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Suffolk University
News Coverage
July 2011
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I. Faculty and Administrators
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Op-Ed
• Roberts, Alasdair
o Boston Sunday Globe – “A precipitous
situation, not without precedent”
o Boston Sunday Globe – “US default would be
‘disastrous’ to struggling economy, analysts say”
• Allison, Robert
o NewAmerican – “Sarah Palin, Paul Revere, &
Guns”
• Bachman, Paul
o Boston Herald – “Making it in Mass.”
o Republican – “State tax revenue tops out”
• Berg, John
o Boston Herald – “Dems rally behind Warren as
Brown rival”
• Blum, Karen
o Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly – “NLG
honors standouts at testimonial event”
• Cavallaro, Rosanna
o Boston Sunday Globe – “Despite notoriety,
Bulger no easy case”
• Dearborn, Chris
o Boston.com – “Girlfriend of crime boss
expected to seek bail”
o Cape Cod Times – “Girlfriend of 'Whitey'
expected to seek bail”
o Medford Daily News – “Bulger's girlfriend may
seek bail”
• Engel, Kathleen
o Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly – “Judge:
MERS can foreclose, assign mortgages in its
name”
• Golann, Dwight
o Boston.com – “Dropped malpractice lawsuits
cost legal system time and money”
o Roll Call – “Golann: Time to Change Tack on
Malpractice Claims”
• Kindregan, Charles
o The Wall Street Journal – “When Estate Plans
Fail”
• McInnes, Morris
o Boston Business Journal – “‘In love with
accounting’”
o Boston Business Journal – “To be a CFO
today, it's more than numbers”
o EON – “Sawyer Business School Associate
Dean Morris McInnes of Suffolk University
Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from
Boston Business Journal”
• Nelson, Jim
o The Times-Picayune – “On The Hill”
• Rosenthal, Robert
o New England Cable News – “Murdochs, Brooks
to answer Parliament committee’s questions”
• Sered, Susan & Norton-Hawk, Maureen
o Metro West Daily News – “A plan to keep
women out of prison”
o Metro West Daily News – “Ex-cons struggle to
find jobs, homes”
o Metro West Daily News – “Ex-cons struggle to
find jobs, homes”
o WWLP 22 Springfield – “Women face hard life
when out of prison”
• Tuerck, David
o Suffolk University – “Economics Chair
Testifies Before House Ways And Means”
o Arkansas Democrat Gazette – “In House,
Huckabee touts ‘fair tax’”
o The Boston Globe – “A fair solution to the
budget crisis”
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A precipitous situation, not without precedent
By Alasdair Roberts
Unless Congress acts, the
United States will reach a statutory limit on federal debt in early August. The
ANALYSIS
US Treasury
might then default on its loans.
This, says Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner, would be
"an unprecedented event in
American history" that would
inflict catastrophic damage on
the economy.
But it isn't entirely unprecedented. While the federal government has never defaulted,
we've had a very similar experience.
Between July 1841 and December 1842, eight of the country's 26 states defaulted on
their loans. Other states and
the federal government also
struggled to avoid insolvency.
The entire nation quickly became a pariah in international
financial markets.
In 1842 the country was in
the midst of its first great depression. A real estate bubble
fueled by easy credit had burst
in 1837. American banks that
financed this speculation collapsed two years later. The
economy ground to a halt.
Many states were caught up
in the mania of 1836-37. They
borrowed in Europe and competed with each other to build
infrastructure that would open
their markets. Legislators spent
indiscriminately. Every new canal, railroad, and turnpike was
supposed to pay for itself. But
when the economy collapsed,
so did the projects.
There was no toll revenue to
repay the loans. Foreign creditors pressed the states to raise
property taxes instead. But voters resisted new taxes, and many states simply lacked the capacity to collect them. So the
states defaulted.
In Britain, the main source
of investment, there was outrage. American visitors were
barred from London clubs and
snubbed at dinner parties.
William Wordsworth published a poem denouncing the
"degenerate men" of defaulting
Pennsylvania. (His retirement
savings were in American state
bonds.) Another writer said
Americans were "guilty of a
fraud as enormous as ever disgraced the worst king of the
most degraded nation of Europe:'
European anger was indiscriminate. States that never defaulted, such as Massachusetts,
could not sell bonds in Europe.
The federal government tried to
place a "trifling loan" in Europe
in 1842. "Tell your government," Baron James de Rothschild told US representatives,
"that you cannot borrow a dollar."
Trans-Atlantic relations approached the boiling point. The
doctrine of sovereign immunity
meant that European investors
had no legal remedy. States
were free to repudiate their
loans - if they were prepared
to bear the humiliation and
give up access to international
finance.
Most states chose a different
path. The crisis was a critical
point in the evolution of American government. States abandoned their infrastructure
schemes and adopted constitutional restrictions on borrowing.
Voters accepted new taxes,
and governments developed the
capacity to collect them efficiently.
None ofthis came easily. Many Americans had just acquired
the right to vote, and the ideal
of popular sovereignty was ascendant. Now, voters were being asked to restrict their own
political power. Most agreed
that it was necessary.
"Self-government is no longer a theory;' said John Pettit, an
Indiana legislator. "We must
take our cool and calm moments to bind and restrict ourselves:'
By the late 1840s, European
confidence was restored, and
investment once again flowed
into the United States. Wordsworth conceded that Pennsylvanians, now repaying their
loans, might not be degenerates
after all. The trans-Atlantic default crisis was over.
But Americans had learned
a hard lesson about the limits
to popular sovereignty within a
globalized economy.
Alasdair Roberts is the Jerome
L. Rappaport Professor of Law
and Public Policy at Suffolk
University Law School. His
book The First Great Depression
will be published by Cornell
University Press in 2012.
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maintain payments to investors
holding trillions of dollars in US
bonds, technically averting a default by using revenue from regular tax collections to payoff debt
holders.
But since it legally couldn't
borrow money to pay other government bills, Treasury might
have to reduce or temporarily
halt expenditures on Social Security, Medicare, and other popular
federal programs.
Moody's Zandi thinks such a
"payment prioritization" wouldn't calm markets.
"Bond investors;' Zandi said,
"would start asking, 'How long
will it be before Treasury feels
pressure to payoff Social Security
and other programs and cut our
bond payments?' "
Alasdair Roberts, a professor
of law and public policy at Sllf.folk University Law School,
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thinks President Obama, a Democrat, and Republican congressional leaders will ultimately
forge some sort of deal.
But, he said, the American
public better prepare itself for future economic uncertainty and
political fights related to the government's debt, projected to exceed the nation's economic output this year.
"This summer is a small taste
of what we're going to face in future years," said Roberts, now
writing a book on America's financial crisis of the 1840s.
"We're moving into a new
phase of American economic history when international markets
will be increasingly scrutinizing
our finances;' said Roberts.
"It's a more global economy
whose rules are not yet set;'
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•... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. "
Sarah Palin,
Paul Revere, & Guns
Former Governor of Alaska and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin ooce again
caused a media frenzy - this time over
some comments she made in early June
on her "One Nation" bus tour. Palin was
quoted as retelling the story of Paul Revere
with a pro-gun slant. Palin said that Revere
"warned the British that they weren 't going
to be taking away our arms by ringing those
bells and making sure as he's riding hi s
horse through town to send those warning
shots and bell s that we were going to be
secure and we were going to be free."
The mainstream media was all too
quick to pile Oil that comment and repeat the narrative of a dumb-woman-inover-her-head they have been trumpeting
since Palin fi.rst became a national figure
in 2008, but it appears that Palin actuaUy might bave been right. On Fox News
Sunday, Palin ins isted that she was rig ht.
"Part of hi s ride was to warn the Britisb
that were already there. That, hey, you're
not going to succeed. You 're not going to
take American arms." A 1798 letter written by Paul Revere him self appears to
back up Palin's claim. After Revere was
captured by the British, he warned them
"there would be five hundred Americans
there in a short time for r bad alarmed tbe
Country all the way up."
Brendan McConville, a history professor from Boston University, also supported
Palin 's comments. " Basically when Paul
Revere was stopped by the British, he did
say to them , ' Look, there is a mobi li zation
going on that you' ll be confronting: and
the British are aware as they ' re marching
down the countryside, they hear church
bells ringing - she was right about that
- and warning shots being fired. That's
accurate." Otber academics jumped to Palin 's defe n e. Cornell law professor Willi am Jacobson also argued that PaLin was
indeed correct, and said that it was Palin's
critics who are the ones most in need of a
history lesson. Professor Rober1 Allison ,
chair of the hi story department at ~
University, aid that Sarah Palin 's interpretation of Revere's ride has some merit
and that while Revere did not personal ly
ring bells himself, he told people along the
way to Lexington, and they rang church
bells to raise the alert.
Ln a blog post dated June 17 on Forbe. .
com excerpted below, Bill Flax did an
excellen t job exp laini ng the important
issue forgotten in the mainstream media
co nsumed with gotc ha-st-yled news bytes
covering the Pa li n-Revere comment:
The latest Sarah Palin controversy
over Pau I Revere distracts from the
es ential lesson of this pivotal slice
of American lore .... It matters greatly
though why the British marched and
how the Colonists responded. Dissension had been brewing between the
colonies and London for some time,
but it only cascaded i.nto vio lent revolution when the British sought to eize
the colonial magazine at Concord. The
minutemen understood something lost
on most Americans today, that disarming the people is always the necessary
precursor to tyranny. When the British
disembarked to seize the Colonists'
stores of powder and amm unition, the
militia resisted. Americans in 1775
wanted government to leave them be.
Many Americans today want the state
to care for us .... Sadly, the perception
of the very nature of rights has been
slowly shifting as America slides into
a soc ia list cesspool. No longer are
rights considered protections for our
persons and property agai nst government. Now "rights" bave become
entitlement dispensed from government. Freedoms to pursue healthcare,
housing and sustenance are being
transformed into collective obligations that the state offer subsidies ....
An armed populace represents the ulti matc check and balance preventing
federal encroachment. As self reliant
individuals, we owe it to our neighbors to remain vigilant in defense of
liberty. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, should the unthinkable occur,
private gun ownership ensures it is the
blood of tyrants watering the tree of
li berty and not the bones of martyrs
broken under tile boot of oppress ion.
Arm thyself.
EXERCISING THE RIGHT
Background Check Errors
Are Common
Gun-ri ghts enthusiast John Lott recently expla ined th at the Brady Law background check process is filled with ho les.
Lott exp lained tha t "the ationa! Tn stant
Criminal Background Check System
(NLCS) . .. acc identall y fl ags many lawabid in g peop le, stopp ing those who simply have the same name as a proh.ibited
individual from buying a gun." Lott also
noted that, after reviewing the numbers
for 2009 , 93 percent of the initial 71,010
den ia ls were found to be okay to purchase a gun .
Of the seven percent that went on for a
deeper review invo lving being referred out
to other agencies (i.e., FBI, BATF, etc.),
over 5I percent resulted in ca~es where the
check wasn ' t even completed.
Ultimately, Lott calculated an " initial
false positive rate of roughly 94.2%," and
this "sti ll doesn't mean that the government hasn ' t made a mistake on the remai ning cases." Lott calc ulated another
hi gher error rate, based on those cases
where the den ied party was actually
proven to be unable to purcha e a gun in
a court of law, of 99.98 percent, which
might be higher th an the actual rate si nce
an ass umpti on ca n be made that some
banlled pan ies did not pursue thei r case
to trial. Still , wi th numbers like this (a
false-positive rate somew here between 95
percent and 99 percent), it's no wnnder
thal, as Lott puts it,
no study by criminologists or eco nomists has fo und th at the Federal
Brady Law has reduced national
crime rates.
Lott continued on to exp lain that the delays involved for those who trigger falsepositives add up. Those unfortunate people have to wait long period of time for
their case to be resolved even though they
ultimately do get their gun. With results
like thi s, it's no wo nder that gun-controllers view the NICS as a move in the right
direction. It's a logical step on their path
to total civilian di sarmament. •
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Making it in Mass.
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Report: State may add 84,000 jobs by year's end
By BRENDAN LYNCH
Massachusetts is on pace to create 84,000 new jobs this year - up
from just 38,000 last year, according to an economic forecast provided to the Herald. And salaries
should rise 3.2 percent this year
and 3.6 percent in 2012.
The Bay State economy is expected to grow 2.9 percent this
year and 2.8 percent next year, according to economists' predictions
- slowing from last year's heady
3.4 percent growth rate, but still expanding at a healthy clip.
"For the most part, Massachusetts has done better than the
country as a whole, with 7.6 percent unemployment as opposed to
9.2 percent," Paul Bachman, director of research at SuffQlk I Jnjyer*ty's Beacon Hill Institute, told the
erald. "We should continue creating those jobs."
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Bachman credited Massachusetts' technology companies,
hospitals and universities, major business investments and
foreign exports of technology
products with shielding it from
the brunt of the downturn.
"Generally, you come out of a
recession pretty fast, and then
slow down to normal growth,"
said Bachman, who conducted
the forecast.
He added that the state has
also avoided most of the uncertainty over Obamacare, because
"we already have something
similar here."
One thing that could derail
the Bay State's good fortune
would be a default brought on
by a failure to raise the nation's
debt ceiling, Bachman said .
National second-quarter gross
domestic product figures will
be released today and the Wall
Street Journal predicts only 1.9
percent growth, the same as the
first quarter.
"That's continued slow and
disappointing growth," said
Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews.
"You can see why, with the recent employment numbers. It's
almost dismal."
The New England Economic
Partnership will also release a
state GDP figure today.
"Massachusetts' (GDP) will
be better," Clayton-Matthews
said. "You can tell from the employment numbers. Revenue is
good. It's been a good quarter
for the state."
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State tax
revenue
tops out
Collections topped expectations
of state officials, meaning a
sales tax holiday in August could
be in store.
ByOAN RING
[email protected]
BOSTON - Tax collections for the
recent fiscal year in Massachusetts
rose $723 million more than projected and nearly $2 billion more than
the prior year, reflecting a "noticeably stronger" economy an~ mo.st
likely assuring a sales tax holiday ill
August, the state Department of Revenue and a top legislator said.
The robust collections could also
mean that people will receive a small
cut in the state income tax in January, in what would be the first cut in
the income tax in a decade.
Revenue Commissioner Navjeet
K. Bal said that the state collected
$20.5 billion in taxes for the fiscal
year that ended June 30, an increase
of more than $1.9 billion or 10.6 percent from the prior year and $723
million more than projections.
"The increase of nearly $2 billion
in collections reflects a Massachusetts economy that grew noticeably
stronger over the past 12 months,"
Bal said in a statement.
The total was close to the $20.8 billion received for the fiscal year that
ended in June 2008, the most-ever
taxes collected by the state, said a
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plunged by about $2.5 billion
the following year during the
recession.
Senate President Therese
Murray signaled on Monday
that a sales tax holiday would
be likely. "Yes we did talk
about that. I think there's
mostly a consensus that that's
what we might like to do,"
Murray said after a meeting
with Gov. Deval L. Patrick and
House Speaker Robert A.
DeLeo.
As they have in past recent
years, legislators are expected
to approve a bill for a weekend
in August to exempt the 6.25
percent sales tax from most
items worth $2,500 or less. It
would be the seventh sales tax
holiday in the past eight years,
with an absence in only 2009,
the year the governor and legislators raised the sales tax
from 5 percent to 6.25 percent.
Tax collections for June totaled $2.142 billion, or $48 million more than projected and
an increase of $106 million, or
5.2 percent from June of last
year, the revenue department
said.
The state secretary for administration and finance and
top legislators agree each year
on a projection for tax collections for the next fiscal year.
Officials recently had projected $19.784 billion in revenue
collections for the fiscal 2011
year ending June 30.
Personal income tax collections for the fiscal year were
$11.576 billion, an increase of
$1.466 billion, or 14.5 percent
and $650 million more than
expected.
Receipts from the sales tax
totaled $4.905 billion, up $293
million, or 6.4 percent, meeting projections.
Estimated income tax payments, which include capital
gains from the sale of stock
and a tax on stock dividends,
were $1.857 billion, up 25 percent, or $373 million, and $166
million more than projected.
Paul Bachman, director of
research for The Beacon Hill
Institute at Suffolk University
in Boston, said the surging tax
collections were spurred by a
rally in the stock market last
year and a state economy that
is growing faster than the national economy.
Bachman said taxes from
the stock market can be volatile. "When revenues are cratering, it's usually because the
stock market is crate ring," he
said. The strong growth in tax
revenues could also trigger a
minuscule cut in the state income tax in January.
Under a 2002 state law, the
state's 5.3 percent personal income tax will likely drop to
5.25 percent on Jan. 1, said Michael J. Widmer, president of
the Massachusetts Taxpayers
Foundation.
In 2002, legislators froze the
state income tax at 5.3 percent
as part of a law to help close a
deficit in the state budget. At
the same time, legislators established a schedule for the income tax to gradually be
lowered to 5 percent. But the
incremental cuts would only
be triggered if there was
enough economic growth each
year. If the income tax does
drop next year by 0.05 percent, it will mark the first cut
in the tax since it fell to 5.3 percent on Jan. 1, 2002.
There will likely be no
shortage of ideas on how to
spend the extra tax revenues
from the last fiscal year, but a
good portion - possibly $200
to $300 million - will likely be
deposited into a rainy day
fund, Widmer said.
Jay Gonzalez, secretary of
administration and finance ,
said a "significant portion" of
the fiscal 2011 surplus should
be deposited into that fund,
because a hefty portion of the
surplus tax revenues came
from capital gains and might
not recur.
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Oems rally behind Warren as Brown rival
By HILLARY CHABOT
Democrats yesterday
fiercely backed President
Obama's consumer protection adviser Elizabeth
Warren, saying her role in
defending big insurance
from future asbestos victim lawsuits won't hurt
her if she runs against
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.
"Elizabeth
Warren's
lifetime fighting for consumers speaks for itself
and requires no defending," said U.S. Sen. John
Kerry's
spokeswoman
Whitney Smith.
The Herald reported
yesterday that Warren
received $168,000 for
defending Travelers Insurance against future
lawsuits from asbestos
victims in a case that
went before the Supreme
Court in 2008 - a move
critics said hurts her reputation as a consumer advocate.
National
Democrats
have said they would like
to see the Harvard Law
School professor take on
Brown, while she is also
viewed as a likely choice
to head Obama's new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, due to launch
later this month.
Brian Walsh, spokesman
for the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee,
said the lawsuit is proof
that Warren and her Democratic backers are hypocritical.
"It's certainly interesting to hear Democrats in
Washington bash the big
insurance companies with
one hand, while using the
other to recruit someone
for Senate who has lined
her pockets with their
profits," Walsh said.
John Berg, a political
professor at Suffolk University, said Warren's invo vement in the asbestos
case might raise voters'
eyebrows, but he added,
"She should be able to deal
with it."
Warren, who declined to
comment yesterday, said
in an earlier statement she
protected consumers in
the case by backing a trust
to ensure all asbestos victims got payouts.
Adam Levitin, a bankruptcy law professor at
Georgetown
University,
also defended Warren,
saying her efforts were focused on upholding bankruptcy court rulings, not
on whether or not victims
should get paid.
Potential
Democratic
rival Robert Massie, a
Democrat running against
Brown, said yesterday he
has "a lot of respect" for
Warren. He added that national Democrats should,
"get over this fantasy baseball period and recognize
that the field is virtually
fixed and compare the actual candidates. That will
be a healthy step."
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Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly > Print > NLG honors standouts at testimonial event
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
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NLG honors standouts at testimonial event
by Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff
Published: June 30th, 2011
The National Lawyers Guild’s Massachusetts chapter held its 30th Annual Testimonial Dinner at the Colonnade
Hotel in Boston. The 2011 Lawyer Award was presented to Suffolk University Law School Associate Dean Karen
M. Blum and Emily J. Yozell; the Legal Worker Award went to Chip Berlet, senior Analyst at Political Research
Associates in Somerville; and the Student Award was given to Liz Dedrick, a third-year student at
Northeastern University School of Law.
From left: emcee Howard Cooper of Todd & Weld
and David Matz of the Boston Mediation Group
listen to NLG member Martin Kantrovitz’s tribute to
Brookline District Court Judge Lawrence D.
Shubow, a longtime guild member who passed
away in February.
Honorees, from left: Suffolk University Law School
Associate Dean Karen M. Blum, Lawyer Award; Liz
Dedrick, Student Award; Chip Berlet, Legal Worker
Award; and Emily J. Yozell, Lawyer Award
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Despite
notoriety,
Bulgerno
easy case
By Mark Arsenault
and Stephanie Ebbert
GLOBE STAFF
He's a legendary gangster, accused of 19 grisly murders and a
vast criminal conspiracy. He was a
fugitive from justice for 16 years and
could face years in prison on gun
charges alone for the 30 illegal
weapons authorities say they discovered at his Santa Monica, Calif.,
hide-out.
There are few who believe that
James "Whitey" Bulger, 81, has a
chance of ever sleeping anywhere
but a prison cell.
But what might seem like a slamdunk case against someone who was
pictured alongside Osama bin Laden on the FBI's Most Wanted List
will be an immensely complex unBULGER, Page A9
dertaking, costing taxpayers millions of dollars and playing out
over years, former prosecutors
and defense attorneys say.
The massive legal process set
into motion last week, featuring
a defendant flown in by helicopter, competing filings, and numerous hearings, is notable not
only for the sheer scope of the
crimes Bulger is accused of, but
the time that has elapsed since
they were committed, his crosscountry flight from justice, and
the FBI's complicity in Bulger's
alleged crime spree.
"I think Bulger is a groundbreaking, unique case with issues never seen before in my lifetime," said Bruce Cutler, a
criminal defense lawyer who
represented John Gotti, head of
the Gambino crime family in
New York.
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Authorities arrested Bulger
and his companion, Catherine
Greig, in Santa Monica on June
22, where they had been hiding
in an ocean-side apartment with
$822,198 in cash.
His apprehension triggered
international headlines and
widespread speculation about
the legal process ahead: Would
he name names? Would more
FBI agents be implicated? Would
there be a plea? Or would the
families of his alleged victims finally have their day in court?
As prosecutors prepare for an
epic case, they could be influenced not just by what makes
the most legal sense, but also the
sensibilities of more than a dozen families who have been waiting decades for justice.
While some have predicted
he might enter a plea, families of
those Bulger is accused of killing
are rooting for a full-blown trial
- and the revelations it might
produce about possible coconspirators or further corruption
by the FBI.
"He's the only one who can
answer every question," said
Shawn Donahue, whose father,
Michael, was shot dead on the
South Boston waterfront in
1982, allegedly a victim of Bulger'sgang.
"The important part now,"
said Tommy Donahue, Shawn's
brother, "is the truth."
One likely truth is that justice
could be a long time coming.
"Normally, you would expect
a case to come to trial within 12
to 18 months of indictment, but
this case has such complexity;'
said Timothy Burke, a former
Suffolk County prosecutor who
led a two-year investigation into
Bulger's operation in the early
1980s.
With 19 homicide victims
and evidence dating back some
30 years, "you're talking easily
two to three years before this
case ever is concluded;' he said.
Many legal analysts point to
Bulger's age as a factor to consider, though few think it would
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bring him any leniency, given
the charges he faces. But it could
put pressure on prosecutors to
proceed as expeditiously as possible.
"The issue is just to get him
convicted before anything else,
while he's still alive," said Michael D. Kendall, a former prosecutor and now a defense attorney with McDermott Will &
Emery. If Bulger is convicted,
but then were to die before appeals are finished "then the conviction is dismissed;' he said.
A 1971 Supreme Court ruling
held that convictions still under
appeal are abated upon death. In
between, "you sort of enjoy that
status as an innocent person,"
said Rosanna Cavallaro, a professor at Suffolk University Law
~.
Former priest John J. Geoghan's child molestation conviction
was erased after he was killed in
prison in 2003 while the case
was under appeal. The doublemurder conviction being appealed by Planned Parenthood
clinic shooter John C. Salvi III
was voided after he killed himself in prison.
Noting the armory of illegal
weapons Bulger had when captured last month in California,
Kendall suggested that prosecutors first pursue a case against
Bulger on weapons possession,
rather than wrangling with the
more complicated indictment
that could ensnare the case in a
protracted trial.
"You could put him in jail for
the rest of his life;' Kendall said.
"There'd be no charade, and
Whitey wouldn't get to strut
around and brag like he was important;'
Another unavoidable fact of
the case is that it will be expensive. Taxpayers will be paying for
both sides of the Bulger trial after the court last week declared
Bulger indigent and appointed
Boston lawyer J.W. Carney Jr. to
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that Catherine Greig's years on the lam with
one of the nation's most wanted fugitives
make her a flight risk if she is released on
bail.
But some legal analysts say Greig has a chance of being released if her lawyer
can find a way to separate her conduct from Bulger's.
Bulger, now 81, the former leader of the notorious Winter Hill Gang, is
charged with participating in 19 murders and a host of other crimes, including
loan-sharking and money-laundering. He faces the possibility of life in prison.
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Greig, 60, is charged with harboring a fugitive, which carries a maximum
prison term of five years.
"Just because there might be a legitimate argument that Whitey would
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"They need to be treated individually on the question of whether bail is
appropriate," he said.
Greig is due in U.S. District Court for a bail hearing Monday.
Defense attorney Edward Ryan Jr., a former president of the Massachusetts
Bar Association, said some of the main arguments prosecutors make against
releasing a defendant on bail do not seem to apply in Greig's case. Unlike
Bulger, who is charged with violent crimes, Greig is not considered a danger
to the community or someone who would attempt to obstruct justice or
threaten witnesses if she were to be released on bail, Ryan said.
Ryan said a magistrate could release Greig on bail, but require her to wear an
electronic monitoring bracelet and establish other conditions to keep close
track of her.
"The purpose of bail is to ensure the person's return to court," said Ryan.
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"I think the government has the better argument, but I don't think it's
necessarily a sure thing that the government will prevail here," he said.
Authorities say Greig, a former dental hygienist, went on the run with Bulger
shortly after he fled in late 1994. Bulger disappeared after he was tipped off by
a former Boston FBI agent that he was about to be charged in another case
that has since been dismissed.
Bulger and Greig were caught on June 22, just days after the FBI began a new
publicity campaign focusing on Greig. A public service announcement was
broadcast during daytime television shows in an attempt to reach a heavily
female audience. The FBI said in Greig's wanted poster that she was known to
frequent beauty salons, had well-kept teeth and had multiple plastic surgeries.
Authorities said they received a tip from a woman who saw a story about the
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ticipating in 19 murders and a to keep close track of her,
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host of other crimes, including
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trate will have to determine if
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boring a fugitive, which carries will basically ensure her return
a maximum prison term of five to court, and I think you can do
years,
that here,"
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be a legitimate argument that at Greig's initial court appearWhitey would obstruct jus- ance they intend to argue that
tice and flee if he were let out she would be a flight risk if she
(on bail) doesn't mean that his is released while awaiting trial.
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girlfriend will," said Chris Dearborn, a professor at Suffolk with and harboring a fugitive
University Law School.
for all those years is obviously
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individually on the question of having her released," said forwhether bail is appropriate,"he mer U,S, Attorney Donald
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By Denise Lavoie
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BOSTON - The longtime girlfriend of former
Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger was by
his side when he was finally captured in Santa
Monica, Calif., last month after more than 16
years on the run.
Next week, prosecutors are expected to argue
that Catherine Greig's years on the lam with one of
the nation's most wanted fugitives make her a
flight risk if she is released on bail.
But some legal analysts say Greig has a chance
of being released if her lawyer can find a way to
separate her conduct from Bulger's.
Greig, 60, is charged with harboring a fugitive,
which carries a maximum prison term offive years.
"Just because there might be a legitimate argument that Whitey would obstruct justice and flee if
he were let out (on bail) doesn't mean that his girlfriend will," said Chris Dearborn, a professor at
Suffolk University Law School.
"They need to be treated individually on the
question of whether bail is appropriate," he said.
Greig is due in U.S. District Court for a bail hearingMonday.
Defense attorney Edward Ryan Jr., a former
president of the Massachusetts Bar Association,
said some of the main arguments prosecutors
make against releasing a defendant on bail do not
seem to apply in Greig's case. Unlike Bulger, who is
charged with violent crimes, Greig is not considered a danger to the community or someone who
would attempt to obstruct justice or threaten witnesses if she were to be released on bail, Ryan said.
Ryan said a magistrate could release Greig on
bail, but require her to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and establish other conditions to
keep close track of her.
"The purpose of bail is to ensure the person's
return to court," said Ryan. "The magistrate will
have to determine if there is a set of conditions
that will basically ensure her return to court, and 1
think you can do that here."
But prosecutors made it clear at Greig's initial
court appearance they intend to argue that she
would be a flight risk if she is released while
awaiting trial.
"The fact that she was living with and harboring
a fugitive for all those years is obviously going to
weigh heavily against having her released," said
former U.S. Attorney Donald Stem.
"1 think the government has the better argument, but 1don't think it's necessarily a sure thing
that the government will prevail here," he said.
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Judge: MERS can foreclose,
assign mortgages in its name
Not required to own promissory note, have clear chain of assignment
By Phillip Bantz
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HOFFMAN
Judge issues
divisive decision
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He: Marron, et
al. on page 12.
Lawyers say a recent ruling by a
U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge turns
a hlind eye to shoddy record-keeping and legal violations by hig banks
and so-called foreclosure mills. But
oJhers in the foreclosure
bar support the decision
and contend that the
judge was simply following the law.
The divisive ruling validates an assignment from
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., or
MERS, to a bank that is
trying to foreclose on a
couple's Haverhill home in
the wake of their Chapter
7 bankruptcy declaration.
The bank, HSBC Bank
USA, has not shown that
it holds the promissory
note to the mortgage.
The bankruptcy trustee argued that
the assignment was meaningless because !vIERS, which maintains a national database of millions of mortgages, was only acting as a nominee
for the lender that held the promissory note on the debtors' mortgage.
Because the note had changed
hands without a written assignment, the trustee reasoned, MERS
remained the nominee for the originallender, which had not authorized it to assign the mortgage to the
hank seeking foreclosure.
MERS did not have the
right to assign the mortgage, therefore the bank
does not have the right to
foreclose on the property,
the trus!t:e asserted.
But Judge Melvin S.
Hoffman disagreed, finding that MERS could foreclose and assign mort-
gages held in its name.
"The fad that the debtors' promissory note passed like a hot potato
down a line of owners, including
some in bankruptcy and liquidation,
with no accompanying assignment of
the note owner's beneficial interest in
the mortgage, changes nothing;' he
wrote. 'Through all of these transfers
right up until it finally assigned the
mortgage to HSBC, MERS remained
the mortgagee in its capacity as trustee
and as nominee for whomever happened to own the note:'
The 13-page decision is III Re:
Marron, et aI., Lawyers Weekly No.
04·067 -11. The full text of the ruling can be found at www.masslawyersweekly.com.
Divided opinions
The trustee's attorney, James L.
O'Connor Jr., has ftIed a motion for
reconsideration in which he argues
that Hoffman's ruling is erroneous
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in light of a Superior Court holding
that a mortgagee must possess both
the mortgage and note.
In Eaton v. Federal National Mortgage Association, Judge Frances A.
McInt}Te said in her June 17 deciContinued on page 25
sion that when the Legislature enacted G.L.c.
244, § 14, which governs power of sale, it did not
intend for a mortgagee to "mean that one can
initiate a foreclosure without also holding the
underlying promissory note;' O'Connor writes
in his motion.
O'Connor, of Nickless & Phillips in Fitchburg, declined to comment, as did HSBC's attorney, Elizabeth Lonardo of Harmon Law Offices in Newton.
A Harmon news release states that "Judge
Hoffman's ruling adds to the long list of decisions that affirm MERS' role as mortgagee, not
only at origination, but throughout the life of
the loan:'
Attorneys who represent homeowners believe otherwise.
Michael Pill of Green, Miles, Lipton & FitzGibbon in Northampton said Hoffman's determination that state law does not require unity of ownership is "completely wrong" and
based on other erroneous rulings out of the
Superior Court.
"This is the blind leading the blind;' said Pill,
who was not involved in the case. "I think it has
the sad potential to undermine the legitimacy
of our legal system:'
Tran~actional real estate attorney Erik Hammarlund of Vineyard Haven said the decision
suggests that no party can challenge a corporate assignment if it is merely facially valid,
meaning that it was assigned by someone
claiming to have authority.
"This would apply to, at least in theory, any
corporation:' he said. "If this [ruling] is held
valid, which I don't think it should be, it's going to make it much, much more difficult to
attack assignments. Attacking assignments is
a standard practice of foreclosure defense attorneys:'
Hoffman and other Massachusetts judges
have wrongly relied on G.L.c. 183, §54B to conclude that corporate assignments are per se
valid, according to Hammarlund. He said the
statute was only intended to allow third parties to rely on such assignments, not prevent
them from alleging that an assignment could
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"People are finding fraudulent assignments
all over the place;' he added.
Kathleen C. Engel, a Suffolk University Law
~ professor and national authority on
mortgage finance and regulation, said the
caselaw on whether a foreclosing or assigning
entity must hold both the mortgage and note
and have a clear chain of title is muddied.
"I do feel that there is always a risk when an
entity has the right to take property without
proving that they own the underlying obligation to pay;' she said. "I don't think the security interests should ever be separated from the
note; it just invites trouble. And that's what we're
seeing here:'
But a lender-side foreclosure attorney, Waiter H. Porr Jr. of Ablitt Scofield in Woburn, contended that Hoffman's decision is directly in
line with Massachusetts black letter law.
He added that the ruling is "phenomenal" in
its clarity. In fact, his firm has already cited it
in two cases, he said.
"MERS doesn't hold the note. So what? They
don't hold the equitable interest in the mortgage. So what? They're the nominee;' he said.
"They have bare legal title that entitles them to
assign it or foreclose in their name:'
Failure to pay
Co-debtor Robin H. Soroko-Marron exeCllted a mortgage on her Haverhill home and
delivered it to MERS in 2005. The mortgage
identified MERS as a separate corporation
acting as nominee for the lender and the
lender's successors.
When Soroko-Marron took out the mortgage with MERS, she also executed a promissory note payable to the lender, Fieldstone
Mortgage Co., which later declared bankruptcy. The note subsequently would be transferred
to several other entities.
The mortgage included the statutory power of sale under G.L.c. 183, §21, which allowed MERS, as the mortgagee, to foreclose
on the property in the event that the mortgagor defaulted.
In late 2007, Soroko-Marron stopped making payments on the mortgage, triggering
foreclosure proceedings. Meanwhile, an employee at MERS assigned the mortgage to
HSBC Bank.
Sllroko-Marron and her husband, co-debtor
David A. Marron, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the faU of201O. That spurred HSBC
to seek relief from the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code so it could fore-
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close on the Marrons' home.
The bankruptcy trustee objected,
MERS authority
In granting the bank relief from automatic
stay, Hoffman first acknowledged that despite
extensive litigation throughout the country"no
clear pattern of judicial guidance has emerged"
concerning MERS' power to foreclose or assign mortgages.
"In Massachusetts,however,courts have generally held that MERS may both foreclose and
assign mortgages held in its name:' he wrote.
"Massachusetts, unlike many other states, does
not subscribe to the theory that the mortgage
'follows the note."'
If the mortgage and accompanying note are
separated, the mortgagee holds the mortgage
in trust for the note owner while the note owner still has the right to seek the assignment from
the mortgagee, Hoffman said.
"Unless and until the mortgage is thus assigned, however, the mortgagee retains legal
title to the mortgage, albeit with a fiduciary
duty to act on behalf of the owner of the note
which holds a beneficial interest in the mortgage;' he wrote. "The mortgagee has a fiduciary duty as trustee to act on behalf of the note
owner, but retains title to the mortgage and
has the right to assign the mortgage consistent with that duty:'
Hoffman went on to conclude that state law
allows a mortgagee to foreclose even if it has
no interest in the underlying obligation on the
mortgage. He noted that that right is also disclosed in the debtors' mortgage, which stated
that MERS, as nominee for the lender, holds
only legal title but has the right to foreclose.
As for having a clear chain of title, Hollman
found that "there is no requirement for a separate assignment of the note holder's beneficial
interest in the mortgage. The Massachusetts legal doctrine where a mortgage can and often
does exist on a separate plane from its underlying note reinforces this conclusion:'
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Most medical malpractice lawsuits are not settled or decided in a trial. They are
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A study published today in the journal Health Affairs looked at the outcomes of 3,695
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medical providers between 2006 and 2010. Fifty-nine percent of those claims were simply
abandoned, found author Dwight Golann of the Suffolk University School of Law, far more
than were settled (26 percent) and adjudicated (15 percent).
Golann interviewed malpractice attorneys, who said the most common reason that
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suggests that a required step in treatment was not taken, but a defendant later testifies in
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Most medical malpractice claims are not won or lost in court, as most people think, or settled for money. They simply disappear, abandoned by the plaintiffs who
brought them.
A just-released Health Affairs study of about 4,000 malpractice claims finds that in 46 percent of all cases and in 56 percent of claims against individual doctors,
plaintiffs eventually drop their claims.
This doesn’t happen, however, until the typical case has been pending for almost three years, with defense costs of more than $44,000 and untold aggravation for
patients and doctors.
What causes this? And can anything be done to cure it? The problem is not that most malpractice claims are frivolous. Plaintiff lawyers are paid only if they
recover money, and they know that insurers won’t pay on nuisance claims. Most abandoned claims in the study had gone through their state’s medical malpractice
tribunal, and only 27 percent of those were rejected. There are many reasons why patients and their lawyers drop even a nonfrivolous claim.
Some become frustrated with a long legal process and decide to get on with their lives. Others recover; in a misdiagnosed cancer case, for instance, the disease
might go into remission while the case is pending — good news for the patient but potentially fatal to her claim. And some lawyers don’t do a careful investigation
before they sue — claiming damages for a widow’s loss of companionship, only to learn the couple was contemplating divorce when the husband went into the
hospital.
The most common reason malpractice claims are dropped, however, is because they are so complex. At the outset of a case, often neither side knows key facts or
can predict where the investigation will lead. Unfortunately, the legal system is adversarial and inefficient. Plaintiffs and defendants play “hide the ball,” withholding information from each other and avoiding a
serious discussion about resolution. The result is years of litigation, causing anxiety for both sides and large costs for the medical system.
Patients and doctors have a joint interest in finding a better process. There are models for how this could be done.
Twenty years ago, Toro — maker of lawn mowers and other tools — decided to junk its traditional “deny and defend” approach to personal-injury claims. Instead, it
contacts consumers at the first hint of trouble, investigates incidents informally and offers compensation when it thinks it is appropriate. The company has saved
enormously on defense costs and has also found that claimants are willing to accept lower settlements if compensation is offered quickly and without a hassle.
After five years of the new policy, Toro reported it had saved $50 million.
The University of Michigan’s hospital system takes a similar approach to allegations of medical malpractice. It investigates adverse outcomes, explains its findings
to patients and their lawyers, commits to using what it has learned to improve patient care and, when appropriate, offers fair compensation. If an offer is rejected,
however, plaintiff lawyers know the hospital system will go to trial.
The university’s approach has won credibility with claimants and their lawyers. Plaintiff attorneys no longer make claims as frequently as they did before, and some
say they no longer charge on the basis of how much they recover — the process has become too efficient to justify contingency fees.
Traditionally, insurers have resisted this kind of “cut to the chase.” If the process is anything short of a marathon, they fear, more runners — plaintiffs — will show
up, demanding to be paid on flimsy claims.
Nothing like this has happened, however, either at Toro or at the University of Michigan. After the new policy was adopted, the hospital system’s malpractice claims
declined by 36 percent, and the average cost of resolving a case dropped 44 percent, from $410,000 to $228,000. Some of this improvement is almost certainly
due to the fact that the Michigan system now provides better care — but that’s an even better reason for trying a new approach.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) recently castigated President Barack Obama for not including malpractice reform proposals in his deficit package. But relief for
doctors and patients is available without a legislative prescription. Plaintiff lawyers and insurers need to work together to make it happen.
Dwight Golann is a professor at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. He is the former chief of consumer protection for the Massachusetts attorney general and
a director of a medical malpractice insurance company. The study on which this article is based appears in the July issue of Health Affairs.
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When
Estate
Plans
Fail
Many People Overlook Arcane Issues, from Pets to the Unborn
By SAABlRA CHAUDHURI
In the rush to button down an
estate plan, people often spend
most of their time focusing on
the big questions and overlook
small-but increasingly crucialdetails.
Even the simple question of
who your heirs will be is getting
more complicated. Nowadays
more people are considering
pets-and even children posthumously conceived from genetic
material-in their estate-planning mix, say financial advisers.
That often means setting up
trusts that just a few years ago
would have been unthinkable.
"You can't forget about the
softer side of planning," says
Shari Levitan, head of private
wealth services at Boston-based
Holland & Knight. "Pets are very
real members of the family that
need to be addressed;"
There are 86.4 million cats
and 78.2 million dogs owned in
the U.S., according to the American Pet Products Association.
Michael Markarian, chief operating officer of the Humane Society of the U.S., estimates that
about 400,000 pets a year need
to find new homes because their
owners die.
To ensure your pet receives
proper care after you are gone,
estate planners recommend setting up a formal trust.
Until recently most people set
up simple honorary trusts that
left lump sums to friends or
family members to care for their
pets. But such agreements rely
on people's willingness to honor
your wishes and spend the
money on the pets-a leap of
faith that some pet .owners
aren't willing to take.
There are two types of pet
trusts. A traditional trust, which
is effective in all states, requires
that you designate a trustee who
pays money to your designated
beneficiary so long as he or she
cares for your pet. A statutory
trust, which is authorized in 46
states and the District of Columbia, is a simpler plan in which
state law dictates the details of
how your pet trust is executed.
You can shape your trust to
be either a living trust-which
takes effect immediately-or a
testamentary trust, which kicks
in after you die.
The living trust is more expensive, running anywhere from
$1,500 to $6,000 to set up, say
pet experts Gerry Beyer and
Barry Seltzer, authors of "Fat
Cats and Lucky Dogs." But since
it takes effect right away, it protects you if you are disabled and
unable to care for youI;' pet.
It also is important to leave
behind a list of instructions
about how you would like your
pet to be taken care of: his food
and routine, grooming and medical care, for instance. And of
course check with potential
trustees and beneficiaries to ensure they are happy to take on
these duties.
Another issue people often
overlook when setting up estate
plans: children conceived from
frozen sperm, eggs 01;' embryos
after their death.
Cryopreserving gametes has
long been practiced by cancer
patients before chemotherapy,
by people in the military or
other high-risk occupations, and
by men undergoing vasectomies
who bank their sperm for later
use. Women who undergo in
vitro fertilizlltion may freeze unused embryos for future use.
The number of infants born
from assisted reproductive technology doubled from 1999 to
2008, to 61,426, while the number of clinics offering cryopreservation has increased 18%,
to 436.
As such technologies evolve
and become more widespread,
more states are passing laws defining the inheritance and Social
Security rights of posthumously
conceived children. Earlier this
month, for example, legislation
took effect in Iowa granting
posthumously conceived children the right to participate in
trusts. Texas, Washington, Colorado and North Dakota confer
similar rights.
"There's a lot of buzz in the
estate-planning
community
about this," says Cara Koss, an
attorney at Arnold & Porter in
Washington, noting that reproductive-technology issues are no
longer considered a fringe area.
Teresa Baird, an estate-pla,nning attorney at Fairfield &
Woods in Denver, includes an
item about frozen gametes in
the questionnaire she gives incoming clients.
People also should carefully
consider the consent forms associated with banking sperm, eggs
or embryos that spell out what
happens to this material in case
of death. It is important to make
sure the language matches your
intent, says Carole M. Bass, an
attorney at SNR Denton in New
York.
Estate planners largely have
looked to Social Security survivor-benefitscases for insight on
inheritance ri:ghts for posthumously conceived children-but
such cases offer only vague guidance. "To say the law is ambiguous is an understatement," says
Charles Kindregan, a professor
of law at Suffolk University in
Boston and the co-author of "Assisted Reproductive Technology:
A Lawyer's Guide to Emerging
Law and Science."
Intent-or the lack thereofplayed a key role in the case of
Gayle Burns, the mother of a boy
she had conceived using her husband Michael Burns's frozen
sperm after he died in March
2001. Ms. Burns, a receptionist
in Salt Lake City, has been battling the Social Security Administration for children's insurance
benefits for the boy, now 7 years
old, and mother's insurance for
herself, since 2005. Her case is
now pending before the Utah supreme cOurt.
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CFO OF THE YEAR I LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
By Keith Regan I Special to the Journal
orris McInnes believes his ancestral roots mean he was destined to be a
teacher even as he followed a career path in management and finance that
took him from Texas to London, from Kuwait to Wall Street.
McInnes' father was a college professor and his mother - who at 103 still
"loves a party" in McInnes' hometown of Glasgow, Scotland - is a retired
schoolteacher. "Being an academic is in my blood," said McInnes, 71. "The
nut doesn't fall far from the tree."
Still, his lengthy career in academia came only after a long detour into
management and finance that started when he came to Harvard Business
School on a scholarship and nearly ended not long after when he resigned from a corporate officer
position in London because he could not support the company's financial documents.
A headhunter's call led him to Kuwait in the 1970s
- "a very interesting time," he said - and he later
worked in finance on Wall Street. "I felt something
was missing. I never got that real satisfaction from my
work."
He found that missing piece first at MIT's Sloan
School of Management, where he taught full-time
for 10 years, and then at Suffolk University's Sawyer
Business School, where he has taught both seasoned
mid-career professionals and newly minted freshmen
undergrads as part of a 20-professor teaching team he
assembled as academic dean.
"I'll admit I did fall in love with accounting," said
McInnes, who studied math and physics as an undergraduate in Scotland. "Everyone thinks it's dull and
mundane but it's really the lifeblood of a society. Not
just in the business world. If you think of all the resource allocation that follows from the accounting pro-
cess, it's exciting when you see it from that perspective.
When you get students to realize that it's not just debits and credits, but how it feeds commercial markets,
labor markets and financial markets - that's when it
can come alive to them."
Sawyer School dean and former Polaroid executive
William O'Neill said McInnes' combination of business experience and scholarly knowledge means he
commands respect from students in a post-Enron
world as well as the C-Ievel executives whom he speaks
to on occasion.
"He's able to get a level of engagement going on
where he creates a perfect classroom where students
learn from the teacher and each other and the teacher
is learning as well," O'Neill said. "He has so much energy and enthusiasm."
For his part, McInnes knows the latest financial crisis to rock the global economy probably won't be the
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last. "Every 10 years or so we seem to have some sort
of crisis and very often there's some sort of rampant
greed and incentives being misaligned with social
progress, and that is disappointing," he said. "But the
reassuring thing is we can come out and set things a
little more right."
Accounting, he added, is at its core a "modest practice. It's recording what has actually happened, giving
a good solid account of that. We have to keep our eyes
on what we do well, which is tell how it was."
McInnes plans to step down from his academic dean
duties at the end of the year and will eventually roll
back his teaching and retire to the home he and his
wife built in the upper Connective River valley in New
Hampshire, where he hopes to get more involved in the
community.
Sawyer School Accounting Professor James Cataldo,
who met McInnes while an executive at the Federal
Home Loan Bank of Boston, will be among those carrying his message forward. Cataldo and McInnes coauthored several papers together; the first two won
awards and a third was the first authored by Western
scholars to be published in China's leading accounting
journal.
"I'll admit I have the zeal of the converted," said
Cataldo, who enrolled in a master's in accounting program after meeting McInnes. "There's a need for more
people to be aware of accounting and how rich and interesting a field it is and to acquire that sophistication
because it really is needed to assure a system is working the way it is designed to work."
Cataldo said he owes another debt to Morris as well.
"He introduced me to fine Scotch."
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Morris Mcinnes says at its core, accounting is a "modest practice. It's recording what has actually happened, giving a good solid account of that."
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To be a CFO today, it's more than numbers
...- . .- . here's always been a great debate about
which skill set is more important for CFOs:
a compelling grasp of the hard realities of
finance or the so-called "softer" skills that
relate to people management and long-term
strategy.
Perhaps there's no clear answer, although
this year's crop ofCFO of the Year winners
displays top finance executives who excel in both areas.
Our CFO of the Year program recognizes top financial
talent across many sectors. While challenges of a public
company CFO often are different than those of a nonprofit CFO, for example, there are many key responsibilities
they all share: They manage teams, they manage (in a
way) CEOs, they handle sophisticated banking relationships and they have the special responsibility of trying
to look into the future as they map financial strategy.
But they do more than worry about fiscal fitness and
convoluted accounting standards. They are active in the
community and serve as mentors, displaying leadership
in big ways and small outside of the office.
This year we are honoring a special Bostonian with
the F. Gorham Brigham Lifetime Achievement Award:
He is Morris McInnes, a brilliant teacher of accounting
(most recently as a dean at Suffolk University's Sawyer
Business School) who also has held a fascinating assortment of executive assignments.
One more note: A special thanks to
our judges who selected this year's
CFOs of the Year. They are: Peter
Rockett, Greater Boston Chamber
of Commerce; Philip Shapiro, Babson College; Evelyn Barnes, CityYear; Vic Pierni, Pyxis Mobile; and
Lisa Constantino, EMD Serono.
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McInnes is a professor of Accounting at Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School, specializing
in corporate financial reporting and analysis, corporate financial planning and control, and
multinational financial analysis and control. He also has taught at the Sloan School of
Management, MIT, Harvard Business School and the University of Manchester in the United
Kingdom, where he was director of the PhD program at the Manchester Business School.
“Morris is an extraordinary teacher, due to his research, intellectual rigor, and corporate
experience. His corporate experience has immersed him in the finer points of international
business. He is an asset to the Business School and its students,” said Sawyer Business School
Dean William J. O’Neill, Jr.
“Morris is an extraordinary
teacher, due to his
research, intellectual rigor,
and corporate experience.
His corporate experience
has immersed him in the
finer points of
international business. He
is an asset to the Business
School and its students”
In addition to his longtime career in academia, McInnes has held several positions as a financial
executive in industry, and he has been a member of the boards of several companies in Britain,
the United States and elsewhere. He has served as CFO of a London Stock Exchange company,
and has been involved in buying and selling companies and raising capital in the London, New York and Middle East financial
markets. He ran a financial services business that had more than 300 employees and $6 million in annual earnings. McInnes is a
past president and still active in the activities of the Boston Chapter of Financial Executives International, the preeminent
professional association for corporate finance in the United States and around the world.
McInnes is engaged in research on the design of financial planning and budgetary control systems in large corporate organizations.
His work has been published in several academic and professional journals, including Accounting, Organizations and Society, The
Accounting Review, Management Science , Strategic Management Journal , Journal of International Business Studies, Certified
Accountant , Journal of Management Studies and Accounting and the Public Interest. He has lectured and consulted on corporate
financial strategy and control in the United States, Argentina, Bahrain, China, Canada, India, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom
and several other countries.
He holds an undergraduate degree in physics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and an MBA and PhD from the
Harvard Business School.
With a dual mission of preparing successful leaders in global business and public service, the Sawyer Business School offers fulltime and part-time undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, public administration and health
administration. Suffolk University, located in historic downtown Boston, with an international campus in Madrid, is a comprehensive
global institution distinguished by the teaching and the intellectual contributions of its faculty. Suffolk University offers a wide range
of undergraduate and graduate programs in more than 90 areas of study. Its mission is to provide access to excellence in higher
education to students of all ages and backgrounds, with strong emphasis on diversity. Learn more at www.suffolk.edu/business.
Contacts
Suffolk University
Greg Gatlin, 617-573-8428 (office)
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or
Mariellen Norris, 617-573-8450 (office)
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McCain tweets his support for Buddy Hoerner
During Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. Buddy R()emer was
definitely McCain's buddy, traveling with him, advising him and, sometimes, acting as his surrogate. When the former Louisiana governor
announced his own candidacy for president last week in New Hampshire
- a state that was very, very good for McCain - the Arizona senator
issued a supportive tweet: "Best of luck to@BuddyRoemeronhiscampaign - an old friend and a great American."
Son's soccer plays earn
donation for Roemer
Jim Nelson, the longtime director
of athletics at Suffolk University in
Boston, was among the folks who
contributed $100 to Buddy Roemer's
presidential campaign, the largest contribution that Roemer will
accept. Asked about why he gave,
Nelson said he figured he owed it
to Roemer. "His son Dakota played
soccer at Suffolk and that was the
least I could do for the contributions Dakota made to our soccer
team, which were substantial. He
was quite a valuable player."
Coastal restoration bill
spurred 'magical moments'
When Gulf Coast senators unveiled
legislation last week that would
dedicate at least 80 percent of the
BP oil spill penalty money to coastal restoration, Sen. Barbara Boxer,
D-Calif., who chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee,
described how close to failure the
effort to craft a bill that would satisfy all five Gulf states had come.
But, she said, "When I was about to
give up," Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.,
"called me at home at night and
said, 'Sorry to call so late, but I still
think there is some life left in this.
I talked to (Florida's Republican
Sen.) Marco Rubio and he's going to
work with (Florida's Democratic
Sen.) Bill (Nelson),' and then one
night it's (Alabama Republican
Sen.) 'Jeff Sessions is good and (Mississippi Republican Sen. (Roger)
Wicker is with us,' and then we had
a last-minute issue with Texas." But
a deal was struck, which led Boxer
to wax poetic: "A lot of times we're
ready to give up on this place,
because we are each passionate
about why we're here and who we
represent and what we're fighting
for. But what keeps me in this is
the fact that every once in a while,
these magical moments happen
... we find the sweet spot where
people can come together just to
give a little, get a little, go back and
forth and come up with a solution."
News photographers resent
White House scoops
Politico ran a story last week
describing tensions between the
White House and news photographers over the White House use
of the online photo site Flickr to
post official pictures of events that
news photographers don't have
access to - most famously the
image of President Barack Obama
and his national security team
in the Situation Room watching
the live video of the mission to
get Osama bin Laden. According to
Politico, news photographers say
the Obama "press offices uses its
Flickr page too often to control
images and circumvent news coverage." The same could be said of
the White House blog, which sometimes gets the exclusive scoop on
seemingly newsworthy stories that
the White House has barred overage of. Case in point was the July
15 visit to the White House of Ruby
Bridges, to visit with the president
and see the Norman Rockwell painting of her, at the age of 6, integrating New Orleans' William Frantz
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Elementary School, which now
hangs outside the Oval Office. No
coverage was allowed, and on her
way into the meeting with the president, Bridges, her husband and
son were told they couldn't bring a
camera in with them. Bridges was
also told that she and her foundation should not do their own press
release. The White House never
issued any release or photo of
the event, but at 6:54 that Friday
evening, a post written by White
House curator William Allman under
the headline "President Obama
Meets Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges" went up on the White House
blog, complete with a brief video
of Bridges' encounter with the
president.
Morial tells Obama: Don't
sacrifice the vulnerable
As President Barack Obama negotiates a package of budget cuts
demanded by Republicans as part
of any debt extension bill, some
liberal Democrats and civil rights
leaders fear he'll give up too much.
Last week, two of the nation's top
civil rights leaders, National Urban
League President Marc Morial, the
former New Orleans mayor, and Ben
Jealous, president of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, delivered that message directly to the president. "We
emphasized that no steps should be
taken that's gOing to cost the nation
jobs," Morial said. "No steps should
be taken that's going to force vulnerable Americans to pay the cost
of a debt reduction plan." Morial
said the president "nodded his
head" in response. In a statement, a
White House spokesman repeated
the president's argument that any
debt reduction plan must include
shared sacrifice and that the deficit
should be addressed in a way that
doesn't unfairly burden any segment of society.
Rand: No money trail
for disaster assistance
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A plan to
keepwomen
outofprison
Although many of the fonner
inmates share similar problems of mental illnesses, lack
ofjob skills and the burden of
alcohol or drug abuse, there is
no one-size-fits all solution.
W
omen released from MCI-Framingham often face grim
prospects, stepping onto a
carousel of homelessness, drug or alcohol abuse, mental illness and committing
petty crimes or selling sex for money,
A report released this week by two Sllf.folk University professors found the vast
majority ofthe 839 women released
from prison in 1995 were addicts, mentally ill and, in many cases, victims of
abuse before being incarcerated. Having
a criminal record is only one of their
problems. Most cycle through periods of
living on the street or in shelters, often
brief and ineffective detox or rehabilitation programs, insufficient post-release
supervision and ajob market for which
they have no skills.
The women studied by Suffolk sociology professors Susan Sered and Maureen
Norton-Hawk "utilize a bewildering
number of public services: clinics, hospitals, shelters, job training and job readiness programs, detoxification, rehabilitation programs, transitional assistances,
soup kitchens, etc.," the report says. Although many of the former inmates
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cohol or drug abuse, there is no one-sizefits all solution. In fact, recommendations
in the report are complex to deal with
the many layers of baggage these women
carry.
The study's authors deserve praise for
focusing on one group of women released from the prison in the same year,
in an effort to see trends in behavior both positive and destructive.
Among the recommendations:
>- More education oflocal police and
public officials about the population of
homeless women, addicts and sex workers. "Understanding that they are as
likely to be victims as perpetrators can
help the women stay out of dangerous
situations as well as out of prison."
>- Encourage correctional and social service institutions to examine rules and
policies "that may unnecessarily limit
the women's sense of autonomy and empowerment" since there's strong evidence "showing the therapeutic and
functional importance of empowerment
for trauma victims."
>- Create more stable housing, which
would benefit many women by giving
them stability, autonomy and support.
Stable housing also increases the likelihood continuing programs such as treatment for addiction or mental illness will
succeed.
>- Encourage programs that teach
women parenting skills and provide services for new mothers.
>- And improve the network of detox and
rehab programs, including development
oflong-term residential rehab programs.
The study admits that "paid employment in the mainstream economy is a
noble goal" but not realistic for many of
these former prisoners. The recommendations call for creation of volunteer opportunities, in return for a stipend, to encourage development of self-esteem
through helping others.
The state and local social service agencies are trying to address many of the
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Ex-cons struggle to find jobs, homes
>- Suffolk University study
tracks women released
from Mel-Framingham
By Danielle Ameden
DAILY NEWS STAFF
FRAMINGHAM - The chaotic cycle
starts when women are sent to prison
for relatively petty crimes. More than
likely, they're addicts, mentally ill or
victims of abuse.
Upon release, many struggle to find
work and housing. They eat at soup
kitchens and may alternate between
sleeping at shelters and under bridges.
Taxpayer-funded services set up to
help, fail them. They're poor and sick,
and positioned to be further victimized
and become repeat offenders.
Two Suffolk University sociology professors describe that dilemma in a new
report that looks at women and the
state's criminal justice landscape.
The researchers have released preliminary findings after studying public
records on the 839 women released
from MCI-Framingham in 1995. They
have also met since 2008 with 27
women who have struggled after being
released from prison more recently.
"What always amazes me is how resilient in some ways these women are,"
co-author Maureen Norton-Hawk said
yesterday. "I look at their lives and
wonder how well I would survive given
the hurdles that they have.
"They made a mistake, they paid
the price for making a mistake," she
said. "The hurdles that they face are
pretty formidable."
Preliminary findings from the study
on the prisoners released in 1995 show
that 74 percent were released to the
street. Their median age was 32.
Of the 839 women released, at least
97, or 12 percent, are now dead.
Researchers are working to collect
more data on these women and to track
where they were in five-year intervals
through 2009, Norton-Hawk said.
The second study under way is based
on personal stories of 27 women who recently served time at MCI-Framingham
and South Bay House of Corrections.
Preliminary findings show that many
of the same women cycle through being
homeless, sex workers or petty drug
dealers, prison inmates, residents of
mental hospitals and victims of violence.
"Consequently," the report reads,
"they sequentially and repeatedly utilize services, programs and facilities
geared towards each of these categories: battered women's shelters,
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homeless shelters, prisons, jails,
rehabilitation facilities, detoxification facilities, respite care ...
hospitals and public housing."
The state says it is aware of
the problem and provides comprehensive services to inmates
to try to reduce the rate of how
many of those released end up
back behind bars.
"We are aware that there are
many challenges and that
women come in with a unique
set of circumstances," said
Diane Wiffin, spokeswoman for
the Department of Corrections.
"That's why it's good to do this
research and find out more
about this population."
She said two-thirds of women
now at MCI-Framingham are
mentally ill.
In Framingham, the South
Middlesex Opportunity Council
says it is debunking the report's
preliminary findings with a successful program that helps incarcerated women transition
back into society.
"The most important element
in this is housing," said SMOC
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adcling that work force training
is also important.
The most recent program
statistics show that 83 of 166
women enrolled in the selfsufficiency program were
deemed to be successful program graduates.
Meeting the needs of these
troubled women is a challenge,
said Ken Bates, director of behavioral health services at Advocates Inc. in Framingham,
"especially with there being cutbacks with social services and
programs, whether it's education or health care."
Advocates runs a re-entry
substance abuse program with
the Parole Board.
Norton-Hawk and fellow soci-
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ology professor Susan Sered call
for an improved network of
detoxification and rehabilitation
programs, a medical caseworker/advocate for each woman
and a hotline for women to get
information on obtaining shelters, food, medical assistance
and other urgent services.
(Danielle Ameden can be
reached at 508-626-4416 or
[email protected].)
"They made a mistake,
they paid the price for
making a mistake. The
hurdles that they face
are pretty formidable."
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7/26/2011
Economics Professor and Department
Chair David Tuerck testified on the
FairTax before the House Ways and
Means Committee on July 26 in
Washington D.C.
The committee was hearing
testimony about alternative tax
systems as Congress and the White
House battled over the debt limit and
David Tuerck
how to address government spending
over the long term.
Tuerck, executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute, and
Boston University Economics Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff
presented research about the option of a single-rate federal
retail sales tax. This tax would replace the federal income tax.
The two economists said that their proposed sales tax would be
a progressive tax; taxpayers would no longer file federal tax
returns; and government compliance costs would be
significantly reduced.
“Compared with the existing federal tax system, the FairTax is
a sure winner,” according to the testimony. “It’s more efficient,
equitable, transparent, sustainable, and growth-and-jobs
oriented. It will help revitalize investment, and with it, expand
our economy, create jobs and bring in new revenues.”
Tuerck argued for the FairTax in a July 19 Op-ed in the Boston
Globe, A fair solution to the budget crisis.
He also appeared before a congressional subcommittee in June,
discussing project labor agreements.
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In House, Huckabee touts 'fair tax'
ALEX DANIELS
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
WASHINGTON - Forget
about the April 15 tax deadline
and abolish the Internal Revenue Service, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told
a House panel Tuesday.
Instead, said Huckabee, a
Republican, Americans should
pay their share at the cash register by scrapping the federal
tax code in favor of a national
sales tax.
Appearing on a panel with
economists and tax experts,
Huckabee, a former presidential candidate turned media
personality, said a consumption tax would be a lot simpler
than the current tax structure.
"There are very few people
in the country who understand all 67,000 pages of the
tax code," Huckabee told the
panel. "It's very convoluted."
However, others said such
a plan would invite fraud and
benefit the rich at the expense
of the poor and elderly.
Huckabee's pitch came during the ninth hearing held this
year by the House Ways and
Means Committee to discuss
comprehensive changes to the
tax code.
Huckabee calls his plan the
"fair tax." Essentially, it would
set a 23 percent tax rate on all
goods and services - wiping
out income and corporate taxes
and disallowing all deductions
such as the mortgage interest
deduction.
For years, economists have
floated similar proposals, such
as a "value-added" tax, which
would tax consumption rather than income. Under such
a plan, taxes would be levied
at various stages as products
are produced, ending with a
fmal tax at the point of sale. A
Government Accounting Office report estimates that more
than 130 countries use a valueadded tax.
Critics said shifting to a national sales tax would hit poor
people hard while lowering
the amount of tax paid by the
wealthy.
Bruce Bartlett, a columnist
for Tax Notes, a trade publication, slammed the sales-tax
plan.
He said older people would
see their savings, accumulated
over the years, hit by a big
tax burden when they spend
in their retirement. And poor
people, who have a difficult
time paying for basic necessities as it is, would spend a disproportionate amount of their
disposable income on taxes.
"The burden is borne by
consumption" under a national
sales tax, Bartlett said. "People
with low incomes consume
virtually all of their income."
Huckabee and other national sales-tax advocates argue that taxes on income provide people with an incentive
to spend right away to avoid
having savings and investments taxed. Under a sales tax,
savings and investments would
not be taxed.
To make the plan more
progressive, Huckabee envisions the use of a "pre bate"
- a monthly payment sent to
individuals based on their income - to soften the blow of
taxes on the cost of consumer
goods.
Bartlett, who sat on the
same panel as Huckabee, called
the plan a "pie-in-the-sky" proposal.
He said the "prebates" envisioned in the plan would total
$800 billion a year, making it
the largest entitlement program offered by the federal
government. He said allowing
people to use their Social Security cards to sign up for the
benefit would invite fraud. He
suggested that such a system
would encourage a black market for some products.
Under the existing system,
the Internal Revenue Service
collects about 120 million tax
returns, David Tuerck, executive director of the Beacon Hill
Institute, a research group affiliated with Suffolk University
in Boston tliat advocates for
limited government and free
markets. Under a national sales
tax, he said, cash registers at
700,000 points of sale already
programmed to collect state
sales taxes would collect the
federal tax.
The Retail Industry Leaders
Association, a trade group that
counts Wal-Mart Stores Inc. as
one of its members, is opposed
to a national sales tax.
While not explicitly supporting Huckabee's proposal,
US. Rep. Tim Griffin and US.
Sen. John Boozman, both Republicans from Arkansas, said
they are open to the plan.
US. Rep. Rick Crawford, a
Republican from Arkansas, opposes it. Rep. Steve Womack,
also a Republican from Arkansas, did not respond to inquiries.
In 2010, Arkansas' US. Sen.
Mark Pryor and then-Sen.
Blanche Lincoln, both Democrats, joined 83 other senators
in voting in favor of a "sense of
the Senate" measure that called
a value-added tax "a massive
tax increase that will cripple
families on a fixed income and
only further push back America's economic recovery."
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David G. Tuerck is executive director
A fair solution
to the budget crisis
By David G. Therck
EGOTIATIONS OVER the
federal debt limit are
stalled over whether to
provide for spending cuts
alone or to combine spending cuts
with revenue increases. Just as Democrats think that fairness requires
revenue increases, Republicans
think they must stand fast against
such increases in order to protect the
economy from further decline. But
there is a way to cut spending and
increase revenues while stimulating
the economy - by junking the entire
federal tax code and putting a consumption tax in its place.
There are few principles on
which economists agree, but one is
that taxes on income discriminate
against saving, whereas taxes on
consumption do not. Because saving
is necessary to fuel investment and,
with it, economic growth andjob
creation, the replacement of existing
income and payroll taxes with a
consumption tax would provide the
economic stimulus that everyone
wants. And because consumption is
less volatile than income overthe
course of the economic cycle, a consumption tax would reduce the
vulnerability of the federal budget to
deficits of the kind that we have
suffered over the last three years.
Consider the proposed FairTax. It
would replace all federal income and
payroll taxes with a single tax on
consumption. The tax would be set
at 23 percent of the ''tax-inclusive''
price of every consumer good.
In order to make the tax truly
"fair;' the law would provide every
household with a monthly check
equal to the tax it would pay if its
income were at the poverty level.
This "prebate" feature helps to make
sure that the tax burden would be
lowest on households that spend the
least and highest on households that
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chairman and professor of
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spend the most.
In 2010, the revenues from taxes
that the FairTax would replace came
to $1.975 trillion. But suppose that
Congress had replaced those taxes
with the FairTax. The government
would have collected $2.188 trillion
in FairTax revenue, $213 billion
more than it actually collected from
existing sources.
How would this miracle have
been possible? Because consumption
taxes typically yield more revenue
than other taxes during downturns,
the FairThx would have automatically cushioned the deficit against the
downturn still under way last year.
And that's not all. Because the FairThx would bring about a rise in
production andjob creation by
stimulating investment, it would it
yield even more impressive revenue
enhancements in the future. And
this in tum, would yield further
red~ctions in the deficit and make it
easier to avoid further cuts in spending.
By agreeing to adopt the FairThx
now, the president and congressional Democrats could say that they
considered spending cuts only after
finding a way to increase revenues.
And congressional Republicans
could say that they got spending cuts
only by accepting a revenue increase
that benefited the economy. Progressives and Tea Partiers alike would be
accommodated, the crisis over the
debt ceiling would pass, and the
economy would grow.
Fundamental tax reform seems to
be temporarily off the table because
of the debt ceiling crisis. But, in fact,
one form of fundamental tax reform
presents itself as the solution to that
crisis. The FairTax commands broad
grassroots support and offers the
political cover that the president and
Congress need in order to come to
agreement. The idea is sitting there,
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Editor's note: As part of next week's National Urban League
Conference, UMASS-BostOIl is scheduled to release its "State
of Black Boston 2010 Report. " Sponsored by the Urban
League ofEnstern Massachusetts alld the Bostoll branch ofthe
NAACp, the report illcludes a section 011 Civic Ellgagement.
Here is an excerpt.
Special Report -
State of Black Boston
Howard Manly
At the annual St. Patrick's Day
roast of Boston politicians, the a{r
was rife with discontent among the
Democratic faithful. There was
good reason. Little known state
Sen. Scott Brown had just scored a
stunning upset
to claim the
U.S. Senate
seat left vacant
by the death of
Ted Kennedy.
Underneath
the laughter and
good-natured
ribbing was the
very real possibility that Deval
Patrick, a close
political ally of
U.S. President
Barack Obama,
could lose the
upcoming gubernatorial
election. Some
of the faithful doubted
whether Patrick's grassroots message of "Together we can" could overcome
the global recession and its impact
on the local economy. And some
blacks were whispering that Patrick
had not done enough to reduce the
high black unemployment rate or
increase diversity within state government.
But on this day, when scripted
jokes were the traditional currency,
Patrick had something else in mind
during his tum at the podiwn.
After delivering a quick ba-dabing punchline on the campaign's
three candidates - "tall, dark and
handsome," Patrick took direct aim
at one of his two opponents: state
treasurer Tim Cahill.
It was \\idely believed at the time
that Cahill!; cJ~didacy would siphon
off votes from Republican candidate
Charlie Baker and thus enable Patrick to squeak out a win.
In fact, and in keeping with the
tradition of an
Irish roast, state
Senate President Therese
Murray held
up mock cover
photos of the
books several
Massachusetts
politicians were
writing, including one by Patrick. "How I got
re-elected" was
the title, Murray
quipped, and on
the cover was a
huge headshot
of Cahill.
Given those
'strange politics, Patrick's
jab was a bit
out-of-place and sounded more
appropriate out on the campaign
trail. But as far as Patrick was concerned, he was on the campaign
trail. The state pension fund had
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lost millions under Cahill's leadership, Patrick pointed out, and
the state Lottery had never made
its revenue goals since he began as
governor in 2007.
"To be governor," Patrick
deadpanned in what he later explained as an unscripted line, " ...
at a minimum, you have to know
how to count."
The response from the audience
Citizen, continued to pnge 20
of 700, many of whom where there
to laugh, was inunediate.
First a munnur, then silence.
\Vithout a doubt, Patrick has
made a lot of folks quiet. He can
also count. His political appeal cut
across all racial, ethnic and class
lines in a state wbere Democrats
outnumber Republicans by a three
to one margin - 37 percent of
registered voters are Democrats,
12 percent are Republicans and 51
percent are unaffiliated.
Not since 1966 when Republican Edward \ V. Brooke III became
the first African Anlerican to be
elected by popular vote to the U.S.
Senate had an African Anlerican
politician done as well in Massachusetts. But unlike Brooke's landslide
win that saw him earn 60.7 percent
of the vote to Democratic Endicott
Peabody's 38.7 percent, Patrick won
by the thinnest of margins.
In 2010, the margin was
147,417 votes. Patrick earned a
total of 1,112,283 or about 48 percent. Baker came in second with
964 ,866 votes or 41 percent. Cahill
pulled in 184,395 total votes - or
more than the difference between
Patrick and Baker. Given the state's
significant block of independent
voters, no one can argue with any
certainty that Cahill's campaign
vaulted Patrick back into the governor's office - even factoring the
nearly 40,000 votes earned by perennial Green party candidate Jill
Stein. But it certainly helped.
Patrick's win took on national
implications - and established a
new local standard. \Vith the exception of Brooke, no other Afri-
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can American politician has had
a predominantly white statewide
constituency. While that suggests
a transfonnation in white voter attitudes, it certainly has new ramifications for black voters, especially those more inclined to vote
for candidates more outspoken on
matters of race.
Like Brooke, Patrick did not
make race an issue during his two
campaigns, a fact that at least Brooke
thought was the right strategy.
Asked what African Americans
should expect from Patrick, Brooke
replied: "I think they expect him to
be a governor for all the people in
Massachusetts, which includes African Americans, Hispanics and
Caucasians. That's all they can
expect and hope for. If otherwise,
he won't be there long, nor should
he be there long. That was what he
was elected to do, to represent the
people - all of the people."
Beyond cynicism
Very few question Patrick's
"blackness." But legitimate questions are raised on whether Patrick's multi-billion dollar commitment to the state bio-tech and
"green" industries will have a significant impact on minority neighborhoods plagued with poor academicperfonnance and high crime.
Others wonder what trickle down
effect will be gained in Roxbury or
Dorchester by giving state tax credits to Hollywood film lTt!ws.
'Ii) he sure, Patrick has done a
better job of hiring and appointing
blacks to the Statehouse, most notably Roderick Ireland, the state's
new ChiefJustice of the Supreme
Judicial Court, than previous administrations. I Ie also maintained
consistent funding to such longstanding educati on and social
progran~s at Roxbury's Freedom
House and METCO. And Patrick readily admits he doesn't do
a good job of trumpeting his accomplishments in gaining passage
of an ethics reform bill or adopting a new law revamping the state's
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But despite such major local accomplishments, Patrick's re-e1ection was seen more as a repudiation
of the national republican
resurgence, not the result of
Boston black political power.
Against a backdrop of global
economic recession and political uncertainty, it was the
one affirmation to a disastrous referendum on the first
two years of Obama's presidency.
Patrick's win was all the more impressive in a state where blacks are
only 5.4 percent of the population.
That Patrick led in the polls
throughout the campaign over
both Republican hopeful Baker and
independent Cahill was no small
matter either, particularly considering the noisy Tea Party Express
movement that supported Brown
and other conservative candidates
across the country. Making things
worse, the Republican Governors
Association pumped $2 million
in an advertising blitz to support
Baker and paint Patrick as another
tax-and-spend liberal in one of the
nation's bluest of states.
"Patrick has defied the laws of
political gravity," wrote the Boston
Glohe's Brian Mooney. "Patrick
was not a popular incumbent. But
he was bv far the more skillful candidate, a~d he ran the hetter campaign ... \\'hen Baker failed to
say where he would make specific
p;ogram cuts in his drastic downsizing platform, Patrick filled in
the blanks for voters, saying they
would corne in education, health
care and aid to cities and towns.
As it turned out, Brown's surprising win was the best thing to happen
to Patrick. It forced him early on to
secure his base of black and Latino
voters, the ones that didn't show up
for state Attorney General Martha
Coakley during her embarrassing
campaif,TJ1 against Brm\TI.
During that special election
on Jan. 19, Coakley won the black
vote in Boston - 94.9 percent in
\Vard 12 and 99.4 percent in \Vard
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14 - but the turnout was meager in
the city's two most minority voting
distri~. Only 34.9 percent of voters
went to the polIs in \ Yard 12 and 32.6
percent in \Vard 14. The statewide
turnout was 53 percent. "A greater
turnout by blacks in Boston would
not have won the day for Coakley,"
opined the Bay State Banner, "but a
more assertive campaign in minority areas across the state could have
~ade a difference.
Out of 2,253,727 votes cast,
Brown pulled 51.8 percent while
Coakley earned 47 percent. Only
a total of 107,317 votes separated
the two.
Coakley should have known her
support among African Americans
was weak after the preliminary
election. Blacks votell decisivelv
for U.S. Rep. ,\lichael Capuano. I~
\Vard 12, Capuano had 50.4 percent of the vote compared to 29.2
percent for Coakley. In \Vard 14,
Capuano had 48.7 percent with
32.9 percent for Coakley.
Patrick did not make that mistake - nor did he take the black
vote - or any vote - for granted.
As he saw it, the biggest problem,
regardless of race - was voter
disenchantment. The acute frustration within black communities
underscored the rise of cynicism across the state -'and
as seen in the Coakley election, all too often translated
to voters staying horne on
Election Day. But he tapped
into that political vein in a
razor sharp and racially neutral way.
To that, Patrick was on point
during a campaign stop at ~
University. "\Ve are awash in cynicism in the Commonwealth:but
the cynical are not smart; they're
just pretending to be," Patrick said
during his prepared remarks. "The
truth is, we've got big problems,
and we better start thinking big
about the solutions. Ideological
purity from the left or the right, in
times like these, is like trying to put
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a Band-Aid on a broken bone."
He added: "The chance to
bring real and lasting reform for
our schools, our economy and our
communities is right in front of us.
All that is missing is our willingness
to put aside the tired, cynical habits
of Massachusetts public discourse
and get down to business."
In his 2010 "State of the State
Address," delivered just two days
;lfter Brown's U.S. Senate win,
Patrick said he understood the
anger among voters and nonvoters alike. "Be angry," Patrick
said. "but channel it in a positive
direction. It's easy to be against
something. It takes tough-mindedness and political courage to be
for something."
His story alone offered a clear
example of what was possible - in
spite of overwhelming odds. The
53-year-old married father of two
daughters rose from childhood
poverty, attended Massachusetts'
prestigious Milton Academy, Harvard College and Harvard Law on
scholarship, and served in the Clinton administration Justice Department. After a corporate law career,
he made his first bid for elective
office in 2006 with the help of Chicago political consultants David
Axelrod and David Plouffe, who
would go on to run Obama's 2008
presidential campaign.
Patrick didn't need the job. But
he became Massachusetts' first African American to be elected governor in the state, the second in
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the United States since Reconstruction. "As a first time - and at
first little known - candidate in
2006," the Globe wrote, " ... [Patrick] captured the states imagination by transforming mundane
issued into big, bold themes with
powerful emotional resonance."
In seeking re-election, Patrick
cast his campaign not as a quest
for personal accomplishment, but
as repayment for his free education. "I'm grateful, and all I'm
trying to do is give back the same
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Challenges remain
At any other time or place,
his story would be considered
the most significant in the evolution of black politics in Boston.
But this is not any other time or
place. What is so problematic
about proclaiming success to one
notable achiever is that so many
are still lagging behind in every
economic indicator, including
such long-standing problems as
health and economic prosperity.
To those problems seem a longlitany of government policies and
nonprofit programs, but little
new in actual results or changes
in direction.
What has become increasingly
part of the civic dialogue is the intractability of some of the city's
most chronic problems - blackon-black crime, low academic
performance, high incarceration
rates, low home and business
ownership - and the seemingly
impossibility of finding longterm, systematic solutions.
Its as if the headlines had not
changed for the overwhelming
majority of blacks in the last 75
years. In fact, the National Negro
Congress (NNC) petitioned U.S.
Congress in 1935 and bemoaned
the status of blacks ofthe day.
In "A new crisis confronts the
negro people," the NNC wrote,
"Today, the whole of the United
States faces the crisis of mass unemployment, lower standards of
living, hunger and misery. For Negroes this crisis shakes the foundation of their social and economic
existence in the nation. For them
six years of depression have meant
an intolerable douhle exploitation
both as Negroes and as workers ...
"Even so-called negro jobs
are no lon~er available," the petition conti~ued. "Unemployment
spreads, and in ever section of the
nation the Negro is fast becoming
a jobless race.
The same could be written
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today. Complicating matters
at least in Boston - is not only
finding common ground among
Irish, Italians and Dominicans
but also among Black Brahmins,
transplanted southerners and immigrants from African and Caribbean nations. In Boston, the tens
of thousands of new arrivals from
Africa and the Caribbean have
made possible the creation of service advocacy or social organizati~ns based 'on national origin,
and, in the case of immigrant Africans, ethnicity or even home
village. Low-powered radio stations, or dellicated radio or cable
TV programs, speak for and to
the black immigrant communities, sometimes in languages that
native born blacks cannot comprehend, like Haitian creole.
Historically, city and state
politics have provided a glue to
bridge the ethnic, religious and
class fault lines - as have civil
rights organizations such as the
Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts and the Boston chapter of the NAACP. But those
community agencies and political offices have also found their
influence dwindling, partly the
result of low memberships, low
voter turnouts and perceived ineffectiveness. The Black Church
remains strong, but is divided
over the issue of homosexualit\"
prompting a decline in leadership
on broader civil rights issues such
as gay marriage or public health
policies aimed at reducing the
spread ofHIV/AIDS throughout
minority communities.
The stakes are high. In Boston,
as one analyst observed, the cost
of disunity and disengagement can
be seen in Brown's U.S, Senate
win. "For black immigrants, the
republican's win probably means
the undocumented can forget
about a path to U.S. citizenship
or amnesty, which Brown opposes, anytime soon," Pulitizer
Prize-winning journalist Ken-
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neth J. Cooper wrote in a recent
edition of the Trotter Review.
"That means fewer black voters in
Boston, and perhaps a longer wait
for a black mayor to finally move
into City Hall."
Patricks win
took on national
implications and established
a new local
standard.
Massachusetts state Treasurer Tim Cahill (r), who ran for governot and state Sen. Jack Hart D·Boston (I), held up a poster with the superimposed head of current Gov. Deval
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UNIVERSITY CHOSEN FOR INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP
7/21/2011
Suffolk University has been selected to participate in the 2012
India Initiative of the International Academic Partnership
Program, which aims to increase higher education connections
between U.S. and Indian institutions.
The University was chosen for the partnership initiative based
on “demonstrated support from both administration and faculty,
commitment to increasing internationalization on campus, and
stalwart desire to foster a partnership with an Indian
institution,” according to Allan E. Goodman, president and CEO
of the Institute of International Education, which oversees the
program.
Collaborative research & teaching
The program offers a series of training activities focused on
implementing and sustaining partnerships with institutions in
India. A study tour to India will allow Suffolk University officials
will meet with potential partner campuses to investigate
student exchanges or faculty linkages for collaborative research
and teaching.
“We are excited at the prospect of pursuing additional
collaborations with colleagues in India through participation in
the 2012 International Academic Partnership Program,” said
Suffolk University Acting President and Provost Barry Brown.
“Our students and faculty will welcome opportunities to engage
with their Indian counterparts. We have much to learn from
one another.”
Plans for Washington D.C. summit
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Delhi recently
for the second U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue, and the two
governments are working on plans for a U.S.-India Higher
Education Summit to be held in Washington D.C. later this year
to follow up on the Obama-Singh Summit of 2009. The event
will bring hundreds of educational institutes together from both
countries to discuss a number of topics, including increasing
the number of U.S. students who study in India and the
number of Indians studying in the United States.
“Higher education is an important area of the strategic
partnership between the United States and India because of its
impact on fostering collaboration on critical issues that we face
today,” said IIE President Allan E. Goodman. “This new phase
of the International Academic Partnership Program and the
strong group of campuses will strengthen the educational ties
between our two nations and pave the way for students from
both countries to gain important international perspective. We
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aim to support the Obama-Singh goal to advance the U.S.India global partnership for the benefit of their countries, for
peace, stability and prosperity in Asia, and for the betterment
of the world.”
Students at Suffolk University hail from more than 100
countries, and the institution has a campus in Madrid in
addition to its home campus in Boston. Students at the
University’s Law School, the Sawyer Business School, and the
College of Arts and Sciences study and make connections
globally through international educational agreements and
partnerships maintained by the institution.
Suffolk University is one of 10 U.S. institutions chosen to
participate in the 2012 program, an initiative developed with
support by the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the
Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
The sponsoring organization, the Institute of International
Education, grew out of an effort to promote understanding
among nations after World War I.
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CONNECTIONS 2 COLLEGE STUDENTS MEET GOV. PATRICK
7/21/2011
A group of Boston high school students attending the sixweek Connections 2 College program had the opportunity to
meet Gov. Deval Patrick and hear him speak.
The Museum of African American History hosted an interview
and book signing with Patrick at the University's C. Walsh
Theatre, where he discussed his recently released memoir, A
Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life.
“It really is a book of lessons,” said Patrick. “It’s about the folk
who taught me things that have been motivational for me.”
Twenty students, like Patrick before them, are seeking
motivation through education. They are living on Suffolk
University's campus as part of the Connections 2 College
summer enrichment program, which prepares low-income and
first-generation college aspirants for higher education.
They listened to a leader who went from his native Chicago to
Milton Academy in Massachusetts after receiving a scholarship.
He went on to earn degrees from Harvard College and Harvard
Law School, to success in the legal profession, and to election
as the first black governor of Massachusetts.
Suffolk University has partnered with the Bird Street
Community Center in the Connections 2 College campus
program, which includes a paid work experience, since 2005.
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Program's students aim for college
Academy targets
fifth -graders
By Akilah Johnson
GLOBE STAFF
Instead of enjoying the summer
sun yesterday, a group of soon-to-be
fifth-graders crowded into ~
University lecture halls and built
houses out of straws.
After lunch, they tested the structural integrity of their designs with
marshmallows and hoped the weight
would not make their houses collapse. But these kids do not mind
spending the time practicing their geometry skills.
"I want to prove that I can do
much more than I can already;' said
10-year-old Kasey Castillo, a student
at Edison K-8 School in Brighton and
a member of the inaugural class of the
College Success Academy.
The academy is an offshoot of
Steppingstone Academy, a 14-month
program that prepares students to
pass private school entrance tests as
well as exams for certain Boston public schools. But the goal of the new
initiative is to help students in the district earn college degrees by working
with them from fifth grade until they
graduate.
Kasey said he gets good grades
when he is in class but admits to missing a lot of school last year, which
hurt him academically.
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"I hope this will help," he
said. "I want to go to college and
get a scholarship to like Harvard
because I know it's the best college in the world."
The initiative kicked off this
week with 50 students from
Edison and the Jackson-Mann
K-8, also in Brighton, that are
part of the pilot program.
"I am so unbelievably proud
of you," Steppingstone founder
Michael Danziger said as he
beamed at the students. "Here it
is an unbelievably sunny day,
and you guys are here going to
school so you can what?"
"Go to college!" the students
yelled in response.
The free, college-prep program starts in the summer with
six weeks of intense learning at
Suffolk and continues during the
school year on the respective K-8
campuses with after-school and
Saturday courses. Students are
selected based on need and
interest, not necessarily academic performance.
"You'll see students across the
whole gamut," said Yully Cha,
Steppingstone's executive vice
president of programs. "We
wanted to look at such things as:
How are they doing in school,
test scores so far, what do their
teachers have to say? We're looking for families that might not
have access to a program like
this because of finances;'
Brighton was chosen as the
site for the pilot program because organization leaders said
they wanted a geographic location where students were likely
to attend elementary, middle,
and high school in the same
area.
At Suffolk, four lecture halls
are transformed into elementary
school classrooms each day from
about 8 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. On
the walls are brightly colored
"Welcome" posters representing
the more than 10 languages spoken by the diverse group of students, including Khmer, Bengali,
and Portuguese.
Most of the students are boys,
nearly all come from low-income
families, and about half are still
learning English. Each day, they
get a double-dose of math and
reading, where they study core
math skills, fiction and nonfiction writing, and reading comprehension. They also learn science and have a study skills
course where they learn about
time management and setting
goals.
Fridays are hands-on learning
days, better known as field trips.
Tomorrow, they are headed to
the Institute of Contemporary
Art, a place few of the students
have visited.
But exposure is part of the
academy experience and a reason why the summer sessions
are housed at a university. Academy organizers say it is important for students to know what it
feels like to be on a real college
campus.
"They need to understand
that college is completely within
their reach," said Barry Brown,
acting president and provost at
Suffolk, which is allowing the
academy to use the space at no
cost.
While only about 35.5 percent of overall Boston public
school graduates earn four-year
college degrees, about 80 percent of the Steppingstone scholars do, said the Steppingstone
Foundation, which is overseeing
the academy.
When asked what university
she wants to attend, 11-year-old
Ty-Kierah Gaines shrugged and
admitted that she does not know
much about college other than
that she wants to go somewhere
out of state.
But first, she will focus on improving her grades, starting with
the yesterday lesson and marshmallow test. As for her friends
who spent the day out in the
sun: "They're going to lose their
education because I heard that
many people, if they don't go to
school in the summer, lose their
education;'
Ty-Kierah said she is thankful
that will not be her.
Akilah Johnson can be reached
at [email protected]. Follow
heron Twitter@akjohnson2.
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'I hope this will help. I want to go to college and get a scholarship.'
KASEY CASTILLO, student in College Success A cademy
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Abubakar Aden, 10, of Roxbury is
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Ludner Exantus (left) and Leandra Terrero pledged yesterday
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Courts finally release sequel to video for jurors
The house lights were about to go down,
the audience had filled every last seat, and an
air of anticipation had settled over the room.
"To me, like many of you, this is like a
Hollywood opening;' said Roderick L. Ireland, the chief justice of the Supreme Judicial
Court, surveying the standing-room-only
crowd at the John Adams Courthouse. "It's
very exciting."
Welcome to the premiere of "Juror Orientation;' a new video the court produced to
teach jurors the basics of the trial system.
No, it won't be screening at any theaters
near you, but it will be shown to captive audiences of grumbling jurors summoned to
courthouses across Massachusetts.
The movie, Ireland said, had a "minuscule
budget;' paid for by Suffolk University, and
the "stars" of the film are not likely to appear
on the cover of US magazine any time soon:
they are just workaday jurors, court officers,
and lawyers.
"As for me;' Ireland said, "I'm cast as myself - fairly easy, but still, there were moments."
The court produced the 18-minute video
to replace the current orientation film, which
was recorded in the 1980s and featured Ireland's predecessor, Margaret H. Marshall.
With its dated soundtrack and grainy graphics, it was beginning to show its age.
The new video premiered last week before
a rapt audience of court employees and lawyers who pointed and laughed when they
glimpsed one another on screen. "That's
Mike!" one of them blurted out during a
wide-angle shot of jurors waiting in a room.
MICHAEL LEVENSON
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SJC Chief Justice Roderick Ireland is
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PROBLEM
Old cars ca n create headaches, and so can new theatres, especially
when floor plans turn out to be inexact To help fix the fIrst, radio
listeners often turn to the Magliozzi Brothers, a, k.a. Click and Clack,
on National Public Radio's Car Talk . And to initiate the Modem Theatre, a ISS-seat venue at Suffolk University that was recently renovated
from a 1914 movie theatre, the school decided on a musical based on
the radio show. Car Talk: The Musical!!! sends up favorite musicals
with lyrics that include, "1 really need this car. Please, God, I need this
car," and "How do you solve a problem like his Kia?"
Written and directed by SU professor Wesley Savick, this is the story
of Rusty Fenders (owner of a terminally ill '93 Kia), Miata C. LaChassi,
and the Wizard ofCahs (that's "cars" a /a Boston), an 8'x6' puppet made
entirely of car parts that speaks in the recorded voices of the Magliozzis.
The show also features exploding toy cars. "It has a Forbidden Broadway
feel," says Kat Kingsley, president of the Unorthodox A rts Foundation,
which created the trick cars. There's even a (toy) helicopter and a falling
chandelier, and it all unravels in a garage that does tricks.
"Not to force a concept too much, the beat-up car that is falling
apart, but is nonetheless beloved, is the metaphor for Rusty and his
messy midlife crisis, so the garage serves as both the repository of discarded dysfunctional car parts and the potential, though with a price, of
repair and rebirth," says scenic designer Richa rd W. Chambers.
This would have been diffIcult on any timeline, or in any venue,
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two weeks before the shop had to have the draWings," he recalls. Asbuilt drawings had not been developed when the design team began,
and Chambers says the architect's drawings had many discrepancies
from the actual building. "It's also a tight little space on a tiny footprint, without much for wings, with winched line-sets but no fly tower,
extreme sight lines due to courtyard seating, and not much depth,"
says Chambers. "I try to pay attention to how the set 'scales' with the
theatre space, and I reall y had to wing it on this one."
Lighting designer Steven McIntosh also struggled with the tight
space. "Because of the way the theatre is designed, we weren't able
to use human followspot operators," he says, explaining there is no
cei ling access to the catwalk, which mean s nobody can be up there
during a show. The temporary ladder used when hanging lights
blocks an exit aisle. "rm not too fond of trying to track people with
moving lights in a live show because you have to anticipate things
happening in the moment," McIntosh adds.
Sometimes the cast of25 took tbe stage, while at other times, just
one or two people were on. The transition fro m many to just a few
and back happened quickly, requiring big moves from isolatinn to
full stage lighting. "Moving from moment to moment and person
to person around the stage was one of the biggest challenges: says
McIntosh of the show's lighting.
McIntosh. who is also the theatre's technica l director, says doing
the first production in the space created problems all the way around.
The space also doubles as a smart classroom, so it requlred a modification to the sound system to work for sou nd deSign. Adds Chambers,
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"There are some gremlins in the computerized sound system. They're trying to figure
out why the two com chrulncls are still linked
even though theyshouldn'tbe, and the sensor
on the door to the fly loft, from where the fog
machine needs to be operated, won't unlock
the door, so it needs to be propped open,
which the security system doesn't like."
David Fichter had designed large Bread &
Puppet-style puppets, but he had never before
made them from car parts. "It's not a sculpture." he notes. "It's important that puppets
be expressive. They have to be able to move
and animate. and with something this big, it's
tricky, especially if it's made from car parts."
In addition, the puppet would speak in two
voices, Uterally from " both sides ofits mouth."
And what about the eyes? They needed to be
expressive, too. and light up on cue.
Each toy car also had to self-destruct in a
unique way. One car might go up in smoke.
over a weekend," he says. "Wes is one of the
a few phone calls. The shop caught most of
the creative team originally thought, and
few directors that I can give a ground plan to
my math 'whoopsies' in the drawings and
Kingsley tried peroxide and potassium per-
and have him lift it up into tluee dimensions
manganate, and even nitrogen, which they
in his mind. He looked at it while I described
had some good suggestions for materials and
techniques." Production manager Jim Bern-
decided was too dangerous. Because smoke
what I thought it would look like and decided
it would work. So I started drafting.
hardt and prop master Jonathan Maganzini
helped solve problems. too.
detectors in the space proved sensitive, anything haVing to do with fire was eliminated.
"Most of the action takes place in dream
Mcintosh relied on four moving lights,
And if wheels popped off during the self-
sequences that combine musical comedy with
two ETC Source Fours with Rasco I- Cue
destruct, how would they be kept from fail-
Rusty's anxiety about the state of his car. the
intelligent mirrors and DMX Irises, and
ing into tbe orchestra pit?
'93 Kia." adds Chambers. "So I started with a
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big garage that can have silly things happen in
wash the stage. The new space was set up well
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it: The rolling tool chest on one wall pulls out
like a big drawer to reveal Rusty lying in his
for installation. "The set was built in such a
Chambers says the team considered setting
bed, the stage left wall flips around on a center
the most part. everything was motorized on
the play in a theatrical space that would con-
pivot to reveal Sheila sitt.ing at her desk. and
the big garage doors upstage open to reveal
way that we could work from the ground. For
thing tbat looked Uke a real garage. "The set
the Wizard of Cabs. There are also big exhaust
stage," he says. Twelve circuits devoted to the
Wizard puppet were hidden discreetly inside
the grill and controlled from the board, McIn-
is a realistic grungy car garage, and then the
show goes Broadway." says Kingsley. "It looks
hoses hanging from the girders that spew dry
tosh worked with Savick to carve out specific
jure other musicals but finally opted for some-
ice fog for the big dream sequence."
drab. like somebody's garage, but then show-
To deal with a tight stage right wing.
girls come out in bright colors in car-shaped
Chambers designed a staircase up and over
dresses. It departs from reality abruptly and
the sliding bed unit. so actors could cross up
and downstage in the wing. "The platform lid
becomes a silly romp."
With no time to finish a model-he
moments when actors would hit marks and
carefully timed the spots for these.
To create the Wizard puppet. Fichter
spent time online. searching aod studying
photographs of cars until he was able to come
hinges up. so Rusty can get into the bed. and
up with a suitably anthropomorphic image.
Chambers drafted as quickly as he could. "I
then it closes over him." Chambers explains.
"Luckily. we caught most of the architectural
Then he headed for one of several junk yards
in Somerville. MA. A car front would serve
started with a ground plan that I worked up
discrepancies with a quick sight survey and
as a face. but much of what he found was too
completed one after the set was half-built-
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contemporary, "Finally, I looked up on top
of a huge rack and found a Camaro from the
late '70s that looked like a rounded face with
a nose." To Fichter's delight, much of it was
made out of rubber, and by removing some
heavy metal parts, it was light enough to
work with and move.
Fichter then searched for an old hood for
the puppet's head. O ut of thousands, the one
he found came from the same Camaro. "It
had a lot of character," he says. By making the
mouth opening from flexible foam, the puppet could "talk." Operators could move it up
and down like a regular mouth and move one
side up independently, then the other, so that
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In the end, KiJ)gsley fou nd tricks for each
car. She picked toys with large interiors so
that she could refit them internally and control them with batteries. "We purchased one
that was designed to drive into the wall and
fall apart, and I re-painted it to lookmore like
a Honda civic and less like a race-car," says
Kingsley. "For the second car, we unscrewed
the wheels and let them fly off as the car
drove and rolled across the stage. There was
a small wooden lip on the front of the stage
next to the orchestra, which mostly kept the
wheels from rolling into the pit. For the third
car, we ended up using d.ry ice."
Unorthodox Arts also purchased an old,
'60s-style remote control VW bus and cut the
power to the controllable headlights. "I wired
the headlights to a small water pump that sat
in a small container of hot water, and when
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pump the hot water into a container of dry ice,
creating 'smoke' that poured out of the bottom of the car as it rolled along on stage," says
Kingsley. "The effect with the dry ice came out
really well. Naturally; I had painted the car to
look like an old hippie bus." Three puppeteers,
one for each car, were at the controls.
Sometimes, very low-tech solutions were
employed. The fa ll ing chandelier? O rigi nalJy rigged into the ceiling, at the end of
the show, it was thrown at the ceiling and
alJowed to fall.
e
Davi Napoleon hates to drive but loves listening to Car Talk for advice on how to fix
her life, whenever it breaks down , A longtime contrib utor to Live Design, she also
writes Theatre Talk, a column for The Faster
Times, Her book is Chelsea on the Edge: The
A dventures ofan A merican Theatre.
each "voice" came from a different place.
In the end , the puppet was somewhat
heavy because of the hood but not too heavyroughly lS0lbs, in all. Two-and-a-half feet
deep, it stood on a central pivot that allowed
three operators who stood on the platform
behind it to turn it from side to side. Bli nking
eyes were origi nally going to be 12V batteries that look li ke ca r lights, but the lighting
designer opted for PAR units that looked a lot
like the car lights. These were hooked up to a
dimmer system and operated from the lighting console, providing the option of changing light levels in the puppet's eyes to reflect
emotions. A small patch over the headlight
could move back and fo rlh, so even though
the headlight itself did n't turn, it created the
iUusion of turning. Interior mouth lights were
made from pieces of taiUights. Once the foam
opened, teeth were lit from hehind.
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Suffolk University - Boston Preservation Alliance Honors Modern Theatre Project
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BOSTON PRESERVATION ALLIANCE HONORS MODERN THEATRE PROJECT
7/27/2011
The Boston Preservation Alliance will will
honor Suffolk University's Modern Theatre
residence hall development with a
Preservation Achievement Award on Oct. 5,
2011.
The annual Preservation Achievement
Awards honor outstanding accomplishment
in historic preservation and compatible new
construction, as well as individuals and
organizations that have contributed
significantly to Boston’s historic built
environment.
The Preservation Alliance called the Modern Theatre project “a
true standout” among a strong group of nominees in the
category of Integration of Preservation and New Construction.
The Modern Theatre already
had captured Boston
Preservation Alliance honors
when photographer Renée
DeKona's image of its
restoration won the
organization’s first Historic
Preservation Photo Contest and was displayed with other
submissions this summer in the Mayor's Office at Boston City
Hall.
DeKona documented Suffolk University's restoration of the
Modern Theatre stonework, which was then used to reconstruct
the historic facade. The University's Adams Gallery featured
DeKona's photographs of the Modern Theatre in two exhibits.
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scheinthal joins us now with more on our changing reading habits. it's
7:xx.. time to update the
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NECN CHOOSES NEW "SUFFOLK IN THE CITY" TEAM
7/12/2011
The auditions are over. It was tough to choose only two
students from a strong Suffolk University talent pool, but the
new "Suffolk in the City" team is now in place.
New England Cable News is deploying Andrew Scheinthal and
Breana Pitts to gain insight about topical issues from passersby for the station's "Suffolk in the City" segment.
The two will wield their microphones in front of the University's
television studio on Tremont Street in Boston.
NECN broadcast a segment on the auditions and will feature
Pitts and Scheinthal on its "Morning Show."
"There are a lot of things I hope to gain from this experience
with NECN," said Scheinthal. "Learning how to put together a
story and to report live on air are going to be a major learning
opportunity for myself and Breana.
"I'm very excited to be apart of the NECN family for the next
six months, and I hope that this opportunity will open some
doors for me by the time I graduate in the spring."
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Suffolk University - American Chemical Society Scholar Inspired to Help Others
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AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY SCHOLAR INSPIRED TO HELP OTHERS
7/21/2011
Elsy Naveo loves working in the
chemistry lab.
“I love mixing solutions and
formulating new products,” said
the Chemistry major, who is
entering her sophomore year.
“Maybe I can eventually create
something that will help people
with their health issues, allowing
them to live a better and more
Elsy Naveo
comfortable life.”
Naveo recently won a prestigious
scholarship from the American Chemical Society (ACS). The
ACS Scholars Program awards renewable scholarships of up to
$5,000 to underrepresented minority students who want to
enter the fields of chemistry or chemistry-related fields.
Naveo was elated when she learned that her essays and
recommendations had earned her the $3,000 scholarship award
and access to an ACS mentor to help with her research and
career goals.
Professional networking and volunteerism
This latest accomplishment capped off a busy freshman year
for Naveo. As a member of the Suffolk University Chapter of
the ACS, she attended a weeklong national meeting in
Anaheim, California. She also volunteered for a Habitat for
Humanity alternative spring break program, painting homes for
low-income residents in Denver, Colorado.
“I loved my freshman year at Suffolk; it was a very positive
experience,” says Naveo, who finished the academic year with
a 3.99 grade point average. “I felt I had so many opportunities
that I may not have had at other schools.”
Naveo, 18, has been inspired “to help people” since witnessing
poverty firsthand in the Dominican Republic, where she was
born. She said her goal remains to one day make an impact on
improving the lives of others. She aims to earn a PhD in
pharmaceutical sciences as a means to that end.
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Suffolk University - Alumnus to Join European Hockey Tour
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ALUMNUS TO JOIN EUROPEAN HOCKEY TOUR
7/28/2011
Recent graduate Paul
Weisser has been
selected to play in the
Edge Sports Europe Pro
Hockey Exposure Tour
this summer.
Weisser, who concluded
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his four-year Suffolk
University hockey career
during the 2010-11
season, will be part of a select U.S. team competing against
professional teams in France. $
More than half of Edge Sports' previous two overseas rosters
have gone on to sign professional contracts in the Magnus
League in France, which is considered to be the country’s top
professional hockey league.
The team will tour Paris before opening against Reims of the
Magnus League on Aug. 15. The team will play Strasbourg the
next day, then compete in a four-day tournament in Colmar,
France.
Rams achievement
As a senior, Weisser appeared in all 24 of the Rams contests,
tallying 10 points on three goals and seven assists. In 96
career games for the University, Weisser scored 19 goals and
33 assists for a career total of 52 points.
His best season came during his junior year, when he totaled
20 points, scoring eight times with 12 assists. During the 200910 season, Weisser led the Rams with three game-winning
goals.
Weisser was awarded with the Suffolk University Athletics
Departmental Recognition Award this past year.
He served as an assistant captain during the 2010-11 season
and also helped take the lead on the team's many community
efforts, such as a Toys for Tots drive and Breast
Cancer Awareness efforts. Weisser also served as a student
ambassador in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions,
welcoming and providing information about the University to
prospective students.
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people feeling comfortable going into the courthouse because they may not
be able to communicate? >> yes. that's right. harborcov provides, has a
great partnership with suffolk university law school, they provide student
attorneys for us and we are at the chelsea disdistrict court and east bostn
court. our case managers are there and/or the civil attorneys are there to
help them through that process. we do have bilingual staff, that also
accompany victims to the court. >> karen: do you think that our legal
system is doing enough to protect domestic violence victims? what else can
be done, what else should be done?
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College students teach study skills
PROVIDENCE - Starting this week, The
College Crusade of Rhode Island launches the
fifth year of its annual Ways to /'\s program, a
study-skills course for students who are joining
the organization. Over 1,600 Rhode Island sixth
graders from Central Falls, Pawtucket,
Providence, and Woonsocket have completed
Ways to I\s since the program began in 2007.
Approximately 600 more sixth graders from these
communities are expected to take the course this
summer. Ways to I\s runs in four-day sessions for
a total of six weeks and is held at the Community
College of Rhode Island, Liston Campus, in
Providence.
The Ways to /'\s curriculum, custom developed for The College Crusade, introduces incoming sixth-grade students to the academic, social,
and personal challenges of middle school.
The instructors for this year are:
Ariadna Benitez, of Central Falls, a senior at Salve Regina Unjversity maJonng in
Administration of Justice with a minor in
Psychology.
Andersen Deossa, of Pawtucket, a jun-
ior at Suffolk University majoring in Print
Journalism.
Anthony Franco, of Providence, a senior at Brown University majoring in Human
Biology.
Aaron Greenspan, of Barrington, a sophomore at Rhode Island College.
Chereva McClellan, of Pawtucket, completing an M.A. in Forensic Psychology at Roger
Williams University, where she also earned a B.S.
in Legal Studies.
Erlin Rogel, of Providence, a senior at
Roger Williams University majoring in Political
Science.
Franchesca Sevigny, of Pawtucket, ajunior at the University of Rhode Island majoring in
Nursing.
Yovanny Vargas, of Cranston, a senior at
Rhode Island College majoring in Psychology.
The program coordinator for Ways to I\s is
Adam Tarczuk of Johnston . Tarczuk is a former
College Crusade Advisor who currently teaches
eighth-grade social studies at Grafton Middle
School, in Grafton, Mass.
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Franchesca Sevigny of Pawtucket, Ariadna Benitez of Central Falls, Chereva McClellan of
Pawtucket, Anthony Franco of Providence; (bac k row) Aaron Greenspan of Barrington,
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relationships, simply by people feeling excluded. >> we have seen
thanksgiving surprise birthday party and see every one of your friends
there and you weren't invited. >> suffolk university student stacy gillette
has seen those feelings intensify since going away to school. >> have like
a lot of bonfires back home and they all hang out and like i have this
group of friends and now i'm not with them so it makes me feel left out.
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Being a good neighbor
WHEN SUFFOLK UNIVERSm'S INCOMING FRESHMEN ARRIVED FOR THEIR
weeklong student orientation in mid-June, a Beacon Hill resident
was on hand to welcome and give them a taste of city living.
BHCA board member and Temple Street resident Becky Mulzer
joined the team of Suffolk's Dean of Students Ann Coyne, Office
of Neighborhood Response Director Richard Grealish and Police
Officer Sgt. Betty Sane, and Boston Police Sgt. Tom Lema to talk to
the students about the institution's expectations of residential and
commuting students, how they should interact with the community
and student safety on and off campus. The team talked to 1100
freshmen during 20 one-half hour sessions.
" I feel good communication and understa nding the conditions of
city li vi ng are very important iss ues," said Mulzer. "Most [incoming students] don't realize how different city li ving is from cities and
towns where there is more space, grass and trees integrated into
yards, sidewa lks, etc. A small city of 10,000 people may take up
a couple miles of space in other areas, but here we are all in a few
blocks."
Mulzer said the orientation went wel l. " Students a re very polite,"
she said. "They listen well and respond appropriately."
The concept of including a neighbor in freshman orientation was
Suffolk's Vice-President Jo hn Nucci's idea three yea rs ago. At that
time he said he wanted the students to see and hear from people who
li ve aro und them so th at they would understand that little things like
innocent noise can have an impact on neighbors.
Including representatives from the neighborhood in the orientation sessions has resulted in fewer complaints by residents, sa id
BHCA's Executive Director Suzanne Besser. " During the last three
yea rs, we have received few calls from resi dents abo ut lo ud partying or other incidences of disru ptive behavior by Suffolk University
students. "
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