Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match. This week Bruce told us [...]
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Brian Henchey joined me in the WRKO studio for an hour Sunday night to talk about the GOP primary the rise of Newt and the fall of Mitt. Brian is another person I’ve only known through the virtual world of Twitter (@brianhenchey). It was great to meet him in real life. Brian fills in at [...]
via U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern. On the outcome of the UN climate meetings: “We got the kind of symmetry that we had been focused on since the beginning of the Obama administration. This had all the elements that we were looking for.” Yet U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres acknowledged the final wording on the [...]
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In April of 2005, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, his longtime translator, Pavel Palazchenko, and his daughter Irina attended the Boston Software Council’s annual meeting at the Copley Marriot. I was involved with a firm that was associated with the BSC and was asked by them to serve as a “bodyguard” for Gorby while he [...]
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The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge tells the story of race in NYC through the eyes and events of three very different men. One is a poor, semi-literate black teenager framed for a gruesome double murder, one is a crooked cop and the third is a founding member of the [...]
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