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Daily Archives: February 1st, 2010

Like Children

There is a trick you can use on children, providing they’re young enough. It’s often called “reverse psychology”, and it consists of, for instance, offering an obstreperous youngster something you don’t want him to have, in the expectation that he will insist on the opposite. It’s often hard to manipulate anyone older than four with […]

Not the way I remember it

From a letter in this morning’s Day: As nonresident taxpayers in Groton, we contact the town every fall to find out if there are any referendum items that would impact the general fund mill rate. We then make it a point to vote responsibly on the issue(s) come November. To our surprise, we were told […]