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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Memories of Tom Petty</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An excerpt from <a href="http://www.upne.com/1611687927.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Decibel Diaries: A Journey through Rock in 50 Concerts</span></a><span style="color: black;"> by </span><span style="color: black;">Carter Alan<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tom <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">P</span>e<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tt</span>y and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">T</span>he Heartbreakers:<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span>even
the losers get lucky<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(third time)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">My buddy Clint
and I waited for an inbound trolley, staring hopefully down the empty rails divided
by crushed stone, wooden ties, and pizza joint litter. Fragments of glass
glittered in the bright street-light glare of a cold November night that
forced us to shuffle about to keep warm. A Green Line train, if it ever came,
would take us down the center of Commonwealth Avenue past the classrooms at
Boston University, then plunge under Kenmore Square where we had witnessed many
a punk-rock show at the already-legendary Rat. Heading downtown under the
streets of Back Bay, we’d exit at Park Street, walk upstairs, and pop out in
front of the Orpheum Theater, where the marquee tonight read Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers. Of course, we were excited; the Gainesville native who had
journeyed to Los Angeles to find fame and fortune in rock and roll had reached
a high-speed career trajectory after punching through with his debut album a
couple of years earlier. “Breakdown” from that release had been the initial
American hit, and the meteoric, under-three-minute, scorcher, “I Need to
Know” from a solid second album in ’78 continued the upward thrust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Right across the street from the trolley stop we were
stomping around on stood the Paradise Theater, where Petty and his band had
played an epic sold-out gig the previous July that aired on Boston radio powerhouse
WBCN. Those that managed to get tickets were already believers, but the
broadcast convinced thousands more who couldn’t get in that this white-hot
group was on to something</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">a fresh reboot of rock and roll straight out of a stack of
Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly 45s. I thought about how amazing
that concert had been, so mind-blowing that I had never regretted laying out
the extra cash for a scalper’s ticket; in fact, I wish I could find that
scruffy street capitalist and give him a big hug. Petty’s band, especially
right-hand man Mike Campbell on guitar, had stuck to their leader like glue,
elevating his every move and forcing a worthy comparison to nothing less than
the gold standard of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A distant squeal of metal on metal whisked me back from a
year and a half ago as an ancient trolley made the corner down the street and
rumbled drunkenly toward us. The rusty doors swung wide with a screech and we
stepped in. This car should have been retired years ago, but the cranked-up
heat worked fine, so we weren’t about to complain. My mind started wandering
again: Petty had been away for a long time from what he and his management
considered a key city during this early and critical period of building a success
story. The new single, “Don’t Do Me Like That” and songs from the third album <span class="ital">Damn the Torpedoes</span> that had just appeared on the radio had
actually been delayed by intense music business drama for several months. We
had no idea that was going on until interviews with Petty began appearing in
newspapers just prior to his return. Instead of working on the road to promote
his career, the rocker had spent a major portion of a year raising his right
hand and swearing to tell the truth in court. Like a pantheon of young players
before him, Tom Petty had originally signed a record deal that assigned him a
paltry percentage of any profits and no ownership of his publishing rights.
Then, his record label was gobbled up by industry giant MCA in 1978. Fearing he’d
be lost in the shuffle at the corporation and also desiring a more equitable
deal, Petty invoked a clause written into the original contract that allowed
him free-agent status if his label was ever sold. Even so, MCA refused to let
go, suing the band and locking the two parties into a legal struggle that
forced Petty into bankruptcy. Recording a third album had already begun and
continued during this process, but with MCA threatening to seize any master
tapes and release whatever music it found, the group handed off the precious
results of each day’s work to one of its roadies, whose assignment was to hide
the masters from the musicians and even Tom Petty himself until the next
session. This arrangement shielded the musicians from committing perjury in court
should MCA’s lawyers demand the tapes.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The wheels of justice ground slowly, but Petty’s tenacity
remained strong. Eventually, when it appeared likely that he’d actually win the
case, MCA caved in completely, giving the songwriter rights to his publishing,
a better percentage of the profits, and a custom label for the band that the
media giant would distribute. With this process, MCA gave Petty his freedom,
but held the bright, young talent close in its corporate grasp. The master
tapes were summoned back from their clandestine location and released as the
album <span class="ital">Damn the Torpedoes</span>, which became a ticket to ride
as it ascended to number 2 on the U.S. album-sales chart and sold millions. In
November ’79, “Don’t Do Me Like That” hit the charts and eventually took Tom
Petty to the Top 10 for the first time, followed early the following year by
further hit singles “Refugee” and “Here Comes My Girl.” Suddenly great demands
were being made on the musicians’ time and energy with scads of newspaper and
radio interview requests and an invitation to guest on <span class="ital">Saturday
Night Live</span>. The opportunity for the November 10 TV appearance could not
be ignored even though it meant postponing his Boston concert at the Orpheum
Theater the night before so that Petty and his group could be in New York to
rehearse. They’d only perform two songs, but it was critical to get them right;
at the time, <span class="ital">SNL</span> was the foremost promotional vehicle a
rock-and-roll band could get on American television.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We had our tickets for Friday the ninth, but got word that
the concert would be postponed to the following Wednesday. Disappointing, yes,
but at least the Boston appearance hadn’t been cancelled outright. I had an
excellent eight-dollar mezzanine ticket burning a hole in my pocket; it would
just have to smolder in there for another five days. When Wednesday night
finally arrived we jumped out of that train and practically sprinted up the
steps to leave the subway station. Right across the street was the alleyway
leading up to the front doors of the old vaudeville theater. But as Clint and I
rounded the corner, we were practically mowed down by a wave of figures
marching full tilt in the opposite direction. What’s going on? People should be
rushing <span class="ital">toward</span> the building at this point. But we kept
bumping into bodies, struggling upstream as if fighting a white-water torrent.
I picked out words from the fleeing figures: “I can’t believe it,” “What do we
do now?” and “This sucks!” We finally reached the front doors where several
ushers, wearily repeating themselves over and over again, yelled, “The show is
postponed because of sickness</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. hold on to your tickets!” Really? Tom Petty was postponing
a <span class="ital">second </span>time? Plus, it was at the last possible
moment. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mikal Gilmore, following the tour for a <span class="ital">Rolling
Stone</span> article, sat backstage at that moment. He detailed in his piece,
published in February 1980, that Tom Petty had been under the weather for
several days and felt he had blown his previous night’s performance in
Philadelphia. Gilmour wrote: “By the time of the group’s sound check, Petty can
barely croak. With just an hour remaining before the doors are scheduled to
open, he agrees to postpone the show.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We were certainly disappointed, but understood. It was
obvious, even at this early stage in his career, that Tom Petty was a
perfectionist. Committed to the quality of his performances as much as he
remained devoted to the craft of writing great songs, his meticulousness was
often overlooked, submerged by an enduring image as a laid-back, long-haired
stoner from Gainesville. But it was that attention to detail and driving
ambition that had placed the artist and his band at a perfect point in
rock-and-roll history. After the punk explosion had driven a boot through the
door a couple of years earlier, exposing a scene of complacent rock stardom and
excess, a host of what became “new wave” bands piled through the hole,
scattering the bloated occupants in the room beyond. Some star bands like
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Electric Light Orchestra, and Supertramp would
never really recover; styles such as southern rock and progressive rock were
driven into background roles while other groups, like Yes, took sabbaticals
until some of their relevance to the mainstream returned. Tom Petty and other
lean late-seventies rock and rollers such as the Police, the Clash, Elvis
Costello, Talking Heads, the Cure, AC/DC, the B-52’s, and (in England) the Jam
and XTC had grabbed the flag and taken up the charge. It was a whole new field
of battle out there, and the musical world was being remade in front of our
eyes and ears</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">—</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">we wanted to be right in the thick of it!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The show must go on, and it finally did on November 19. The
band walked triumphantly out on stage to a tumultuous reception, drummer Stan
Lynch sporting a comical T-shirt with the three scheduled Boston concert dates
written on it and the first two crossed out. Petty admitted he was recovering
slowly and still on antibiotics, but you wouldn’t have noticed it as the group
accelerated into a breakneck two-hour show that left everyone in the house
panting in exhaustion. All the new songs from <span class="ital">Damn the
Torpedoes</span> that would soon become classics hit their mark, rising to meet
and challenge the proven in-concert standards like “Listen to Her Heart” and
“American Girl.” In a monumental Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performance,
the band piled on three scoops of effort to compensate for the missed dates.
But as I would discover in subsequent years, this was actually their standard
operating procedure: punch the pedal at the beginning, kick in the nitrous
about three-quarters down the track, and only take the checkered flag when the
last fan had collapsed in a puddle of sweat or simply couldn’t clap any more.
We reached the peak when Petty tore into a cover of the Isley Brothers’
“Shout.” Anyone who hadn’t heard the 1959 R & B classic in years past knew
the song intimately because of Otis Day & the Knights’ recent party version
in the <span class="ital">Animal House</span> film. Petty made a party of it too</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">—</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for ten joyous, rollicking minutes of pulsing dance fever.
The playful call-and-response between the band and the crowd involved
everyone, convincing even the last holdouts in the Orpheum to give it up and
join in. As the final echoes faded on a night when Petty made losers feel like
heroes and refugees taste home, he showed us what rock and roll was all about</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">—</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">giving it all and making us shout!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ALAN is the midday DJ and music director at WZLX-FM, Boston, one of the
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University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-57612354650454772862017-08-22T09:51:00.000-04:002017-08-22T13:26:43.593-04:00Memories of Jerry Lewis<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">By <a href="https://www.davidmweinstein.com/"><span style="color: blue;">David Weinstein</span></a>, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1512600483.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics</span> </a></i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Earlier this week, when I learned that Jerry Lewis had died,
my first thoughts were not of telethons, Martin and Lewis, or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Nutty Professor</i>. Instead, I thought
of a January night a little over two years ago, Eddie Cantor, and “show
business.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">On January 9, 2015, I celebrated my birthday at the Lincoln
Theatre in Washington, D.C. watching a production of Lewis’s one-man show, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An Evening with Jerry Lewis</i>. I wasn’t
always a Jerry Lewis fan, and there were times in my life when I would have
opted for other birthday entertainment. But I had grown to appreciate Lewis
over the years for his grit in continuing to perform, discuss, and defend his
work on and off the stage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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writing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1512600483.html">The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics</a></i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martin and Lewis and Eddie Cantor each hosted <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Colgate Comedy Hour</i>, an influential
early TV program that rotated hosting duties among several comedians. Lewis was
the only surviving headliner from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Colgate Comedy Hour</i> and one of the few living links to Cantor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cuYnDM-9fbgLPMA5B9QCrxvvvuK93vI-aTJj88ZgnQTfebDh3EMJZK6LCGaaajTjoWgtSo5NRGjFWqJPsfjm8HUAO3JQIBl7XiIg3AlqtbWqmN6jwISwPqGdp71Zv7YcTd60mhXf7DeN/s1600/51NYXK3K2VL._SY445_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="311" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cuYnDM-9fbgLPMA5B9QCrxvvvuK93vI-aTJj88ZgnQTfebDh3EMJZK6LCGaaajTjoWgtSo5NRGjFWqJPsfjm8HUAO3JQIBl7XiIg3AlqtbWqmN6jwISwPqGdp71Zv7YcTd60mhXf7DeN/s320/51NYXK3K2VL._SY445_.jpg" width="223" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;">I have nice memories of my 2015 evening with Lewis. He was
88-years-old at the time of this performance and still touring the country. The
Lincoln Theatre was packed with people of all ages. Grandparents brought their
children and grandchildren. Couples, like me and my wife, enjoyed “date nights.”
The star gave his audience a solid evening of nostalgic entertainment: telling old
jokes, sharing anecdotes, and playing video clips from his career. He even
included a few Martin and Lewis bits from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Colgate Comedy Hour</i>. Mostly, I liked being in the presence of this show
business icon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Lewis’s death marks the end of an era. He was the last star
from the heyday of live television comedy and variety shows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I watched Lewis that night in Washington, I
was reminded of Cantor and countless other performers who enjoyed stardom during
the 1940s and early 1950s. They were professionals who took tremendous pride in
their celebrity status and their abilities to pack theaters. As they reprised
popular songs and comedy routines, these entertainers demonstrated their love
of show business and respect for their audiences. There was nothing wrong with a
little nostalgia and kitsch. As long as theatergoers would buy tickets, and
viewers would tune in, Lewis and his fellow entertainers would take the stage and give
the people their money’s worth. Jerry Lewis was a trouper. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">By <a href="http://www.susantejada.com/">Susan Tejada</a>, author of <i><a href="http://bit.ly/2uD3O2y">In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ninety years ago this August,
more than 700 law enforcement officers, from squads <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">throughout the city and
state, stood guard in the historic Charlestown neighborhood of Boston.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was August 22, 1927, and Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were scheduled to die in the electric chair at
Charlestown State Prison at midnight. A large crowd of sympathizers held a
death vigil outside the police cordon. They might, some feared, resort to
violence. (They didn’t.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1921 Sacco and Vanzetti had been convicted of robbery and
murder in South Braintree, Massachusetts, a crime committed a year earlier. Their
ordeal of imprisonment and futile legal motions for a new trial had played out against
a background of rising immigration restriction and domestic terrorism. As the
years passed, and arguments for the men’s innocence became stronger, the case
morphed from a local police-blotter affair into an international cause célèbre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">This post, adapted from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In
Search of Sacco and Vanzetti</i>, describes the men’s final hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">≈ ≈<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Monday, August 22, 1927<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Defense attorneys reflexively went through legal motions. Barring
a miracle, the last grain of sand in the Sacco-Vanzetti hourglass would fall at
midnight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Around the world people took to the streets. There was a
bombing in Argentina and “feverish interest” in Germany. Twelve thousand
demonstrators gathered in Hyde Park in London. There was a call for general strikes
in Australia and in Paraguay. Protestors marched in Mexico and Switzerland. In
Paris, police were reported to be mobilizing against “Sacco outbreaks,” as if
support for the prisoners was spreading like the plague.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the United States police were on red alert. Officers in
Chicago received instructions “to rush every Sacco-Vanzetti assemblage and to
be liberal in the use of tear bombs.” Special guards were assigned to protect
monuments and government buildings in Washington, and bridges and subways in New
York. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">In Boston, at the center of the action, demonstrators
maintained their State House protest. A bystander told Mary Donovan, secretary
of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, that he would “be damn glad when they
fry those wops tonight and get this thing over.” <s><o:p></o:p></s></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Vanzetti’s sister, Luigia, and Sacco’s wife, Rosina, tried
to keep busy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">They called on William Cardinal O’Connell, archbishop of
Boston. Luigia appealed to the cardinal for his help, but was said to
understand that the prelate’s role was “strictly spiritual.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rosina and Luigia also went to the State House to plead with
Massachusetts Governor Alvan Fuller. According to attorney Michael Musmanno,
who interpreted for them at this interview and who later reconstructed the
scene, Mrs. Sacco appealed to Fuller as a family man: “My husband was always
good and faithful to me. He was devoted to his home. Is that the way bandits
act? . . . Governor, help my children! Do not kill their father! Please,
please, have mercy and have justice. . . . Won’t you see how innocent Nick is?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">For her part, Luigia Vanzetti appealed to the governor as a
religious man: “[My brother’s] innocence is assured. Of that there can be no
doubt. God has recorded that on the books; the only problem in this long case
has been to have those in authority read God’s handwriting. . . . On my knees,
oh, Governor! I implore you, do not let America become known as the land of
cruelty instead of mercy. I beg of you, I pray you for mercy!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">The governor said he was impressed by the two women, but had
no doubts about the prisoners’ guilt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Although Governor Fuller was not about to change his mind,
he stayed in his office until midnight on August 22, making himself available
to just about anybody who wanted to see him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">The visitors streamed in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay met with him, then sent a
follow-up letter begging the governor to ask himself: What would Jesus do?
Jesus would not, she believed, have walked “the way in which your feet are set!
. . . There is need in Massachusetts of a great man tonight. It is not yet too
late for you to be that man.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Congressman Fiorello La Guardia of New York met with Fuller.
Ten years earlier the two men had served together in the United States House of
Representatives. Now, La Guardia told reporters, “There is about one chance in
a thousand” for a successful appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Paul Kellogg, editor of the social policy journal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Survey</i>, met with the governor. Together
with five other prominent citizens, he asked for a stay of execution until
doubts could be resolved. Fuller accused the group of being manipulated by
Felix Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard Law School and author of a
blistering and influential analysis of the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nearly a thousand letters and telegrams, most urging
clemency, also swamped Fuller’s office that day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Inside Charlestown State Prison<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mid-morning</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rosina and Luigia arrived for the first of three visits they
would make to the prison that day. The women entered the death house “with
faltering steps,” the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boston</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Globe</i> reported, and left an hour later
showing “evidences of great sorrow.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mid-afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Robert Elliott arrived. The professional electrician worked
as a free-lance executioner for several states, including Massachusetts. He did
an equipment check on Charlestown’s heavy wooden electric chair with its
straps, high back, broad arms, rubber-padded headrest, and legs bolted to the
floor:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“My next step is to test the
apparatus. This is accomplished in either of two ways. One is to attach a board
of electric lights to the wires leading to the chair. . . . The other is to put
the two electrodes in a bucket of water, with perhaps a pinch of salt, and
close the circuit. . . .”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Inside the prison, the atmosphere was tense, Elliott
observed. Nerves were almost at the breaking point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Late afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpf_DA-wCYbG9nY1B8PReUcgNr7De6aQZhZQ5hQlDgGMplMX4Tw0b3q12zxskfvce2JhxNqnU0AhKzUJh_MsWGA-0Q8jBlP9XpCiqSsdGHcddG_Jk4H8XPpmt2xUGkA5CTOmovuKisb_j3/s1600/Unknown-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rosina and Luigia visited again, then attorney William
Thompson arrived. Thompson had represented Sacco and Vanzetti in the final
years of the case. He had received a message that Vanzetti wanted to see him
before he died. Lawyer and client spoke of battles they had fought, and of the
future. Vanzetti gave Thompson “his most solemn reassurance, . . . with a
sincerity which I could not doubt, . . . that both he and Sacco were absolutely
innocent of the South Braintree crime. . . .” Vanzetti said he understood more
clearly than ever that he would not have been convicted “had he not been an
anarchist, so that he was in a very real sense dying for his cause. He said it
was a cause for which he was prepared to die. He said it was the cause of the
upward progress of humanity. . . . He asked me to do what I could to clear his
name. . . .”</span></div>
<br />
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">They talked about Christianity. The condemned man “asked me
whether I thought it possible that he could forgive” his persecutors. Thompson
replied that he did not know, but suggested that Vanzetti try, “for his own
peace of mind, and also because an example of such forgiveness would in the end
be more powerful . . . than anything else. . . .” Vanzetti said he would think
about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Before leaving the death house, Thompson said farewell to
Sacco, in the adjacent cell. The two men had often disagreed about strategy.
Now Sacco told Thompson that “he hoped that our differences . . . had not
affected our personal relations, thanked me for what I had done for him, showed
no sign of fear, shook hands with me firmly [through the bars], and bade me
goodbye. His manner also was one of absolute sincerity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Five o’clock<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Suppertime at Charlestown. A light supper was brought to the
prisoners in the death house. No one was hungry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Six o’clock<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the autodidact who had kept up such an
extensive correspondence with so many people during seven years behind bars,
sat down to write his last known letter. It was a message for lecturer and
liberal activist Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, namesake of his famous
literary grandfather. Vanzetti thanked him for “all that you have done for
Nicola, I, and for our families.” He asked Dana for a final favor: “What I wish
more than all in this last hour of agony is that our case and our fate may be
understood . . . and serve as a tremendous lesson . . . so that our suffering
and death will not have been in vain.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Aldino Felicani arrived at the prison while Vanzetti was
writing this letter. By law, someone was required to claim the bodies of
electrocuted prisoners before they died. “It was up to me to do that,” said
Felicani, the friend who had started the men’s defense committee and had supported
them untiringly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Journalist Gardner Jackson accompanied Felicani to the jail.
“The whole city was an armed camp,” Felicani recalled. “My heart was beating
fast. The trip . . . was made in silence. . . . We reached the jail. The
atmosphere that prevailed was suspense and fear. . . . Inmates appeared to be
watching in the shadows. . . . Everyone, at the entrance, in the lobby, in the
office, was busy with the details of the execution. I entered the office. The
warden, Mr. Hendry, was there. He was drunk. I asked him what the procedure was
and he gave me the papers to sign. It was in such a manner that I claimed the
bodies of my friends, who were then still alive.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Seven o’clock<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rosina and Luigia returned for a few final moments of
farewell. “Leave-Taking Pathetic,” one headline summed up; “Doomed Men Stretch
Arms Through Cell Bars in Efforts to Embrace Wife and Sister.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Starting at seven “and continuing throughout the evening,”
radio station WBET aired live coverage of execution night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eight forty-five<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Warden Hendry went to the death house. The latest petition
for a writ of habeas corpus had been denied. Any faint glimmer of hope for an
eleventh-hour reprieve was gone. Hendry stopped at each cell. “I am sorry,” he
told each prisoner, “but it is my painful duty to inform you that you have to
die tonight. Your lawyers have exhausted their efforts.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Celestino Madeiros, a convicted murderer scheduled to be
executed that night along with Sacco and Vanzetti, was asleep when Hendry went
to his cell. Madeiros woke up, listened, and went back to sleep. (Two years
earlier, Madeiros had confessed to being in on the South Braintree crime and had
exonerated Sacco and Vanzetti, but the motion for a new trial based on the
confession had been rejected.) Sacco was writing a letter to his father in
Italy when Hendry went to his cell next. He told the warden he wanted to be
sure that his father received the letter, and Hendry promised he would
personally see that it was mailed. Sacco thanked the warden “for this and other
kindnesses” during his imprisonment. Vanzetti, in the last cell, was pacing
back and forth. He had been at Charlestown, and known Hendry, the longest. He
appeared momentarily shocked when Hendry gave him the news. Then Vanzetti too
thanked the warden for his kindnesses, and resumed pacing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prison chaplain Father Michael Murphy accompanied Hendry.
All three condemned men rejected his entreaties to return to their religious faith
before dying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nine forty-five<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Father Murphy went back to the death house cells with
Hendry, but his ministrations were again rejected. The prisoners, he told a
reporter, said they preferred to die as they had lived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ten o’clock<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the presence of Robert Elliott, prison electricians
tested the chair one last time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Midnight<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">The official witnesses headed to the white-walled, brightly
lit death chamber: five government doctors, three corrections officials, and a
“newsgatherer” selected by lot, William Playfair of the Associated Press.
Scores of other reporters waited across the prison yard in a guards’ building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“When more than one
person is ticketed for death on the same night, the order of their going is
determined in advance. The weakest—that is, the one least able to stand up
under the ordeal of waiting his turn—is first. The others follow according to
their physical and mental condition.” Thus Robert Elliott described the
procedure for deciding the order of multiple executions, a procedure that in
Charlestown dictated the prisoners’ cell assignments: Celestino Madeiros in
Cell One, Nicola Sacco in Cell Two, Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Cell Three.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The death march began three minutes after twelve,” Elliott
recalled. “With a guard on each side, Madeiros entered the death chamber in a
semi-stupor. . . . He spoke not a word.” He was strapped down. Elliott “threw
on a current of 1400 to 1900 volts. Three times the current was thrown on and
off, and at 12:09:35 [a.m.], four examining physicians declared officially that
Celestino Madeiros was dead.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Behind a screen stood “three green slabs awaiting three
corpses.” The body of Madeiros was removed from the chair and placed on one of
the waiting slabs. He was 25 years old when he died.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">One telegraph operator was sitting near the death chamber;
another, in the guards’ building where the press was hunkered down. “Within a
minute of the time that Madeiros had died, the ticker . . . flashed out the
news. Instantly other tickers . . . went into action, and within a matter of
minutes the news went racing across the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nicola was next. To Bartolo, he called out “Goodbye.” Then
he walked “slowly but steadily” into the death chamber. Elliott noticed that
Sacco was “deathly pale.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nick “sat down without protest.” Many years had passed since
the day he had sat down in another chair, posing for a portrait in a
photographer’s studio, exuding youthful ambition and confidence. Many years,
too, since he had mastered his shoemaking craft, since he had fallen in love,
since he had carried his son in his arms. “As the guards swung about to adjust
the straps [and apply the electrodes], Sacco sat bolt upright in the chair of
death. Casting about wildly with his eyes, he cried [out] in Italian, ‘Long live
anarchy!’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Everything was now ready,” Elliott said, “except the
placing of the mask over his face. But the mask could not be found. The guards
and I searched frantically for it. I could feel beads of perspiration starting
out on my forehead. Meanwhile, Sacco continued to speak. ‘Farewell, my wife and
child and all my friends,’ he cried in broken English.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Then, seeming to become cognizant of the witnesses as
individuals . . . , he went on politely, ‘Good evening, gentlemen.’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">“As Sacco was saying these things,” Elliott recalled, “a
guard strode back into the room with the mask. It had been caught in Madeiros’s
clothing, and carried from the chamber when his body was taken out for autopsy.
Had it not been for Sacco’s talking, the incident might have been noticed. As
it was, the only reporter present failed to observe what had happened, and no
mention was made of it in the newspapers. I have often since been thankful that
the little Italian was so talkative as he sat in the chair awaiting the end.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Guards slipped the recovered mask over Nick’s face. He
called out to his dead mother, “Farewell, mia madre.” An “extra heavy current”
was administered, 1800 to 2000 volts. At 12:19:02 a.m., Nicola Sacco was
pronounced dead, and his body removed from the chair. He was 36 years old when
he died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">The guards went to the cells for the last time. They
unlocked the third cell, and “escorted Vanzetti over the twenty short steps to
the door of the death chamber.” Elliott noted that the last prisoner was the
“most composed. . . . When guards came for him, he shook their hands. . . .” He
thanked Warden Hendry “for everything you have done for me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Vanzetti took his place in the heavy chair. The survival
skills he had developed as a lonely teenager far from home had served him well
throughout his life, and now, staring death in the face, he stayed calm. As the
guards adjusted straps and electrodes, Vanzetti spoke to the witnesses: “I wish
to tell you I am innocent, and never committed any crime, but sometimes some
sin. I thank you for everything you have done for me. I am innocent of all
crime, not only of this, but all. I am an innocent man.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bartolo must have spent his final hours on earth thinking
about his conversation with William Thompson, for he pronounced his last words
with great precision: “I wish to forgive some people for what they are now
doing to me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Guards slipped the mask over Vanzetti’s face, and “current
was applied,” 1400 to 1800 volts. At 12:26:55 a.m., Bartolomeo Vanzetti was
pronounced dead, and his body removed from the chair. He was 39 years old when
he died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">≈ ≈<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Robert Elliott, another job professionally done, took a taxi
back to his hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">The special police forces stationed around the prison went
off duty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">In Detroit, Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers in Cadillac Square
clashed with police. Anarchist Attilio Bortolotti was clubbed on the head. He
went to the offices of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Detroit News</i>
later and learned that the executions had taken place as scheduled. “I don’t
know how I got home that night,” Bortolotti said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">In New York, protestors in Union Square sobbed uncontrollably
when the executions were announced. Valerio Isca and his comrades eventually
“went home to Brooklyn on the subway. When we emerged at the Montrose [Avenue]
station, we were still crying.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">There were tears, too, in the Italian neighborhood of
Federal Hill in Providence. The executions were a “moment of great defeat,”
Thomas Longo recalled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">It rained all night in Boston. At home with her family,
waiting by the phone for news, defense supporter Cerise Carman Jack felt
“emotional [and] sad.” Powers Hapgood, who had traveled to Boston to join the
last-minute protests, was devastated. “[N]othing has ever ravaged my soul and
feelings” like the executions, he wrote his parents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Aldino Felicani and Gardner Jackson walked the dark streets
of Boston in silence that night. So did Felix Frankfurter and his wife. When a
radio loudspeaker blared out the announcement of the deaths, Marion Frankfurter
collapsed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>by Jackson Wright Shultz</b><br />
<b>author of <a href="http://www.upne.com/1611688238.html"><i>Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities</i></a></b> <br />
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I distinctly remember the first time I ever read an entire book without help.<br />
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Shortly after my third birthday, I sat on the edge of my parents’ bed as they bustled back and forth through the doorway connecting their bedroom to the bathroom, preparing for the day ahead. I read slowly and methodically, practically shouting the words into the bathroom to make sure my parents could hear the groundbreaking story of the freckled, red-haired boy’s trip to the park.<br />
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I had successfully blundered through several pages, but when at last I arrived at a word I didn’t recognize, I wailed for someone to come read it to me. My mom, a reading teacher, ignored my plea for help, but called mechanically from the bathroom, “Sound it out!”<br />
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With no small amount of indignation, I formed the sounds of each letter slowly with my tongue. I struggled to make sense of the noises I heard myself producing, but an ever-stubborn child, I kept at it until the disparate phonics morphed into recognizable syllables. When I finally made sense of the text, I bellowed the offending word into the bathroom and continued my recitation with newfound vigor.<br />
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I don’t remember which seemingly difficult word became the source of my triumph; I don’t remember where we were going that day (although, I know it must have been an important event because I was wearing a rather formal dress with several scratchy layers of crinoline); and I don’t remember much about the book, save for its orange and green cover. Yet, I do remember the empowerment I felt when I finished the book.<br />
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Later, as we drove to whatever event dictated that I wear such an uncomfortable dress, I peered out of the car window, calling out the words on every street sign. After twenty miles of my commentary on mile markers and speed limit signs, my elder sister implored me to stop. (I steadfastly refused.) From those road signs, to the entirety of the children’s section of the local library, I began to read everything I could find. In retrospect, I think I was searching, in vain, for the smallest indication of a character to whom I could relate.<br />
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It wasn’t until I was in college that I finally found the character I had been searching for. As I read Leslie Feinberg’s lesbian cult classic, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Butch-Blues-Leslie-Feinberg/dp/1555838537/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446138167&sr=8-1&keywords=stone+butch+blues"><i>Stone Butch Blues</i></a>, I turned each page with a combination of unbridled excitement and dread. The novel details the coming of age story of Jess, a young butch lesbian who, after a lifetime of ridicule, begins taking cross-gender hormones to more closely align her physical appearance with her masculine identity. Although Jess is never specifically labeled as transgender, the trajectory she follows resonates with many transgender and nonbinary individuals.<br />
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While this was not the first transgender narrative I had encountered, it was the first story in which I found critical pieces of myself reflected. For the first time in my life, my voracious reading had led me to a protagonist with whom I could wholeheartedly identify. Like Jess, I didn’t necessarily identify strictly as a man; however, transitioning seemed like the next logical step in the progression of my own gender identity. I came out as transgender shortly after finishing <i>Stone Butch Blues</i>.<br />
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By virtue of navigating my body away from the gender I had been assigned at birth, I fell under the broad umbrella of “transgender” and found myself a part of a vibrant community of individuals who identified and expressed their genders in fathomless ways. The more I talked to other transgender and nonbinary individuals, the more I realized that there are so many important and recurrent gender narratives that have somehow been omitted from the current body of work on transgender issues. I set out to write <a href="http://www.upne.com/1611688238.html"><i>Trans/Portraits</i></a> to tell the stories of transgender and nonbinary people in their own words in an attempt to correct this egregious erasure.<br />
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In conducting my research for the book, I didn’t know exactly what I would find, but there were certain themes I expected to encounter—medical and workplace discrimination, familial strife, and encounters with prejudice—but there were other discoveries I hadn’t predicted. Of the many dozens of transgender and nonbinary individuals I interviewed, I was surprised to learn that nearly all of them were involved in activist endeavors.<br />
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One of the men I interviewed, pseudonym “Greg,” aptly summarized this phenomenon: “I feel that a lot of trans folk become activists, not because they necessarily want to, but because there is a certain amount of need. […] As you deal with prejudice on a daily basis, you start picking and choosing which battles are the most important to you and then you start educating the people around you. Even if they never intended for it to happen, I believe most trans people become accidental activists.”<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnB9e-qzneglra5To0hBuGasGjQU570Jj8_h1N5XocXwDtaegyAf_eqSUOe9H70LFz6OhXiwxrL5LV87Fv3BlcgVcyywkibrYd1xin5iHrb5QnSpU2wQ_qPmCrHAkC4uCuYICdRAYReUxh/s1600/Shultz_TransPortraits_3d_spine_trnsp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnB9e-qzneglra5To0hBuGasGjQU570Jj8_h1N5XocXwDtaegyAf_eqSUOe9H70LFz6OhXiwxrL5LV87Fv3BlcgVcyywkibrYd1xin5iHrb5QnSpU2wQ_qPmCrHAkC4uCuYICdRAYReUxh/s320/Shultz_TransPortraits_3d_spine_trnsp.jpg" width="212" /></a>I was also surprised to find that I was not alone in my childhood literary pursuits. “Wendy” told me, “When I was a kid, I learned to read at a really early age. I read anything and everything I could get my hands on. Even though I didn’t consciously realize it, I was desperately searching through literature to find any glimpse of other people who were like me.” Several other interviewees, including “Catherine” and “Erik,” echoed this sentiment.<br />
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Learning that there were others out there searching for the faintest
glimmers of themselves in the literature crystallized my desire to find
and archive stories that broke the narrow mold of how transgender
identities are usually conceptualized. My intent was to tell stories,
like mine, that were not often expressed in transgender literature.<br />
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It was critical to me that this project provide a platform for voices that, even within transgender spaces, are often left out of the conversation. As “Bella” pointed out, transgender history has often been whitewashed, and the stories of trans people have frequently been left out of the conversation. “Our voices have been silenced long enough,” she told me, “It’s about damned time that somebody let us tell our truths.”<br />
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Ultimately, writing <i>Trans/Portraits</i> was a labor of love. I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to connect with so many remarkable trans and nonbinary individuals and that I was able to provide a platform that allowed each of them to share their incredible stories. Although I began writing this book with mild uncertainty about what I would find, the positivity and diversity I encountered in collecting these stories allowed me to finish this project with hope that others who are still searching for their truths might find themselves amongst these pages.<br />
<br />University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-43166923307169163152017-07-12T11:07:00.003-04:002017-07-12T11:07:46.864-04:00Brenda Biondo Featured at the San Diego Museum of Art<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://twitter.com/UPNEbooks"><span style="color: blue;">UPNE Staff</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.brendabiondo.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Brenda Biondo’s</span></a> book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Playground-Celebration-Playgrounds/dp/1611685125" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Once Upon a Playground</span></a>—</i>one of our inaugural <a href="http://www.upne.com/foreedge.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">ForeEdge</span></a> titles!—has recently been featured at the <a href="https://www.sdmart.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">San Diego Museum of Art</span></a>, along with some of her many amazing works of figural photography:</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more information about the artist and author, click <a href="http://www.brendabiondo.com/"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>—and <a href="https://www.sdmart.org/brenda-biondo/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a> is more information on the museum show.</span></h4>
University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-6632654164021719442017-05-25T09:48:00.002-04:002017-05-25T09:55:11.933-04:00JFK at 100<div class="MsoNormal">
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or foreign crisis to another, it’s curiously tempting to look at the historical example of our 35</span><sup style="font-family: Arial;">th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> president, whose centennial we celebrate on May 29</span><sup style="font-family: Arial;">th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, 2017. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Kennedy was first and foremost a pragmatist, a point he
underscored when, on being asked about his ambitions in high office, he
answered simply: “I hope to be effective.” The Supreme Court justice Felix
Frankfurter once informed “young Jack”, as he called him, that as the nation’s
chief executive his job was to “direct funds, goods, and people to concerns
that relate to the human welfare.” Kennedy’s desk diary of his time in office
often reveals a preoccupation with rather more narrowly defined tasks. He was
supremely good at seeing the “big picture” of a particular issue, and often showed
a refreshing (and distinctly non-partisan) breadth of thought not always
conspicuous in his modern successors. In January 1962, at the height of a
potentially cataclysmic showdown with the Soviet Union over access rights to Berlin,
Kennedy summoned the city’s military governor General Lucius Clay to discuss
the crisis. Years later, Clay recalled that the president had made one or two
“eminently sensible” suggestions about the issue at hand, before going on to
seek his advice on another matter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">“Kennedy was seeking to impose price and wage restraints
on the US steel industry at that time,” Clay recalled. “He knew that I had been
the head of a firm that was a large user of steel, and I remember he asked me
whom he could get in touch with in the area, off the record, and talk quietly
to” - another example of what the hard-headed general admiringly called the
president’s “intuitive skill in finding problem-solving resources that others
might have overlooked.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The irony, perhaps, is that while Kennedy remains a
potent symbol of modernity and progressivism, both in terms of his political
philosophy and his notably laissez-fair personal morals, he was in some ways a
traditional figure who embraced many of the institutions that had served to
unite a disparate people for 200 years. To enumerate them would make today’s
more sensitive liberal soul wince, so here goes: the Church; the flag; the rule
of law; the US military; and perhaps above all the exercise of self-discipline
in our fundamental social contract with one another – “the right to enjoy life
to the full up to the moment when it detracts from your neighbor’s right to do
so”, as he once put it to his British friend, and fellow centrist politician,
Hugh Fraser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Of course, one can take the view that Kennedy’s natural
or acquired gift for compromise, particularly when it came to foreign affairs, displayed
a far-sighted grasp of statesmanship; or that it was all a cynical piece of
political pandering designed to make him attractive to both sides in a debate.
In either case, it seems fair to say that Kennedy’s realism effectively checked
and balanced his belief that it was important for the United States to
constantly assert itself in the struggle to stem the tide of world communism.
On the campaign trail, he was a consistently reasonable and benign
commander-in-chief who assured his audiences that he would never commit young
Americans to battle without the most compelling need to do so. In the War Room,
he remained open to the counsel of his military chiefs that bombing the likes
of Cuba back to the Stone Age was an eminently viable option.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>“Any other course of action will be almost as bad as the
appeasement at Munich,” the bluff, cigar-chewing air force chief Curtis LeMay
told the president at a White House meeting to discuss the growing Cuban
missile crisis on October 19, 1962. “I think that a blockade, and political
talk, would be considered by a lot of our friends and neutrals as a pretty weak
response to this,” he added. When LeMay when on to inform the president that “You’re
in a pretty bad fix at the present time”, Kennedy responded merely: “Well,
you’re in there with me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">It may not be insignificant that John Kennedy spent several
of his most impressionable student years in and around London, just as the
British political establishment argued over the correct response to take to
Nazi Germany’s growing territorial ambitions. He was even present in the
visitors’ gallery of the House of Commons to witness the climactic declaration
of war on September 3, 1939. It might be a stretch to say that Kennedy’s whole
later attitude to dictatorial figures such as Nikita Khrushchev followed on from
his experience of the Europe of the 1930s. But there’s no doubt that he took
with him into office a fundamental set of principles that he summarized this
way in his 1940 undergraduate thesis-tuned-bestseller <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_England_Slept" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Why England Slept</span></a></i>:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“Democracy may be a great system of government to live
under, but its weaknesses are great … We must realize that democracy is a
luxury. We may be able to afford it due to our particular position, but we must
be continually aware of the lesson we have learned from our study of England
and Germany’s armament history from 1937-1939. We have seen that a democracy
cannot successfully compete with a dictatorship on even terms. Our foreign
policy therefore, should be directed to taking advantage of certain economic
and strategic advantages that we now possess, and making sure that we never
reach a position of having to compete with a dictator on their home grounds—that
is both starting on an even basis—or the dictatorship will win.”</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Christopher Sandford</b> is the author of <a href="http://www.upne.com/1611688528.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Union Jack: JFK's Special Relationship with Great Britain</span></a></span></span></div>
University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-46064969325075828582017-05-03T15:52:00.000-04:002017-05-03T15:52:38.905-04:00Joyce Mitchell & Her Inmates With Benefits<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">By <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Benson/e/B001HCVE00/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Michael Benson</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d7GdHjuq-CE/WQo0LsoqkZI/AAAAAAAAB3k/3KLBmmrvF1EpHxDdDM9z0HnVjZdtL1WjACLcB/s1600/joyce-mitchell-movie-cc4bcd0a68dd4343.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d7GdHjuq-CE/WQo0LsoqkZI/AAAAAAAAB3k/3KLBmmrvF1EpHxDdDM9z0HnVjZdtL1WjACLcB/s400/joyce-mitchell-movie-cc4bcd0a68dd4343.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Spring 2015 escape by
two worst-of-the-worst prisoners from the Clinton Correctional Facility (CCF) in
Dannemora, N.Y., resulted in the largest manhunt in New York State history and
the biggest domestic news story of the year. For three weeks America held its
collective breath, as the narrative unfolded to its inevitable, violent
conclusion. But even after it did, even after the players were no longer in
motion, the tale retained its journalistic legs, largely because of its many
angles:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">—the
brutal and depraved crimes that Richard Matt and David Sweat committed to be
caged in a maximum security prison to begin with, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">—the
complacency and arrogance within the prison that allowed the escapees to gather
key intelligence, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">—the
complementary skills of the prisoners, how they became a two-headed escape
monster accomplishing an extraordinary feat,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">—tales
of the frightened public, who went without sleep, and when they did nod off it
was with a shotgun ’cross their laps,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">—tales
of the 1,200 manhunters, the stalwart members of law enforcement, who scoured
the harshest of wilderness for weeks on end in relentlessly inclement weather,
praying they would catch the men before innocents were hurt, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">—the
budget cuts by the State of New York that impacted the case, and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Joyce “Tillie” Mitchell</i>, the sad sack of
a woman who allowed herself to be used by the escapees, giving them the tools
they would need to cut their way out of the beast’s belly, in exchange for
flirtation, fantasy, and a modicum of tawdry prison sex. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Guess
which facet of the story became the focus of Lifetime’s TV movie?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No surprise. It was Tillie, star of the show,
with her Walter Mitty fantasy life and muttonhead excuses. The mother of three
was called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Shawskank”</i> on the front
page of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Post. </i>Her anemic
attempts to explain her unexplainable behavior were meant to be damage control,
but brought only the wrath of the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So here comes the TV movie, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/ny-prison-break-the-seduction-of-joyce-mitchell" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell</span></a></i>, written and
directed by Stephen Tolkin, which debuted on April 23 in the crucial Sunday
prime-time slot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The
movie gets a lot of things right. We briefly see Matt and Sweat’s brutality, and
we feel the relaxed relationship between CCF’s prisoners and corrections
officers that blurs their adversarial roles. The tunneling out and escape
itself are presented in detail and with surprising accuracy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s
made clear that Mitchell’s carnal misadventures with Matt and Sweat were
perfectly in character. Life for her was a daytime serial, from her young and restless
schooldays to “As the Cell Block Turns” in adulthood. Her husband Lyle (Daniel
Roebeck), a painfully dull but affable chatterbox, was the lover-on-the-side
that broke up Joyce’s first marriage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The
manhunt and the effect of the escape on the Adirondack area are all but missing
in the movie, leaving lots of room for clothes-on sex scenes featuring a lonely
and bored fifty-something woman getting hot and bothered over sweet-talking dirtbags.
The backroom intimacy portrayed is more than cringe-worthy. It’s
crawl-out-of-your-skin worthy. But that’s prison sex in a nutshell, I’m
guessing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Nobody
asked me, but I gave <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Prison
Break</i> two and a half stars. It’s corny and melodramatic, but has a so-bad-it’s-good
appeal—and I liked the movie better than I thought I would. Myk Watford as Matt
and Joe Anderson as Sweat capture the superficial charm of these sociopaths,
and Penelope Ann Miller gives Tillie an animation that may lack realism but
improves watchability. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H0ij_SbPBNg/WO0sTcdRJTI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/U8oZcRuVtqgRl57j3tm6PLbpKox4viP5ACPcB/s1600/Escape%2BDannemora_ss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H0ij_SbPBNg/WO0sTcdRJTI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/U8oZcRuVtqgRl57j3tm6PLbpKox4viP5ACPcB/s400/Escape%2BDannemora_ss.jpg" width="257" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">But
I know one fellow certain to give <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New
York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell</i> a rave review, two
urgent thumbs up: New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo. He has to be ecstatic
that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the Lifetime </i>movie<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>never once touches upon one key factor
that made the escape possible. Because of Albany’s penny-wise pound-foolish budget
cuts, the superintendents of New York State prisons were not allowed to
lockdown their facilities without an okay from an Albany beancounter. Days
before the Clinton escape, a gang fight erupted on the prison grounds and the
CCF superintendent wanted to declare a lockdown—but Albany said no. Too
expensive. The lockdown would have resulted in a thorough search of every cell
in the facility, exposing the fact that Sweat and Matt were singing the Credence
song: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DOO DOO DOO Lookin’ Out My Backdoor</i>
about their own self-made rear exits, back doors that would, within the week,
lead them to an impressive but temporary freedom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Michael Benson</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Dannemora-Richard-Adirondack-Manhunt/dp/1611689767" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">ESCAPE FROM DANNEMORA: Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt</span></a></i>
(ForeEdge), as well as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Dead-Matter-Michael-Benson/dp/1611688515/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493840711&sr=1-1&keywords=why+the+grateful+dead+matter" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Why the Grateful Dead Matter</span></a> </i>(ForeEdge) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://the%20devil%20at%20genesee%20junction/" target="_blank">The Devil at Genesee Junction</a></i> (Rowman & Littlefield).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-52607352611522541992017-04-11T15:21:00.001-04:002017-04-11T15:22:05.665-04:00Richard Matt and David Sweat: Two-Headed Escape Monster<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">By <a href="https://www.facebook.com/authorMichaelBenson/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Michael Benson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX09tVv3gquqMD-JlNfla42S2Q30_dSq_-WX8g4GgssQ5FJEHLBhtXtgFuSuv4sSl0oH3waVzAHSXiHBG0IIPH2mEYqHgj8oVXlce1QDxFfaE7cUdYKgqz5JKXNeZaIbggxHagfxCU_z6o/s1600/sweat+%2526+Matt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX09tVv3gquqMD-JlNfla42S2Q30_dSq_-WX8g4GgssQ5FJEHLBhtXtgFuSuv4sSl0oH3waVzAHSXiHBG0IIPH2mEYqHgj8oVXlce1QDxFfaE7cUdYKgqz5JKXNeZaIbggxHagfxCU_z6o/s320/sweat+%2526+Matt.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">It was the perfect story:
the Great Escape. On June 6, 2015, Richard Matt, a torture killer, and David
Sweat, a cop killer, worst-of-the-worst prisoners in the Clinton Correctional Facility—the
maximum security prison in Dannemora N.Y.—climbed, crawled, and slithered
through a twenty-minute claustrophobic labyrinth of corridors and tunnels until
they emerged into freedom through a manhole a block and a half outside the
forbidding CCF wall. Now they were killers on the loose. Dangerous understated
the matter. They were deadly and desperate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And that was just the beginning. The story that unfolded had adventure,
psychology, sex, depravity and brutality. It was the biggest story of 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As you probably have heard,
the pair were helped in their escape by a woman named Joyce Mitchell, a married
civilian employee of the prison enjoying an inappropriate relationship with
both prisoners, and a corrections officer, who owed the prisoners a few favors
and inadvertently helped them escape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The escapees were expecting
Mitchell to show up with a getaway car but she was a no-show so they ducked
into the woods, where they led up to 1,200 law enforcement officers on a
three-week manhunt, the most expensive in New York State history. The hunt
didn’t end well for either of the escapees, but you probably knew that as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Here’s something you might
not know: It is doubtful that any two other prisoners could have pulled this
off. It is unlikely that any other pair could have come up with a workable <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">plan </i>to get out of CCF, much less <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">execute </i>that plan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">When it was decided that,
sure, what the heck, Matt and Sweat could live in adjacent cells in CCF’s
ill-conceived “Honor Block”, the powers that be at the institution forgot a
rule learned the hard way by Adolf Hitler during World War II. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hitler’s bright idea, like
many of his ideas, served not just to alleviate a problem but to prove a point,
that point usually involving Aryan superiority. He decided to gather together
all allied officers who were prisoners of war and had been caught planning or
attempting escape, and put them in one “inescapable prison”, the formidable
fortress known as Colditz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Colditz was a castle prison
atop a cliff overlooking the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rive Mulde</i>
and the town of Colditz, near Leipzig, Germany. What Hitler did accomplish by
putting the escape-savvy officers all in one place, was create a think tank, an
escape super-team, and before the war was over sixteen officers did
successfully make it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">One successful effort was
led by Lieutenant Commander William Stephens. With socks covering their shoes,
Stephens and three others crawled through windows, slithered over roofs, scaled
down a wall using knotted sheets and fled to Switzerland disguised as French
workmen, getting past checkpoints with forged documents including a leave pass
with swastika stamp in the name of an actual French electrician employed by the
Germans, and a service pass with photo and stamps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Perhaps the most interesting
aspect of Stephens’ escape plan was the involvement of the prison band, which would
deviate from the score they played to signal the escapees regarding the
sentries location. One musical variation meant the sentries were both at the
center of the grounds, another signaled they were at opposite ends of the
courtyard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H0ij_SbPBNg/WO0sTcdRJTI/AAAAAAAAB3M/xAlrZ0ZYHrwnl0vNHH1nDIT6HTYRPASdACEw/s1600/Escape%2BDannemora_ss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H0ij_SbPBNg/WO0sTcdRJTI/AAAAAAAAB3M/xAlrZ0ZYHrwnl0vNHH1nDIT6HTYRPASdACEw/s320/Escape%2BDannemora_ss.jpg" width="206" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">It was the ability of those
allied officers to put their heads together that enabled Stephens and others to
find freedom. In a smaller sense, that was what happened when Matt and Sweat
were allowed to live in adjacent cells. As it turned out, the pair had
complimentary skills and were able to pull off a feat that may have been beyond
each of them working alone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Richard Matt was a ladies
man and a schmoozer. He could get women to do his bidding with his sex appeal
and simultaneously get chummy with other men using his good-ol’-boy,
one-of-the-fellas manner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">David Sweat was a
three-dimensional thinker, a solver of puzzles, a planner who could read a
blueprint upside-down from across the rooms. It would be his job to figure out
how to get out. Matt would recruit any help they might need to pull off their
plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Together they created a
two-headed escape machine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Couple this with the
time-honored culture of arrogance and complacency among the corrections
officers and civilian employees at CCF, none of whom complied with the rules
for the simple reason that they believed escape to be impossible, and a
practically impossible escape was suddenly not just possible, but real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">During the wee hours of that
Spring morning, Matt and Sweat were able to exit their cells through back doors
they had cut for themselves, descend a ladder to the sub-sub basement, chisel
through a wall, enter a heating pipe and crawl through it under the prison’s
main wall, exit the pipe, and ascend stairs to their manhole exit. It was an
astounding accomplishment, one that could have been thwarted in a myriad of
ways, but more certainly if CCF had taken a lesson from Hitler’s mistake, and
kept the two bright boys as far apart as possible.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/authorMichaelBenson/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Michael Benson</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611689761.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Escape From Dannemora: Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt</span></a></i>
(ForeEdge, 2017), and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611688511.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Why the Grateful Dead Matter</span></a></i> (ForeEdge, 2016).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-23335154345551517102017-04-04T10:03:00.000-04:002017-04-11T14:33:01.423-04:00“Hot Hands, Draft Hype & DiMaggio’s Streak: Debunking America’s Favorite Sports Myths”<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">By Cory
Franklin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">If you grew
up as a sports fan and gravitated toward others of common disposition, then at
some point you found yourself on the playground, in your living room or college
dorm, and engrossed in discussions and quite possibly arguments about your sports
heroes, their accomplishments, and their teams. Should you fit this profile, then
Sheldon Hirsch’s new book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1512600636.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hot Hands,Draft Hype & DiMaggio’s Streak: Debunking America’s Favorite Sports Myths </span></a></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">is required
reading. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dNyJZLK_ppg/WOOkpaeOS4I/AAAAAAAAB2o/veu_ni0SXR4VpXIDiSgVKUyPzFyI7UFUwCLcB/s1600/Hirsch_HotHandsDraft_3D_pages.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dNyJZLK_ppg/WOOkpaeOS4I/AAAAAAAAB2o/veu_ni0SXR4VpXIDiSgVKUyPzFyI7UFUwCLcB/s400/Hirsch_HotHandsDraft_3D_pages.jpg" width="295" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The author
provides fascinating and typically unconventional takes on some of the most
heated debates in baseball, football, and basketball, while occasionally
tossing in intriguing digressions. The book is meticulously researched, and the
author’s background as a physician well acquainted with two of sports most important
facets—its science and its statistics—makes this an essential part of any
sports library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">The first,
and most impressive, portion of the book deals with baseball, which is
obviously the author’s first love. He begins provocatively, with an essay
diminishing Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak in 1941, an accomplishment
many observers believe to be the most impressive single season record in
baseball history. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">Without
resorting to revisionist history, Hirsch’s criticism centers on the insight
that the consecutive aspect of the streak was a statistical idiosyncrasy that
did not benefit the Yankees, and that others have performed as well or better
in their sports in similar situations. This is certainly a contrarian viewpoint,
and has merit. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">He counters the opinion
of others, including the respected Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who
also wrote about sports as an avocation. Gould waxed eloquent on DiMaggio’s
streak, calling it, “</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">the finest of legitimate legends
because it embodies the essence of the battle that truly defines our lives.” Hirsch
graciously acknowledges Gould, but nevertheless dismisses this panegyric as
“schmaltz.” </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">If only Gould had not
died prematurely, a roundtable debate on the DiMaggio hitting streak between
the two would surely have been something to attend. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">The book
moves into other baseball trigger areas –whether today’s players are better
than those of the past, how we should evaluate players who used
performance-enhancing drugs, and </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">the ne
plus ultra</i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> of all Baby Boomer baseball debates, “who was better Mickey
Mantle or Willie Mays?” No spoilers here; suffice to say Hirsch’s is a nuanced
take on this unresolvable argument.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">While this
and some of his other baseball subjects are obviously geared toward a Baby
Boomer audience, he does not shortchange younger fans. Included are sections on
contemporary debates such as who deserved the 2012 and 2013 Most Valuable
Player Awards— the superb all-around player Mike Trout, or the great hitter but
one-dimensional player Miguel Cabrera (Cabrera won both times). Along the way,
Hirsch examines pitchers’ arm injuries and the over-application of the pitch
count today. It is hard to fault his assertion that the Washington Nationals
ill-fated decision several years ago to withhold Stephen Strasberg from the playoffs
based on his projected pitch counts was, in Hirsch’s words, “absurd.” </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">The best
discussion in the book is about the statistical revolution that has completely
transformed baseball in the past two decades. A baseball game is a series of
thousands of events and decisions, and the advent of the computer and high-tech
video systems has made it possible to catalogue, compile, and evaluate those
events. This has generated constantly evolving statistics and new ways of
analyzing players and strategy. Administrative power in the upper strata of
baseball has changed hands from grizzled old-line baseball veterans to Ivy
League analysts, economists, and “quants.” Most baseball front offices are now
filled with people who never played professionally. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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his experience with statistics to explain to the everyday fan some of the most
commonly used new terms. Unlike many of today’s journalists, he is neither a
total skeptic nor a doctrinaire believer; he neatly lays out the strengths and
weaknesses of such arcane concepts as WAR, UZR, and DIPS. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">Coincidentally,
medicine faces a not dissimilar revolution with its attempts to measure
performance. As a physician, Hirsch is undoubtedly aware that just as a
baseball player is more than a statistic, so is a patient. The ultimate purpose
of statistics is to describe reality, but while they may be able to provide a
good approximation, their description will necessarily be incomplete. As the
saying goes, “the map is not the territory,” and Hirsch explains why this
pertains to statistics and baseball.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">For
the casual reader looking for an initial section to catch his or her attention,
I must recommend the section on baseball analytics.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">The book moves
into basketball, and Hirsch’s knowledge of the sport is no less impressive,
even if his topics are not quite as focused. There is less attention to
historical debates—surprisingly no Russell/Chamberlain colloquy, the basketball
equivalent to Mantle/Mays. Instead, he examines, among other things, various
strategies (e.g. three-point shooting) and the popular topic of whether the
“hot-hand”— the streak shooter—actually exists. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
hot-hand has been examined in depth by many in and out of the sports realm,
most notably by the late mathematical psychologist Amos Tversky and his Nobel-winning
colleague, Daniel Kahneman. Their conclusion, and the conclusion of most
others, is that the hot-hand does not exist, and is simply an imagined
phenomenon. I have never been totally convinced that this is true, not because
the hot-hand is so obvious, rather because it may be subtle and hard to confirm.
It is so ingrained in the thinking of virtually everyone who has played the game
that one must discard the notion that it does not exist with caution; ignore
local knowledge at your peril. With additional explanation, Hirsch adopts this
cautious stance.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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basketball debate that Hirsch comes down strongly on concerns the “one and done
rule.” He is a firm believer that young basketball players should have the
option to turn pro at any time and any impediments, legal or social, to letting
them do so are unwarranted and unfair. This is another unresolvable debate, with
evidence supporting both sides.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Hirsch
details the careers of a couple of controversial superstars, LeBron James and
Wilt Chamberlain. There is little middle ground on either of these two players;
each is either a hero or villain, overrated or wrongly maligned, depending on whom
you talk to. Hirsch presents a balanced and intelligent assessment of both,
coming down on the side, rightly so, that both were in the pantheon of the
greatest to ever play. His mention of Steph Curry in the same vein as Oscar
Robertson and Michael Jordan, however, might be a little gratuitous, a point he
concedes, albeit reluctantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In a
fascinating (but brief) digression in the basketball section, Hirsch discusses
Ernie Vandeweghe, a college All-American, an NBA player with the Knicks in the
1950’s, a physician, and the father and grandfather of eight stars with
world-class ability in six different sports. Most amazingly, Vandeweghe
attended medical school at the same time he played in the NBA. The physician
Hirsch is duly impressed, as am I (although Hirsch neglects to mention in
addition to everything else, Vandeweghe also married a Miss America!). Among
all the debates in the book, there is no debate that Ernie Vandeweghe was one
of the most amazing individuals in sports—something that few before Hirsch
have acknowledged. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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section on football is unfortunately shorter, although it includes an excellent
piece on head trauma in the NFL and the difficulty in making the diagnosis of
chronic traumatic encephalopathy. I hope that Dr. Hirsch revisits this subject
in his future writings because his insight is extremely valuable. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">While
personal disagreement is not generally the domain of the critic, if I had to
take issue with any of his ideas, it is the rule changes he proposes in
football. Hirsch advises downplaying kicking by eliminating extra points and decreasing
the relative value of field goals (by awarding touchdowns with seven points). My
bias is that kicking is an essential element of the game, and a skilled kicker
in a pressure situation adds considerably to the excitement of the game.<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Likewise, he
criticizes the “catch/no catch” rule pertaining to receivers, but again, I disagree.
Currently, a receiver must hold onto the ball and then make a “football move”
to qualify as a catch. Hirsch dislikes the “football move” aspect and would
like to do away with it. But I believe that putting greater onus on the
receiver to hold the ball longer helps referees make difficult distinctions
between dropped balls and catches with subsequent fumbles. However you believe,
his discussion of football rule changes makes for interesting reading. <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ends with the author’s profile of the legendary Muhammad Ali. Ali was
inarguably one of the most important sports figures of the 20</span><sup style="font-family: Arial;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">
Century, and after his death most descriptions of his life took on a
hagiographic tone. The fact remains that Ali was a controversial figure and not
always the saint he is portrayed as, especially in his dealings with his
nemesis, Joe Frazier. The Ali epilogue might seem slightly out of place, but it
is nonetheless accurate and a necessary historical counterbalance to some of
the idealized portraits of the inarguably great boxer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">There are
several unstated but important themes in this book. The most significant is the
inevitable tension between individual and team performance. Any book that
analyzes athletes in team sports must consider the conflict there. This book is
no different, and Hirsch does his best to balance it. Did DiMaggio’s consecutive
hitting streak really help his team? Should Russell Westbrook play more
team-oriented basketball? Do high school players who move to the NBA learn to
play team basketball? Ultimately, some fans prefer going to a game and watching
an individual performance, others a competitive game. Are you happy if Michael
Jordan scores 60 points but the Bulls lose or would you rather see a game go
into overtime with no one player standing out? Hirsch acknowledges and respects
that sports in general have become more competitive, but one gets the sense that
deep in his heart he yearns for the dazzling individual performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">There is
also the matter of prediction. Fans read, watch, and argue wanting to know who
will win an upcoming game (gambling playing no small part in this). Hirsch
understands and explains why, at its most elemental level, successful
prediction is impossible with any degree of certainty, a fact borne out by two
singular events that occurred after his book went to press. It’s too bad we
could not get his take on the Cubs winning the 2016 World Series after being
down three games to one, and the Patriots coming from 25 points down to win the
2016 Super Bowl. I await reading about these anomalies in his next book. He is
certain to have a unique perspective.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I also hope
that in his next book he comments on how some of the topics he has discussed
subsequently unfolded. For example, his observations on Phil Jackson not
realizing success with the Knicks look prescient right now, for exactly the
reasons he states. The jury is still out on Allonzo Trier, the fabulous young
basketball player he describes who devoted his youth to playing the game. Trier
has had some unanticipated troubles in his time at the University of Arizona,
and his future is still anybody’s guess. Finally, Hirsch might have a different
take today on Cubs manager Joe Madden’s “quirky tinkering” given some of the
bizarre decisions Madden made in the 2016 Playoffs and World Series that nearly
spelled disaster. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">In short, </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Draft-Hype-DiMaggios-Streak/dp/1512600636" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hot Hands, Draft Hype & DiMaggio’sStreak: Debunking America’s Favorite Sports Myths</span></a> </i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">is a wonderful, well-written
book that you can pick up and start reading on almost any page. And, as a bonus
for the erudite sports fan, Hirsch quotes, among others and to good use, Tversky
and Kahneman, Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, A.E. Housman, Robert Browning, and
Alexander Pope. Who imagined, for example, a link between Vonnegut and LeBron
James?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Hirsch’s
book is meant to enlighten and entertain rather than simply settle barroom
sports debates. However, in that respect you will be smarter after reading it
and certainly better prepared for those debates when and if they arise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether on your night table, your coffee table,
or your bookshelf, keep this great book handy for reading and reference. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><b>Cory
Franklin</b> is an Editorial Board contributor to the Chicago Tribune and the
author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chicago Flashbulbs </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable
Patients and Odd Cases </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><i>Reblogged
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University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-10617068683252383392017-02-24T12:33:00.001-05:002017-03-08T11:27:37.954-05:00The Triple-Double Is Overrated. Kawhi Leonard Is Not.<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By Sheldon Hirsch, author of <i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1512600636.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hot Hands, Draft Hype, & DiMaggio's Streak: Debunking America's Favorite Sports Myths</span></a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma
City Thunder has received enormous acclaim for averaging a triple-double this season,
a feat that has been accomplished only once in NBA history—by the all-time
great Oscar Robertson 55 years ago. A New York Times reporter recently gushed
that Westbrook’s triple-double run is</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">“a
performance as aberrant as anything any of the primordial basketball legends
(Wilt, Oscar, Bill Russell, Pistol Pete) ever did.”</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju9E_7AyqET3x6vxmpbpO0mAogjCU2ASzu8U4Ve53LscaWvwEHNMyYhEsh5uAKC2BvaJxNRQZhNV5zw06lTde_sO334kHG42U0ks18yRD6L-rfruQt5Pl0QE6UrQQEfm70b5q-Qd2DJtPV/s1600/russell-westbrook-022116-getty-ftrjpg_q05slhfwezv61c5ovd3mhf91o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju9E_7AyqET3x6vxmpbpO0mAogjCU2ASzu8U4Ve53LscaWvwEHNMyYhEsh5uAKC2BvaJxNRQZhNV5zw06lTde_sO334kHG42U0ks18yRD6L-rfruQt5Pl0QE6UrQQEfm70b5q-Qd2DJtPV/s400/russell-westbrook-022116-getty-ftrjpg_q05slhfwezv61c5ovd3mhf91o.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But while Westbrook
certainly has played great, let’s not get carried away with this specific
achievement: in reality, the triple-double is overrated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Nothing magical happens with
the tenth point, rebound or assist. As the ninth is simply one more than the
eighth, the tenth is just one more than the ninth. In that regard, Westbrook’s 31.1
points, 10.5 rebounds and 10.1 assists per game (as of the all-star break) barely
differ from James Harden’s 29.2 points, 8.3 rebounds and 11.3 assists per game and
are not much more than Lebron James’s 25.9 points, 7.7 rebounds and 8.8 assists
per game. Indeed, James’s complete statistical line, which includes fewer
missed shots and turnovers and a high proportion of assists on three-point
shots, may be superior to Westbrook’s and Harden’s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I would not rank Westbrook
over Harden, James or others for reaching three unrelated numbers of no
specific value; nor, in turn, should triple-double runner-up Harden rank over
James and others for that reason; nor, should Westbrook or Harden necessarily
rank above Kawhi Leonard, even though Leonard has never had a triple-double.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Why the fascination with the
triple-double? Why the game-by-game Westbrook drumbeat?—did he or didn’t he?—and
melodrama (“He passed Bird! Wilt is next!”….“primordial legends”)?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tobias Moskowitz and L. Jon
Wertheim (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scorecasting: The Hidden
Influences Behind How Sports are Played and Games Are Won)</i> explain the outsized
allure of statistics like the triple-double: “we are slaves to round numbers.” They
cite examples outside of sports—this is a widespread phenomenon—but their most
pertinent discussion concerns baseball’s .300 batting average. A .300 average
is essentially the same as .299, yet the authors found that “In the last
quarter century, no player hitting .299 has ever drawn a base on balls in his
final plate appearance of the season.” Not once! These hitters expanded their
strike zone in order to keep alive the chance of hitting .300.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGvIN_WsFlEUsPpWXgRdFtSYTvO2iJXGN1Jb7PHT1gQWt1l4B8BF3SBIrR30ticwMfD9MGKz639UR_JdqtiNSJiXPZvVlqgX1E7uP76_bTY_Xk8AsjYxvG7mvS6AP-nTltTtjnP34gkOe/s1600/Hirsch_HotHandsDraft_3D_pages.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGvIN_WsFlEUsPpWXgRdFtSYTvO2iJXGN1Jb7PHT1gQWt1l4B8BF3SBIrR30ticwMfD9MGKz639UR_JdqtiNSJiXPZvVlqgX1E7uP76_bTY_Xk8AsjYxvG7mvS6AP-nTltTtjnP34gkOe/s400/Hirsch_HotHandsDraft_3D_pages.jpg" width="295" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">Furthermore, players hitting
.300 on the season’s last day are much more likely to take the day off (to
ensure their .300 average) than are players hitting .299. (Memorably, Ted
Williams played on the final day of the 1941 season despite entering the game
with a .400 batting average. He ended up at .406; his willingness to risk
falling short went down in baseball lore as testimony to his greatness.) Not
surprisingly, the same holds for batters who enter the final day of the season
with 99 or 100 RBIs: the latter take the day off far more often than the
former.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Most importantly for present
purposes, players are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">paid more money</i>
after they hit .300 rather than .299, or drive in 100 runs rather than 99, or
hit 30 home runs rather than 29. General managers over-and undervalue players
who just reach or just miss round numbers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The triple-double is not
alone in failing to adequately rank players. All basketball statistics, from basic
numbers (points, rebounds, and assists totals) to advanced analytics, have
significant limitations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ideally, any statistical evaluation
would eliminate all variables other than the performance of the athlete being
measured. Unfortunately, basketball contains a myriad of important variables,
including the considerable effects of the nine other players on the court, varied
team paces and styles, different responsibilities assigned to players, and more.
With that degree of player interaction and overall complexity, basketball
simply does not lend itself well to numerical assessments of individual players.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Context is key in evaluating
players. For example, Kevin Durant’s exit led to the near-complete reliance of
Oklahoma City on Westbrook—an NBA all-time high “usage percentage” —and to Westbrook’s
increased scoring (also, turnovers and missed shots). In addition, Westbrook’s
career high in rebounds owes in part to Durant and Serge Ibaka being replaced
on the front line with poor rebounders; Westbrook filled a void. Westbrook deserves
credit for everything he’s done this season—every last point, rebound, and
assist—but he is not a better shooter, rebounder, or passer than last season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Similarly, although Durant
is now shooting his highest percentage ever from the field, his shooting skills
have not improved. Instead, he’s getting better shots from Golden State’s
constant movement offense than he did with Oklahoma City’s isolation-emphasized
style. On the other hand, sharing the offensive load with sharpshooters Steph
Curry and Klay Thompson, he’s taking the fewest shots per game in his career and
his scoring average is down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Variables and context plague
measurements of defense even more. Defense is always team-schemed and it’s
nearly impossible to isolate a single player’s contribution (even though more cameras,
shot charts, and other sophisticated strategies have been brought to bear on
the attempt.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Consider the publicly
available overall defensive evaluations, which fail in two critical ways.
First, they do not distinguish adequately among players. Second, they too often
yield plainly ridiculous results. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">For example, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Basketball-Reference</i>’s defensive ratings
(a complex analytics formula that yields the points allowed by a player per 100
possessions) the twelve rotation players on the Cleveland Cavaliers currently fall
in the narrow range between 105 and 112. Measures of error are not provided but
it may be that the formula finds no statistically significant difference
between <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any</i> of the players. (For
comparison, Cavalier offensive ratings span from 97 to 127.) At best, any distinctions
here are minimal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Bizarrely, Kevin Love ranks
as the Cavalier’s best defender. NBA cognoscenti (and anyone else who has ever
watched a Cavs game) consider Love a poor defender. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His high defensive ranking indicts the methodology,
as does <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Basketball-Reference</i>’s
assessment of Klay Thompson as the Warriors’ weakest defender. Worse yet, consider
Harden, a notoriously poor defender; numerous internet videos document his self-acknowledged
problem with concentration and his comic lapses into fugue-like states at the
defensive end. Yet two seasons ago <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Basketball-Reference</i>
ranked him equal defensively to the hyper-energetic, focused, and more athletic
Westbrook. Forensic pathologist Henry Lee quipped in the O.J. Simpson trial
that if you find one cockroach in a bowl of spaghetti, you toss the entire
plate; cockroaches abound in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Basketball-Reference</i>’s
defensive ratings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">And since any composite
statistical player evaluation must include defense as a significant component, none
of them (i.e. WAR, VORP, and others) inspire any confidence in their value.
Statistics alone, whether simple or complex, cannot adequately rank basketball
players.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Most analysts still consider
James the NBA’s best player, but his reign is nearing its end. At 32 years old,
he now rests on some defensive possessions and will soon decline. Who is his
heir apparent among perimeter players? With apologies to Durant and Curry, who
have also hit their peaks and are now difficult to evaluate (playing together
on a team that would win at least 60 games without either one), the major candidates
for the NBA’s top dog over the next few years are Westbrook, Harden, and Leonard.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Westbrook and Harden both
sport gaudier basic statistics than Leonard: more points, rebounds, and
assists. But the inability of these statistics to establish Westbrook’s and
Harden’s superiority becomes apparent when we imagine the three players
switching teams. In the more egalitarian and far slower paced San Antonio
system, Harden’s and Westbrook’s points, rebounds and assists would all
decrease, with their points and rebounds nearing or reaching Leonard’s current
numbers. Harden and Westbrook, as point guards, would still have more assists
than Leonard, but also more missed shots and turnovers. Leonard shoots more
efficiently than Harden and (especially) Westbrook. With these advantages
cutting in both directions it would be hard to claim significant overall
offensive superiority for any of the three over the others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In contrast, we can make
clear distinctions at the defensive end. To start, you don’t need anything more
than your eyes to know that the reigning two-time Defensive Player of the Year
Leonard dominates the blooper film star Harden, even if Harden has improved
somewhat. Down goes Harden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Furthermore, Westbrook is a
solid defender but still falls short of Leonard, who is probably the NBA’s best
perimeter defender since Scottie Pippen (or even longer). Westbrook cannot
match Leonard’s defensive versatility, his ability to guard anyone from point
guards to power forwards. Nor can he match Leonard’s extraordinary reach.
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tgsMXhE-eOc/WJ4Ou2rxGDI/AAAAAAAAB1k/fmqi5lSUrz4gTKlCoHAujMMXV216wFqcwCLcB/s1600/Aizenberg_EdgeHolocaust_3D_pages.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tgsMXhE-eOc/WJ4Ou2rxGDI/AAAAAAAAB1k/fmqi5lSUrz4gTKlCoHAujMMXV216wFqcwCLcB/s400/Aizenberg_EdgeHolocaust_3D_pages.png" width="295" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The<i> New York Times</i> got it wrong. On the front page of
its Sunday, January 29, 2017 edition, right under mega-headlines denouncing all
manner of executive orders, fear-mongering, and unconstitutional edicts by our
new president, it made a stab at categorizing the novice chief executive’s
disconcerting behavior—Mr. Trump is a “magical realist” the <i>Times </i>declared,
who makes “fantastic claims punctuated by his favorite verbal tic—‘Believe
me.’” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In the article, written by reporter David Barstow, the
editors of the venerable daily were laudably attempting—like so many other
Americans—to decipher President Trump; or as we literary critics would put it
in our lingo, they were trying to “represent” him, to find systems of meaning
through which to understand and label the new resident of the White House.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The classifying phrase “Magical Realism” (MR) struck the <i>Times</i>
as appropriate, since the term was taken to signify “fantastical claims,”
“cascade of falsehoods,” and “alternate facts”—more simply and directly, lies.
Mr. Trump was a magical realist because he was a skillful fibber, perjurer,
fabricator, and so on and so on.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As a Latin Americanist specializing in Jorge Luis Borges,
one of the initiators of the magical realism now identified with his
continent’s literature, my attention was immediately piqued by the front-page
combination of the <i>Times</i>, Trump and (un)Truth. Especially, I realized,
because the distinguished publication had gotten it wrong. Magical realism is
not lying, but the laying bare of lies; not fibbing, but the challenging of
fibs; not a cascade of falsehoods, but a form that bears witness to the truth. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The only thing that the <i>Times</i> did get right in
connecting Trump to magical realism was the political key, since one of magical
realism’s central features is resistance to single-voiced political structures:
it indicts, not supports political, cultural and social perversions. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Magical realism as an artistic concept was all the rage when
I was a mere Latin American literature graduate student back in the
antediluvian 1970’s. Everyone was suddenly gaga over an obscure novel coming
out from, of all places, the scarcely-known Colombia, and entitled <i>One
Hundred Years of Solitude</i> (<i>Cien años de soledad</i>, 1967) by one
Gabriel García Márquez that broke with the realism of the traditional novel,
and described the convoluted political and social history of South America, especially
Colombia, through a blending of the magical and the mundane.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It was an artistic tour-de-force that earned its author the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. But in his Nobel lecture García Márquez
warned against the misuse of magical realism, usually by Europeans and
Americans, as precisely what it isn’t—an escape from reality and the
justification for lying by governments and administrations.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Speaking of Latin America, García Márquez pointedly asked in
his Nobel speech, “Why is the originality so readily granted us in literature
so mistrustfully denied us in our difficult attempts at social change?” Notice
the emphasis on social change. García Márquez, using MR, wants to retell a
century of historical events in order to out the lies of official versions by
displaying their outrageousness and absurdity.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The central occurrences in his book are the Thousand Days’
War (1899-1902) between Liberals and Conservatives in Colombia and the “banana
massacre” of the workers striking against The United Fruit Company (1928). In
opposition, García Márquez unearths the facts that are covered up—for example,
his purposefully exaggerated portrayal of a heavy rain that falls on his town
of Macondo relentlessly for five years to signal the destruction of the
physical evidence of the brutal killing. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">García Márquez was following in the footsteps of his
precursor Borges, who in the 1940’s, while World War II was raging, attacked
the genocidal totalitarians—Nazis, Communists, anti-Semites—who were questing
global dominance through what he called the anti-human “rigor of
chess-masters,” disintegrating our world by destroying peoples and nations as
if they were no more than inert wooden pieces on a world-size chess-board, and
by wiping out the past with the large scale provision of a fictitious past,
outsizing the banana magnates of Macondo (he did this some years before Orwell
in <i>1984</i>.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">His masterful stories, “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (1940),
“El milagro secreto” (“The Secret Miracle,” 1943), and “Deutsches Requiem”
(1946) propose topsy-turvy universes—imaginary planets in “Tlön,” stage plays
where time moves backwards, and war crime trial proceedings constantly
interpolated by the revelation of totalitarian mendacity.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Happily, we are not challenged on the magnitude that García
Márquez and Borges were. But perhaps in the US the potential magical realists
of our challenging moment are the masses gathered in Washington and elsewhere a
week before the <i>Times </i>article for the Women’s March demanding gender
equality in the face of Donald Trump’s glaring macho braggadocio. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</style>University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-50711640506671478522017-01-11T09:36:00.002-05:002017-01-11T10:24:37.131-05:00Here's To You, Boston<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">The below
is an excerpt from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Boston-Strong-Citys-Triumph-Tragedy/dp/1611685591" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Boston Strong</span></a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/caseysherman123" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Casey Sherman</span></a><span id="goog_583887410"></span><span id="goog_583887411"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveWedge" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dave Wedge</span></a>. This month,
we are offering the Boston Strong <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Boston-Strong-Citys-Triumph-Tragedy/dp/1611685591" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">ebook</span></a> for $1.99 on all platforms in conjunction with the 1/13
theatrical release of the feature film <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.patriotsdayfilm.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Patriots Day</span></a>.</span> Here’s to you, Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Boston police detective Sergeant Danny Keeler
had spent much of the early afternoon walking up and down Boylston Street
popping in and out of various bars and restaurants, including Abe & Louie’s
and McGreevy’s, to monitor crowd control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“What’s your head count?” he’d ask the doorman.
“Make sure you keep it at 50 and below. If we come back and it’s like that, you
won’t have any problems with us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Keeler was walking alone across Gloucester
Street when he heard and saw the first explosion. His initial reaction was
similar to others who had witnessed the blast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“I thought a transformer had let loose,” Keeler
recalls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Just over a year earlier, the Back Bay section
of Boston had been plunged into darkness when a 115,000-volt transformer
exploded at a garage on Scotia Street, close to the finish line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Keeler immediately began running toward the smoke
and noise emanating from Marathon Sports. The area was still choked with
people. If it was a transformer explosion, someone was likely hurt. His time in
the U.S. Marines and his years on the police force had trained Keeler to be
instinctive. He had also been trained to run in the direction of trouble—not
away from it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“In 13 years in homicide, I’ve been involved in
a lot of shootings. I’ve seen a lot of chaos,” Keeler says. “But I firmly
believe that God put me there that day.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">He had reached Fairfield Street when suddenly he
heard another devastating blast—this time coming from behind him. He turned
around immediately and could see another large cloud of smoke, followed by the
sound of ear-piercing screams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">This ain’t no transformer fire</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">, he thought to himself. <i>We’re
getting bombed.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Since he was closer to the second explosion,
Keeler decided to double back down Boylston Street to the scene at Forum. There
was panic everywhere. People were turning over tables outside restaurants and
running in every direction. Keeler tried to wade through the waves of fleeing
spectators, but it was impossible. He jumped off the sidewalk and approached
the middle of the street when he got his first glimpse of true devastation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“I saw a leg lying on the street. It was on fire.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The charred body part looked like a log that had
been tossed atop a fire pit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Keeler grabbed his radio. “This is Delta 984.
I’ve got multiple bombs at the finish line. I need some help down here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">He requested that Ring Road, adjacent to
Boylston Street, be closed off immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Ring Road’s gonna be our evac route. I need you
to shut it down at Huntington [Avenue] for MOP [Mobile Operations], I want that
clear. I need the lanes cut clear for the fire department.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Keeler’s first thought was to get the victims
away from the scene and to the hospital as quickly as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Three officers ran up to Keeler looking for
guidance—looking for orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Danny, what do you need from me?” asked Boston
Police Captain Frank Armstrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“I need you to keep these lanes clear [near the
bombing scene],” Keeler told him. “Don’t have the fire department come in here
and drop their trucks anywhere. Keep these lanes clear.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Keeler ordered the others to gain control of the
bombing scenes in front of Forum and Marathon Sports. Meanwhile, other Boston
police officers at and around the finish line began calling into dispatch
asking for additional help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“The only one I want to hear from is 984,” the
police dispatcher ordered. “984’s got the channel.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">At that moment, Detective Sergeant Danny Keeler
took command of the biggest crime scene in the history of the city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">Keeler’s boss, police commissioner Ed Davis, had
watched the marathon for about an hour with Governor Deval Patrick and other
VIPs before heading back to his house in Hyde Park, where he dropped off his
wife and joined a conference call with Vice President Joe Biden and top cops
from other big cities to discuss a controversial gun bill making its way
through Congress. Both Davis and Mayor Tom Menino were at the forefront of a
national gun reform package backed by Biden and President Barack Obama. Davis
took the call in his bedroom. It lasted 45 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">As soon as he hung up with the vice president,
Davis’s phone rang. It was his second in command, Boston Police
Superintendent-in-Chief Dan Linskey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Hey, boss, I don’t know what we’ve got; there
are two explosions at the finish line.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“What kind of explosions?” Davis asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“I don’t think they’re electrical in nature,” Linskey
replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Davis has had extensive international training
regarding the use of IEDs (improvised explosive devices), bombs, and other
methods of terrorist attacks. After the subway bombings in London in 2005,
which killed 52 people and injured more than 700 more, Davis spent time with
Scotland Yard officials and studied the attack—all the while thinking of the
uncanny similarities between that city’s mass transit system and Boston’s MBTA.
Immediately, the fact that there were two explosions had Davis concerned that
it could be a coordinated attack like so many he’d seen internationally. “I was
hoping it was a manhole explosion, but I didn’t like the sound of it,” Davis
later recalled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Are you there?” Davis asked Linskey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“No, I’m in Kenmore Square. I’m racing up there
now. Making my way up there now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Davis could hear sirens in the background and
police radios blaring. He didn’t have his portable radio with him, so he asked
Linskey, “What are they saying on the radio?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“It’s Danny Keeler. I can’t understand him,”
Linskey replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Davis knew the detective sergeant well. He also
knew Keeler was a Marine and was alarmed by the fact that something could
rattle the veteran cop. This had to be serious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Keeler’s calling for all the ambulances in the
city, and he says he’s got multiple amputations,” Linskey said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">It was then that Davis knew Boston had been
attacked. And knowing that such attacks often occur in threes, his attention
immediately turned toward protecting his officers and the public from a
possible third bomb. The bomb squad had been dispatched, and officers were
boldly checking each and every one of the hundreds of bags discarded on bloody
Boylston Street by terrified bystanders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The commissioner’s next call was to Rick
DesLauriers, special agent in charge of Boston’s FBI office. He called for the
FBI’s bomb squad, also known as the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team (EOD), as
well as all SWAT units.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">“All
right, I’m on my way,” said Des Lauriers, who was at the FBI’s headquarters at
One Center Plaza across from Boston City Hall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">
“We are going to set up a command post at Ring Road; see me at Ring Road,”
Davis told him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Davis ended the call, grabbed his service
weapon, and headed for the door of his home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“What’s going on?” asked his wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“We may have been attacked,” he said in full
stride. “Turn on the TV and I’ll call you when I can.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The tires on Davis’s vehicle screeched as he
pulled out of his driveway. He dialed Massachusetts State Police Colonel
Timothy Alben and asked him to send all available units, especially the bomb
squads and SWAT teams, to Boylston Street. The commissioner switched the radio
in his SUV to a special frequency used for mass-casualty events. He heard
multiple calls for ambulances. Radio chaos. Not quite panic, but as close to it
as he’d seen in his decorated career.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">His next call was to Mayor Menino in the
hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Mr. Mayor, we’ve got a situation,” Davis told
him. “There were two explosions at the marathon finish line.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Jesus, does it sound like a bomb?” the mayor
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“It’s not looking good, Mayor, but I’m not
certain until I get there,” Davis said. “They were reporting multiple
amputations, and that’s an indication that it was antipersonnel in nature. I’ll
get back to you as soon as I can.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Good luck,” the mayor said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Menino had been informed of the situation before
the call from Ed Davis. Just before 3 p.m. that afternoon, one of the mayor’s
security officers came in and told him, “A bomb just blew up at the marathon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Get more, get more information,” the mayor told
the cop. He then addressed his staff. “Let’s not get nervous. Everyone calm
down.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">After talking with Davis on the phone, Menino
sent his chief of staff, Mitchell Weiss, out to the command post near the
finish line to get a read on exactly what was going on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">The scene back on Boylston Street resembled a
war zone. Firefighter Phillip Skrabut, of Engine 17, District 7 in Dorchester,
was assigned to work between Dartmouth and Exeter streets, near the finish line
at Boylston Street. He was about 500 feet behind the finish line walking toward
the grandstands when the first bomb went off.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“I saw the blast and then saw a crowd of people
fall to the ground,” Skrabut wrote in a report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">When he heard the second explosion, he ran up
the sidewalk under the grandstand toward Exeter Street, then crossed the street
to the bombing site. Police and marathon volunteers were already tearing the barriers
away, so Skrabut jumped onto the sidewalk, where he found at least a dozen
severely injured people on the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“I went to the closest victim to me,” he said.
He came across a high school student, Sydney Corcoran, of Lowell, who had been
watching the marathon with her mother, Celeste, and father, Kevin. The
raven-haired teenager was lying on the ground, conscious and crying. She had a
massive shrapnel wound to her right thigh with arterial bleeding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Another firefighter handed Skrabut an orange scarf,
which he tied above the wound as a tourniquet. He also applied direct pressure
to try to stop the bleeding. A spectator who said he was a Marine came over and
asked how he could help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“I had him place his hands where mine were and
told him to squeeze as hard as he could,” Skrabut wrote. “If not for him, I
would have had to stay and hold pressure on her leg,” Skrabut wrote. “His
actions no doubt kept her from bleeding to death.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">He then moved to another victim, a middle-aged
man who was conscious and was trying to get up. He appeared to have a broken
right leg and multiple shrapnel wounds to the face and body, but no
life-threatening injuries. “Calm down, sir, and try to breathe normally,”
Skrabut told him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Lay still until help arrives.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">He then turned to a woman in her late twenties
or early thirties. She had a severely deformed lower left leg with a blast
wound and an open leg fracture. Her right foot was twisted inward, and her
ankle joint was exposed. It was a horrific injury. He grabbed her left leg
above and below the wounds and held her. A marathon runner arrived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“I believe he had a medical background because
he immediately took control of patient care, calling off her injuries very
systematically and calmly,” Skrabut wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">It was the firefighter who then began taking
directions from the civilian. The marathoner asked him for gauze, so Skrabut
gave him a roll from his medical pouch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Straighten her left leg and wrap the wound,”
the marathoner told Skrabut. He then did the same with her right ankle and
foot. The marathoner then instructed the firefighter to lift her legs, and he
wrapped her hips and legs together so she could be moved. She was put on a
backboard, and Boston EMS came over with a stretcher and took her away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The firefighter never got the name of the
marathoner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“But I am grateful for him to say the least,” he
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">Just before the bomb blasts, firefighter Doug
Menard, a veteran of the Iraq war, was on roving patrol on the block bordered
by Dartmouth, Boylston, and Exeter streets. He was on Exeter Street just past
Marathon Sports heading toward Dartmouth Street when the first bomb went off.
He was about 15 seconds away from the scene when the explosion occurred.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“The blast was enough to feel like someone
kicked out the back of my knees, however I was able to catch my balance,”
Menard wrote in a report. “I turned immediately and saw a rush of running
wounded coming toward me through the smoke. I seemed to be the closest person
to ground zero who didn’t have a scratch on me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Before
he processed what was happening, he heard the second <i>boom!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“D110 at the finish line. Multiple wounded.
Secondary devices. Watch out,” Menard barked through the radio. He saw roughly
20 people with severe lower leg wounds on the pavement. As he surveyed the
scene, he mentally “black tagged” one female—Krystle Campbell—who appeared
“gray” and “didn’t look like she was going to make it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Campbell was a 29-year-old golden-haired native
of Medford. She had been a top employee of celebrity chef Jasper White in his
Summer Shack restaurants, sometimes working 70 to 80 hours per week managing
the catering side of the business, which was quite extensive. She was the
all-American girl who loved her friends and family. Krystle had taken care of
her sick grandmother for nearly two years, and on the day of the marathon she
was just a few weeks shy of her 30th birthday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">As Menard stood near Krystle, a mother grabbed
his leg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“She was covering her teenage daughter’s leg,”
Menard wrote. He looked down at the girl’s leg and saw it was severed just
below the knee. He found a cravat in his medical pouch and tied a tourniquet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“The blood stopped and I moved on, even though
the girl and her mother pleaded for me to stay,” he wrote. Everyone needed
help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">A man next to them was on fire. He had smoke
rising from his shoulders and his clothes were ablaze. Menard patted out the
flames and checked him for wounds. He had deep cuts and shrapnel wounds to his
back. His tattered shirt kept smoking from the “hot shrapnel” in his back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">A Boston cop arrived to help and kept patting
out the smoking garments while Menard moved on to other wounded. He went back
to Krystle Campbell, where another woman, who turned out to be her friend Karen
Rand, was holding her hand. Karen and Krystle had come to the marathon to watch
Karen’s boyfriend finish the road race. Menard noted that Karen’s lower leg was
“blown apart.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">He didn’t have another cravat, but a runner
sprinted over and handed the firefighter his running belt. Menard and the
runner tied a tourniquet around her leg. A marathon volunteer handed him
multiple rolls of gauze, which could also be used for tourniquets. Despite
their efforts, Karen later lost the leg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">An EMT asked Menard to help cut off a patient’s
clothing. As he assisted the medic, someone yelled for help inside Marathon
Sports. He ran through the shattered front window of the store and found five
injured people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">There were civilian doctors working on a woman
in the doorway. Menard grabbed a gauze roll and put a tourniquet on the woman’s
leg. The firefighter and a couple of civilians helped him drag the woman out of
the store and onto the sidewalk so that EMTs could take her to the hospital. He
then ran toward another firefighter who was working on a man with serious
injuries. Menard helped his fellow firefighter put the man on a backboard, and
they carried him to the medical tent in Copley Square.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">Another Boston firefighter, Mike Foley, was busy
saving lives in front of Forum. After the second blast, he hopped the barricade
and came upon a man whose clothes were on fire. He also saw a woman and a
child—later identified as Lingzi Lu and eight-year-old Martin Richard—lying on
the ground. They were dead. Foley saw a severed foot on the ground next to the
curb and felt nauseous. “The ground was dark—scorched from the explosion and
covered with blood and tissue,” he recalls.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">He came across a man with amputations, who was
trying to sit up. Foley grabbed a strap from an EMT and fashioned a tourniquet
to the man’s right thigh. He waved over a cop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Run to the engine and grab me a Stokes basket,”
he hollered. A Stokes basket is a metal and plastic stretcher used to move
patients. They lifted the man onto the basket and slid him into a waiting
ambulance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Foley ran back to the scene and helped an EMT
load another severely injured patient onto a backboard, then carried him to an
ambulance that had more room. He rushed back and helped EMTs load yet another
patient into a police van. He gave another survivor oxygen and helped place her
into the same police van.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">He then helped direct trucks and ambulances to
and from the scene before he was ordered to head back to Engine 33’s
headquarters on Boylston Street to “take cover from a possible third device.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">Firefighter Adalberto Rodriguez thanked God that
he had made the decision earlier that day to carry his medical bag. Patrolling
the area between Hereford and Fairfield streets, he was keeping an eye out for
dehydrated runners and spectators in need of assistance. He’d helped a few
dehydrated folks that morning, as well as a couple of people with “flu-like
symptoms,” but it was an otherwise uneventful day. That would soon change as he
would be thrust into the chaos and tasked with helping rescue one of the most
vulnerable of the marathon-day victims.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">After the blasts, Rodriguez sprinted toward
Forum, where he saw people tearing down metal partitions to get to the wounded.
He helped a man with shrapnel in his legs. Rodriguez cut the man’s pants off
and cleaned and wrapped his wounds. He was then directed to a little girl who’d
lost her left leg—it was Jane Richard. The stunned firefighter held pressure on
the arteries above the girl’s injury. He helped put her on a gurney, and the
girl was taken away in an ambulance. His attention turned to the girl’s father,
Bill Richard, who was holding his son Martin in his arms, wailing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Don’t let him die, don’t let him die!” the
father cried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Rodriguez’s heart ached at the sound of Bill
Richard’s screams. He bent down and examined Martin’s injuries and was certain
the boy was already gone. Still, he tried to calm the anguished dad as best he
could, but Bill Richard was inconsolable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Another boy suffering from severe leg
lacerations was lying next to Martin. Rodriguez assumed it was the boy’s
brother. But it wasn’t. It was 11-year-old Aaron Hern, a California boy who had
been standing next to Martin at the time of the explosion. The same shrapnel
that tore through Aaron’s leg had killed Martin. Tourniquets were tied around
Aaron’s leg, and the boy was led to an ambulance. Rodriguez moved on to another
victim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">His third patient was an adult male “with
shrapnel all over his entire body.” The man had severe injuries to his left
leg. Rodriguez quickly wrapped the man’s wounds to slow the bleeding and helped
get him into a police van.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">He ran back to the scene and saw EMTs giving CPR
to a woman who lay motionless on the sidewalk. He later learned the woman was
BU graduate student Lingzi Lu. Several people were tying tourniquets around her
wounds, desperately trying to save the young Chinese woman. But Lu’s injuries
were far too severe. She was bleeding out rapidly. Seconds later, she was dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">In death, she was smiling. Krystle Campbell
looked serene as she lay on a stretcher in the back room of the medical tent on
Boylston Street. Danny Keeler didn’t know who she was as the young woman had no
identification, driver’s license, or ATM card on her body. An attendant turned
Campbell onto her stomach briefly while Keeler inspected her injuries further.
Her skin was charred, and her back had been blown apart by scalding shrapnel.
Keeler thought about the anguish and anxiety felt by families across New
England—across the country—who had yet to hear from their loved ones at the
marathon. He thought about his own kids. Keeler looked down at the lifeless
body on the stretcher and silently grieved for her parents, whoever they were.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Keeler rounded up a group of detectives and
brought them over to the California Pizza Kitchen restaurant, located inside
the Prudential Center mall, to decompress for a moment after what they’d seen
and done during the past hour. Keeler would never admit it, but at that point, he
needed a break, too. He could not shake the image of Denise Richard leaning
down over her son Martin. Keeler’s eyes welled up again at the thought. Stay
focused, dude, he whispered to himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">His mind then shifted again to his own family.
His cell phone had been lighting up. Keeler’s kids and his girlfriend, Carol,
had been watching the live coverage on television and he had yet to speak to
them. Keeler fished for his cell phone and called home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“How bad is it?” Carol asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“It’s a mess,” Keeler responded. “We’re gonna be
down here for awhile.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“How’re you doing?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">He paused before answering. Sadness quickly
turned to rage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“We’re gonna get these motherfuckers!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Danny Keeler had investigated over 200 murders
in the city of Boston, and now he had at least three more to solve: those of
two women who just a few hours earlier had been brimming with life, and that of
a little boy who would never have the chance to grow up. For years, Keeler had
been the shoulder to cry on and the man to call on those torturous nights when
grieving family members felt as if they couldn’t go on any longer. The crimes
that haunted him the most were those against children—children like the boy who
now lay under a white sheet in front of Forum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">His career up to this point had been one of both
triumph and frustrating disappointment. When Keeler joined the department in
1979, he stood out from his peers almost immediately. In August 1980,
Keeler—still just a rookie—ripped off his uniform and jumped 60 feet off the
Boston University Bridge into the Charles River to save a man who was
attempting suicide. Through Keeler’s quick actions, the man lived, and Keeler
was awarded the department’s Medal of Honor. He joined the Boston Police
homicide unit in 1992. At the time, the unit was overwhelmed by a
record-setting number of murders—most of them unsolved. Keeler got to work
right away. In November 1992, he walked into Carney Hall at Boston College and
arrested a night school student named Michael Finkley for the deadly shooting,
two years earlier, of Frederick “Peanut” Brinson on a busy Dorchester street in
broad daylight. Finkley was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Keeler
later captured the killer of 86-year-old Nordella Newson. The elderly woman had
been stabbed and strangled by a drug addict in an attempt to steal $500. Keeler
was working and closing the books on murder cases at breakneck speed. His
success earned him the nickname “Mr. Homicide” on the streets and inside the
courtrooms of Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The Brinson and Newson murders were slam-dunk
cases, but others proved more difficult. First was the murder of nine-year-old
Jermaine Goffigan on Halloween in 1994. Goffigan was shot on his grandmother’s
front porch while counting candy. The murder rocked the city, and Keeler and
his partner, acting on a tip, made a swift arrest. The suspect, a teenager
named Donnell Johnson, was later convicted and would serve five years in
prison. The conviction was withdrawn and Johnson was released, however, when
new evidence made it clear that eyewitnesses had misidentified him. Two other
men pleaded guilty to killing Goffigan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Johnson sued both Keeler and William Mahoney,
who had supervised the investigation, claiming that they had initially withheld
from prosecutors the alibi Johnson had given on the night of his arrest.
Despite calling the allegations against the two homicide detectives “deeply
troubling,” the judge threw out Johnson’s lawsuit. Mahoney was suspended
without pay for 30 days. No discipline was taken against Keeler.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">In 1999, Keeler got an audiotaped confession
from an 18-year-old man who admitted to being present as his 14-year-old
pregnant girlfriend was buried alive on the grounds of the abandoned Boston
State Hospital. That man, Kyle Bryant, told Keeler that he had hid in the
bushes while his friend Lord Hampton stabbed, choked, and bashed the girl’s
head in with a rock. The victim, Chauntae Jones, was eight months pregnant with
Bryant’s child at the time. Hampton admitted to investigators that Bryant
wanted Jones killed out of fear that her family would accuse him of statutory
rape. “As I’m throwing dirt on her, he’s [Bryant] jumping up and down on her
and yelling, ‘Hurry up and die, bitch,’” Hampton told police. “She gasped all
the way through until she was completely buried.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Yet the jury refused to convict Bryant because
it felt that prosecutors had not presented enough evidence. There was no blood,
no fingerprints to connect Bryant to the grisly murder. When the verdict was
announced, both Keeler and the family of Chauntae Jones were stunned and
outraged. The victim’s mother had to be restrained by five court officers while
her cousin vowed to kill Kyle Bryant one day. Danny Keeler understood their
explosive reaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“You
tell the disenfranchised people of this world like the Jones family the system
works,” Keeler told the <i>Boston Herald</i>. “We told them, ‘Don’t react
to the situation with violence. Wait, we’ve got him, he’s confessed.’ And now
this? They believed in us and we let them down. There wasn’t one person on that
jury who couldn’t say, ‘I’m holding out. I know he did it’? It was a total lack
of civic responsibility.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Justice would finally catch up to Bryant, but
not before he killed again. He was convicted nine years later of fatally
shooting a man outside a Brockton bar in 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Keeler
faced scrutiny himself when he arrested a man accused of decapitating his own
brother. The detective made the bold arrest while being videotaped by an ABC
News crew for the documentary <i>Boston 24/7</i>. William Leyden had
discovered his brother John’s headless body rolled up in a blanket and hidden
under a bed inside his East Boston apartment. Keeler pointed the guilty finger
at Leyden and provided ABC News with unprecedented access to the man’s arrest.
Leyden was booked and released on $100,000 bail, but he lost his job at a print
shop as the cloud of guilt loomed over his head. Three years after the arrest,
a suspected serial killer named Eugene Mc Collom admitted to killing John
Leyden, whom he had befriended at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and burying
his head at a park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Leyden’s sister, Mary Ellen
Dakin, had strong words for Detective Keeler, whom she blamed for inflicting
further damage on her grieving family. She blasted the Boston Police and the
“misguided influence” of Danny Keeler, and William Leyden called the detective
an “incompetent and self-serving cop.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Mr. Homicide was now Mr. Controversy. One of the
reasons Keeler remained on the job was the fact that he was one of the most
instinctive detectives the department had ever seen. He also knew how to work a
crime scene as good as, if not better than, anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">Boylston Street was now the biggest crime scene
Keeler had ever encountered. He walked behind the bar at the California Pizza
Kitchen and grabbed a bottle of Jameson’s. He poured himself a shot, downed it,
and thought about what to do next. Keeler could feel the FBI beginning to close
ranks and take control of the crime scene, so he grabbed an ATF agent and
headed back to Boylston Street to develop what evidence they could.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Governor
Patrick would later tell the <i>Boston Globe</i> that the handoff
between Boston police and the FBI was “seamless.” “There wasn’t any fussing
about it,” he claimed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">In truth, it was a tug of war from the outset.
First, the FBI agent in charge had to be convinced it was an act of terrorism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley, who
was also running for mayor, witnessed the bombings while he was campaigning at
the finish line. “Agent Rick DesLauriers seemed panicked when we first spoke,”
Conley recalls. “He kept asking me in an agitated way, ‘Is this terrorism? Do
you think this is terrorism?’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Conley told DesLauiers that “of course” they
were dealing with terrorism—either foreign or domestic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The scene had been commandeered by the FBI and
access was restricted, including to Boston police and other city investigators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Let’s develop it [the crime scene] now,” the
ATF agent told his FBI counterpart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“We’re going to wait.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“No, no. Let’s get the fucking lights down here
now and let’s start working on this now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The FBI agent refused to budge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Word got back to Keeler. He returned to Boylston
Street and could not believe the bodies of Lingzi Lu and Martin Richard had not
been moved yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Our guys were absolutely beside themselves that
Martin Richard was still left on that street,” Keeler says with a trace of
anger still present in his voice. “It was positively no reasonable explanation
other than the inexperience of the FBI to leave that kid there.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Martin did not look like the photograph his
family would later release to the media. His face and body were covered in
soot. Some officers fresh to the scene thought he was African American at
first. Keeler and his men were furious. There were heated disputes, and some
officers stood nose to nose with the FBI agents. The Boston cops wouldn’t
budge, especially Boston Police Captain Frank Armstrong, a father of five, who
stood his ground and stood vigil over the boy’s body, while another officer
stayed with Lingzi Lu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Whoever this boy is,” Armstrong said to Keeler,
“I want to be able to tell his father that ‘Your son was never left alone.’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Captain Armstrong stayed with the bodies of
Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu until they were finally removed at 2 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“We
stood there not so much as cops, or veterans, but as fathers,” Armstrong later
told the <i>Boston Herald</i>. “Every one of us there that night thought
but for the grace of God that could be my child coming in to watch the marathon
on a beautiful day.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">Earlier that same Monday night—just hours after
his bombs had blown apart so many lives—one of the Tsarnaev brothers wrote a
message of his own.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“Ain’t no love in the heart of the city,”
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tweeted. “Stay safe people.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">He followed that Twitter message with another at
12:34 a.m. on Tuesday. “There are people that know the truth but remain silent
& there are people that speak the truth but we don’t hear them cuz they’re
the minority.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;"><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The full <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Boston-Strong-Citys-Triumph-Tragedy/dp/1611685591" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Boston Strong</span></a> ebook is available for $1.99 on all platforms this month.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">While we may not even be halfway through the winter yet, who said we can’t talk about <a href="http://www.upne.com/subject/flyers/S17catalog_lr.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">our Spring ’17 catalog</span></a>? Here’s a short primer on but
a few of the exciting books we’ll be publishing in the months ahead:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">1. <i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611688498.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Maximum Harm</span></a>: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing</i>
by <a href="http://michelemcphee.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Michele R. McPhee</span></a> (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;">McPhee’s brilliant investigative reporting
uncovers explosive, previously unknown facts about the Boston Marathon
bombing — secrets kept from the public that will make you wonder if justice was
really served. Seriously. Don’t miss this book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">2. <i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611689716.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Vulture</span></a>: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird</i>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Yes,
vultures eat carrion, and yes, they do happen to occasionally vomit on their
enemies. But this heartfelt, lyrical, and moving book just might be a PR coup
for these much-maligned — and ecologically essential! — scavenging birds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">3. <i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611687927.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Decibel Diaries:</span></a> A Journey through Rock
in 50 Concerts</i> by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/carteralan/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Carter Alan</span></a> (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">From Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young playing in the rain the night Nixon resigned, to Eddie
Vedder smashing his guitar through the stage at the Boston Garden — until he
fell into the hole — Carter was <i>there</i>.
Which is another way of describing how this vivid chronicle of rock ‘n roll will give you a backstage pass to music history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">4. <i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611686562.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Lives of Dillon Ripley</span></a>: Natural
Scientist, Wartime Spy, and Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution </i>by
Roger D. Stone<i> </i>(June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Whether he
has documenting the bird life of India, running spies out of Ceylon for the
Office of Strategic Services (a.k.a. the forerunner of the modern CIA), or
leading the Smithsonian’s transformation from “the nation’s attic” to a hugely
important cultural institution, S. Dillon Ripley was a man of inspiring abilities.
They don’t make renaissance men like this anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">5. <i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611689310.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Buying Time</span></a>: Environmental Collapse and the
Future of Energy </i>by <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://buyingtimebook.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Kaz Makabe</span></a><i> </i></span>(March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">In <i>Buying Time, </i>Makabe — a veteran
financial systems expert who lived through the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
disaster — brings sharp, engaging reasoning to bear on perhaps the single most
important question of our time: what is the future of energy? His exceptionally
well-argued conclusions might surprise you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">6. <i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611688917.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Seven Million:</span></a> A Cop, a Priest, a Soldier
for the IRA, and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brink’s Heist </i>by <a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/staff/3003/gary-craig/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Gary Craig</span></a><i> </i>(May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">From
Ireland’s Long Kesh prison to the illegal poker rooms of Manhattan to the cold
lakeshore on the Canadian border where the body arts began washing up, veteran
journalist Craig’s detailed re-creation of a complicated heist executed by an
unsavory crew of crooks will leave you riveted. The big unanswered question:
Where are the missing millions?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://legislature.vermont.gov/people/single/2016/15791" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Philip Baruth</span></a> (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">This
focused biography of America’s most senior senator chronicles critical moments
in Patrick Leahy’s influential career, from the battle over the Patriot Act to
the 2001 anthrax attacks to the opening of relations with Cuba to his role as a
tough-talking extra in the <i>Dark Knight </i>trilogy
of Batman films. The only book of its kind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Debunking America’s Favorite Sports Myths </i>by <a href="http://www.realclearsports.com/authors/sheldon_hirsch/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sheldon Hirsch</span></a> (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-42857764462443829472016-12-02T14:23:00.000-05:002016-12-02T14:24:27.468-05:00The Heartbreaking—And Uplifting—Inside Story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17.3333px;">My innocence about the connection between Rudolph and our holiday values started to change a couple of years ago when I was writing about American Christmas songs. One of those songs, naturally, was Johnny Marks's “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” As I began researching, several things occupied my thoughts. Rudolph, as James H. Barnett noted in 1954, was the only new addition to our Christmas lore in a hundred years. While Barnett wrote this in the 1950's, it remains true: as much as we love Frosty and other Christmas critters, none of them have become as central as Rudolph. The truth of this, though, fails to explain why Rudolph was accepted into Christmas lore so quickly. Likewise, it fails to explain how Rudolph's image has remained expansive enough to speak to Americans across</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17.3333px;">—as I write this</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17.3333px;">—seven decades.</span></div>
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The origin of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
also fascinated me. Many people, listening to the song or watching the 1964
cartoon, had completely forgotten Rudolph’s origins as a promotion in 1939 and
1946 for Montgomery Ward. Unlike Santa Claus, Rudolph had no European folk
myths to draw from. Instead, he was born in the imagination of copywriter
Robert L. May, who was employed by Montgomery Ward. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">The idea was simply to give
away thousands and thousands of copies of </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Rudolph</i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">,
in booklet form, at Ward’s six-hundred-plus stores to children accompanied by a
parent, drawing the family into the department store for the all-important
holiday season. Merchandise, the same kind that accompanies any Disney movie
promotion today, would follow.</span><br />
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Folklorists could label the Jolly Green Giant </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“fakelore” or use the term “industrial folklore”
to define the Trix rabbit, but children—learning about the reindeer in books,
View-Master reels, a game, a cartoon, in song, and multiple pieces of
merchandise—seemed oblivious to academic concerns. Clearly, Robert L. May wrote
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rudolph</i> in 1939; equally clear, he
wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rudolph</i> at the request of his
supervisor as a work-for-hire at Montgomery Ward. Likewise, a popular
groundswell greeted Rudolph on his introduction in 1939 and reintroduction in
1946; this groundswell was heightened considerably, however, by Montgomery
Ward’s giveaway of six million copies of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rudolph</i> booklet. While we can argue whether commercial or creative
forces exerted more influence over Rudolph’s growth in popular culture, both
had a role to play. Rudolph’s grounding in both commercial and folk culture
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years ago, a little girl climbed <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>onto
her father’s lap and asked a question. It was a simple question, asked in childish curiosity, yet it had a
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wife, Evelyn, had been suffering from cancer for the last two years. Frankel
continued: “The terrible ordeal already had shattered two adult lives. Now, May
suddenly realized, the happiness of his growing daughter was also in jeopardy.”
Barbara’s question, asked in the midst of the December holiday season, demanded
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sketches May’s family predicament against the backdrop of dire financial
circumstances. In 1938 the Depression remained an economic reality for many
Americans. For the May family, doctor’s visits and medicine for Evelyn
stretched an already thin budget, putting the family into debt. The Mays’
living space is described as a “shabby two-room apartment,” the kind of place a
Montgomery Ward copywriter might inhabit. Clearly Robert May, the skinny,
picked-on underdog since early childhood, had missed the opportunities of his
Dartmouth colleagues. “Now, at 33, May was deep in debt, depressed and
miserable.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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night, Barbara would ask her father to recite the adventures of Rudolph one
more time. Finally, May decided to prepare a rudimentary copy of the book for
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St. Nicholas.” Pouring himself into the project, he wanted to provide a worthy
gift for Barbara, despite the family’s meager finances. As he prepared the booklet,
however, tragedy struck: Evelyn died. Instead of setting the project aside
during this period of grief, however, May continued to work on the booklet,
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this nadir, with May left alone to raise his young daughter, fate intervened.
He was invited to an office Christmas party at Montgomery Ward, and while he
wanted to stay at home, colleagues persuaded him to attend. He brought along
Barbara’s gift and read it to his office-mates that evening. At first they
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down and listened quietly. When he reached the end, everyone broke into
applause. After several executives requested copies of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rudolph</i>, the young reindeer and May’s future was set on a new
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">By James C. O’Connell,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Author of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611689105.html">Dining Out in Boston</a></span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Most New Englanders assume that
traditional regional cooking has been around since colonial times. Yet it was
not until the twentieth century, that restaurants explicitly featured these
dishes. Earlier menus did not make a fuss about serving specialties like “New
England clam chowder” or “Boston cream pie.” The widespread celebration of New
England cooking started with the Colonial Revival movement in the early 1900s.
The movement championed the Puritan and Revolutionary Era heritage of New
England, particularly through preserving historic buildings and designing
decorative arts in a Colonial Revival style. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwDfDUgM27Tg2pfuKEoNBIzAJsCK64zYE_rCbodjpiljFqbD6OJNLoYXL6uRpsX_1rMys3yXilT_q6nYwubjYmxy5tRgIBLHI48nFf14P5z11DKivgjQ8RILpWfcOPglx_Tfpf83aBFio/s1600/9781611689105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwDfDUgM27Tg2pfuKEoNBIzAJsCK64zYE_rCbodjpiljFqbD6OJNLoYXL6uRpsX_1rMys3yXilT_q6nYwubjYmxy5tRgIBLHI48nFf14P5z11DKivgjQ8RILpWfcOPglx_Tfpf83aBFio/s320/9781611689105.jpg" width="224" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">New England restaurants started to
feature “Yankee” pot roast, “Boston” baked beans, and “New England” boiled
dinner. The dining ritual of Thanksgiving dinner became entrenched. It was a
simple meal of roast turkey and the homely accompaniments of dressing,
potatoes, and root vegetables. Cranberry sauce became the traditional fruit
relish. The feast concluded with an array of pies, those all-purpose dishes
from colonial days. Thanksgiving embodied Pilgrim frugality, which self-reliant
Americans adopted as they carved out civilization from the frontier.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwDfDUgM27Tg2pfuKEoNBIzAJsCK64zYE_rCbodjpiljFqbD6OJNLoYXL6uRpsX_1rMys3yXilT_q6nYwubjYmxy5tRgIBLHI48nFf14P5z11DKivgjQ8RILpWfcOPglx_Tfpf83aBFio/s1600/9781611689105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">In<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>America’s
Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking</i>, Keith Stavely and Kathleen
Fitzgerald observed: “In foods as in so many other cultural expressions, the
domineering, once-dominant Yankees, through their own unique blend of myth and
magic—brilliantly disguised as an aversion to myth and a disavowal of
magic—attempted to create normative America out of plain, frugal New England.”
New England cooking conveyed a sense of romance connected with the Pilgrims and
the Minutemen.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is telling that lowly baked beans
became such an iconic food. Boston was nicknamed “Beantown,” and the National
League baseball franchise between 1883 and 1906 was known as the “Beaneaters.”
Baked beans were subsistence food going back to England and medieval cookery.
During Puritan times, beans were baked on Saturday to be eaten after church on
the Sabbath, when the hearth was cold. Pieces of salted meat were added to the
bean stew. By the nineteenth century, salt fat pork was added to white pea
beans, and, by the last quarter of the century, molasses became an ingredient.
A traditional accompaniment of baked beans was brown bread. Boston brown bread
was made from rye and cornmeal steamed in a pudding tin. By the mid-nineteenth
century, molasses and, sometimes, raisins, were added. In another generation,
brown bread and baked beans had become iconic foods.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">It took awhile for Indian pudding
and corn bread to become New England standbys. When the Puritans arrived, they
brought with them a predilection for wheat and rye. Rye was easy to grow in New
England, but wheat was not. The Puritans considered cornmeal an inferior grain,
but corn grew easily and was versatile, so the colonists eventually adopted it.
Cornmeal (which often was called simply “Indian” or “Injun”) was made into a
pudding, mixed with milk and, later, molasses, berries, or raisins. In the
colonial era, puddings were eaten as the main course at breakfast, lunch, and
dinner and only became a restaurant dessert in the nineteenth century.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is surprising that Indian pudding
has persisted at traditional New England restaurants into the twenty-first
century while other traditional desserts, like corn starch pudding, hasty
pudding, and Tipsey cake, have disappeared. Corn bread (which many think of as
a Southern dish) was a traditional food item, which evolved into a regional
specialty. It is still served in such landmark restaurants as Durgin-Park and
Jacob Wirth.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4jpFY2HV3gf3rXKeto2yz7Vt8D5qUSp6t6diVXylQiN-dMBT7lTsi06rFOSo8-p7WY8-YS-drwgi7pLexTu539_wP6J_MYG3n_6fGLvOqy1ocsYq_maVQxjUB3oDrILuNCHcKZ8C8z5Lk/s1600/YK0114_115-e1389296896769.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yankee pot roast also became a
specialty in the early twentieth century. Boiled beef or beef à la mode (stewed
rump or round of beef with a dressing or larded with pork or bacon fat) were
popular nineteenth-century preparations. After 1900, the cut of beef became
“Yankee pot roast.” Corned beef also became a favorite dish, replacing salt
pork, which was regarded as less healthful. In many quarters, this dish is
called “New England boiled dinner,” and it comes with potatoes, carrots, and
turnips. This provenance explains how Irish corned beef and cabbage has little
to do with the old country, but was adopted by the Irish, who found it made an
economical and satisfying meal when they settled here in the mid-nineteenth
century.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Seafood that is celebrated in
contemporary Boston did not originally hold the spotlight. Although oysters
were wildly popular, clams, lobsters, and white finfish were not. Fish-eating
was looked down upon as a Roman Catholic practice. The poorest quality cod
ended up feeding the black slaves of the Caribbean.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chowder, which was a thick mix of
fish, clams, salt pork, and potatoes, was prepared at home, but not much in
restaurants. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>After 1900,
milk was added, creating “New England” chowder. It became a Friday restaurant
dish, when Catholic abstinence and Yankee chauvinism enshrined chowder as a
regional staple. By the 1920s, clam chowder achieved primacy over fish chowder,
probably because canned clams were more conven</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">i</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ent to incorporate
into chowder than varieties of finfish.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Lobsters took a long time to become
a delicacy. Since colonial times, lobsters had been cheap and abundant. They
were considered inferior food and were often served to prisoners. Sometimes
lobsters were incorporated into pies, stews, fricassees, and salads. When
canning was introduced in the late nineteenth century, lobster meat became
available in tins. During the twentieth century, lobsters became upscale food
served broiled, stuffed, thermidor, or à la Newburg.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Culinary historians Waverley Root
and Richard de Rochemont, in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Eating
in America: A History</i>, argued that Boston’s seafood dishes had culinary
merit: “A unique quality of the historic restaurants of Boston is that almost
all of them were dedicated to the New England cuisine, in contrast to New
York’s famous eating places, which kowtowed to the prestige of French cooking.
Valid gastronomic traditions are almost invariably built around foods locally
available, and this was the case for Boston, whose seafood has always been
important on its restaurant menus.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">As interest in New England cooking
grew, Durgin-Park and the Union Oyster House, which had been ordinary eateries
in the nineteenth century, became major tourist destinations. Lucius Beebe,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>bon vivant</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and café society columnist for the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>New York Herald Tribune</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Gourmet
Magazine</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ranked Durgin-Park
among the country’s leading restaurants. In<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Boston
and the Boston Legend</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(1935),
he maintained that:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Durgin and Park’s is not a
restaurant; it is a dining-room in the old New England manner. … <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>You do not dine in the gourmet’s sense
there, but you feed magnificently. The bill of fare is long: there are about 15
cuts of steak, and the food simple. An impressive baked potato, buttered and
salted to perfection, and a kind of hot tea cake—the specialty of the
house—come with every order whether a patron indicates them or not. Usually he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> indicates a preference for more.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The eatery’s
main clientele were food market men, quite different from today’s tourist
customers. Durgin-Park opened at 4:00 AM and served pie for breakfast. It
closed by 8:00 PM. According to Beebe, “patrons sit at long boards as in an
ordinary, and in the center of the room the cooks do things with meat and fish
and vegetables directly under the professional and highly critical gaze of
experienced dealers in these very commodities.” Beebe played up the reputation
of the waitresses as incorrigible characters: “The waitresses are great blowsy
girls, all good teeth, smiles and affability, with notions of their own as to
what patrons ought to eat and ideas of table service that would make the hair
of a French waiter captain stand up on his head. Durgin’s is old New England
eating at its worst and best.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lucius Beebe also waxed eloquent
about the Union Oyster House, comparing it to Paris’s Tour D’Argent. He
maintained that “the Union Oyster House has been a cathedral, or more properly
speaking, a chapel of seafood, its high altar the oyster bar, its acolytes and
priests the white-coated experts who deftly render available and edible its
Cotuits and Little Necks, its worshippers the patrons whose mouths water and
whose nostrils quiver at the salt odor of lobster broiling on a coal fire in
its kitchens.” The house specialties were raw oysters, lobster stew, and clam
chowder.</span></div>
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liked Durgin-Park and the Union Oyster House so much was that the food and
ambience had been virtually unchanged for over a century. The Durgin-Park
waitstaff offered a colorful, rough-and-tumble style of service. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Before the Civil War, Boston was full
of oyster houses, but, by the 1920s, the Union Oyster House was about the only
one left.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">As travel accounts and guidebooks
about Boston proliferated, the reputation of the local food increased. In 1959,
Chinese travel writer Chiang Yee, in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The
Silent Traveller in Boston</i>, wrote that “Boston is perhaps the only city in
America to have its name attached to a number of foods,” referring to Boston
baked beans, cod, clam chowder and fish chowder. Chiang Yee made the rounds of
the city’s most famous restaurants. He described the long queue at Durgin-Park,
where he was served “a big plate with two huge slices of roast beef and many
other things on it. By the time I had eaten the first slice my eagerness for
food was damped.” A “buxom” waitress observed his waning interest in the food,
saying: “‘What’s the matter, young man? Can’t you finish your plateful? If you
can’t, you should not have come here to waste your money; if you don’t like the
food, we want to know why. We don’t like people who don’t like our food.’” She
laughed at her joke, then foisted upon him a strawberry shortcake. Chiang Yee
went on to eat lobster at the Union Oyster House, where he wore a paper bib
imprinted with the image of a red lobster. He sampled roast beef and Yorkshire
pudding at Locke-Ober and Parker House rolls and sautéed codfish tongues and
cheeks at the Parker House.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Colonial Revival celebration of
traditional New England cooking gave birth to a multitude of neo-traditional
inns across New England. These inns were redecorated to fit the aesthetics of
the 1920s and 1930s, which cleaned up the designs of centuries past. Most country
inns had been shabby hostelries, but they were redesigned to appear like the
sort of inn where George Washington might have slept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Author Mary Harrod Northend
romanticized operating twentieth-century inns in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>We Visit Old Inns</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(1925): “Here and there around the
room were gate-legged, square and rood tables, each one of the old-time tavern
type, surrounded by Windsor chairs. Following the custom of olden days,
homespun linen covered every table, while maids costumed in aprons and caps of
the seventeenth century moved gracefully back and forth as they set the table
for our coming repast… The supper was delicious, and how we enjoyed the
old-fashioned food served as it was in our ancestors’ time!” </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Traditional New England inns were
tremendously popular between the 1920s and 1960s. They were special occasion,
white tablecloth restaurants, where diners dressed up. Guidebook pioneer Duncan
Hines loved the inns around Boston. In his 1941 guidebook, he recommended more
than a dozen of them, praising their décor as much as their food. One of the
exemplars was the Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury. Howe’s Tavern in Sudbury
claimed to be the oldest operating inn in America, having been opened in 1716.
In 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow gave Howe’s Tavern a new prominence when he
set his poetry collection “Tales of a Wayside Inn” there. Henry Ford acquired
the historic inn in 1923. Longfellow’s Wayside Inn still serves such Colonial
Revival dishes as “Traditional” Yankee pot roast, roast turkey with cornbread and
sausage stuffing and giblet gravy, deep dish apple pie, and “Homemade” Indian
pudding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Historic inns clustered in other
Revolutionary Era towns west of Boston. Hartwell Farm on Route 2A (The Battle
Road) in Lincoln was located in a seventeenth-century farmhouse, conjuring up
memories of the beginnings of the American Revolution. Concord’s Colonial Inn
was built as a house in 1716. By 1900, it was known as the Colonial Inn and was
trading on its revolutionary associations. Seiler’s 1775 House was located in
Lexington in the farm house of Benjamin Wellington, the first militiaman to be
captured by the British during the military action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">One of the most famous New England
inns was the Toll House Inn in Whitman. In 1930, Kenneth and Ruth Wakefield
opened a restaurant and inn in a colonial house on the road between Boston and
New Bedford. Duncan Hines called the Toll House one of his favorite places to
eat.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: normal;">The Toll House served featured codfish soufflé, haddock a
la king, and broiled live lobster. Meat dishes were straightforward mixed
grill, roast beef, and baked ham in cider.</span></em><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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38 puddings,</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">28 pies, and 18 candies. Duncan Hines favored the Indian pudding:
“It makes my mouth water to think of the baked Injun Porridge as it is prepared
at Toll House, Whitman, Massachusetts. That’s the kind of dessert that makes a
fellow wish for hollow legs.” Of course, Ruth Wakefield’s most famous creation
was the Toll House cookie.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">In 1937, Ruth invented the chocolate chip cookie by
adding a chopped semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to butter cookies</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">During the 1950s, the Toll House Inn
was wildly popular, serving 1,500-2,000 customers every weekend. Thanksgiving
dinner became such a tradition that diners had to make reservations by mid-May.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The heyday of Colonial Revival inns
specializing in New England food lasted until about 1970. After that, some inns
became “gourmet” and added French or Italian dishes. Only a few, such as the
Wayside Inn in Sudbury and the Publick House in Sturbridge, maintained the
classic New England dishes like chicken pot pie, Yankee pot roast, and Indian
pudding. Today, regional cooking has morphed into something more creative,
where chefs seek to provide an innovative spin to New England foodstuffs and
cooking styles.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">James C. O’Connell is the author of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611689105.html">Dining Out in Boston</a></span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</style>University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-30086158478399208742016-11-14T12:58:00.001-05:002016-11-22T16:18:05.867-05:00Theo Epstein: The New and Improved Billy Beane<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">By Sheldon
Hirsch, author of the forthcoming </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1512600636.html" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">Hot
Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak: Debunking America's Favorite Sports
Myths</a><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">(April 2017)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Oakland A’s
general manager Billy Beane received national acclaim in Michael Lewis’s 2003
best-selling book (and eventual movie) </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">Moneyball.
</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lewis presented Beane as a
modern-day David slaying Goliath, defeating financially advantaged teams with
his creativity and a “cache of numbers” as his slingshot. However, Beane’s
overachieving A’s never got over the hump: they never won a World Series, they lost
seven of eight post-season series (and a wild card game), and they recently
took a turn for the worse with consecutive last place division finishes in 2015
and 2016.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Into that
void in the young-genius-winning-it-all genre stepped Yale graduate Theo
Epstein. Epstein won the World Series as general manager of the Boston Red Sox
in 2004 (ending an 86-year Boston drought) and 2007, and again this year as
president of operations for the Chicago Cubs (the team’s first in 108 years). Epstein’s
no David; quite the opposite, as his Red Sox and Cubs teams had deep pockets — haves
rather than have-nots — and he exploited their wealth to good use. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But those titles, particularly the Cubs’ win
this season, do not happen without creative thinking on the executive level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">To begin
with, Epstein (and others) recognized major errors of Beane and the earlier
sabermetricians, specifically their de-emphasis of baserunning and defense. The
Cubs were probably the best defensive team in baseball this season, shining in
the infield, in right field with Jason Heyward, and (later in the season) with
athletic, cannon-armed Willson Contreras behind the plate. Furthermore, manager
Joe Maddon often chose his lineup based on the hitting distribution charts of
both the opposition and his starting pitcher; for example, he moved super-defender
Javier Baez around the infield depending on where the data suggested most
grounders would be hit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Cubs
also ran aggressively throughout the postseason, stealing 11 bases and winning
game seven in the World Series with three outstanding running plays: Kris
Bryant brazenly tagged up and scored on a short fly to center; later on he
scored from first on a double, and in the tenth inning, Alfred Almora advanced
to second on a long fly to center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">But the
most creative thing Epstein did was to invert the historical thinking about
constructing a baseball team. For more than 100 years, baseball has been
governed by mantras like “pitching is 90 per cent of the game” or “good
pitching stops good hitting.” Yet when Epstein took over a 91-game losing Cubs team
in October 2011, he concentrated on acquiring field players rather than
pitchers. He used his first round draft picks on outfielder Almora (2012),
likely MVP third baseman Bryant (2013), slugging catcher/outfielder Kyle
Schwarber (2014), and promising minor leaguer Ian Happ (2015). He signed
outfielder Jorge Soler and shortstop Gleyber Torres as free agents. He even
traded away pitchers for hitters: the promising Andrew Cashner for eventual all-star
first baseman Anthony Rizzo and two solid starters (Jeff Samardzija and Jason
Hammels) for a minor league shortstop prospect, Addison Russell (another 2016
all-star). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">One reason for Epstein’s emphasis on field
players in the early stages of rebuilding is the epidemic of arm injuries — particularly
elbow injury that requires Tommy John surgery — that plagues modern day pitchers.
Their fragile health makes them, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moneyball
</i>parlance<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>overvalued as high draftees.
Field players less commonly suffer career-ending or career-diminishing
injuries, and therefore, relative to pitchers, are undervalued as youngsters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of course, Epstein knew that he’d
eventually need a good pitching staff to win the World Series; here, two
factors came into play. First, good luck: in two trades of seemingly zero
distinction he acquired Jake Arrieta, a sub-.500 pitcher over three seasons
with an ERA of almost 5.50, and minor-leaguer Kyle Hendricks, an unrenowned 39<sup>th</sup>
round draft pick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both became superstars
with the Cubs; Arrieta won the 2015 Cy Young Award and Hendricks led the national
league in ERA in 2016. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Cubs’ wealth, bolstering his starting rotation with highly rated free agent
pitchers Jon Lester and John Lackey. That required a Steinbrennian-level
investment of 187 million dollars for the two of them (plus another 240 million
dollars for free agent position players Ben Zobrist and Heyward), but those
acquisitions also owed to the solid foundation Epstein had built on the field.
Lester and Lackey (and others) would not have joined the Cubs if they did not
see a good chance at a World Series ring. Epstein sold them on the alluring idea
that they’d be among the final pieces in the puzzle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the field allowed him to complete his staff by trading prospects Torres and
Billy McKinney (and in a roundabout way, Starlin Castro) for stud closer
Aroldis Chapman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Best of all, Epstein has the Cubs set
to compete at a high level for perhaps the next ten years. Remarkably, they
have six young players already near or at all-star level: the entire infield,
Schwarber, and possibly Contreras. Among the starting pitchers, only Lackey (38
years old) and possibly Lester (32) will need to be replaced in the near future.
And Epstein can probably do that easily on the free agent market: just as he
attracted Lester and Lackey, he has “built it. . . . and they will come.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sheldon Hirsch</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> is the author of the forthcoming </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1512600636.html" target="_blank">Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak: Debunking America's Favorite Sports Myths</a> </i></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">(April 2017)</span></span></div>
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University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-12914445685396748392016-11-03T13:47:00.002-04:002016-11-22T16:19:17.689-05:00What It Means To Be Boston Strong<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">When Boston was attacked by a pair of jihadist
brothers in April 2013, it marked the first time since 9/11 that terrorists
struck us right in our collective American hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Boston Marathon is a time-honored city tradition
that marks the beginning of spring. It is often the first nice day after a long
winter — as it was on April 15<sup>th</sup>, 2013 — and is annually the first
time that Bostonians get out and celebrate sport and life. The Red Sox play in
the morning and the world’s elite runners race through our streets, as cafes,
shops, and restaurants bustle with tourists and locals excited just to be
alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">So when the Tsarnaev brothers left their bombs on
Boylston Street and unleashed a horrific reign of terror unlike any ever
imagined in Boston, we all took it personally. And that includes myself and my
co-author, Casey Sherman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Casey and I came of age covering news in Boston,
I as a veteran reporter at the Boston Herald and Casey as a field producer for
WBZ-TV news. We have both lived and worked in this city for our entire lives.
Casey is a graduate of Boston University and I am a proud alum of Boston
College. Both are right on Commonwealth Avenue, and students from both of our
alma maters were celebrating right along with everyone else that dark day. In
fact, several alumni from both of our beloved schools were severely wounded
that day, including BU student Lingzi Lu, who lost her life there on Boylston
Street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">BC alums Patrick and Jessica Downes were also
among those at the finish line that day. The young Cambridge couple each lost
their left leg below the knee in the blast, while Jessica has since had her
other leg amputated after months of agonizing attempts to save it. The couple
exhibit the resilience and spirit of those impacted by the cowardly attacks.
Undeterred by their “new normal,” they both finished the 2014 marathon on hand
cycles, while Patrick ran the entire 26.2 mile course this past April on a
running blade. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">When Casey and I talk about “Boston Strong,” this
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Boston Strong is Michelle L’Heureux, a Maine girl
who was at Marathon Sports watching her boyfriend run his 10th marathon when
the blast tore open her arm and eviscerated her lower hamstring. A lifelong
skier and equestrian, her heart was broken when she was told by doctors that
she’d likely never have the strength to ride horses or ski again. Not only has
she since returned to both activities, she too has run the Boston Marathon, as
well as the Paris Marathon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And we’re happy to report that Michelle and her
fiancé Brian welcomed their first child, Sebastien, into this world just a
couple weeks ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Boston Strong is also the incredible family of
MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, who was executed by the brothers as he sat in
his squad car on the Cambridge campus. Sean was a hero who never wanted
anything more in life than to help people. Well, despite his vibrant young life
being unfairly cut short by the brothers’ cowardice, his family carries on his
spirit, raising money for scholarships to help other aspiring young officers
achieve their goals and keep us safe, just as Sean did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">When <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c9IpI_pNGI" target="_blank">Patriots Day</a></i>, the new film starring
Mark Wahlberg and directed by Pete Berg, hits the screen next month, you’ll see
many more amazing stories of heroism, resilience, and sacrifice. Many you’ll
recognize from the pages of our book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611685596.html" target="_blank">Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph Over Tragedy</a></i>. Others you’ll be hearing for the
first time. Casey and I were proud to be able to tell the stories in our book,
and are equally proud of the filmmakers’ commitment to honoring those impacted
by the attacks. We are extremely proud to be part of this important film. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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culture of storytellers, and the incredible tales of those who survived the
bombings, as well as those who helped lead us out of the darkness of those
days, are essential to pass down from generation to generation. Just as past
generations were raised on stories of the heroes of World War I, Pearl Harbor,
Vietnam and the civil rights movement, so too will future generations be
inspired by the heroes of the current War on Terror, including those right here
in Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Casey and I open our book with a re-enactment of
the opening salvo of the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Lexington. This
pivotal battle helped launch American Independence and gave birth to the
holiday we now all know as Patriots’ Day. The film title is apropos, as what happened
here in Boston in 2013 — on Patriots’ Day — was another stark example of how
Bostonians have historically fought back and won against foreign invaders,
often against staggering odds. Whether it’s the Red Coats storming a village or
two Chechen brothers attacking us on Boylston Street, Bostonians will defend
our land and each other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Dave Wedge</b> </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14.0pt;">is an author, journalist, communications
strategist and award-winning former reporter for the <i><a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/" target="_blank">Boston Herald</a>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-41067198944179546412016-10-19T12:18:00.000-04:002016-11-22T16:20:29.090-05:00The Darkness Before The Dynasty<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">By <a href="http://www.jerrythornton.net/"><span style="color: blue;">Jerry Thornton</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Dynasty-First-England-Patriots/dp/1611689740"><span style="color: blue;">From Darkness to Dynasty: The First 40 Years of the New
England Patriots</span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Anyone who writes a book should be prepared to
answer one question about it: </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Why?”</span></i></div>
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involving long hours of writing and rewriting, edits and re-edits. You need at
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">So allow me to ask and answer my own question.
Why did I write <i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611689747.html" target="_blank">From Darkness to Dynasty: The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots</a></i>? Because I've always wanted to read this book — and since
the universe was taking its sweet time getting around to it, I wrote it myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">These are
the stories I grew up on as the youngest of five in a Patriots-first household
outside of Boston. Not the ones about the 21</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> century
Patriots, that model sports franchise that has not only dominated on the field
for an unprecedented span of years, but has owned the headlines as well. As pro
football has taken center stage in American pop culture, the Patriots have
dominated the news cycle with scandals, controversies, and celebrity status like
no other team.</span></span></div>
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existence, they were the polar opposite. Laughingstocks on the field and off. A
downtrodden, mismanaged, amateurish operation that was perpetually on the brink
of ruin. For ten years they didn't have a stadium to call their own. When they
finally built one, it was an obsolete dump surrounded by a dirt parking lot
that looked like the surface of Mars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Unlike the current Patriots, the controversies
of the early teams were never about trying to gain a competitive advantage and
win championships. There were power struggles. Lawsuits. There was the time
they drafted a player not knowing he was getting a knee operation, then almost
drafted a dead man. When they met with success, it immediately came crashing
down around them. Like the time a very successful coach had secretly taken a
job to coach elsewhere and was caught using team resources to work for his new
employer. Then 18 years later, history repeated itself with another great coach
doing the exact same thing. In between, they went to a Super Bowl, only to have
a major drug scandal tear the locker room apart the very next day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a player sexually harrassing a female reporter. Through a series of bold moves
by people of vision, the franchise was saved, competent leaders were brought in
and an era of unimaginable success began. But not without dozens of
coincidences small (an unconscious player saved a game), large (a franchise
quarterback was replaced due to a near-fatal injury) and monumental (9/11), without
which the Patriots may never have won a championship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now they have four. And counting. Which
represents the most remarkable turnaround of any franchise in the history of
North American sports. And I'm happy to be the one to tell it. Somebody had to,
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jerrythornton.net/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jerry Thornton</span></a></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is co-host of WEEI Sports Radio Network's <a href="http://www.weei.com/shows/dale-holley/home"><span style="color: blue;">Dale
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University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-84258338402073233802016-10-10T16:28:00.001-04:002016-11-22T16:11:45.362-05:00Domestic Terror Attacks: Are Our Trauma Systems Ready?<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
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Catherine Musemeche M.D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Author of </span><i style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hurt-Inspiring-Untold-Story-Trauma/dp/1611687969" target="_blank">Hurt: The Inspired, Untold Story of Trauma Care</a></i><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Houston, New York, Orlando, Dallas — every week a new
domestic terror incident elbows its way into our lives and reminds us yet again
that injury is woven into the fabric of American history, from the battlefields
of the Civil War to the mass shootings that plague our society today. The
question is, how prepared are we to deal with the current wave of civilian
casualties in a country that has no national system of trauma care?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">As it turns out, the answer to this question hinges in part
on where a trauma victim lives. While trauma care has greatly improved over the
last half century, the U.S. still does not have a national system of trauma
care ensuring that every citizen has access to the care they need within “the
golden hour,” the timeframe in which patient survival is critical. Our system
of trauma care is regional and the quality of care varies greatly from one
locale to another. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Many trauma centers have closed because they were not
financially viable and there are no laws that mandate that a certain number
stay open. A 2014 study by the University of California, San Francisco found
that after three trauma centers in California closed, patients who had to
travel farther were 21 percent more likely to die in the hospital than those
who did not have to travel long distances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Distance is not the only barrier to top-notch trauma care. The
uninsured and minorities have worse trauma outcomes than white patients and
those who have health insurance.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2258920801739155456&pli=1#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Even without the additional impact of the 288 mass shootings
that have occurred in 2016 to date<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2258920801739155456&pli=1#_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title="">[2]</a>,</span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2258920801739155456&pli=1#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span> an
epidemic of trauma is raging: forty-two million emergency room visits, 2.8
million hospital admissions, 200,000 lives lost, an economic burden of $671
billion dollars, the number one cause of death from ages one to forty-four, and
the fourth leading cause of death. The annual cost of injury in the United
States every year is staggering, yet federal funding for trauma research
registers at a paltry ten cents within the context of years of potential lives
lost, compared to HIV funding of $3.51 and cancer of $1.65. By this measure of
burden of disease, injuries come in last in NIH funding and, while the
Department of Defense chips in more funding for specific trauma-related
research projects, these dollars tend to fade when wars wind down and other
national priorities gain the spotlight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The 1966 National Academy of Sciences report <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Accidental Death and Disability: The
Neglected Disease of Modern Society</i> put forth a number of recommendations aimed
at shoring up our nation’s response to injury. While some of the
recommendations from this now fifty-year-old report have been instituted
(safety standards for cars, minimal standards for ambulance personnel and
equipment and improved communication between emergency personnel in the field
and hospitals), others have been ignored. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We still do not have a National Institute of Trauma
dedicated to “the research of shock, trauma and emergency medical conditions”
as recommended — and so far there has been no systematized approach to training
our citizens in basic and advanced first aid. These are gaping holes in our
safety net, particularly in the event of mass casualties when first responders
are overextended or in rural areas where EMS may be precious hours away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We find ourselves at a critical juncture in trauma care as
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down and domestic terrorism ramps up. Military
physicians and others gained valuable knowledge and techniques through treating
the injuries of our brave servicemen and women over the past decade,
information that could not be gathered any other way. Those life-saving
experiences must not only be preserved for future generations of military
physicians to draw on, but must also be transferred to the care of the civilian
population. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">This country is in the midst of a wave of domestic terrorism
— a threat to public safety that is not likely to dissipate any time soon, and
will undoubtedly add significantly to the massive human and economic costs of
trauma. Now is the time to revisit the concept of a National Institute of
Trauma, finish building the framework for a national system of trauma care, and
start training all Americans in the basics of aiding the injured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><a href="http://catherinemusemeche.com/" target="_blank">Catherine Musemeche</a></b> is a pediatric surgeon and the author of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hurt-Inspiring-Untold-Story-Trauma/dp/1611687969" target="_blank">Hurt: The Inspired, Untold Story of Trauma Care</a></i> (University Press of New England, 2016). She lives in Austin,
Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-66181531566946688372016-10-06T10:46:00.000-04:002016-11-22T16:25:36.989-05:00Poison, Prison, and Pennsylvania Courts: How a Veteran Reporter Dove Deep into a Fascinating Murder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Death-Cyanide-Murder-Autumn-Klein/dp/1611689031" target="_blank">Death By Cyanide: The Murder of Dr. Autumn Klei</a>n</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Throughout my 20-year career as a
police and courts reporter, I have covered every kind of case imaginable. But
the death of Autumn Klein by cyanide in 2013 was my very first poisoning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The story itself — a 41-year-old
neurologist allegedly killed by her husband — was fascinating. Add to it that
she was killed by poison, which almost wasn't detected, and it became
unforgettable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCG4R5o8_JVTj9QJWpyUAzLYIvM3FXDnAtcYZIlk394ug6lzypp5p7mtDGOsFUg53RUV6EKR1WAxHx6iwdqgkiGLK8XHMqdGcyWUVRuHyjmz57uHFvvNXzm1orwZOiDPRoD2D5BQskMRL/s1600/Ward_DeathByCyanide_3D_pages.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCG4R5o8_JVTj9QJWpyUAzLYIvM3FXDnAtcYZIlk394ug6lzypp5p7mtDGOsFUg53RUV6EKR1WAxHx6iwdqgkiGLK8XHMqdGcyWUVRuHyjmz57uHFvvNXzm1orwZOiDPRoD2D5BQskMRL/s400/Ward_DeathByCyanide_3D_pages.jpg" width="288" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But then I learned about who Autumn
was. The kind of doctor. Mother. Friend. I knew that I couldn't let the case go
by without writing a book about it. I wanted to make sure the world didn't
forget her. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for the book was all-engrossing. I spent months tracking down Autumn's college
roommates and classmates. I read medical journals to learn about her specialties.
I talked to her colleagues and professors. And to her family. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That must have been the best — and
most difficult — part. Autumn's cousin and best friend, Sharon, spent countless
hours with me on the phone, sharing the cherished stories of their childhood.
Then she spent hours more with me in person. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Autumn's mother Lois, too, spent
nearly six hours with me. She told about her daughter — the kind of child she
was and the kind of woman she blossomed into. She also told me about her own
relationship with Autumn's husband, Bob Ferrante. She didn't like the idea of
her daughter marrying a man 23 years older, but she would also never get in the
way of true love. It wasn't her decision to make, Lois said. As we talked that
day — and as Lois showed me photographs taken throughout Autumn's life — I
couldn't help but feel a deep sadness for her and her husband, Bill. But this
sadness also gave me the resolve to know that writing a book about their
daughter was the right thing to do. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then there was the challenge of
getting Bob's side of the story. Although I knew all along that my main purpose
for the book was telling the world about Autumn, it was essential — to me — to
be fair, and represent both sides. As a newspaper reporter, my career has been
spent trying my best to be impartial. That wasn't going to change here. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I set out to get Bob to talk to
me. By that point, of course, he was in our local jail (and later, state prison).
I sent him a letter. I contacted his attorney. Over weeks of discussions, they
finally permitted me to send Bob written questions. I did. And he sent me pages
and pages of written answers back. It was a gold mine of detail — about his and
Autumn's relationship. His childhood. Raising his two adult children from his
first marriage. And how much he missed the young daughter he and Autumn
had. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicc5hyphenhyphenmxsF-BeiBswtxZl6LH8nbGi8wuTEwR54Pq_wTWDZH9c1tH0BDU6RPMhUeFc9MpsydT-ZpDP4FJCt_vC4kOyp-UO5blKlPXBskmIEuzaCXZ9QR1-EcQTb50FZH_6WX9nraDxkO_hh/s1600/ward004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also spoke with him twice by
phone from prison. During our interviews, I didn’t ask Bob tough questions,
like “did you do it?” or “why would you do those Google searches?” I knew I
wouldn't have some Perry Mason moment where he shouted, “You got me! I did it.”
He denied committing the crime at trial; I wasn't going to trick him into
confessing. So, what was most important to me was trying to tell Bob's story — just
like I was telling Autumn's. I wanted to know about his life, his family, his
education and career. And about prison. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He shared those things with me. And
I included them all. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bob recently lost his first round
of appeals and will soon file with the Pennsylvania Superior Court. It will be
interesting to see how it all plays out. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the meantime, I will keep
covering the case and the people involved. And keep writing the stories that
come through the courthouse each day. Like I always have, I will strive to make
sure that everyone's side gets told, and that every story is representative of
the person it was written about. </span></span></div>
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University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-66368179521223271082016-10-05T09:28:00.001-04:002016-11-22T16:28:14.239-05:00A Kitchen is a Place to Do Things<div class="Body">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Julias-Kitchen-Practical-Convivial-Inspired/dp/1611689139/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475673193&sr=1-1&keywords=in+julia%27s+kitchen+practical+and+convivial+kitchen+design+inspired+by+julia+child" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">In Julia's Kitchen: Practical and Convivial Kitchen Design Inspired by Julia Child</a>; <a href="http://jimscherer.com/" target="_blank">Jim Scherer</a>, coauthor.<i> </i></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHLZ8L2jGvCqh4RNt5cRAmVgDCBTP0WU_2HWFkdnMzycbV-Jqq1-dNd6rhFiCT0JxRZ1RBywZZVvHoBBmnkQtdkle83Y0XqdrjWANpRJhxS8ZiujXLL8J5a3dSHghVBWnQuD8dlLsrg7h7/s1600/9781611689136.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHLZ8L2jGvCqh4RNt5cRAmVgDCBTP0WU_2HWFkdnMzycbV-Jqq1-dNd6rhFiCT0JxRZ1RBywZZVvHoBBmnkQtdkle83Y0XqdrjWANpRJhxS8ZiujXLL8J5a3dSHghVBWnQuD8dlLsrg7h7/s400/9781611689136.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I met my coauthor
Jim Scherer in 1989 when I was interviewing Julia Child for a possible book on
kitchen design. Julia suggested I hire Jim to do the photo shoot. My book idea
then was to photograph and discuss twenty kitchens of noted food authorities,
but the research was daunting in those pre-Google days, and I had found Julia’s
address simply because she was in the Smith Alumnae directory — we were both
Smithies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My interview with Julia ultimately
turned into an article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Washingtonian
Magazine</i>, which felt apropos as Julia had been a long-time Georgetown resident.
The majority of Jim’s photographs then languished in files. At the time I would
go on to write a second book on mirrors, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Design-Using-Reflection-Transform/dp/0471118338" target="_blank">Mirror By Design</a></i>; parallel to my interest in kitchen design, I had come to
appreciate mirrors’ versatility as a means of enhancing space and views, and
providing clean energy. More on that later.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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because I felt that we — Americans — could use some of her unique inspiration
today. In the last twenty-five years our American kitchens have become ever
more open, which is not always compatible with serious cooks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meals are often eaten on barstools or in
front of the TV, and open kitchens also inevitably encourage snacking, which contributes
to our national obesity epidemic…and some designs are so abstract they barely
register as kitchens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Julia hated those
kitchens — a kitchen is a place to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">do </b>things!”
according to her longtime friend Pat Pratt.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>
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a <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/food/julia-childs-kitchen" target="_blank">permanent exhibit</a> at the Smithsonian Institution, was both comfortable
for cooking and welcoming to friends. Guests generally ate at the wooden kitchen
table, which was usually covered with yellow oilcloth. Jim Scherer, who collaborated
with Julia for nearly thirty years, often ate at that table; in the book he
shares his charming culinary memories. Also, the photographs Jim took of
Julia’s kitchen in 1989 show what it was like as a true working space, what was
on her counter, and even what books she was reading. And his photographs
backstage at the TV show “Julia Child & Company” demonstrate her sense of
conviviality even there, as she often ate with staff after the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Julia’s French vacation home La Pitchoune
also gets attention. The small stucco house, nestled in hills near Nice, has a diminuitive,
but very practical, kitchen with implements mounted on pegboard and a butcher
block counter. Meals there were often taken on the flower-rimmed patio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Under new ownership, it is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://lapeetch.com/" target="_blank">a vacation and cooking destination</a></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.)</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L_h6PRG2zok/V_T9bFtxm1I/AAAAAAAABtQ/8wLnoy6gUxA3xpRj0UqPIlxLXegDIfdSwCLcB/s1600/Heyne_Pamela.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L_h6PRG2zok/V_T9bFtxm1I/AAAAAAAABtQ/8wLnoy6gUxA3xpRj0UqPIlxLXegDIfdSwCLcB/s320/Heyne_Pamela.jpg" width="219" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
the second half of the book I highlight a series of “simpatico” kitchens,
including some floor plans. These kitchens share Julia’s attitude about
practicality and conviviality, and yet they look quite different from her
kitchens. Some are separate rooms like her kitchens were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others might be more open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Importantly, all these kitchens emphasize a
dining table. Additionally, climate change, not an issue in Julia’s time, now
impacts our choices for materials and appliances. As an architect, I discuss
how we might now use an induction cooktop rather than an energy intensive
range, as Julia did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One of my favorite</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“simpatico” kitchens is owned by Claudine
Pepin (Jacques Pepin’s daughter) and her husband, Rollie Wesen, a professional
chef.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The kitchen is practical with
compact counter space and equipment hung on rustic walls. Their dining table,
an heirloom from Claudine’s family, is just steps away in the dining room,
where most of the family’s meals are taken.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Some of our most memorable occasions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>often occur around a dining table. I enjoy
entertaining, and on the home front<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have
always emphasized the family meal. In 2002 my husband Carl Widell and I adopted
two Russian sisters, age 7 and 9. We always sat down to meals, sometimes in the
family room, sometimes in the dining room. Now the sisters are successful young
women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both are excellent cooks and
advocates for the family meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sometimes I set the dining table with
mirrored placemats and candles — a festive look.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some might wonder how I can be interested in
mirrors and Julia Child.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">My answer: they
both add sparkle to our lives.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></div>
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Bruce J. Hillman, MD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Author
of <i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611688757.html"><span style="color: blue;">A Plague on All Our Houses</span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A
friend once theorized that what success I’d enjoyed during my academic medical
career had occurred by dint of my being in the right place at the right time. I
bridled at his comment. Hadn’t hard work and creativity played some role? As I
thought about it, however, to some extent, I had to agree. It wasn’t all dumb
luck. Rather, I had benefited from a combination of serendipity and the insight
to recognize an opportunity when one presented itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqYQK7Ux7mzDQ_8RfJt1t5-vy2qoac4mvtLqCtZw6uT7CvglmviRFS6cZ8gR8oNb-MaDV29H_C80k43MceaRC68QIEP7Zh_mCZ1fbahak0MYbBb-mVgEmS4xKNZcQKeXZewuPge_OdQRrs/s1600/Hillman_PlagueAllOur_3D_pages.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqYQK7Ux7mzDQ_8RfJt1t5-vy2qoac4mvtLqCtZw6uT7CvglmviRFS6cZ8gR8oNb-MaDV29H_C80k43MceaRC68QIEP7Zh_mCZ1fbahak0MYbBb-mVgEmS4xKNZcQKeXZewuPge_OdQRrs/s400/Hillman_PlagueAllOur_3D_pages.jpg" width="306" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It
was this interaction of chance and recognition that led to my becoming a
published author. Most of the innumerable work-related emails I receive each
day are of little interest. I delete them based on just the few words in the
subject line. One day, roughly a decade ago, my index finger had been poised
over the delete key and begun its descent, when I hesitated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
institution was offering a two-hour enrichment program on creative writing
during an upcoming workday morning. I signed up. At the end of the session, the
associate Dean leading the group read a provocative sentence and asked that we
write a paragraph about that sentence as the beginning of a novel. A week
later, Sharon called to say that she’d read what I’d written and liked it. For
several years, she had participated in a monthly critique group of six women.
They had decided that their writing might be advantaged by the insights of a
representative of the opposite gender. Did I want to audition? I wrote a story
I titled “The Lemon,” about an experience during my medical internship. The
group took me in. They saw something in my writing that was worthwhile. Over
several years, they taught me a great deal about what was “good writing.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Perhaps
more important than their expertise was their encouragement. I was hooked. I
needed to write. My first book was <i>The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: How
Medical Imaging is Changing Health Care</i> (Oxford University Press,
2010), intended to inform the lay public about medical imaging. During a
lecture tour that circumnavigated the globe, I wrote the better part of a
medical murder mystery and finished it when I got home. It was at this point
that my ambition ran afoul of the practical realities of publishing. I
submitted my work to a long list of agents. Only a couple of them showed any
preliminary interest, and their interest was short-lived. No agent, no book.
One night, a college classmate interviewed me for a profile on the class
website. He was a published author. He referred me to an agent who had recently
rejected his work but whom he felt might be interested in mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Claire
Gerus took a look at my novel. She no longer represented writers of fiction,
but she liked my writing. If I ever had an idea for a nonfiction book, I should
give her a call. As it happened I did. Claire guided me through the development
of a creative nonfiction book proposal for <i>The Man Who Stalked Einstein:
How Nazi Scientist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of History</i>, which she
sold to Lyons Press. I was on my way. <i>Einstein</i> was published
in April, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As
I worked with the publisher to edit <i>Einstein</i>, I began to consider
what story I might like to address next. I considered several options related
to my profession of radiology — “martyrs” whose investigations led to their
death of overexposure before the lethality of radiation was understood. Some
aspect of the life of Marie Curie. The upshot of atomic bomb testing in the
Pacific. Then, I recalled a day I’d spent with a medical school classmate,
Michael Gottlieb, in his Los Angeles AIDS practice. I contacted him. Over the
course of several phone calls, I realize that Gottlieb had lived an extraordinary
story. We discussed conditions under which I would undertake to write a very
personal history of his 1981 discovery of AIDS and what followed over the
ensuing seven years during which he was employed as an academic physician at
UCLA. The goal would be to write an honest account of his story — including the
views of both his supporters and antagonists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">What
I learned offered all the makings of a terrific creative nonfiction story: an
important but little written about moment in history; conflict between Gottlieb
and his bosses and colleagues; a hint of Hollywood glitter; a fast-moving
dramatic arc; and a climax that would entertain readers and provide important
life lessons. The result is <i>A Plague on All Our Houses: Medical
Intrigue, Hollywood, and the Discovery of AIDS</i>, published by the ForeEdge
Press imprint of the University Press of New England.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
murder mystery still sits in my computer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bruce J. Hillman, MD</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">, is Professor and former Chair of the
Department of Radiology at the University of Virginia and Founding
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. He is the
author of <i>A Plague on All Our Houses: Medical Intrigue, Hollywood, and
the Discovery of AIDs</i> (ForeEdge Press, 2016)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-19671804253004051852016-09-22T15:33:00.000-04:002016-11-22T16:34:44.285-05:00Zingers, The Clubhouse Turn, and “The Intelligence of a Macaroon’’: Chuck McCutcheon’s Presidential Debate Primer<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">By Chuck McCutcheon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Coauthor
of <a href="http://dogwhistlebook.com/"><i>Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and
Washington Handshakes</i></a> and <a href="http://dogwhistlebook.com/"><i>Doubletalk</i></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Presidential
debates feature many, many words — way too many for some people. But the
language of the debates, and the media/political world’s reaction to them,
leans on a surprisingly small handful of stock expressions and phrases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48mIZrZ7ltb0pDCEHwzMRvDx9vHjtqbdVpd5FiP3sU4dPgM0w-nbvBJb-i5ogHfXxQZ3p2wjzNEJ4Pr2bvNE0NJp6f11pXiK4PeSFKxj61fhS8ekXSJD9k7Xyv7JorV5zuget0vv72AfU/s1600/McCutcheon+3D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48mIZrZ7ltb0pDCEHwzMRvDx9vHjtqbdVpd5FiP3sU4dPgM0w-nbvBJb-i5ogHfXxQZ3p2wjzNEJ4Pr2bvNE0NJp6f11pXiK4PeSFKxj61fhS8ekXSJD9k7Xyv7JorV5zuget0vv72AfU/s320/McCutcheon+3D.jpg" width="270" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">One maxim
for politicians – especially in debates – is that you don’t always answer the
question that you were asked; you respond to the one that you <i>want </i>asked.
So get ready to hear “The question we should be asking…,” in the manner of
Democrat John Edwards in 2007, when he was queried about whether he considered
Russia a friend or a foe. After a perfunctory nonanswer, he honed in on what he
wanted to talk about: “I think the question we should be asking ourselves is,
how does America change the underlying dynamic of what’s happening in the
world? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">… I
think for that to occur, the world has to see America as a force for good
again, which is why I talked about leading an effort to make primary-school
education available to 100 million children in the world who don’t have it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">This pivot
happens so often in debates that there’s a name for it: the “clubhouse
turn.” Northeastern University journalism professor Alan Schroeder,
author of several books on presidential debates, traces the phrase’s origin to
Michael Sheehan, a debate coach for Bill Clinton and other Democrats.
“‘Clubhouse turn’ strikes me as a particularly appropriate metaphor to apply to
debates, since this is a genre with other parallels to horse racing,” Schroeder
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Another
debate maxim is to trivialize unwanted topics by seeking to regain the
rhetorical high ground. Hence the popularity of the term “distraction from the
real issues.” Lobbyist Jim Manley, a former spokesman for Democratic Senators
Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid, calls it “a tried-and-true way to help yourselves
get out of the hole and on the offensive.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Debaters
may despise their opponents, but the trick is to avoid seeming petty. That
means invoking “with all due respect …” as a preface to leveling criticism,
with the perfunctory pretense of appearing fair-minded. It’s the political
version of the Southern phrase “bless your heart.” As humorist Dave Barry once
wrote in his mock language column: “It is correctly used to ‘soften the blow’
when you wish to criticize someone in a diplomatic and nonjudgmental manner, as
in: ‘With all due respect, you are much worse than Hitler,’ or ‘No disrespect
intended, but you have the intelligence of a macaroon.’’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Debates are
mostly remembered for their “zingers,” the supposedly spontaneous clever
one-liners that can shift momentum toward the candidates who utter them. Former
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas is probably best remembered for telling Republican
Dan Quayle in the 1988 vice-presidential debate, “You’re no Jack Kennedy.” In
the Internet age, though, it can be difficult to get in a well-executed zinger,
as journalists are constantly watching for scripted talking points.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Also a typical part of any debate is the “hypothetical,” the common reporters’
tactic for trying to get politicians to say something newsworthy. Most
politicians, in general, duck legitimate questions by dismissing them as
hypothetical. “They even seem to want credit for maintaining high standards by
keeping this virus from corrupting the political discussion,” political
journalist Michael Kinsley once wrote. But in debates, they’re often
inescapable. The last round of GOP gatherings is still noteworthy for the 2011
question that asked candidates whether they would reject a hypothetical deal
that cut $10 from the budget deficit for every $1 in tax increases; every
candidate raised their hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of course,
debate observers will obsess over whether any candidate’s performance is so
momentous that it’s a “game-changer.” That phrase’s now-common usage irks some
academics looking for less simplistic explanations of how elections are
decided.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">“When it’s
used to label events, it’s used very freely, generally with no empirical
basis,” said Bethany Albertson, a University of Texas political scientist who
studies political attitudes and persuasion. “I guess pundits are incentivized
to use the language because it makes whatever happened sound hugely important,
but there’s no check on its use.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">More from <a href="http://dogwhistlebook.com/">Chuck McCutcheon</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
University Press of New Englandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05675472246178796570noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2258920801739155456.post-69925999967792036002016-09-20T11:55:00.001-04:002016-11-22T16:36:23.817-05:00The Opioid Abuse Crisis: An Opportunity for Public Policy<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">author of <i><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611689624.html" target="_blank">Needless Suffering: How Society Fails Those With Chronic Pain</a> </i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Those are rare who fall without becoming
degraded; there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous
are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Misérables.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Hugo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Les Misérables, </i>Vol III, Book
VIII, Chapter V<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhHLpL-BEGGFz8Jc6LaCPl2SOfA9zUhfKfeLZlWgOO1aNYqCaDYd8dsIwqlvwIaaooUT7THSiBOqSltd-hWXOlD6k09QZ9yRiWYaZlRgcTLcOp57j0be1qeQx6XO4Hl03cDAQQdCTMG0u/s1600/9781611688894.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJhHLpL-BEGGFz8Jc6LaCPl2SOfA9zUhfKfeLZlWgOO1aNYqCaDYd8dsIwqlvwIaaooUT7THSiBOqSltd-hWXOlD6k09QZ9yRiWYaZlRgcTLcOp57j0be1qeQx6XO4Hl03cDAQQdCTMG0u/s320/9781611688894.jpg" width="212" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jean Valjean still ranks as one of the great
characters of literature. As the protagonist of Victor Hugo’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Les Miserables</i>, Valjean finds a way to
triumph over the evil of his fellow man — and in so doing he becomes a true
hero, one who takes the gifts he has been born with, develops them, and then
uses them to help all those around him better the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Idealistic French literature? Maybe. But there’s
nothing completely abstract about this story; it happens every day in our
country, just in a different form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
1862 Hugo wrote:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“So long as there shall
exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst
of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth…so long as ignorance and
misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Are we any different? I love my country, but we
are not without sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We lament our past
injustices to Native Americans, African Americans, women, homosexuals, Jews,
and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We seek to fix the sins of
the past, but there are others still who remain persecuted — and our social
policies of the last hundred years have made an unnecessary living hell for
both those who experience chronic pain and those who suffer from addiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Currently, 35-40 million Americans suffer
from what has been referred to as “high impact” chronic pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two and a half million Americans suffer from
some form of “opioid abuse disorder.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For most of the past century they have all been treated like criminals,
imprisoned by an ignorant system lacking mercy and falling decidedly short of
justice. The social policies designed to help those addicted only harm those in
pain, and what is needed is a change in perception — a cultural transformation,
even — to de-stigmatize the stigmatized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">State and federal authorities’ stance towards
opioid use and abuse has harmed many pain patients. I see the results every day
in my office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reality is that our
options for treating pain are limited, and opioids are an important tool in
this battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, the question needs to
be posed to these authorities: if you are limiting access to opioids, what
steps are you willing to take to help develop other options for care?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not a new question, and perhaps it
will receive greater emphasis as a result of the opioid crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been my observation that in colloquial
terms, pain management and opioid prescription are too often viewed
inter-changeably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also alarming
that the needs of treating and preventing opioid abuse supersedes that of those
who suffer from chronic pain, even though the ratio of those who suffer from
high impact chronic pain to those who abuse prescription and non-prescription
opioids approaches 20:1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But hope is on the horizon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The National Pain Strategy is an extraordinary
document that seeks to correct these problems.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It acknowledges the issue of opioid abuse, points out the deficiencies
in our ability to care for those who suffer, and offers a six point strategy
for remedying these deficiencies by addressing: 1) population research, 2)
prevention and care of chronic pain, 3) disparities, 4) service delivery and
payment, 5) professional education and training, and 6) public education and
communication.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What is also exciting is that for the first time
in my career, patient advocate groups are standing up for their rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Chronic Pain Advocacy Task Force has
outlined four core beliefs which are being accepted by other groups including
the National Pain Strategy. Moreover, the creation of state policies for
medical cannabis is a direct challenge to failed federal drug guidelines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cannabis and cannabinoids have great
potential as therapeutic agents for pain, and at least 15 percent of pain
sufferers risk government reprisal by illegally obtaining them for
self-medication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Much is happening — finally — but much still needs to change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pain patients are treated as pariahs by
doctors, who often refuse to care for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are treated like criminals in a court system that views them as
guilty until proven innocent. They are
discriminated against in a workplace that sees them as a potential risk, or
even just an extra cost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the
targets of unsavory snake oil salesmen both in medical and non-medical
settings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The list goes on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In my book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Needless
Suffering: How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain, </i>I outline sixteen
social institutions and how the behavior of each adversely affects the lives of
those who suffer from chronic pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More
importantly, I offer solutions for these pervasive social and medical problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My goal is to broaden the social discussion
on chronic pain beyond just opioids and return a sense of dignity to those who
suffer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As both a doctor and an author,
I would like to see an end to the legion of Valjeans who suffer needlessly as a
result of myopic policies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In doing so,
I hope, like Valjean’s bishop savior, to provide mercy to the needy and a sense
of hope to the hopeless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611684414.html">The Simple Beauty of
the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqUIBOBqQvTnvYuAAAblfFp7gVTh8mwBOQAF7yTH_7HgwlSAT5Hx9iKTc3EzIKhZsFg0o8DoiVdK_SKOfMNbQGLEQOObWWDEpgszrgr4QIEZOcNAXtls8IO3nl5yScF7HEJXpgKUhP22I6/s1600/fishing+sunset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqUIBOBqQvTnvYuAAAblfFp7gVTh8mwBOQAF7yTH_7HgwlSAT5Hx9iKTc3EzIKhZsFg0o8DoiVdK_SKOfMNbQGLEQOObWWDEpgszrgr4QIEZOcNAXtls8IO3nl5yScF7HEJXpgKUhP22I6/s400/fishing+sunset.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
boy inserted his fishing rod into a plastic pipe secured deep in the sand. The
surf was low and the sun was already setting behind his back. Gone were the
girls in scant bikinis and the muscular guys playing volleyball. Copacabana
beach lay bare in front of him, a perfect, golden horseshoe. Here and there,
older fishermen tried their luck along the beach, retired men in their sixties
and seventies with little to do, their skin leathered from years under the
tropical sun, beer bellies bursting out of their shorts. They all knew the
persistent eleven-year-old who would come three or four times a week to the
same spot with devout discipline. The routine was always the same: he’d string
three hooks to the end of the line and carefully load each with a small piece
of sardine. Then he would run to the water with the rod behind his back and
cast the line as far as he could beyond the breaking surf. After placing the
rod into the pipe, he’d sit down on the sand and wait. He paid little attention
to the older men. Entranced, he shifted his gaze back and forth from the
distant horizon to the tip of the rod. He didn’t know then why he had to fish.
But he knew he did. Alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Usually,
he’d go home stinking of bait and empty-handed, or at best with a meager catch
of a small catfish or a cocoroca, a bony relative of the sergeant fish common
off the beaches of Rio. His older brothers would smirk, clamping their noses,
amused at the boy’s stubbornness. But not on that day. Two large silvery
shadows darted fifty feet away, high on a wave. The boy retrieved his line
quickly, hooked some fresh bait, and cast right behind where he had spotted the
pair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">For
ten minutes, nothing happened. Discouraged, the boy started to retrieve the
line. Suddenly, he felt a strong tug. The bamboo rod bent in half with a fury
he had never seen before. His arms turned rubbery. “It’s a shark!” he yelled.
“It’s a shark!” Two older fishermen nearby dropped their rods and came closer.
It had been years since someone had caught a shark there. The boy ran to the
water’s edge, holding on to the rod with all his might, trying to reel line in.
But he could hardly turn the handle. “It’s gonna snap! The line is gonna snap!”
shouted one of the men. “Give up some line, boy! Let the fish run!” The boy,
trembling head to toe, released the reel’s lock. Line swished out as the fish
tried to regain control of his destiny. The mighty predator had become prey to
an even mightier predator, a stunned eleven-year-old boy. After some ten
minutes of give and take, the boy finally reeled the fish ashore. It wasn’t a
shark. But it was big, bigger than anything he had ever caught or seen anyone
catch at Copacabana beach. Silvery, flat on the sides with a large yellow tail
fin; probably a young albacore, weighting about eight pounds, a beautiful
creature to behold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
older men circled the boy, amazed at the sight. Bursting with pride, the boy
collected his equipment and tried to shove the fish headfirst into his bag. It
wouldn’t fit. The V-shaped tail stuck out as he walked the two blocks back
home, pretending not to notice the looks of amazement from the passersby. He
opened the door to his apartment and placed the fish on the kitchen counter.
The cook, a large black woman in her fifties, came running in. “Lindaura, look
what I caught for dinner tonight!” the boy said. “Grandpa is coming, right?”
The cook eyed the fish with incredulity. “You caught this down by the beach?”
The boy beamed. “I did. And no one helped me either. I wanna see who’s gonna
make fun of my fishing now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It
took me over thirty years to reconnect with that boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1H2awz71TGvs1fdRSDgl_vMtj1IydmHJnJkZs5NOynMlBxL83tsHLMCOQ8eUqlgKUw_klEHXVk6KezhX0qbOOZTSFWk5co0yAqgnznXd40x7Jo6GUflcORRkncPydUa26dxgf8Uvxk6VF/s1600/Gleiser_SimpleBeautyUnexpected_3D_pages.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1H2awz71TGvs1fdRSDgl_vMtj1IydmHJnJkZs5NOynMlBxL83tsHLMCOQ8eUqlgKUw_klEHXVk6KezhX0qbOOZTSFWk5co0yAqgnznXd40x7Jo6GUflcORRkncPydUa26dxgf8Uvxk6VF/s400/Gleiser_SimpleBeautyUnexpected_3D_pages.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Life
took me adrift and I forgot all about that young boy and his big fish. My head
turned upward to the Universe, and I became a theoretical physicist, interested
in questions that, not long ago, wouldn’t have been considered scientific: How
did the Universe come to be? What about all the matter that makes up stars,
planets, and people? And life? Can we ever hope to understand how inanimate
atoms first joined together to become living things, and then thinking brains?
And if life took hold here, could it exist elsewhere? Could there be other
thinking beings out there in the immensity of the cosmos? Even as a teenager, I
marveled at the fact that such fundamental questions about existence could be
answered in rational ways, without invoking supernatural agency. At the very
least we could try to answer them, if not in their entirety, at least in part.
The value, I realized, was in the trying, in being a participant in this
continuous process of discovery we call science.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
now nderstand that those long afternoons of fishing and contemplation were a
prelude to what was about to come. After all, fishing teaches us to be patient,
tolerant, humble—key qualities needed in research. How often do fishermen go to
the water with their rods, dreaming of the day’s catch, only to come home
empty-handed? Likewise, how often do scientists passionately explore an idea
for days, weeks, months, years even, only to be forced to accept that it leads
nowhere? Notwithstanding the frequent failures, and just as in fishing, they
keep coming back, even if the odds for success are pretty low. The thrill is in
beating the odds, occasionally landing a big fish or an idea that reveals
something new about the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
fishing and in science we flirt with the elusive. We stare at the water, and
sometimes we see a fish stir underneath the surface or even jump, betraying its
presence. But the watery world is not our own, and we can only conjecture about
what really goes on down there, polarized lenses and all. The line and the hook
are our probes into this other realm, which we perceive only very imperfectly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Nature
loves to hide,” the Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote some twenty-five
centuries back. We see very little of what really goes on around us. Science is
our probe into invisible realms, be it the world of the very small, of
bacteria, of atoms, of elementary particles, or the world of the very large, of
stars, galaxies, and even the Universe as a whole. We see these through our
tools of exploration—our reality amplifiers—the telescopes, the microscopes,
and the many other instruments of detection, the rod and line of the natural
scientist. If we are persistent, once in a while we see Nature stir, even jump,
revealing the simple beauty of the unexpected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">This is an excerpt from </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.upne.com/1611684414.html">The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected:
A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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