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When visiting Catholic college campuses with their teen-age children, two friends of mine did not limit their fact-finding mission to tours and speeches. They wandered the campuses and asked various students where the chapel was, and, if the students knew, they asked what time Mass was. The answer was often
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Can an American citizen or business whose emails were hacked by a foreign government successfully sue the foreign government for damages? All of a sudden, it's a bipartisan issue.
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"Replacing a free media with a state-run media has always been a first order of business for any corrupt regime taking over a country." — The Boston Globe
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A commemorative issue of Education Next published in the spring of 2016 was devoted to comments on James Coleman's 1966 report titled "Equality of Educational Opportunity." In his article in that issue, economist and education researcher Eric Hanushek quoted the report's central conclusion:
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Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone, tweeting from Honduras:
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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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If you take a moment to re-read the Declaration of Independence, it may help you make better sense of recent headlines. The founders of the United States of America didn't just declare independence from Great Britain. They wrote a statement explaining their reasoning. Two-hundred-and-forty-two years later, we'
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More children are being hurt in their homes; at least, more cases are being reported in my state of Maine. An excellent piece of reporting by Eric Russell of the Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland focuses on the overwhelmed state's Department of Health and Human Services.
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