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08/20/2008

Steve Poftak: Transport reform: Repair process, too
BOSTON

Too few of us learn Chinese
RIVERHEAD, N.Y.

Don Pesci: Hartford to the Feds: Drop dead
VERNON, Conn.

Llewellyn King: In praise of Novak, who actually reported
WASHINGTON

08/19/2008

Fidelma Fitzpatrick/Bob McConnell/Jack McConnell:
THE RHODE ISLAND Supreme Court got it terribly wrong in its decision in the recent lead-paint case.

J. Victor Marshall: America to blame for much of Georgia crisis
OAKLAND, Calif.

Michael Fink: Breastfeeding and public health
I LOOK AT THE PHOTOS of candidate Barack Obama and his family in People magazine, watch the interview with the children on television and all I can think of is “Did Michelle breastfeed those children?” I know that seems strange, but breastfeeding advocacy is part of my job, and the thought may not be as irrelevant as it seems at first glance. Here is a vibrant young American family right smack in the public eye and breastfeeding is a public-health issue.

An iconic moment in U.S. race relations
FORTY YEARS AGO there occurred a seismic event in African-American history and the annals of the Olympics. Two black American world-class sprinters, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, protested race relations in the United States following their stellar performances in the 200-meter race at the 1968 XIXth Olympiad, in Mexico City. Smith had won the gold medal in record time, Carlos the bronze.

08/18/2008

Stanley M. Aronson: Peanuts, Cracker Jacks and plaster casts
SONGS COME AND GO, but a few — for reasons of patriotism, religious credence or evocative melody — may linger on for decades or more. Among those cherished songs that have endured, there is one that depends neither on praise of this nation nor spiritual devotion. It is a simple melody and an endearing, unpretentious message which never soars above nor even departs appreciably from the secular venues of this nation’s ballparks. Its words were written in 1908 by Jack Norworth, a successful vaudevillian, songwriter and producer, and its music was composed by Albert von Tilzer. It is a simple song of four stanzas written by one who had, in truth, never witnessed a baseball game. Its name is “Take Me Out to the Ball Game!”

Amy F. Isaacs: U.S. urgently needs a new health-care model
WASHINGTON

08/17/2008

William Felkner: Transparency long overdue in R.I.
PUBLIC SERVICES just seem to cost more in the Ocean State, call it the “Rhode Island Factor.” “R.I. ranks 3rd nationally in fire department payrolls,” “R.I. ranks 2nd to last in pension financing,” and “R.I.’s inmate costs highest in nation” are some of the headlines recently reported. Back in the days of hand-set type they would have called these standing heads — stories so frequent that the printer left the type assembled.

Caught in tinderbox of the Caucasus
DILI, Timor Leste

Cheating, chemo, commitment
THE CHEATING PRIVILEGES given by Samantha of Sex and the City to her young lover while she was undergoing chemotherapy underscore the devastating effects of treatment.

08/16/2008

Michael Tollefson: Wrong ship, Mr. Conley
www.baltimore.to/Constellation/index.html. — “The last Civil War vessel afloat, [Baltimore’s] USS Constellation, was built in 1854 and is . . . a sloop-of-war, or corvette, and the second United States Naval ship to carry this famous name.”

Hal Abelson/Ken Ledeen/Harry Lewis: Cultural standards roiled by intrusive technology
CAMBRIDGE

Scott Turner: A beautiful thing of this world
AN EARLY MORNING BREEZE dipped slender hibiscus branches beneath the kitchen window shade.

David Holahan: Achieving ‘plumber’s high’ on the Vineyard
AQUINNAH, Mass.

08/15/2008

James Chin: Political correctness undermines AIDS fight
STOCKTON, Calif.