Kennedy’s diagnosis sad news to many
The sad news regarding the illness of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has affected many. I’m not shy to say that I’m one of them. For more than a decade, first as legislative coordinator of the then Tri-Community Chamber and subsequently as Southbridge town manager, I had the honor of working closely with Mr. Kennedy.
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Make health care affordable to consumers
Dr. Frederic Schwartz’s recent criticism, “Physician-rating initiative is deeply flawed in practice” (Telegram & Gazette, May 13) of the Group Insurance Commission’s physician rating program as a way to deal with issues of cost and quality is likewise deeply flawed.
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Time to terminate Tantasqua tussle
Given the amount of attention it has received, you’d think the Great Rubber Duck Caper at Tantasqua Regional High School this spring was a momentous educational issue. In reality, putting 3,000 toys in a pond in the middle of the night is exactly what it appears to be - a whimsical and harmless prank of the variety that is increasingly hard to find in a world intent on finding offense, if not litigation, around every corner.
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Early pro ballplayers faced vituperative critiques in local press
Let’s just imagine an unlikely scenario:
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Was outrage over RFK remark launched by Obama campaign?
So Friday came along, and there was Sen. Hillary Clinton, sitting with the editorial board of The Argus Leader, in Sioux Falls, S.D. Inevitably, someone asked her about her dragging the Democratic presidential campaign into the month of June.
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Review - Then She Found Me
THEN SHE FOUND ME [R]
Everything goes wrong for April (Helen Hunt, who also directs) in the opening minutes of this movie: her husband Ben (Matthew Broderick) announces that he’s leaving her, then throws her work schedule into chaos by not appearing the following day at the school where they both teach.
Fretting to her sickly mother about her marital woes (April wants kids and she’s already hitting 40), she gets less in the way of a sympathetic ear than a dollop of practical advice: “So adopt!” snaps her mother. But April wants more: she wants the sense of deep connection between herself and a child of her own flesh.
Just as April is wondering what more can go awry, her adoptive mother dies; and finally, fate delivers the coup de grace which gives the movie its title: Then She Found Me.
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Review - Young@Heart
YOUNG@HEART [PG]
The first scene in director Stephen Walker’s documentary Young@Heart is of 92-year-old Eileen Hall belting out a rendition of punk pioneers The Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go” before an enraptured audience.
Hall is regal, with a face deeply lined and snow-white hair; as she opens wide to let the words loose, her tongue is visible, and it, too, is wrinkled. It’s a delectable image, and the perfect capsule summary for a movie about a chorus made up of senior citizens who tackle all sorts of musical genres; not just the big band stuff of the 1940s, or classical compositions, as you might imagine, but the hottest new acts like Coldplay, along with some that have attained modern classic status like The Police and The Talking Heads.
Their idea of vintage music is James Brown’s “I Feel Good,” and you can tell that despite oxygen tanks and bouts of […]
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DVD Giveaway - Early Edition: The First Season
Every day Gary Hobson has 24 hours to get things right. Emmy® nominee Kyle Chandler (“Friday Night Lights,” The Kingdom) stars as the Chicago stockbroker, Gary, who loses his job, his home, his brilliant attorney wife – and maybe even his mind – as tomorrow’s newspaper begins to mysteriously arrive a day early. What does he do with tomorrow’s news? With help of his friends Chuck (Fisher Stevens) and Marissa (Shanesia Davis-Williams), he becomes a man with a mission, trying to save people’s lives and stop disasters from happening as he struggles
to make sense of a world turned upside-down by the changing course of events that come along with the “early edition.” A reluctant hero is given the power when Early Edition: The First Season, arrives for the first time on DVD June 24th from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment.
You might win a copy of the Early Edition: […]
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