You only get one on Christmas Eve, dear readers. Good luck!
"No primary challenger has emerged, and it is unclear whether a newcomer could wage a serious fight against Brown and his $6.8 million war chest.
Then why is this the front one lead today?
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Have to finish up some shopping:
Rich no longer resisting the urge to splurge
Not me.
This year, shoppers paying in green to stay out of red
Me.
I'm not feeling that good:
"No-bid contracts the University of Massachusetts Medical School, routinely receives to manage state health programs could be costing taxpayers too much money.
The focus of investigators is Commonwealth Medicine, a UMass division that pays its top two executives more than $400,000 each in salaries and benefits, more than is paid to the governor and Medicaid director combined.
Created 11 years ago to provide expertise to the state more cheaply than it would have to pay private contractors, Commonwealth Medicine has evolved into something far more extensive.
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Related: Beth Israel Deaconess admits mishandling three spine operations
Also see: Elections board sides with Emanuel, clears path for Chicago mayoral bid
Cherokee leaders, Apple join to put fading language on children’s screens
Storm leaves many in Calif. facing bleak holiday
Man in racially charged shooting freed
Repairs were ordered before deadly fire
Russian lawmakers studying treaty
Cuba to free prisoners not on church list
Iraqi Cabinet criticized for lack of women
And south of the equator:
Police and soldiers fired water cannons and plastic bullets yesterday as thousands of students demonstrated against a law that increases government powers over Venezuela’s universities.
The law is the latest in a series of controversial measures enacted in the final days of a solidly pro-Chavez National Assembly; on Jan. 5, a new legislature takes office with a bigger opposition contingent capable of hindering some types of laws.
Not the same take on our lame-duck rats, is it?
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And somehow I knew the newspaper would end up there even at Christmas time.
Walking through the Camondo Museum, I feel a sense of connection with my own Jewishness. I don’t understand what it is. For me it’s not a religion, not a set of beliefs and practices. “Jewish” is not the name of a race or a nationality. But sometimes it boils down to a sense of solidarity about being, or having been, imperiled — not because of what you believe, but, as in all genocides, because of what others believe about you.
I'm sure Muslims can relate at this point in time given the press they get in my agenda-pushing Zionist War Daily.
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