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    Opinion
    Sometimes, life is just bittersweet | Ellen Goodman
    Sometimes, life is just bittersweet | Ellen Goodman
    August 15, 2008 5:20 pm

    CASCO BAY, Maine – These are the summer days when the island is overrun with gifts. The raspberries are still ripe and the first of the blackberries have arrived, bearing their sweet intimations of fall.

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    Ellen Goodman
    Ellen Goodman
    May 16, 2008 7:17 pm

    BOSTON – During the Vietnam War there was a phrase that came to symbolize the entire misbegotten adventure: “It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.” It was said at first with sincerity, then repeated with irony, and finally with despair.

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    Ellen Goodman
    Ellen Goodman
    March 28, 2008 4:36 pm

    BOSTON – I don’t know too many economists who get confused with preachers. But there are times when they talk about virtue and temptation as if they were free-market holy rollers.

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