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Daily Archives: April 10th, 2008

Good eating at my alma mater

Thursday, April 10, 2008

The New York Times published two articles recently about the quality of the cuisine at my Alma Mater, Bowdoin College in Bruswick, ME. We alums have always known that Bowdoin was the best school in the country, but it has not always had the best food. Now it is at the top of both heaps. […]

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Garry Wills on Lincoln and Obama

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Garry Wills is one of my favorite writers. In the most recent New York Review of Books he makes the case that the best comparison to Obama’s recent speech on race is to Lincoln’s Cooper Union Speech, not to JFK’s speech on religion or FDR’s First Inaugural. Wills points out that both men faced similar […]

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Jodi-out of the loop

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Only Jodi Rell, rumored to be the most popular governor in the nation, could get away with criticizing herself. Two days ago, the Democrats complained that they’d been kept in the dark about the rising cost of a railroad maintenance facility in New Haven. This seems fair on their part. It was, after all, officials […]

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