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OPINION: A healthy democracy requires respect and civility. Connecticut Republicans demonstrate both.

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By John Murphy, David Muccigrosso, Beverly Follis
| Nancy On Norwalk
Connecticut Republicans chose their candidate for Governor in an outbreak of unity and goodwill at the state convention at the Mohegan Sun Expo Center this past weekend. The Norwalk Republican Town Committee was incredibly proud to have our delegates represent Norwalk at the event. It was the most ordinary, quintessential American thing: convening to nominate candidates for political office. But it was also extraordinary.
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Looking for Legends: by Scott and Tarantino

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By John Murphy
| Spectrum Culture
Reinhold Messner’s name graced a 1999 album by Ben Folds Five. But even then, coincidence—the exact moniker was used by the drummer when underage on a fake I.D.—rather than tribute proved why. This unconventional mountaineer, all the same, shared the “alternative” cred of his peers among the two-dozen explorers whose legendary exploits inspired the team of Scott and Tarantino to follow their footsteps across the globe.
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Remembering Peasants: by Patrick Joyce

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By John Murphy
| Spectrum Culture
In English, “peasant” lacks the camaraderie inherent in, say, the Italian “paisano.” The snide put-down of John Lennon, a descendent of Ireland’s rural majority, with its over-familiar copulative gerund as adjective, precedes our language’s term in his song “Working Class Hero.” What’s hinted at in the juxtaposition of the two class-bound descriptors: the grounding between the stereotyped backward folks working the land and those surrounding him in his native Liverpool.
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