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MAYBE IT'S HEARING the Bostonians I know talk about finding refuge elsewhere at the end of the month, or my fellow New Yorkers strategizing about how to skip Penn Station in their daily commute.
Or maybe it's because as a reporter I covered these non-events and combed my notebooks for some color to arrange artfully around the emptiness like journalistic landscape architecture. But every time I consider the upcoming political conventions, a single word comes to mind: Why?See the full content of this document
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Political Conventions: What's the Point Again?
It was hard enough four years ago to discern the point of these empty exercises in film-clip hagiography and ideological self- congratulation. The networks had rightly given up full-scale coverage because the conventions had become, as ...
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