Froma Harrop
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High-tech, high-touch: Back to the futureJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - While fetching my digital camera from the repair shop, I noted a bunch of clunky old film cameras and their flashes lining a back table. I thought no one used film anymo...
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The right question for the defense budgetJun 19, 2011 12:00 am - “Can we afford the military budget?” Not quite the right question, but one being asked these days even in hawkish circles. It reflects a break in the Republicans’ tradit...
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Anthony Weiner, you’re no Patrick KennedyJun 13, 2011 12:00 am - Sunday’s Tony Awards program reminds us that new media didn’t invent the egotist who doesn’t know when to exit. Live theater is millennia old, and one awardee hogged so ...
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Mr. Weiner, put up that wall!Jun 09, 2011 1:00 am - A New York Democrat has joined what had been a largely Republican caucus of congressmen committing sexually inappropriate online behavior. A picture of Rep. Anthony Wein...
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‘News’ that frees up timeJun 07, 2011 12:00 am - Keeping up with the always-spinning news cycle can eat into a media hound’s free time. Thus, I’m grateful when cable television plugs its news holes with stories of no c...
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In cyberspace, everyone’s a criticJun 01, 2011 1:00 am - On the prowl for a good dinner in a Florida town we didn’t know well, I went on Yelp. Yelp is a social networking website that lets anyone review a business. One Italian...
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All eyes on the storm, no matter whereMay 29, 2011 5:00 am - In 1954, E.B. White wrote a piece in The New Yorker about a hurricane hitting his part of Maine. The moment it left Boston, he notes in “The Eye of Edna,” the radio voic...
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Looking at a healthy housing bustMay 22, 2011 12:00 am - Just as busts follow booms, booms are supposed to follow busts. But there has been no boom, not even a boomlet, to light a candle in the gloom of the housing collapse. M...
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GOP: Try again on MedicareMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - Nice try, Republicans, running a political protection racket to push your Medicare scheme. Scrubbed of the sweet talk about saving Medicare, your offer boiled down to th...
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Bin Laden already was stoppedMay 05, 2011 2:00 am - The big story was that they got him, not that he was stopped. Osama bin Laden was already stopped. Sure, the al-Qaida movement could still massacre Christians at a Bagh...