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		<title>“Giving Back” and “Getting Back”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often hear, especially in the Jewish community, how some people like to “give back.”  This refers to giving money to charities or good causes or donating time to help others.  This phrase has always bothered me.  To “give back” you have to have a lot &#8212; or at least more than you need.  People [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An American Prisoner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country, by Susan Rosenberg is an important new book.  The book is more about Ms. Rosenberg as an American Prisoner than an American Radical since most of the book covers her 16 years in Federal prison for the crime of transporting explosives and guns as part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Town and State Funding for Public Schools</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a presentation about the Massachusetts School “Foundation Budget” by the Mass Budget and Policy Center at the State House, co-sponsored by the State Representative Jason Lewis from Winchester and the Mass Teachers Association, (MTA. I am no policy expert, but I learned that the Education Reform Bill passed in 1993 established a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feelings as a Guide to Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I went to Small Claims Court today.  A contractor had built a deck and the railings began to rot after a few years.  After trying many times call and write to him and getting no answer, we hired a carpenter to fix it since it was a safety hazard.   It cost us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Potential for Prison Makes the Difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As President Obama plans on pursuing those who committed fraud in banking and mortgage lending that led to the economic and foreclosure crisis, I am reminded of a story I heard recently. A friend had worked for a multi-national corporation in Europe.  While he was there, the US Government enacted a law that forbade companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Warren Says It Can&#8217;t Be Just Her</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren, candidte for US Senate, came to local Masonic Lodge today.  I went along with over 60 other local citizens.  She is the real deal.  Aside from being  a really good teacher, she embodies all that is decent in America.  The one point I am glad she kept making was that we, the citizens, have [...]]]></description>
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