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New York (Times Co.) Dumps Boston (Red Sox)
From our Every Penny Counts desk: New York Times Co. Sells Part of Its Stake in the Boston Red Sox That’s the headline in the Times. Kissin’ cousin Boston Globe headline: New York Times Co. sells part of Red Sox … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox, Fenway Sports Group, New York Times, Times Co.
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Weekly Standard/New Republic Slapfight
First there was the new edition of The New Republic: Then there was the Weekly Standard’s Parody (actually “Not A Parody”) edition: Which led to this post by cover-story author Eliza Gray on TNR’s website: The Monday after my cover story on transgender … Continue reading
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Tagged Eliza Gray, Not A Parody, On Media, Parody, Politico, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, William Kristol
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Boston: We’re Number Five! Boston University: We’re Number Whatever!!
Surveys, surveys everywhere . . . At the fancy-schmancy Aspen Ideas Festival this week (tip o’ the pixel: Politico Playbook), the Economist Intelligence Unit for Siemans released its U.S. and Canada Green City Index – and Boston made the Top Five: … Continue reading
Having Words With Margery Eagan
Boston Herald columnist Margery Eagan writes today about the Sarah Palin-Michelle Bachmann Combine and how the two have a similarly fanciful grasp of American history. Eagan also points to Palin’s refreshingly inventive approach to the English language: On a lighter … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Margery Eagan, Michele Bachmann, misunderestimated, Sarah Palin, Wee Weed Up
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Federer Reserve
The hardwatching staff has seen the great Roger Federer play a ton of matches over the past half-dozen years, but we’ve rarely seen him perform the way he did against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga yesterday. From the Los Angeles Times: Roger Federer … Continue reading
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Tagged French Open beatdowns, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Los Angeles Times, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Wimbledon
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A Slice Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
So awhile back a Papa Gino’s Express installed itself in Brookline Village, the latest chapter in the neighborhood’s upscale-downscale tug of war. (See also: Pomodoro, Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, and etc.) Last month PGE, as no one calls it, handed out … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (Rod Blagojevich Edition)
From Politico columnist Roger Simon’s op-ed (headline: “Another Illinois Governor Goes to Jail”) in today’s Wall Street Journal: “You could cut off [Rod Blagojevich’s] head and he wouldn’t be any dumber,” a Chicago insider tells me. But Blago might be getting … Continue reading
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Tagged Blago, Chicago, Politico, Rod Blagojevich, Roger Simon, Wall Street Journal
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Whiteyrama: Howie ‘Report’ Carr(d)
Boston Herald hall monitor Howie Carr’s column today engages in the Greatest American Pastime: The Assigning of Blame. To wit: Weld, Dukakis and others deserve blame It takes more than two guys, no matter how monstrously evil they are, to … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Bulger, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Channel 2, Chris Lydom, Howie Carr, Mike Dukakis, the Corrupt Midget, Whitey Bulger, Whiteyrama, William Weld
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Manny Being Money
Boston expatriate Frank McCourt – long derided as Parking Lot Owner ever since he failed to buy the Red Sox and got the Los Angeles Dodgers as a consolation prize – is now fighting not only his ex-wife Jamie in … Continue reading
NPR = ‘Nvestigative Public Radio
Tuesday was a banner day for investigative reports on NPR. Start with Morning Edition’s major takeout on the 2005 Congressional mandate that dollar coins be issued with the image of every U.S. president: $1 Billion That Nobody Wants Politicians in … Continue reading
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