Years before she became a distinguished Harvard Law professor, a nationally recognized consumer activist, and a presidential appointee, Elizabeth Warren was a working mother whose grasp on the first rung of the career ladder was slipping.
She had moved to Texas for her husband’s career and landed her first job teaching law school. But her toddler and 7-year-old had burned through seven child care arrangements in six months. Nobody was happy.
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Doesn't look like Otis is on a leash....wonder if he has a dog license?
He does.
Thank you for demonstrating your intellectual depth in an important Massachusetts election.
But it looks like the hubby is.
Wow. Just ... wow. ANOTHER big puff for Warren, constant attacks on Brown, avoiding facts. On the Presidential front, avoiding accurate coverage of Benghazi, drones in Pakistan and the Obama administrations assault on civil rights at all costs. I've told my wife I've written my last check for the Globe subscription, it's just a monthly contribution to the Dem party at this point.
Brown has lost this race by trying to exploit a series of lies which have all been proven false.
Not a single negative he has stated by Warren has a document or a witness. She has brought forth dozens of witnesses and proof of his silly lies.
The rest of your blather is also tin foil hat stuff.
VOTE DEMOCRAT 2012. Teach people like west suburban dad a lesson.
Thanks for confirming what many of us already knew: Far from being either an "aw, shucks" "Oklahoma Granny" - as Warren called herself -- or a fierce fighter for the middle class, Elizabeth Warren merely typifies that 1970s generation of women who were only too willing to sacrifice their family at the altar of professional ambition. Most women I know today speak with fondness about their children's young lives; when Warren describes that time in her life, it's clear that to her mind, her children were in the way. They were not the light of her life; rather, they were impediments -- obstacles which needed to be addressed on her way up the career ladder (with a little help from untrue family lore.) She also seems to be that worst kind of parent: One who blatantly favors one child over another. Daughter Amelia co-authored two books with Warren, campaigns for her mother -- hell, Amelia even sued the state of Massachusetts to force it to spend a quarter of a million dollars to remind Welfare recipients and illegal immigrants to register to vote to help her mother's campaign! But Warren's son? He appears to be little more than a footnote in her life. No wonder he is "not campaigning" and the campaign "wouldn't make him available for an interview." Family tells a lot about a person's character and their priorities. Advantage: Scott Brown.
Her children all are prominent and successful. They don't look sacrificed to me.
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Gee, someone with a career supported by her family. Not unlike millions of other people. Puff, puff, puff by the Globe. Watch out readers, you can hear the endorsement coming now.....
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For those still sitting on the fence please notice the uncalled for venom spouted by Brown supporters. To them you can't win for losing. Not only did Elizabeth Warren achieve in the professional world she seems to have done a bang up job as a parent to boot. She even relied on the other people in her family to achieve this not government. This should warm the cockles of a conservative's heart. Instead due to blind something(you can fill in the blank) they fashion a stellar career and home life into something else. Go figure. Now we know conservatives side with big corporations as the "job creators" and fight for watered down regulations that promote laissez faire. So Elizabeth Warren puts together solutions that both sides can live with in her legal work and somehow the mega-business rooters turn around and presto chango become all wrapped up in worker rights. We know after the election they will once again rail against labor as the source of all evil and economic trouble in this country. It couldn't possibly be the ethically challenged financial and banking industry. They will revert back to their view that if people work for a pittance the world would be better off. Just a gander at Scott Brown's voting record, who contributes to his campaign, or supports his policies will tell the tale that he does not stand with working people. You can look at votesmart.org to get the facts on his stint in the Senate.
This woman is the biggest fraud ever. Heaven help Massachusetts if she's elected.
Every lie that Brown has told about her has been disproven and actually, effectively enough so that he has lost votes.
Nothing Brown said about her is true. Most of what he says of himself is a lie.
More volunteers than ever worked for Ted Kennedy are now working to get Elizabeth Warren elected. Why are we doing this? We are smarter than you.
Wake up.
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Kinda like the Beverly Hillbillys and Andy of Mayberry intertwined. She did build this life!
Yes she did. She is also one of the most prominent research attorney's in the country.
She will be our next Senator. Only a childish person opens discourse as you and your like do.
The intellectual failure of MA Republicans is why Brown is losing. No persuasion skill.
So we have Aunt Bee to blame for talking Liz out of quitting her career. And all this time I thought it was PawPaw that was to blame. I just don't know Liz as well as I should.
You don't know Elizabeth Warren because you believe racist, misogynist, anti-intellectual, anti-thought LIES from Republicans.
She will be our next Senator. Why do I say this? Multiple polls of diverse methodologies say so. She has cracked 50 points many times and Brown once - in March. Pathetic performance for an Incumbant.
You don't know anything about Elizabeth Warren because you don't pay attention and think.
Geoffrey, I own homes in MA and NH. My legal residence is NH.
I read the Globe article as a puff piece. You, on the other hand, felt compelled to defend her in many replies. Most of your replies got into name calling. Do you think that Warren would approve of that?
When will she be releasing the rest of her returns and when will she be disclosing her list of clients...you know the ones where she's actually working for the other side....
She is an ideologue who will bring nothing but more gridlock to DC!!!!
Less than 2 weeks and the Herald blowhards will crawl back under their rocks.
Wishful thinking on your part. Stuffing a troll back under its rock is much harder than it looks.
Sorry, but I can't vore for someone who thinks Chick Schumer and Harry Reid are what we need.
Harry Reid is the one who annointed Warren and told other local candidates ( many of which who had paid their dues in local politics ) to quit the race.
Yikes, what a fawning article, reads like something you might see in People, not a purported NEWSpaper!
What's next Stephanie, maybe a few thousand words on Professor Warren's loving relationship with her first pet hamster, and how it formed the basis of her commitment to the "hammered" middle-class?
“I can’t imagine anybody putting up with me over long periods”
Finally something Elizabeth Warren has said that I can totally agree with.
As a lifelong subscriber to the Globe I am canceling my subscription effective with this free campaign ad written by Ms Ebbert. I have long enjoyed the verbal jousting between myself and various columnists and commenters on its pages. Politics aside, most newspapers and their journalists traditionally have attempted to include information of interest to all readers. I this case, the Globe has assumed the role of, unpaid political contributors to the Democrat party. How much would the Globe charge for a front page political ad of this size? The shame of it is that a worthy opponent of Ms Warren's has been dealt a serious blow in a close race. If this newspapers editors and its owner, th NY Times, continue on their one sided path I predict more lifelong subscribers like me will cease to contribute to their revenue stream. That will result in Ms Ebbert's embarkation on a new search for employment. I believe that would be fair and just.
Exactly my situation profox. I pay for news, it's fine if editorials and opinions lean left, I'm socially liberal myself. But front page 'News' stories being so biased, and the lack of coverage of events and facts that hurt the Globe's favored politicians is too much.
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What a hypocritical headline: "Bedrock." Too funny! Poor Ms. Warren doesn't know her family, so how can claim that family is a bedrock? Ms. Warren as an adult failed to RESEARCH her family roots!!!! She apparently has no idea who she is - and the sad part is nor do we.
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Kowabunga, Batman! This would be a Turbo Puff Piece, even measured by Globe standards, but for one line in it. Did Stephanie Ebbert accurately portray Professor Warren's thinking when she reported that Warren's book had reached "the damning conclusion that the best predictor of a woman’s financial collapse was having a baby"? If so (and given the journalistic standards of Globe reporters, that is a big if), then that is indeed a damning conclusion; damning of Professor Warren.
I know that the Globe- Democrat just can't help themselves but this tougue bath is truly beyond the pale...did Gloria Allred approve this message?