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Needed: A fuller report from Kazakhstan
My old Boston Phoenix colleague Ellen Barry, now the stellar Russia correspondent for the New York Times, weighs in with a surprisingly by-the-numbers report on the weekend election in Kazakhstan. The...
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Globe seeks false balance on Goldstone mea culpa
Richard Goldstone I’m disappointed that editors at the Boston Globe decided they needed to balance Jeff Jacoby’s column on Richard Goldstone’s remarkable mea culpa regarding Israel’s conduct in the...
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Someone at Forbes should have gone to Northeastern
I really should be working, but I can’t let this pass. Forbes has posted its rankings of colleges and universities, and Northeastern comes in at a very low 534th. Dig a little deeper, as one of my...
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Forbes tries to justify four-year error
The Boston Globe checks in with Forbes to find out how the magazine’s annual rankings could penalize Northeastern University for having a low four-year graduation rate given that it is a five-year...
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Boehner puts words in Obama’s mouth
It looks like House Speaker John Boehner put out a fake quote attributed to President Obama, and that no one is going to call him on it. Here it is in the New York Times: “President Obama likes to talk...
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Romney didn’t really call Gingrich “zany”
You may have heard that Mitt Romney called Newt Gingrich “zany” in an interview with the New York Times — a rather incendiary charge that’s now burning its way through the political Web. A quick...
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Which Senate candidate is raising more money in-state?
So which U.S. Senate candidate is raising more money from Massachusetts residents? The Republican incumbent, Scott Brown, or his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren? The emphasis in today’s Boston...
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Following up on those Senate fundraising numbers
I have figured out why there is a disparity between the U.S. Senate fundraising numbers in Brian Mooney’s Boston Globe story today and in the chart that accompanies his story. It involves the...
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Making it on his own — with a little help
In the Boston Herald, columnist Jessica Heslam writes that Brian Maloney, the owner of the Roxbury trucking company that Mitt Romney visited yesterday, made it without any help from anybody, dadgummit:...
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How reporters can beat the convention-hall wisdom
Ron Paul supporters in Tampa earlier this week. This commentary also appears at the Huffington Post. The media — all 15,000-plus reporters, photographers, editors, producers and assorted hangers-on...
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