Note the Date..Remember This?? August 31, 2006
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The Three-State Solution
Author:
Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow Council on Foreign Relations
November 25, 2003
The New York Times
President Bush’s new strategy of transferring power quickly to Iraqis, and his critics’ alternatives, share a fundamental flaw: all commit the United States to a unified Iraq, artificially and fatefully made whole from three distinct ethnic [...]
All Things are Passing…… August 15, 2006
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Sharing the oceanic feeling
By James Carroll | August 14, 2006
“LET NOTHING disturb thee, nothing affright thee.” This verse of the Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila pops into your mind as you stare out at the ocean horizon. In the tranquility of an August afternoon at the beach, the hatch to the attic of free association [...]
An excerpt….Nagasaki principle….James Carroll August 7, 2006
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Across the decades, the United States has had a case of what the historian Marc Trachtenberg calls “nuclear amnesia,” a profound forgetfulness about the context and consequences of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The context included the prior destruction of dozens of Japanese cities, most notably Tokyo, that relativized the damage done at the [...]
Boston Globe Explains August 4, 2006
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A note from the editor
August 4, 2006
Last week, the Globe published a major story on its front page about a memo warning Modern Continental that the Interstate 90 connector ceiling might collapse. The document carried the signature of John J. Keaveney, a former safety officer for Modern Continental. In the memo, Keaveney expressed concern that [...]
A Leak in the Ceiling…. August 4, 2006
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Ex-Big Dig safety official admits he sent memo
Says he stands by authenticity of document
By Jonathan Saltzman and Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff | August 4, 2006
A former safety official for a Big Dig contractor who has said he wrote a memo in 1999 warning that the Interstate 90 connector ceiling was unsafe acknowledged last night [...]
Allegation: Original Memo tested positive!! August 3, 2006
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Big Dig firm calls warning a fake
Safety officer stands by memo, lawyer says
By Jonathan Saltzman and Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff | August 3, 2006
A Big Dig construction company denied yesterday receiving a memorandum that a safety officer said he wrote in 1999 warning that the Interstate 90 connector ceiling could collapse and said the [...]
