Word: franklins
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...republic, if you can keep it." That was Benjamin Franklin's response to an inquiry at the end of the 1787 Constitutional Convention about the type of government the founders of the U.S. had just created. The remark is usually cited as an example of Franklin's renowned wit, but he was deadly serious. He understood the experiment in constitutional governance to be a delicate thing: one that is difficult to maintain, and easy to destroy. We are reminded of this once again as we observe the sad and tawdry constitutional crisis that has suddenly engulfed South Korea because...
...double entendres, which gives it a distinct creative advantage when dipping into the past. Honkin' on Bobo isn't burdened by respect or ambition, it's just a bunch of ragged blues covers (and one bluesy original) seemingly selected with the aid of a dartboard. (Aretha Franklin? Fleetwood Mac?) There are lots of potential quibbles - like, for instance, that Aerosmith playing roadhouse blues sounds a lot like ZZ Top playing rock 'n' roll - but other than a disastrously sincere take on Jesus Is on the Main Line, Honkin' on Bobo is full of clamorous charm. Perry isn't the guitarist...
...late-night shooting at the corner of Franklin and Putnam Avenues, one block east of Mather House, left no one hurt and police searching for the perpetrator, according to Cambridge Police Department (CPD) spokesperson Frank T. Pasquarello...
...some words of exchange with a group of people he knew [in the car],” Pasquarello said. “He followed them to Putnam and Franklin...
...idea that because individual Americans died, 9/11--whether as image, event or political issue--is outside the public domain is absurd. By that logic, Franklin Roosevelt would have been prevented from invoking Pearl Harbor in his 1944 re-election campaign. In fact, he not only invoked it many times ("The American people are not panicked easily," he said in a White House radio address just five days before the election. "Pearl Harbor proved that") but visited Pearl in July 1944, at the very kickoff of his campaign...