FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Training camp is the time to take chances.
August 2012
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Winthrop schools: ‘This is probably the last student-friendly budget we’re going to see’
WINTHROP — More than 80 people watched the Winthrop School Committee slice more than $120,000 from the 2012-2013 budget in the first few minutes of Wednesday’s meeting.
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MLB: Red Sox owner says no players asked for Valentine to be fired
BOSTON (AP) — None of the Boston Red Sox players in a series of meetings with the team’s top brass called for manager Bobby Valentine to be replaced, owner John Henry said Wednesday.
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Romney seeks to undercut Obama’s likability lead
Mitt Romney is trying to portray the outwardly calm President Obama as a man seething with animosity and power lust in an attempt to undercut one of Obama’s biggest strengths — his personal likability.
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STILL LIFE: Fluffy distractions
Samantha Gabor, 5, of Sebastian, Fla., gets side tracked from feeding the goats by the cuteness of a 2-year-old Shetland sheepdog named Shaylee at the Skowhegan State Fair on Wednesday. The fair runs through Saturday.
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MLB: Seattle’s Hernandez throws perfect game vs. Rays
Felix Hernandez pitched the Seattle Mariners’ first perfect game and the 23rd in baseball history, overpowering the Tampa Bay Rays in a brilliant 1-0 victory Wednesday.
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GOLF: Alvarez still alive in Match Play after marathon day
Joe Alvarez, of Penobscot Valley Country Club, needed 24 holes to beat Mike Doran in the first round. In the second round, Alvarez needed 21 holes to defeat top-seed Ricky Jones. In all, Alvarez played two and a half rounds of golf, 45 holes, on the Natanis Golf Course’s Tomahawk course, and he’ll be back at it at 7 this morning in the quarterfinals.
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Romney-Ryan light on foreign policy credentials
The shift for a party that has long sought to project strength on those issues may not hurt in an election dominated by sluggish economic growth and high unemployment.
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Husband, wife team up to fight gay marriage in Maine
Megan and Matt Hutson will help run the anti-gay marriage campaign. Matt previously led Bruce Poliquin’s unsuccessful effort to win a U.S. Senate seat.
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Today’s editorial cartoon: Where are the jobs?
Miami Herald cartoonist Jim Morin comments on Congress’s vetoes.