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Looking for Trouble

This article originally appeared in the September 4, 1984 issue of the Boston Phoenix As he does every night, the custodian is riding the red line from Mattapan to his job in Central Square, where he's supposed to start work at midnight. He watches as ...

From KEITH W. JENKINS AND PETER CANELLOS, The Phoenix,  4 Sep 2009

Beyond Camelot: His shining moments endure

Ted Kennedy played a leading role in perhaps the greatest political drama of the 20th century - the dawning of the New Frontier and the soul-crushing assassinations that followed - but he will be remembered by history for his legislative achievements ...

From PETER S. CANELLOS, Boston Globe,  26 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Edward M. Kennedy,  Mary Jo Kopechne

Region's team has an enviable record playing in D.C.

WASHINGTON - On a typical weekday during baseball season, the grandstand at Nationals Park is a vast expanse of gray concrete and empty blue seats, dotted with spots of red where fans wearing the colors of the home team sit in hopeful silence. From ...

From PETER CANELLOS, Boston Globe,  30 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Bostonians,  White House,  Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  John Henry,  Michael Capuano

Obama’s unintended fusion in Sotomayor selection

WASHINGTON - Affirmative action was a complicated issue last year for Barack Obama, the nation’s first black presidential nominee from a major party, who often took pains to acknowledge the concerns of whites who might lose opportunities to minorities. ...

From PETER S. CANELLOS, Boston Globe,  23 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Sonia Sotomayor,  U.S. Democratic Party

Crashes raise questions about composite parts in planes

WASHINGTON - On a bright-blue morning just two months after the worst terrorist attack in American history, a silver jumbo jet with red, white, and blue trim took off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Moments later, it plummeted ...

From PETER S. CANELLOS, Boston Globe,  16 Jun 2009
Related Topics: American Airlines,  Airbus,  Boeing,  Japan Airlines

No light agenda for summer

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a candidate more likely than some on President Obama's short list to arouse Republican opposition, could complicate the president's task on another major agenda item - healthcare. Over ...

From PETER S. CANELLOS, Boston Globe,  27 May 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Sonia Sotomayor,  C-SPAN

The logic of leniency, played out on a universal stage

WASHINGTON - In the climactic action sequence of "Star Trek," the year's most popular movie, the new, younger Captain Kirk does something novel for a big summer action flick: He offers leniency to an enemy. Turning to a puzzled Mr. Spock, Kirk explains ...

From PETER S. CANELLOS, Boston Globe,  26 May 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Dick Cheney,  Vladimir Putin,  Leonardo DiCaprio

Amid differences, a point of accord for Obama, Cheney

WASHINGTON - The most extraordinary thing about yesterday's political duel between President Obama and former vice president Dick Cheney wasn't the passion of their convictions or the clash of their values. It was what they agreed on: That the nation ...

From PETER S. CANELLOS, Boston Globe,  22 May 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Dick Cheney,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain

Pelosi vs. CIA: Separating the power plays from the scandal

WASHINGTON - The release of memos confirming the Bush administration's acceptance of waterboarding left the liberal wing of the Democratic Party hungry for blood. But Nancy Pelosi's blood wasn't what most of the outraged antitorture activists had in ...

From PETER S. CANELLOS, Boston Globe,  19 May 2009
Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Barack Obama,  Leon Panetta,  Nancy Pelosi,  U.S. Republican Party

In replacing Souter, Obama should look beyond courthouse

WASHINGTON - Among the contenders for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by David Souter, Deval Patrick is one of the real minorities: a sitting governor. Like Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, who is also being mentioned as a possible first ...

From PETER S. CANELLOS, Boston Globe,  12 May 2009
Related Topics: Deval Patrick,  Barack Obama,  David Souter,  Ruth Bader Ginsburg,  Jennifer Granholm

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