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...action. Sadly, recent Boston Globe articles reported the demise of Weld's marriage with his quiet, cerebral wife--a woman notoriously shy of government functions and engrossed in her studies of Chinese law. The Globe article reported that Bill was permanently living in the city, dating a celebrity columnist from the trite magazine In Style and considering a career in acting...
Boston Globe columnist David Nyhan ribbed the major presidential candidates and shared his thoughts on the world of politics and journalism at an IOP discussion Wednesday night...
Attentive readers of the newspapers this week may have noticed an odd coincidence. On Monday, the day before Independence Day, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby devoted his op-ed column to a stirring remembrance of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, many of whom are now forgotten to history. He reserved his highest praise for an obscure signer from New Jersey, John Hart. Read carefully: "[Hart] was forced to flee in the winter of 1776, at the age of 65, from his dying wife's bedside. While he hid in forests and caves, his home was demolished...
Nothing wrong with that. But the very next day, the syndicated advice columnist Ann Landers reprinted a column a reader had sent her with an eerily similar theme and strikingly similar language: "John Hart was driven from the bedside of his dying wife," the column read. "Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year, he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children gone. He died shortly thereafter, heartbroken." It also so happens that this clip closely resembled a passage from...
...Please advise Jeanne McDowell that when she reports Laura Schlessinger is a "psychotherapist," she is in error. Even Schlessinger herself, once you pin her to the mat, will admit she holds no degrees in psychotherapy, and is totally unqualified to do anything other than her true calling: lonely hearts columnist...