Word: hartnett
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...argued over its bill on drug abuse two weeks ago, several lawmakers employed the rhetoric of war in discussing the nation's fight against narcotics. Republican E. Clay Shaw of Florida called drugs "the biggest threat that we have ever had to our national security." South Carolina Republican Thomas Hartnett declared them "a threat worse than any nuclear warfare or any chemical warfare waged on any battlefield...
...Cubs having nothing to look back on or forward to, it stood to reason, their games stayed a little stiller in time, though grassy and unlit Wrigley Field obviously had much to do with it. "Their ivy-covered burial ground," the late composer Steve Goodman called it, where Gabby Hartnett hit his Homer in the Gloamin' and Babe Ruth may have pointed to the sky. Bill Veeck, who planted the original outfield vines in 1938, sits out there every day now bleaching his peg leg. That style of ivy is called bittersweet...
Desks and loans matter." says Storin of the Globe. "They tell us something about a man's values." Wayne Woodlief of the Herald agrees. These incidents take you beyond the candidates' nights, beyond their stands on issues." But, argues Hartnett, "It's a lazy man's way to report. They should follow up. They should go out into the street...
Several years ago, after an embarrassing miscall, the Globe decided to stop polling altogether. But the resolve didn't last long. "There's something exciting about the polls that makes a news event." recalls Hartnett, who spent eight years at the Globe. "How good they are is beside the point. This is felling you who's gonna win the Pats game before they play." Sure enough, the polls returned, but fitfully...
...Everybody's afraid of confronting something so troubling and emotional that they can make it worse." Hartnett agrees. "But it's the biggest issue in Boston...