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A Makeover for a Famed Boston Shopping Spot
Redoing the Faneuil Hall Marketplace in the Hope of Luring Back Locals
By LISA PREVOST
BOSTON - The historic Faneuil
Hall Marketplace attracts an estimated 20 million visitors annually, making it one of the country's most popular tourist attractions. But in recent
years, the dozens of shops, pushcarts
and restaurants that fill three separate buildings have drawn fewer and
fewer Bostonians.
In fact, the city's longest-serving
mayor, the late Thomas M. Menino
used to say that the market was th~
only place in the city he could have
lunch without being recognized, said
Howard F. Elkus, a founding principal
of Elkus Manfredi Architects, a Boston firm.
Hoping to lure the locals back, the
marketplace's operator, Ashkenazy
Acquisition Corporation, a privately
held real estate investment firm in
New York, has proposed the first major overhaul of the property since the
1970s. Ashkenazy bought the ground
lease to the city-owned marketplace
in 2011, and has spent the last two
years working with Mr. Elkus to develop a master plan.
The design team took its time collecting lots of local input and gaining
a full understanding of the marketplace's historical value, said Barry
Lustig, Ashkenazy's executive vice
president.
"A property like this," he said, "you
have to breathe it in."
Ashkenazy operates or owns many
other prominent commercial properties .in cities around the country, includmg Union Station in Washington,
Harborplace in Baltimore and the
River Center mall, along the Riverwalk in San Antonio.
The plan is subject to approval by
the Boston Redevelopment Authority
and the city's Landmarks Commission, though Mr. Lustig said his team
collaborated with both agencies during the design process. The Landmarks Commission's executive director, Ellen Lipsey, declined to comment
on the pending proposal.
The marketplace sits in a cobblestone square adjacent to Faneuil Hall,
a brick building erected in 1742 as a
meat and produce market with a town
meeting hall above. A gift of Peter
Faneuil, a wealthy merchant, the hall
served as a rallying place for the
cause of independence, and has since
hosted numerous famous orators, including Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.
The three long buildings that make
up the marketplace- Quincy Market,
North Market and South Market were added in the 1820s. The properties deteriorated in the 1900s, however, and by the 1970s "they were crumbling and infested with rats," said
Robert J. Allison, chairman of the history department at Suffolk University
here in Boston.
While some people wanted the
structures demolished, Mayor Kevin
H. White backed the plan of a pioneering real estate developer, James w.
Rouse, to clean up the buildings and
refashion them as a "festival marketplace." A great success when it
opened in 1976, the Faneuil Hall Marketplace became a model for many
other cities, taking shape as South
Street Seaport in New York and Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, Mr.
Allison said.
But after nearly four decades, the
345,000-square-foot
marketplace
looks dated, not least because of the
dark, tinted glass that lines the granite exterior of the most prominent
building, Quincy Market. The glass,
which forms retail sheds, obscures
the original structure and detracts
from its "nobility," Mr. Elkus said.
The new design calls for replacing
the dark glass and its steel structure
with seamless glass, exposing the
building's original granite facade. At
night, uplighting would illuminate the
architecture.
Inside Quincy Market, the colonnade, now a congested food corridor,
would be reconfigured with open bars
and food counters to allow freer
movement of patrons, ample seating
and greater appreciation of the building's brick walls and arched windows.
Glass pavilions would enable fourseason use of existing dining patios at
the north and south ends of the building. A bar and dining area would be
added to the center rotunda.
"We're trying to find the balance
between the original grit and the
whole transparency we're trying to
create," Mr. Elkus said.
A 180-room boutique hotel would fill
the upper floors of the South Market
building. Otherwise, changes to the
north and south buildings would be
limited to their facades.
A separate greenhouse building
that was once a flower shop would be
replaced with a leaf-shaped glass pavilion that will house a major retailer,
Mr. Lustig said. Uniqlo, the Japanbased clothing store, has committed
to opening a flagship location in Quincy Market.
Ashkenazy has hired Daniel A. Biederman, whose New York consulting
firm revitalized Bryant Park in Manhattan, to enliven the public realm
around the marketplace. One problem
now is that the outdoor seating is "a
little bit uncomfortable and is not
ideal to retain families or even pairs
of people," Mr. Biederman said. In
contrast, Bryant Park offers 5,800
movable chairs, giving visitors control over where they sit.
Mr. Biederman also says he believes that the reading room, games,
lectures and artistic performances
popular at Bryant Park are a good fit
for Faneuil Hall Marketplace.
"Bryant Park's philosophy is, the
popular arts, like pop music and
sports, don't need our help," he said.
"We're going to pitch our offerings to
the highest levels of intellect, and
Boston's a great city for that."
Some of the marketplace's 120 retail
tenants have told Mr. Lustig they are
concerned that the changes will lead
to their displacement by national
merchants. But he insists that Ashkenazy will not remove "99 percent of
the tenancy," although it may move
tenants around and alter their spaces.
The tenants who will go, he said, are
those who lack local ties or relevance.
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In Boston, history gets an upgrade
By LISA PREVOST, The New York Times
Published: Monday, December 15, 2014 at 1:00 a.m.
THE HISTORIC FANEUIL HALL Marketplace
attracts an estimated 20 million visitors
annually, but in recent years its dozens of
shops, pushcarts and restaurants in three
buildings have drawn fewer and fewer
Bostonians.
So much so that the late Thomas M. Menino,
the city's longestserving mayor, used to say the
market was the only place he could have lunch
without being recognized.
Now, in an effort to lure locals back,
marketplace operator Ashkenazy Acquisition
Corp. has proposed the property's first major
overhaul since the 1970s.
ELKUS MANFREDI ARCHITECTS
A aerial view rendering of proposed Faneuil
Hall Marketplace enhancements, showing a
glass pavilion to the left of the Quincy Market,
left, and a ground view of he pavilion, above.
The operator of the Faneuil Hall Marketplace is
working on a major overhaul of the property,
the first since the 1970s.
To that end, the privately held New York real estate investment firm, which bought
the ground lease to the cityowned marketplace in 2011, has spent the last two years
working with Boston design firm Elkus Manfredi Architects to develop a master
plan.
"A property like this," said Barry Lustig, Ashkenazy's executive vice president, "you
have to breathe it in."
Its plan for Faneuil Hall requires approvals by the Boston Redevelopment Authority
and the city's Landmarks Commission, though Ashkenazy has already collaborated
closely with both agencies.
The marketplace sits in a cobblestone square adjacent to Faneuil Hall, a brick
building erected in 1742. A gift of Peter Faneuil, a wealthy merchant, the hall served
as a rallying place for the cause of independence, and has since hosted numerous
famous orators, including Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.
The three long buildings that make up the marketplace Quincy Market, North
Market and South Market were added in the 1820s.
The properties deteriorated in the 1900s, however, and by the 1970s "they were
crumbling and infested with rats," said Robert J. Allison, chairman of the history
department at Suffolk University in Boston.
While some people wanted the structures demolished, thenMayor Kevin H. White
backed a plan by pioneering real estate developer James W. Rouse to refashion them
as a "festival marketplace."
Faneuil Hall Marketplace became a model for many other cities when it debuted in
1976, ranging from South Street Seaport in New York to Fisherman's Wharf in San
Francisco.
But after nearly four decades, the 345,000squarefoot marketplace looks dated,
with dark, tinted glass lining Quincy Market.
New designs call for replacing the dark glass with seamless glass and exposing the
building's original granite facade. At night, uplighting would illuminate the
architecture.
Quincy Market's interior also would be reconfigured with open bars and food
counters to allow freer movement and more seating. Glass pavilions would enable
fourseason use of existing dining patios, and a bar and dining area would be added
to the center rotunda.
"We're trying to find the balance between the original grit and the whole
transparency we're trying to create," said Howard F. Elkus, a founding principal of
Elkus Manfredi Architects.
Additionally, a 180room boutique hotel would fill the upper floors of the South
Market building.
From a retail perspective, the biggest change would come from a leafshaped glass
pavilion that will house Uniqlo, the Japanesebased clothing store, which has
committed to opening a flagship location in Quincy Market.
Ashkenazy, which also operates Union Station in Washington and Harborplace in
Baltimore, also has hired Daniel A. Biederman, a New York consultant, to enliven
the public realm around the marketplace. Outdoor seating has been criticized as "a
little bit uncomfortable and not ideal to retain families or even pairs of people,"
Biederman said.
Biederman also believes games, lectures and artistic performances popular at Bryant
Park, which he helped revitalize, are a good fit for Faneuil Hall.
"We're going to pitch our offerings to the highest levels of intellect, and Boston's a
great city for that."
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None of the Jesus myths are history.
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To whom do you attribute the innovative ideas that appear in the New
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St Paul. We don't know who wrote the gospels. Most of the ideas aren't
innovative. They are derived from Greek and Jewish
theology/philosophy. And pagan sources. The Jesus and Mary imagery
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Judge rules that Boston Marathon bombing trial will begin
Monday
On New Year’s Eve, Judge George O’Toole denied motions by lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to change the venue and to delay the
start of the trial. Jury selection is set to begin Monday at the district courthouse in South Boston.
By Henry Gass, Staff writer
DECEMBER 31, 2014
Boston
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the trial of the accused Boston
Marathon bomber will begin next week as planned, and it will take place
in Boston.
On New Year’s Eve, Judge George O’Toole denied motions by lawyers for
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to change the venue and to delay the start of the
trial.
As a result, jury selection is set to begin Monday at the district
courthouse in South Boston.
Mr. Tsarnaev’s lawyers had cited extensive pretrial publicity that they
In this courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon
bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is
depicted sitting in federal court in Boston
Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, for a final hearing
before his trial begins in January. Tsarnaev is
charged with the April 2013 attack that killed
three people and injured more than 260. He
could face the death penalty if convicted.
(Jane Flavell Collins/AP)
argued would make it impossible for him to receive a fair trial in the city.
They also noted that, as currently scheduled, the penalty phase of the trial would likely occur during the twoyear
anniversary of the attack. Two bombs went off at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 260 in
an act of terrorism that stunned the country. Police arrested Tsarnaev after a threeday manhunt and a shootout in which
Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan, was killed.
If found guilty, Tsarnaev, 21, could face the death penalty. In the penalty phase of the trial the jury would have to decide,
unanimously, if Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death or given life in prison.
Wednesday’s decision marks the second time Judge O’Toole has denied defense motions to move the trial outside of
Boston. For many legal observers, it is not surprising that he chose again to keep the trial in Boston. The judge said in his
first decision in September to keep the trial in Boston that, while the case has attracted significant media attention, the
defense team failed to show that the hype would prejudice a fair, impartial jury. “I can’t think of what’s happened in the interim that would cause [O’Toole] to reverse himself,” says Rosanna Cavallaro, a
law professor at Suffolk University and former state assistant attorney general. “I think the question has been well argued
already. He wasn’t asleep the last time.” Instead, she adds, the elapsed time made it even less likely that the trial be relocated. In particular, the court has been
preparing for what is expected to be a long jury selection process. O’Toole has said he plans to call up to 1,000 potential
jurors from across eastern Massachusetts to the court house next month, and prosecution and defense lawyers have been
negotiating procedures for how potential jurors will be questioned and selected.
“What has changed is we’ve moved forward. We’ve created expectations, procedures are in place,” Ms. Cavallaro said.
“Those would have to be dismantled [if the trial was moved].” In addition, Cavallaro says the successful prosecution of three of Tsarnaev’s friends — Dias Kadyrbayev, Azamat
Tazhayakov, and Robel Phillipos, who in the days after the bombings threw Tsarnaev’s backpack in the trash and then lied
to federal investigators about it — has already shown that a jury is capable of reaching a verdict on charges related to the
bombings.
Mr. Kadyrbayev and Mr. Tazhayakov have been found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and lying to federal
investigators. Mr. Phillipos was found guilty in October of lying to federal investigators.
“The fact that they have been tried means people aren’t so blinded by [media coverage] that they can’t listen to evidence,”
says Cavallaro.
She adds that jurors who spoke after the trials made it clear that they “listened to lots of nuance.”
“The thing we know about jurors is that they take their responsibility very seriously,” Cavallaro adds.
Because the location of a trial determines where the jury pool will be selected from, the debate over whether the trial
should stay in Boston has focused attention on whether the Eastern Massachusetts area can provide Tsarnaev an impartial
jury, despite the impact the bombings had on the region. Christopher Dearborn, a law professor at Suffolk University, says that by filing multiple motions to change the trial’s
venue, even if they get denied, the defense team is building a strong record for a possible appeal in the future. “I think they have to keep asking for it over and over,” says Mr. Dearborn. “The defense continues to renew this because
they understand how significant it is, and [are] making sure the appellate record is very strong on this issue.”
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His accusers brandish a confession scribbled inside a boat during an intensive manhunt, and a video they
say shows him placing a backpack with a bomb a few feet from a little boy who died when it exploded
seconds later.
His defenders bank on the story of a difficult childhood in a former Soviet republic and his radicalization at
the hands of an influential older brother who could have pressured him into participating in the deadly
attack.
Jury selection for the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused in the Boston Marathon attacks, begins
Monday. Those chosen from a pool of about 1,200 will decide whether Tsarnaev planned and carried out
the twin bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260 near the finish line of the race on
April 15, 2013. If they find him guilty, they will decide whether he should be put to death.
It's perhaps the most closely watched federal death penalty case since Timothy McVeigh was convicted
and executed for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Tsarnaev's lawyers tried in vain for months to get the
trial moved, arguing the Boston jury pool was tainted because of the number of locals with connections to
the race and drawing parallels to the McVeigh case, which was moved to Denver for similar reasons. But
U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. has been unmoved.
Jury selection alone is expected to take several weeks because of extensive media coverage and the
thousands of runners, spectators and others in the area personally affected by the bombings. The process
also could be slowed if potential jurors express objections to the death penalty.
Some legal observers say Tsarnaev's lawyers facing powerful evidence against him will probably
focus their energies on the penalty phase, when they could present mitigating evidence to spare his life.
He has a strong team behind him. Attorney Judy Clarke touts a strong record of persuading juries to spare
her highprofile clients the death penalty, including Unabomer Ted Kaczynski; Olympic Park bomber Eric
Rudolph; and Jared Loughner, who killed six people and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Tsarnaev's lawyers are likely to narrow in on motive and any pressure exerted on him, said Dan Collins, a
former assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago who has investigated U.S. ties to terrorism.
"I think his mitigation will be in part paying close attention to what his explanation is and what
circumstances beyond his control ... caused him to do this," Collins said.
Prosecutors say 21yearold Dzhokhar and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev ethnic Chechens who had
lived in the U.S. for about a decade carried out the bombings as retaliation for U.S. actions in Muslim
countries. Tamerlan, 26, died after a firefight with police several days after the bombings.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured later that day, wounded and bloodied, hiding inside a boat stored in a
suburban yard. Prosecutors said he described a motive in a note written in the boat: "The U.S.
Government is killing our innocent civilians" and "We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers may lay the groundwork for some kind of mental health explanation, said
Christopher Dearborn, a professor at Suffolk University Law School. That could include any persecution
his family might have suffered as ethnic minorities in Kyrgyzstan, where the brothers spent most of their
lives before moving to the U.S. with their parents and two sisters.
"I think the real value in that may be to start to try to generate even a little bit of empathy around this and
humanize the kid a little bit, hopefully enough to save a life," Dearborn said.
Alice LoCicero, a Cambridge psychologist and terrorism expert who wrote a book, "Why 'Good Kids' Turn
Into Deadly Terrorists: Deconstructing the Accused Boston Marathon Bombers and Others Like Them,"
said she believes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have been susceptible to the influence of his brother and
others in part because he had lost structure in the year before the bombings.
Among those life changes: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had left the family's Cambridge home to attend the
University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, his parents moved to the volatile Dagestan region of Russia,
and the family was having financial troubles. Authorities believe Tamerlan Tsarnaev became radicalized
in the last few years of his life, including during a sixmonth trip to Dagestan and Chechnya in 2012.
Prosecutors, however, say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev showed signs before the bombings even to his closest
friends that he was becoming radicalized.
At least one of three college friends convicted of lying or impeding the investigation are expected to testify
against him. An additional friend who pleaded guilty to possessing a gun used to kill a police officer during
the manhunt is also expected to testify for the prosecution.
Other prosecution witnesses are expected to include people hurt in the bombings, as well as police
officers who helped in the aftermath.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense team has been pushing to show that he may have been intimidated by his
brother. Prosecutors revealed in a court filing that Ibragim Todashev, a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's,
said Tamerlan participated in a grisly triple slaying in Waltham, a Boston suburb, in 2011.
The trial, expected to last several months, is likely to draw spectators injured in the bombings, as well as
supporters of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who have demonstrated outside the courthouse during pretrial hearings.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's own lawyers have asked that the demonstrators be kept at arm's length.
Heather Abbott, a Rhode Island woman who lost part of her left leg in the bombings, is one of several
victims who plan to attend at least part of the trial. She said she hopes to gain some understanding of the
motive.
"I don't see it as something that will get me past the horror of that day," she said. "It's something that I
will always live with."
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Judge rules that Boston Marathon bombing trial will begin
Monday
On New Year’s Eve, Judge George O’Toole denied motions by lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to change the venue and to delay the
start of the trial. Jury selection is set to begin Monday at the district courthouse in South Boston.
By Henry Gass, Staff writer
DECEMBER 31, 2014
Boston
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the trial of the accused Boston
Marathon bomber will begin next week as planned, and it will take place
in Boston.
On New Year’s Eve, Judge George O’Toole denied motions by lawyers for
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to change the venue and to delay the start of the
trial.
As a result, jury selection is set to begin Monday at the district
courthouse in South Boston.
Mr. Tsarnaev’s lawyers had cited extensive pretrial publicity that they
In this courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon
bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is
depicted sitting in federal court in Boston
Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, for a final hearing
before his trial begins in January. Tsarnaev is
charged with the April 2013 attack that killed
three people and injured more than 260. He
could face the death penalty if convicted.
(Jane Flavell Collins/AP)
argued would make it impossible for him to receive a fair trial in the city.
They also noted that, as currently scheduled, the penalty phase of the trial would likely occur during the twoyear
anniversary of the attack. Two bombs went off at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 260 in
an act of terrorism that stunned the country. Police arrested Tsarnaev after a threeday manhunt and a shootout in which
Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan, was killed.
If found guilty, Tsarnaev, 21, could face the death penalty. In the penalty phase of the trial the jury would have to decide,
unanimously, if Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death or given life in prison.
Wednesday’s decision marks the second time Judge O’Toole has denied defense motions to move the trial outside of
Boston. For many legal observers, it is not surprising that he chose again to keep the trial in Boston. The judge said in his
first decision in September to keep the trial in Boston that, while the case has attracted significant media attention, the
defense team failed to show that the hype would prejudice a fair, impartial jury. “I can’t think of what’s happened in the interim that would cause [O’Toole] to reverse himself,” says Rosanna Cavallaro, a
law professor at Suffolk University and former state assistant attorney general. “I think the question has been well argued
already. He wasn’t asleep the last time.” Instead, she adds, the elapsed time made it even less likely that the trial be relocated. In particular, the court has been
preparing for what is expected to be a long jury selection process. O’Toole has said he plans to call up to 1,000 potential
jurors from across eastern Massachusetts to the court house next month, and prosecution and defense lawyers have been
negotiating procedures for how potential jurors will be questioned and selected.
“What has changed is we’ve moved forward. We’ve created expectations, procedures are in place,” Ms. Cavallaro said.
“Those would have to be dismantled [if the trial was moved].” In addition, Cavallaro says the successful prosecution of three of Tsarnaev’s friends — Dias Kadyrbayev, Azamat
Tazhayakov, and Robel Phillipos, who in the days after the bombings threw Tsarnaev’s backpack in the trash and then lied
to federal investigators about it — has already shown that a jury is capable of reaching a verdict on charges related to the
bombings.
Mr. Kadyrbayev and Mr. Tazhayakov have been found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and lying to federal
investigators. Mr. Phillipos was found guilty in October of lying to federal investigators.
“The fact that they have been tried means people aren’t so blinded by [media coverage] that they can’t listen to evidence,”
says Cavallaro.
She adds that jurors who spoke after the trials made it clear that they “listened to lots of nuance.”
“The thing we know about jurors is that they take their responsibility very seriously,” Cavallaro adds.
Because the location of a trial determines where the jury pool will be selected from, the debate over whether the trial
should stay in Boston has focused attention on whether the Eastern Massachusetts area can provide Tsarnaev an impartial
jury, despite the impact the bombings had on the region. Christopher Dearborn, a law professor at Suffolk University, says that by filing multiple motions to change the trial’s
venue, even if they get denied, the defense team is building a strong record for a possible appeal in the future. “I think they have to keep asking for it over and over,” says Mr. Dearborn. “The defense continues to renew this because
they understand how significant it is, and [are] making sure the appellate record is very strong on this issue.”
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JODI DETJEN
Businesses should foster
women's leadership roles
andra looks like a rock star at her
m ultinational company. She's
risen to middle management. She
embodies the "ideal: " working long
hours, managing multiple projects and
a team of performers. She gets work
done. Her manager says, "We couldn't
run the place without you."
But look underneath the sheen and
it's not so "perfect." Sandra works all
the time, feeling guilty if she h as to
leave early for something personal.
She is a gatekeeper: She takes care of
her direct reports, gives them work,
but also doesn't bring them to key
meetings or delegate career expanding
tasks.
She is regularly overwhelmed.
Sandra doesn't spend a lot of time
building her internal network. Her
manager actually doubts her leadership
skills. A colleague just got promoted
around her.
Sandra is burning out and her career
is stalling. She is starting to blame her
company.
What should the organization do?
Sandra's dilemma is exactly where
most efforts to bring women into
leadership stall: middle management.
But there are three steps to help:
Step 1. Agree that bringing in more
women to leadership matters. There
must be a will. It can't be a platitude; it
must come from the top and permeate.
Step 2. Change the environment to
become more equitable and open for
women in leadership. Organizations
must challenge their entrenched
thinking on women, called secondgeneration bias. Businesses have the
responsibility to create conducive
conditions and support mechanisms
S
such as sponsorship programs, opening
up opportunities for women, changing
the promotion process, and enabling
more flexible work.
Step 3. Help women determine
what they can control themselves.
Women have a responsibility for this
change as well. The process starts with
shifting women's mind-sets. Women
have been socialized to believe that
they are "supposed to" act a certain
way as a woman. But behavior is based
on assumptions about how the world
works. Organizations can help by
fostering women's ability to recognize
and rethink their internalized,
u nconscious biases of women and
work.
And Sandra?
Highlighting Sandra's assumptions
helped her think differently about how
she approached work First, she looked
at her need for perfection. Instead of
assuming that she was the only one
who could "do it right," she reframed it
to Imperfection, giving room for others'
input. Her assumption that internal
networking wasted her time shifted
to building relationships within my
organization helps me succeed. Sandra
started prioritizing her most strategic
tasks , delegating the rest, thereby
developing her staff. She started letting
others know what she was doing and
the impact she was having. Today
Sandra is not burned out and is in line
for promotion.
Jodi Detjen is a p rofessor of
Ma nagement at Suffolk University
and co-author of "The Orange Line:
A Woman's Guide to Integrating
Career, Family and Life."
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What happens if you sue a
restaurant over $4?
By Andy Rosen G LO B E S TAFF D E C E MB E R 11, 2 014
One takeaway from the firestorm over a Harvard professor’s claim that a Chinese
restaurant overcharged him by $4: Don’t mess with the Massachusetts consumer.
The Commonwealth has some of the nation’s toughest consumer protection laws, and in
some cases merchants can be forced to pay back three times what they overcharged.
They can also face state lawsuits and civil penalties in the thousands of dollars.
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Associate business professor Benjamin Edelman raised the specter of that Draconian
enforcement as he grilled a manager at Sichuan Garden in Brookline about why the
prices reflected on an online menu didn’t match up with what he paid.
He wanted $12 to compensate him for the $4 difference.
But experts in consumer protection said that even with the muscular state protections
for buyers, Edelman would have had a hard time making this case. He would have had
to go to court, for one thing, then prove that Sichuan Garden overcharged him on
purpose.
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The professor behind the
dispute
The globetrotting Harvard Business School
associate professor is familiar to those in the world
of online consumer protection.
What prompted Internet response?
Kathleen C. Engel, a research professor of law at Suffolk University, said Edelman’s case
would have also been weakened by the fact that the restaurant offered to compensate
him for the price difference.
Courts take such offers into consideration when making decisions about whether to
penalize sellers in consumer protection cases. And some say that detail would likely
mean Edelman had no case for triple (some say “treble”) damages.
Engel said that even without such an offer, Edelman would have had to prove that “the
defendant had that menu posted on the web knowing that they were violating the law.”
Four dollars doesn’t seem like much, but small overcharges can make a big difference if
they’re repeated many times. Sometimes, the state will take up a case.
Barbara Anthony, undersecretary of the state Office of Consumer Affairs and Business
Regulation, said the attorney general’s office might get involved if it becomes obvious
that there’s a pattern of abuse by a company.
Individual cases usually only rise to state action if they’re extremely egregious, or if they
involve the abuse of seniors or children.
Christopher Loh, a spokesman for Attorney General Martha Coakley, said the Sichuan
Garden incident isn’t the type of case his office takes up.
“Our office enforces cases of deceptive advertising such as our actions against some
auto retailers, though the vast majority of individual disputes are resolved through
mediation,” he said in a statement. “This is not a case that would be enforced by our
office.”
Coakley’s office hasn’t gotten any complaints against the restaurant in the past five
years.
Nonetheless, Edgar Dworsky, founder of the website Consumer World, said he believes
Edelman’s heart was in the right place.
“My sense is that Prof. Edelman has been [subject] to undue ridicule in how the story
has been reported, and in comments posted by the public,” Dworsky wrote in an email.
“There is an old consumer saying: It is easier to steal a dollar from a million people than
a million dollars from one person.”
Engel, of Suffolk University, said she would have preferred to see Edelman’s consumer
protection expertise brought to bear on a larger topic — predatory mortgage lending, for
instance.
Still, she said his choice to come out swinging in his letter to the restaurant isn’t such an
unusual negotiating technique.
“Given that the potential plaintiff doesn’t know what the [merchant] knew, there’s
nothing wrong with saying, ‘ “I want to pursue treble damages.’ ”
More coverage:
Meet the Harvard professor behind the Chinesefood dispute
Harvard instructor in fight with Chinese restaurant over $4
Joan Vennochi: The dangers of arrogance
Why did the Internet get so heated about $4 of Chinese food?
Donations urged amid Harvard professor’s Chinesefood fight
Archive 2010: Harvard researcher exposes Facebook privacy leak
Andy Rosen can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at
@andyrosen.
Torture As an Absolute Wrong
If waterboarding works, does that make it morally acceptable?
Jacob Sullum | Dec. 17, 2014 7:00 am
In an interview on Sunday, NBC's Chuck Todd asked former Vice President Dick Cheney if he
was "OK" with the fact that a quarter of the suspected terrorists held in secret CIA prisons
during the Bush administration "turned out to be innocent." Todd noted that one of those
mistakenly detained men died of hypothermia after being doused with water and left chained
to a concrete wall, naked from the waist down, in a cell as cold as a meat locker.
Cheney replied that the end—to "get the guys who did 9/11" and "avoid another attack against
the United States"—justified the means. "I have no problem as long as we achieve our
objective," he said.
Charles Fried, a Harvard law professor who served as solicitor general during the Reagan
administration, and his son Gregory, a philosophy professor at Suffolk University, offer a
bracing alternative to Cheney's creepy consequentialism in their 2010 book Because It Is
Wrong. They argue that torture is wrong not just when it is inflicted on innocents, and not
just when it fails to produce lifesaving information, but always and everywhere.
That claim is bolder than it may seem. As the Frieds note, most commentators "make an
exception for grave emergencies," as in "the socalled tickingbomb scenario," where
torturing a terrorist is the only way to prevent an imminent explosion that will kill many
people. "These arguments try to have it both ways," they write. "Torture is never justified, but
then in some cases it might be justified after all." The contradiction is reconciled "by
supposing that the justifying circumstances will never come up."
The Senate Intelligence Committee report released last week, for instance, argues that the
CIA's brutal methods did not yield valuable information that could not have been obtained
through other means. In fact, it says, waterboarding and the other "enhanced interrogation
techniques" were often counterproductive, eliciting false information or discouraging
cooperation.
Maybe that's true, but it's awfully convenient. If torture is never useful, eschewing it entails
no tradeoffs. It is a costfree commitment.
The Frieds' argument requires no such assumption. They acknowledge that torture may save
lives but reject it anyway, arguing that "there are things worse than death."
They offer an example that most people would consider beyond the pale: Suppose the most
effective way to elicit lifesaving information from a terrorist is to torture his child. Is that
tactic morally acceptable, provided the payoff is big enough?
If not, then certain forms of torture are absolutely wrong. The Frieds go further, contending
that "innocence and guilt are irrelevant to torture," which desecrates "the image of God" or, in
the secular version of the argument, "the ultimate value of the human form as it is
incorporated in every person."
The Frieds argue that we lose our humanity by denying someone else's, by treating him as an
animal to be beaten into submission or an object to be bent or broken at will. "To make him
writhe in pain, to injure, smear, mutilate, render loathsome and disgusting the envelope of
what is most precious to each of us," they write, "is to be the agent of ultimate evil—no matter
how great the evil we hope to avert by what we do."
That is just a taste of the Frieds' argument, which deserves to be considered at length. It
surely will not persuade Dick Cheney, but it goes beyond mere squeamishness in an attempt
to articulate the moral intuition underlying legal bans on torture and other forms of
degrading treatment.
If the Frieds' reliance on the concept of sacredness strikes you as superstitious, consider what
can happen when nothing is sacred. During a 2005 debate, John Yoo, who helped formulate
the legal rationale for the interrogation techniques the Frieds condemn, was asked whether
encouraging a prisoner's cooperation by crushing his child's testicles would be legal as well.
Yoo replied that "it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that."
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What Heidegger
Was Hiding
Unearthing the Philosopher's
Anti-Semitism
Gregory Fried
Heidegger und der Mythos der jiidischen
Welt'Verschworung (Heidegger and the
Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy)
BY PETER TRAWNY. Klostermann,
2014, 124 pp. € 15. 80.
T
he German philosopher Martin
Heidegger died in 1976, yet
scholars are still plowing through
his life's work today-some of it for
the very first time. Indeed, few modern
thinkers have been as productive: once
published in their entirety, his complete
works will comprise over 100 volumes.
Fewer still have rivaled his reach:
Heidegger deeply influenced some of
the twentieth century's most important
philosophers, among them Leo Strauss,
Jean-Paul Sartre, Hannah Arendt, and
Jacques Derrida. And although Heidegger's work is most firmly entrenched
in the Western tradition, his readership is
global, with serious followings in Latin
America, China, Japan, and even Iran.
But Heidegger's legacy also bears a
dark stain, one that his influence has never
quite managed to wash out. Heidegger
joined the Nazi Party in the spring of
GREGORY FRIED is Professor of Ph ilosophy at
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1933, ran the University of Freiburg
on behalf of the regime , and gave
impassioned speeches in support of
Adolf Hitler at key moments, including during the plebiscites in the fall of
1933, which solidified popular support
for Nazi policies.
Nevertheless , Heidegger managed
to emerge from World War II with his
reputation mostly intact. The Allies'
denazification program, which aimed
to rid German society of Nazi ideology,
targeted regime supporters just like
him. Freiburg came under French
control, and the new authorities there
forced Heidegger into retirement and
forbade him from teaching. But in 1950,
the now-independent university revoked
the ban . This resulted in large part
from Heidegger 's outreach campaign
to French intellectuals with anti-Nazi
credentials, including Sartre and the
resistance fighter Jean Beaufret. In
short order, Heidegger won over a
wide following in France. Once his
international reputation was secure,
the university gave him emeritus status
and allowed him to resume teaching.
To his new champions, Heidegger
portrayed himself as the typical unworldly philosopher, claiming that he
had joined the Nazi Party and accepted
Freiburg's rectorate primarily to defend
higher education from the worst excesses
of the regime. He insisted that he had
quickly realized his mistake, which led
him to resign as rector less than a year
into his term and start including veiled
critiques of the Nazis in his subsequent
lectures and writings.
Among European and American
intellectuals friendly to Heidegger, this
exculpatory narrative quickly became the
conventional wisdom. If the philosopher
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had betrayed a touch of anti-Semitism,
the logic went, it was only of the kind
that had been ubiquitous in Germany
(and most of Europe) before the war:
a conservative, cultural reflex that was
nothing like Hitler's viciously ideological
racism. Moreover, Heidegger had many
Jewish students, one of whom, Arendt,
was also his lover. After the war and long
after their passions had waned, Arendt
resumed contact with Heidegger and
helped get his work translated into
English. Would an inveterate opponent
of the Nazis really have assisted an
unrepentant anti-Semite? Not everyone
was convinced of Heidegger's innocence,
but his defenders worked hard to protect
the philosophical work from its author's
scandal. And until recently, the strategy
largely worked.
The official story began to wear
thin in the 1980s, however, when two
scholars, Hugo Ott and Victor Farias,
using newly uncovered documents,
each challenged Heidegger's claim
that his brush with Nazism had been
a form of reluctant accommodation.
More recently, in 2005, the French
philosopher Emmanuel Faye drew on
newly discovered seminar transcripts
from the Nazi period to argue that
Heidegger's thinking was inherently
fascist even before Hitler's rise to
power. Faye accused the French
Heideggerians of having orchestrated
a cover-up of Heidegger's political
extremism and advocated banishing
Heidegger's work from the field of
philosophy; no one, Faye said, should
associate the greatest barbarism of
the twentieth century with the West's
most exalted tradition of reason and
enlightenment. In response, Heidegger's
defenders labeled Faye's textual interpre-
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tations tendentious and resorted to a
variation on Heidegger's old argument:
that he had quickly grasped his error
and realized that Nazism was nothing
more than hubristic nihilism. Still, it
was hard to explain away the depth of
commitment that Faye had uncovered .
Now, Peter Trawny, the director of
the Martin Heidegger Institute at the
University of Wuppertal, in Germany,
has waded into this long-running controversy with a short but incisive new book,
recently published in German. Trawny's
meticulous and sober work introduces an
entirely new set of sources: a collection
of black notebooks in which Heidegger
regularly jotted down his thoughts, a
practice he began in the early 1930s
and continued into the 1970s. Trawny,
who is also the editor of the published
notebooks, calls them "fully developed
philosophical writings." That's a bit
strong for a collection of notes, but
Heidegger clearly intended them to
serve as the capstone to his published
works, and they contain his unexpurgated reflections on this key period.
Shortly before his death, Heidegger
wrote up a schedule stipulating that the
notebooks be published only after all
his other writings were. That condition
having been met, Trawny has so far
released three volumes (totaling roughly
1,200 pages), with five more planned.
Trawny's new book caused a sensation
among Heidegger scholars even before
it appeared in print, in large part because
several inflammatory passages quoted
from the notebooks, previously unpublished and containing clearly anti-Semitic
content, were leaked from the page
proofs. But with the book now released,
Trawny's novel line of analysis is creating its own stir. Drawing on the new
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material, Trawny makes two related
arguments : first, that Heidegger's
anti-Semitism was deeply entwined
with his philosophical ideas and, second,
that it was distinct from that of the
Nazis. Trawny deals with the notebooks
that Heidegger composed in 1931-41,
which include the years after he resigned
as rector of the University of Freiburg,
in 1934. As the notebooks make clear,
Heidegger was far from an unthinking
Nazi sympathizer. Rather, he was deeply
committed to his own philosophical
form of anti -Semitism- one he felt
the Nazis failed to live up to.
BEING MARTIN HEIDEGGER
It is hard to exaggerate just how ambitious Heidegger was in publishing his
breakout work, Being and Time, in 1927.
In that book, he sought nothing less
than a redefinition of what it meant to
be human, which amounted to declaring
war on the entire philosophical tradition
that preceded him. Western thought,
Heidegger argued, had taken a wrong
turn beginning with Plato, who had
located the meaning of being in the
timeless, unchanging realm of ideas. In
Plato's view, the world as humans knew
it was like a cave; its human inhabitants
could perceive only the shadows of true
ideals that lay beyond. Plato was thus
responsible for liberalism in the broadest sense: the notion that transcendent,
eternal norms gave meaning to the
mutable realm of human affairs. Today,
modern liberals call those rules universal
values, natural laws, or human rights.
But for Heidegger, there was no
transcendence and no Platonic Godno escape, in effect, from the cave.
Meaning lay not in serving abstract
ideals but in confronting one's place
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within the cave itself: in how individuals
and peoples inhabited their finite existence through time. Heidegger's conception of human being required belonging
to a specific, shared historical context or
national identity. Platonic universalism
undermined such collective forms of
contingent, historical identity. In the eyes
of a transcendent God or natural law,
all people-whether Germans, Russians,
or Jews-were essentially the same.
As Heidegger put it in a 1933 lecture
at Freiburg:
If one interprets [Plato's] ideas as
representations and thoughts that
contain a value, a norm, a law, a rule,
such that ideas then become conceived
of as norms, then the one subject to
these norms is the human being-not
the historical human being, but rather
the human being in general.
It was against this rootless, "general"
conception of humanity, Heidegger told
his students, that "we must struggle ."
By "we," Heidegger meant Germany
under Hitler's National Socialist regime,
which he hoped would play a central role
in such an effort. Heidegger followed in
a long line of German intellectuals, going
as far back as the eighteenth century, who
believed that the country was destined
to play a transformative role in human
history-a kind of modern rejoinder to
the creative glory of ancient Greece. For
Heidegger, this meant replacing the
old, Platonic order with one grounded
in his vision of historical being. In the
early 1930s, he came to see Hitler's
National Socialist movement, with its
emphasis on German identity, as the
best chance of bringing about such a
revolutionary change. And in the Jews,
he saw a shared enemy.
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FOLLOWING PROTOCOL
As Trawny's title suggests, both Hitler's
and Heidegger's view of the Jews grew
out of a particular form of German
anti-Semitism that was rampant after
World War I. This strain of thinking,
which saw Jews as part of a monolithic,
transnational conspiracy, was crystallized in "The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion," a forged document that first
appeared in Russia in 1903 and made
its way to Germany in 1920. Originally
published by Russian monarchists to
scapegoat the Jews for the tsar's military
defeats and the subsequent upheaval,
the protocols purported to be minutes
from a series of meetings held by Jewish
leaders bent on world domination.
According to the alleged transcript, the
plotters sought to manipulate international finance, culture, and media; promote extreme ideas and radical political
movements; and foment war to destabilize existing powers. Hitler devoured the
tract, which he swiftly employed as Nazi
propaganda. It hit a nerve in Germany,
still traumatized by World War I, beset by
economic chaos, and subject to extreme
political instability-all of which could
now be attributed to the Jews.
Trawny does not argue that Heidegger
read the protocols or agreed with all
their contentions. Rather, he suggests
that like so many other Germans,
Heidegger accepted their basic premise, which Hitler hammered home in
his speeches and in Nazi propaganda.
As evidence, Trawny cites the German
philosopher and Heidegger colleague
Karl Jaspers, who recalled in his memoir a conversation he had with Heidegger
in 1933. When Jaspers brought up "the
vicious nonsense about the Elders of
Zion," Heidegger reportedly expressed
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his genuine concern: "But there is a
dangerous international alliance of the
Jews," he replied.
Yet Hitler and Heidegger embraced
anti-Semitic conspiracy theories for
different reasons. Whereas the former
argued that the Jews posed a racial
threat (a fear for which the protocols
offered evidence), the latter saw them
as a philosophical one. The Jews, as
uprooted nomads serving a transcendent God-albeit sometimes through
their secular activities-embodied the
very tradition that Heidegger wanted
to overturn. Moreover, as Trawny points
out, Heidegger found race deeply problematic. He did not dismiss the concept
altogether; if understood as a biological
feature of a particular people, race might
well inform that people's historical
trajectory. But he rejected using race
as the primary determinant of identity.
For Heidegger, racism was itself a function of misguided metaphysical thinking,
because it presumed a biological, rather
than historical, interpretation of what
it meant to be human. By "fastening"
people into "equally divided arrangement," he wrote in the notebooks, racism
went "hand in hand with a self-alienation
of peoples-the loss of history." Instead
of obsessing over racial distinctions,
Germans needed to confront their
identity as an ongoing philosophical
question. Heidegger overtly criticized
the Nazis for their fixation on biological
identity, but he also lambasted the Jews
for the same sin. "The Jews," he wrote
in the notebooks, "have already been
'living' for the longest time according to
the principle of race."
Heidegger's anti-Semitism differed
from that of the typical Nazi in other
important ways. To many of Hitler's
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supporters, for example, the protocols
reinforced the view that the Jews were
essentially un-German, incapable of
properly integrating with Germany's
way of life or even understanding its
spirit. But Heidegger took this notion
further, arguing that the Jews belonged
truly nowhere. "For a Slavic people,
the nature of our German space would
definitely be revealed differently from
the way it is revealed to us," Heidegger
told his students in a 1934 seminar.
"To Semitic nomads, it will perhaps
never be revealed at all." Moreover,
Heidegger said, history had shown that
"nomads have also often left wastelands
behind them where they found fruitful
and cultivated land." By this logic, the
Jews were rootless; lacking a proper
home, all they had was allegiance to
one another.
Another anxiety reflected in the
protocols and in Hitler's propaganda
concerned the perceived power of this
stateless, conspiratorial Jewry-be it in
banking, finance, or academia. But for
Heidegger, the success of Europe's Jews
was a symptom of a broader philosophical
problem. Playing on the tired cliche
of Jews as clever with abstractions and
calculation, the notebooks make a more
general critique of modern society:
The temporary increase in the power
of Jewry has its basis in the fact that the
metaphysics of the West, especially
in its modern development, served as
the hub for the spread of an otherwise
empty rationality and calculative
skill, which in this way lodged itself
in the "spirit."
In forgetting what it meant to be finite
and historical, in other words, the West
had become obsessed with mastering
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and controlling beings-a tendency
nothing against Hitler's laws targeting
Heidegger called "machination," or the
the Jews. Although Heidegger resigned
will to dominate nature in all its forms,
as rector of Freiburg before Hitler
ranging from raw materials to human
passed the Nuremberg Laws, which
beings themselves. And with their "calcuclassified German citizens according to
lative skill," the Jews had thrived in this
race, he had assumed the role in 1933,
distorted "spirit" of the modern age.
just after the Nazis enacted their first
At the same time, the Jews were
anti-Jewish codes, which excluded Jews
not, in Heidegger's view, merely passive from civil service and university posts
beneficiaries of Western society's "empty (and which Heidegger helped implerationality" and liberal ideology; they
ment). During a lecture in the winter
were active proponents of them. "The
of 1933-34, he warned a hall full of
role of world Jewry," Heidegger wrote
students that "the enemy can have
in the notebooks, was a "metaphysical
attached itself to the innermost roots "
question about the kind of humanity
of the people and that they, the German
that, without any restraints, can take
students, must be prepared to attack
over the uprooting of all beings from
such an enemy "with the goal of total
Being as its world-historical 'task."' Even annihilation." Heidegger did not specify
if the Jews could not be blamed for the
"the enemy," but for the Nazis, they
introduction of Platonism or for its hold included Germany 's communists; its
over Western society, they were the chief Roma, or Gypsies; and, above all, its
carriers of its "task." By asserting liberal Jews . This chilling prefiguration of
rights to demand inclusion in such nations Hitler's Final Solution is unmistakable,
as Germany, the Jews were estranging
and Heidegger never explained, let
those countries' citizens from their
alone apologized for, such horrendous
humanity-the shared historical identity statements.
that made them distinct from other
peoples. This reasoning formed the
DEATH OF A PHILOSOPHER
basis for a truly poisonous hostility
Trawny ends his analysis by arguing
toward the Jews, and it was perhaps
that the anti-Semitism of the notebooks
Heidegger's most damning judgment
will require a thorough reevaluation of
of them. Now that the notebooks have
Heidegger's thought, and he is right. Even
come into the light, however, such
if, as Trawny is at pains to remind his
passages constitute the most damning
readers, the notebooks show that Heievidence against the philosopher himself. degger became increasingly critical of the
So what did Heidegger think should
Nazis as early as 1933, they also demonbe done about the Jews? Did he agree
strate just how firmly his anti-Semitism
with the Nazi policies? The notebooks
was rooted in his philosophical ideas.
give readers little to go on; Heidegger
Scholars now need to answer new
seems to have had no taste for detailed
questions about Heidegger's motivations.
policy discussions. Nevertheless, the
For one thing, how could he have been
philosopher spoke through his silence.
so hostile to the Jews if he had so many
Despite his criticism of the Nazis and
Jewish students and a Jewish mistress?
their crude biological racism, he wrote
Trawny offers some insight into this
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puzzle by pointing to the notion of the
so-called exceptional Jew, an idea that
circulated among even the most virulent
anti-Semites, including top Nazis.
According to this view, in spite of the
baleful impact of the Jewish people as
a whole, rare Jewish individuals could
stand out. Trawny cites Arendt herself,
who reminded readers in Eichmann in
Jerusalem that Hitler himself was thought
to have lent personal protection to
340 "first-rate Jews" by awarding them
German or half-Jewish status. In deeming these Jews exceptions, such practices
actually reinforced the general rule by
allowing anti-Semites to explain away
as anomalies those Jews with whom
they felt some personal connection.
Another open question concerns
Heidegger's intentions in prescribing,
much less allowing, that the notebooks
be published. Initially, of course, Heidegger kept them hidden to conceal
their critique of the Nazis, and after
the war, given his experience with the
denazification process, he must have
feared they would harm his reputation.
So why release the notebooks at all, and
as the capstone to his collected works?
A charitable answer is that Heidegger
wanted to set the record straight, to
submit all the facts to public scrutiny.
A more sinister explanation is that he
remained loyal to his own understanding of the National Socialist revolution,
even if he believed that the movement
had betrayed him. In either case, he
clearly didn't want to be around to deal
with the fallout.
Whatever the philosopher's motivations, the notebooks will almost certainly
pell the end of Heidegger as an intellecual cult figure, and that is a welcome
evelopment. Richard Wolin, an intel-
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lectual historian and longtime critic of
Heidegger's politics, leaves open the
possibility of a qualified philosophical
engagement with Heidegger's work but
argues that scholars will have to tread
carefully. As he wrote in the Jewish Revie
of Books last summer, "Any discussion
of Heidegger's legacy that downplays
or diminishes the extent of his political
folly stands guilty, by extension, of
perpetuating the philosophical betrayal
initiated by the Master himself."
But Heidegger might well have wanted
the cultish obsession with his persona to
die in order for his philosophical questions
to live on. He wanted his readers to feel
the full force of his questions on their own
terms, not to fixate on his or any other
particular responses to them. The motto
Heidegger chose for his collected writings
was therefore fitting: "Ways, not works."Q}
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Protests Inspire 'The Diversity of Outrage'
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Nelson.
As protesters across the nation demonstrate against police action and grand jury inaction
in the Michael Brown shooting and Eric Garner chokehold deaths, Suffolk University Law
School Dean Camille Nelson expresses hope that change may come, debuting her essay
“The Diversity of Outrage” on WGBH News.
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“I teach law, I respect the rule of law, I advocate for the rule of law, but at the same time
the system is broken and needs to be fixed,” Nelson told WGBH News.
She says her essay was born out of a necessity to remain optimistic during a time of
national tragedy.
“Some good has to come of these tragedies and all this turmoil and upheaval in our
country,” she said.
Nelson says she found the diversity among protesters particularly promising. “I saw... faces of every color, all ethnicities, different religions... men, women,
transgender individuals – united… That brought a smile to my face.”
That optimism, she says, is how “The Diversity of Outrage" was born
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In the midst of it all:
I am grateful for the diversity of outrage;
I am grateful that the world is watching;
I am grateful that young people are activated
and mobilizing;
I am grateful that older people are activated
and reengaged;
I am grateful that technology will help to
chronicle, spread the word, educate, and
deter;
I am grateful that many are realizing we are
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during a protest at the police station, Oct. 13, 2014,
in Ferguson, Mo.
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I am grateful that structures and systems are being critiqued, as well as individuals;
I am grateful that students are talking, seeking, and doing;
I am grateful that our complacency cannot continue;
I am grateful that some politicians are being honest and authentic in their response;
I am grateful that more leaders are emerging;
I am grateful that it is a small world and all are hearing;
I am grateful that we can never be the same, because we cannot continue in this way;
We know the lessons of history—movements are born out of turmoil. Transformation is
inevitable. Change will come. Warren makes her mark
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s crusade against the $1.1 trillion spending bill backed by the White House firmly establishes the Massachusetts
populist as a powerful player in Washington.
The freshman Democrat took on President Obama and her party’s leadership, and appeared to inspire an uprising in the House.
The fight earned her comparisons to Texas firebrand Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, another relative newcomer to the Senate who has shown
outsized clout in his party. Warren lost the battle in the House when the spending bill was approved in a latenight 219206 vote, and the fight is now moving to Warren’s
turf in the Senate.
If she continues to fight hard against the bill, it will pull her into a deeper clash with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (DNev.), who backed
the spending deal and has just named Warren to his leadership team.
She may also be in battle with Sen. Charles Schumer (DN.Y.), the thirdranking member of the Democratic leadership and a possible rival to
Warren who represents New York’s powerful financial industry.
Peter Ubertaccio, a political science professor at Stonehill College in Massachusetts, who follows Warren’s career, said that this week,
Warren demonstrated a better feel for the sentiments of her party than her leadership.
“If she’s able to succeed in the Senate at the expense of her own leadership team — the team that she’s on — it will have the practical impact
of moving the center of power away from folks like Schumer and toward her,” he said. “That’s pretty significant for a freshman senator that’s
been brought into the leadership.
It could also reverberate in the 2016 presidential race, which liberal Democrats are dying for Warren to enter as a rival to former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton.
David Paleologos, the director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said Warren is now a national figure in a tradition of
influential Massachusetts politicians who have run for president such as former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D), former Gov. Michael Dukakis (D),
former Gov. Mitt Romney (R), former Sen. John Kerry (D) and former Sen. Paul Tsongas (D).
Warren’s efforts also carried risks, and rubbed some Democrats the wrong way. Critics saw her efforts as a play for media attention ahead of
a potential presidential campaign — something that Warren has repeatedly expressed no interest in pursuing. “I have to assume Elizabeth Warren is running for president. That’s what you do when you run for president. You get out front,” said Rep. Jim
Moran (DVa.), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee who backed the spending bill opposed by Warren.
Warren exhorted fellow Democrats to defeat the spending bill because it repealed a key provision of the 2010 DoddFrank Wall Street reform
law. The change would allow big banks covered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to trade in derivatives, which Warren said
would increase the chances of a financial crisis and bailout.
Opposition among Democrats built and built after Warren declared war on the measure. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (DCalif.) position appeared to harden to the point on Thursday where she delivered a tough floor
speech announcing her opposition and harshly criticizing the White House.
Maybe that would have happened without Warren, but lawmakers in the trenches believe she made a difference.
“She was very influential,” Moran said.
David Di Martino, a Democratic strategist and former Senate aide, warned Warren’s battle with party leaders could have a downside. “I think Sen. Warren has recognized here is an opportunity to be the voice of the progressive side of the Democratic coalition and she’s taken
full advantage,” he said. “She’s definitely flexing her muscles but she needs to pick her battle. The DoddFrank issue is one that people can get behind but you can’t
pick that kind of a fight every day and ultimately be successful,” he added.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (DMd.) was one colleague who didn’t seem to appreciate Warren’s criticism
of the spending bill.
“After hours and hours the last several days I have heard what is wrong with this bill,” she said. “Now we’ve got to start talking about what are
the good aspects of this bill.”
Hours of pentup frustration appeared to boil over as Mikulski ticked off the benefits of the bill, her voice rising to a shout as she declared, “we
wanted to … fight Ebola, which had the American people near panic this summer!”
Much like Warren did with House liberals this week, Cruz rallied House conservatives last year to block a yearend government funding
measure that allowed the implementation of healthcare reform to proceed.
The episode vaulted him into the national spotlight and made him popular with many conservatives. But many of his colleagues were furious
over what they saw as politically selfish behavior.
“She did something very similar to what Cruz did last year, using her power and stature in the Senate to message to the House progressives,”
said a Senate GOP aide.
Warren’s allies reject the comparison, however. They argue that her stand against a policy rider that could put taxpayers on the hook for future
bank bailouts had bipartisan support while Cruz’s mission to block ObamaCare was purely partisan.
Republican Sen. David Vitter (La.) signed on to a letter Thursday urging Senate and House leaders to strip the DoddFrank language from the
spending bill.
“Ending 'too big to fail' is far from over. Before Congress starts handing out Christmas presents to the megabanks and Wall Street — we need
to be smart about this,” he said.
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CATCHY CAROLS HAVE long been a part of the holiday
season, but this December you might find yourself
humming a Broadway tune instead.
For the past decade, it seems as though yearend entertainment has been taken over by movie adaptations of classic musicals. Some, such
as "The Producers" (2005) and "Nine" (2009),
haven't done well at the box office or with critics,
but there have been enough blockbusters, such as
"Dreamgirls" (2006) and "Les Miserables" (2012),
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a remake of ''Annie" and a film adaptation of the
Stephen Sondheim musical "Into the Woods" are
highly anticipated at theaters.
And it's not just happening on the silver screen.
Last year NBC undertook the challenge of "The
Sound of Music Live!," which featured country
star Carrie Underwood in the role of Maria von
Trapp. Despite the comparisons to the muchloved 1965 movie classic, the live broadcast was
a smash. So NBC tried again this year with "Peter
Pan Live!" starring Allison Williams (of HBO's
"Girls") and Christopher Walken on Dec. 4. The
network has already announced plans are under
way for a live broadcast of "The Music Man."
While not officially on the holiday schedule for
2015, it seems likely NBC will continue to build on
the success of its previous year-end programming.
Suffolk University theater department chair
and Boston Music Theatre Project founding director Marilyn Plotkins says the shows' familiar stories are a factor in holiday programming. "These
musicals are like comfort food," Ms. Plotkins says.
In addition, while some musicals that have
come to theaters are more cynical with darker
themes, the positive messages of stories like
''Annie" fit well with the holiday season focus of
looking at the good in the world.
"They draw on this very deep need to feel
hopeful," Plotkins says.
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Despite areas of progTess, some harsh realities depicted in the Dickens classic still haunt us
BY JAY FITZGERALD
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year before publishing his classic ''A Christmas Carol," Charles
Dickens landed in Boston in
1842 on the first leg of his tour
of the United States.
Dickens arrived during a period that, in some ways, might not
seem much different from today. The country was reeling from a financial panic that had begun five years
earlier, causing an economic depression that spurred
bank failures, widespread unemployment, and revolts
in the countryside over mortgage payments.
At the same time, society was struggling to adapt to
disruptive technologies - in Dickens's era, the Industrial Revolution - undermining traditional employers, dislocating workers, and expanding the gap
between rich and poor.
"Dickens was writing at a stage similar to what
we've just gone through economically," says Alasdair
Roberts, a law professor at Suffolk University and author of ''America's First Great Depression: Economic
Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837."
"The general tenor of our times is very similar to his:'
So what if Dickens, perhaps accompanied by one of
the ghost characters made famous in "A Christmas
Carol;' were to return to Boston and other US cities today? Certainly, he'd see the progress in addressing the
social and economic ills chronicled in the novel
through measures such as child labor laws, social safety net, and other programs designed to help the poor,
elderly, and vulnerable. But he might also be surprised
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that some things have not
changed.
'Are there no prisons? Are
there no workhouses?'
In ''A Christmas Carol," the pro-
tagonist, the miser Ebenezer
Scrooge, is asked to donate money
to help ease the sufferings of the
poor. Scrooge refuses, noting that
his taxes help support institutions
available to the impoverished.
''Are there no prisons?" he asks.
''Are there no workhouses?"
Public workhouses were often
stark, overcrowded, prison-like
places where paupers lived and
were forced to work for room and
board, breaking stones, making
sacks, or manually driving corn
mills. They are a thing of the past
today, though occasionally state
and federal officials still have to
crack down on unscrupulous employers, such as human traffickers
who smuggle illegal immigrants
into the country and treat them
like indentured servants in restaurants and other businesses.
Today, many of the poor end up
in homeless shelters. More Boston
residents are living in shelters today than in any of 25 major cities
surveyed across the country, according to a recent report by the
US Conference of Mayors. Homelessness has risen faster in Massachusetts than anywhere else in the
country, up 40 percent since 2007,
according to a recent report by the
US Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
Today, nearly 4, 700 families
with children live in emergency
homeless shelters in Massachusetts, 1,600 of them in rented motel rooms, costing taxpayers tens
of millions of dollars per year for
motels alone.
Meanwhile, the United States
has the infamous distinction of incarcerating about 1.5 million people in state and federal prisons,
the highest incarceration rate in
the industrialized world; nearly
11,000 are in Massachusetts prisons.
''A lot of people today ultimately end up in prison because they
started out poor," said Anne
McCants, an economic historian
at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. "So I'm not so sure it's
all that different today than it was
in Dickens's time:'
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In the novel, Scrooge's overworked and underpaid clerk, Bob
Cratchit, is stunned when Scrooge
reluctantly gives him Christmas
Day off- with pay.
Today, many low-paid and
overworked retail, fast-food, and
other employees would be equally
stunned to get holidays off, with
pay, let alone receive other benefits. "The working poor, for the
most part, still don't get paid holidays;' said McCants.
Indeed, some retailers require
low-paid employees to work on
another holiday, Thanksgiving, to
sell more Christmas presents.
They do get paid, though.
Recently, low-wage workers
have had seen some progress on
the benefits front. In November,
171 years after a "A Christmas
Carol" was published, Massachusetts voters approved a ballot
measure entitling employees to
receive up to 40 hours of paid sick
time each year if they work for
businesses with 11 or more employees.
Employees at smaller firms can
earn 40 hours of annual sick time
- but they are unpaid.
'Ignorance and Want'
Accompanied by the Ghost of
Christmas Present, Scrooge confronts two impoverished children,
twins called Ignorance and Want.
To Dickens, "ignorance" is
partly a reference to children of
his era not receiving even the
most basic education. In Massachusetts, the Puritans introduced
a form of compulsory education in
the mid-1600s, and compulsory
attendance at public schools was
implemented in 1852, nine years
after publication of ''A Christmas
Carol."
More recently, education reforms in Massachusetts have led
to higher test scores for all students across the state, but there's
also been a persistent "achievement gap" in student perfor-
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towns.
Some believe this education
gap has only exacerbated income
inequality here and elsewhere,
with those getting better educations tending to nab much higherpaying jobs.
As for "want," a recent report
by the US Census Bureau said that
child poverty has recently risen in
Massachusetts, with one in six
children now growing up in poverty and often living in emergency
shelters.
Tiny Tim and health care
In ''A Christmas Carol;' Scrooge
is warned that Bob Cratchit's disabled son, the sweet, gentle Tiny
Tim, will die unless he gets proper
care. Cratchit, laboring for low
wages, can't afford the necessary
medical care.
Today, Massachusetts has come
far in making sure most everyone
has access to health care, implementing a universal health care
system in 2007 and lowering the
uninsured rate for children from
nearly 5 percent to less than 2 percent, according to Health Care for
All, a nonprofit advocacy group.
But that still means about one
in 50 children is not covered by
health insurance.
And even though all children
are entitled to medical services
under state laws, they don't always get it, either because their
guardians can't afford copayments or the system is too complicated, said Brian Rosen, research
director at Health Care for All.
Still, Massachusetts residents
are better off than the rest of the
nation, where 11 percent of the
population still lives without private or public health insurance despite implementation of the
federal Affordable Care Act.
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In ''A Christmas Carol," Dickens slips in a sly dig at the United
States, referring to how the passage of time benefited Scrooge,
who worked in finance, in terms
of collecting interest on bonds.
Without time, there would be no
interest and bonds would be
worthless, like "mere United
States' securities," Dickens writes.
Suffolk University's Roberts
says the phrase apparently refers
to the many American states that
defaulted on loans after the 1837
financial panic, leading to big
losses for investors in Britain and
elsewhere.
More recently, investors from
Norway and other countries lost
millions of dollars buying US subprime mortgage securities. They
might empathize with Dickens on
that point.
Jay Fitzgerald can be reached at
[email protected].
'Mere United States' securities'
And what comparison of the
early 1840s to modern times
would be complete without a reference to the financial system?
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Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced Wednesday that he planned to spur construction of
moderately priced housing on underused land along subway lines in South Boston and
Jamaica Plain by allowing developers to build larger buildings with fewer parking
spaces.
In a speech to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Walsh said sections near the
MBTA’s Red and Orange lines would be designated as transitoriented growth zones. A
Boston Redevelopment Authority task force will examine the two desolate urban
stretches and recommend zoning changes to encourage development.
Walsh offered few specifics about his plan, but said it was needed to lower rents, spur
retail investment, and “breathe new life into underdeveloped streets.” The mayor has
targeted Dorchester Avenue in South Boston between Andrew Square and Broadway,
and the Orange Line in Jamaica Plain between Forest Hills and Jackson Square.
“The T stops in these great neighborhoods should be embedded in thriving, healthy,
walkable communities,” Walsh said. “More zones will come. When other neighborhoods
see the kind of vibrancy that smart density produces, the conversation about new
housing across our city will change for the better.”
Transitoriented growth aims to reduce prices by allowing more density. The Walsh
administration has identified land near transit hubs across the city that could be used to
create new neighborhoods with thousands of units of housing. The land is on the edges
of existing residential areas and much of it is vacant, owned by the state, or once was
used by light industry.
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Leung: Making a bet with
Walsh
Shirley Leung is betting that Marty Walsh still won’t
have a permanent Boston Redevelopment Authority
director by Jan. 8.
Encouraging construction would lower rents and provide other significant benefits, said
Walsh’s housing chief, Sheila Dillon. “With the right density, we are confident that
neighborhood amenities will follow, such as restaurants and bakeries and retail,” Dillon
said. “We’re not just building housing. We’re building communities.”
Creating density near public transportation can reduce construction costs and rents,
increase opportunities for retail, and eliminate the need for cars, said Richard Taylor,
director of the Center for Real Estate at Suffolk University.
But proposals with limited parking can be a flashpoint in urban areas already strained
by too many cars and too few places to park them.
“It is going to be very important to do a significant amount of outreach to
neighborhoods in preparation for density discussions,” Taylor said. “Historically, many
residents have reacted cautiously to the issues of density and the absence of parking,
and we all understand why.”
If Boston wants to create more affordable housing, it must take deliberate steps, said
Gregory Vasil, chief executive of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board and a member of
Walsh’s transition team.
“I don’t know how to do it, other than with less parking, to meet those price points to
make these deals work so people can actually rent them,” Vasil said.
In Walsh’s speech to several hundred business leaders at the Westin Copley Place Hotel,
the mayor offered an upbeat assessment of his first 11 months in office, ticking off
several statistics that he said showed the impact of his administration.
“We hit the ground running, and we didn’t let up,” Walsh said. “We set new standards
in development, education, public safety, housing, public health, and infrastructure —
the building blocks of our great city.”
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Brian Golden was named permanent director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority on
Wednesday.
Walsh announced that Brian Golden will become permanent director of the Boston
Redevelopment Authority. The mayor also announced that his administration has
proposed a tax break to keep the headquarters of cloud computing company LogMeIn
in Boston.
When Walsh took office, he vowed not to micromanage development, but Wednesday
he challenged architects to come up with bold designs. Walsh said after the speech that
some of the architecture “could be better” in Boston’s booming Seaport. He took aim at
square buildings, expressed his dislike for concrete cinder block, and said “brick is
beautiful.”
“When you’re . . . coming into Boston Harbor, I think that the first thing you see
shouldn’t be a building that’s a square building,” Walsh said. “It should be something
that’s special. I think there’s an opportunity for us to do some unique designs down on
the waterfront.”
In his speech, Walsh mentioned education, but did not address the search for a schools
superintendent, which he has repeatedly described as his most important decision as
mayor. Walsh originally vowed to name a superintendent by September, but the city
extended the search, which the mayor said increased the pool of applicants from
roughly 40 to 60.
“Right now, the timeline is somewhere in early to midFebruary we will have a
decision,” Walsh told reporters.
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Watchdog dredges up
private-funding idea
for Hub harbor project
By MARIE SZANISZLO
Massport and members
of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation say
taxpayers will see a return
on their $310 million investment in a Boston Harbor dredging project in the
form of economic development, but one watchdog
said the quasipublic agency
should look to the private
: sector to come up with the
additional $200 million it
: now says it needs to handle
the expected increase in
container shipment traffic.
"What's
relevant
is
whether we want taxpayers
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: money, particularly with all
: the uncertainties." said Da: vid Tuerck of the Beacon
Hill Institute, a Suffolk UniveMity think tank.
:
att Brelis, a Massport
' spokesman, said the state's
so-called Pacheco law
could make privatization
' difficult. U.S. Rep. Stephen
: F. Lynch and state Rep.
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TRANSPORTATION
Nick Collins have called for
Massport to back off privatization, while U.S. Sen. Edward Markey said he would
be open to private, state or
federal funding, or some
combination of the three.
Massport also is considering opening up a real estate
zone for private developers
to build on Massport property near the Conley Terminal, Brelis said.
At a lavish party yesterday to thank lawmakers
for the $310 million they
secured to dredge the harbor to attract mammoth
vessels, Markey said when
the Army Corps of Engineers completes the project in 2017, Boston will
see a "dramatic" increase
in cargo moving through
the port. Massport CEO
Thomas P. Glynn said the
agency already has secured
contracts with Mediterranean Shipping Company,
Evergreen and Costco, as
well as smaller companies,
for their ships to use the
harbor.
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••"'-,~ THE LEGAL WORD by susie Salmon
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H(App)y Holidays: Apps for Legal Writers
Last year at this tin1e,
P h raseo logy docs
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fe ature
hi g hligh ts re,tdabi litv
iss ues as " ·d l as
potential
spelling
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ami grammar errors.
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Kathleen Vinso n, a lcgal-wti ting protcssor .u Sut1iJi k Univcrsirv Lall"
School in Boston , has created iWrite Lega l, an app designed to help you
improve yo ur legal-ll'ritin g skills. It includes
legal-wtiting checklists and advice, as wel l as
link.' ro Internet reso urces ti·om Suffolk's
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Twitter fl.:~d, YouTu bt..: videos, Jnd pod cast~).
Any of these
Each rip lm1ds on a single screen, And Vinson
provides short paragra phs of ac..h·ice on .1 \'aritty of topi(~, ti-om cutting Sll ll>lus words to
apps makes a
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thc..:mL:s intu your
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T he Legal Writing Check lists cm·cr all
stages of writing, from initial br.linstorming
to your virtual
to revision ~U1d proofre-ading. They cuC' you to
(Ullsidcr, fo r ex.tm plc, the purpusL: of your
doOI!llcnr) whcrhc..· r ~·o u \·e clearly as ked fOr
the..: ~peci fic rdief you seck, o r whcthcr you 'vc
sca nned yo ur work t(.>r unjustitiablt.: pas ·ivc
,-oicc. You check o ff coch task wirh a ro uch o f
bookshelf.
yo ur tinger as yo u compl ete it. Critics com-
plain the design ~o.:o uld be more user- friend! ~·, hut the co ntcnr is to pnotch . The good: You Glll down load i\-Vrirt: Lega l on iTuncs tOr free.
The bad: lr's o nl v fo r the il'od Touch, iPhone, or iPad.
General Writing Apps
Lf yo u o\·cruse adverbs, complex sc: nttnces, jargon, or the
passi,·c vo icc the arrest ing]~' titkd H emingway can help.
1
Susie Salmon !s Assistant Dlrect,:>r
of Lega! Writmg arld Associate Clmica1
Prn1cssor of Law ar The University of
Anmna. Jarnes E- Rogers College of Llw
Before join111g Anzona. Law, she spent
uine years as il rormnen::Lal rurgatm ai
large urms in lucson and l os Ange'es.
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H emingway uses different-colored high ligh tin g to tlag common barrit:rs tO eftl:ctivc \\' ritin g. Ad,·c rb~ arc highl ightctl in
blue..:, passive \u icc in g;n.;l:n , ,md complex wun..b or ph rases in
purple. Sentence> marked in yellow ,u-e hard to read; sentences
marked in red .u-e vcr\' hard to rc.1d. The mere t>Kt that
Hemi ngw:ty highl igh ts .1 word ~ ph r.1se, or sc:nrc nce doc~ n 'r
mean thJ t rou should ch.m gc: it wirlwu r considerin g rhc nutte r fitrther; bur the hi g hli g hting fimcrion c:u1 ' upplement
your rc\'ision checklist and hdp you make ~'our writing more
readable.
I think the focused scope nuke' Hcmilll;''"Y more usefi1l th.m
the gramm:u··check ti.u1et.ion on yow· word·proo:ssing pJogram,
but, like m:tny grammar ,Uld style :1pps, i[ ha o; irs limit.1ti on~J 3nd
it works best "-hen cl1e user exercises independent judgment.
H c:mjngway is now 3\·ai lablc a.s both a wc.:-b app and a dc~krup app
(to r both Windows and Mac) at ll"llw.hem ingwa\'app.com .
It'> al'ailab k lor $2.99
on iTuncs.
Citation Apps
The Rul ebook ap p ti1 r i !'ad and i !'hone
may make our o ld nemesis T11c Blucf.JOok
a~ u~cr- l i·icndly as it 's c..: vc..:r guing lO b..:.
Rulchook itself is a ti·ec app; llludmok is a
S39 .99 in app purchas.: . The app includes
the mti rc text uf 'l iJc Bluebook, including the
pracritioner tOcused Bluc:pngcs, th e rules in
the Whitepages, and all the robles. Altho ug h
the Jllucpagcs and \Vhitcpagcs .tllow you to
search text, rh e robles do not; yo u cann ot
usc the sc~1rc h fun cliun to see how tu abbre,·iatc ''t:ngincr1ing'' in a GISC name, J-(,r
cx~1mp lc..: , or to sec. whc rhcr there's :1 space
betwccn ·'F. 11 and ·• upp." But you GUl
boo kmJrk tJbk~ th Jt ~~ou usc treqw.:ntly t(uquick rd~rencc.
H ypcrlinks make the app e'-en more
uscti.d; when o ne Blucboo/1 rule rdi: rs tu
another, rh e lirsr rule hvpcrlinks to rh c
other. The searchable index also hypcrlinks
to rcicl·am sections of the tn t. ] I ~·ou 'rc
st.uting to need reading glasses (as I am ),
you can even im: rca ~c the sit.c uf the runt.
When 17Jc Wuclwl!k's editors release a ne\1"
edi ti on in 20 I S, vou will need rn pav tor
the update, but all o r vo ur bookmarks and
other norJrions will tr:mstCr ro rh..: new
t~.:xr; no word ycr o n vr·hcrhcr rh e update
will cost .ts much as the origim1 l down load .
I prctcr the clearer ALWD Guide ( now in .1
ne"- edition th:u gc ncr;Jtes Rlw:bno/i'·idcnti cal ci tatio ns! ) to T/;c Bltt<·book i.n its hardco p\' te rm, but the hypcrlinks and scarch ,, blc tex t in the app ve rsio n make the
Rukbook Bluebook mo re tempting .
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l ibrar~· of
rcfc n.:no..:~ o n your tab kt o r smartph u nc
makes it casic r to drafr and citc-che-..: k mo re
rcliablv at home or on the road. 8]
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