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...most rewarding aspect of this experience is meeting other Connecticut Republicans, who actually exist outside of my cubicle. On a trip to the State Capitol, I met Representative John Harkins, who fumed over Democrats’ attempt to offer instate college tuition to illegal immigrants; but not to their legal counterparts. At a brunch in Waterbury, I heard Congressman Murphy’s challenger, State Senator David Cappiello, slam a Democratic State Senator’s naive remark that the only reason businesses were leaving Connecticut was because they wanted to make money. In my native Manchester, I helped...
...with filmmaking, Roger knows that the machinery of film production is so cumbersome, the pressure for commercial success so great and the odds against making anything good near-astronomical, that the best intentions often get dashed on the rocks of compromise. So he's nearly as sympathetic to the attempt to make a good film as to the achievement in bringing it off. He errs, if erring it is, on the side of generosity...
Marc McGovern, one of the two Cambridge School Committee members defeated in 2005, formally declared on Tuesday that he would attempt to win back his seat this November, and pledged to improve the delivery of special and early childhood education services and to work to create “safe and healthy schools...
...involved in the scuffle, a 27-year old East Boston resident, told police that he recognized the shooter as a man who had pulled a gun on him during a past incident. After the suspect allegedly brandished a black .9mm handgun, an attempt was made to wrestle the gun away from him by the man who approached...
...Administration has suffered embarrassing legal setbacks over the imprisonment of alleged terrorists at Guantanamo. Last year, the Supreme Court invalidated Bush's system of military trials for Guantanamo prisoners. Late in 2006 the Republican-led Congress enacted a law that created a new system of military tribunals in an attempt to address legal flaws identified by the court...