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12/04/2008

David Brussat: The history of the new old house
A LEADER of the “new old house” movement has a new book out about old houses. In Roots of Home: Our Journey to a New Old House, architect Russell Versaci traces the ancestry of home in America. The book takes its readers on a tour of some of the nation’s loveliest private houses. Their beauty turns the tour into a holiday for the eye.

Froma Harrop: The Big Three need music, too
THE AMERICAN “love affair” with cars is close to dead, then-Ford Motor CEO William Clay Ford Jr. lamented six years ago. “In California, people used to write songs about T-Birds and Corvettes,” said Henry Ford’s great-grandson. “Today they write regulations.” Ford had earlier shocked Detroit by admitting that sport utility vehicles caused environmental problems.

12/02/2008

Whitcomb blog
Other news, commentary and art may be found in Robert Whitcomb’s blog, http://thisnewenglandblog.projo.com

Edward Achorn: R.I. needs guts, not just optimism
AT THE GREATER Providence Chamber of Commerce meeting the other night, 750 people heard Rhode Island’s three most powerful politicians — Governor Carcieri, House Speaker William Murphy and Senate President-elect Teresa Paiva Weed — deliver soothing sounds.

11/30/2008

Froma Harrop: Health-care reform must start now
THIS WOULD SEEM a heckuva time to unfurl a national health plan. Washington has big fires to put out in the financial markets. Taxpayers, meanwhile, face a zillion-dollar bill for economic stabilization on top of already soaring deficits. Can we afford a big new government program right now?

Bombeck’s anecdotes still puncture delusional parenting
In the last couple of months a tatty old copy of an Erma Bombeck book found its way to the radiator of my bathroom, joining deadly serious reports I can only take in small doses.

11/28/2008

M.J. Andersen: Should I shop today, or save?
EARLIER THIS MONTH, a friend of mine bought a winter jacket and took it back. It was a very basic jacket: black, quilted, with a small hood and a reassuring kind of label. At $90, the jacket was a deal, and it became even more of a deal at the register, where an additional markdown took it to $79.