Now, with just a little less than a month to go before school starts, Gov. Deval Patrick has announced a two day sales tax holiday in the Commonwealth.

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Nearly fifteen years had passed since Ruma's only European adventure, a month-long EuroRail holiday she'd taken with two girlfriends after college, with money saved up from her salary as a para- legal.

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But this is politics, and with only five weeks or so go before AMs go on their two month summer break, it's equally hard not to read more into this than just a holiday.

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