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Officials, media, rent garments over poor election turnout

By adamg on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 9:54am

But seem unable to look in the mirror.

The Outraged Liberal, meanwhile, compares democracy in Boston, where nobody votes and we have a Mayor for Life, and Pakistan, where lawyers are getting beaten by police and getting thrown in cells for daring to want the right to vote:

... Joni Mitchell said "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." The lawyers of Pakistan know. Do we?

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By Parker Posey on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 12:05pm.

I didn't know it was something political causing the beating, I thought it was because they are lawyers. drumroll, please

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By Anonymous on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 12:07pm.

"rend"

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By adamg on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 12:14pm.

But as Woody Allen once wrote:

"They rent their garments, then raised the rent but refused to paint."

Actually, according to Merriam-Webster, we're both right (everybody's a winner today!).

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By Gareth on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 12:31pm.

Rent is the past tense (I'm not paying it anymore). However, you want the verb tense to agree with the subtitle / continuation of your title sentence, "But seem unable to look in the mirror," and so it should be rend. Otherwise, you'd have to change seem to seemed to preserve agreement.

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By adamg on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 3:09pm.

Adam Reilly reports:

... Exhibit A is the invisible candidacy of Carlos Henriquez, who challenged longtime incumbent Chuck Turner in District 7. As far as I can tell, the Globe didn't do a single article about Henriquez; the Herald gave him a column (by Wayne Woodlief) and passing mention in a crime article by Michele McPhee. He did get some nice attention from Boston magazine, but it came immediately before the election. True, Henriquez was a long shot. But the press helped make his race basically invisible.

Exhibit B is John Connolly, Boston's newest at-large councilor. In 2005, the first Globe article mentioning Connolly ran on April 10. This year it came on November 6, the day of the election--and only because of some ill-advised anonymous attack pieces Connolly sent out the prior week. ...

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