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Alex Beam

Nostradamus, he’s not

A year’s worth of predictions - from burgers to Scott Brown, Venus to Bobby Valentine

By Alex Beam

 |  Globe Columnist  

  March 06, 2012

I won’t be writing here for the next 12 months. I’m taking a yearlong leave of absence, to write a book. Sadly, I’ll miss out on a year’s worth of fantastic material: the November elections, the first Bobby Valentine meltdown, the second Bobby Valentine meltdown, and so on. I’ve decided to publish a raft of irresponsible and poorly thought-out predictions for the forthcoming year, like a hundred columns’ worth of bad judgement boiled down to 750 words

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