Ellen Goodman
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A question of health -- and equalityOct 01, 2009 11:00 pm - My favorite moment so far in the health care debate was when Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl argued against mandating maternity benefits as part of a basic insurance coverage. "I d...
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Now, where was I?Sep 24, 2009 11:00 pm - There was a time when I considered myself a champion multitasker. This, of course, was in the days when the Olympic event of technological multitasking was unloading the...
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Collaborative style at odds with polarized politicsSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - For me, the real Obama moment of this back-to-work season wasn't the speech before Congress or Wall Street. It was in the Virginia schoolhouse when a ninth-grader asked ...
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Grateful to have a jobSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - There was a New Yorker cartoon last spring picturing a nearly empty galley ship with only two slaves still pulling their oars under the grim eye of the master. In the ca...
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Health care's senior momentsSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - When exactly did the Republicans start operating one of those marketing scams that target the elderly? It was bad enough when Sarah Palin told a bald Facebook lie that ...
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Kennedy learned to be his own manAug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - So the family will be gathering again. No, not the family, the clan. That's the word we always used to describe the Kennedys, as if they were the huge sprawling royal tr...
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The Equal Rites Awards, 2009Aug 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Every year at this time, we prepare to celebrate Aug. 26, the anniversary of women's suffrage, in our own quirky way. We cheerfully distribute the Equal Rites Awards to ...
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Life in a snapshotAug 13, 2009 11:00 pm - CASCO BAY, Maine -- I am back at my post. Feet planted on the porch railing. Back braced against the familiar contours of the Adirondack chair. On the bird feeder before...
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Fear no evil in benign provision of health care billAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - I am as happy as anyone at signs of an economic recovery. But I confess to having mixed feelings about the resurgence of the wing-nut industry. We now have "The Birthers...
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Palin the pretender replaces the barracudaJul 09, 2009 11:00 pm - It's probably dangerous to admit to a moment of empathy. I'll either get disqualified from ever becoming being a Supreme Court justice or asked to turn in my press card....