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Silent on the issue of Seabrook and nuclear power, Democratic Candidate Tom Harkin used the plant as a backdrop for a Friday speech in which he denounced front runner and former Massachusetts Sen. Paul E. Tsongas as a "Seabrook cheerleader...
...tables are indeed turned, but in the process, the authors sacrifice objectivity. Every detail in this book is cast against a negative backdrop, often one of racial bias and greed...
...authors could justify the negative backdrop with attributed characterizations and allegations by individuals inside and outside the organization. And Araton and Bondy do provide some extensive quotes from disgruntled former players and other self-admitted nemeses of the organization...
...hard to imagine a more appropriate locale than Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the setting for the conglomeration of 90s woe so adroitly depicted in Jonathan Franzen's new novel Strong Motion. Against the backdrop of eccentric Cambridge, Franzen tells the story of a young man's struggle to reconcile his idealism in a corrupt and continually disappointing world, capturing the social ailments of our society in both a humorous and candid light...
Back home in Cambridge, the police reported over 1000 incidents of violent crime last year. And in cities like Detroit and Washington, D.C., simple murder is old news unless there's a sex scandal or a psychopathic weirdo as a backdrop to the killing...