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Suffolk University
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November 2011
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 Allison, Robert
o High Point Enterprise – “Thorough research
shows Palin, Bachmann right”
o Town Crier &Tab – “Military History Group”
o The Boston Globe – “Noncandidate Menino a
force in today‟s vote”
 Bachman, Paul
o Boston Sunday Herald – “„Cash for Clunkers‟ a
lemon, studies say”
 Bain, Agnes
o Harvard Political Review – “Super but Silent”
 Baker, Kristin
o Boston Sunday Globe – “Staging Ground”
 Barber, Jennifer
o The New Yorker – “Contributions”
 Blum, Karen
o New England Cable News (NECN) – “Man
suing Boston, police officers over brutality”
 Clarke, Karen
o Lincoln Journal – “Suffolk University
Professor named „Most Admired Educator‟”
o DesignIntelligence – “DesignIntelligence 25
Most Admired Educators of 2012”
 Day, Kate
o The Boston Globe – “State takes steps to crack
down on human trafficking”
 Gopinath, C.
o Business Line – “No simple answers to US job
creation”
 Healey, Lisa
o Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly – “Simplicity
isn't „dumbed down‟ - it's smart and successful”
 Kindregan, Charles
o The Washington Post – “Justin Bieber paternity
accuser: What could her „credible evidence‟ be?”
 Mazen, Magid
o The Emily Rooney Show – “Egypt”
 Nelson, Camille
o Boston Banner – “Black Lawyers welcome two
new law school deans”
 O‟Neill, William
o Boston Sunday Globe – “Teaching students to
be citizens of the world”
 Perlman, Andrew
o ABA Journal – “Tuning Up”
o ABA Journal – “Despite Globalization,
Lawyers Find New Barriers to Practicing
Abroad”
 Powell, Benjamin
o Fox and Friends – “A Beacon Fading?”
o The Mississippi Press – “Think Again”
 Plotkins, Marilyn
o The Arlington Advocate – “Plotkins among
recipients of award”
 Roberts, Alasdair
o Thespec.com – “What trustees say about school
board investigation”
 Rosenthal, Robert
o Fox 25 News – “Cain Allegations”
 Stybel, Larry
o Harvard Business Review – “How to Job Hunt
With a Strike Against You”
 Tuerck, David
o PRNewswire – “AFFT Data Shows FairTax
Generates More Revenue”
 Yamada, David
o Christian Science Monitor – “Decoding gender
power plays”
o Times Union – “Live Smart”
o CNN – “Sexual harassment settlements: „cost of
doing business‟”
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Thorough research shows Palin~ Bachmann right
BY MICHAEL J. PAUS
n his heated rush to support
Kristine Kaiser's ad hominum
attacks on Sarah Palin and .
Michele Bachmann for being
"poor examples of educated
people," and to excoriate me for
not doing my homework, Robert
Schoch (Your View, Nov. 5 "The
facts show Kaiser's criticism was
on target") repeats Kaiser's error,
making his own nonexistent or
insufficient effort to discover
____________ thetrulli.One
I
GUEST COLUMN
should be
embarrassed
to consider it
"research" to visit a single leftslanted blog-o'-sphere website
only long enough to find support
for one's predetermined position.
Was Palin wrong when, after a
tour of both Revere's home and
the Old North Church in Boston,
she said that Revere had warned
the British? Professor RobertAl·
lison, History Department chairman, Suffolk University, noted
scholar and speaker on Revere,
during an interview by host Melissa Block on NPR said, "Revere
isn't trying to alert the British,
but he is trying to warn them. "
Later in llie interview, making
desperate attempts to prove Palin
wrong about somelliing, Block
said with obvious disappointment "So you think that, basically, on llie whole, Sarah Palin
got herl1istory right." Allison
replied, "Well, yeah, she did."
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville apparently agrees. Here is his quote
concerning Palin's controversial
statement: "Basically, when
Paul Revere was stopped by llie
British, he did say to them, 'Look,
lliere is a mobilization going on
here that you'll be confronting.' "
That sounds like a warning.
Mter studying llie issue,
Cornell law professor William
Jacobson, when questioned said,
"Palin's shouted statement ...
was less than clear; that sometimes happens but the part of
the statement which has people
screaming, lliat Revere warned
the British, that the colonial
militias were waiting - appears
to be true." Professor Jacobson
also said about Palin's statement
"It seems to be a historical fact
that this happened. A lot ofllie
criticism is unfair and made by
people who are themselves ignorant of history. " ConsiQering
that my homework is reasonably
complete, perhaps he is describing Kaiser and Schoch.
If interested, one can read
Revere's own written words, his
historical account of the episode,
wherein he recounts the events
of his warning to the British at:
http://www.iunericanrevolution.
org/ revere.html.
As to Bachmann, Schoch
misses the point completely, or
perhaps purposefully ignores it.
The point is not whether Bachmann'called them "founders,"
"Founding Fathers' or "forefathers." Who cares? When I listened to audio of her statement, I
thought she said "forefathers." If
she did use another word, I stand
corrected. Whatever they are
called, her belief about them is
correct. The political left has savaged Bachmann for her statement
that many "founders" worked
tirelessly to eliminate slavery.
Can thinking people read Article
I, Section 2 of our Constitution
and think otherwise? So many
American citizens are incredibly
ignorant of the Constitution's
three-fifths compromise, and its
reason for inclusion.
A majority (many?) of the representati:ves to the Constitutional
Convention were anti-slavery.
Concerning the issue of census-
based apportionment of delegates
to the House of Representatives, slave state conventioneers
wanted slaves to be counted as
whole persons, thereby giving
themselves more llian equal
representation in Congress. The
anti-slavers did not want slaves
to be counted at all, thinking by
such a move they could eventually abolish the practice of slavery
altogether, .
After intense argument, lobbying and debate, both sides
compromised and agreed to
count slaves as 3/ 5 of a person
for the purpose of representation
in Congress. This agreement
permanently relegated slave state
representation to a congressi9nal minority. The proof ofthis
policy's effectiveness came in
1804, when slave states proved.
powerless to stop Congress from
outlawing the importation of new
slaves to the nation. Thus, our
·"foUhders" tireless work began
slavery's eventuill end.
MICHAEL J. PAUS lives in High Point.
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Military
History
Group
Dr. Robert J.
Allison. second from
IN YOUR PAPER right. professor and chair
of Suffolk University's History Department. spoke in
October on "Nearly Forgotten Major Heroes:
Nathanael Greene, John
Marshall and James Monroe" at the Weston Library
as part of the Weston Military History Group series.
He Is shown with, from left,
videographer Masato
Nakashima. Peter Lou. MD.
head of the Weston Military
History Group, and Marcia
Lightbody. program coordinator. PHOTO BY BARBARA ELMES
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bosses like James Michael Curley
and John F. Fitzgerald, the
grandfather of President
Kennedy. At the time, the city's
legislative branch dominated the
mayor. Now the opposite is true.
Menino has lost a little weight
as he has resumed his tireless
schedule, hopscotching to
ribbon-cuttings, playground dedications, and other neighborhood
events. It is a marked difference
from a year ago, when he curtailed his public schedule during
a stretch of ill health that included two knee surgeries.
If Menino runs again, history
will be in his favor. The last
incumbent mayor to lose a reelection bid was James Michael
Curley, in 1949. Mayors serve for
a generation, not a term.
"It's an extraordinary thing
because the mayor has all of this
power;' said Robert Allison, a history professor at Suffolk Uniyer~ "He has much more power
in the city than the governor has
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in the Commonwealth or the
president has in the country:'
That leaves a 13-member City
Council with little real clout. The
mayor hires. The mayor appoints. The mayor fires. The mayor writes the budget, and the City
Council decides whether to approve it. And the mayor's office
controls the city workforce. City
councilors need that workforce
to deliver services and solve
problems for their constituents,
which is their main role.
"This mayor's voice has been
far from eloquent, but his power
has been and likely will be largely
unchallenged after this election;'
said Paul Watanabe, a political
science professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. "He's
not even running and he's the
leading fund-raiser. Money flows
to where the power really lies:'
Andrew Ryan can be reached at
acryan@globe.com Follow him
on Twitter @globeandrewryan.
REBUTTING THE CRITICS
'This is not a council that just
rubber-stamps everything I give
them,' says Mayor Thomas M.
Menino.
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'Cash for Clunkers' a lemon, studies say
By THOMAS GRILLO
The $3 billion "Cash forClunkers" program that
tried to boost the economy
and improve air quality by
encouraging motorists to
replace older gas guzzlers
with new fuel-efficient
cars was an expensive fiasco that drove up the price
of used cars and failed to
boost sales, according to a
pair of new studies.
"Hundreds of thousands
of clunkers were removed
from the market and that
caused used car prices to
surge dramatically," said
Paul Bachman, research director at the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University
who studIed the gIve-away.
"That hurt consumers,
especially
you n g
and lowincome
people who
typically
buy older
vehicles."
Launched
in July of
2009
by
the Obama
administration to help
the auto industry
and
the
environ"Cash
ment,
for
Clunkers"
offered consumers up to $4,500
to trade in old cars
for new fuel-efficient ones.
Congress
originally
funded the program with
$1 billion, enough to buy
250,000 clunkers. But because so many people
sought rebates, the program ran out of money in
a week, putting "Cash for
Clunkers" in limbo until
lawmakers approved $2
billion more. The popular
program sold out in two
months after 678,539 cars
were traded in and the rebates were gone.
A second study, "Evaluating Cash-for-Clunkers,"
by nonpartisan Washington think tank Resources
for the Future, concluded
there was "bleak evidence"
on the program's overall
performance. Researchers
said that most of the vehicles sold were the result
of demand shifting from
the months surrounding
the program. The survey
found that while sales increased by 360,000 for
the two months of the
program, the net effect
on sales was practically
zero by the end of 2009.
"On the plus side, the
program got clunkers
off the road and gave
some stimulus to the new
vehicle
market
that
was suffering at that
time," said Joshua Linn,
co-author. "The downside
is the $3 billion could have
been used to stimulate the
economy in other ways."
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After a last-minute agreement with congressional leaders this August, President Obama signed into law the Budget
Control Act, averting a debt ceiling breach. As part of the deal, the President consented to the creation of a
bipartisan “super committee,” charged with slashing $1.5 trillion from America’s ever-swelling deficit. With
Congress unable to resolve its fiscal differences, the agreement delegates powers to twelve handpicked members,
split between House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats. Any proposal that emerges from this process with the
support of a majority of members is guaranteed a swift, up-or-down vote in Congress. Should the process deadlock,
however, $1.2 trillion of automatic cuts will hit defense spending and domestic programs like infrastructure spending
and education.
Although they may reach a token agreement to mitigate public anger and create the appearance of progress, present
polarization and gridlock make it unlikely that the super-committee will solve long-term spending
problems. Regardless of whether significant progress is achieved, the fact that such a secret committee remains
America’s best hope for fiscal sanity seems only to indicate how dysfunctional our political process has become.
Going for Broke
According to Agnes Bain, government professor at Suffolk University, the fact that the super committee exists
indicates, “how seriously the system is broken.” Given the intractable nature of the deficit dispute and the current
hyper-partisan atmosphere in Washington, experts see dim prospects for the committee. William Galston, former
adviser to President Clinton and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, reports that, “there is spreading
pessimism in Washington that the super committee will be able to do more than the bare minimum.”
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Deadlock springs from several factors. For political and philosophical reasons, neither side enjoys much incentive to
compromise. According to Bain, “the president has tried to govern from the center since he was inaugurated, and all
he has got for his trouble is a couple of bloody noses.” As Bain explains, Democrats face the need to placate liberals
who feel that the party has conceded too much in past negotiations, while Republicans are doubling down on their
message of fiscal discipline, confident that it will resonate in 2012.
Humphrey Taylor, chairman of the Harris Poll, notes that the political calculus for Democrats may make them
especially averse to any agreement. While both parties could face a backlash from extreme supporters should they
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Noting that “lawmaking under conditions of divided party control tends to be slow,” Yale political science professor
David Mayhew likewise fears that, “it might not be possible to do much before the election.”
The positions of President Obama and House Speaker Boehner illustrate the partisan divide. Both have staked out
positions that apparently make compromise impossible; Boehner has declared that tax increases are off the table,
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Nevertheless, although most committee members may not be inclined to negotiate, one or two pragmatists could
break a deadlock. Experts name Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) as potential dealmakers,
who could resolve a committee otherwise split on partisan lines. Another particularly intriguing figure is Sen. Jon
Kyl (R-AZ), a staunch conservative so averse to automatic defense cuts that he may compromise to avoid them. Party
leaders will also retain considerable influence, and, while they may take inflexible stances in public, Galston suggests
that “the leadership, left to itself, could probably make more progress” without pressure from more ideologically
rigid caucus members.
Indeed, there exists precedent for such a deal. Mayhew notes that, “As a practical matter, all the big money
management deals of the past have been struck by small groups of leadership.” In 1988, for example, Congress gave
special powers to a similarly small commission to shut down unneeded military bases, which helped resolve a
controversial topic. There may also be political rationale for a new willingness to reach an agreement. Mayhew
observes, “The Republicans seem to have gotten chastened by their bad polls of the summer. They need to get some
standing back.” Voters are disgusted with Congressional gridlock, and while they may dislike some elements of any
agreement, inaction may prove more infuriating.
Do Supercommittees Stink?
Even if public pressure ultimately prods the super committee toward compromising, it is troubling that major
problems can only be addressed through such a secretive process. Committee members meet behind closed doors
and are silent about their deliberations. Other members of Congress are kept in the dark throughout the process;
even if the committee creates a bill, other congressmen cannot offer amendments. While this setup intends to
insulate the super-committee from external influences, it is unclear how independent its members truly are. The
party leaders who selected them have some expectations of how each member would vote. Furthermore, lobbyists
have access to the process; nearly one hundred registered lobbyists are former staffers for the twelve members. More
fundamentally, the inability of Congress to function without delegating its responsibilities to a secret committee
speaks volumes about the health of our political system.
This lack of openness is arguably necessitated by the increasing polarization of Congress, the media, and even
society at large. Recently, for instance, a dispute over arcane rules hamstrung the Senate, ostensibly the world’s
greatest deliberative body, causing Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to sharply curtail debate. If legislators cannot
resolve seemingly minor procedural issues through normal means, they would likely not make much headway on the
deficit. For all its many shortcomings, the super committee may be America’s best hope. While negotiations may not
produce substantive cuts, deals behind closed doors are better than no deals at all.
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STAGING GROUND
More young actors are staying in Boston
BY DON AUCOIN I GLOBE STAFF
hen Kami Rushell Smith enrolled at the Boston Conservatory four years ago to study
musical theater, she had already mapped out her career path - and it
led to one place and one place only.
"I came to Boston with the dream that I
would learn these skills, and then graduate
and go directly to New York and take New
York by storm;' she says.
But today, two years after receiving her
master's degree in music, the 26-year-old actress is still here. Nor, tellingly, does she
seem to regret it. While her New York-based
actor friends endure a painful cycle of auditions and rejections, Smith - who grew up
in Thpelo, Miss., and got her bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh - has landed one part after another. She has tackled the title role of Lydia
R. Diamond's wrenching slavery drama
"Harriet Jacobs;' and utilized her Conservatory-honed song-and-dance skills in musical
productions as varied as "Nine;' "Passing
Strange;' "Big River," and "The Phantom
Tollbooth;'
Nearly as important as the steady employment, though, is that Smith feels she's
working within "a special community here
of artists who are doing really introspective,
really beautiful work, even though it doesn't
necessarily have the huge budget of Broadway shows;'
The upshot is that her old dream has
yielded to a new one: She now envisions
Boston as her long-term professional home.
The evolution in Smith's thinking reflects
a broader development that would have
seemed unlikely as recently as a decade ago,
one that has significant implications for the
vitality of Boston theater: Increasingly, tal-
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ented young performers see Boston as a
place to forge an acting career, not just
to launch one.
"It's more than a steppingstone;' asserts Daniel Berger-Jones, 28, a native of
Chapel Hill, N.C., who graduated from
Boston University and is one of a cadre
of young actors who founded the Orfeo
Group, a small and adventurous theater
company. ''We are developing a nice culturehere;'
"Right now I'm definitely interested
in staying in Boston;' says Sasha Castroverde, 26, a native of Memphis, who
graduated from Emerson College and recently appeared in 'The Divine Sister" at
SpeakEasy Stage Company. "If I can
make a life here, that's definitely a goal
I'd like to achieve;'
That "if;' though, is huge, and so is
Castroverde's other qualifier: "Right
now;' Actors go where the work is, and if
they can't land parts in Boston, they are
out of here. Whatever their enthusiasm
for Boston as a theater town, a coldblooded realism about their profession
leads many to take it one year at a time,
constantly reappraising whether the city
still meets their needs.
Moreover, the brighter lights and bigger paychecks of New York remain an irresistible magnet for many young actors, particularly those who specialize in
musical theater. Chicago and Los Angeles also beckon to performers in their
20s. Even some young actors who put
down roots in Boston will pull up those
roots in two or three years and move on,
and those who remain here will regularly make the journey south for auditions.
It was ever thus. But to judge by interviews with more than a dozen actors,
artistic directors, and heads of university performing arts programs, a new dynamic has entered the picture in recent
years. Ambitious young actors no longer
automatically assume they will have to
leave Boston to enjoy an artistically rewarding career.
Graduating and staying put
"Boston has become much more of
an option;' asserts McCaela Donovan,
29, who has recently demonstrated her
versatility in shows as various as SpeakEasy Stage Company's "The Drowsy
Chaperone," the Huntington Theatre
Company's "Candide," and Common-
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wealth Shakespeare Company's production of ''All's Well That Ends Well" on
Boston Common. "Just since I went to
Boston College, the theater scene has
grown immensely;'
"There's so much opportunity in Boston;' agrees De'Lon Grant, 28, whose recent performances have included major
roles in "Big River;' at Lyric Stage Company, and "The Phantom Tollbooth;' at
Wheelock Family Theatre. "There are a
lot of young people that are eager to do
something here;'
That was not the case 10 years ago,
when Scott Edmiston was the president
of the board of directors of StageSource,
a service organization for theater professionals and producers. Edmiston recalls
an anxious meeting at which producers
fretted about the local theater community's inability to "hold on to young talent:'
"We had all these colleges and universities, but so few of the [theater] students who graduated wanted to stay in
Boston;' he says.
That, he and others say, has changed.
Edmiston, a highly regarded director,
now heads the Office of the Arts at Brandeis University, where half of this year's
graduates of the MFA acting program
opted to stay in Boston. Melia Bensussen, another prominent director, who
chairs the performing arts department
at Emerson College, says that "at least
half" of Emerson's BFA graduating class
this year has stayed in town.
Jim Petosa, director ofBU's College of
Fine Arts School of Theatre, says that in
recent years, an increasing number of
graduates have "begun to come forward
and say, 'You know, I think I want to stay
in Boston;" Kristin Baker, the director
of the performing arts office at ~
University and the current president of
the Stage Source board, says she, too,
sees increasing evidence that young actors "are more willing to stick it out to
try for a theater career here in Boston;'
But there are no hard data to verify
the trend, and at least one prominent
theater figure, Paul Daigneault, founder
and producing artistic director of the
SpeakEasy Stage Company, is skeptical.
"If it's an actor in a professional training program, they are going to go to LA
or New York first, and see if that lifestyle
is for them;' says Daigneault. "The other
thing that happens is they graduate
from college, they get their professional
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experience here, sometimes they even
get their [Actors'] Equity card here, and
then they move away;'
Daigneault adds, however, that he is
heartened by the fact that he has a deeper talent pool of younger actors to draw
on than he used to have when casting
shows. He says he often sees actors returning to Boston after giving it a try
elsewhere.
That's what happened with Nael Nacer. When Nacer, 30, graduated in 2007
from Suffolk University, where he had
studied theater and public relations, he
moved immediately to New York in
search of acting opportunities. He found
it hard not only to land parts, but even
to get his foot in the door for auditions.
Just when his morale was hitting rock
bottom, he got a call from Company
One, asking him to audition for a role in
Annie Baker's "The Aliens;'
Nacer's performance attracted a lot of
attention, and led, he says, to "four more
back-to-back plays" here. In June, he
moved back to the Boston area.
More chances to work
Observers who see in young actors a
greater inclination to stick around point
to two primary factors.
First, the theater community in Boston is now robust enough that there are
simply more job opportunities for young
actors, with often-challenging roles in
productions by companies that range
from small or fringe (Company One,
Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Underground Railway Theater, Zeitgeist Stage
Company, Charlestown Working Theater, Whistler in the Dark, the Gold Dust
Orphans) to midsize (SpeakEasy Stage
Company, New Repertory Theatre, Lyric
Stage, Stoneham Theatre), with occasional shots at a part in a production by
a big institutional player like the Huntington Theatre Company.
"What is happening in Boston now
reminds me of New York in the late
1980s, when I came of age professionally there," says Bensussen. "There's so
much access to theaters in a range of sizes;'
(Economically, however, a stage actor's life in Boston is a precarious one, as
it is nearly everywhere else. Most local
actors must work day jobs to support
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of us could put up with what they put up with on a daily basis, but that's
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wiretapping, but in this case the clerk of courts found that there was no
probable cause for that." paulino was later acquitted of several charged
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DesignIntelligence magazine has named Karen Clarke
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2012.
Clarke, who has taught for
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Suffolk Umverslty, IS co-director of the school's Interior
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Rod Barnett
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School of Architecture
Auburn University
Barnett has extensive experience in the development of landscape architecture
degree programs and curricula, having taught design studio at all levels, as well
as history and cultural landscape courses and seminars. He believes that
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buildings that integrate design with emerging technologies. She is interested in
ways that design ideas are mediated as they become built reality.
Karen Clarke
Co-Program Director and Associate Professor of Interior Design
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Clarke has taught at Suffolk University for 15 years. She is currently also the sole
proprietor of an interior design firm that specializes in residential and commercial
interiors. Prior to her position at Suffolk, Clarke taught at Mount Ida College,
Newbury College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Vancouver Community
College. She earned a B.A.A. in interior design at Ryerson University and an
M.F.A. at Boston University.
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WITHIN THE United States, at
least 100,000 children each year
are victims of commercial sexual
exploitation. Another 100,000 to
300,000 children - runaways,
throwaways, homeless - are at
risk of exploitation. In Boston,
we read in May of a local girl
kidnapped from a Dorchester
street and held captive in what
Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey called "sex slavery:' Last month, we read of the
law's response: a 28-year-old
man indicted for prostituting a
minor, aiding and abetting statutory rape, statutory rape, disseminating visual material of a
child in a state of nudity, and
posting a child in a state of nudity.
Last week, the story changed.
Massachusetts' new human
trafficking legislation defines
these crimes as trafficking of a
person under 18 for sexual servitude, punishable by five years to
life imprisonment. The legislation, which the governor signed
into law yesterday, establishes a
civil remedy for victims to sue
perpetrators - for rape, torture,
terror.
Civil justice may now ask:
Who profits from selling the right
to rape a child? From posting
child sex ads? From prostituting
children in hotels such as the
Best Western, Comfort Inn, and
Ramada Inn? This vision of
justice may offer victims and
their families restitution for what
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No simple answers to US job creation
C. GOPINATH
Conservatives and liberals need to work out some practical measures to help small businesses and infrastructure.
November 20, 2011: At a time when many countries are facing high unemployment rates, the pressure is on their governments to do
something. US President Obama's proposals for job creation includes a mixed bunch of measures, such as free trade
agreements and corporate subsidies, and it's anybody's guess how many jobs they would create. Not many people
want governments to start hiring more, as public sector employment is already bloated.
A super-committee of legislators in the US is working to devise budget cuts that must be approved by November 23,
otherwise automatic cuts to Defence and other budget items amounting to $1.2 trillion (about Rs 56.4 lakh crore)
would come into place. The proposal of the President to impose a 5.6 per cent surtax on those earning more than $1
million (Rs 4.7 crore) — to support state governments in hiring, or in preventing layoffs, of teachers, policemen and
firefighters — is stuck.
PRIVATE SECTOR INCENTIVES
So, what can the government do to generate more private sector employment? Policy instruments with the
government, that include direct and indirect measures, are quite limited. Direct measures such as the President's
proposal to invest in infrastructure, do not seem to have wide support. The sticky issue is where the money is going
to come from, at a time when governments are running large budget deficits. A smaller proposal to give tax credit to
companies that hire veterans is likely to pass.
Indirect measures, where the government tries to ease the conditions to facilitate private investment, are quite iffy. A
minor measure that passed the legislatures was repeal of a 3 per cent withholding of payments to contractors by the
government. The withholding was done in case contractors overcharged for their services, and was introduced a few
years ago when it was found that thousands of contractors had not paid federal tax bills. With the repeal, both parties
in the US Congress (that is, legislature) are patting themselves on the back, but nobody knows if it will create one
additional job.
TAX HOLIDAY IMPACT
Corporates are demanding a tax holiday. Presumably, this would allow them to invest the money they would
otherwise have paid as taxes in job-creating schemes. It is also an incentive to bring home large sums of monies that
many have legally stashed around the world.
But a Left-leaning think-tank, the Institute of Policy Studies, says that it may not be a good idea. Analysing past data,
the IPS finds, “Following a tax holiday on repatriated foreign earnings in 2004, 58 corporations that benefited from
the holiday slashed nearly 600,000 jobs through layoffs. These 58 giant corporations accounted for nearly 70 per
cent of the total repatriated funds and collectively saved an estimated $64 billion from what they otherwise would
have owed in taxes.”
Corporations are rational beings and will naturally seek ways to minimise their tax liability. Nationalists may see this
as disloyalty. Thus, the IPS also reports that profitable US corporations are evading about $100 billion (about Rs 4.7
lakh crore) in taxes each year. Apparently, last year alone, corporations including General Electric, Verizon, and Ebay
actually received tax refunds from the government.
Another intriguing statistic they report is that 25 of last year's 100 highest-paid US CEOs received more
compensation than their company paid in federal corporate income taxes. Tax reform always gets stuck in the
corridors of power, thanks to lobby groups.
Take, for example, a Bill, titled ‘Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act' that would make it difficult for people to take advantage
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of countries that have very low taxes, or secrecy laws that makes it difficult for the US tax authorities to recover funds
from overseas. A few senators have introduced the Bill regularly for the last three years, but it fails to come up for a
vote!
GLOOMY SCENARIO
Perhaps, a relevant question to ask is if the interests of the nation diverge from those of its corporations. In the mid
1950s, the then Chairman of General Motors, the US auto company, is reported to have said that ‘what was good for
GM was good for America'.
That was a time when GM loomed large in the corporate world. Although GM has taken quite a dive since then, the
general belief in the US is that what is good for the corporate world is good for the country.
But US companies' profitability has been good even though the economy is struggling. Many US corporations
continue to be leading players in the world, but they generate a majority of their revenues and profits outside the
country. For example, IBM, a quintessential US company, now employs more people outside the US.
As part of their global strategy, US corporations, like many others around the world, make their business decisions in
the interests of their shareholders, who are not all residents of the country where the company is registered.
Conservatives continue to push their agenda of reducing taxes, so people have more money to spend and businesses
have more money to invest, while liberals push their ideology of the government having to spend more to stimulate
demand. With Europe still struggling to achieve a semblance of financial stability, and with US politicians staking
positions for next year's presidential election, disagreements and prospects of doom and gloom occupy the airwaves
more than that of hope.
Neither governments nor the corporate sector have any exclusive solution to the problem of creating jobs in a
depressed economy. Rather than be stuck with their ideological differences, all sides need to get down to some
practical measures.
They need to get together, to arrive at tax credits that will help local, small businesses; clear irrelevant governmental
regulations; and perhaps create public-private partnerships that channelise investments into crucial areas of
infrastructure.
(The author is professor of International Business and Strategic Management at Suffolk University, Boston,
US.blfeedback@thehindu.co.in)
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all
Write On prm'ides guidance for attorrreys
writing legal memoranda and briefl.
By Lisa H. Healy
Like snow in October,
clear and simple legal
writing is rare. But both
phenomena do occur October snow by chance
(or perhaps by global
warming, which was clearly poorlynamed); clear and simple writing by hard
work and lots of practice.
In her recent Kindle single,"TheGetaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writ ing and Life;' Ann Patchett laments that
while no one would doubt that a concert
pianist or NFL quarterback needs to endlessly practice his or her craft, writers seem
to feel that th ey should be able to sit down
and instantly fill a blank page with ease.
Patchett is right - writing takes practice.
Your goal as a writer should be to make
your reader's life easier. Whether you are
writing for another lawyer, analyzing a legal
question or submitting a brief to a court,
Lisa H. Hea ly is £I II nssociate professor of
legnlwriting £It Suffolk University La w
School in Boston. She emr be rendred £It
Ihenly@sliffolk.edll.
your job is to wade through hundreds of
pages oflaw and not only boil that research
down to a few pages or paragraphs, but also
further edit to include on ly what your reader really needs to know.
If you can make a complex and difficult
legal concept sound simple, you are not
"dumbing it down" for your read er; you have either made her life
easier or you are on your way to
winning your argument (or both).
Retired Housing Court Judge
William H. Abrash kin , a longtime
professor of law and legal writing and former editor-in-ch ief of the Western New
England Law Review, wrote:
"I have learned that everyone, even the
stuffiest judge, breathes an inward sigh of
relief upon open ing a brief and di scove ring
that rarest oflegal writing jewels, the short
declaratory sentence. Judges like that. Beli eve me. Relief turns to deep appreciat ion
for the author who has learned to cease and
desist from using two-words-for-o ne legal/medieval gobbledygook. It is about as
easy to read some briefs as it is to listen to
an oral argument by a lawyer with a mouth
full of marbles, so quality quickly stands
out and gets noticed, and in the long run
helps to tilt the odds in that lawyer's favo r:'
The more you write, and the more you edit
your own writing, the better your writing will
be. Maybe you think, "T don't have time:' Or
maybe you are unsure how to ed it ),our own
writing. I would suggest that you start wit h
the classic "On Writing Well" by William
Zinsser. He not only discusses how to write
effectively and efficiently, but he shows you
his own edits. Seeing those pages of words
crossed out and replaced, v.~th
sentences moved and paragraphs stricken, was as valuable
as almost anything I have read or
been taught about editing.
And keep in mind that
Abrashkin's short declaratory jewels o nly
appear once the writer has a complete and
near-perfect understanding of the law and
facts about which she is writ ing. Hiding behind legalese and "fancy" terminology or
over-quoting case law will not make your
brief more persuasive. It may bore or confuse you r reader, but it will not fool him.
Concise writing and easy reading are born
of three things: extensive understanding of
the law about which you are writing, vigorous content editing to determine what you
reader needs to know, and sentence-level
editing for clarity and brevity.
Practice makes perfect. The more you '
practice, the easier it will be for you to
write, the less you will need to edit and the
closer you will come to arguing without
L'iIW.I
any marbles in your mouth.
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Black lawyers welcome
two new law school 'deans
Bridgit Brown
Each year the Massachusetts
Black Lawyers Association (MBLA)
has an arumal fall reception that provides an opportunity to recognize
diverse individuals who have made
significant contributions to the state's
black legal community.
This year's reception was hosted
by McCarter & English Attorneys at
Law last week and it welcomed two
new bright and shining stars to the
state's black legal community: Camille A Nelson, dean of Suffolk Law
School and Vmcent Rougeau, dean of
Boston College Law School.
MBLA also recognized Robert
V. Ward, who was the first 'dean of
the University of Massachusetts,
Dartmouth Southern New England School of Law - the state's
first law school.
Dean Nelson received a bachelor's degree from the University of
Toronto and law degree from the
University of Ottawa Faculty of
Law and went on to receive a master's degree' from Columbia Law
School. She clerked for Justice Frank
Yacabucci of the Supreme Court of
Canada before working as an associate at McCarthy Tetrault, Canada's
largest law firm.
Dean Nelson was a visiting professor at Washington University's
St. Louis School of Law where she
became the Dean's Distinguished
Scholar in Residence. From 2000 to
2009, she was a member of the faculty
of the St. Louis University School of
Law where she was named Faculty
Member of the Year and received the
Faculty Excellence Award.
On Sept. 1,2010, she became
the first woman and the first woman
of color to become the dean of Suffolk Law School in the school's 104year history.
In her speech to a crowded room
of black legal professionals representing various 'age.groups and divisions
oflaw, DeanN~lson spoke of the irilportance of talking about excellence
and diversirysinmltaneously.
"Too often people say they want
one or the other," Dean Nelson explained, "but they overlap and you
can achieve them simultaneously."
She was proud to say that in this
past year Suffolk hils had th~I1)oststu
dents of color in its entenng class thaD
the school has ever had before. .
"That's almost a quarter of our
entering class arid_we're the fifth biggest school in the country so that's
over 125 studenls;" she said. "That's
a big deal and.!
that's inlportant
to celebrate be'cause that's hard work
and that doesn't happen by accident.
That doesn't happen without making
people accountable. It takes work and
commitment on the I>art of the people
in the building."
Dean Nelson also mentioned
some upcoming events taking place at
the University, including the launching of the first Native American
Law Clinic in the eastern part of the
United States this November.
The MBLA has approximately
200 active members , and it has
served the African American legal
community since its inception in
1973 . Through trainings, continuing legal education and mentorship
programs, the MBLA reaches out to
more than 500 minority lawyers in
Massachusetts and provides opportunity for career development and
advancement.
Dean Rougeau graduated from
Brown University where he majored
in international relations, and then
later received his law degree from
Harvard Law School. He worked as
an assistant and associate professor at
Loyola University of Chicago School
of Law before joining the faculty at
th!nk
Notre Dame Law School.
Prior to becoming the dean of
Boston College Law School, Dean
Rougeau has been a distinguished
professor of Contracts, Real Estate
Law and Catholic Social Thought at
Notre Dame for the past 12 years. His
academic research at Notre Dame focused on global migration and multicultural citizenship with a special
interest on the challenges posed by
religious pluralism.
He also served as dean of Academic Affairs for three years and as a
member of the Law Schools Appointments Committee, including three
tem1S as committee chair. OnJuly 1
of this year, Dean Rougeau became
the 11 th dean of the Boston College
Law School. That day he also became
the first African American person to
hold that position in the school's 82year history.
Dean Rougeau said that he
had never imagined being dean of
Boston College Law School and
talked about his personal journey to
the appointment. He said that this
was his third time living in Metropolitan Boston. As a child he lived
in Boston while his father was a student at Harvard University iruhe
early 1970s, and in the late 1980s, he
returned to the city as a student to
attend Harvard University.
"I have to say that the city of
Boston has gone through extraordinary transfornlations," said Rougeau.
,"One of the reasonS I am so proud and
happy to be back here is because to see
a community struggle, and change,
and achieve, and accomplish is a beautiful thing. It speaks well to the possibilities of engagement and dialogue
and a real willingness to confront difficulty and this city has achieved great
things because of that."
Dean Rougeau said that his presence at Boston College Law School is
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just a part of the efforts to diversify the
school and he encouraged attendees
at the reception to spread the word
about the college.
"We are a part of this city and in
our role we must engage with the
greater community of Boston."
H arvard Law School P rofessor
Charles J. Ogletree gave a toast that
evening and spoke Iight-heartedly
about the state's black legal community of the not so distant past.
"This is such a special evening
h ere with all of these celebrated individuals," Ogletree said. "It's so different for us because when we ·had
these meetings, decades ago, we had
them in a Volkswagen, and everybody had room."
"It's such a chan ge and everyone
of us said that we would not be here
today, but we have been here through
thick and through thin. [Boston] is a
remarkable city and [Massachusetts]
is a remarkable state. What other
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first lady who are graduates of the
law schools here. That tells you how
much we can do and that'swhatmakes
it so wonderful."
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Southern New England School of Law School
Delln Robert V. Ward, Boston College Law School Dean Vincent Rougeau, Harvard Law
S~!!.l1ql _PrJ!tt~or ChJlrles J. Ogletree and Suffolk Law S.:hool Dean Camille A. Nelso6::::;
attended the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association reception last week. (Bridgit
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Teaching students to be citizens of the world
Schools provide lessons from a variety of perspectives
tudents from different backgrounds sometimes struggle to
understand cultural differences in a
global marketplace, says Brandeis
University Associate Professor Andy
Molinsky. For example, it may feel
immodest to a student from Mumbai
to engage in small talk while
networking to find a job, while a
worker from the United States
might not know how important
the concept of harmony is in China,
and could make a critical blunder.
The challenge is to go deeper
than language and geography. At
Brandeis University's Graduate
Program in Global Studies, the
focus is on educating students in
all aspects of working in a global
economy. Knowing how to navigate
expectations can go a long way
toward improving an individual's
success on the job.
"My research focuses on key
psychological barriers that are
culturally based," Molinsky says.
"My classes on 'cross-cultural code
switching' give students a language
for something that tends to be a
private struggle. We select situations
that are difficult, including small
talk, networking, and constructive
criticism, and the students work
through them." Developing a cultural fluency,
a kind of sixth sense for cultural traditions,
Molinsky says, is an essential part of the
program at Brandeis, as important as the
course work and the immersion experience.
Brandeis' Global Studies program, now in
its second year, encourages students to explore
their international studies' interests from a
variety of angles. Students currently in the
program are interested in careers involving
heritage tourism, economic development,
health care, diplomacy, and communications.
For Ukrainian student Anna Kovalenko, MA
'13, studying at Brandeis has given her access to
business executives participating in the school's
new Executives-in-Residence program, who can
S
offer perspective from inside the field.
"1 have two years of experience in the energy
industry, and when 1 complete my master's degree
1 can go back to the job 1 had before," Kovalenko
says . "But this program has been so supportive in
terms of career preparation and so rewarding in
terms of exposure to people who've had incredible
careers, it's broadened my interests. Oil and
gas are so important to the Ukraine's political
independence and financial stability; I'm
shifting my focus a bit and looking for
career opportunities in energy policy."
Kovalenko was initially worried about the
culture shock of studying in the United States.
"But," she says, "1 was surprised at how easy it
was to adjust. My friends are all from different
countries, including the United States, so
we're all foreign , in a sense ."
"Making Bostonians comfortable with
being citizens of the world" was
important to William J. O'Neill,
Jr., when he became dean of SJJ.ffuJ.k.
University's Sawyer Business School
10 years ago . "Boston has a
reputation of being a parochial city,"
O'Neill says, "but I think having a
student from South Boston work
together with students from Turkey
and Brazil results not just in good
business but also in good citizens."
Suffolk University offers both a
Global MBA and an undergraduate
Global Business major. Although
O'Neill says a three-month
internship in a country not their
own is required for the MBA
candidates, and G lobal Travel
Seminars are offered to both
undergraduates and graduate
students, he believes it's even more
important to create a mix of the
student body and the faculty who
have an understanding of the
global marketplace. "The faculty
is not necessarily international,
although 60 percent of our
teachers are from other countries;
the priority is for every teacher,
no matter where they're from,
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Interdisciplinary focus is also important to
Emmanuel College, Boston University, and
Northeastern University, to name a few, where
students can explore academi c and practical
applications of international studies in programs
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offered in undergraduate and graduate programs
and colleges of professional studies.
"Boston's strength is its intellectual capital,"
says Suffolk's O'Neill. "Whether the career is
marketing or finance or wh atever, the goal is to
encourage collaboration and participation in any
culture anywhere." •
Brandeis University professor Andy Molinsky explains cultural difference to his students in the college's Graduate Program
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of technology and globalization on professional conduct rules for lawyers
who practice in the United States. Earlier this year, the commission
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Lisa A. Alfaro joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 1995 after receiving her JD from Stanford Law School. Now
she is partner in charge of the firm’s São Paulo office in Brazil, and she co-chairs the Latin America practice
group. She is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, and she is licensed in California and New York.
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As a registered foreign legal consultant, Alfaro may advise her clients—primarily multinational companies—on
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But under rules promulgated by Brazil’s national bar association, she is barred from giving clients any advice
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“The fact that we can’t practice locally is certainly the largest challenge we face,” says Alfaro. “I make it clear
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In February, the São Paulo chapter of Brazil’s national bar association affirmed an opinion, first issued in
2010, that it is unethical for Brazilian lawyers to create any kind of formal alliance with foreign legal
consultants. The opinion concludes that those consultants are not actually lawyers under Brazilian
regulations, so alliances with them would violate Brazil’s ban on multidisciplinary practice. If the national bar
endorses the opinion, any alliances between local and foreign law firms likely would be dissolved. Clients
would have to go to local firms for advice on Brazilian law, while foreign firms could only give advice on nonBrazilian law.
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“Nobody’s really sure what’s going to happen,” says Alfaro, whose firm is not formally allied with any lawyers
in Brazil. “People are still waiting to see what it means.”
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In today’s global economy, the practice barriers Alfaro faces in Brazil are becoming increasingly common for
lawyers following clients and business opportunities around the world. U.S. law firms face an increasingly
competitive—and often protectionist—legal environment when they seek to extend their operations overseas.
This environment also is raising new questions about how lawyers should be regulated outside their home
jurisdictions.
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“Globally, major markets are opening up. The outside world is banging at the doors of just about every country
in the world,” says Glenn P. Hendrix, managing partner at Arnall Golden Gregory in Atlanta and chair of the
ABA Task Force on International Trade in Legal Services.
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“The question is, how does the local legal profession respond?” says Hendrix, a past chair of the ABA Section
of International Law. “Every country is asking the big questions: ‘Is globalization a threat or an opportunity? If
we liberalize rules of practice for foreign lawyers, does it help or hurt us?’ ”
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So far, there is no clear answer to that question. Some countries, like Canada, allow lawyers from the United
States and other jurisdictions to practice within their boundaries with relative ease. Recent changes in the
regulatory structures for lawyers in the United Kingdom and Australia also may prove to be beneficial for
lawyers from other countries. And some countries, including Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and even
Mongolia, are actively seeking ways to make their court systems more inviting to foreign lawyers and their
clients as a way to help build their economies.
Other nations, however, are standing firm at the ramparts in their efforts to block—or at least minimize—
incursions by lawyers from other jurisdictions.
The United States—the world’s largest national economy—falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.
There has been movement in recent years to allow foreign lawyers to practice at least on a temporary basis
and subject to restrictions; but the rules vary from state to state, and some jurisdictions are not as welcoming
to foreign practitioners as others.
“Multiple jurisdictions, multiple rules complicate the process for the foreign lawyer,” says Robert E. Lutz, a
professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. He is a past chair of the ABA’s International Law
Section who now serves on the international trade task force.
The current state of U.S. regulation of foreign lawyers typifies the situation in much of the world. Lawyers are
venturing into the international legal marketplace without the benefit of a uniform regulatory system or a
universal code of ethics. As a result, it often is unclear which national or local rules govern foreign lawyers,
especially when a complex transaction involves clients and lawyers from multiple jurisdictions, says Laurel S.
Terry, a law professor at Penn State University in Carlisle who is an expert on international regulation of the
legal profession.
“It’s not a complete no man’s land, but it’s pretty close to that,” Terry says. “The reality is that client needs
and lawyer practices are far ahead of the regulatory structure.”
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There appears to be growing recognition among practitioners and regulation experts both in the United States
and abroad that the time has come to address these issues.
“For years, people talked about the globalization of legal services, but now we’ve moved from the very
theoretical to the very real,” says Paul D. Paton, a professor and director of the Ethics Across the Professions
Initiative at the University of the Pacific’s law school in Sacramento, Calif.
Paton also serves as a reporter for the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which is studying the impact of
technology and globalization on professional conduct rules for lawyers in the United States. The commission
plans to submit proposed revisions to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct for consideration by the
association’s policymaking House of Delegates in August at the 2012 annual meeting in Chicago.
The Ethics 20/20 Commission was created by Carolyn B. Lamm in one of her first actions after becoming
ABA president in August 2009. “We need to review our system of legal governance and ethical regulations to
keep up with a changing world,” wrote Lamm, a partner at White & Case in Washington, D.C., in her column
in the September 2009 ABA Journal. “The practice of law is far more global in reach than it was when many
of us entered the profession. While the explosion of new technology and its ever-expanding global reach has
created a number of valuable opportunities for the legal profession, we must ensure that our current ethics
rules and regulatory regime are keeping up with our needs.”
Significantly, some of the most restrictive policies toward foreign lawyers exist in four of the world’s largest
and fastest-growing national economies, as measured by gross domestic product. They are the so-called
BRIC countries: Brazil (the world’s eighth-largest economy, according to the World Factbook produced by the
CIA); Russia (sixth); India (fourth); and China (second). Many economics experts forecast that China will
supplant the United States as the world’s largest national economy by 2030, with India replacing Japan in
third place.
Generally, lawyers handle the logistics of representing clients in multinational matters in one of two ways. In
some cases, lawyers represent clients on a “fly in, fly out” basis—FIFO in the jargon of frequent business
travelers—while others set up shop in a foreign jurisdiction more or less permanently.
Photo of Mumbai, India by Dinodia via AP Images
But India does not allow foreign law firms to set up offices within its borders, says Erik B. Wulff, a partner at
DLA Piper in Washington, D.C., who is a past co-chair of the India Committee in the ABA’s International Law
Section. In addition, Wulff says, there is a question as to whether foreign lawyers may practice in any manner,
even on a FIFO basis in India.
“We have been seeking to get clarification on this issue,” says Wulff. In the meantime, Wulff does most of his
work relating to India from a remote location. He says most foreign lawyers do their business relating to India
from offices in places like Singapore or Dubai.
Like Brazil and India, China has shown reluctance to ease restrictions on foreign lawyers.
Qian Huang, who is of counsel in the Washing ton, D.C., office of SNR Denton, travels to China often to help
corporate clients on investment and patent enforcement matters. But Huang, a lawyer educated and licensed
in the United States who speaks Mandarin, can’t officially practice Chinese law. To file court papers or advise
on the particulars of Chinese law, her firm must affiliate with a Chinese law firm.
But it is difficult for U.S. firms to hire Chinese lawyers, Huang says. When Chinese lawyers do choose to
work for U.S. firms, they are required to relinquish their licenses at least temporarily.
“What happens is that you can’t keep the good Chinese lawyers at a firm. Clearly, it’s not a career path for
them,” says Huang.
In Russia, meanwhile, foreign law firms may open offices and hire local lawyers, but the relationship between
the local bar and foreign lawyers can be contentious, says R. William “Bill” Ide III, a past ABA president who
now chairs the association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative Council.
“It tends to be two steps forward and two steps back sometimes in Russia,” says Ide, a partner at McKenna
Long & Aldridge in Atlanta. “Right now, Russia is feeling its oats, and there is a fair amount of resentment
toward the U.S.,” he says. “Russians want to do it the Russian way. They have their own pride, and they don’t
want Westerners imposing on them the Western way to do things.”
At the same time, foreign lawyers are cautious about the Russian legal system, Ide says. “If you can negotiate
dispute resolution outside the country, you will do it,” he says, “because the Russian legal system is still
inconsistent. Clients want certainty and predictability, and that’s often hard to get in Russia.”
Photo of St. Petersburg, Russia by AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky
One concern sometimes expressed by foreign lawyers about countries with protective practice rules is that
local counsel, while versed in the law of their own jurisdiction, may not be well-grounded in the fundamentals
of international law.
“Not all lawyers are created equal,” says Erika C. Collins, a partner at Paul Hastings in New York City who
chairs the firm’s international employment practice group. “If you are hiring a lawyer in Brazil, that lawyer is
probably not an international expert. If you don’t have experience in international issues, then you don’t know
what you don’t know.”
The exclusion of foreign lawyers is not, how ever, a universal trend. The United Kingdom and Australia both
have recently embraced changes to their regulatory system to allow for more consistent supervision of
lawyers.
In the U.K., the Legal Services Act streamlines the regulatory process by giving one independent body
oversight of lawyers in England and Wales. The act also allows partnerships between lawyers and
nonlawyers, and outside investment in law firms.
A similar scheme was introduced in Australia with the goal of bringing more uniformity to lawyer regulation in
the country’s eight states and territories.
“Because of the potential repercussions of changes in the United Kingdom and Australia, the rest of the world
is not going to be able to ignore what’s happening there,” says Deborah L. Rhode, director of the Center on
the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School.
In Paton’s view, the new regulatory structures in the United Kingdom and Australia raise important questions
about how law firms are organized and owned. Among some in the legal profession, “the sense is that, both
in the domestic and global marketplace, the traditional law firm structure isn’t nimble enough to respond to
global clients’ needs,” Paton says. “Others disagree. That is the essence of the philosophical debate, and it
requires us to step back and ask, ‘Who are we as lawyers?’ and ‘What are our responsibilities regarding
access to justice?’ ”
CHANGES ON THE WAY
The Ethics 20/20 Commission already has signaled its intention to recommend amendments to the ABA
Model Rules of Professional Conduct that would make it easier for lawyers from foreign countries to practice
in U.S. jurisdictions, at least temporarily.
At the same time, however, the commission has indicated that, while it is considering the possibility of
recommending some form of law firm operating structure that would involve nonlawyers, it does not intend to
recommend that outside investment in law firms be permitted. The commission was expected to issue an
initial draft recommendation on alternative business structures before the end of this year.
Currently, the District of Columbia is the only jurisdiction in the U.S. that permits lawyers to form partnerships
with nonlawyers, and such entities may only engage in the practice of law.
The commission already has disseminated several draft recommendations relating to foreign lawyers before
putting them into final versions that will be submitted to the House of Delegates. Those recommendations
would:
• Extend the ABA Model Rule for Registration of In-House Counsel (which is separate from the Model
Rules of Professional Conduct) to lawyers from foreign countries as well as other U.S. jurisdictions
(PDF). Under the rule, a lawyer who registers may provide legal services to the entity client on matters
directly related to the lawyer’s work for the entity. The lawyer may not, however, appear in court or before
another tribunal, or provide legal services to any other party.
• Extend the ABA Model Rule on Pro Hac Vice Admission to lawyers from foreign jurisdictions (PDF).
A lawyer admitted pro hac vice would be supervised by an attorney from the host jurisdiction.
• Revise Rule 5.5 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to allow foreign lawyers to engage in
temporary practice in U.S. jurisdictions, but with tougher restrictions than apply to lawyers licensed in
other U.S. jurisdictions (PDF). (Currently, the provisions governing temporary practice by other U.S. lawyers
are contained in the Model Rule for Temporary Practice.)
• Revise comments to Rules 1.1, 5.3 and 5.5 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to identify
considerations lawyers should take into account when retaining outside counsel, including those
from foreign jurisdictions, to work on client matters (PDF).
The commission also is considering proposals to amend Model Rule 8.5 to give lawyers and parties greater
discretion to make choice-of-law decisions relating to ethics and discipline matters. The rule says that a
lawyer always is subject to the disciplinary authority of a jurisdiction where the lawyer is admitted to practice.
A lawyer also is subject to the rules of a jurisdiction in which the lawyer provides legal services, even if the
lawyer is not licensed in the jurisdiction. A lawyer may be subject to the disciplinary authority of more than
one jurisdiction for the same conduct.
In developing its recommendations, the commission is seeking to strike a balance, says Andrew M. Perlman,
a professor at Suffolk University Law School in Boston who serves as chief reporter.
“We want to acknowledge that, in light of a global economy, foreign clients want to have the benefit of their
foreign counsel. We acknowledge that clients have the freedom to choose the lawyers they want to help
them,” Perlman says. “But we want to make sure that foreign lawyers who are performing work in the U.S.
are subject to appropriate limitations that protect both clients and the public.”
Some observers, however, say the recommendations being developed by the Ethics 20/20 Commission may
be too limited. Without more dramatic changes to the lawyer regulation system in the United States, they say,
this country’s legal profession may soon find itself at a severe competitive disadvantage. A particular focus of
their concern is the complexity of a system in which lawyers are regulated by a patchwork of jurisdictions
made up primarily of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
“There is no question that, in the long run, the American profession will be more and more at a competitive
disadvantage answering clients’ global and international needs because of the Byzantine patchwork of
regulations locally,” says Anthony E. Davis, a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson in New York City. “The
solution is to replace our existing regulatory patchwork with a single national regulator and uniform rules of
professional conduct.”
Davis cites the British Legal Services Board, which oversees local legal bar regulators, as an “interesting
model.” A U.S. equivalent organization could have the “power to tell states that they have to stop with all the
turf protection games,” he says.
Terry suggests that the legal profession may have little choice but to adopt drastic changes in its regulatory
structure.
“Globalization is here to stay. Technology is going to radically change the way that lawyers work,” says Terry.
“We are going to have to rethink what lawyers offer and what our services look like. If our regulatory structure
can’t adapt, it could get displaced.”
But even advocates of change acknowledge that trying to replace the current state-based system of lawyer
regulation with a more centralized approach would trigger fierce opposition.
It’s also hard to tell whether the centralized model being pursued in the United Kingdom and Australia will
have much appeal in other jurisdictions. “A number of law organizations are trying to come up with rules that
will clarify which regulator might have control,” Lutz says. “It’s unclear if other countries would be comforted by
having a uniform rule. They may accept it. They may reject it.”
Photo of Tokyo, Japan by AP Photo/Koji Sasahara
WHOSE RULE RULES?
If there were a search for one dilemma that best illustrates the confusion being caused by the continuing
globalization of legal work, the issue of which jurisdiction’s rules should govern the actions of lawyers is a
pretty good candidate.
When lawyers operating on a global basis jump across traditional jurisdictional boundaries, it isn’t always
clear what legal rules apply and which jurisdiction’s ethical regulations are binding.
“Now you can be sitting on a beach in Belize conducting an international transaction by email with other
international lawyers in multiple countries to effectuate a deal,” Lutz says. “The answer to who regulates your
conduct is not automatically apparent.”
Brigitte R. Gambini is a partner at Duane Morris in New York City, where she is a registered legal consultant.
She is admitted to practice in Paris.
Gambini says she has yet to face a situation in which her license to practice in France directly conflicted with
New York state’s conduct code for lawyers in a particular situation. But that doesn’t mean it won’t happen
someday, she says.
“And when that happens, you are in a catch-22,” says Gambini, a vice-chair of the Foreign Legal Consultant
Committee in the ABA’s International Law Section. “To be in compliance with your own bar, you have to
follow their rules. To maintain your legal consultant status in New York, you can’t violate your professional bar
rules. So what do you do? You defer to your own bar and ask them for guidance.”
Gambini notes that, as a matter of principle, when a lawyer faces two rules that are in conflict, yet has to
comply with both, the best move is to apply the more stringent rule.
Terry says the problem may become most evident in the environment of international tribunals. Her research
has identified problems arising when the ethics boundaries under which a U.S. lawyer operates directly
conflict with the rules under which the opposing lawyer is bound.
“In some jurisdictions, it is improper or illegal to prepare a witness ahead of time. In ours, it would be
negligent not to do so,” Terry says. “So what do you do? It’s fair to say that lawyers from different jurisdictions
with different rules, different cultural understandings about acceptable behavior and different understandings
about what conduct is appropriate and ethical are going to have problems.”
Generally, Hendrix says, there are a few possible approaches as to which ethics rules should apply to foreign
lawyers. In the context of international arbitration, for instance, some experts advocate a global code of ethics
to govern the behavior of lawyers.
But others say that a lawyer licensed in a particular jurisdiction should follow that jurisdiction’s rules wherever
the lawyer goes. And yet another approach would apply to foreign lawyers the rules of the jurisdiction in which
the arbitration is being conducted.
Terry says the confusion over these and other conduct questions will only deepen until some form of uniform
international regulatory system begins to take shape. “All lawyers have a stake in coming up with a regulatory
system that focuses appropriately on protection of the client and facilitating access to justice,” says Terry.
“We need an international system that can function effectively in this very mobile, very global, very
technology-oriented world that we live in.”
Anna Stolley Persky is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C.
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1. Dean Alterman
Oct 26, 2011 4:49 AM CST
It’s going to be hard for New York lawyers to persuade Brazil to let them open offices in Brazil and
advise clients on Brazilian law when New York doesn’t afford the same courtesy to Brazilian law firms
that might want to open an office in New York. And (I think) New York still hasn’t cracked the New
Jersey attorney restrictions.
2. A.R. Pintal
Oct 28, 2011 5:10 AM CST
Indeed, therefore brazilian bar mentioned as some kind of anti-global hamper, the fact is ABA still
relucting to aply such liberalities to foreign lawyers at home. Guess this is going to be a long way term
between regulating hand-to-hand, litigating and consulting. No association wants to loose the power of
saying what reality should be, despite the fact reality is already happen.
3. Joe
Oct 28, 2011 3:59 PM CST
Would it be possible to frame the rules so that they only benefit foreign attorneys whose home
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Immigrants don't take our jobs, lower our wages,
or depress the American economy
By ART CARDEN and
BENJAMIN POWELL
Special to the Press-Register
As two economists interested in immigration (one an Alabamian by birth), we've kept
an eye on the fury surrounding
the Alabama's new immigrationlaw.
Proponents tout it as a matter oflaw and order and
promise it will "save jobs."
There's a larger question at
stake, though: Should we even
be restricting immigration in
the first place?
American immigration restrictions have a long history,
but they have never been a
good idea.
Economist Thomas Leonard
documents how even some
Progressive Era economists
supported immigration restrictions and minimum wages because they wanted to shut
members of what they called
"low-wage races" out of the
American labor market.
American reformers who
pulled up the ladder in the
early 20th century condemned
many potential immigrants
and native-born Americans to
poorer, less-fulfilling lives than
they would have had if the
United States had welcomed
more immigrants.
Fears that immigrants will
wreck our economy are probably the biggest reason that
substantial barriers to legal
immigration remain on the
books. But immigrants don't
take our jobs, lower our wages
or depress the American economy.
VIrtUally all economists who
study immigration find that it
provides a small but positive
impact on the economy.
It should be obvious that
immigrants don't steal jobs
from the native-born. Since
1950, the labor force has more
than doubled, but long-run
unemployment is essentially
unchanged. As we've added
more workers, we've added
more jobs.
Immigrants tend to be either
high-skilled or low-skilled;
Americans tend to be more toward the middle of the skill
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By making life harder for a
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generations of Alabamians will
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Perhaps you acknowledge
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ancestors came here legally.
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that our ancestors - and
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many potential immigrants today: effectively denied entry by
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As our friend, Mark leBar, a
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that really has a magic wand
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November 2, 2011
The report is public, but the cost isn’t.
Even trustees say they don’t know what the
final bill will be.
Seven months ago, the Hamilton Wentworth
District School Board launched an investigation
into an alleged breach of conduct by trustee
Laura Peddle, who was accused of breaching
the board’s code of ethics.
In a 172-page report presented to the board
Monday, it was found: Peddle disclosed
confidential information from a Dec. 7, 2009
in-camera meeting; she appeared to have
relayed information from the in-camera portion
LAURA PEDDLE. An investigation into Peddle’s actions was conducted after
she was accused of breaching the board’s code of ethics.
of another meeting; and it was probable that
she told a public meeting about a complaint
brought against her by the board chairperson.
A second set of charges, launched by Peddle against the board’s chairperson and vice-chairperson, were
withdrawn that same night.
The investigation into Peddle’s actions was conducted by Toronto lawyer Christine Thomlinson. The Spectator
has learned she bills at $500 per hour. Thomlinson did not return calls to confirm that figure.
Director of education John Malloy said it’s not up to the board to divulge costs to the public and the
investigator can withhold disclosure of her rate. He said it qualifies as sensitive information that’s protected
under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Malloy was not available for comment Tuesday.
Trustees did not impose any sanctions against Peddle.
What the trustees said …
The Spectator contacted the 11 public school board trustees, asking them if they knew the total costs of the
investigation, how many hours were billed, and at what rate. Nine responded. Those who did not were Bob
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“Under the freedom of information act, the information that’s just been asked for regarding hourly rates and
cost of the investigation is information that could qualify as either sensitive or competitive information which
was provided to the board in confidence for the private, personal information of the investigator. As such, the
board is not at liberty at this juncture to make this information public because the investigator does not
consent to disclosing this information … It’s the person we are in contract with that makes these decisions,
not the board. In light of this we have been advised it would not be wise to disclose the information at this
time without the direction of the privacy commission … It isn’t a board decision.”
The Spec asked legal experts for opinions…
Alasdair S. Roberts
Professor of law and public policy at Suffolk University
Roberts believes the fee of a lawyer working for a public body should be released in response to requests.
“Tough for me to see how that's protected as a matter of commercial confidentiality,” said Roberts, who
teaches law and public policy at Suffolk University in Boston.
“I think a reasonable person would expect that that sort of information would come out and I think you're
also entitled as a citizen to know what price is being paid for government services,” continued Roberts.
“That's my general observation, not specific to the case because citizens are entitled to know what their
government is paying for services being provided to government.”
Michel W. Drapeau
Professor of law, University of Ottawa
Drapeau said that the public should be able to access not only the total amount spent on legal fees, but their
cost breakdown as well.
“When the public body pays somebody, the purpose of the access act is to have disclosure, to have
accountability,” said Drapeau, who practises in all areas of administrative law, including access to information
and privacy.
He cited a June decision with the City of Waterloo and the privacy commission of Ontario concerning a similar
matter in which a breakdown of legal fees had been withheld.
It went to an appeal. The city lost and was forced to give a complete breakdown of legal fees.
“I find that the record is not exempt under section 12 and I will order the city to disclose it in its entirety to
the appellant,” said Drapeau, reading the decision of the Waterloo case.
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they simply did not happen. >> all right so cain says this will absolutely
not deter him from pursue presidency whether he gets in oval offices
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watching cain's press conference what is your initial reaction? >> well
shannon my initial was somebody of an odd press conference. this us first
time i can remember that we starred a press conference for a candidate
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they feel about cain. a new national poll found before the press conference,
many republican voters viewed cain less favorably since the accusations
arose. suffolk university professor dr. bob rosenthal says it's really those
who are on the fence that cain needs to worry about. >> i think the
undecided voters right now have a lot on their plate. the question is, where
in said/she said situations, and as more and more information comes out,at
we'll find out i think wt actually did happen records in fact, tuesday a
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Recruiters have a simple way of dealing with albatross job candidates: avoid them. Adding such
candidates to the pool poses a risk, so most recruiters simply refuse to do so.
So, what's a job seeker from an albatross company to do? When dealing with recruiters, try to
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avoid a direct approach. You will be too easily dismissed. Instead, have a third party write a letter
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an organization that has a reputation for being exceptional in a negative way.
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stayed so long at this albatross company. Be sensitive that the discomfort is mutual. Hiring
authorities like to avoid unpleasant discussions like the following: "After twenty years serving a
discredited company, will you bring this company's 'winning ways' into our business? And if you
say, 'Of course I won't,' how can I believe you?"
Whether they address it with you directly or not, you can be sure that it's exactly what hiring
authorities are thinking. If they broach the topic, consider it good news. It means that they're
comfortable enough with you to tell you what's on their minds. If they fail to bring up the issue,
consider it a bad sign. It means they want a polite conversation, and polite interviews do not work
in your favor.
Being negative about your former employer also won't get you offers. The rationale is: "Today
she's saying negative things about her former employer. What might she say about me if we part
company?"
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Here's a format we've found useful with our clients from albatross companies:
During an interview, you should ask: "What Do You Know About My Company?" This question
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neck. If the person says, "I know very little about the company," then you can begin to frame your
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authority go into the details about what he/she thinks is known about the albatross company. Don't
interrupt, and don't disagree.
Here's a common scenario: the hiring authority states that the albatross was tired, dysfunctional,
and inwardly-focused, and that they responded poorly to changing business conditions. You
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we did some exciting, innovative things. I'd like to talk to you about that with an understanding that
I'm interested in helping you be the best company you can be. I have no intentions of bringing my
former company's ways of doing business to your company."
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something like: "There is no question that there was a great deal of short-sighted thinking going on
at the top of the organization. The operation I worked in, however, was different from the rest of
the company. I'd like to talk specifically about what we accomplished."
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Albatrosses do not have to be confined to companies with poor reputations; age discrimination,
staying too long with one employer, and physical disability are also common issues.
The best way to deal with your own personal albatross is to confront it head on:
The Age Albatross
Concerns about age may reflect a desire to have a youth-oriented culture and a perception that
you just wouldn't fit it. Or, your age may cause a hiring manager to assume that you are wedded
to ideas/technology that worked in the past, that you lack the flexibility to learn new ways, or that
you are too rigid to unlearn all the bad habits you learned over the years. You cannot win the job
search game by assuming that silence is a good approach. Address the issue head-on.
The Job Duration Albatross
If you stayed too long at one company, it may reflect a concern that you had one solid year of
experience that you repeated twenty times. Is that true? Can you be flexible? Can you unlearn?
You need to address these potential concerns head-on. An employer may have similar concerns if
you left a job after a seemingly short duration.
The Physical Disability Albatross
Physical disability is a topic most employers will not address because of its potential for legal
liability. You have to confront the issue. For example, one of our clients had a club foot. He walked
into the interview with very large shoes. As predicted, interviewers would notice the shoes and
make no comment. My client said, "You must have noticed these large shoes. I have club feet.
The good news is that it has no impact on my ability to do the job, my drive, or my stamina. It has
no impact on my general health or my life span. The bad news is that you don't want me on the
company soccer team!" Confronting the issue with humor made the issue less threatening. He got
hired.
As a consequence of experience, we all wear an albatross. Don't try to ignore it and hope others
will. Show that you know how to dance with it.
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What a timely topic in my career just now! I was just dismissed from a non-profit showing smoke from the
enignes and a definite downward yaw in its flight path. The public-funded housing agency for which I spent
seven months supervising contracts had a long and respectable history that was already being remembered
nostalgically when I came on. I replaced a longer-term predecessor who had stormed off in anger, and the
director was in an acting capacity, having been invited back as one of the original founders after his
successor had been fired for misallocations.
Days before I was terminated, the two remaining women on the skeleton staff had given notice; five out of
ten pending projects were grossly behind schedule (preceding my hire) and the grant status that is the
lifeblood of the outfit is on a razor's edge; clients are withholding payments and unpaid contractors are
besieging the office. Ignoring key contract clauses, nepotistic contract awards, favoritism between staff and
clients, unqualified and overqualified applicants, all were norms of everyday work life during my stay. Not to
mention verbal abuse, demurs toward my professional experience, and withholding information - taking the
place of support, teamwork and mentorship.
Even though I dread the idea of unemployment and a new job search, the idea is just setting in that the last
man standing over there did me a favor. I can feel the stress of defending the indefensible and repairing the
irreparable draining away. And the burden of proof, by state law, will be on the executive who dismissed me
when the unemployment office investigates my openly stating that I was fired without cause.
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Decoding gender power plays
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
has resurfaced in public
discourse. What has
changed since Anita Hill?
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he issue of sexual harassment in
the .workplace ~as seared into the
natIOnal conscIOusness when in
1991, Anita Hill accused Clarence Tho~as
of making harassing sexual statements
at his confirmation hearings to be a US
Supreme Court justice.
Since then, businesses have undertaken countless hours of sexual harassment seminars, employers have heeded
legislation that makes them liable for
punitive damages in these kinds of cases
and several high-profile class action law~
suits - particularly in the 1990s - have
ended in the awarding of big damages to
victims of harassment.
Yet even with all this, workplaces have
seen sexual harassment claims go down
just slightly in the past decade.
Now, some 20 years after the Thomas
hearings, sexual misconduct allegations
against GOP presidential hopeful Herman
Cain are drawing fresh attention to the
issue of sexual harassment.
In particular, the controversy surrounding Mr. Cain has put a spotlight on secret
settlements - legal agreements with confide~tiality clauses that prohibit accusing
partIes from disclosing details about the
alleged misconduct, in return for money
or other benefits.
The National Restaurant Association
which Cain headed in the late 1990s, entered
into secret settlements with two women
who accused the businessman of unwanted
sexual advances. The NRA reportedly paid
the women $35,000 and $45,000.
. Such settlements are gaining popularIty, say workplace discrimination experts.
With these secret agreements, employers
can avert costly legal fees , and as important, damaging publicity. But many see
worrisome consequences.
The use of confidential settlements
"started in the '90s, and it's really taken
off since," says Julie Berebitsky, a pro fessor of history and women's studies at
T
the University of the South in Sewanee
Tenn., and author of the forthcoming
book "Sex and the Office: A History of
Gender, Power, and Desire." She adds
"Moving forward, I think that's wher~
we're headed."
As of press time , four women had
made sexual harassment accusations
against Cain, a front-runner in the GOP
presidential field. Of the NRA cases one
woman has revealed her identity - Karen
Kraushaar, now a spokeswoman for the
Treasury Department. She had not disclosed details of the case as of Nov. 9, but
she did allege that Cain made a "series of
inappropriate behaviors and unwanted
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advances."
The other accuser to go public, Sharon
Bialek, claimed that Cain reached up her
skirt, saying when she protested, "You
want ajob, don't you?"
Cain emphatically denies all the allegations. In a CBS News poll conducted from
Nov. 6 to 10, he holds the top spot among
GOP presidential candidates. But the
poll also indicates that he has lost some
support, particularly among women and
conservatives.
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964
made race-, religion-, and sex-based discrimination illegal. The term "sexual
harassment" was coined by feminists in
1975.' and soon after, courts began holding
that It was prohibited in workplaces under
Title VII of the act.
The Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission,
which tracks workplace
discrimination, defines
sexual harassment as "unwelcome sexual advances,
requests for sexual favors,
and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual
nature. " The EEOC adds
"Harassment does not
have to be of a sexual nature, however,
and can include offensive remarks about
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a person's sex."
Sexual harassment claims climbed
through the 1990s, peaking at 15,889 in
1997, according to the EEOC. (Reliable
figures are not available for years prior to
1990.) Claims began dropping off in the
2000s, falling to 11,717 in 2010, which
yielded some $48.4 million in monetary
benefits for charging parties. That dollar
figure comes from settlements that involved the EEOC but not from damages
obtained through litigation.
The drop in claims may reflect better
workplace training on sexual harassment
- or it may simply reflect a challenging
economic climate that makes employees
more fearful of reporting sexual harassment for fear of jeopardizing their jobs or
career advancement, says David Yamada,
a Suffolk University law professor and
president of the New Workplace Institute
in Boston.
It's also possible that the number of
confidential settlements has meant fewer
claims filed with the EEOC.
To be sure, the claims figures don't capture the full scope of sexual harassment,
says Christine Nazer, a spokeswoman for
the EEOC.
"We believe these numbers of sexual
harassment are the tip of the iceberg," Ms.
Nazer says. "There may be thousands or
millions of incidents that go unreported."
Some estimates suggest that only 5 to
15 percent of those who feel they experienced sexual harassment file complaints.
The handling of those claims that are
filed tells an interesting story. Of the 11 ,717
claims last year, some 6,393 were found to
have "no reasonable cause." That is, more
than 50 percent of the claims were thrown
out. This points to a broad misunderstanding of what actually constitutes sexual
harassment, says Curt Levey, executive
director of the Committee for Justice in
Washington and an attorney specializing
in civil rights law.
"The public definition has become very
different than the legal definition," he
says. "It's not behavior I would approve of,
but there's a big difference between crude
behavior and actual sexual harassment. ...
Title VII and other sexual harassment
laws were intended to protect people from
adverse conditions in the workplace, not
from every unwanted sexual advance."
Also, in some cases,
as with Cain and former
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International Monetary
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Strauss-Kahn, it is difficult to establish the veracity of accusers. Many
incidents become a tangled web of "he said, she
said" allegations.
According to Mr.
Levey, confidential settlements can be an efficient way for an employer to settle a claim, whether or not it
constituted sexual harassment.
The use of in-house arbitration and
confidential settlements became standard
practice in the early '90s, when President
George H.W Bush signed into law the Civil
Rights Act of 1991. This allowed sexual
harassment plaintiffs to receive money for
emotional distress and punitive damages,
says Professor Berebitsky.
"Companies could take a bath if found
guilty," she says . "Employers said, 'We
have got to limit liability.' That gave employers an impetus to get on the arbitration train."
Today, many employers require their
workers to sign arbitration agreements
that say, "in case of any claim of discrimination, you won't go to the courts but
agree to enter into binding arbitration,"
says Berebitsky.
That tactic shields harassers and employers from accountability, says Professor
Yamada.
"I am very concerned about confidentiality clauses being standard practice,"
he says. "If harassers are not disciplined
or discharged as part of the settlement,
it's quite possible that they will mistreat
others in the same way.. .. Overall, confidentiality clauses allow bad employers to
cover multitudes of sins."
Levey disagrees . "The efficient functioning of the justice system depends on
the large majority of complaints - sexual
harassment and otherwise - being settled.
If confidentiality provisions were barred,
there would be less incentive to settle
and thus more litigation," he writes in an
e-mail. "Moreover, it would hardly be
justice to hold accused employers and
harassers publicly accountable when the
evidence of guilt is scant, as is often the
case for settled complaints."
Michael R. Masinter, a law professor
at Nova Southeastern University in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., sees the issue of public
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accountability differently.
"[T]he combination of arbitration
agreements .. . and confidential settlements can conceal the scope of a problem
that, were it known, would inspire public
outrage," he writes in an e-mail. It leaves
"the false impression that sexual harassment is a thing of the past when it is still
very much a part of the contemporary
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definition ...:
- Curt Levey, executive director
of the Committee for Justice
in Washington
HE SAID, SHE SAID:
Some estimates suggest
that only 5 to 15
percent of those who
feel they experienced
sexual harassment file
complaints.
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strikes out against injustice, he sends
forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing
each other from a million different
centers of energy and daring, those
ripples build a current which can sweep
down the mightiest walls of oppression
and injustice." - Robert F. Kennedy
Thirty-five percent of the American workforce reports being
bullied at work, according to the U.S. Workplace Bullying
Institute. "Workplace bullying is a problem wherever there are
human beings," says David Yamada, a 1999 graduate of Empire
State College who is now a professor at Suffolk UniverSi
Law Schoo! and the author of the Healtfiy Workplace B1Cantibullying legislation being considered in 21 states. Yamada says
almost anyone can become a target - just like in the school
playground. Bullying behaviors include intentional, repetitive
yelling, shouting, screaming, withholding resources, the silent
treatment, defamation, false accusations, hostile glares and
aggressive nonverbal gestures. Yamada considers victims of
bullying "injured in the workplace" and believes they should
be entitled to legal protection, often best introduced in the
workplace by unions. Human resources may help, he says, but
some have found seeking redress backfires. Tips: keep a journal,
which will be helpful in a disciplinary hearing; get mental health
counseling if you need it; try not to let the stress interfere with
your personal relationships; and consider changing jobs, if it's
practical. Also, if supervisors aren't intervening, don't hesitate to
talk to a lawyer; if you can't afford one, call the state Department
of Labor. And, remember to perform well in your job, so that the
bully doesn't 'win' by getting you fired.
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main incentives for confidential
settlements, lawyers say
Settlements usually range from
4 to 5 figures, compared with
possible million-dollar verdicts
"Even if the company is right in
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(CNN) -- When it comes to the bottom line, there are a few reasons
that an employer might pay to sweep sexual harassment allegations
under the rug instead of fighting them in the courtroom or the court
of public opinion.
Legal costs and damage control top the list, employment attorneys
and workplace policy experts say. Even if the allegations seem
baseless, it's the cost of doing business, a quick fix to shield an
employer from further allegations, boycotts or worse. But, on the
flipside, settlements come with the risk of enabling someone to
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Citing multiple unnamed sources, POLITICO first reported
the organization reached a settlement with the women to
leave their jobs in exchange for their silence. Employment
attorneys and workplace policy experts say it's a common
practice for businesses and organizations to strive to
reach confidential settlements on sexual harassment
claims.
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"They're extremely common, and many of them are done
prior to any lawsuit being filed, which is why the press
doesn't know about them," said Los Angeles attorney
Gloria Allred, who has made her name representing
allegedly wronged women from all walks of life. "The
purpose is to avoid litigation and keep it confidential,
because once it's filed it becomes public record."
The women, whom POLITICO did not identify, reportedly
received five-digit settlements. If true, a figure at the low
end of that range could be a "nuisance" payoff, the cost of
making a baseless matter go away, Allred said. On the
high end of five digits, it could be a hefty payout that
equates to a silent acknowledgment of wrongdoing, she
said.
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On average, confidential settlements range from four to
five figures, she said, which still pales in comparison to a
potential jury award at trial. The website of Allred's law
firm boasts of verdicts from $5 million to $18.4 million.
The confidentiality clause is also an attractive near-guarantee that
the matter will stay secret, unless someone is subpoenaed to
discuss the terms in a court of law or before a congressional
committee, she said. (Or unless someone leaks it to the press.)
But there are greater collateral effects of concealing real instances
of harassment, said David Yamada, Suffolk University law professor
and director of the New Workplace Institute in Boston.
"Employers become complicit in shielding themselves and the
individual harassers -- many of whom are management level or
supervisors -- from genuine accountability," he said. "If the
confidential settlement does not result in any concrete discipline or
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discharge of the harasser, there's a decent chance it will happen
again to another employee."
Case law defines sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual
advances that have the "purpose or effect of interfering with an
individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or
offensive working environment." Judging wrongdoing can sometimes
be difficult, though a few U.S. Supreme Court cases in the past
decades have attempted to clarify the scope of conduct for which
employers are liable.
Such allegations are expensive and time-consuming to defend
against, said Caren Goldberg, a human resources management
professor at American University who testifies as an expert witness
on employment law.
There are legal fees to take into account, as well as the cost of tying
up your executive and others employees in hours, maybe even days
of depositions. There is also the risk to reputation and the expensive
matter of going into damage control if a publicity nightmare strikes,
she said.
"Sometimes, even if the company is right in principle, it's more costeffective to settle than fight on a principle. It's the cost of doing
business," she said. "It doesn't take many attorney hours to incur
five digits' worth of fees. That could be a low-cost settlement right
there that makes the problem go away and swears everyone to
secrecy."
Sexual harassment can begin with a tangible action, like being
demoted or denied a promotion, in connection with unwelcome
conduct. Or it can be the result of a sexually hostile work
environment, through overt propositioning or comments and
innuendo so "severe or pervasive" that it makes life at work
unbearable, said Washington-area employment discrimination
attorney Debra Katz. Her firm recently helped a salon employee win
a $2.3 million jury award in a sexual harassment and retaliation suit
against one of the Beltine's top-rated salons.
Usually an alleged victim, who could be a man or a woman,
contacts a private attorney to examine whether the conduct rises to
the level of sexual harassment. From there, an employee can
decide whether to proceed through mediation, or to file a lawsuit or
complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
which establishes a public record trail.
Employers can defend themselves by showing they tried to prevent
and correct any sexually harassing behavior and that the employee
unreasonably failed to take advantage of any preventive or
corrective opportunities provided by the employer or to avoid harm
otherwise, Katz said. But doing so can take months and thousands
of dollars in legal fees.
"It may be a one-time proposition with no touching, and may not
meet the legal standard, but that's still potentially embarrassing,"
she said. "Rather than fight that, a far more reasonable course of
action is for an employer to pay and have the situation go away."
"More importantly, these cases tend to be magnets, they attract
more and more allegations, and that's one reason employers settle
cases," she said.
Even if a settlement hides allegations of wrongdoing, there are
discreet lessons contained in the process itself, Allred said.
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WORCESTER — Magistrate Judge Timothy S. Hillman has been nominated by President Barack Obama to become the next federal judge in
Worcester.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Judge Hillman, a Fitchburg resident, will be the first judge from Worcester County to fill the judgeship created
in 1992.
“Judge Hillman is the best of the best, and he’ll do a tremendous job on the bench in Worcester,” U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry, a Democrat, who,
along with U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican, recommended Judge Hillman in August for the job.
“As residents of Worcester know, Judge Hillman is a fair and superb jurist who has served his community with distinction,” Mr. Brown said.
Upon confirmation, Judge Hillman would replace Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV, who will transfer to Boston.
Judge Hillman has been a magistrate judge since 2006. He served as a Massachusetts superior court judge from 1998 to 2006. He has also
served as city solicitor in Fitchburg, Gardner and town counsel for Athol, Petersham and Lunenburg. He is a graduate of Coe College in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, and Suffolk University Law School.
In addition to Judge Hillman, Mr. Obama made two other nominations for federal judgeships: Magistrate Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum for the
Southern District of Florida and Robert J. Shelby for the District of Utah.
“Their records of service to the public and the legal profession are distinguished and impressive and I am confident that they will serve the
American people well from the United States District Court bench,” Mr. Obama said in a statement.
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President Obama Nominates Three to Serve on the US District Court Bench
WASHINGTON - Today, President Obama nominated Judge Timothy S. Hillman, Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum and
Robert J. Shelby to serve on the United States District Court bench.
“Throughout their careers, these nominees have displayed unwavering commitment to justice and integrity,” said
President Obama. “Their records of service to the public and the legal profession are distinguished and
impressive and I am confident that they will serve the American people well from the United States District Court
bench. I am honored to nominate them today.”
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Judge Timothy S. Hillman: Nominee for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Judge Timothy S. Hillman has been a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Massachusetts since
2006. Previously, Judge Hillman served as a Justice on the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1998 to 2006 and
a Justice on the Massachusetts District Court from 1991 to 1998. Prior to his service on the Massachusetts courts,
Judge Hillman was in private practice for over a decade and served as City Solicitor to the cities of Fitchburg and
Gardner and Town Counsel to the towns of Athol, Lunenburg, and Petersham, all in Massachusetts. He received
his J.D. in 1973 from Suffolk University Law School and his B.A. in 1970 from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum: Nominee for the United States District Court for the Southern District of
Florida
Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum is a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Florida, a position she
has held since 2007. From 1998 until her appointment to the bench, Judge Rosenbaum was an Assistant United
States Attorney in the same district, where she served as Chief of the Economic Crimes Section in the Fort
Lauderdale office beginning in 2002. Before joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Judge Rosenbaum
clerked for Judge Stanley Marcus on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in 1998, worked
as a litigation associate at Holland & Knight from 1996 to 1997, and served as staff counsel at the Office of the
Independent Counsel in Washington, D.C. from 1995 to 1996. She began her legal career as a trial attorney at the
Federal Programs Branch of the United States Department of Justice from 1991 to 1995. Judge Rosenbaum
received her J.D. magna cum laude in 1991 from the University of Miami School of Law and her B.A. in 1988
from Cornell University.
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his practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and catastrophic personal injury cases on behalf of both
plaintiffs and defendants in state, federal, and administrative courts throughout the country. Shelby was an
associate at Snow, Christensen & Martineau from 2000 to 2005 and returned to the firm earlier this year as a
shareholder. In the intervening years, Shelby was a partner at another Salt Lake City firm, Burbridge Mitchell &
Gross. He began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Thomas Greene in the United States District
Court for the District of Utah. Shelby received his J.D. in 1998 from the University of Virginia School of Law and
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Facebook wunderbrat Mark Zuckerberg isn't the only one musing on why he left Boston for the Left Coast. As the
Boston Business Journal reports, a panel discussion sponsored by Suffolk University and the Greater Boston Real
Estate Board also explored why bright young things alight from Boston after getting their degrees.
Panelists generally agreed, according to the BBJ, that Boston's exorbitantly expensive cost of living, the relatively
early time the city rolls up the sidewalks, and a host of regulations that kill growth are among the reasons people
opt to leave.
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have stayed in Boston to build the company rather than move
to Silicon Valley continues to reverberate in the commercial
real estate world. This morning, why bright young people
alight for other locations after earnings degrees here was the
focus of discussion at a panel hosted by Suffolk University
and the Greater Boston Real Estate Board.
Edward Glaeser, a Harvard University economist who
specializes in urban issues, summarized remarks he recently
heard while serving on a committee that explored ways Boston could do better at retaining talent.
Young people electing to leave Boston said, in essence: "I'm paying New York prices, but I'm not getting New
York fun." One panelist cited the example of the MBTA's comparatively early closing time as a fun-killing problem.
Glaeser also said the quality of urban public education hinders talent-retention in cities.
And, he said, "we have accreted centuries of regulations (that hinder growth). "A recession's a great time to take
a hacksaw to some of those things."
Boston Redevelopment Authority Executive Director Peter Meade agreed that public education is a factor in
efforts "to attract and retain young people." Meade said he frequently asks, "How do we become a more inviting
place to live, work, educate and stay?"
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The phantom presence of Mark Zuckerberg seemed to haunt the panelists today at a discussion of planning for Boston's
economic growth through 2030.
Moderator Peter Howe of NECN quoted the Facebook founder's remark from his recent visit, "Honestly, if I were starting
now, I would have just stayed in Boston," and asked panelists how to make sure future Zuckerbergs stay in the
commonwealth.
A deep pool of well-educated potential employees is an important asset which Boston has to maintain, but cutting down on
business regulations and attacking the high housing costs are key priorities.
"There are three options," when considering Boston's potential, joked Peter Meade, director of the Boston Redevelopment
Authority. "The glass is half full, the glass is half empty, or as many people like to say in Boston, the glass is gonna break
and we're all gonna die!"
"I don't think the glass is about to break...this is a long game to play. We're the youngest city in America, and one of the
best-educated cities in the world. That cohort is one of the reasons companies want to come here," he said.
But comparing the Route 128 tech corridor to Silicon Valley, one thing that's allowed the latter to explode in growth is its
encouragement of small nimble firms that cultivate entrepreneurship - instead of the large, vertically integrated companies
which have historically dominated here, said Ed Glaeser, a professor of economics at Harvard.
"We are corporate in many ways," he said, and entrepreneurship is what drives new growth. While Boston "may have a lot of
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book learning, we're not always so great at that."
The discussion was sponsored by the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, Suffolk University and the Boston Business
Journal, and featured Glaeser and Meade, as well as Michael Greeley, a partner at venture capitalist firm Flybridge Capital
Partners, and George Donnelly, editor of the Boston Business Journal.
Greeley also pointed to concerns about encouraging entrepreneurship. Boston-based venture capital firms like his have and
continue to be strong in life sciences, robotics and enterprise services, he said, but recent tech booms in consumer-facing
companies like Facebook have passed Boston by. His own firm recently opened a New York office to make sure they can
compete in that area.
"The venture community is under a state of siege. It's really contracting," Greeley said. Boston's inability to retain a company
like Facebook is a profound problem, he said, because such successful companies often spin off new ventures which drive
future growth.
The area's high housing costs are also an issue. The number one reason for young people to not stay in Boston after
college or graduate school is housing, Glaeser said.
"They've told me, ‘I'm paying New York prices, but I'm not getting New York fun," he said. While the BRA has done a good
job of allowing housing to be built in recent years, other parts of the region are "profoundly anti-growth," he said.
George Donnelly, editor of the Boston Business Journal, countered that Boston doesn't do enough to celebrate its existing
success - saying that while Google opening a small lab in Cambridge was front page news, existing local companies which
are adding hundreds of jobs a year are ignored.
"Our problem is that we don't know how to grow companies over a certain size," Donnelly added, pointing out that about 200
companies in Massachusetts employ more than 1,000 people, saying it's easier for large companies to migrate out of
Massachusetts because the state doesn't do enough to make big companies want to stay.
The state of the MBTA provoked bit of spark from the panelists, with Meade saying that the fact that the state had such an
extensive public transport system is a key attraction for the younger, urban demographic that provides the seedbed of
entrepreneurship and innovation.
"People aged 20-34 [today] drive 12 percent less than they did a decade ago. People under 20 are getting fewer licenses,"
he said.
But Donnelly pointed out that the current sorry state of the MBTA's financing makes the system technically a liability, rather
than an asset.
Even with will, encouraging growth can be a tough nut to crack, Meade conceded, saying the authority aims to follow Ted
William's example of a steady stream of hits rather than go for a home run with every swing. Despite twice weekly calls with
developer Vornado Realty Trust, the former Filene's site remains empty. If, by the end of his tenure, "there isn't steel in the
hole at Filene's I will have been a failure, and I know that," said Meade.
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Banker & Tradesman Staff Writer
The phantom presence of Mark Zuckerberg seemed to haunt the panelists today at a discussion of planning for Boston's
economic growth through 2030.
Moderator Peter Howe of NECN quoted the Facebook founder's remark from his recent visit, "Honestly, if I were starting
now, I would have just stayed in Boston," and asked panelists how to make sure future Zuckerbergs stay in the
commonwealth.
A deep pool of well-educated potential employees is an important asset which Boston has to maintain, but cutting down on
business regulations and attacking the high housing costs are key priorities.
"There are three options," when considering Boston's potential, joked Peter Meade, director of the Boston Redevelopment
Authority. "The glass is half full, the glass is half empty, or as many people like to say in Boston, the glass is gonna break
and we're all gonna die!"
"I don't think the glass is about to break...this is a long game to play. We're the youngest city in America, and one of the
best-educated cities in the world. That cohort is one of the reasons companies want to come here," he said.
But comparing the Route 128 tech corridor to Silicon Valley, one thing that's allowed the latter to explode in growth is its
encouragement of small nimble firms that cultivate entrepreneurship - instead of the large, vertically integrated companies
which have historically dominated here, said Ed Glaeser, a professor of economics at Harvard.
"We are corporate in many ways," he said, and entrepreneurship is what drives new growth. While Boston "may have a lot of
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book learning, we're not always so great at that."
The discussion was sponsored by the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, Suffolk University and the Boston Business
Journal, and featured Glaeser and Meade, as well as Michael Greeley, a partner at venture capitalist firm Flybridge Capital
Partners, and George Donnelly, editor of the Boston Business Journal.
Greeley also pointed to concerns about encouraging entrepreneurship. Boston-based venture capital firms like his have and
continue to be strong in life sciences, robotics and enterprise services, he said, but recent tech booms in consumer-facing
companies like Facebook have passed Boston by. His own firm recently opened a New York office to make sure they can
compete in that area.
"The venture community is under a state of siege. It's really contracting," Greeley said. Boston's inability to retain a company
like Facebook is a profound problem, he said, because such successful companies often spin off new ventures which drive
future growth.
The area's high housing costs are also an issue. The number one reason for young people to not stay in Boston after
college or graduate school is housing, Glaeser said.
"They've told me, ‘I'm paying New York prices, but I'm not getting New York fun," he said. While the BRA has done a good
job of allowing housing to be built in recent years, other parts of the region are "profoundly anti-growth," he said.
George Donnelly, editor of the Boston Business Journal, countered that Boston doesn't do enough to celebrate its existing
success - saying that while Google opening a small lab in Cambridge was front page news, existing local companies which
are adding hundreds of jobs a year are ignored.
"Our problem is that we don't know how to grow companies over a certain size," Donnelly added, pointing out that about 200
companies in Massachusetts employ more than 1,000 people, saying it's easier for large companies to migrate out of
Massachusetts because the state doesn't do enough to make big companies want to stay.
The state of the MBTA provoked bit of spark from the panelists, with Meade saying that the fact that the state had such an
extensive public transport system is a key attraction for the younger, urban demographic that provides the seedbed of
entrepreneurship and innovation.
"People aged 20-34 [today] drive 12 percent less than they did a decade ago. People under 20 are getting fewer licenses,"
he said.
But Donnelly pointed out that the current sorry state of the MBTA's financing makes the system technically a liability, rather
than an asset.
Even with will, encouraging growth can be a tough nut to crack, Meade conceded, saying the authority aims to follow Ted
William's example of a steady stream of hits rather than go for a home run with every swing. Despite twice weekly calls with
developer Vornado Realty Trust, the former Filene's site remains empty. If, by the end of his tenure, "there isn't steel in the
hole at Filene's I will have been a failure, and I know that," said Meade.
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for president
isnarrowed
to 2 candidates
By Mary Carmichael
GLOBE STAFF
Suffolk University, which is seeking a
replacement for longtime president David Sargent, has narrowed its monthslong search from over 100 outside candidates to two people, neither of whom is
the head of a university.
The candidates are James McCarthy,
provost of Baruch College in New York
City, and Robert Newman, dean of the
college of humanities at the University of
Utah in Salt Lake City, several sources
close to the search told the Globe.
The trustees also were asked recently
to suggest other candidates they find
promising, and some board members
would prefer to keep interim president
Barry Brown at the helm while the
search continues.
Suffolk is at a critical juncture in its
history after a decade of explosive expansion. Brown, the provost, stepped in
as interim president after Sargent,
whose lavish $1.5 million compensation
package drew an outcry in 2009, abruptly resigned last year. In October the
school brought in 12 new trustees, many
of whom are local business leaders, and
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laid off or reshuffled several top
administrators in an effort to cut
costs and streamline operations.
Suffolk officials have said an
ideal candidate would have experience heading an urban institution with dynamics similar to
those of their university. Though
neither of the two current finalists has been a college president
before - and neither has managed a budget as large as Suffolk's
- both are from campuses in
large cities.
Of the two finalists, McCarthy
has the more senior position. He
is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Ba-
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ruch, which is one of ten units of
the public City College of New
York.
The school is about the same
size as Suffolk, with about 17,000
students compared to Suffolk's
16,000. But it is not as reliant on
tuition, which drives almost all of
Suffolk's revenue.
Before joining Baruch in
2007, McCarthy was dean of the
School of Health and Human
Services at the University of New
Hampshire . A sociologist by
training, he has also taught at Columbia University and Johns
Hopkins University as well as
Trinity College in Dublin.
On Nov. 1 he was named one
of three finalists for the presidency of Southern Connecticut State
University.
Newman is an English professor with a special interest in
modem literature. His personal
website says that "under his administration, development funding to [the college of humanities]
has increased by a 300 percent
average annually for a total of approximately $50 million over
eight years." The University of
Utah has 31,000 students, but
only 1,050 of them earn a degree
from the college of humanities
each year.
In 2009, Newman was a finalist in three local provost searches
- at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of
New Hampshire, and the University of Rhode Island. He was also
a finalist for provost at the University of Georgia that year and
at the University of Texas at Austin in 2006.
Both candidates have come to
Suffolk for initial interviews and
are expected to return for a second round next week.
Neither responded to phone
calls, and two officials at Suffolk
- Andrew Meyer, chairman of
the board, and Greg Gatlin, interim vice president of marketing
and communications - declined
to comment. Meyer said he
would not confirm or deny the finalists' names to ensure the in-
tegrity of the search process.
The school initially narrowed
its field to 10 in September. Several sources close to the search
said two initial leading candidates - Joanne Creighton, interim president of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and Mark
Gearan, president of Hobart and
William Smith Colleges in New
York - were heavily recruited
but ultimately dropped out.
Creighton, who as president
of Mount Holyoke College from
1996 to 2010 implemented a
widely praised strategic plan for
the school, was a favorite of many on the board, according to a
source with extensive knowledge
ofthe discussions.
Gearan, a native of Gardner,
has an eclectic and impressive resume that includes stints directing the Peace Corps and serving
as deputy chief of staff for President Clinton.
He is also an architect of a
long-term strategic plan for his
school, which he joined in 1999,
and is currently leading a capital
campaign there.
One other semifinalist who
dropped out was the president of
a college in New Jersey, according to two sources with direct
knowledge.
It is possible that neither of
the two remaining candidates
will assume the presidency. Some
trustees have proposed leaving
the search open and continuing
with Brown in charge while the
university makes changes recommended by a team of higher education consultants who were
hired in the spring, said a source
involved in the decision.
A likely point of conflict may
center on timing. Some board
members are eager to name a
president before the end of the
year, while others stressed that
they value fit over speed.
"You don't want to feel like
there's some magic timeline
where you have to name someone or else everything will crumble," one board member said.
"The point is to pick the right
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nirvana for them, You want games to
be disposable,"
Activision has been marketing
the game with cinematic ads starring
actor Jonah Hill and NBA player
Dwight Howard fighting in a war
zone. Pachter expects the $60 multiplayer war-simulation game to bring
in $750 million in its first five days
- blowing away even the biggest
Hollywood blockbusters,
Pachter said Activision has succeeded in getting players to buy new
versions, even without a built-in
incentive like Electronic Arts ' Madden NFL series, where the players
change teams every year.
"If you're playing Modern Warfare 2, and all of your friends are
playing Modern Warfare 3, well
you ' ve got to go out and buy Modern
Warfare 3," he said, "So it's got this
network effect. If your friends are
all over there, you've got to go over
there,"
Last night, Best Buy at the Cambridges ide Galleria allowed the first
200 people in line for the midnight
release to come into the store early
and play the game in its
home theater department.
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"We expect to have a
very big showing," said
Best Buy customer solutions manager Mark Fazio,
"We've had a ton of people
pre-order it. This is the
marquee game title for the
holiday season,"
Suffolk University
gammg expert Nma Huntemann said the game glorifies war technology, without including the reasons
behind war, or its financial
and human costs. She
agreed Modern Warfare 3
will become the highest
grossing video game of
all time - surpassing the
25 million units and $1.5
billion in sales of "Call of
Duty: Black Ops" - but
said some fans have been
speculating online that it
could disappoint.
"There's room for video
games with narrative,"
Huntemann said. "There's
room for games that can
get into the question of
why, not just guns blasting,"
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New 'Call of Duty' set to blast sales record
By BRENDAN LYNCH
The war for holiday
dollars heated up just
after midnight today
as Activision released
"Call of Duty: Modern
Warfare 3," which experts predict will be the
top-selling video game
in history.
"If Activision does
what they do well, which
is market the hell out of
games, it'll be the biggest
seller of all time - until
next year," said Michael
Pachter, an industry
analyst at Wedbush Securities. "And that's nirvana for them. You want
games to be disposable."
Activision has been
marketing the game
with cinematic ads
starring actor Jonah
Hill and NBA player
Dwight Howard fighting in a war zone.
Pachter expects the
$60 multiplayer warsimulation game to
bring in $750 million
in its first five days
- blowing away even
the biggest Hollywood
blockbusters.
Pachter said Activision has succeeded in getting players
to buy new versions,
even without a builtin incentive like Electronic Arts' Madden
NFL series, where the
players change teams
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every year.
"If you're playing
Modern Warfare 2, and
all of your friends are
playing Modern Warfare 3, well you've got
to go out and buy
Modern Warfare
3," he said. "So it's
got this network
effect.
If your
friends are all over
there, you've got to
go over there."
Last night, Best
Buy at the Cambridgeside Galleria
allowed the first
200 people in line
for the midnight release to come into
the store early and
play the game in its
home theater department.
"We expect to
have a very big
showing,"
said
Best Buy customer
solutions manager
Mark Fazio. "We've
had a ton of people
pre-order it. This is
the marquee game
title for the holiday
season."
Suffolk University gaming expert
~a Huntemann
said the game glorifies war technology, without including
the reasons behind war,
or its financial and human costs. She agreed
Modern Warfare 3 will
become the highest
grossing video game
of all time - surpassing the 25 million units
and $1.5 billion in sales
of "Call of Duty: Black
Ops" - but said some
fans have been speculating online that it could
disappoint.
"There's room for
video games with narrative,"
Huntemann
said. "There's room for
games that can get into
the question of why, not
just guns blasting."
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Suffolk University Professor and Gaming Expert Available to Comment on the
Release of Call of Duty’s Modern Warfare 3
Gamers who get their hands on the highly anticipated Modern Warfare 3, which hits store
shelves Nov.8, will get “an adrenaline rush of lock-and-load style action-adventure that is void
of the complexities and consequences of warfare,” according to Suffolk University Professor
Nina Huntemann, a gaming expert and editor of the book Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play
in Military Video Games.
Boston, MA (PRWEB) November 07, 2011 -- Gamers who get their hands on the highly anticipated Modern
Warfare 3, which hits store shelves Nov.8, will get “an adrenaline rush of lock-and-load style action-adventure
that is void of the complexities and consequences of warfare,” according to Suffolk University Professor Nina
Huntemann, a gaming expert and editor of the book Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video
Games.
Huntemann is available for interviews and on-air commentary regarding the release of Call of Duty’s Modern
Warfare 3. The game is expected to be the year’s top seller and break all previous records.
“Since the attacks on 9/11, the largest publishers in the videogame industry have profited from fear and anxiety
about terrorism,” Huntemann says. “Electronic Arts (Battlefield 3) and Activision (Modern Warfare) have spent
millions of dollars producing and marketing first-person shooter games that simplify and glamorize global
conflict and military intervention.”
Huntemann says the Modern Warfare franchise relies heavily on photo-realistic imagery, "ripped-from-theheadlines" scenarios and a fetishistic attention to the technologies of war to represent the activities of U.S.
forces.” What those games fail to do is address questions about why we fight or the costs of war.
“Instead they reduce military intervention to narratives about weapons systems and HOW we fight,” she says.
“As the U.S. government debates federal budget priorities that include decisions about military spending, it is
difficult to have a thoughtful national conversation about the strategic use of the armed forces when the
overwhelming attention to military conflict in the entertainment media is focused on treating war as a game.”
Huntemann can also address the marketing, sales and production influence of games on Hollywood and the
entertainment industries more broadly
Huntemann is an assistant professor at Suffolk University in the Department of Communication and
Journalism. She launched Suffolk University’s Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD) major in the
College of Arts and Sciences. She produced and directed the educational video, Game Over: Gender, Race and
Violence in Video Games, distributed by the Media Education Foundation.
To schedule an interview with Professor Huntemann please contact Greg Gatlin, 617-573-8428,
ggatlin@suffolk.edu or Mariellen Norris, 617-573-8450, mnorris@suffolk.edu.
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BY GLEN JOHNSON, GLOBE STAFF
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IN BOSTON, NEW ENGLAND, AND THE NATION
Patrick presses for faster Internet access
During the same week Mark
Zuckerberg visited Harvard and
MIT to recruit whiz kids so Facebook could achieve even greater
heights, Ed Stempniewicz visited
the Chesterfield Public library so
he could log onto the Internet.
He can get on at home, but
only through slow-speed dial-up
service. The library is one of the
few places in town with highspeed broadband access. Mer
hours, residents sit outside on
benches or in parked cars to
access the Wi-Fi hotspot from
their laptops.
Otherwise, it takes excruciatingly long to see PDF files, watch
YouTube videos, or download
research documents or college
applications.
"What comes up instantaneously here in the library would
take 30 minutes to an hour to
load at home;' Stempniewicz said
from Chesterfield, about 100
miles due west of Boston.
He is not alone.
Residents in 123 Massachusetts communities lack highspeed Internet service. That is 35
percent of the state's 351 cities
and towns.
Most ofthem are in Central
and Western Massachusetts,
rural communities far from the
high-tech Route 128 belt or the
Kendall Square computer labs,
where the next digital frontier is
explored and residents think
nothing of an instant answer to
any Google search.
This digital divide has been a
focus of Governor Deval Patrick,
lumped into the unglamorousbut-necessary infrastructure
category along with the "Fast14"
project that replaced 14 badly
deteriorated bridges on Interstate 93 this summer.
''We can no more afford to
have a community without access to broadband Internet than
we can afford to have a community without access to a good
school or a decent road;' he said
last week as he addressed the
Massachusetts Broadband Conference at Suffolk University.
"No company is going to move
into a town - not in 2011 - that
doesn't have broadband access.
No student can be asked to compete on a global stage without
access to broadband;' he said.
Patrick has targeted the problem since his first year in office,
asking for $25 million in his
2007 capital spending plan to
expand broadband to 31 Western
Massachusetts communities.
His administration also
pushed to create the Massachusetts Broadband Institute, which
parcels out state aid for broadband expansion.
The administration is now
supporting "MassBroadband
123;' a pUblic-private partnership installing a 1,300-mile fiber
optic backbone and providing
direct connections to more than
1,300 schools, hospitals, libraries, and public safety offices.
All told, it's expected to reach
333,500 households and 44,000
businesses. The $71 million
project is being financed with
$45 million in federal stimulus
funding and $26 million in
matching state funds.
Axia NGNetworks USA is also
committed to spending up to $40
million over 10 years to run the
network. The Massachusetts
Broadband Institute is charged
with making the "final-mile"
connections for homes in remote
areas that Internet service providers otherwise deem too expensive to reach.
The Obama administration is
also working to address the issue.
The Federal Communications
Commission shifted policy last
month so the Universal Service
Fund - previously used to extend landline phone service to
rural areas - can now be tapped
to extend broadband and wireless service to those remote locations.
"You don't think of 123 communities out of 351 having no
broadband;' Patrick told the
Globe after he addressed last
week's conference. "But that ends
-soon;'
Some of those in Central and
Western Massachusetts live close
enough to fiber optic hubs to
have broadband service if they
wanted it, but they choose not to
because of the cost.
"We moved over the summer
and cut it out to save money;'
said Tim Gray, a 16-year-old high
school sophomore who instead
uses the free service at the Chesterfield library.
But Stempniewicz, a 58-yearold handyman, wouldn't mind
being connected.
"Sometimes, if! want to
download an instructional video,
I'll start it and go do something
else for a half-hour while it
downloads. All the while, my
phone line is busy;' he said.
Is that frustrating?
''You don't want to sit in front
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11/1/2011
Former Army Sgt. Nicholas
Dutter, a Suffolk alumnus
and onetime “Soldier of the
Month,” remembers
returning home from the
war in Iraq to face another
battle – finding a job.
Dutter recalled the long
road to satisfying
employment as he
prepared to speak at a
Nicholas Dutter works for the Home
Base Program, a partnership of the
Red Sox Foundation and
Massachusetts General Hospital.
free, daylong seminar,
“Marketing Your Military
Service,” hosted by Suffolk
University on Wednesday,
Nov. 2, 2011.
Support for veterans
The program, offered in collaboration with the Massachusetts
Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development and the
Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services, is geared to
helping veterans entering or returning to the work force to
access the Massachusetts’ resources available to them.
When Dutter returned from Iraq, he found that “‘blowing up
stuff’ doesn’t look too good on your resume,” he said.
After six months of borrowing money from his family and living
off of credit cards, Dutter finally landed a job as a barista at
Starbucks. It took him only two months to work his way up
from making and serving coffee drinks to becoming a shift
supervisor.
Career options
Dutter eventually enrolled at Suffolk University’s Sawyer
Business School and earned a master’s degree in Finance then
worked hedge funds from July 2007 until October 2010. He was
doing well but admits he wasn’t particularly happy in his
chosen profession. Dutter missed the military and began
looking for an opportunity to help other returning soldiers from
Iraq and Afghanistan.
Earlier this year, Dutter accepted a job with the Home Base
Program, a partnership between the Red Sox Foundation and
Massachusetts General Hospital dedicated to improving the
lives of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and/or
traumatic brain injury and their families.
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As a veteran outreach coordinator, Dutter’s role is to speak
about Home Base Program services in community settings and
to connect with veterans who are looking for a place that can
help them overcome personal challenges.
Importance of networking
“I’m the middle man between the veterans the clinical staff,”
said Dutter. “I absolutely love my job; it’s very meaningful and
rewarding. I tell the veterans my story, how I had anxiety and
was short-tempered when I returned from the war, and they
can relate to what I’m telling them.
“I’ve been in the same combat environment as them, seeing
the worst that life has to offer.”
Dutter emphasized the importance of networking when it
comes to veterans hunting for jobs. “You have to go to
dinners, fund raisers and any community event you can,” he
said. “You have to meet people in person, face to face, and
exchange business cards. You have to make yourself known
and demonstrate that you really want to work.”
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Suspect turns hims'elf in; bust'a first for the city
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he white duplex on a quiet residential street was allegedly fizzing with a toxic, crystal
methamphetamine lab until police shut it down last Monday. Chemical slurries
bulged inside plastic bottles in kitchen cupboards and around a table in an adjoining
bedroom. Containers that once held Fuji water, Mountain Dew, Coca Cola and Snapple were
filled with yellowish-red liquids and cloudy mixtures, believed to be byproducts of the meth
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-iversi math professor
a was reportedly a Soviet
.dent and friend of a NoPeace Prize winner and
-son, 29-year-old Grigory
ua:~'w, according to a police
rt. The two lived on the
nd floor of the duplex,
und the corner from City
and Somerville High
001.
nkin, who is lanky and a
e more than 6-feet-tall,
. ed himself into police
Nov. 11 and was arrested
re being released on bail.
kin was charged with
·buting-meth, drug violation near a school and conspiracy to violate the drug
law. Somerville Police plan to
file those same charges
agaiIist his mother, according
to court documents, but had
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charged despite the detective's suspicions.
"We're still working with
the district attorney," said
Pasquarello, in response to a
question about whether
Kristy would be charged.
Meth, a highly addictive
fonn of speed, is derived from
common cold medicine and
other ingredients. It is a
scourge throughout much of
the country, but fairly uncommon in New England.
In 2010, there were 11,239
meth lab incidents in the
country as a whole and only
one in Massachusetts, according to DEA figures provided by Pasquarello.
"We've been very fortunate
here in Massachusetts that
this hasn't been an issue,"
said Pasquarello at a community meeting Tuesday
night. "But as law enforcement here in Somerville,
we're bracing for it."
The investigation that led
to the search warrant at the
Oxford Street home began in
August 2010, according to
court documents but on
Tuesday, Pasquarello said
Somerville police received
word only about a week before the bust.
Neighbors said they
thought the second floor residents of the house were
strange - rarely going out
and running the air conditioner throughout the winter.
According to court documents, Genkin was allegedly
cooking meth using two different ways - a complicated
process and a new, more
volatile process where the
chemicals are combined in a
plastic bottle. Five of those
bottles were blown up outside
the house, during the search
because they were so dangerous,
according
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-In a brief interview last
Monday, Kristy said she had
emigrated from Moscow
about 30 years ago and started working for Suffolk about
20 years ago. She also lectures at Boston University, according to its website. Suffolk
did not respond to calls for
comment on her employment status.
A 25-year-old Associated
Press article reported on her
leaving the Soviet Union in
1985, with her husband
Sergei Genkin and their 3year-old son Grigory. The
same article reported she was
friends with 1975 Nobel
Peace Prize recipient Andrei
Sakharov, who died in 1989
and was known as the "father
of the Soviet hydrogen bomb."
According to Sakharov's biography on the American Institute of Physics website, he
helped run the world's largest
nuclear bomb test before
writing about the perils of nuclear weapons. Sakharov cofounded the Moscow Human Rights Committee and
was exiled to a city in European Russia from 1980 to
1986, according to the site.
Kristy bought the Oxford
Street house in 2006 for
$514,000 - about $39,000
more than it's worth now,
according to the assessor's
database. In that brief interview last Monday, she said
she moved into the secondfloor apartment with her son
that same year. Kristy also
said she had a dog but it
died. The house has since
been condemned, and might
even need to be demolished,
said Inspectional Services
Division Director Ed Nuzzo.
Meth wrecks havoc on
users, leading to severe dental problems, psychotic behavior and heart damage, according to the National In-
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"The tweakers, they're going 24 hours a day seven days
a week; said Pasquarello. He
said the process of creating
the drug, which is made out
of cold medicine and industrial solvents, creates toxic
fumes and about six or seven
ounces of toxic waste for
every once of drug produced.
Early last Monday morning, Somerville police and
DEA agents walked around
to the unlocked backdoor of
Kristy's home and executed a
search warrant. Police were at
first secretive about what
they were looking for, but at
the community meeting
Pasquarello said a HazMat
crew removed 10, 35-gallon
drums of cHemicals from the
home. Samples were taken to
undergo lab tests, according
to court documents.
After a warrant was put
out for his arrest, Genkin
turned himself in last Friday, and was released on
$2,500 bail, according to
court testimony. A not guilty
plea was automatically entered on his behalf at his arraignment on Monday, where
his bail was reduced to
$1,000. He is scheduled to
appear back in court on Dec.
20
"Thank you your honor," a
smiling Genkin said over his
shoulder walking away from
the judge after the bail -was
reduced. Outside in the court
hallway, he told reporters "no
comments."
According to the DUs
court filing, more than 100
empty boxes ~ere found in
trash cans around the house
and in ·the back yard. The
house's clutter also included
starting fluid, lye, a gas mask,
cans of xylene and matchboxes with the striking strip
removed.
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The drug is more popular
in the American West and
Midwest than it is in the
northeast, according to aNational Institute on Drug
Abuse report.
In all of Metro Boston,
there were about 200 emergency room visits because of
crystal meth in 2009, compared to 11,200 visits because of cocaine, according to
the Drug Abuse Warning.
Network. That's about double.
the number of meth-related
visits in 2004 but only about
one-fifth of those reported in
Greater Minneapolis, Minn.
Suspicious signs
• People smoking outside or spending time outside even dur. ing bad weather.
• Air conditioner running year-round.
• People awake around the clock.
• A metallic odor or smell of urine.
• Windows closed all the time.
• Strange trash , such as acetone, Draino, spent matchbooks.
• Trash hidden and then ferried away in the middle of the
night.
SOURCE : POLICE CHIEF TOM PASQUARELLO
I .fo for neighbors
.f;d Nuzzo, director of the Inspectional Services Division, said
h 'would consult with the law department about the possibility
o esting soil for contamination from the suspected meth lab.
• orey Mashburn, of Somerville Cares About Prevention , said
t ri!re has been no reported emergency room visits from meth .
u~ge in Somerville .
. atricia Contente, of the Board of Health, said the meth bust
he quiet neighborhood might be stressful for residents, and
pie who can't stop thinking about it should contact their
. tor for treatment.
• 'Iderman at Large Bill White said he would investigate the
p • sibility of obtaining an administrative search warrant to do
e~ironmental tests on the property.
t'
. 1:>eople who see evidence of a potential meth lab should call
9]1, police said.
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Somerville — A Suffolk University math professor and her son are both
suspected of conspiring to cook and distribute methamphetamine from their
Oxford Street duplex in Somerville, according to court documents.
Grigory Genkin, 29, was arraigned in Somerville District Court on
Monday as his mother, Irina Kristy, 74, and a young woman looked on. He
has been charged with distribution of meth, conspiracy to violate the drug
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A criminal complaint will be taken out against Kristy, according to a
Somerville police report.
Grigory Genkin, 29, sits with his mother Irina
Kristy in Somerville Disrict Court on Monday,
November 14. Genkin was being arraigned for
allegedly cooking crystal methamphetamine in his
mother's Oxford Street home. He was released on
bail and is scheduled to appear again in court in
December.
According to old newspaper articles, the mother and son were dissidents
who left the Soviet Union in 1985 with his father Sergei Genkin. An
Associated Press article refers to Kristy – then spelled Kristi – as a
friend to 1975 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Andrei Sakharov.
“It is believed … Kristy was complicit in the methamphetamine operation,”
read Somerville Det. Michael Brown’s report.
A Drug Enforcement Administration agent’s rundown of evidence
gathered describes the Oxford Street home awash in suspected methmaking materials – solvents, cold medicine, and reactive liquids in old
Snapple bottles.
There were so many chemicals around the second floor apartment that Corn
Flakes and “other dry food items” were being stored in the refrigerator.
Suffolk University did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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bail and is scheduled to appear again in court in
December.
In the home’s “common area” of the second floor apartment, police found
bottles filled with expanding gas used to make crystal meth, said prosecutor
Kristyn Dusel during Genkin’s arraignment.
Kristy, a math professor at Suffolk University is accused of conspiring to
distribute meth in Genkin’s arrest warrant, but has not been charged.
Genkin, a 29-year-old who is just over 6 feet tall with brown hair and blues
eyes, stood in front of Judge Maurice Flynn and was clearly pleased by a
reduction in bail. He is scheduled to appear back in court on Dec. 20.
“Thank you your honor,” Genkin said over his shoulder after his
arraignment where a not-guilty plea was automatically entered on his
behalf. During the brief proceeding, Genkin leaned back on his heels and
allowed his attorney to speak for him.
Genkin turned himself in last Friday, after learning of the arrest warrant.
He has been charged with distribution of meth, conspiracy to violate the
drug laws and drug violation near a school.
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Outside the courtroom, Genkin said he had “no comments,” while his
attorney Sam Parkman said he had little knowledge of the case.
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On Monday morning at Somerville District Court, he will face the charges of
manufacturing/distributing meth, drug violation near a school and
conspiracy to violate the drug laws.
This past Monday, police executed a search warrant at 19 Oxford St.
around the corner from Somerville High School and City Hall. Genkin
reportedly lived on the second floor of the house with his mother,
a Suffolk University math professor.
Police were initially mum on what drugs they were looking for, but the press
release – sent out midday Friday – indicates police “recovered evidence that
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from the second floor on
Monday.
Polic~ and Dmg Enforcement Administration agents
entt'rt'd t he house after 9
a.m., pxpcuting a search warrant ,md making no arrests at
the hOllse, which is m\lned by
a Suffolk University math
professor.
The O\nlCr, who lives on
the ~econd floor ''lith her
grown son, told the
Somerville Journal she knew
nothing of the dmg activity
or the police bust.
·'No. I didn't know this,"
said Irina Kristy, who emigrated from Moscow about
30 years ago.
Police were secretive about
what particular dmg they
were looking for, but neighbors claimed police had told
them there ,vas a crvstal
methamphetamine lab G-t the
house. Meth is a highly addictive type of speed.
"vVe haven't confirnled any
details at this time,~ said
Cara O'Brien, a spokesman
for the Middlescx District
Attorney, on Tuesday. She
said neighbors had been informed of the situation.
Oxford Street was closed
into the night on Monday, as
Haz~Iat crews worked on
remming apparently harmful materials from the house.
"It's kind of funny being
right neXT to a meth lab,"
said Merrick Dilroy, who is
renovating the house next
door, and said he heard
"chatter" from police Monday
morning. "This is the best
wa\, to find out about it, as
opposed to an explosion."
Throughout the day, investigators went into the
house wearing gas masks
and metallic suits, and by the
afternoon, two drums were
laid on the sidewalk.
On Tuesday afternoon, police swooped back into the
neighborhood on word that
someone was in the house,
according to Deputy Police
Chief Paul Upton, who was
interviewed on the scene after the incident.
Kristy had been inside the
house and after speaking
with police on Tuesday. She
left carrying two backpacks.
At a press conference at
the scene Monday, Police
Chief Tom Pasquarello and
DEA Special Agent in
Charge Kevin Lane declined
to say anything about the
chemicals removed from the
house for analysis.
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Designed and constructed in 1876 by
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An interesting group of people is visiting or being portrayed in
shows in Boston and Providence this week:
– In conjunction with the world premiere of “Captors,” the
Huntington Theatre Company will host a Jewish Community Night
Wednesday (Nov. 16) featuring lawyer/professor Alan Dershowitz
at the BU Theatre, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston. “Captors,” by
Evan M. Wiener, tells the true story of the capture of architect
of the Holocaust Adolf Eichmann by secret Israeli agents in
Argentina in 1960.
Jewish Community Night begins at 6:30 p.m. with a pre-show wine and cheese reception.
Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard University and a high-profile lawyer who has
been called “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the
court of public opinion,” will speak after the show. Admission to pre- and post-show
events is free with ticket purchase. Tickets are available online at
huntingtontheatre.org/captors, by phone at 617-266-0800.
– The Suffolk University Theatre Department in Boston will present Christopher Marlowe’s
drama “Doctor Faustus,” Thursday through Sunday (Nov. 17-20) at the college’s new
Modern Theatre, 525 Washington St. The story is a thriller about “a demented genius who
strikes a terrifying bargain with the devil.” Tickets are $15, discounted to $10 for students
and seniors. Reservations: www.moderntheatre.com/calendar or 800-440-7654.
The Modern Theatre will host two panel discussions Saturday. Following the 3 p.m.
matinee, director David Gammons and Jay Julian Rosellini, Suffolk University professor of
German and Humanities, will lead a discussion about the legendary German character
Faust, entitled “Faustian Bargains: Then and Now.” Following the 8 p.m. performance,
audience members will be invited to a talkback with Gammons and the performers.
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theater, 140 Clarendon St. in Copley Square. Box office: 617-585-5678 or lyricstage.com.
“Fats” Waller was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and comedic
entertainer.
– “Arabian Nights” will be presented Thursday through Dec. 31 at Central Square Theater
in Cambridge as the first co-production between two resident companies there, The Nora
Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater. The show is directed by The Nora’s
associate director Daniel Gidron. The story is set in ancient Persia, based on the “One
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Underground Railway’s history with puppetry. Information and tickets:
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– Trinity Rep will host its 35th annual production of “A Christmas Carol,” adapted by
Adrian Hall and Richard Cumming, Friday (Nov. 18) through Dec. 30 at the Chace Theater.
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Nestled in the back of Inman Square's beloved indie bookstore Lorem Ipsum, such a place
exists: the Papercut Zine Library. A mere week after moving to this new location,
Papercut is already back up and running as a fully-functioning, zine-lending library.
Decked with unique artwork and equipped with 15,000 independently produced zines and
an open-to-the-public zine-making station stocked with everything from a vintage
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For those unfamiliar with the term, a zine is defined as "pretty much anything that's
independently published [and] that you're not gonna find at Barnes and Noble,” said
Papercut librarian Kimberley Boutin, “although we do have issues of Bitch and Bust,
which you can find [at Barnes and Noble] now."
Indeed, the material on Papercut’s shelves is so wide-ranging that it’s virtually impossible
to define their typical zine. Filed under categories such as “Lit & Poetry,” “Queer &
Trans,” “Humor,” “Race,” “Religion,” “Zines about Zines,” “Music,” “Food,” “Foreign
Language,” and “Parenting,” a zine can take any form, from "the all-familiar photocopied
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punk rock zines from the ‘80s to hand-crafted personal zines bound together with yarn,"
according to Papercut’s website. While print zines dominate the collection, their catalog
also includes CDs, VHS tapes, DVDs, comic books, interactive pop-up zines, and 3D
works of art.
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In short, anything goes. There’s only one rule: "We don't allow things in our library that
are of an oppressive nature [or] that convey hatred toward a certain group," Boutin said.
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Papercut began in 2005, when Michelle Millette decided to start a library essentially to
revitalize her personal zine collection, which was sitting around gathering dust. Inspired
by zine collectives already thriving on the West Coast, Millette felt that Boston was lacking
this sort of community.
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"She wasn't getting as much use out of them as she had in the past, and she just wanted
to share them with everybody around her," said Boutin. "So she started the library in
the Democracy Center in Harvard Square. [It was] a really small space, maybe 120 square
feet at the most, but [it drew in lots of supporters, and] it just grew from there."
Since its inception, Papercut has made
several moves between Cambridge and
Somerville before settling into the
already-thriving creative community of
Inman Square. "Inman Square has a lot of
things going on," said Boutin. "For
example, there's a literary magazine that's
run out of the basement here called
the Inman Review,” which is one of the
many local zines in Papercut’s collection.
“There's a really great writing community here, [and] there's a great performance
community here,” she said. “Cambridge is always just blossoming with creativity, so it'll be
a great space for us."
While zines come first and foremost at Papercut, the space functions as much more than
just a library. Having hosted several events featuring music and art, as well as zinemaking workshops and live readings, Papercut is an all-embracing DIY venue. Their "Reopening Party” featured readings from members of local zines High5
Magazine and Inman Review and music performances by acts such as The Low Tide, We
Avalanche, and Adrian Emberley. Guests were also invited to participate in some live
zine-making, using donated collage materials and paper.
As is the case with most non-profit organizations, much of what Papercut has
accomplished would not have been possible without donations from its zine-loving
supporters, like the Somerville Arts Council, whose financial contribution allowed Boutin
and the five other members of the collective to initiate a series of workshops on zinemaking.
"We essentially teach kids what a zine is and make one within the workshop," Boutin said.
"Everyone gets to make one page, and we put them together -- everyone gets a say. It
teaches people that they can make something really cool on their own, without being
forced to rely on a corporation."
This ability to create and distribute something independently is very empowering and a
major appeal of the zine as an art form. The personal element is a breath of fresh air in
the midst of the Internet revolution and rapid digitization of texts, in a world where we all
constantly stare at writing on a screen that feels vastly removed from its physical creator.
"The zine is enjoying something of a comeback among the Web-savvy, partly in reaction
to the ubiquity of the Internet," according to a recent New York Times article. "Their
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creators say zines offer a respite from the endless onslaught of tweets, blog posts, IMs, email, and other products of digital media."
Unlike material found online, which is both impersonal and vastly accessible, zines are
tangible objects that can be held in one's hands and which are only available in small
quantities -- an appealing exclusivity. "They are like other artifacts that were never
intended for mass consumption or distribution," writes Jenna Worthman, "like a scarf
knitted by a friend, a sketch or a cassette tape filled with handpicked songs."
Papercut Zine Library is open to the public every Saturday, Sunday, and Monday from
2 p.m. to 7 p.m. If you make a donation (you choose the amount) and become a member,
you can check out four zines at a time for a week each.
Read more about the national zine scene over on our main site.
Photos courtesy of Papercut Zine Library
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hilarious consequences of following my heart and majoring in Creative Writing. While a
great deal of my time is spent fantasizing, reading, or writing about living in another
place, time, or dimension, I do find certain pleasures in today's world, such as discount
airline companies and chai lattes. I also enjoy eavesdropping on strangers and
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I recently had the wonderful opportunity to talk to my
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2012) about her beauty routine.
And of course, I wanted to pass all the great tips and tricks
I learned along to all of you and your daughters.
Even as a young child, Michelle was always on the road to
success - she studied, had dance lessons, attended
pageants and now she goes to Suffolk University for
Broadcast Journalism.
This 20-year-old is full of discipline and works very hard at
whatever she sets her mind to do. And to top it off, she is
blessed with a very loving and supportive family. No wonder
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Skin Care
Michelle's skin care regime is simple and easy. She washes
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Hair
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hair for five minutes and then rinses it out. For more deep conditioning - Dr. Miracles Deep Conditioning
treatment is used while sleeping. She says it works great and is only $1.69. You can't beat that! Before
drying and styling her hair, Michelle uses a heat protective spray and then coats her locks with Kerastase
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She keeps to a low carb/high protein diet and drinks lots and lots of water. She admits to a sweet tooth
and enjoys a cupcake from time to time. Who doesn't right? Egg whites start off her morning and she has
tuna fish, grilled chicken or a bunless cheeseburger for lunchtime and dinnertime.
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pink and green one. The girl loves mascara!
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outside defender for the No. 7
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plays Division 3, is 9-6-l. Gambale is second on the team in
minutes played among freshmen. She has started 15 of 16
games. Gambale is a freshman
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from Bryant University. Kidney
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a loss to Babson on Saturday.
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