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"What did I do to deserve this? What purpose does this serve? … They're not doing it to protest. They're doing this for chaos." — Restaurant owner in Downtown Crossing in Boston talking about his trashed cafe to NBC 10, Sunday, May 31, 2020
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What accounts for the apparently dramatic mismatch between the stock market and the economy? Unemployment is the worst it has been since the Great Depression. Goldman Sachs says it could hit 25%. Gross domestic product could fall by 42.8%, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
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Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth NEW State House (the one built in 1798) Boston, Massachusetts EXECUTIVE ORDER # 2020-86
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The blaring Boston Globe headline says it all: "Warren calls Biden's denial of sexual assault credible, stands by her endorsement." The headline refers to an accusation of misbehavior by onetime staffer Tara Reade against former Vice President Joe Biden, while he was a United States senator
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Many weekend afternoons, and some weekday evenings, every year from April through October, a group of people, young and old, male and female, black and white, advanced and beginner, meet to play tennis, shoot the breeze, trash talk, and sometimes share food and drink at our local park. Our family
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For all the attention paid to the boom in use of the videoconferencing app Zoom, the big winner of the coronavirus lockdown so far may be a less work-oriented, more social Zoom competitor called Houseparty. Bloomberg News reports that Houseparty has "been one of the most popular social-networking apps
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This is our responsibility. Before COVID-19, we the people lost our willingness, and yielded our powers, to make hard decisions. Now we have lost confidence in the experts and executive officials to whom we delegated our powers. But it's no too late to learn from our mistake. We
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A Worcester, Massachusetts pastor, Kristopher Casey, has been punished with a $300 civil fine for convening more than 10 people at his church services and is facing criminal charges. And where has the press been in the face of what seems, on its face, to be an egregious violation of
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