Winter Olympics

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Newton shooter aims to please

Run and gun
If a Jamaican bobsled team can qualify for the Winter Olympics, then certainly a gunslinger from liberal Newton has a fighting chance in a rigorous shootout below the Mason-Dixon Line.
By CHRIS FARAONE | April 14, 2010

Crossword: ''Stuff it''

My cup runneth over
My cup runneth over
By MATT JONES | March 24, 2010

Thinking outside the Woodbox

Fiddler on the Rise Dept.
As Daniel Bernard Roumain was growing up in Margate, a small city in southeast Florida with a large Haitian population, he felt playing the violin was "a calling."
By MATT TEMPESTA | March 17, 2010

The faded Follies

The thrill is gone at the ProJo shindig; there’s something about Cumberland; and more
As regular readers of the Cool, Cool World well know, one of the social highlights of the year at Casa Diablo is the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | March 03, 2010

Team spirits

Competitive Drinking Dept.
Up in Vancouver, the red, white, and blue are riding high on gold (medals that is) for feats of awe-inspiring athleticism.
By SCOTT KEARNAN | February 24, 2010

Topiary Slalom

Hoopleville
Welcome to the Wide World of Garden Sports
By DAVID KISH | February 17, 2010

Going for Gold Glossary

Jump Starts
The Summer Olympics are fairly easy to comprehend for the average couch tuber: people running, hoisting, swimming in synch — all fairly quotidian activities.
By LANCE GOULD | February 17, 2010

Gold muddle

George W. Bush is going to the Beijing Olympics
President Bush’s decision to score a historical footnote and be the first sitting US president to attend an overseas Olympic Games seemed like a good idea at the time.
By EDITORIAL | June 04, 2008

Beijing bounce

No matter how well American athletes do in the Olympics, John M c Cain should get a lift from the Games
All three candidates declared that if the Chinese don’t change their attitudes about Tibet in a hurry, President George W. Bush should boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing.
By STEVEN STARK | April 16, 2008

Mitt's equity army

Romney’s war chest is overflowing with the contributions of his financial-world pals. But what is the price of their loyalty?
The predictions coming out of Ames, Iowa, hold that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is expected to win this weekend’s closely watched straw poll.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 10, 2007

Stars on snow

Some of the world’s best skiers and snowboarders got their starts on the mountains of New England
Anyone who’s spent a day skidding along the ice-plagued trails of a New England ski resort knows that the snow around here can be hard to love.
By KATE COHEN | November 09, 2006

Housewives desperate for Mitt

Romney watch
The midyear campaign-finance reports are in, giving us a look at what Mitt Romney’s been getting from all those fundraising trips out of state.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 19, 2006

Mitt can’t pull a JFK

The Mormon speech Mitt Romney needs to give
Sorry, Mitt, but the JFK approach isn’t going to cut it.
By ADAM REILLY | May 12, 2006

Swing the statue

Politics and other mistakes
I intend to show my gratitude to this state by commissioning a monument to be placed in some appropriate public space; it would depict historic moments that define Maine’s character (which is, to be honest, kinda weird).
By AL DIAMON | March 22, 2006

Olympic-sized snoozefest

Torino 2006 brings home the gold . . . for boring
Athletes train for years to achieve the peak physical condition needed to compete in the Olympic games. Which is why the rest of us love playing Olympic games at home.
By AARON SOLOMON | February 07, 2006

Game on

Our 2006 predictions for New England's teams
Dodgers win the Series! Bird plays H.O.R.S.E.! Congressman Canseco! We have seen the future of sports (and its name is Tony Graffanino).
By MARK JURKOWITZ | January 06, 2006