To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

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    An Educational Moment

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY SUSAN ESTRICH “They don’t know that you teach at Harvard when you’re at Fenway Park,” my friend Harry Edwards used to say about living in Boston in the late ’70s. Back then, Boston did more than its share to earn a bad reputation among black professionals. Today, Massachusetts has an African-American governor. The Celtics […]

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    Cash For Clunkers Means ‘Cha-Ching’ For Detroit

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY FROMA HARROP This is what I told my friend Frank: Under the “cash for clunkers” program, you could get more money for your ’93 Mercury Grand Marquis than it was worth – up to $4,500 if you used it to buy a new vehicle with much better gas mileage. “What would they do with […]

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    Republicans Looking Crazy On Health Care

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY FROMA HARROP Some attacks on health care reform are so ludicrous that you don’t think they need answering. A recent example invokes an evil plot to save money by knocking off the elderly. Though nuts, the charges have gotten so much attention that someone has to actually say, “No, they’re not killing Grandma.” The […]

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    Look Out! The Circus Has Come To Town

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER Who doesn’t love a parade? And here comes a big one! You can feel the beat of the drums, hear the trumpeting of elephants and the melodious call of the calliope – all of which announce that the circus is back in town. But, wait, why aren’t the people happy about the […]

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH You just have to see the picture of her: a girl on the verge, finding her style, raising her voice, about to embark on a life she could barely yet imagine. This summer she was supposed to volunteer helping homeless drug addicts on Skid Row. Instead, according to police, she was killed […]

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