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Boston.com, the online affiliate of the Boston Globe, has hired “award-winning recording artist Jake Brennan” (who?) to compose an original song and video based on each day’s headlines. The sample ditty references the Big Dig construction debacle and contains the lyrics, “Thirty Big Digs, gonna dig, big, another Big Dig/You can dig your whole life but you never find peace.” That’s deep. Given the subject, the tune is actually kind of catchy—about on par with what you’d expect on Dr

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