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  • Boston Globe Continues Blackout of News They Don't Like

    06/03/2004 6:48:05 AM PDT · by pabianice · 15 replies · 183+ views
    Massachusetts News ^ | 6/3/04 | Pawlick
    Blackout of Indictment Against Margaret Marshall Not Working Although the Boston Globe continues its blackout of the Indictment by Rep. Emile Goguen (D-Fitchburg) against Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall and her three companions in the Removal proceedings against her, the document is causing concern at the State House and across the nation. The Indictment -- the result of Marshall's decision to order gay marriages in Massachusetts -- was personally distributed to every Beacon Hill office yesterday by Sally Pawlick, President of Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage. Meanwhile, Rep. Goguen and others are appearing on talk shows across the nation,...
  • Records: Governor candidates received Vietnam War deferments

    07/13/2002 3:44:10 PM PDT · by GeneD · 42 replies · 571+ views
    AP via Boston.com ^ | 7/13/02 | John McElhenny
    <p>BOSTON -- It was 1968, as U.S. soldiers were being shipped off every day to fight the war in Vietnam, when 22-year-old Robert Reich walked into the Oakland military induction center and made the examining sergeant's day.</p> <p>"Just what we're looking for!" the sergeant said upon sight of the 4-foot-10-inch Reich. "A tunnel rat to flush the Vietcong out from under the rice paddies!"</p>