Archive - Feb 4, 2010 - Editorial

We rely on history in our search to move forward; it recounts lessons of our success and failure and is littered with the many experiments that put us here today. Some of the problems we face today result from yesterday’s solutions and literally from us waiting for a response in order to move forward. A lack of response confines us to facing the result of our current dilemma in a repetitive cycle of crisis after crisis.

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I’ve never met a household activity I just couldn’t do.

For example, I excel at opening jars. I’m the one who opens jars when friends are struggling with them. For this skill, I have to thank my mother, who all through my childhood exerted a death grip on jars when she sealed them, giving me ample practice opening them and strong fingers.

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Patrick Leahy will ask Vermont voters to return him to the Senate for a seventh term this November. With more than 35 years in the Senate, Leahy has served in that body longer than anyone in the history of Vermont. He is also the third most senior member among the current 100 senators.

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