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The most revealing thing about Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory's memo last night to staffers isn't that he and accuser Hilary Sargent used to date. It isn't even that he can't remember sending her a suggestive text message. (Which he doesn'
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At the time he was elected president of the Massachusetts Senate, Stan Rosenberg had a long-term committed relationship with a man 38 years younger whom he believed to be mentally ill and addicted to alcohol and who had a tendency to text pornographic images of men and make sexually offensive
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The movie will not be a blockbuster, bringing in only $17 million at last count, after five weeks. I have heard the complaints about Paul, Apostle of Christ.
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Later today a 32-year-old police officer whose friends and colleagues describe as thoughtful and honorable will have a funeral Mass in Yarmouth because a 29-year-old man with 125 entries on his rap sheet shot him in the head because he had violated probation. Think about that. When probation was invented
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Arrests are ugly. When they include physical confrontation, they're uglier. But it's no good to just say you disagree with what Cambridge cops did the other night when confronted with an agitated naked man in a street. You must also say what you would have done
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What we haven't heard in any of the pronouncements on the various Massachusetts State Police scandals is the one thing that's vital: A full and public account of what happened.
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Could you find a better Catholic to honor than Senator Dick Durbin? Durbin sought legislation to force organizations to provide contraceptives among its health care benefits – even if such a mandate opposed an organization's beliefs (like, maybe, nuns).
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Is there anything odder than The Boston Globe criticizing a Republican candidate for not being Republican enough? That's where Geoff Diehl finds himself today. The Republican state representative from Whitman running for U.S. Senate was outed Wednesday as having been a registered Democrat from 1996 through at
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