Most business owners work longer hours than their employees and don’t earn much more than they would if they, too, were employees. By using the methods described in the most highly acclaimed new business book of 2007, The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution, business owners can decrease their work week to only six minutes and vastly increase their earnings. Those with regular jobs can achieve the …

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Groton (AP, Sept. 24, 2007 7:25 AM) _ State election officials have fined a Massachusetts woman $4,000 for voting in Connecticut with an absentee ballot that tied a primary race in Groton that had to be decided by a coin toss.

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“The Trigger Episode [is] in the first person [to] help a reader empathize with a guy doing basically despicable work as a paparazzo.” This is the first part of a two-part interview with TV writer-turned-novelist Tom Straw. Straw has had a remarkable career, making it all the more astonishing that he was emailing me to ask if I’d consider reading his book and interviewing him about it. As if I …

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(New London-AP, June 24, 2007 3:15 PM) _ A 20-year-old graduate student from Suffield is the new Miss Connecticut.

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A 20-year-old graduate student from Suffield is the new Miss Connecticut.

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I pass the store two or three times as I wait for it to open at Dubai Festival City. I’m early. Through the glass, the shoes look like precious trophies, confident of their worth and only to be considered by those who truly appreciate them.

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Pamela W. Fox of Weston has been chosen by the Massachusetts Historical Society as the recipient of its annual Preservationist Award, which honors individuals who have worked to save local features of historic value.

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