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Catholicism is alive and well at Boston College. For many people, Boston Catholicism is synonymous with BC; with its beautiful campus; distinguished faculty; enthusiastic alumni; talented students; wealth of tradition; and, very visible Jesuit and Catholic presence. Indeed, through a …...
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GOP’s Benghazi Obsession Giving Cover To Actual Scandals

FBI Tracked Journalist Using ID Badge

The Republican Party, despite making its one salient point (politicizing intelligence during an election) long ago, simply refuses to let the Benghazi attack fade. Whether the motivation to continue comes from some vague hope in snagging Hillary Clinton in a 2016 attack ad worthy story or just a lingering...

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The yield on the 10-year Treasury has jumped to 1.949% from about 1.6% in early May. Lawrence C. Strauss asks:

What will the 10-year Treasury yield a year from now?

Cliff Corso

CEO and CIO, Cutwater Asset Management
"2.50%. As the economy continues to recover, we see a move from the risk-free to the

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Kanye West’s new album, available June 18, is expected to be called “Yeezus.” The title may be a riff on the artist’s nickname, “Yeezy”, but it is certainly a play on the name Jesus as well, and will certainly raise …...
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LOS ANGELES, May 20 (Reuters) - Disney said on Monday it will produce a new "Star Wars" animated series to air on television in the fall 2014, giving fans of the science-fiction franchise fresh stories before the next live-action film hits theaters in 2015....
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The Foreclosure Bowl: Connecticut Finally Makes it Into Top 10

Understandably, Connecticut has always had a bit of an inferiority complex.  Wedged in just north of high profile states like New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while looked down on by the erudite Massachusetts, the only state that even talks to Connecticut when the states get together is Rhode Island.  And it’s no secret that the rest of the N

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Not even a week after Buzzfeed’s relationship with the Koch Brothers is exposed do we learn that a near civil war erupted in public television over documentaries that focused on Charles and David Koch. In an expose written by Jane Mayer of the New...

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If you can't beat them, join them. That's exactly what a growing contingent of companies unable to match the stock-market performance of real-estate investment trusts are doing.

In recent years, REITs, aided by investors' rabid appetite for income-producing investments, consistently have trumped the broad market. Last year, while the S&P 500

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Our own Adelle Banks has a growing roundup of religious groups that were caught up in the IRS dragnet of conservative nonprofits; we’ll keep adding to it, and let us know if there’s someone we’re missing.

WaPo reports on the growing number of seminary grads who have no intention of ever going into the pulpit .

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