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It’s always dangerous to make judgments while something like the marathon bombing/murder of MIT policeman/shootout in Watertown/search is underway. But recognizing that there is much I don’t know yet, my tentative judgment is that the leadership of my former city has kind of lost it. As I understand it, A murderer, probably armed and dangerous, [...]
Archive for the ‘Culture & Civil Society’ Category
April 19th, 2013
April 16th, 2013
Category: Culture & Civil Society, Terrorism and its control
Obviously a terrible tragedy yesterday in Boston. It is all the more sinister because of what the finish line of a Marathon typically represents: a supportive, celebratory place of individual achievement. I have finished two Marathons in my life, the 2004 Richmond and 2005 Marine Corps races. For me, these races were culminations of my [...]
January 28th, 2013
Category: Culture & Civil Society
Boy Scouts to adopt local option on gay members and leaders.