After an attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life, Glenn Berwin’s family and their property was seized along with many other Jews in Munich.
Berwin’s uncle owned two restaurants and a shop there. They were seized along with his World War I veteran’s pension.
“It seemed hopeless,” Berwin said in a statement Monday. “I thought the [...]

Only RISD makes the list in New England

And then there’s the victor, Barack Obama, a Harvard law school graduate, community organizer, civil rights lawyer, law professor, junior senator and president of the most “powerful” country in the world. A stunning resume, but where are the accomplishments? The peace work, the advocacy, the results?

Accelerators could get stuck open

A 24-year-old Colorado resident was indicted in a New York federal court Thursday on charges of conspiracy to use explosive bombs in the United States.

Countries placed on list with Iran and North Korea

Consider two scenes.
The first occurs during the Army-McCarthy Hearings in 1954, when Joseph Welch, an attorney for the for the U.S. Army asks Senator Joseph McCarthy to provide evidence to the attorney general of his accusations that there are communists working in U.S. defense plants. Instead, McCarthy names someone from Welch’s law office in Boston. [...]

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John Guilfoil’s father urges you to remember.

A Republican living in the heart of Boston shares her perspective

Twitter, blogs, Facebook and more come alive to flame heckling Republican

The full text of Ted Kennedy Jr.’s remembrance at his father, Senator Ted Kennedy’s funeral.

The funeral program and a list of important guests

THE PRESIDENT: Your Eminence, Vicki, Kara, Edward, Patrick, Curran, Caroline, members of the Kennedy family, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:
Today we say goodbye to the youngest child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy. The world will long remember their son Edward as the heir to a weighty legacy; a champion for those who had [...]

A brief primer on the long life and career of Edward M. Kennedy.

Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia is calling for his colleagues in the Senate to honor his “best friend in the Senate” by naming the seemingly-impending health care reform legislation after the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who died after a year-long battle with brain cancer yesterday.
Health care reform was one of Kennedy’s flagship [...]

Massachusetts Senator Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy has lost his battle against brain cancer at his Hyannis Port home at the age of 77, his family announced this morning, just two weeks after the death of his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
Known as the Lion of the Senate, he will be remembered as one of the most [...]

We’re surprised that there’s not more of this, given the fact that most colleges are run like greedy Fortune 500 companies lately.
The New York Post reported that a New York City woman who recently graduated from Monroe College can’t find a job and says her school isn’t helping her land gainful employment. Trina Thompson filed [...]

At the time of his capture Ramirez was holding 15 hostages including anti-corruption activist and former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who had been held captive for more than six years.

Oscar Meyer is rolling over in his grave.
An Oscar Mayer (his name and the company name are spelled different) Wienermobile crashed into the garage of a house in Mount Pleasant, Wis., about 35 miles south of Milwaukee.
The Associated Press reported that the driver accidentally went in “drive” instead of “reverse.”
No one was hurt.

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