As part of a plan to improve the nutritional quality of the food it sells, Walmart said that it would begin placing a label with the words Great for You on its Great Value and Marketside food items.

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The problem with Mitt Romney’s latest boneheaded statement — “ I’m not concerned about the very poor ” — isn’t the ammunition that it gives political opponents eager to yank the Republican candidate’s words out of context. Read full article > >

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Why the poor should concern Romney

Reconstruct words based on brain waves.

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Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff, is leaving the Army in much the same manner that he served in it over the past decade: as an iconoclast. The general, who retires Tuesday, used a final interview with The Washington Post to argue that the law banning women from combat jobs in the military was an unnecessary anachronism — and that women are already effectively serving in combat roles. Read full article > >

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Army’s vice chief of staff, Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, gives closing words of advocacy

Engaged: Barney Frank , 71, and longtime partner Jim Ready , 42, the congressman’s office confirmed for us Thursday, following a report by New England Cable News . Where’s the wedding? In Massachusetts, where gay nuptials were made legal in 2004. When? Sorry, that’s all the details they’d give. Frank is set to leave Congress next winter after 32 years, and he’s said the rigors of the job and the desire to devote more time to his relationship were factors. “I have a partner now,” Frank told Charlie Rose in an interview a couple weeks ago. “I’m in love for the first time in my life.” The couple met at a political fundraiser in Ready’s home state of Maine. The Advocate described him in 2009 as a Todd Palin lookalike and surfing enthusiast. Their mostly low-profile relationship has made the news a handful of times, when Ready exchanged words with his beau’s opponents at public forums, and when he was charged with having marijuana plants at his home in 2007. Read full article > >

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Barney Frank engaged to boyfriend Jim Ready (updated)

Sarah Palin, not one known to mince words, accused Chris Christie of committing a rookie mistake and playing into the hands of Democrats by denigrating Newt Gingrich.

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City Room: Palin Has a Few Choice Words for Christie

Young people are expressing their affection by swapping passwords to e-mail, Facebook and other accounts.

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Teenagers Sharing Passwords as Show of Affection

A movie screen periodically usurps part of a Norwegian living room in Scena Theatre’s “Hedda Gabler.” It happens at the rear of the room, behind the fashionably uncomfortable 1930s furniture, where white, gauzy curtains conceal a balcony. Before Act I starts, black-and-white footage of rural and maritime Scandinavia flickers across the curtains, turning them into a de facto screen; at intermission, the word “Intermission” spells itself out in a retro font. There’s a suggestion, in other words, that we’re watching a 1930s “Hedda Gabler” movie — and that’s a prudent hint for director Robert McNamara to drop, because his brisk and watchable, if not revelatory, production contains some acting so hyperbolic it seems movie-palace scale. Read full article > >

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At Scena Theatre, a hyperbolic ‘Hedda Gabler’

A movie screen periodically usurps part of a Norwegian living room in Scena Theatre’s “Hedda Gabler.” It happens at the rear of the room, behind the fashionably uncomfortable 1930s furniture, where white, gauzy curtains conceal a balcony. Before Act I starts, black-and-white footage of rural and maritime Scandinavia flickers across the curtains, turning them into a de facto screen; at intermission, the word “Intermission” spells itself out in a retro font. There’s a suggestion, in other words, that we’re watching a 1930s “Hedda Gabler” movie — and that’s a prudent hint for director Robert McNamara to drop, because his brisk and watchable, if not revelatory, production contains some acting so hyperbolic it seems movie-palace scale. Read full article > >

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At Scena Theatre, a hyperbolic ‘Hedda Gabler’

“I’m concerned about the poor in this country,” Mitt Romney said the other day. “We have to make sure the safety net is strong and able to help those who can’t help themselves.” I perked up at those words, because they were something of a departure from his usual stump speech and because they happened to come on a day when I had written about the dire implications of Romney’s proposals for the social safety net . Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s miserly concern for the poor

“I’m concerned about the poor in this country,” Mitt Romney said the other day. “We have to make sure the safety net is strong and able to help those who can’t help themselves.” I perked up at those words, because they were something of a departure from his usual stump speech and because they happened to come on a day when I had written about the dire implications of Romney’s proposals for the social safety net . Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s miserly concern for the poor

J oe Paterno sat in a wheelchair at the family kitchen table where he has eaten, prayed and argued for more than a half-century. All around him family members were shouting at each other, yet he was whispering. His voice sounded like wind blowing across a field of winter stalks, rattling the husks. Lung cancer has robbed him of the breath to say all that he wants to about the scandal he still struggles to comprehend , and which ended his career as head football coach at Penn State University . The words come like gusts. “I wanted to build up, not break down,” he said. Read full article > >

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Joe Paterno’s first interview since the Penn State-Sandusky scandal

DERRY, N.H. — On the campaign trail with Newt Gingrich these days, one never really knows who’s going to show up: the Newt who loves or the Newt who hates. Nice Newt went to a World War II museum along the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee over the weekend, telling jokes about his waistline, using words like “happily” and “cheerfully,” and infecting the crowd with his enthusiasm and his relentless command of policy and history. Read full article > >

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Newt Gingrich veers from nice to nasty, with few advisers to guide him

One month after being kicked off a plane for Words With Friends -induced bad behavior, Alec Baldwin quietly returned to Twitter this weekend. The “30 Rock” actor deactivated his much-used account in December after he tweeted complaints about American Airlines and its flight attendants. ( Quote : “Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950′s find jobs as flight attendants.”) Read full article > >

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Alec Baldwin returns to Twitter to ask questions, say ‘Happy New Year’

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Bill O’Brien took the podium, looked straight ahead and uttered the kind of words you would expect from someone who had just been introduced as Penn State’s new head football coach. “This is unbelievable.” The offensive coordinator for the New England Patriots the past four years, O’Brien picked quite a challenge for his first head-coaching job. Until Nov. 9, the Nittany Lions had been directed by the same person for 46 seasons — Joe Paterno. The Hall of Fame coach, however, was fired in the aftermath of child sex abuse scandal involving retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Read full article > >

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Saying he feels like ‘the right guy,’ Bill O’Brien takes over as Penn State’s next head coach