Tisbury selectman Geoghan Coogan’s letter to state authorities about the unsafe condition of State Road was understandably emotional, given the bicycle tragedy which had recently occurred the previous day right outside his office.
A tourist, Dina Dececca, 40, was killed on July 6 when she fell from her bike into the path of an oncoming truck. As Mr. Coogan put it in his letter, he had become “intimately involved with the details as the situation unfolded.”
Best-selling author and Yale law professor Stephen Carter deplores those bumper stickers with which people advertise their views on political and social issues.
He’s sorry if that offends anyone, but he really can’t stand them, for a couple of reasons.
First, they are overwhelmingly stuck on the backs of cars; thus they convey the message “Here’s my opinion, I don’t have to look at yours.”
Waiting for Superman is the new documentary by the same people who made An Inconvenient Truth, and this film sets out to do with regard to public education in America what its predecessor did with regard to climate and energy policy.
That is, to expose the manifest failings of the system, point to the culprits for those failings and, finally, to suggest remedies.
The United States will likely remain stuck in the war in Afghanistan well past President Obama’s nominated date next year for beginning to pull troops out, one of the architects of the President’s Afghan policy says.
In an address on the Vineyard on Thursday night, Bruce Riedel, the former CIA officer and current senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who chaired last year’s review of policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, gave a generally pessimistic assessment of the state of the Afghan war.
After six previous disappointments, Marie Meyer-Barton’s luck finally changed on Tuesday evening, and she was a winner in an affordable housing lottery.
But her tears were not only of joy. Her best friend was one of those who missed out on the right to buy one of the four affordable housing units at Lambert’s Cove, by chance.
“It’s just incredible that we finally won one,” she said afterwards. “But it’s really hard to watch, too, because these people who missed out are our friends.
One spring day a few years ago, alone on his boat off Cape Cod, writer William Powers fouled his propeller on a mooring line. He leant overboard to free it and fell in, drowning his mobile phone.
Being a man used to constant electronic contact with the world, Mr. Powers first considered this a “disaster.” But actually, it was an epiphanous moment.
