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Published July 4th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Years ago, when the space race began in earnest, one of the most fascinating elements of that achievement was the development of powdered orange juice.
Published July 3rd, 2009 - 12:05AM
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Ricci case – that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they did well was thrown out because not enough blacks did well – will have no effect on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Published July 3rd, 2009 - 12:05AM
BOSTON – This is probably not the best week to air any reservations about the American passion for independence. After all, we don’t have fireworks for Dependence Day. We don’t hold parades to celebrate Interdependence Day. We don’t get a holiday for Connections.
Published July 2nd, 2009 - 12:05AM
WASHINGTON – The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought.
Published July 1st, 2009 - 12:05AM
Health care reformers have found a new defining issue, something they call the “public option.” Simply – and devastatingly – they want Congress to establish a government-run health insurance plan to compete with the hundreds of private plans in the marketplace.
Published July 1st, 2009 - 12:05AM
Sometimes, death is a blindside hit.
Published June 30th, 2009 - 12:05AM
WASHINGTON – The Spanish professor is puzzled. Why, Gabriel Calzada won-ders, is the U.S. president recom-mending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating “green jobs” in “alternative energy” even though Spain’s unemployment rate is 18.1 percent – more than double the European Union average – partly because of spending on such jobs?
Published June 29th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Pacific Northwest Dweller, you’re a hopeful, optimistic creature. A few adorable crocuses pop up and you figure it’s safe to come out of your hovel. You think winter is over, the worst is behind you.
Published June 28th, 2009 - 12:05AM
To Manifested Glory Ministries of Bridgeport, Conn.:
Published June 28th, 2009 - 12:05AM
WASHINGTON – Iran today is a revolution in search of its Yeltsin.
Published June 27th, 2009 - 12:05AM
President Obama is opposed to the torture of everyone but himself.
Published June 26th, 2009 - 5:16PM
Many performers can impress or delight, but only a few can astonish. Michael Jackson did it twice. The first time was October 1969, when the hit single “I Want You Back” introduced a cherubic 11-year-old boy who sang with unbelievable maturity, soulfulness and swing. The second was March 1983, when the prodigy — now grown tall, thin and angular — moonwalked through an electrifying “Billie Jean,” leaving a national television audience slack-jawed at how effortlessly he defied the laws of physics.
Published June 26th, 2009 - 12:05AM
As big, dumb summer “entertainments” go, they don’t get much bigger or much dumber than “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” The briefly amusing mash-up/crunch-up of a couple of summers back has been recycled into an epic two and a half hours of explosions, ponderous cartoon history, veiled racism and inept geography.
Published June 26th, 2009 - 12:05AM
BOSTON – From time to time, a message pops into my e-mail announcing that someone is “Following You On Twitter.” In fact, I don’t go anywhere on Twitter, having signed up just to get squatter’s rights to my own name.
Published June 26th, 2009 - 12:05AM
WASHINGTON – A wise man once said that love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

 
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