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Sassone: Turning optimistic eye toward 2013

Fiscal cliffs. Mass murder. War. Unemployment. End-of-the-world scares.

Glad to see the last of 2012.

But will 2013 be any better?

We approach the new year warily. After all, it has the number 13 in it.

A lot of the old problems still loom for the new year. But we hear hopeful talk of fiscal-cliff deals, new gun laws and a drop in unemployment.





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