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Media Matters (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In a July 21 post to the Boston Globe blog Political Intelligence, staff writer Michael Kranish reported that Sen. John McCain "criticized [Sen. Barack] Obama for not voting for a resolution condemning the antiwar group MoveOn.org for a newspaper ad calling the top US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, 'General Betray Us.' " But Kranish did not note that, while Obama was not present for the...
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Cheapflights.com Flight News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Ticket prices for travel from Boston Logan International Airport have risen by 27.5 percent this year, compared with a national average increase of 13.8 percent, according to figures analyzed by Farecast Live Search exclusively for The Boston Globe. The newspaper...
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Solomonia (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The local Jewish Advocate newspaper has done a front page story on the Boston Globe email scandal that Hillel Stavis broke here a couple of weeks ago. See: Emails Reveal: Boston Globe Reporter Sucks Up to the Cambridge Peace Commission....
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Boston 1775 (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
In response to the Boston Globe opinion piece by Prof. Edward Glaeser that I quoted yesterday , Brad Arndt of Somerville told the newspaper : Most militiamen who fought and perished for the colonial cause were conscripted into service from outlying farmlands and rural communities. And of these country men, a full two-thirds were either unsympathetic or indifferent to the war effort, aware no doubt...
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Getting close to the end of this chapter?... Under the discussions now taking place, Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search operations, the Journal said. Another company, such as Time Warner's AOL or News Corp.'s MySpace, would combine with the rest of Yahoo, the newspaper said. News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal. Microsoft representatives met with Icahn to encourage him in his proxy battle, the...
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Barack Obama's got a big problem now that one newspaper --the Boston Globe-- has begun to scratch the surface of the South Side of Chicago's politico-sleaze culture: But a Globe review found that thousands of...
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Barack Obama's got a big problem now that one newspaper --the Boston Globe-- has begun to scratch the surface of the South Side of Chicago's politico-sleaze culture: But a Globe review found that thousands of...
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Political Insider | ajc.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
The Washington, D.C.-based direct mail firm that raised $1.1 million for Republican Deborah Honeycutt’s 2006 congressional bid spent very little of it on her campaign, according to a newspaper report. The Boston Globe reported in its Sunday editions that the...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
-- Boston Globe Sale? : Speculation about the Boston Globe's future as a New York Times Company ( NYSE: NYT ) asset is about as persistent as YHOO-MSFT rumors. The latest from The Phoenix is a report that NYTCo chairman Arthur Sulzberger was asked at a staff town hall meeting if the paper is on the block. His reply, according to the paper's source: ""As you can imagine, we can't get into that whole...
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Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
This is the best blog everyone's seen so this year. So says everyone. And, astonishingly, it comes from a newspaper: The Boston Globe. Launched on 1 June, "In its first 20 days of existence, it's almost reached 1.5 million pageviews...
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chrisbrogan.com (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Yesterday, one of my blog posts was featured in the Boston Globe. I’m really pleased by this, and I really like Scott Kirsner, who was kind enough to include me. And the Globe was kind enough to type out the name of my URL into both the newspaper and the website version. Only, no [...]
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Boston Globe On June 22, 1971, the Boston Globe became the third US newspaper to publish the Pentagon Papers, which were provided by a source who called himself "Mr. Boston." Retired Globe editor Matthew Storin writes: "Two editors were instructed to stand by telephone booths in Cambridge and Newton. The Newton 'drop' was the fruitful one, and Tom Ryan , national news editor, walked triumphantly into...
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Rock The Truth (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Gotta go back 37 years to get it. " A victory for the Globe and the press ON THIS day in 1971 , The Boston Globe became the third American newspaper to publish the top secret Pentagon Papers , an authorized but embarrassing US history of the Vietnam War. Yeah, you guys wouldn't want to do that about Iraq with the voluminous amount of evidence you know exists!! Yeah, you'd rather bash and hide McClellan...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Swiss banking giant UBS knew as early as December that the auction-rate securities market was in trouble, but continued to sell the investments to some clients without warning of the potential risk, the Boston Globe reported Monday. While UBS brokers said they were surprised by the meltdown in the segment of the municipal-bond market, the company had advised some large investment-banking...
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Languagehat.com (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
A couple of newspaper articles on the revival of Penobscot, an Algonquian language barely hanging on in Maine ( Ethnologue prematurely pronounces it extinct): the Boston Globe 's " Last Words ," by Stacey Chase, and DownEast Magazine 's " Lost in Translation ," by Abby Zimet. Both have good quotes and samples of Penobscot words. From the Globe piece: Maine's Native American tribes speak closely related...
