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Speaking inside Faneuil Hall, where the nation??s founders once convened to establish the American democracy, Kerry told his campaign staff that “we cannot win this election” and offered his congratulations to the incumbent victor, President Bush...
...held a study group this past spring concerning the election of the nation??s leader. What did you consider the highlight of this seminar...
...usual three a.m. sounds of vomiting fratguys and awkward “goodnights”... After several pundits floated her name as a potential Supreme Court nominee, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan ditched her new $1.4 million Cambridge condo last weekend for a pre-election trip to the nation??s capital, suspiciously close to the Rehnquist estate. Antonin Scalia is already having wet dreams...
...list of Massachusetts firsts is dizzying: the nation??s first college, published newspaper, published novel, free public school, public park, public library, Thanksgiving, railroad, subway and basketball game, to name a few. And naturally there are the local trailblazers: Paul Revere, Sam and John Adams, John F. Kennedy ’40, etc. But the real essence of this place lies in something less quantifiable—the V-word, if you will...
...proven itself the reliable defender of American ideals before there was even a formal America. The same democratic impulses that spawned the colonial town meeting live on in a vibrant local government and the spirit of civic-mindedness. The same emphasis on equality and justice that gave us the nation??s first abolitionist newspaper endure in our continuing quest for civil rights. So, after an election in which a plurality of voters touted “values” as their foremost concern, how were our quintessentially American values so demonized and rebuked...