May 31, 2007 — Vol. 42, No. 42

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ObamaObama: Improve mental health care for military vets


Philip Elliott

LITTLETON, N.H. — Though he said Memorial Day shouldn’t be politicized, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama used a visit to a war monument Monday to repeat his call for better services for veterans.
Obama, campaigning in the first-in-the-nation primary state with his wife and daughters, laid a wreath at a war monument before attending a town hall-style meeting.

“This is a day on which we reflect on those who have fallen and reflect on the sacrifices they have made for all of us,” Obama said, talking with reporters after the brief ceremony. “This is a great day to think about what we’re doing on behalf of our veterans, and what we’re not doing on behalf of our veterans.” Full story

Talk anything but cheap at City-Wide Dialogues

Michelle Sedaca

Seeking to evoke both Boston’s proud history of abolitionism and the city’s ugly past of racist attacks and violent protests during desegregation, Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. took a page from one of Charles Dickens’ most famous books.

“This,” said Ogletree, “is a tale of two cities.”

That tale was an important topic in the keynote address Ogletree delivered last Wednesday morning at the Boston Private Bank and Trust Company, where more than 60 people gathered for a seminar in the company’s “social investing series” to discuss one important piece of the puzzle on how to unite those two disparate sides of Boston — The City-Wide Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity. Full story

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The hidden costs of war

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