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Beam is a columnist for the Living/Arts section. Before joining the Globe as a business reporter in 1986, he worked for Newsweek magazine and Business Week. Beam has authored four books and was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University.
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Take it back, sir
By Alex Beam, Globe Columnist
When the honored disgrace themselves, and the award-worthy are overlooked, it’s enough to make anyone second-guess.
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Poe — we hardly knew ye
By Alex Beam, Globe Columnist
Though the ornery author famously hated Boston, a local professor leads a charge to bring him “home.”
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Eat free or die
By Alex Beam, Globe Columnist
Feeling fenced in, small farms are claiming the right to grow and sell their products outside regulatory bounds.
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Happy birthday, Battle Hymn!
By Alex Beam, Globe Columnist
Julia Ward Howe wrote the words that made the Union troops sing — 150 years ago.