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VOL. 116 - NO. 10 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, MARCH 9, 2012 $.30 A COPY Romney Wins Most States, Delegates But Can’t Seal Deal Yet by Sal Giarratani March 6, Super Tuesday flavoring is required. How- has come and gone and the ever, if you pour in the whole Republican nomination fight bottle, the batch is ruined.” only looks like it will get If Mitt Romney wants to be longer and nastier. Mitt an electable frontrunner, he Romney won six states and needs to tell his super PAC the lion’s share of delegates to stop going nuclear on both Spring in play but Rick Santorum Santorum and Gingrich. It took three states and Newt is time to shift to a more Gingrich won 47 percent of positive strategy painting the vote to top the ticket Mitt as the nice guy with in winner-take-all Georgia. the right answers that Meanwhile, Rick Santorum, Americans need to hear in Ahead who once again as in Michi- 2012. Stop bashing your gan, narrowly lost to Romney opponents and start giving Daylight Savings Time Begins in Ohio by a 38 percent to 37 ning the hearts and minds voters in November a reason Be sure to move yourth clocks percent, a 1 percent victory of the Republican base. to pick you over President Sunday, March 11 at 2:00 am. for Romney in winner-take- Upcoming next are Ala- Obama. Set yourAHEAD clocks for woneard hour one hour. all Ohio, The race is now bama, Mississippi and Kan- There is still a distinct pos- The Boston Fire Department reminds residents to make about delegate counts and sas and none of these are sibility that Republican del- in Romney Country by most anotheron Saturday important ad jNightustment March— change 10 theth b, atteries2012 in Mitt is the frontrunner with egates might be gathering at your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. the most delegates to date. accounts, to date, Romney a brokered convention this Back in Boston before the has outspent all his oppo- summer which would be polls closed, Romney stated, nents. Reports say he great news for the Demo- “This is a process of gather- outspent Santorum in Ohio crats. After some 30 con- ing enough delegates to be- by 12-1 margin and yet won tests, Republicans remain come the nominee and I by a narrow 12,000 votes out much divided over who is think we’re on track to have of a million casts. the most conservative and that happen.” After the polls Many in the Republican who is the most electable. News Briefs closed, he added, “We’re Party are warning Romney The Republican Party re- by Sal Giarratani counting up the delegates to stop being so negative. mains fractured between and that looks good and we’re Among them are Jeff Katz the Republican establish- counting down the days un- the morning after Super ment and the so-called Tea Deval Becoming Obama’s Point Guard til November, and that looks Tuesday and Holly Robi- Party conservative base. even better.” However, seal- chaud over at the Boston This race remains Mitt Just announced! Governor Deval Patrick is now ing the deal isn’t any closer. Herald who stated, “Negative Romney’s to win and he co-chair of the 2012 Obama for President cam- The day after Super Tuesday campaigning can be very needs to be able to reach out paign. He’ll be crisscrossing the country in his when Santorum carried effective. That’s why it is to all parts of the Republican spare time campaigning for his old friend Barack North Dakota, Oklahoma used. However, if not prop- Party before he can start this year. I guess he’ll be doing that in his other and Tennessee. Put Ging- erly handled, it can be campaigning to win over con- spare time when he’s crisscrossing the country rich’s runaway Georgia vic- shaped like a boomerang. servative Democrats and for one of his new bestselling books. The governor’s tory and Romney appears no When you bake cookies, moderate independents for job must be pretty tough. Hey, at least, his politi- closer than before in win- only a teaspoon of vanilla November. cal airfare is coming out of the governor’s own campaign committee. So many things to do and so much spare time to do them in. Hey, at least the state is in great economic Beware of Gas Saving Gimmicks shape, right? Wrong! We elect the governor to do the job of governing. I didn’t know the governor- and Aftermarket Devices ship was such a good paying part-time job? Hey, not to worry, we always have “Hurry Murray” back With gasoline prices these claims to be either condition. Follow the recom- here as acting governor. We’re safe and so is he climbing throughout the US, false or overly exaggerated. mended maintenance sched- as long as he doesn’t have any spare keys to a and expected to soon top Before adding any fuel sav- ule in your owner’s manual; Crown Victoria. $5.00 per gallon in some ing devices to your vehicle, you will save fuel and your Democrats used to &%$# about Mitt Romney parts of the country, Better check with your mechanic. car will run better and last being on the road so much but then again he was Business Bureau (BBB) is You may end up with a longer. a Republican and there are obviously two rules warning consumers to be voided manufacturer’s war- Don’t let your engine run going here. wary of gas-saving claims ranty and serious engine at idle any longer than nec- Perhaps to use his spare time more efficiently that empty your wallet, in- problems by adding aftermar- essary. An engine actually Patrick should be writing those books on plane stead of saving you fuel. ket devices to your engine. warms up faster while driv- rides to campaign events. Better still perhaps he Although there are practi- What you spend at the ing. With most gasoline en- should just start playing the role of governor much cal steps you can take to in- pump is influenced by how gines, it is more efficient to better than he has to date. crease gas mileage, many you drive and what type of turn off the engine than to Battle Brewing Over Photo ID Laws websites make unbelievable gasoline you use to fill your idle for any period longer claims for various aftermar- tank. Here are some tips on than thirty seconds. Challenges to voter ID laws are building as vot- ket automotive devices what you can do to save fuel Drive more efficiently. ers prepare for more presidential primaries and (fuel-line magnets, air bleed consumption: Stay within the posted speed the election in the fall. Thirty-one states have devices and retrofit gadgets) Keep your engine tuned. limits. The faster you drive voter ID laws and of these states, 27 are expected and oil and gasoline addi- Studies have shown that a the more fuel you use. to be in effect this coming November. Such laws tives that supposedly in- poorly tuned engine can Set your cruise control on (Continued on Page 10) crease gas mileage for au- increase fuel consumption highway trips. This can help tomobiles. 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They hold the bishops’ brief, however, every day except the eighth- great importance in Rome. and made the class repeat it. their property by the same ten- the parallel in the implication day market pause called By the edict of Diocletian, a Then the passage was thor- ure, and no other. Nor has of the cases is forceful. Nundae, a five day religious “calculator” (arithmetic in- oughly thrashed out as to its Harvard College any surer The Obama Administra- festival called Quinquatrus, structor) was paid a higher meter, geography, history, title than Dartmouth College. tion demands that Catholic and the summer holidays. salary than other teachers. mythology and ethics. Stu- It may today have more institutions bend to the will The school life began at the Many classrooms were dents were forced to memo- friends; but tomorrow it may of the state and violate their age of seven. Schools often adorned with busts of fa- rize many of the passages, have more enemies. Its legal consciences by either (1) started their day before dawn mous poets and the walls the Latin authors most read rights are the same ... They are paying for what they find and children brought their were covered with maps. in the first century were founded by private persons, morally impermissible or (2) own lamps. There was a The philosophy of the time Vergil, Horace and Lucan.