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Weekly Standard Whacks Mike Dukakis Re: Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg may have been executed in 1953 for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to Russia, as this Los Angeles Times front page noted. Except they haven’t really. During the past six decades, the Rosenbergs have been subject to more … Continue reading
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Tagged atomic secrets, Boston Globe, Boston University, boston.com, Ethel Rosenberg, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Stalin, Julius Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times, Michael Dukakis, Michael Meeropol, Robert Meeropol, Roy Cohn, Ruth Greenglass, Sacco and Vanzetti, Scrapbook, The New Red Scare, The Weekly Standard, Upton Sinclair
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Aramark’s the Spot: Humane League Targets BU Dining Service
So we received this email yesterday from an outfit called Agony at Aramark. (Full disclosure: The hardworking staff has moonlighted at Boston University for a number of years.) Dear Boston University, I represent The Humane League, a leading international animal … Continue reading
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Tagged Agony at Aramark, Aramark, Boston University, Compass Group, Huffington Post, Humane League, Sodexo, the hardeating staff
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Boston University Strips Bill Cosby of Honorary Degree
After what seemed like an interminable delay, Boston University has joined myriad other academic institutions and torn the sheets with Bill Cosby. Statement of BU president Robert A. Brown: After careful consideration, the Boston University Board of Trustees has voted … Continue reading
Martha Gellhorn’s Excellent 1947 American Adventure
Martha Gellhorn was much more than just another ex-wife of Ernest Hemingway. She was a superb war correspondent, an accomplished novelist, and a perceptive analyst of post-World War II America. (See Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center for further … Continue reading
NYT Slowbituary: David Greenglass, Ratted Out the Rosenbergs
From Page One of today’s New York Times: Interesting that Greenglass’s death went unreported for over three months. Mr. Greenglass died on July 1, a family member confirmed. He was 92. His family did not announce his death; The New … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Over Here’ at Boston Athenaeum
Well the Missus and I trundled downtown yesterday to catch Over Here: World War I Posters From Around The World and say, it was swell. The Boston Athenæum holds an extraordinary, but little known, collection of World War I posters. Consisting … Continue reading
John Silber Fights Again
Full Disclosure #1: The hardworking staff currently teaches at Boston University and does not have tenure. Full Disclosure #2: The hardworking staff has fond memories of former BU czar John Silber. Back in the day, we regularly collided with Dr. … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (Miss Da Mayah Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk What will the Boston Herald do when Tom Menino vacates the corner office at City Hall? Probably a lot more of this: Inside, Menino sort of answers the question . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to … Continue reading
U-Grill Has Won The Great BU Pizza War!
From our Late to the Pizza Party desk It’s only taken the hardwalking staff a month and a half to notice this, but the Great BU Pizza War is over. The slice-off between the venerable University Grill and the upstart … Continue reading
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Tagged @sportsgirlkat, Boston Restaurant Talk, Boston University, BU Pizza War, Comm. Ave., Sal's Pizza, U-Grill, University Grill, Yelp
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BU Nighthawks Rejoice! Insomnia Cookies Is Coming To Campus!
The building next door to the hardteaching staff’s office at Boston University has a sign announcing that coming soon is Insomnia Cookies, which delivers fresh baked goods in the wee hours of the morning. Website: The hardteaching staff looks … Continue reading
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