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...earlier this year, the Boston School Committee unveiled a new admissions process for the three exam schools--Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy and the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science--that would admit 50 percent of each entering class on "merit" alone...
This comfortable space is a recently new phenomenon. For many years, especially in high school, I pretended to be politically neutral and denied my Republicanism. I refrained from defending my partymen in the interest of self-preservation; I knew I would be derided were I to admit my true political leanings. It truly enraged me though to see what a beating Republicans took, but I kept silent. When political opinions were necessary, I responded with the liberal party line--and was rewarded. I always worried that if I had given a different response, my grade would have been lower...
...wind starts to pick up, Soldiers Field can get pretty damn cold pretty quick. I'll probably attend a couple of ballgames, but not without my mittens (that last statement about "mittens" was self-mocking; I don't actually own mittens and I'd never admit it anyway...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Where you stood on the news that Liggett Group decided to settle lawsuits with 22 states by agreeing to admit that cigarette smoking is addictive depended very much on where in the morass of tobacco litigation you currently sat. States Attorneys General pointed to the fact that the North Carolina-based maker of Chesterfield, Lark and L&M cigarettes agreed to up-front payments of about $25 million, plus 2.5 percent of its pretax profits over the next 25 years, as evidence that tobacco companies are in some way responsible for the health-care costs states are suing...
Although I doubt anyone is the Tommy's groupie that I claim to be, I think Mr. Suleiman, despite his protestations, is much closer to me than he would like to admit. That possibly explains his presence at Tommy's the very night his tirade against the restaurant appeared; he apparently was enjoying a nice, fat cheese slice, with a sesame seed crust. Isn't it ironic. --Sozi Tulante Sozinho...