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The Shelburne Museum opens for the season this weekend with an olfactory rush: “Lilac Sunday” is nearly as renowned as the museum’s vast cache of folk art and artifacts. But the glory of spring blossoms is brief, while the new exhibits, along with the permanent collections, will be on view through October 26. That’s a generous expanse of time in which visitors can — and should — see what the Shelburne is up to now.... Read more

It’s Tax Day, and a gorgeous spring morning in the nation’s capital. The tulips and cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and suit-and-tied lobbyists are sharing the sidewalks with schoolchildren ambling along like ducklings.... Read more

Last Thursday, as Pope Benedict XVI addressed a few hundred Catholic educators in Washington, D.C., a Marine Corps recruiter in full dress uniform set up shop outside the St. Michael’s College cafeteria.

For a couple of hours the recruiter, an officer named Will Morgan, shook hands and took down the names of a few interested students, then packed up his pamphlets and headed for the door. “Not bad,” he said on his way out.... Read more

If you think you hold current and former high-ranking Bush administration weasels such as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales in low esteem right now, just wait until you've learned the role they played in institutionalizing torture since 9/11. When you buy your ticket for Taxi to the Dark Side, you may think them liars and bumblers, but you're likely to leave the Cineplex with little doubt that they're also war criminals.... Read more

One summer day about 30 years ago, Janet Hicks was putting up tomato sauce in her kitchen when she heard a knock at the door. Outside stood a man wearing black shoes and an ID badge.

“He said, ‘Are you Janet Hicks?’ “she recalls. “I said, ‘Yes.’ He said he was from the IRS.

“And I said, ‘Oh, I’ve been expecting you for a few years. Come on in.’”... Read more

Scott Ritter is not the man the Department of Defense hoped he would be.... Read more

Marking the five-year anniversary of the war, “Beyond Iraq: A Community Discussion” was a public forum organized by the band Pariah Beat. With twentysomething antiwar demonstrators, political candidates, press, ’60s-era veterans and others, it was standing-room-only at Langdon Street Café during the two-hour discussion.... Read more

The sounds outside the Acupuncture & Qigong Health Center on Route 15 in Essex Junction on a recent afternoon are enough to grate on anybody’s nerves: trains whistling, traffic rumbling and the occasional door slamming. But inside, the darkened room is unusually peaceful. The serenity is most apparent in Colchester’s Bill Maynard, who has just received five needles in each ear. He closes his eyes and lets his tightly clasped hands relax on his black jeans. Maynard’s head tips back as if he’s sleeping.... Read more

Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, is the nation's oldest private military college.

Jon Taylor asks Norwich cadets if they plan to join the military after graduation.

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We who have come here to Washington have come here
because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now.
We could come back to this country;
we could be quiet;
we could hold our silence;
we could not tell what went on in Vietnam,
but we feel because of what threatens this country,
the fact that the crimes threaten it, not reds, and not redcoats
but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it,... Read more