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The week that was

Bank of America Corp. (BAC) said its second-quarter profit soared 41 percent, easily surpassing Wall Street expectations with a boost from the results of newly acquired FleetBoston Financial Corp. The Charlotte-based banking giant said it earned $3.85 billion, or $1.86…

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Real Estate and Construction Martini Northern, a Portsmouth-based construction manager and general contracting firm, has added Kenneth Hadley of Henniker and Peter Stimmell of Northwood to its construction management team. Hadley is senior project manager and Stimmell is chief estimator.…

It’s been making the rounds…

Funny that the very week that Finas Williams, attorney for the state Democrats in the GOP phone-jamming affair, had to read John DiStaso’s article in the UL to find out about the guilty plea by Allen Raymond, head of the…

Facts are silly things

It’s always an instructive experience when Jennifer Donahue, senior adviser for political affairs at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, appears on New Hampshire Public Radio’s “The Exchange.” In a March 9 appearance, Donahue, expounding on…

Border patrol

“Well, now lookie wha’ we got here!” the sheriff or policeman (whatever) of New Ipswich might have said when he stopped a vehicle and found it contained nine (count ‘em 9) illegal aliens. The immigration authorities in Boston were contacted…