The most interesting thing about “Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School” is that its author, Philip Delves Broughton, a 32-year-old dissatisfied British journalist, is the one student in his class to graduate without a job and without a notion of what to do next.

By picking the wildly unqualified one-term governor of Alaska as his running mate, John McCain has put a giant spotlight on Brack Obama’s own complete lack of qualifications to be president. Though the majority of the press has chosen to highlight Sarah Palin’s inexperience and ignore Obama’s, their resumes are similar.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry and challenger Ed O’Reilly of Gloucester squared off today in a debate at the WBZ studios, hosted by political analyst Jon Keller.

In a late season meadow, the boys of summer are calling to each other. In the low afternoon light, bright uniforms move against dark green grass and lush maples. Dust hangs low in the air like a mist, or a dream of the past. A bat crack and the sound of feet digging for home.

With $32 million approved by the state Legislature and the governor last month, North Shore Community College plans to build a 60,000 square foot Health Professions Building on Ferncroft Road in Danvers.

Many new students and parents, who were crowded into the Hannah School because there was “nothing we could do” about the decline of funds allotted to the no child left behind policy in Beverly, had no problem recognizing the lively Mrs. Susan Snyder on Wednesday morning, the third of September, 2008.