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A bill that would have required all public school districts in Massachusetts that teach sex education to adopt state standards – which include a curriculum showing students how to use thin plastic wrap as a makeshift barrier – failed in the Massachusetts Legislature. The Massachusetts Senate passed Senate Bill 2128 by a
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New York Magazine published Monday a long article about U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) by Rebecca Traister. If you like edgy-sounding vulgarities and ponderous run-on sentences, dive right in. If not, here's a pithier summary, in four acts.
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I have a plan for Massachusetts public schools that will help their students become better people, more productive citizens. In schools, we will teach the Ten Commandments. Then we will move to the Beatitudes, and finally a summation of the two great commandments presented by that first century prophet Jesus
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The Earth's temperature has risen over the past century. There is no doubt about it. Since 1880, the temperatures on Earth measured on land and at sea show that the Earth's globally averaged surface temperature in 2016 was 0.94 degrees Celsius (1.69 degrees Fahrenheit)
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A Thousand Crossings is a visual folk-opera rooted in American experience but of international relevance. Composed by 67-year-old photographer Sally Mann of Lexington, Virginia, this presentation of 115 photographs captures many of the soulful notes heard throughout George and Ira Gershwin's lullaby Summertime from the melodramatic play Porgy
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In a result that was not nearly as close as the final tally indicated, the Massachusetts Senate voted in January to abolish the pre-Roe v. Wade state laws on abortion by a tally of 38-0. That's 38 state senators voting to eliminate laws restricting abortion in the Commonwealth.
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In this country you can do whatever you want with your 15 minutes of fame – even if it's a yearly 15 minutes of fame. But if you lie about what you're doing with it, the press is supposed to call you on it.
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President Donald Trump's occasional claim that the press is "the enemy of the American people" is over the top. It also had nothing to do with the shootings at the Capital Gazette newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland Thursday.
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