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Tag Archives: New York Times
It’s Good to Live in a Three-Newspaper Town
Open up the New York Times Tuesday and here’s what tops page A11: For Cape Cod Wind Farm, New Hurdle Is Spiritual Julia Cumes/Associated Press Two Massachusetts Indian tribes have objected to the Cape Wind project, saying it would block … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Cape Wind, New York Times
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Six Hicks Pix Click
Sunday’s New York Times Week in Review section featured The Year in Pictures 2009. And that featured six – count ’em, six (out of 50) – photos by Times staffer Tyler Hicks. One guy. Over 10% of the year’s images. … Continue reading
The New Totalitarianism
Meet the new boss. Same as the underlings of the old boss. So it seems that French politics is tangled up in the Web. Via the New York Times: [T]he Internet has proved to be an exasperating source of embarrassment … Continue reading
Ads ‘n’ Ends
Item: Ex Marks the Gubernatorial Spots The Big Two Timeses – New York and Los Angeles – ran pieces on Sunday about ex-governors running for their former offices. NYT headline: “4 Ex-Governors,Older, Grayer And Yearning for Jobs of Yore.” The … Continue reading
Hokey Pokey Shmokey!
The Saturday Boston Globe (finally) re-ran Bruce Weber’s excellent New York Times obituary about Robert Degan, 104, who “had hand in ‘Hokey Pokey’.” Offficial Campaign Outsider hokey-pokey refresher course (via the Times): You put your right hand in, You put … Continue reading
Grand Old Party Poopers?
The (left-leaning) mainstream media would have you believe that the Republican party is engaged in an ideological civil war. So said The Weekly Standard recently in a Scrapbook entry headlined “A Dysfunctional GOP?” Nut graf: A supposed civil war in … Continue reading
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Tagged Dysfunctional GOP, Lindsey Graham, New York Times, Weekly Standard
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Oh Brother (Blue), Where Wert Thou?
Three-plus weeks after the fact, the New York Times obituarized Boston’s own Brother Blue. Hugh Morgan Hill, who as the storyteller known as Brother Blue captivated passers-by on the streets of Boston and Cambridge, Mass., with his parables, life stories … Continue reading
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Tagged Brother Blue, Martha Coakley, New York Times, Ted Kennedy
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New York Times in Fantasyland
Page One story in Friday’s New York Times: “Drop the Mask! It’s Halloween, Kids, You Might Scare Somebody.” Guns, daggers and other toy weapons have long been excised from costumes at many school celebrations on Halloween. But in some classrooms … Continue reading
“Precious” Revenues
So it turn out Sunday’s New York Times magazine cover story – “The Audacity of ‘Precious’” – isn’t just the potential viper’s nest of identity politics and PC policing that the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider flagged yesterday. It’s also … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Times, Rubik's Cube, The Audacity of "Precious"
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New York Times “Honest” Mistake?
New York Times legal beagle Adam Liptak had a column on Tuesday examining a federal law that makes it a crime for public officials to “deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.” As Liptak notes, what “honest services” … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Liptak, Harvey Silverglate, honest services, New York Times, Sal DiMasi
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