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• Phillies have the stars, but not the respect
If somebody says “Dodgers,” you probably think, “great franchise with a history of winning.” If somebody says “Phillies,” you probably think, “losers.” Hey, I don’t make the rules. I just comment on them. You want to blame somebody ...
• Same old prescriptions for the new contagion
But any history of the period is likely to show that it was the private mortgage industry and Wall Street that together created the subprime market, and that Fannie and Freddie were rather late to join in the party. In the end, neither candidate ...
• A low-voltage encounter for presidential rivals
And if you were not a student of history, or a political junkie, you probably had trouble with McCain’s abbreviated, telegraphic manner of speaking: He refers to long-ago events (President Reagan deploying Marines to Lebanon) and seems to assume ...
• Comedians leave voters with great impression
Yet clearly, throughout history, whenever an individual stepped into the presidential arena, he or she could be reasonably sure that somewhere another individual was copying them for comic effect.  Comedian Vaughn Meader made an entire career in the ...
• Divers reach ship that sank off Mass. in 1898
BOSTON - Five Massachusetts men became the first divers to reach the wreck of a 19th-century steamship that sank in one of the most destructive storms in New England history, and say they saw an array of artifacts like dishes and mugs but no human ...