http://www.boston.com/news/local/cullen en-us 2011-09-11T17:57:01Z http://www.boston.com/ http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/File-Based_Image_Resource/bcom_logo_140w.gif http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/09/06/standing_on_principle?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Kevin+Cullen+columns Sam Novey is 23 years old, had never been in trouble with the law before, and last week he went down to Washington and got arrested on purpose, to make a point. Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist 2011-09-06T03:30:19Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/09/04/you_haul_and_you_may_get_ripped_off_as_well?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Kevin+Cullen+columns This is the time of year when all the wonderful college students flock back to our fine metropolis, when the streets of Back Bay and the Fenway are clogged with so many vans, moving trucks and Volvo station wagons that Boston becomes, for all intents and purposes, Mogadishu-on-the-Charles. If you think it’s bad trying to negotiate your way down Bay State Road, that’s nothing compared to standing in the middle of a U-Haul office, and that’s where Joe Welch found himself the other day. Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist 2011-09-04T02:29:35Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2011/08/30/a_rampage_of_rivers?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Kevin+Cullen+columns QUECHEE, Vt. - Joe Gillam was looking out the window of his third-floor condo on Main Street Sunday afternoon when he noticed something. Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist 2011-08-30T04:15:46Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/08/28/saving_lieutenant_kerr?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Kevin+Cullen+columns Army First Lieutenant Cameron Kerr called in the chopper. His Afghan counterpart, a platoon leader named Maiwand, was on the ground, writhing in pain after stepping on an IED in a village in Kandahar Province too small to have a name. Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist 2011-08-28T04:04:30Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/08/23/troubling_request?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Kevin+Cullen+columns When last we left the saga of efforts by the US attorney’s office to wrest confidential oral histories about the Troubles in Northern Ireland from Boston College, prosecutors wanted the recollections of just two people: former IRA volunteers Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price. Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist 2011-08-23T05:42:18Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/08/21/wheres_the_outrage_over_fbi_bungling?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Kevin+Cullen+columns About 20 years ago, some ATF agents went looking for Mark Rossetti, to lock him up. Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist 2011-08-21T05:00:09Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/08/16/sleeping_with_the_enemy_again?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Kevin+Cullen+columns Consider this: The FBI gets into bed with a suspected killer, on the dubious premise that he can give it information on other criminals, even though he is, by deed and reputation, far worse than any of the people he’s supposedly informing on. Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist 2011-08-16T05:41:13Z met