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The budget according to Finneran
(11/30/2001)
BEACON HILL is again Finneran State Prison. Higher education and services for the mentally ill go behind bars. The guards whistle as they walk down the hall, dangling the keys to patronage. The Suffolk County sheriff's office will get about $5 million in overtime for its guards, despite having one of the most out-of-control budgets in Massachusetts.
Democracy was 'under attack' in Florida, too
(11/28/2001)
AFTER the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President Bush declared, ''Freedom and democracy are under attack.'' A nation that is serious about its pledge of allegiance would examine the asphyxiated canaries of the 2000 presidential election to find out just how much democracy was under attack, long before Osama bin Laden.
Philip Morris's big shopping list
(11/23/2001)
CART FOR PHILIP Morrrrrrrisssss! Sometime over the next few days, after the Thanksgiving leftovers are finally eaten or turn unusual colors, you will have to go grocery shopping again.
Name change can't vindicate Philip Morris
(11/21/2001)
WELCOME TO ALTRIA Country, where Philip Morris wants you to think it is going a long way, baby, from its past. The world's leading producer of preventable funerals has announced it will ask shareholders to change its name to ''Altria,'' supposedly derived from the Latin word ''altus'' for ''high.''
Republicans finally get it on airline security
(11/16/2001)
LAST WEEK a man got seven knives through a checkpoint at O'Hare. This week a Hong Kong chef's two meat cleavers made it on board a flight from Miami. Yet another guard disappeared from a post at Logan Airport. Congress finally got the message that Americans could no longer stomach lo mein-tenance and chop security.
Scary airport sdecurity
(11/9/2001)
HALLOWEEN is not over, not at O'Hare-Raising Airport and not at U-blighted Airlines. The company that once promised friendly skies insists that it is just fine to staff its security checkpoints with ghosts.
No sting at airport checkpoints
(11/7/2001)
AFTER A MAN waltzed through a comatose security checkpoint last weekend at O'Hare Airport in Chicago with, oh, merely seven knives, some pepper spray, and a stun gun, US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta promised tough action. Mineta said, ''When there are screw-ups, there is going to be a sting.''
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