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Northampton Democrat: Time To Honor Calvin Coolidge

Matthew McDonald

Before he was president of the United States in the 1920s, Silent Cal served as mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts from 1910 to 1911. A longtime Northampton resident notes that several anniversaries associated with Coolidge are coming up, and he says the now-left-leaning city should honor him, particularly for his efforts to have peaceful relations with Latin American countries.

Office Pool 2018
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Office Pool 2018

Ira Stoll

In memory of the late William Safire, place your bets now on possibilities for the year ahead. Use the available choices or try writing in your own scenarios. Last year's iteration anticipated the Patriots Super Bowl victory, the stock market rally, President Donald Trump's Jerusalem move, and the departure from Fox News of Megyn Kelly and Bill O'Reilly.

1)   The surprise nonfiction bestseller is a) Donald Rumsfeld's memoir of the Ford administration, When The Center Held b) Benn Steil's The Marshall Plan c) John Lewis Gaddis's On Grand Strategy d) David Levering Lewis's The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order e) Yoram Hazony's The Virtue of Nationalism.

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