beacon Hill confirms the
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Ken Lowson chuckles. In January 2005, he spent $200,000 using credit cards to obtain 5,000 memberships to U2's fan club. That allowed him to participate in the Internet presale via Ticketmaster to purchase tickets for the Vertigo Tour. Using computer programming (popularly known as "bots&
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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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