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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Dead Blogging Eric Holder’s BU Commencement Address
Considering that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified on Capitol Hill last week about a ten-page bill he hadn’t even read, the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider set the bar kinda low for his Commencement Address at Boston University Sunday … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston University, Class of '70, Commencement, Eric Holder, Kent State
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When The (Paul) Levy Breaks
So Paul Levy, embattled chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has finally deigned to talk to the press about stashing his – we’re just guessing here, because Levy “declined to detail the exact nature of the relationship with … Continue reading
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Tagged Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, girlfriend, Martha Coakley, Paul Levy
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Gone To Rack-And-Bruin
Well, that was one Campaign Outsider Official Prediction™ we wish had been wrong. The Great Boston Bruins Chernobyl (losing a 3-0 lead in games and a 3-0 lead in Game 7 goals to the Philadelphia Flyers) now joins the Ultimate Choke … Continue reading
Cass Distinction
From our Forewarned Is Forearmed desk: The New York Times Magazine cover story this Sunday features Cass Sunstein, director of “the White House’s little-known Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs” and a leading apostle of behavioral economics, the “libertarian paternalism” … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Ferguson, behavioral economics, Cass Sunstein, New York Times, Nudge, nudge-ocracy, Weekly Standard
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Black Lungs And Inconvenience Stores In The Bay State
Thursday’s Boston Globe reported that Massachusetts wants to “force stores to post graphic signs vs. smoking.” Such as the one to the left, which appears in New York City stores. The signs are modeled on a nothing-left-to-the-imagination campaign in New … Continue reading
Boston Globe Un-Unlikes Martha
Post in haste, repent at leisure. The hardworking staff’s rare midday post on Thursday, which detailed New York Times op-ed bridesmaid Gail Collins’ drive-by snarking of Martha Coakley, went up before we caught that day’s Boston Globe Coakley-palooza. Page One … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Gail Collins, Joan Vennochi, Martha Coakley, Martha's Mulligan Tour, yeah but graf
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Gail Unlikes Martha
New York Times op-ed bridesmaid Gail Collins takes a whack at Arlen Specter in today’s piece, which explores the limits of Barack Obama’s support for the embattled born-again Democrat. The president appreciated Specter’s help in shoving the stimulus bill over … Continue reading
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Tagged Gail Collins, Martha Coakley, New York Times, op-ed bridesmaid
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MyCrawl
Consumer technology these days is the Incredible Ego Machine. Exhibit I: Sony Bets on a Countertop View of the Web From the WSJ review by Katherine Boehret: This week, I tested a product that represents Sony’s attempt to wade into … Continue reading
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Tagged CNN, ESPN, MECN, NECN, Sony Dash, Wall Street Journal
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Heartache Bruin
Is it just me, or have the Boston Bruins been only about 80% there in the last three games? Over that span, the Philadelphia Flyers have outplayed the Bruins in every aspect of the game – you know the litany: … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Bruins, hockeyheads, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia Inquirer
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