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    January 1, 2012
    Barack Obama

    Who had the worst year? Congress, and by extension, the people

    Inaction, finger-pointing and posturing caused an erosion in weary Americans' faith in government and the economy.

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    January 1, 2012
    SULLIVAN

    Maine Voices: Move to Connecticut will create jobs here

    Jackson Laboratory isn't building its new research facility in Maine, but this state will still benefit.

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    January 1, 2012

    Art Review: ‘Muralgate’ topped unforgettable year in Maine art

    A critical look back at Maine art in 2011 and a view of 2012.

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    January 1, 2012

    Ten from ’11

    We looked in the cultural rear-view mirror and selected Maine's top A&E stories of 2011.

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    January 1, 2012

    Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

    In our first poem of the new year, Thomas Moore of Brooksville looks back on the risks he and his friends once took as they glided over the ice holding ropes behind a Plymouth in the dark. Note how Moore imitates the dangers he describes with long sentences that turn sharply at line breaks and […]

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    January 1, 2012

    Movies: Streep becomes ‘Iron Lady’ for latest role

    NEW YORK – Meryl Streep shuffles down a London street wearing a kerchief, a drab beige overcoat and enough prosthetic wrinkles to pass as an octogenarian in the opening scene of her new movie about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, “The Iron Lady.” For Streep, shooting the sequence provided a jarring taste of a […]

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    January 1, 2012

    Retired vehicles ride again in new photo show

    South Portland photographer Jonathan M. Dunitz exhibits a series of photographs of old and abandoned vehicles in a show titled “Forgotten Transport,” opening Friday at Blue, 605A Congress St., Portland. Dunitz portrays the vehicles in full color, while desaturating the background to appear black and white. The process gives the vehicles a ghost-like appearance. Dunitz […]

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    January 1, 2012

    Book Review: In ‘Less Than Human,’ demeaning explained

    Ah, the things we see, or know of, and roundly ignore, or sometimes confront in the pursuit of our own happiness. The things we say about “others” in the heat of the moment. In everyday chit-chat, we hear it, we say it, and we hardly give it a thought. In his incisive new book, “Less […]

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    January 1, 2012

    Music: Five gems that you may have missed

    Like the national debt, Justin Bieber and the universe itself, the Internet got bigger this year. And that means you, dear music fan, are faced with a perennial choice: You can hide under your covers as the world of pop music grows online with ferocious speed, or you can summon your inner Lewis and Clark […]

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    January 1, 2012

    Author Q&A: Fenway lark

    Bates grad Richard A. Johnson delves into the fabled Boston ballpark's lesser known – and hugely entertaining – history.