When Massachusetts voters choose a governor on November 5, they’re more likely to be thinking about, say, tolls on the Turnpike than the balance of power in Washington, DC. But […]
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Salvati makes the FBI a federal case
When the appalling tale of Joe Salvati’s 30-year imprisonment for a murder he did not commit first became public more than a year ago, there was something strangely unsurprising about […]
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Whats missing from the bioterror plan
By late December it was still hauntingly unclear who had dropped several anthrax letters into the US mail shortly after September 11. Terrorist followers of Osama bin Laden were, of […]
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Making the deans list
Capitol Hill is generally considered a den of publicity hounds, free agents, and egomaniacs–folks who mean well, perhaps, but would get low marks in the “plays well with others” category […]
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Kerrys lean and hungry look
Summer is here, and Democrats in Washington are smiling again. In the bleak days of late winter and early spring, many a dispirited Dem felt overwhelmed by an unexpectedly nimble […]
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Kennedys Bush game
It was a few days before the November election, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was determined to prevent the White House from falling into Republican hands. So he stormed onto […]
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Playing their cards rightmdashAn unlikely return to the White House for Bay State Republicans
WASHINGTON–The ouster of the last Republican presidential administration in 1992 brought an end to the special influence a small group of Massachusetts Republicans enjoyed within the inner sanctums of the […]