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Cluster data
bring more
questions on
virus spread
Households biggest source;
121 communities high-risk
By Kay Lazar
GLOBE STAFF
and Jeremy C. Fox
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in
Massachusetts exceeded 1,000 for the sixth straight
day Thursday, bringing the total to 151,741, as Bos-
ton and 120 other cities and towns across the state
were designated high-risk for COVID-19.
The state Department of Public Health reported
1,243 new confirmed cases Thursday and said the
statewide death toll from confirmed cases rose by
27 to 9,727.
The increase locally comes as the number of in-
fections in the United States has surpassed 9 mil-
lion, The New York Times reported.
Additional state data released Thursday indicate
that dozens of COVID-19 clusters in the past month
have been identified in child care settings, nursing
homes, senior living centers, restaurants and food
courts, and from organized athletic activities.
Yet many of these clusters — identified as two or
more confirmed cases with a common exposure —
resulted in a relatively small percentage of the
roughly 20,000 new confirmed cases for that peri-
od. By far the largest number of clusters counted by
Massachusetts are from households, defined as a
shared residence of people who are not identified
with another cluster.
The state’s new data show 2,707 clusters involv-
ing 6,830 new cases linked to households. That ac-
counts for about a third of all the new infections in
the past month.
Carlene Pavlos, executive director of the Massa-
chusetts Public Health Association, said the house-
hold data leave too many unanswered questions.
“What we really want to understand is how is
the spread getting into the community,” she said.
“Residents living in the same household, we know
they are likely to spread it to each other.”
More than a third of the state’s cities and towns
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Mass. COVID-19 cases
Confirmed, by date case was
reported to the state
(Cumulative total: 151,741)
85 *
Mass. COVID-19 deaths
Confirmed, by date death was
reported to the state
(Cumulative total: 9,727)
1 *
*The state did not report data Aug. 23
SOURCE: Mass. Department of Public Health
Another loss of
Boston flavor?
Legal Sea Foods
may be for sale
Owner Berkowitz talking
with steakhouse chain
By Jon Chesto and Devra First
GLOBE STAFF
and Anissa Gardizy
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
For years, Roger Berkowitz has been the face of
Legal Sea Foods, one of Boston’s oldest and best-
known restaurant chains. The two brands — Roger
and Legal — have become inseparable.
er?
But could someone new end up being the own-
Word that the investors in the Smith & Wollen-
sky steakhouse chain are in talks with Legal
prompted restaurant industry insiders to ponder
that once-unthinkable question on Thursday. The
COVID-19 pandemic has not been easy on sit-
down restaurants, particularly ones such as Legal,
where Berkowitz prides himself on the freshness of
his meals.
“I was shocked,” said Steve DiFillippo, who runs
the Davio’s restaurant group and considers
Berkowitz a mentor, upon hearing the news.
“It just breaks my heart” if Berkowitz were to
sell the group, said DiFillippo, who recalled similar
emotions when Charlie Sarkis sold the Abe & Lou-
ie’s steakhouse to an out-of-town buyer in 2011. “I
feel like we’re losing our town.”
For their part, neither Berkowitz, who is in his
late 60s, nor PPX Hospitality Group, the Medford-
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4 days until the election
Campaigns converge on Florida
Biden and Trump look for crucial edge
By Katie Glueck president Joe Biden confronted
ton in the vote-rich I-4 corridor.
Now behind in the polls, the pres-
ident sought again to win over in-
verse demographic in Florida
that he has struggled to broadly
galvanize so far. He made a blunt
and Patricia Mazzei some of their biggest political vul- dependents and moderates with appeal to Cuban Americans and
NEW YORK TIMES nerabilities in a state that is once a message about corrupt Demo- Venezuelan Americans, remind-
TAMPA — That old political again shaping up as the most elu- crats, an attack that he has had ing them of human rights abuses
heartbreaker, the presidential sive prize in next week’s election. difficulty making stick against in Havana and Caracas.
battleground of Florida, lured the
two White House contenders to
Trump returned to one of the
tougher parts of the state for him
Biden.
Biden, in turn, faces an in-
The rare convergence of the
two men in the same state on the
the same city on Thursday, as
President Trump and former vice
four years ago, Tampa, one of the
few areas he lost to Hillary Clin-
creasingly urgent need to build
up his margins with Latinos, a di-
same day — with Biden appear-
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1,243 new
Self-styled militias set off alarms before vote
Prospect of armed far-right groups
watching polls brings fears of violence
27 new
By Bob Hohler
GLOBE STAFF
‘Extremists Far-right militia promoter Josh Ellis
can reach more than 20,000 members
GLOBE STAFF
may seek to across the country in a matter of key-
exploit the strokes. Many followers believe, like him,
that the presidential election could be hi-
divisive
political
jacked by leftists, a Trump defeat would
plunge the nation into tyrannical rule, and
the United States is lurching toward a vio-
atmosphere.
It’s important
lent civil war.
Ellis, who operates MyMilitia.com and
goes by “AR2,’’ for “American Revolution
that everyone
be prepared.’
2.0,’’ has advised like-minded citizens to
stand guard at voting stations Tuesday as
part of President Trump’s “army’’ of poll ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF
ROBERT TRESTAN,
executive director of
watchers — and, if necessary, to use force.
“They are to be out there as patriots,
not militias,’’ Ellis, of suburban Chicago,
physical harm to someone,’’ he said, “they
need to intercede and stop it.’’
“We are going to defend our
neighbors,” said Jeff Roy of
the Anti-Defamation
League’s Boston office said in a phone interview before he ad-
dressed an “American Patriot Rally’’ last
The country is on high alert in the
countdown to Election Day. In a hair-trig-
Ashburnham, a member of
the Patriot Mutual Assistance
Saturday in Florida. ger time of guns and grievances, anar- Program, which he calls a
“But if they see immediate danger of MILITIAS, Page A7 volunteer service group.
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Man kills three at church in France
Attack seen as
possible terrorist
act; security high
By James McAuley
WASHINGTON POST
PARIS — Three people were
killed in a knife attack at a
church in the southern French
city of Nice on Thursday, an act
prosecutors were treating as
possible terrorism and which
prompted the country to raise
its security alert to the highest
level.
The attack came amid ten-
sions be tween France and
some Muslim nations over car-
toons denigrating the prophet
Muhammad — and less than
two weeks after the beheading
of a middle school teacher in
the Paris suburbs who showed
those cartoons to his students.
It also follows a declaration
from President Emmanuel Ma-
cron that “Islam is a religion
that is in crisis all over the
world” and that needs to be re-
formed within France.
The French government has
continued its defense of the
Muhammad caricatures as
freedom of expression, while
maintaining that the problem
is radicalization. That stance
has led to calls for a boycott of
French products across the
Muslim world, along with
threats from radical Islamist
groups. France had warned its
citizens in certain Muslim
countries to exert extra cau-
tion.
So the immediate question
on Thursday — the birthday of
the prophet — was whether the
Nice stabbing was related to
those threats. The stabbing
was accompanied by smaller
incidents elsewhere in France
and in Saudi Arabia, where a
man stabbed a security guard
outside the French consulate in
Jiddah.
The attack in Nice occurred
near the Basilica of Notre-
Six killed as
powerful Zeta
hits Southeast
NEW ORLEANS — Zeta
sped across the Southeast on
Thursday, leaving a trail of
damage and more than 2.6 mil-
lion homes and businesses
without power in Atlanta and
beyond after pounding New
Orleans with winds and water
that splintered houses and
were blamed for at least six
deaths.
A Category 2 hurricane
when it hit the southeastern
Louisiana coast Wednesday,
Zeta weakened to a post-tropi-
cal storm by afternoon with
maximum sustained winds of
50 miles per hour, the National
Weather Service said.
The storm was still buffet-
ing North Carolina and Virgin-
ia with gusty winds, but it was
moving at 53 miles per hour,
meaning no single place was
blasted for long.
Some voting places were af-
fected, and hundreds of schools
canceled classes or planned to
New policy for Jerusalem-born Americans
JERUSALEM — The United
States will allow Americans
born in disputed Jerusalem to
list Israel as their place of
birth on passports and other
documents, according to a
new policy announced Thurs-
day.
The move came a day after
the United States amended
science accords signed with Is-
rael to apply to institutions in
the occupied West Bank. The
changes, enacted days before
the US election, appeared to
be aimed at shoring up the
support of evangelical Chris-
tians and other Israel backers.
President Trump’s adminis-
tration broke with decades of
US policy by recognizing Jeru-
salem as Israel’s capital in
2017 and later moving the em-
bassy there from Tel Aviv,
World/Nation
French police officers stood near Notre Dame church in Nice in southern France Thursday after three killings.
Dame de L'Assomption, short-
ly af ter 9 a.m. Nice Mayor
Christian Estrosi said three
people were confirmed dead,
and that the attacker repeated-
ly shouted “Allahu Akbhar,” or
“God is greatest” in Arabic.
France’s antiterrorist prose-
cutor opened an investigation
for “assassination” and “at-
tempted assassination.”
According to Estrosi and to
French media reports citing
police sources, one of the three
victims, a woman, had her
throat slashed inside the
church. The second victim, a
man, was stabbed to death.
The third known victim, an-
other woman, was killed in a
bar in front of the basilica
A fisherman worked on his battered boat in Cocodrie, La., on Wednesday.
open late across from the Gulf
Coast to the Carolinas. Wide-
spread power outages occurred
across seven states from Louisi-
ana to the south Atlantic sea-
board. Some places could be in
the dark for days.
where most other countries
maintain their missions.
Israel captured East Jerusa-
lem in the 1967 Middle East
war along with the West Bank,
territories the Palestinians
seek as part of their future
state. Israel considers the en-
tire city its “unified, eternal”
capital, while the Palestinians
want their own capital in East
Jerusalem.
Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo said in a statement
that the new passport policy
was in keeping with the deci-
sion to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital. Jerusalem-
born Americans will be able to
specify either “Israel” or “Jeru-
salem” as their place of birth
on passports and official docu-
ments.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
T h e B o s t o n
where she had hidden.
The attacker was neutral-
ized by French police and tak-
en to a hospital, according to
media reports, and French In-
terior Minister Gérald Darma-
nin convened a crisis cell in
Paris.
Also on Thursday, a man at-
tacked a security guard outside
the French consulate in the
Saudi Arabian city of Jiddah.
The security guard was taken
to a hospital and did not suffer
life-threatening injuries, the
French consulate said in a
statement. Saudi authorities
confirmed that the attacker
had been arrested.
The French press addition-
ally reported that, about two
Daily Briefing
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The latest punch from a re-
cord hurricane season left peo-
ple shaken. Will Arute said it
sounded like a bomb went off
when part of a large oak
snapped outside his home in
New Orleans, and crashed into
Azerbaijan forces close in on key town
YEREVAN, Armenia —
The Azerbaijani army closed
in Thursday on a key town in
Nagorno-Karabakh following
more than a month of intense
fighting, while top diplomats
from Azerbaijan and Armenia
prepared for more talks to try
to end their long conflict over
the separatist territory.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s sepa-
ratist leader, Arayik Harutyu-
nyan, said Azerbaijani troops
had advanced to within 3
miles of the strategically
placed town of Shushi. He
urged residents to mobilize
all their resources to fend off
the attack.
“The one who controls
Shushi controls Nagorno-
Karabakh,” Harutyunyan said
in a video address from the
town’s cathedral, which was
G l o b e
ERIC GAILLARD/POOL VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
hours after the Nice stabbing,
police shot dead a man in Avi-
gnon who had been threaten-
ing a passerby with a knife. Au-
thorities apprehended another
man brandishing a knife in
central Lyon, near the Perrache
train station, according to the
regional newspaper Le Pro-
grès.
Less than two weeks before
the Nice attack, the nation was
shocked by a gruesome be-
heading of Samuel Paty, mid-
dle school teacher in the Paris
suburbs who had shown his
students caricatures of the
prophet Muhammad. Estrosi
told France's BFM television
that the throat slashing in the
basilica bore a clear resem-
his car and a corner of his
home.
“I did not anticipate this to
happen. It was pretty intense
along the eye wall when it went
through here,’’ he said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
severely damaged by Azerbai-
jani shelling this month. “We
must realize that and take
part in defending Shushi. We
must reverse the situation.”
Nagorno-Karabakh lies
within Azerbaijan but has
been under the control of eth-
nic Armenian forces backed
by Armenia since a war there
ended in 1994.
The latest fighting began
Sept. 27 and has involved
heavy artillery, rockets, and
drones, in the largest escala-
tion of hostilities over the
separatist region in the quar-
ter-century since the war
ended.
Hundreds and possibly
thousands of people have
been killed in a little over a
month.
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blance to the beheading of
Paty.
Macron's emphatic defense
of the caricatures, which are
seen as insulting by many Mus-
lims, has put him at odds with
a number of countries. Those
cartoons were published again
in the satirical newspaper
Charlie Hebdo in September,
which Paty, the teacher, had
shown to his students as part
of a lesson on free expression.
Charlie Hebdo was the vic-
tim of a major terrorist attack
in January 2015, after previ-
ously publishing the Muham-
mad cartoons, by two brothers
who killed 12 journalists and
claimed they had “avenged the
prophet” as they fled the scene.
US quietly
quashes inquiry
in police shooting
WASHINGTON — The Jus-
tice Department decided more
than a year ago to effectively
shut down its civil rights inves-
tigation into the high-profile
killing of Tamir Rice, a 12-
year-old Black boy carrying a
pellet gun who was shot by a
Cleveland police officer in
2014, according to people fa-
miliar with the matter.
Prosecutors had asked in
2017 to use a grand jury to
gather evidence in their inves-
tigation, setting off tensions
inside the department. In an
unusual move, department su-
pervisors let the request lan-
guish for two years before fi-
nally denying permission in
August 2019, essentially end-
ing the inquiry without fully
conducting it.
But more than a year later,
the department has yet to take
the bureaucratic steps to close
the case, like completing a
draft memo explaining why it
declined to indict anyone. And
it has not told the Rice family
or the public that it will not
charge the police officer.
Subodh Chandra, a former
federal prosecutor who is rep-
resenting the Rice family, said
Tamir’s mother, Samaria Rice,
was devastated.
The Justice Department’s
press office declined to com-
ment.
Tamir’s killing became a
touchstone in the national de-
bate over race and policing
and prompted protests. But
the prospect of bringing a fed-
eral case against Timothy
Loehmann, the officer who
shot him, was seen as chal-
lenging because prosecutors
would need to prove that he
had intentionally violated
Tamir’s civil rights. Rice’s pel-
let gun looked real, and a 911
dispatcher had failed to relay
that it might have been a toy.
NEW YORK TIMES
Family
splittings
outlined
in report
Democrats assail
Trump’s actions
By Maria Sacchetti
WASHINGTON POST
WA S H I N G T O N — A U S
House committee has pro-
duced what it calls the “first
complete narrative” of the
Trump administration’s “zero
tolerance” immigration policy
that separated thousands of
migrant children from their
families at the US-Mexico bor-
der, with committee Demo-
crats warning that hundreds of
children might never be re-
united with their parents as a
result of the since-rescinded
policy.
The Democratic majority
staff of the House Judiciary
Committee released the find-
ings in a lengthy report Thurs-
day morning, days before the
presidential election, following
a nearly two-year investiga-
tion. It said it found “reckless
incompetence and intentional
cruelty” within the program.
The report found what al-
ready has been largely revealed
publicly: that the Trump ad-
ministration secretly planned
the family separations as a tac-
tic aimed at deterring migrants
from seeking asylum in the
United States. The policy par-
tic ularly targe ted Central
American families that were
streaming to the US southern
border, and the Trump admin-
istration ran a pilot program in
El Paso in 2017 before expand-
ing it in 2018, despite concerns
that there was no orderly way
to track or monitor the chil-
dren and their families once
they were pulled apart.
Committee Democrats also
reported that they found that
more than 850 complaints
about family separations were
filed with DHS Office for Civil
Rights and Civil Liberties, in-
cluding allegations of mistreat-
ment involving children.
Committee chairman Jerr-
old Nadler, a New York Demo-
crat, ordered the inquiry in
January 2019, after Democrats
took control of the House.
Many of the key details already
have been disclosed in govern-
ment watchdog reports, news
stories, and in an ongoing fed-
eral lawsuit that ordered the
families to be reunited. But the
report said it also obtained
previously undisclosed docu-
ments such as memos and e-
mails that offered a fuller time-
line.
“As a result of this dark
chapter in our nation’s history,
hundreds of migrant children
may never be reunited with
their parents,” the report con-
cluded. “We remain committed
to holding the Trump adminis-
tration accountable.”
The committee said that the
US Department of Health and
Human Services, which was re-
sponsible for housing the chil-
dren in shelters, was the only
agency that “meaningfully co-
operated” with its investiga-
tion, and that the Department
of Homeland Security and the
Justice Department did not.
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the Business front Thursday on
a new COVID testing site at Lo-
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vided the wrong estimate for
when results are available. It
generally takes two to three
days for results. The Globe re-
grets the error.
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an obituary on Raquel Eidel-
man Cohen on the Metro front
Thursday misidentified the
honorific title for Dr. Cohen.
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A STATE OF EMERGENCY
NATIONAL NOTEBOOK
Virus cases surpass 9m, with no end in sight
CHICAGO — The United
States, which reported its first
known coronavirus case in
Washington state 282 days ago,
surpassed 9 million total infec-
tions on Thursday, including
more than half a million in the
past week, as COVID-19 spi-
raled out of control in the lead-
up to Election Day.
Across the country, alarm-
ing signs suggested the worst
was yet to come: More than 20
states reported more cases over
the past week than at any time
during the pandemic. Patients
were sent to field hospitals in
El Paso and the Milwaukee sub-
urbs. Growing outbreaks led to
new restrictions on businesses
in Chicago. Zero states report-
ed sustained declines in cases.
“There is no way to sugar-
coat it — we are facing an ur-
gent crisis, and there is an im-
minent risk to you, your family
members, your friends, your
neighbors,” said Governor Tony
Evers of Wisconsin, where hos-
pitals have been strained, case
numbers have exploded, and
more than 200 coronavirus
deaths have been announced in
the past week.
With the presidential elec-
tion days away, the country is
now averaging more than
75,000 new cases daily, the
worst stretch of the pandemic
by that measure. The nation re-
ported more than 86,600 new
cases on Thursday, topping the
single-day record of 85,000 set
last Friday.
Deaths, which lag behind
cases, remain far below their
spring levels but have ticked
upward to about 780 each day.
More cases have been iden-
tified in the United States than
in any other country, though
some nations have higher per
capita infection rates.
“This surge is larger than
any other wave or surges that
we’ve seen yet,” said Amanda
Simanek, an epidemiologist at
the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee school of public
health, who said she was espe-
cially worried to see case num-
bers spiking just as colder
weather forces more people in-
doors, where the virus can
spread easily.
“This is the pattern that may
continue to happen if we don’t
suppress the infection down to
levels that are manageable,” Si-
manek said.
Recent data is almost uni-
formly grim.
Cluster data bring
more questions
on virus spread
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were designated high-risk for
the virus in the data released
Thursday, as Mayor Martin J.
Walsh announced the “Get The
Test Boston” pledge, an initia-
tive aimed at getting more peo-
ple tested for the virus.
“Getting tested is how you
keep yourself and your family
safe,” Walsh said at an after-
noon briefing. "And it’s also
how we track the presence of
the virus in our community.”
The mayor added that he
gets tested for the virus on a
regular basis.
“It’s quick, it doesn’t hurt,”
he said. “It’s an opportunity to
arm yourself with knowledge
and be part of a community de-
fense against this virus.”
Cities and towns are desig-
nated high-risk when they have
registered more than 8 cases
per 100,000 residents in the
past 14 days.
There were 77 communities,
including Boston, in the red
zone in last week’s report, up
from 63 the week before, the
Department of Public Health
reported. The statewide aver-
age remained in the red zone,
as well.
Boston’s average daily rate
of infection per 100,000 resi-
dents was at 15.8, up from 12.0
last week, the department said.
The statewide average daily
rate was at 11.8, up from 9.2
last week.
Jacob Newberry put on fresh protective gear at a COVID-19 state drive-thru testing site in El Paso on Monday.
Twenty-one states added
more cases in the seven-day pe-
riod ending Wednesday than in
any other seven-day stretch of
the pandemic. In parts of Idaho
and Kansas, officials have
warned that few hospital beds
remained.
In North Dakota, where
more than 5 percent of the pop-
ulation has now tested positive,
case numbers continue to soar,
with a single-day record of
more than 1,200 new infec-
tions Thursday.
NEW YORK TIMES
States say they lack federal
funds to distribute vaccines
State health officials are ex-
pressing frustration about a
lack of federal financial support
as they face orders to prepare
to receive and distribute the
first doses of a coronavirus vac-
cine by Nov. 15, even though
one is not likely to be approved
until later this year. The offi-
cials say they don’t have
enough money to pay for the
enormous and complicated un-
dertaking.
State officials have been
planning in earnest in recent
State officials also reported
that 18,333 more people had
been tested for the virus since
Wednesday’s report, bringing
the total to more than 2.7 mil-
lion. The number of tests ad-
ministered climbed to more
than 5.93 million. New anti-
body tests had been completed
for 278 people, bringing that
total to 126,754.
The seven-day average rate
of positive tests, which is calcu-
lated from the total number of
tests administered rather than
individual people tested, re-
mained at 1.8 percent for a fifth
consecutive day after ticking up
slowly from 1.1 percent at the
beginning of October. The low-
est observed figure for that
metric — a number watched
closely by state officials — is 0.8
percent, a rate the state
reached in mid-September be-
fore cases began ticking back
up.
The state also offers another
measure of test positivity: daily
positive tests per people tested,
which some specialists have
suggested is a better measure of
the pandemic. That number
stood at 6.6 percent for the
state in Thursday’s report after
dropping from 6.2 percent to
5.5 percent the day before.
The three-day average of
hospitalized coronavirus pa-
tients increased slightly from
566 to 570 in Thursday’s re-
port. The lowest that metric
has been is 302, which it last
T h e B o s t o n
weeks to get shots into arms
even though no one knows
which vaccine will be autho-
rized by the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration, what special stor-
age and handling may be re-
quired, and how many doses
each state will receive.
Despite those uncertainties,
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention is asking states
to be prepared to “preposition”
doses in key locations through-
out the country.
Officials want to move
quickly once the FDA authoriz-
es a vaccine and a CDC adviso-
ry panel issues recommenda-
tions on which populations
should be vaccinated, accord-
ing to a letter the CDC sent
Monday to state preparedness
and immunization officials.
As part of that effort, the
CDC is asking states to provide
by Tuesday critical information,
including a list of each jurisdic-
tion’s top five sites capable of
receiving and administering a
vaccine that must be stored at
ultracold temperatures of mi-
nus-70 Celsius (minus-94 Fahr-
enheit).
The letter refers to the vac-
Mayor Martin J. Walsh said testing is “an opportunity to arm yourself with knowledge and
be part of a community defense against this virus.”
reached on Aug. 29.
The number of hospitals us-
ing surge capacity dropped
from four to three, and the
three-day average of deaths
from confirmed cases remained
at 21 for a third straight day;
the lowest that number has
been is nine.
Boston officials said compa-
nies can take the city’s testing
pledge by encouraging all em-
ployees to get tested, especially
people with symptoms, those at
risk for health complications
upon infection, anyone in close
contact with someone infected,
and anyone who’s traveled or
attended a large gathering.
“If you meet any of these cri-
teria you should get tested
without delay,” Walsh said. “But
G l o b e
BRIANA SANCHEZ/THE EL PASO TIMES VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
cine only as Vaccine A, but in-
dustry and health officials have
identified it as Pfizer’s candi-
date.
State officials say they have
been trying to raise the issue
with federal officials but have
received little response. “It is
absolutely ridiculous that the
administration, after spending
$10 billion for a Warp Speed ef-
fort to develop a vaccine, has
no interest in a similar invest-
ment in a Warp Speed cam-
paign to get the vaccine to ev-
ery American as quickly as pos-
sible after it is approved,” said
Michael Fraser, executive direc-
tor of the Association of State
and Territorial Health Officials.
Local officials still need to
recruit thousands of people to
staff vaccine clinics and enroll
and train providers. They also
have to ramp up information
technology and data systems to
track vaccine inventory and or-
dering to ensure people get the
correct doses at the right times
— most vaccines will require
two shots — and to monitor for
adverse events. They will need
to develop locally tailored vac-
cination communications cam-
as a city we want to go further
than that. We know that the vi-
rus is spreading among people
who don’ t have symptoms,
among people who don’t know
they’ve been exposed. So we
want to be proactive. If you’re
leaving your house for any rea-
son, you could be exposed. So
I’m encouraging you to get test-
ed and make it a regular part of
your routine.”
City workers, Walsh’s office
said, will be eligible for one
paid hour to get tested once ev-
ery 14 days during their normal
work hours. Officials are urging
businesses to consider similar
arrangements and also to
spread the word on locations
for testing, including Boston’s
free mobile testing sites.
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paigns, too.
WASHINGTON POST
Death rates have dropped for
seriously ill COVID patients
The coronavirus struck the
United States earlier this year
with devastating force. In April,
it killed more than 10,000 peo-
ple in New York City. By early
May, nearly 50,000 nursing
home residents and their care-
givers across the country had
died.
But as the virus continued
its rampage over the summer
and fall, survival rates, even of
seriously ill patients, appeared
to be improving.
At one New York hospital
system where 30 percent of cor-
onavirus patients died in
March, the death rate had
dropped to 3 percent by the
end of June.
Although the virus has been
changing slowly as it spreads,
and some have speculated that
it has become more easily
transmissible, most scientists
say there is no solid evidence
that it has become either less
virulent, or more virulent.
As elderly people sheltered
JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF
Testing at the two mobile
sites, currently located in Cen-
tral Square in East Boston and
in Nubian Square in Roxbury,
are free to all comers, regard-
less of whether they have symp-
toms. A full list of testing loca-
tions is available on the city’s
website.
Walsh said parties could be
a problem over the Halloween
weekend.
“There should be no parties
this weekend,” he said.
The mayor encouraged fam-
ilies to opt for virtual Hallow-
een events and said that if they
do trick-or-treat Saturday, they
should not knock on doors and
only take candy left out for chil-
dren on porches.
Earlier this week, Governor
inside and took precautions to
avoid infection, however, more
of the hospitalized patients
were younger adults, who were
generally healthier and more
resilient. By the end of August,
the average patient was young-
er than 40.
NEW YORK TIMES
Aides plotted $265m ‘defeat
despair’ play to help Trump
WASHINGTON — A $265
million public campaign to “de-
feat despair” around the corona-
virus was planned partly around
the politically tinged theme that
“helping the president will help
the country,” according to docu-
ments released Thursday by
House investigators.
Michael R. Caputo, the as-
sistant secretary for public af-
fairs at the Department of
Health and Human Services,
and others involved envisioned
a star-studded campaign de-
signed to lift American spirits,
but the lawmakers said they
sought to exclude celebrities
who had supported gay rights
or same-sex marriage or who
had publicly disparaged Presi-
dent Trump.
Actor Zach Galifianakis, for
instance, was apparently
passed over because he had de-
clined to have Trump as a guest
on his talk show “Between Two
Ferns.”
Ultimately, the campaign
collapsed amid recriminations
and investigation.
Democrats on the House
Oversight and Reform Commit-
tee and the select subcommit-
tee on the coronavirus crisis re-
leased the records, declaring
“these documents include ex-
tremely troubling revelations.”
They accused Alex Azar, the
secretary of health and human
services, of “a cover-up to con-
ceal the Trump administration’s
misuse of hundreds of millions
of taxpayer dollars for partisan
political purposes ahead of the
upcoming election.”
Caputo, a fierce ally of
Trump, had drawn attention to
the public relations campaign
last month during an extended
rant on Facebook, claiming
that the president had person-
ally put him in charge of the
project and that career govern-
ment scientists were engaging
in “sedition” to undermine the
president.
He is now on medical leave
battling cancer.
NEW YORK TIMES
The mayor
encouraged
families to opt for
virtual Halloween
events.
Charlie Baker said workplace
infections are not driving the
state’s surge in cases, but the
cluster data released Thursday
suggests that’s an open ques-
tion.
The data show that about 16
percent of the confirmed cases
linked to clusters in the past
month are from sites such as
health care facilities, restau-
rants, retail stores, and other
settings.
As the holidays approach,
Baker has urged residents to be
cautious about social gather-
ings, but the new data suggest
those gatherings are not neces-
sarily fueling the latest surge in
infections.
The new numbers show 11
new clusters traced to social
gatherings in the last month.
Yet those clusters accounted for
just 67 new confirmed cases,
along with 50 other people con-
sidered close contacts who may
have been infected.
“Clearly that is not what is
driving this latest spike of over
1,000 new cases a day,” Pavlos
said.
Travis Andersen, Martin
Finucane, and Dasia Moore of
the Globe staff contributed to
this report. Kay Lazar can be
reached at kay.lazar@
globe.com Follow her on Twitter
@GlobeKayLazar.
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A STATE OF EMERGENCY
WORLD NOTEBOOK

Europe has more than 10m virus cases now, WHO says
LONDON — The World
Health Organization’s Europe
director said Thursday that
the 53-country region has
again reached a new weekly
record for confirmed cases,
with more than 1.5 million
confirmed last week and more
than 10 million since the start
of the pandemic.
During a meeting with Eu-
ropean health ministers, WHO
European regional director Dr.
Hans Kluge said that hospital-
izations “have risen to levels
unseen since the spring” and
that deaths have risen by more
than 30 percent in the last
week.
“Europe is at the epicenter
of this pandemic once again,”
Kluge said. “At the risk of
sounding alarmist, I must ex-
press our very real concern.”
Testing systems have been
unable to keep up with wide-
spread levels of transmission,
and “test positivity levels have
reached new highs,” with most
European countries exceeding
5 percent and many cases
spreading unchecked, he said.
In the wake of France and
Germany approving new re-
strictions in hopes of reversing
the trend, Kluge called nation-
al lockdowns a “last resort op-
tion,” citing the considerable
DAVID BARRETT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dr. Hans Kluge, regional director for WHO Europe, says
the surge of coronavirus cases is of “very real concern.”
Macron bluntly said on
Wednesday that if France
couldn’t put the brakes on the
pandemic, doctors would soon
have to choose which COVID-
19 patients to save.
In Germany, as hospitaliza-
tions have doubled in the past
10 days and nearly 1,500 pa-
tients are in intensive care,
Chancellor Angela Merkel an-
transmitted cases of COVID-
19 on Thursday, highlighting
the island’s continued success
at keeping the virus under
control even as cases surge in
other parts of the world.
Taiwan’s Center for Disease
Control last reported a domes-
tic case on April 12. CDC offi-
cials noted the milestone and
thanked the public for playing
a role, while urging people to
continue to wear masks and to
wash their hands often.
Since the pandemic began,
Taiwan has recorded 553 cases
of COVID-19, and just seven
deaths. While it has stopped
domestic transmission, it con-
tinues to record new cases in
people arriving from abroad.
Taiwan has been pointed to
as a success story in how to re-
spond to the pandemic, espe-
cially considering its close
business and tourism ties with
decline nationwide, the Indian
capital appears to be heading
toward another surge in infec-
tions. It reported its worst day
with 4,853 cases on Wednes-
day, after falling to less than
1,000 new cases per day last
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China, where the virus first
emerged late last year.
Questions remain, however,
as to whether the island is tru-
ly free of the coronavirus. Lo-
cal media has been paying
close attention to reports of
people who tested positive for
it after leaving Taiwan.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Coronavirus dims Mexico’s
Day of the Dead celebration
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s
Day of the Dead celebration
this weekend won’t be the
same in a year so marked by
death, in a country where
more than 90,000 people have
died of COVID-19.
Many of those had to be
cremated rather than buried,
and even for those with grave-
sides to visit, the pandemic
has forced authorities in most
parts of Mexico to close ceme-
teries to prevent the tradition-
al Nov. 1-2 observances when
families clean and decorate
tombs, cover them with or-
ange marigolds, light candles,
and chat with their deceased.
On Sunday, many residents
of the impoverished suburb of
Valle de Chalco, east of Mexico
City, visited a recently opened
overflow section of the local
cemetery to clean the simple
graves of their loved ones —
many still just marked by dirt
mounds — because they had
heard the graveyards would be
closed on the actual holiday.
On a normal Day of the
Dead, said José Juan Rivera
Almazán, the cemetery man-
ager, “You can’t even walk
through here, it is so full, peo-
ple, visitors, vendors’ stands.”
This year, though, the cem-
etery will be quiet.
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pope ends public audiences,

damage the measures inflict
on economies, people’s mental
health, and the incidence of
domestic violence.
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nounced new lockdown mea-
sures on Wednesday as she
vowed to avoid “situations that
are extremely difficult.”
Exhausted health care
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ROME — Pope Francis is
halting his public general au-
diences and will limit partici-
pation at Christmas and other

Situation in European
hospitals is getting critical
In Belgium, all nonessential
hospital work has been post-
poned to deal with an influx of
new COVID-19 patients,
whose numbers have nearly
doubled in the past week,
workers and other epidemics,
like the flu, that arrive in win-
ter have led authorities to
warn that the worst is yet to
come. While in Western Eu-
rope, the fear of overwhelmed
hospitals brought a feeling of
déjà-vu from the first wave in
the spring, countries in Cen-
upcoming Masses amid a
surge of coronavirus cases in
Italy and the Vatican, officials
said Thursday.
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will resume livestreaming his
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Croatia has asked former
doctors to come out of retire-
ment to help in hospitals,
while National Guard troops
have flown from the United
States to the Czech Republic to
assist overwhelmed health
care professionals there.
In the Netherlands, new
coronavirus patients have had
to be transferred by helicopter
to Germany to relieve Dutch
intensive-care units.
Across Europe, hospitals
are filling up at an alarming
pace that harks back to the
darkest hours of the spring.
The authorities are scrambling
to slow the spread of a virus
that threatens to bring ailing
health care systems to the
brink of collapse.
Worldwide, more than
500,000 cases were tallied on
Wednesday, a record since the
start of the pandemic. All 20
countries with the highest
rates of new cases over the last
week are in Europe. Britain,
France, Italy, and Spain were
among the countries that re-
corded their highest death
tolls in months.
In announcing a new na-
tionwide lockdown in France
on Wednesday, President Em-
manuel Macron predicted that
the second wave of the virus
would be more deadly than
the first.
In France, 1 million people
are currently estimated to be
infected with the coronavirus,
and 2,000 new patients are
hospitalized every day, accord-
ing to government data, the
highest numbers in the coun-
try since mid-April. Doctors
have warned that hospitals
won’t hold in the winter if the
virus can’t be stemmed, and
faced a frighteningly new situ-
ation.
Countries like the Czech
Republic and Poland imposed
tough restrictions in the
spring and saw lower infection
rates, but soaring cases this
fall have laid bare a critical
shortage of nurses, doctors,
and intensive care beds. In
Bulgaria, scores of health care
professionals are falling ill
with the virus, and an ac-
claimed doctor became the
19th medical professional
there to die of the virus earlier
this month.
In the Czech Republic,
where cases are rising at one
of the fastest paces in Europe,
Prime Minister Andrej Babis
has warned that the country’s
health care system could col-
lapse before mid-November.
“What happened was some-
how predicted, but nobody ex-
pected its scope,” Babis said af-
ter declaring a second national
lockdown.
NEW YORK TIMES
India’s coronavirus cases
cross 8 million, behind US
NEW DELHI — India’s con-
firmed coronavirus caseload
surpassed 8 million on Thurs-
day with daily infections dip-
ping to the lowest level this
week, as concerns grew over a
major Hindu festival season
and winter setting in.
India’s trajectory is moving
toward the worst-hit country,
the United States, which has
about a million more cases.
The Health Ministry report-
ed another 49,881 infections
and 517 fatalities in the past
24 hours, raising the death toll
to 120,527.
Even as new cases are on a
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Vatican is moving back into
partial lockdown mode along
with the rest of Italy as Europe
experiences surging COVID-19
infections.
The Vatican City State has
not been spared, with 13 Swiss
Guards testing positive this
month.
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Taiwan marks 200 days
without domestic infection
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PCAMPAIGN 2020
Wis. Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3m Trump
MADISON, Wis. — Hackers
have stolen $2.3 million from
the Wisconsin Republican Par-
POLITICAL
ty’s account
that was be-
NOTEBOOK ing used to
help reelect
President Trump in the key bat-
tleground state, the party’s
chairman said on Thursday.
The party noticed the suspi-
cious activity on Oct. 22 and
contacted the FBI on Friday,
said Republican Party chair-
man Andrew Hitt.
Hitt said the FBI is investi-
gating. FBI spokesman Leon-
ard Peace did not return a mes-
sage seeking comment.
The attack was discovered
less than two weeks before
Election Day, as both Trump
and Democratic rival Joe Biden
made their final pushes to win
Wisconsin and its 10 electoral
votes.
Trump won the state by few-
er than 23,000 votes in 2016
and planned his third visit in
seven days on Friday. Biden al-
so planned to campaign in Wis-
consin Friday.
Polls have consistently
shown a tight race in the state,
usually with Biden ahead by
single digits and within the
margin of error.
Hitt said he was not aware
of any other state GOP being
targeted for a similar hack, but
state parties were warned at
the Republican National Con-
vention this summer to be on
the lookout for cyberattacks.
There have been more than
800 attempted phishing attacks
for financial gain targeting the
Wisconsin Democratic Party
this campaign cycle, but none
have succeeded, said party
spokeswoman Courtney Beyer.
Hitt said the hackers manip-
ulated invoices from four ven-
dors that were being paid for
direct mail for Trump’s reelec-
tion efforts as well as for pro-
Trump material such as hats to
be handed out to supporters.
Invoices and other documents
were altered so that when the
party paid for the services ren-
dered, the money went to the
hackers instead of the vendors,
Hitt said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pelosi warns voters to
deliver ballots in person
WASHINGTON — House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thurs-
day urged Americans to contin-
ue to vote early but to deliver
their ballots in person, given
that less than a week remains
Fox News eyes a future without a fan in the White House
By Sarah Ellison
and Jeremy Barr
WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — Spend a
couple hours with Fox News on
a typical weeknight, and you
may come to see the potential
election of Joe Biden as a cata-
clysm in the making.
Prime-time host Laura In-
graham recently warned view-
ers of the “Bolsheviks and bil-
lionaires” she said were propel-
ling his candidacy. Frequent
contributor Dan Bongino called
Biden’s campaign “the biggest
con job in presidential election
history.” Last week, Sean Han-
nity sent a camera crew to stake
out Biden’s house to demand
answers about the alleged con-
tents of his son’s laptop. Even
the network’s senior political
analyst, Brit Hume, has repeat-
edly called the Democratic
presidential candidate “senile”
on air.
But behind the scenes, a
strange calm prevails. The man
who helped create Fox News as
the most influential platform
for conservative politics in
America fully expects that
Biden will win — and frankly
isn’t too bothered by that.
Rupert Murdoch, the 89-
year-old billionaire whose fami-
ly controls Fox News’s parent
company, has told associates
that he is resigned to a Trump
loss in November. And he has
complained that the president’s
current low polling numbers
are due to repeated “unforced
errors” that could have been
avoided if he had followed Mur-
doch’s advice about how to
weather the coronavirus pan-
demic, according to associates
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to describe private
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday urged voters to hand in ballots in-person, saying it’s too late to mail them in.
until Election Day.
Pelosi’s comments come as
millions of mail-in ballots re-
mained unreturned, prompting
a flurry of warnings from elec-
tion officials that ballots sent
via the Postal Service at this
point may not arrive in time to
be counted. More than 42 mil-
lion of the 92 million mail bal-
lots requested by voters nation-
ally had not yet been returned
as of Wednesday afternoon, ac-
cording to data from the US
Elections Project, a nonparti-
san site tracking early voting.
“This weekend should be
very interesting, to see how
many more people will vote in
advance,” Pelosi said at her
weekly news conference. “I
hope that people will not de-
pend on the mail, because they
have done all they can to dis-
mantle the postal system . . .
But even the Postal Service is
saying it’s too late now to mail.”
WASHINGTON POST
Court says Minn. can’t
accept ballots after Nov. 3
A federal appeals court
ruled Thursday evening that
Minnesota must reject ballots
received after polls close on
Election Day, upending the
conversations.
A political conservative,
Murdoch has always been a
pragmatist when it comes to his
relationships with politicians,
backing liberal candidates,
such as former British prime
minister Tony Blair, when it
suits him. He had known
Trump for decades as a fre-
quent source and subject for his
New York Post tabloid, and he
was not initially thrilled with
the idea of a Trump presidency.
“When is Donald Trump go-
ing to stop embarrassing his
friends, let alone the whole
country?” he tweeted in July
2015.
Murdoch even flirted with
endorsing Hillary Clinton’s
2016 candidacy and invited her
to meet. She declined, accord-
ing to two people familiar with
the exchange.
When Trump’s candidacy
surged, Murdoch followed and
was rewarded with a direct line
to the White House. Last year,
the mogul sold most of his com-
pany to Disney for $71 billion, a
deal that ended up facing few
federal regulatory hurdles de-
spite its size. Trump called
Murdoch the day the deal was
announced to congratulate
him. (Murdoch still retains a
controlling interest in Fox
Corp., which owns Fox News,
Fox Television Stations, and
Fox Sports, as well as in News
Corp., which owns Murdoch’s
newspapers and other digital
properties.)
But the pandemic altered
the relationship. Murdoch
watched with concern as
Trump downplayed the crisis.
He dispatched one of his closest
aides, News Corp. CEO Robert
Thomson, to speak to the presi-
T h e B o s t o n
state’s plan to count absentee
ballots received up to seven
days after the election, so long
as they were postmarked by
Election Day.
The decision came on the
eve of scheduled visits to the
state by President Trump and
Democratic nominee Joe Biden
and marks the second time this
week that federal courts have
clamped down on swing states
that sought to extend counting
to give voters extra time to cast
ballots amid the pandemic.
On Monday, the Supreme
Court prevented Wisconsin
from continuing to count
mailed ballots received after
Election Day. But it has also de-
clined so far to roll back ex-
tended deadlines in Pennsylva-
nia and North Carolina.
The decision by a three-
judge panel of the US Court of
Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
said lower courts had gone too
far in assessing that Minneso-
ta’s Legislature had delegated
authority to the secretary of
state to change election practic-
es to deal with emergencies.
‘‘Simply put, the secretary
has no power to override the
Minnesota Legislature,’’ the
opinion states. ‘‘However well-
Fox Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News
network have had a close relationship with the president.
dent about the risks of the virus
back in March, in a previously
undisclosed meeting. Tucker
Carlson, a Fox News host who
had sounded the alarm on the
virus back in late January, visit-
ed Mar-a-Lago in early March
to urge the president to take the
virus more seriously, also at
Murdoch’s encouragement.
But around the same time,
Ingraham made two trips to the
Oval Office — one to promote
hydroxychloroquine, a contro-
versial and unproven treatment
for the virus that enraptured
the president, and another to
urge him to reopen businesses
across the country, in both cas-
es echoing arguments she
would make during her hour of
prime-time punditry. Hannity
likened the novel coronavirus
to a “new hoax” the Democrats
and the media could use to at-
tack the president. And Carl-
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intentioned and appropriate
from a policy perspective in the
context of a pandemic during a
presidential election . . . there is
no pandemic exception to the
Constitution.’’
Under the 2-1 ruling, Min-
nesota can only accept absen-
tee ballots received by mail by 8
p.m. on Election Day — or be-
fore 3 p.m. if voters deliver
them in person.
WASHINGTON POST
Trump’s snub of McSally
is replayed in Arizona
NEW YORK — President
Trump’s dismissive and disre-
spectful treatment of his nomi-
nal political ally Senator Mar-
tha McSally in Arizona on
Wednesday was cast by local
media as a humiliating coda to
her difficult campaign.
But it said just as much
about Trump’s own stumble
down the stretch, exacerbated
by an unwillingness to take
even the most basic steps to im-
prove his shaky standing
among women voters.
All Trump had to do in
Goodyear, Ariz., was introduce
McSally, a fellow Republican,
and smile when she offered a
unity pitch. No go.
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son, after a period of urging
viewers to take the virus seri-
ously, soon pivoted to skepti-
cism, comparing those worried
about it to “the many ghouls in
Washington who forced our
militar y to wage pointless
wars.”
Their on-air rhetoric stood
in contrast to the company’s re-
action, as Fox News executives
implemented serious protocols
to protect employees from a
growing pandemic. But the in-
congruent reactions did not
hurt ratings. In April, a month
when the coronavirus killed
about 60,000 Americans, Fox
News recorded the then-largest
prime-time audience in net-
work histor y, according to
Nielsen Media Research.
The threat of advertiser boy-
cotts — driven by activists furi-
ous about the pandemic-dis-
missive punditry — led some
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After starting by saying she
was “respected by everybody,”
he instantly proved that she
was not. “Martha, come up just
fast! Fast! Fast! Come on.
Quick! You got one minute!” he
shouted, as some, but not all, in
the crowd laughed. “One min-
ute, Martha! They don’t want
to hear this, Martha. Come on.
Let’s go. Quick, quick, quick,
quick. Come on. Let’s go.”
McSally ran onto the stage,
elbow-bumped the president,
and professed herself “proud”
of him, after declining to do so
at a debate earlier this month.
This might have been the rea-
son he was eager to see her
come and go. (McSally wrote in
an op-ed this week that she is
supporting Trump’s reelection.)
McSally, a former fighter pi-
lot appointed to her current
seat, trails her Democratic op-
ponent, Mark Kelly, in polls.
After McSally spoke, Trump
invited three male out-of-state
supporters — Senator Rand
Paul of Kentucky, Representa-
tive Kevin McCarthy of Califor-
nia, and Senator Mike Lee of
Utah — onstage for unrushed
appearances that focused on
their adulation of him.
NEW YORK TIMES
analysts to anticipate a revenue
drop for Fox. But in an election
year with blockbuster ratings,
the channel has rebounded;
S&P Global Market Intelligence
projects that Fox ad revenue
could reach $1.15 billion, an in-
crease over last year. Murdoch’s
son Lachlan, the CEO of Fox
Corp., told investors in May
that Fox had nearly doubled its
audience with the younger
viewers who appeal to advertis-
ers.
But what about 2021?
The network’s current line-
up is a reflection of the Trump
presidency, with opinion hosts
such as Hannity, Ingraham,
and Jeanine Pirro, who have
leveraged their personal rela-
tionships with the president for
ratings success; and a morning
show, “Fox & Friends,” that has
become Trump’s go-to venue.
On shows such as “The Five,”
Trump skeptics such as Dana
Perino and Greg Gutfeld have
quieted their reservations and
embraced their roles as critics
of Trump’s critics; while the
network’s finance-focused
cousin, Fox Business Network,
has catapulted Trump allies
Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiro-
mo to greater prominence
through exclusive interviews
with administration officials
and Trump himself.
If Biden wins, that access
disappears. Yet Murdoch has
always considered Fox News’s
original underdog status to be
its strength. And while he val-
ued the White House access, he
is ready to welcome a new in-
habitant — partly because it
may give Fox the central role in
the Republican Party that it oc-
cupied before Trump co-opted
the party.
leads war
on civil
servants
Career employees
fear jobs are at risk
By Lisa Rein
and Tom Hamburger
WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — Early in
the new administration, the
White House wanted a big win
for President Trump on one of
his top promises — getting rid
of poor performers at the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs.
Scott Foster got the order
from his boss, a senior political
appointee: Draw up a list of un-
derachievers and give “your
best 10” so the president could
announce their firing at a sign-
ing ceremony for a law allowing
fast dismissals at the VA.
Foster, a seasoned personnel
official, balked. The employees
still had the right to due pro-
cess, he argued. Within weeks,
his boss tried to sack him.
It was one of the first shots
in what became an unwavering
four-year war on the civil ser-
vants who have operated as the
backbone of the federal govern-
ment for more than a century.
Career employees from diplo-
mats to budget analysts have
come under siege as they carry
out the laws of Congress, at-
tacked by a president with no
government experience and
portrayed as a “deep state” try-
ing to undermine him.
Trump has targeted high-
profile figures such as Anthony
Fauci, a scientist who has ad-
vised six presidents and whose
dire warnings about the coro-
navirus pandemic angered
him.
He ridiculed Lieutenant Col-
onel Alexander Vindman, the
decorated Iraq War veteran and
Ukraine expert on the National
Security Council staff who testi-
fied in the inquiry that led to
Trump’s impeachment — then
he ordered him marched out of
his office with his twin brother,
another career military officer.
Vindman retired in July af-
ter what his attorney called a
campaign of White House in-
timidation and retaliation.
Beyond these recognizable
faces, employees across the
government were banished to
basement offices, denied pro-
motions, and excluded from de-
cision-making. Government
service has been undermined in
the process, employees and ob-
servers say, endangering not
just the government’s routine
functions, such as ensuring
clean water and fighting wild-
fires, but also its response to
rare events like pandemics.
When they challenged the
legality of politically motivated
orders, promoted the conclu-
sions of experts, or questioned
the direction of policy, career
employees found themselves
sidelined. Some wound up on
the president’s Twitter feed.
Loyalty was prized above all.
In the past four fiscal years,
the Office of Special Counsel,
an independent anticorruption
office, has received 20,505 com-
plaints from federal employees
alleging government wrongdo-
ing, retaliation for whistle-
blowing, or other improper
treatment, a 26 percent jump
from President Barack Obama’s
first term, data show.
The president went even
further last week, signing an
executive order that removes
job protections for an estimat-
ed tens of thousands of civil ser-
vants, allowing them to be dis-
missed with little cause or re-
course.
White House spokesman
Judd Deere, in a statement,
called government workers
“the Swamp,” saying they have
“fought so hard against this
president every step of the way”
as he “fought tirelessly in his ef-
fort to make Washington ac-
countable to the American peo-
ple.”
“Many of these entrenched
liberal bureaucrats are only out
for themselves and never un-
derstood the importance of the
president’s agenda or why the
American people elected him,”
Deere said.
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Florida, butt of election jokes, believes system is ready
Changes made
to ballots, laws
and equipment
By Terry Spencer
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
— Even if the presidential elec-
tion hinges on a Florida re-
count like 20 years ago, hang-
ing chads and butterfly ballots
won’t be around to trip up vot-
ers and officials. Changes to
ballots, equipment, and laws
have made the Bush-Gore cir-
cus a relic never to be revisit-
ed, state elections officials be-
lieve.
Though there are other sce-
narios that make elections offi-
cials nervous, the computer
punch-card ballots that fueled
2000’s chaos are buried in his-
tory’s landfill. Casting valid
ballots and processing them is
now easier, even before Elec-
Self-styled
militias
raising
alarms
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chists and vigilantes, COVID-
19 restrictions and conspiracy
theories, the nation’s law en-
forcement agencies, election
protection specialists, and
watchdog groups are closely
monitoring militant extremists
on the right and left while brac-
ing for rogue acts of violence.
“There is a serious threat
that militias and armed vigilan-
tes will be at polling places and
will pose a danger to voters,’’
said Cassie Miller, a senior re-
search analyst at the Southern
Poverty Law Center, which
tracks extremists and hate
groups.
The Department of Home-
land Security issued a report
Oct. 6 warning that violent do-
mestic extremists “might target
events related to the 2020 presi-
dential campaigns, the election
itself, election results, or the
post-election period.’’
Two days later, the danger
was crystalized when the FBI
foiled an alleged plot by 14 sus-
pects tied to the paramilitary
Wolverine Watchmen militia to
kidnap Michigan Governor
Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat
sharply criticized by Trump,
and try her for treason over her
pandemic-driven shutdowns.
Ellis, a 40-year-old Army vet-
eran, dismissed the suspects as
anarchists unfit for right-wing
militias. But he stopped short of
denouncing their goal.
“In the loosest sense, we
kind of want the same things,’’
he said. “We do not want tyran-
nical rule from a governor.’’
Self-styled militia members
generally portray themselves as
modern-day patriots, poised to
combat what they perceive as
an imminent threat of domestic
repression. They view the Black
Lives Matter and antifascist, or
antifa, movements as forces
aligned with Democrats to cre-
ate a socialist state that would
strip them of their freedoms.
The groups seize on refer-
ences to militias in the Consti-
tution, but every state bans
“private, unauthorized groups
from engaging in activities re-
served for the state militia, in-
cluding law enforcement activi-
ties,” according to the Institute
for Constitutional Advocacy
and Protection at Georgetown
University’s law school.
The modern militia move-
ment gained traction in the ear-
ly 1990s as far-right groups or-
ganized in response to federal
law enforcement officers killing
women and children in con-
frontations with a self-pro-
claimed white supremacist in
Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and a reli-
gious sect in Waco, Texas. The
movement ebbed after Timothy
McVeigh, who had ties to the
Michigan Militia, blew up a fed-
eral building in Oklahoma City
in 1995, killing 168 people, but
it was reenergized during Presi-
dent Barack Obama’s tenure
amid right-wing concerns over
tion Day, and the Legislature
has enacted clearer laws gov-
erning recounts.
The Associated Press spoke
with most of Florida’s 67 coun-
ty elections supervisors or top
aides in recent weeks along
with voting rights groups, and
they expect the system to run
smoothly in the nation’s larg-
est swing state, even with the
pandemic. And if the winner’s
victory margin is razor thin,
recounts in 2018 for governor
and US Senate, while not per-
fect, showed the system works
even when candidates, elected
officials, and their supporters
apply pressure.
“That was redemption for
the state, not only for how we
were able to count the votes in
the live election but again dur-
ing a recount,” said Christina
White, Miami-Dade County’s
supervisor.
Attorney Barry Richard,
part of former President
gun control measures, illegal
immigration, and health insur-
ance mandates, among other is-
sues.
In 2019, the Southern Pover-
ty Law Center identified 181
militia groups across the coun-
try.
In Massachusetts, federal,
state, and municipal law en-
forcement officials said they are
prepared for potential trouble.
The threat in New England is
considered less severe than in
states where the presidential
election is hotly contested and
where violence already has
erupted around Black Lives
Matter demonstrations and
protests over COVID-19 shut-
downs, but analysts said no re-
gion is immune to danger.
MyMilitia.com claims ties to
units across New England.
Watchdog organizations say
armed national groups such as
the Oath Keepers, the Ameri-
can Guard, and the Three Per-
centers, whose name derives
from the idea that only 3 per-
cent of the colonists fought in
the American Revolution, also
are active in the region.
Jesse Schultz, of Rehoboth, a
44-year-old union carpenter,
said in an interview that he was
denied membership in his local
Three Percenters branch be-
cause he was deemed too mili-
tant. He has since searched for
another group to join on MyMi-
litia.com, which Ellis describes
as “a dating service’’ for pro-
spective militia members.
T h e B o s t o n
George W. Bush’s Florida legal
team 20 years ago, agreed that
another Florida meltdown is
unlikely, saying “We’ve had
four presidential elections
since 2000 with no problems”
beyond small, localized hic-
cups that “get blown out of
proportion.”
‘You can’t have perfection
instantaneously.’
MARK EARLEY, Florida’s Leon County supervisor
Still, there are some worst-
case scenarios that haunt some
Florida supervisors. Last-min-
ute lawsuits that change rules.
President Trump prematurely
claiming victory, creating un-
founded fraud accusations by
his supporters if the state flips
to his Democratic challenger,
Joe Biden. Militias congregat-
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Meanwhile, Schultz said, he
has ties to an informal network
of armed citizens in his area
that is ready to mobilize if it
feels threatened by left-wing ex-
tremists. Should Democratic
presidential nominee Joe Biden
win the election, Schultz said, “I
see tyranny getting ready to
steal our constitutional free-
doms.’’ He vowed to stand his
ground.
“Me and my son shoot all the
time,’’ Schultz said. “I’ve educat-
ed myself on military tactics.
I’ve read ‘The Art of War,’ ‘The
US Army/Marine Corps Coun-
terinsurgency Field Manual,’
and a book about Caesar’s bat-
tle tactics. Wherever I have to
go to defend our police officers
and fellow citizens, I’ll go.’’
The far-right Proud Boys are
out there, too, emboldened by
Trump, who in a September de-
bate declined to forcefully re-
buke militia groups and white
supremacists, instead advising
the Proud Boys “to stand back
and stand by.’’
The Proud Boys have a New
England chapter that has orga-
nized or participated in right-
wing rallies on Boston Com-
mon and the Minuteman Na-
t i o n a l H i s t o r i c a l Pa r k i n
Concord, among other activi-
ties.
A report this month by Mili-
tia Watch and the Armed Con-
flict Location and Event Data
Project rated the Proud Boys’
potential for violence as “very
high.’’ And analysts said many
G l o b e
ing outside polling places, in-
timidating voters. Key comput-
er systems crashing by acci-
dent or hacking.
The most-likely fear elec-
tions supervisors have is that
campaigns and the public will
expect a winner declared on
election night and anything
less will signal a breakdown.
Not true, they say — under
state law, counties have 3.5
days to finish the unofficial
count.
''Our focus is on getting this
right, not getting done as fast
as possible to satisfy all the
voices out there clamoring for
instantaneous results,'' Leon
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other extremist groups bear
watching.
FBI Director Christopher
Wray testified before Congress
in February that nearly 4,500
law enforcement officers across
all 50 states are working more
than 1,000 investigations into
homegrown violent extremists.
Chuck Wexler, a former se-
nior adviser to the Boston po-
lice who serves as executive di-
rector of the Police Executive
Research Forum, a Washing-
ton-based think tank, said the
high threat of violence on Elec-
tion Day “is totally unprece-
dented.’’
Wexler said many agencies
across the country are gearing
up by, among other strategies,
canceling time off for officers.
“Typically, Election Day is
not a high intensity affair,’’ he
said. “But that’s not the case
this year for all sorts of reasons,
including concerns about
COVID and social distancing,
voter fraud, and some of these
militias showing up with rifles.’’
Signs of trouble already have
surfaced. In St. Petersburg, Fla.,
voters reported feeling intimi-
dated by armed Trump sup-
porters wearing private security
uniforms outside an early vot-
ing site. And Trump supporters
in the battleground state of
Pennsylvania have said they in-
tend to stand watch, while
armed, at the polls.
Many voting rights advo-
cates recoiled at Trump describ-
ing partisan poll monitors as an
County supervisor Mark Earley
said. “You can’t have perfec-
tion instantaneously.”
As always, Florida’s 29 elec-
toral votes are key to the na-
tional outcome and Trump will
face daunting reelection odds
if he doesn’t capture them —
again putting the president’s
adopted home state into the
spotlight.
Ironically, Florida could be
the first swing state where the
media projects the winner. A
solid majority of ballots will be
cast by mail or early voting —
mail voting began a month
ago, early voting last week. Un-
like Pennsylvania and some
other swing states, the count-
ing of those votes has already
begun. That tally remains hid-
den until polls close.
Supervisors expect 90 per-
cent of all ballots will be count-
ed before midnight — and that
might be enough to make the
outcome apparent if the mar-
Protesters confronted
members of the Oath
Keepers last month in
Louisville, Ky. At left, the
Three Percenters trained in
Georgia.
“army.’’
The word “suggests they are
engaged in something more
ominous than civil poll watch-
ing,’’ said Sean Morales-Doyle,
deputy director of the voting
rights election program at the
Brennan Center for Justice, a
nonpartisan law and policy in-
stitute.
Indeed, some armed civilian
groups have appeared to be pre-
paring for action. Oath Keepers
founder Stewart Rhodes tweet-
ed in September, “We ARE on
the verge of a HOT civil war.’’
Those prepared to take up
arms include former Oath
Keeper Jeff Roy, a 53-year-old
heavy equipment operator in
Ashburnham who said he also
has served in the American
Sentinel Militia and New
Hampshire State Militia. Roy is
now lieutenant commander of
the Patriot Mutual Assistance
Program, which he described as
a volunteer service organiza-
tion whose duties range from
responding to natural disasters
to using force if necessary to de-
fend communities.
“When someone says ‘mili-
tia’ to me, I see a bunch of guys
who are willing to come togeth-
er when bad things happen, no
matter what those bad things
are,’’ Roy said.
He predicted leftists will try
to steal the election and, if they
fail, rise up violently. And
should they threaten his group’s
area in north-central Massachu-
setts, Roy said, “We are going to
defend our neighbors and make
sure they live in a free United
States of America.’’
There should be no ques-
tion, he said, about their profi-
ciency,
“Our group has spent a lot of
money to make sure we are all
legally and professionally
trained to use our firearms,’’ he
said.
As evidence of a potential
threat , Roy cited the fatal
shooting of a far-right Trump
supporter in Portland, Ore., in
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gin is big enough.
On the other extreme, if the
margin between Trump and
Biden is close, eyes will focus
on those counties that take un-
til noon Nov. 7 to fully count
their ballots. If the statewide
margin then is within a half-
p e r c e n t a ge p o i n t — l i ke l y
about 55,000 votes — a ma-
chine recount would occur. If
it’s within a quarter-percent-
age point — about 27,000 votes
— there would be a hand re-
count of rejected ballots.
One area of contention dur-
ing a recount would be mail-in
ballots rejected because voters'
signatures didn’t match what
their counties have on file.
These voters are notified and
have until two days after the
election to prove their identity,
but many won’t respond. That
could lead to challenges before
each county’s elections board
over whether particular rejec-
tions are legitimate.
Some armed
civilian groups
have appeared to
be preparing for
action.
August by a self-avowed adher-
ent of antifa. Law enforcement
authorities and watchdog
groups, however, said right-
wing extremists pose a greater
threat of deadly violence.
A study by the Anti-Defama-
tion League’s Center on Ex-
tremism found that right-wing
extremists committed 38 of the
nation’s 42 domestic extremist-
related murders in 2019 and
have been responsible for about
three-quarters of the 435 do-
mestic extremist-related homi-
cides over the last decade.
“We’re very mindful that
some extremists may seek to ex-
ploit the divisive political atmo-
sphere across the country right
now‚” Robert Trestan, execu-
tive director of the ADL’s Bos-
ton office, said. “It’s important
that everyone be prepared.’’
Trestan cited violence that
erupted at a right-wing rally in
Copley Square Oct. 18 when
counterprotesters clashed with
police who were positioned be-
tween the factions.
“What should have been two
opposing groups expressing
their views turned into confron-
tations, and that’s dangerous,’’
Trestan said. “We want to make
sure those kinds of confronta-
tions do not happen at polling
places.’’
The ADL, along with a broad
coalition of about 200 voting
rights groups, has mobilized
staff in anticipation of possible
trouble at the polls.
“We’ve already had reports
of people who are afraid to put
out political signs at their
homes because they are afraid
they might be targeted,’’ said
Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, execu-
tive director of Lawyers for Civil
Rights in Boston, a member of
the coalition.
In Massachusetts, the alli-
ance is training more than
2,000 volunteers to monitor
polling places and will be pre-
pared to seek court orders “if
there is any kind of armed mili-
tia present or disruption on
Election Day,” Espinoza-Madri-
gal said.
Damon Hewitt, executive
vice president of the Washing-
ton-based Lawyers Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law, said
the national election protection
hot line — 866-OUR-VOTE —
has already received more than
100,000 calls and is logging
more than 7,000 daily. The hot
line is serviced by nearly 34,000
volunteer attorneys.
The vast majority of polling
stations are expected to be free
of danger, but Hewitt and other
voting rights specialists said the
threat of armed civilians and
other forms of intimidation
cannot be discounted. Should
trouble arise, they said, people
trying to vote should alert po-
lice or official poll workers.
“But if you are physically
safe, do not leave,’’ Hewitt said.
“Do not let intimidation have
its desired effect.’’
Bob Hohler can be reached at
robert.hohler@globe.com.
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ing at a drive-in rally on
Thursday night in Tampa —
was one of the clearest signs
yet that both candidates not
only see their political for-
tunes tied to the state but also
are far from confident that
they are ahead here. Although
Biden has gained ground with
older voters who were once
part of Trump’s base, the presi-
dent is immensely popular
with the conservative Republi-
can electorate in Florida.
The shift to focusing on in-
person voting next Tuesday —
or sooner, where possible —
comes as more than 80 million
Americans have already cast
their ballots, absentee or by
mail. While the Election Day
vote traditionally favors Re-
publicans and early votes tend
toward Democrats, the pan-
demic, which has killed more
than 227,000 people in the
United States, has injected
new uncertainty.
As with Trump, it was un-
clear if Biden’s message would
resonate with enough voters to
help ensure a winning coali-
tion.
On Thursday, the former
vice president acknowledged
the unique role Florida would
play in determining the win-
ner. “If we win Florida, it’s
game time, it’s over, it’s over,”
Biden said as he swung
through an outdoor campaign
office in Fort Lauderdale earli-
er in the day.
Biden has made the presi-
dent’s handling of the corona-
virus the centerpiece of his
case for removing Trump from
office, and he pressed that
message again on Thursday to
voters who continue to suffer
the ravages of the outbreak.
The virus has cost Florida’s
tourism-dependent economy
hundreds of thousands of ser-
vice jobs, and the disease ap-
pears on the verge of another
spike, with the state reporting
more than 4,000 new cases for
three consecutive days this
week.
Biden condemned the ad-
ministration’s response, say-
ing it was no longer trying to
contain the pandemic.
“ Mi l l i o n s o f p e o p l e o u t
there are out of work, on the
edge, can’t see the light at the
end of the tunnel,” he said.
“And Donald Trump has given
up.”
The release of a report on
Thursday showing record-
breaking growth of the gross
domestic product during the
third quarter might have of-
fered Trump an opening to
campaign on a rare piece of
good news during the final
stretch of the general election.
But he spent only about five
minutes on the economy, call-
ing the GDP number the “big-
gest” business story of the last
50 years.
He quickly moved on to at-
tack his perceived enemies, in-
cluding Biden and the news
media, and even mocked some
Gen Z, Millennial voters embracing activism and voting
By Michelle Ye Hee Lee
WASHINGTON POST
Brianna Campbell, a 23-
year-old public health student
in Milwaukee, remembers feel-
ing a little uneasy about posting
on social media in 2016 about
politics and voting: It wasn’t
popular to be vocal about those
topics then.
But now, she’s inundated
with texts and social media
posts from friends reminding
her to vote. Climate change, ra-
cial justice, access to affordable
health care, and voting in a bat-
tleground state are all regular
conversation topics for Camp-
bell and her friends.
“It’s become so popular to
vote. Everyone posts on Insta-
gram,” said Campbell, who vot-
ed early. In 2016, “I didn’t want
to be the one political person
talking about sensitive topics.
. . . Now it seems like everybody
talks about it, and everybody is
willing to share what they be-
lieve.”
Major social movements
driven by young activists
around climate change, gun
safety, and Black Lives Matter
protests have led to an explo-
sion of civic awareness among
of his fellow Republicans.
Throughout the fall, Demo-
crats have outpaced Republi-
cans in voting by mail, giving
Biden a presumed early advan-
tage. But Republicans are
catching up with in-person
early voting, narrowing the
margin with each day. De-
pending on how many Demo-
crats vote over the final week-
end, traditionally a time when
big crowds head to the polls,
The margin could be close at
the start of Election Day, when
Republicans usually vote in
larger numbers.
Turnout has been highest
so far in some of the most
heavily Republican counties
across the state, and the Re-
publican Party, which has con-
trolled the state government
for more than two decades, is
known for its disciplined cam-
paigns down the ballot.
“When you vote the way the
Republicans do, you can’t pre-
dict the winner, and the rea-
son you can’ t do that is too
many Republicans wait to vote
the final day,” said Ryan D. Ty-
son, a Florida Republican poll-
ster and strategist. “Based on
what I’m looking at, at what’s
remaining, I feel the president
is well positioned to finish
Florida strongly. And that’s
not news: It’s kind of gelling as
it always has been.”
There appears to be little
doubt that Hillsborough Coun-
ty, home to Tampa and once
considered perhaps the ulti-
mate bellwether in the ulti-
mate swing state, will go blue
this year.
But Biden is aiming to run
up his margins with Demo-
crats while also seeking to win
over voters in nearby Pinellas
County, home to St. Peters-
burg, which supported former
President Barack Obama be-
fore flipping into Trump in
2016.
“We all know, if we sweep
the I-4 corridor, we’re going to
w i n t h i s t h i n g ,” s a i d Io n e
Townsend, the chairwoman of
the Hillsborough County Dem-
ocratic Party.
Amid the pandemic, Biden
has pursued a relatively light
travel schedule, and his team
has been cautious about cam-
paigning in person.
Townsend has raised con-
cerns in the past about the for-
mer vice president’s visibility
in her part of the state, but on
Thursday she said she was see-
ing signs of traction for Biden
on the ground, including
among moderate Republicans
who are disillusioned with
Trump.
“Anecdotally, I’ve heard
from a lot of Republicans that
they voted for Biden at the top
of the ticket,” she said, while
adding that she still expected
the state to be close. “We’re a
less-than-1-percent state.”
At his rally outside Ray-
mond James Stadium, Trump
brushed past a political gift
horse, the new GDP numbers
released Thursday. Instead he
chided Republicans who have
younger Americans, who are on
track to turn out to vote in re-
cord numbers this election and
could play a pivotal role in
some key battleground states.
Data on early voters and re-
cent polling suggest eligible
voters under 30 could break
their historic 2008 turnout,
when it peaked at 48 percent
when Barack Obama was elect-
ed. New data suggest they may
be on track to sustain their dra-
matic turnout in the 2018 mid-
terms, when they more than
doubled their rate of voting
compared to the prior midterm
election.
The higher early turnout is
somewhat expected, given the
particularly low turnout by
young voters in 2016 and the
overall surge in interest in alter-
native voting options because
of the novel coronavirus. But it
underscores the many ways
that this typically unreliable
voting bloc has been galvanized
into greater political and elec-
toral engagement, and is espe-
cially noteworthy given the
unique barriers to voting dur-
ing a pandemic that has dis-
placed many of them from their
homes or college campuses, re-
T h e B o s t o n
President Trump rallied his supporters in Tampa on Thursday.
Former vice president Joe Biden spoke at a drive-in rally at Broward College.
Tracking the candidates
FRIDAY, OCT. 30
President Trump: Waterford Township, Mich., Green Bay, Wisc., and
Rochester, Minn.
Vice president Mike Pence: Flagstaff and Tucson, Ariz.
Former vice president Joe Biden: Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Senator Kamala Harris: Fort Worth, McAllen, and Houston, Texas.
Jill Biden: Montgomery County, Pa.
SATURDAY, OCT. 31
Trump: Reading and Butler, Pa.
Joe Biden: Michigan, with former president Barack Obama.
Harris: Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties in Florida.
Jill Biden: Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C.
repeatedly advised him to fo-
cus on his economic record,
which voters see as his great-
est remaining strength. He
continued to lash out at ene-
mies, harping on the overseas
business dealings of Biden’s
son Hunter.
“I get a call from all the ex-
perts, right, guys that ran for
president six, seven, eight
times — never got past the first
JOSH HANER/NEW YORK TIMES/FILE 2020
Young supporters of former vice president Joe Biden
turned out for a Super Tuesday rally in Los Angeles.
searchers say.
“It’s the physical and eco-
nomic dislocation of COVID. It
was the protests after George
Floyd. It’s climate change and
the fires we’ve seen. It’s the af-
termath of all the good work
that was done after Parkland by
the gun-safety movement,” said
Simon Rosenberg, president of
the liberal think tank NDN,
who has been tracking youth
G l o b e
round — but they’re calling me
u p , ‘ S i r, y o u s h o u l d n’ t b e
s p e a k i n g a b o u t Hu n t e r,’ ”
Trump said, his voice hoarse.
“ ‘ Yo u s h o u l d n’ t b e s ay i n g
those things about Biden be-
cause nobody cares.’ I dis-
agree. You know, maybe that’s
why I’m here and they’re not.”
As Trump prepared to ap-
pear near the stadium in Tam-
pa, signs of Biden’s challenges
turnout.
“All of these things, together
with a visceral distrust of the
president, has created a perfect
storm for what could be histor-
ic levels of youth turnout this
year.”
Youth organizers from both
parties say their generation is
ripe for heightened civic aware-
ness, as Americans whose for-
mative years were shaped by
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in this state were on display
outside.
“I came here and all the
Biden signs had been thrown
on the ground,” said David
Reddy, 70, who held a lone
B i d e n s i g n a s h e w av e d at
passersby from his lawn chair,
describing himself as a poll
greeter.
Asked how he was feeling
about Biden’s standing, he re-
plied that it depended on the
time of day.
“Sometimes I’m very opti-
mistic,” he said. “Sometimes
not so.”
Biden and his allies are out-
spending Trump and his back-
ers by more than 3-to-1 in
Florida — about $23 million to
about $7 million — in the final
push to Election Day, accord-
ing to data from ad tracking
f i r m K a n t a r / C M AG . He i s
pouring tens of millions of dol-
lars into a torrent of online ad-
vertising.
national trauma.
“We are Gen Z — born into
tragedy and movements and
protests,” said Maxwell Frost,
23, national organizing director
for March for Our Lives, the an-
ti-gun violence movement
formed by survivors of the 2018
mass shooting at a high school
in Parkland, Fla.
A new national poll released
this week by the Institute of
Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy
School showed Democratic
p r e s i d e n t i a l n o m i n e e Jo e
Biden’s lead among young vot-
ers has increased in recent
months, with about 63 percent
of likely voters ages 18 to 29
saying they support Biden,
compared to the 25 percent
supporting President Trump.
Some conservative organiz-
ers say Trump has been a galva-
nizing force for young Republi-
cans, too. Jake Hoffman, 29-
year-old president of the Tampa
Bay Young Republicans, said
every time Trump or his family
members come to town for a
rally, Hoffman sees members of
his organization not only at-
tending, but volunteering with
the campaign or working as po-
litical organizers.
officials
help with
the truth
Strive to correct
misinformation
By Kellen Browning
and Davey Alba
NEW YORK TIMES
The morning after last
month’s presidential debate,
the phones inside the Philadel-
phia election offices that Al
Schmidt helps oversee rang off
the hook.
One caller asked whether
President Trump’s comments
hinting at rampant voter fraud
in Philadelphia were true. An-
other yelled about the inaccu-
rate rumor that poll watchers
were being barred from polling
places. Still another demanded
to know what the city was try-
ing to hide.
It was just another day at
the office for Schmidt, one of
Philadelphia’s three city com-
missioners, a job that includes
supervising voter registration
and elections. Hundreds of
people have called in every day
for months, many parroting
conspiracy theories about the
election and lies about how
partisan megadonors own the
voting machines. Staff mem-
bers spend hours shooting
down the rumors, he said.
“It’s not like we have tens of
millions of dollars to spend on
communications to battle tsu-
namis of misinformation that
come our way,” said Schmidt,
49, whose team has been work-
ing up to 17-hour days ahead of
Election Day on Tuesday. “It
wears on all of us.”
Election officials across the
country are already stretched
thin this year, dealing with a re-
cord number of mail-in ballots
and other effects of the corona-
virus pandemic. On top of that,
many are battling another
scourge: misinformation.
Fueled by inaccurate com-
ments from Trump and others,
election lies have spread across
social media. They include
claims that Black Lives Matter
protesters incited violence at
polling places, that mail-in bal-
lots were dumped, that ballot
boxes and voting machines
were compromised, and that
ballots were “harvested,” or col-
lected and dropped off in bulk
by unauthorized people.
Election officials in places
such as Philadelphia, El Paso,
and Santa Rosa, Calif., are bear-
ing the brunt of the fallout, ac-
cording to interviews with a
dozen of them in seven states.
Some have had to contain mis-
information-induced voter
panic. Others are fighting back
by posting accurate informa-
tion on social media or giving
newspaper and television inter-
views to spread their messages.
Many are working longer shifts
to debunk the distortions.
But their efforts have largely
been fruitless, they said. When
one rumor is smacked down,
another pops up. And the reach
of the rumors online is often so
vast that the officials said they
could not hope to compete.
“They’re definitely over-
whelmed,” said Isabella Garcia-
Camargo, an organizer of the
Election Integrity Partnership,
a new coalition of misinforma-
tion researchers.
Since Sept. 8, she said, her
group has investigated 182 cas-
es of election-related misinfor-
mation, most of which started
locally. When mail was found
in a ditch in Greenville, Wis.,
for example, some conservative
media outlets inaccurately
claimed that Democrats were
dumping absentee ballots. In
Germantown, Md., a video of
an election official darkening
an oval on a ballot was errone-
ously used as evidence that vot-
ers' preferences were being al-
tered, Garcia-Camargo said.
Facebook and Twitter said
they had strengthened their
policies before Election Day
and were referring people to
authoritative sources.
They also said they were
talking with state officials, po-
litical parties, and academics to
respond to false rumors about
the election.
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Legal Sea Foods chain might be up for sale
uLEGAL SEA FOODS
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based business that owns
S m i t h & Wo l l e n s ky, would
say much about the negotia-
tions.
“PPX Hospitality Brands
and Legal Sea Foods are in dis-
cussions to create an exciting
new venture and will issue a
full update at the appropriate
time," Berkowitz, Legal’s chief
executive, said in a statement.
PPX issued a similar statement.
The talks between PPX and
Berkowitz were first reported
on Tuesday by Boston maga-
zine.
Irish investment firm Danu
Partners established PPX as
part of its purchase of three
Boston-area Strega restaurants
in January. Danu had already
owned the bulk of the Smith &
Wollensky restaurants, after
purchasing them in 2016, and
created PPX to be a vehicle to
oversee its US restaurants and
to handle acquisitions here.
With such limited details
from both parties, it’s not yet
clear whether these talks are
aimed at an outright sale, a
joint venture, or some other
kind of partnership. Berkowitz
considers himself to be an en-
trepreneur at heart, and has
tinkered with different versions
of the Legal model over the
years. He even filed for a trade-
mark in June for a label that
showed icicles around the Legal
fish logo, and the phrase: “Le-
gal Sea Foods Nitro-Fresh/Fro-
zen at its peak, for your conve-
nience.”
Danu runs six Smith & Wol-
lensky locations in the United
States, including the two in
Boston and Wellesley. The
group is growing overseas
through licensing agreements;
so far, there are two Smith &
Wollensky locations in London
and Taiwan. The original Smith
& Wollensky, in Manhattan, re-
mains separately owned.
“PPX launched in January,
about the worst time to launch a
new restaurant group [but]
they’re serious about coming in-
to Boston and looking at the op-
portunities,” said Ed Doyle, pres-
ident of hospitality consulting
firm RealFood. “Legal [would
put] them on the map as being a
big player in the market.”
As with many restaurant op-
erators that do not rely heavily
on takeout or delivery orders,
Berkowitz struggled mightily
amid the pandemic-related
shutdowns of dining rooms in
the spring. (Restaurants in
Massachusetts were allowed to
reopen to diners in June.) Legal
sued its insurance carrier in
May in Boston federal court, in
an effort to force it to honor Le-
Brought down on
the ice, Roy became
an inspiration
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Continued from Page A1
After so many years in a
wheelchair, getting through
and healing from such surgery
posed many serious risks to his
health. He wanted to engage in
this fight with only his family
and closest friends knowing of
the threat it posed to his life.
He never had the luxury of
dealing with his hockey injury
privately. His was the most
public of catastrophes, wit-
nessed by thousands of fans at
the Walter Brown Arena at Bos-
ton University. His was a story
that would eventually be
known by millions.
What happened when he
was just 20 years old, only 11
seconds into his first shift as a
Boston University Terrier, ful-
filling a dream that he pursued
with singular determination
since he first laced up skates as
a b o y i n No r t h Ya r m o u t h ,
Maine, was a sobering reminder
of how fragile life is, of how vul-
nerable even elite athletes are.
The random cruelty that be-
fell him touched so many. So
many people, especially in New
England, felt it vicariously.
What was truly extraordi-
nary and inspirational was how
Travis responded to his cata-
strophic injury. Within a year,
he returned to BU.
Rather than concentrate ful-
ly on his own rehabilitation,
which on its own was over-
Legal Sea Foods operates in 21 different locations across Massachusetts, according to its website.
gal’s business interruption poli-
cy, saying the policy did not ex-
clude damage caused by a virus.
Boston lawyer Harry Manion,
who represents Legal, said he is
representing dozens of hospi-
tality companies across the
country in similar lawsuits
against their insurers.
In its lawsuit, Legal said the
losses incurred during the pan-
demic represented an “existen-
tial threat” to a family business
“decades in the making,” as well
as job losses for Legal’s employ-
ees, which numbered 3,100 in
Massachusetts alone at the time,
and the fishermen on whom Le-
gal relies on for its inventory.
(Legal is one of the biggest buy-
ers of seafood in New England.)
Legal operates in 21 differ-
ent locations across Massachu-
setts, according to its website.
So far, it appears 15 locations
have reopened in the state since
the pandemic hit the East Coast
in March, including two of its
five spots at Logan Airport. Le-
gal also runs single outposts in
D.C., New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, and Virginia. Of
those, only the Rhode Island
restaurant has reopened, ac-
cording to its website.
The company reported in its
whelming, he began thinking
of ways to help others in similar
circumstances. In a culture that
is notably self-absorbed, his re-
action was to use his own tragic
situation to create opportuni-
ties for those in similar circum-
stances with less support and
resources.
He was just 21 years old, still
trying to figure out how to ne-
gotiate a wheelchair around the
BU campus, when he started a
foundation to help fund re-
search and buy adaptive equip-
ment for others who are para-
lyzed.
Travis raised millions for the
foundation, but just as impor-
tant he raised spirits, of people
living with paralysis and their
families, and awareness, so that
others who knew nothing
about paralysis might be
moved to act.
Anyone who heard him
speak will know what I mean
when I say he was awe-inspir-
ing in the most understated
way. Just by telling his story,
Travis provided one of life’s
greatest gifts: perspective.
In his moments of despair,
and given the hand that life
dealt him they were remark-
ably rare, Travis worried about
being a burden.
During our last conversa-
tion, he talked of especially not
wanting to be a burden to his
parents, Lee and Brenda Roy,
as they aged.
T h e B o s t o n
insurance lawsuit that it had 34
locations at the start of the pan-
demic. As of Thursday, its web-
site listed a total of 26 locations,
including the five in Logan Air-
port. Legal Sea Foods did not
return a request for comment
on whether any restaurants
have permanently closed be-
cause of the pandemic.
Martha Sheridan, chief exec-
utive of the Greater Boston
Convention & Visitors Bureau,
said dining at a Legal restau-
rant is a quintessential experi-
ence for tourists coming to
Massachusetts. She said she’s
not worried about Legal disap-
pearing from the scene. “I’m
thinking they’re exploring their
options to stay viable,” she said.
The restaurant chain was
founded in 1950 when George
Berkowitz, Roger ’s father,
opened a fish market in Inman
Square in Cambridge. The com-
pany’s first restaurant opened
in 1968, next to the fish market.
Roger took over the family busi-
ness in 1992. The succession
didn’t go without a hitch: Rog-
er’s brother, Marc, sued the
family over the decision but
eventually settled.
Since then, Roger Berkowitz
has become a seemingly ever-
Travis Roy watched a Boston University hockey game nearly 10 years after he was injured.
Of course, Lee and Brenda
never saw it that way. There
was nothing that they wouldn’t
o r d i d n’ t d o f o r t h e i r s o n .
Theirs was an unconditional
love.
On Tuesday, the worst fears
about last month’s surgery were
realized. Travis was rushed to
the University of Vermont Med-
ical Center for emergency sur-
gery due to complications from
the previous surgery. When he
died Thursday afternoon, his
parents and sister Tobi were at
his side.
An hour after Travis died,
his brother-in-law, Keith Van-
Orden, was thinking about
“Travis Roy’s 10 Rules of Life,”
an essay Travis wrote as a se-
nior at Tabor Academy and
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present ambassador for the
business, and for seafood in
general, through his often-off-
beat ad campaigns. “If it isn’t
fresh, it isn’t Legal!" became
not just a slogan, but also a
business mantra.
The chain was
founded in 1950
when George
Berkowitz, Roger’s
father, opened a
fish market in
Inman Square.
News of a possible deal be-
tween Legal and PPX comes
less than a week after Canton-
based Dunkin' Brands con-
firmed it’s in talks to be ac-
quired by an Atlanta restaurant
holding company, the private
equity-backed Inspire Brands.
Massachusetts Restaurant
Association president Bob Luz
said in the case of Legal, a
transfer of ownership would at
least keep the brand headquar-
tered in Massachusetts, since
read out to a morning assembly
at the school. It betrayed an
early maturity, a list of things
that might not come so readily
to a young man on the cusp of
adulthood. The rules included
being yourself, never taking
anything for granted, setting
goals, resisting peer pressure,
respecting others. The eighth
rule was appreciating the im-
portance of family.
“Rule number eight is the
only lesson I didn’ t have to
learn,” Travis wrote. “Family is
the one thing I’ve always
known about.”
There was an extended fam-
ily, too. The hockey community,
not just in Boston or Massachu-
setts but throughout New Eng-
land, his alma maters, Tabor
PPX is based in Medford, even
if the ownership is overseas.
“There’s some solace to say it
still stays in Massachusetts,” he
said. “Legal’s without Berkow-
itz is like McDonald’s without
Ray Kroc.”
If Berkowitz does sell, it’s
possible, if not likely, he would
stay on with the new owner-
ship, much like how Eliot Tatel-
man has stuck with Jordan’s
Furniture long after it was sold
to Berkshire Hathaway.
After all, it’s hard to separate
Legal and Berkowitz in con-
sumers' minds. Why start now?
DiFillippo, the chief execu-
tive of Davio’s, said he wishes
Berkowitz had reached out to
him first about seeking new in-
vestors. “A Boston guy should
be owning it,” he said. “I would
have loved to have had a shot at
it.”
Jon Chesto can be reached at
jon.chesto@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter @jonchesto.
Devra First can be reached at
devra.first@globe.com. Follow
her on Twitter @devrafirst.
Anissa Gardizy can be reached
at anissa.gardizy@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@anissagardizy8.
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and BU, remained a big part of
his life.
Jack Parker, his coach at BU,
was at his side after Travis fell,
and he was never far away after
that. Parker and his wife, Jack-
ie, lived in the same building on
Commonwealth Avenue where
Travis had an apartment.
Travis’s nephew Grady hon-
ored his uncle by enrolling at
BU this year.
“Travis was a constant gift,”
Keith VanOrden said. “He was
everybody’s brother.”
It’s true. Travis Roy was nev-
er a burden. He wasn’t heavy.
He was our brother.
Kevin Cullen is a Globe
columnist. He can be reached at
kevin.cullen@globe.com.
Nation/Region A9
Scouts’
Barrett
tweets
draw fire
Group called out
by opposing sides
By David Crary
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A tweet by the Girl Scouts
congratulating new Supreme
Court Justice Amy Coney Bar-
rett drew such outrage from
Barrett’s critics that the youth
organization swiftly deleted it –
only to draw a new backlash
from Barrett’s supporters.
The original tweet, posted
Wednesday e vening , said,
“Congratulations Amy Coney
Barrett on becoming the 5th
woman appointed to the Su-
preme Court since its inception
in 1789.”
The post featured an image
of Barrett, who was confirmed
Monday and sworn in at the
court on Tuesday; along with
currently serving justices Elena
Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor;
former Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor; and Barrett’s prede-
cessor, the late Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg.
The post was quickly at-
tacked by critics who view Bar-
rett, a conservative, as a poten-
tial threat to civil liberties and
women’s rights.
“What kind of patch does
one earn for uplifting a woman
who is the antithesis of justice?”
tweeted US Representative
Ayanna Pressley, a Massachu-
setts Democrat.
A c t o r A m b e r Ta m b l y n
tweeted that the Girl Scouts'
post is “really disappointing
and won’t age well when access
to safe abortion and the health-
care needs of millions of wom-
en and girls is gutted in this
country because of Barrett’s ad-
dition to the court.”
Actor Zach Braff was among
numerous people who tweeted
about seeking alternatives to
Girl Scout cookies because of
disenchantment with the Bar-
rett posting. “How do you make
your own thin mints,” Braff
tweeted.
As criticism mounted, the
Girl Scouts deleted their origi-
nal tweet and posted a new
statement.
“Earlier today, we shared a
post highlighting the five wom-
en who have been appointed to
the Supreme Cour t. It was
quickly viewed as a political
and partisan statement which
was not our intent and we have
removed the post . . . . Girl
Scouts of the USA is a nonpolit-
ical, nonpartisan organization.
We are neither red nor blue, but
Girl Scout GREEN. We are here
to lift up girls and women.”
The retreat was quickly as-
sailed by many of Barrett’s con-
servative supporters.
“Of course the @girlscouts
caved to the mob and deleted
this tweet congratulating Amy
Coney Barrett. SAD,” tweeted
the Independent Women’s Fo-
rum.
“This is pathetic,” TV per-
sonality Megyn Kelly tweeted to
the Girl Scouts. "It’s not ‘parti-
san’ to generically congratulate
the 5th woman ever to join the
High Court. It’s patriotic. Tak-
ing your tweet down is parti-
san, however, and a real disap-
pointment.”
There was no immediate re-
ply from the Girl Scouts’ media
spokeswoman to an Associated
Press request for additional
comment and for any details on
whether Barrett had been in
the Girl Scouts.
The Girl Scouts have been
entangled in the culture wars as
far back as the 1970s, when
some conservatives became
irked by the prominence of
feminists such as Betty Friedan
in the organization’s leader-
ship.
More recently, in response to
criticism from religious conser-
vatives, the Girl Scouts insisted
that they had no partnership
with Planned Parenthood, and
did not take positions on sexu-
ality, birth control, and abor-
tion.
The Girl Scouts, along with
the Boy Scouts of America and
other youth organizations, have
experienced membership de-
clines in recent years, for rea-
sons ranging from busy family
schedules to the lure of online
games and social media.
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Editorial

Baker’s chief justice pick is a ‘first’ and a start

G
overnor Charlie Baker’s nomination of Kimber-
ly Budd as chief justice of the state’s Supreme
Judicial Court is indeed a “first.” If confirmed
by the Governor’s Council, she would be the
first Black woman to head the nation’s oldest
continually operating appellate court — and “firsts” are al-
ways exciting.
Budd, who has already served four years as an associate
justice on the court, will, as Baker noted, be a “role model for
women and people of color.” Girls growing up in Massachu-
setts will be able to see a Black woman in a black robe — and
there is undeniable value in that.
Every judge brings to the job the sum total of his or her
life’s experiences, so there is also value in having as chief jus-
tice a woman who can still remember her days as a young
lawyer, and what it was like to be mistaken by a court officer
for the defendant’s girlfriend simply because of the color of
her skin.
But Budd’s qualifications go well beyond her “firstness.”
She has spent more than 11 years on the bench, first as a
superior court judge before being named by Baker to the SJC.
A Harvard Law grad, she has been a litigator and an assistant
US attorney, and served as director of the Community Values
program at Harvard Business School.
To do the job she is being asked to do, she will have to be
that rarest of combinations — a legal scholar, a tough and fo-
cused administrator, and, as Baker so rightly indicated, an
advocate “for the judiciary among the other branches of gov-
ernment.”
It is said that shortly after the untimely death of Chief Jus-
tice Ralph Gants, his colleagues on the court met (remotely)
to list and then divide among themselves some of the many
jobs the chief had taken on. There were the standing commit-
tees and the budgeting, of course. But there was more than
that. It was Gants, for example, who ordered up a crucial
Harvard Law School study on racial disparities in the courts
— a report released just days before his death.
So, to be done right, the job will require Budd’s substantial
energy.
As Budd herself noted at Wednesday’s news conference,
“We’re in the middle of a pandemic. People in the Common-
wealth are in a panic. People are hurting, and we have to
make sure that the judiciary is running as well as it can, and
that’s what I’m focused on now.”
Budd is certainly qualified to deal with the difficult days
ahead — days of trying to restore the full functioning of the
courts, including jury trials, while keeping those who enter
every courthouse in the Commonwealth safe.
But she also has qualities that set her apart. “More than
anything at this particular time, this court needs to be led by
someone who listens,” Baker said in introducing his nominee.
It was that quality and her “calm, steady hand” that judicial
colleagues most often mentioned when asked about her.
The nomination of Budd, of course, now leaves the gover-
nor with two more vacancies on the SJC to fill. What Budd’s
nomination does not do is absolve the governor from con-
tinuing to diversify the court’s membership. Surely there is
room for another woman, another person of color, and for
someone who has come up through the ranks of defense at-
torneys on this former-prosecutor-dominated court.
“I would hate to think that anyone would use my presence
on the court to support an idea I am one of just a handful of
people of color who are qualified to be a justice of the Su-
preme Judicial Court,” Budd said in an interview published
last May in the Boston Bar Journal. “That certainly is not the
case.”
She’s right on that score as well. Baker’s role in moving the
state’s highest court into a new era is welcome, and should
not end with Budd’s nomination.

Songs to get you SCOT LEHIGH

through Election Day . . .

and night
By Matthew Bernstein
I T
t’s upon us at last: Election Day 2020, and an end to all
our teeth-gnashing, promising a decisive result to light
our pristine path ahead.
Just kidding. It will be nothing of the sort.
The coronavirus pandemic and the protocols it de-
mands have turned the traditional act of voting into a furious,
politicized puzzle that makes the hanging chad of the 2000 elec-
tion aftermath seem like a smudge.
And then there’s the palpable sense that the future of our de-
mocracy hangs in the balance.
As Election Day turns to night, the best we can probably ex-
pect is the hint of a decision, followed by tense weeks of uncer-
tainty. Many will be left muttering a long list of worst-case sce-
narios between hiccups of hope. Endless doomscrolling will feel
like running in place, only with our fingertips.
So what to do in the meantime?
Some people turn to the solace of a comforting beverage. Oth-
ers meditate. I bury my head in music.
And so I’m offering voters of all (stars and) stripes, because
they could probably use the diversion, a soundtrack for — well,
for now, let’s just call it Tuesday.
For every bloc, there is a song
For the mail-in voter: “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours),”
Stevie Wonder
The Trump voter: “Stand By Your Man,” Tammy Wynette
The Biden voter: “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades,”
Timbuk 3
The nonvoter (seriously?): “Battle of Who Could Care Less,”
Ben Folds Five
The undecided voter (again, seriously?): “Sittin’ on a Fence,”
The Rolling Stones
The third-party voter: “Nothing Is Good Enough,” Aimee Mann
Susan Collins campaign headquarters: “Both Sides Now,”
Joni Mitchell
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign headquarters: “Green,” The
Dandy Warhols
The evangelical voter (because there are no atheists at Fox News
— er, in foxholes): “Down to the River to Pray,” Alison Krauss
Voters waiting in line (masks are not optional): “Don’t Stand So
Close to Me,” The Police
Voters itching for a fight: “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” War
The climate-concerned voter: “I Melt With You,” Modern English
The feuding family of voters: “We Can’t Live Together,”
Joe Jackson
And for all of the above, a playlist to get
through the day
“Morning Has Broken,” Cat Stevens
“Reason to Believe,” Rod Stewart
“The Waiting,” Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
“Help Me Make It Through the Night,” Kris Kristofferson
“In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning,” Frank Sinatra
“Here Comes That Sinking Feeling,” Eurythmics
“Everybody Hold Still,” Grace Jones
“It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over,” Lenny Kravitz
“I Sweat (Going Through the Motions),” Nona Hendryx
“Sitting in Limbo,” Jimmy Cliff
“Tomorrow Never Knows,” The Beatles
“Hold Back the Dawn,” Robbie Robertson
“Fear the Future,” St. Vincent
“Happy Days Are Here Again,” Barbra Streisand
Wait a minute. Who am I kidding? It’s going to be more like . . .
“Crawling from the Wreckage,” Dave Edmunds
Matthew Bernstein is the Globe’s letters editor. He can be reached
at matthew.bernstein@globe.com and on Twitter at
@GlobeBernstein.
Can America return
to rationality?
he overarching question about this election
also speaks to our longer-range future as a
nation: Is this vast and disparate country
capable of returning to rationality?
That normally wouldn’t be a partisan
query. One might disagree with the philosophy of, say, a
Ronald Reagan or a George H.W. Bush or a John McCa-
in or a Mitt Romney, but no one seriously doubted they
were rational in their outlooks and thus able to assess
the facts of a situation and arrive at a reasonable course
of action.
Not this president — nor many of his supporters.
One dismaying example is the bundle of QAnon con-
spiracy theories, which maintain that President Trump
is heroically battling a satanist sex-trafficking ring that
involves prominent Democrats and Hollywood powers
(who, in some iterations, drink children’s blood and har-
vest their hormones).
Polling shows that between one-third and one-half of
Republicans believe some aspect of that hydra-headed
hokum. And to think that some of us thought the sea of
insanity had reached flood tide back in 2010, when a
Harris survey showed that 24 percent of Republicans
thought Barack Obama might be the Antichrist and 45
percent said he had not been born in the United States
and thus was not eligible to be president.
The QAnonsense, which the FBI has labeled a poten-
tial spur to domestic terrorism, makes all that look like
quaint intellectual quiddities.
Which is why it was so extraordinary that, when
Trump was asked by Savannah Guthrie in NBC’s Oct. 15
town hall about QAnon, he refused to disavow the luna-
cy, saying he had no idea whether there was a devil-
worshipping cult abroad in the land.
Nor is that an exception. From birtherism to the pixi-
lated postulation that Barack Obama and Joe Biden may
have ordered the murder of Navy SEAL Team Six to cov-
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er up for a supposed bungled mission to kill Osama bin
Laden, to the claim that uniformed thugs control Joe A protester wears a vest supporting QAnon at a
Biden from the dark shadows, Trump has ventured into May 14 rally in Olympia, Wash., against Governor
the brambles of bonker-ism with some regularity. Jay Inslee’s state stay-at-home orders to help
We’ll probably never know precisely what he consid- prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
ers true. But after nearly four years, we do know that all
manner of ill-ordered and erroneous notions bounce
about like popcorn in his overheated brainpan. Only the president and his medical yes-man have politicized
tenuously tethered to reality, he is able to will himself to what should be a common-sense matter.
believe whatever is necessary to maintain a worldview Like Trump, Atlas is also sympathetic to the notion of
simultaneously self-aggrandizing and self-pitying. herd immunity — and we now know, from White House
As long as he doesn’t start wars based on unrealities, chief of staff Mark Meadows, that the administration
some will protest, does it really matter if Trump can’t re- has given up on trying to control the virus.
liably distinguish between what’s true and what’s not? The pandemic has cast Trump’s conspiratorialist-
Yes. For starters, serious and able people won’t long catalyzed incompetence into stark relief, making crystal
work for wild-eyed bosses. They leave — and are re- clear what really should have been obvious four years
placed by sycophants and toadies. ago.
Further, if one distrusts science and expertise and A Joe Biden win would restore rationality to the
credits conspiracy theories, as Trump clearly does, he White House. As such, it would be a large step in the
won’t make intelligent decisions. right direction. But make no mistake, Trump’s kooky in-
Nowhere has that been clearer than with the corona- clinations resonate with a substantial segment of Ameri-
virus pandemic. Rejecting advice he didn’t like — and ca. With the incumbent poised to collect some 43 per-
contending Democrats were exaggerating the threat cent of the popular vote, his expected defeat in and of it-
from COVID-19 to hurt him — Trump pushed hard for self wouldn’t be enough to restore this country to
premature economic reopening. States whose governors rationality.
followed those urgings experienced COVID-19 surges. A long post-election struggle between fact and fallacy
Rather than heed Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the lies ahead.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
Trump has found his own pseudo-expert, Dr. Scott Atlas, Scot Lehigh is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at
who like Trump is clearly hostile to masks. Despite the scot.lehigh@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter
increasing body of evidence about their effectiveness, @GlobeScotLehigh.

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The rule of law isn’t under
threat — it’s under assault
By Bill Weld
A
few days ago, I joined 19
other former US attor-
neys who served under
Republican presidents to
state that we could not
support the reelection of Donald
Trump. One line said it all: “President
Trump’s leadership is a threat to the
rule of law in our country.”
Frankly, as often happens when 20
lawyers collaborate, that line is under-
stated. I would say the rule of law is
under assault by Trump and Attorney
General Bill Barr. We’re way beyond
the threat phase.
The bedrock principle by which the
Department of Justice and its more
than 100,000 attorneys, investigators,
and staff are guided is simple: Ensure
that the laws of the United States are
enforced faithfully and impartially.
Nowhere in the oath each of those
attorneys — career or political appoin-
tee — takes does it say anything about
serving the president. It is entirely and
exclusively about serving the Ameri-
can people and the Constitution. The
rule of law.
Yet, just this week, US District
Court Judge Lewis Kaplan had to tell
the Justice Department that it could
not represent Trump in a personal li-
bel suit stemming from the president’s
comments about an alleged rape by
Trump that occurred more than 20
years ago.
Kaplan wrote: “President Trump’s
views on the plaintiff’s sexual assault
allegation may be interesting to some,
but they reveal nothing about the op-
eration of government.”
The fact that a federal judge even
The fact that a federal judge even had to make
such a ruling is disgusting.
had to make such a ruling is disgust-
ing. Almost four years into his term,
Trump still cannot grasp the simple
notion that the Justice Department is
not a law firm that exists to serve his
every need and desire. While that may
not be shocking from a president who
views the executive branch as just an-
other Trump Organization enterprise,
the fact that his attorney general plays
along is of grave concern.
Barr has long espoused an expan-
sive view of executive power. Reason-
able people can debate those limits or
lack thereof. But a debate about a
president’s authorities can be reason-
able only if premised upon an accep-
tance of the Constitution and the rule
of law it establishes.
JOAN WICKERSHAM
A plea for competence
H
ere’s what it’s like to walk
along a stretch of Mass.
Ave. in Cambridge right
now. Hardly any pedestri-
ans, hardly any cars. In the
nail salon, a masked woman gets a pedi-
cure from a masked woman. A couple of
masked women do squats inside the fitness
place. The automatic door of the drugstore
opens and closes when you walk by, as it al-
ways has, but today it seems as if ghosts are
going in and out of the store. Instructions
in store windows about wearing masks and
using hand sanitizer. Dear customers, won-
derful customers, welcome back, but. . . .
But please no talking during your sham-
poo. But only two people may enter store at
a time. But please bring in essentials only.
But we invite you to check us out online.
The smoke shop is open. The liquor
store is open. The vet is open: masked peo-
ple sitting in chairs on the sidewalk while
their cats are inside getting shots. The bak-
eries are open, with long lines of masked
people waiting to place orders. There’s a
jaunty, scrappy, inventive valiance to it all.
You can still get a tattoo, but no friends or
relatives, please. You can still order pizza,
souvlaki, shumai, falafel, ravioli with wild
boar ragu. Contactless, delicious. Take it
away. Or sit at a little table on the sidewalk
chained to a parking meter (so that no one
steals it? so it won’t blow away?), under a
heat lamp and an awning strung with fes-
tive lights, between tubs of shivering
plants. Winter is coming, but it’s not here
yet. Yes, we are open!
A restaurant closed since March, still
closed, window boxes filled with dead yel-
lowed boxwood, crumpled trash, a discard-
ed pack of cigarettes. Dear customers, we
T h e
President Trump and Attorney General William Barr deplane from Air
Force One in Maryland on Sept. 1.
Trump and Barr recognize no such
limits.
The list is endless: After Congress
refused for years to appropriate funds
for a magical border wall, Trump sim-
ply took billions of dollars appropriat-
ed for other purposes and started
building it. Countless times, Trump’s
political appointees have ignored — or
proudly defied — congressional re-
quests and subpoenas issued under
clear constitutional authority. He
holds campaign rallies on the White
House lawn in obnoxious violation of
not just the law but also time-honored
norms. And despite obvious prohibi-
tions dating back to the Founding Fa-
thers’ greatest fears about a chief exec-
utive, Trump has used both his posi-
tion and our tax dollars to enrich
himself, his businesses, and his family.
At every step, Trump has demand-
ed that the Justice Department go
along with his schemes. Many consci-
entious attorneys at the department
have resigned rather than do so, and
others have been subjected to his
dreaded Twitter abuse. Some have
been drummed from their positions.
Sadly, rather than push back against
Trump’s excesses or even attempt to
protect the integrity of the department
he leads, Barr is an eager accomplice
— something that is inexplicable to
look forward to seeing everyone again
when we can.
Retail space for lease. Retail/office
space. Dear customers, thank you for your
support. Thank you for your patience.
“Closing sale!” says the sign in the win-
dow of the little store that’s been there for-
ever. A temple to frivolity, this place has
We’ve had enough
incendiary rhetoric. We’ve
had enough of personality
(as opposed to character).
been; a business that existed, literally, for
fun. You went here to buy the quirky pres-
ent: the Etch A Sketch, the kaleidoscope,
the Swedish angel chimes, the clock
shaped like a bumblebee. Four years ago,
in the run-up to the election, they had a lit-
tle sign in a corner of their window, which
changed every day. “Only 19 more days of
this,” it said. And “Only 6 more days of
this.” Nobody needed to spell out what
“this” was. The sign acknowledged some-
thing that, at the time, seemed finite. A
shared sense of exhaustion and anxiety
brought on by Donald Trump’s long ugly
presidential campaign, with its chants of
“Lock her up” and “Build the wall,” and its
triumphantly bullying invective. “I could
stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and
shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any
voters,” he had said.
“Only 4 more days of this,” the sign said,
innocently confident that candidate Trump
was an aberration.
B o s t o n G l o b e
ANNA MONEYMAKER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
those of us who know him.
Having served as not only a US at-
torney, but also as assistant US attor-
ney general for the criminal division
under President Reagan, I know a lit-
tle about the traditions, culture, and
make-up of the Justice Department. In
fact, I ultimately found it necessary to
resign rather than accept the actions
of then-Attorney General Edwin
Meese, who too often reflexively mixed
law enforcement and politics. I can
sympathize with those who have simi-
larly departed the Justice Department
under Trump and Barr.
But this I know: The wounds in-
flicted upon the Department of Justice
by this administration can be quickly
healed with new leadership. Those
thousands of career attorneys all
across the nation — most of whom
have been quietly going about their
duty to the rule of law throughout the
Trump nightmare — will continue to
do their jobs, and with a president and
an attorney general who actually re-
spect the Constitution, they will easily
move past the abuses of late and re-
store the Department of Justice to
what it is intended to be.
Bill Weld is the former governor of
Massachusetts. He also served as a US
attorney for Massachusetts and an
assistant US attorney general for the
criminal division of the Department of
Justice under President Ronald
Reagan.
We know now, far more painfully than
we did back then, that elections are unpre-
dictable. We also know just how much
damage an arrogant, ignorant president
abetted by a party of fawners can do to the
basic mechanisms of national government
we thought we could rely on to protect us in
an emergency.
What I am thinking about, as I walk
along this neighborhood street that’s trying
to survive, is how much I hope that the vote
across America in this election will be, re-
soundingly, in favor of reinstating compe-
tence. Boring, plodding, fact-based national
planning and administration. We’ve had
enough incendiary rhetoric. We’ve had
enough of personality (as opposed to char-
acter). We need clearly defined, adequately
funded measures that will address the coro-
navirus pandemic’s epidemiological and
economic impacts in ways that feel trust-
worthy. We need national leaders who let
expert scientists give unfettered, publicly
available advice that informs government
decision-making. We need consistent poli-
cies supporting — not attacking or mocking
— simple actions everyone in society should
take to protect one another. We need feder-
al resources to help the people who are be-
ing most harmed, regardless of whether
they are political allies or adversaries.
The sign in the store window back in
October 2016, asserting that we were get-
ting close to being done with Trump, was
mistaken. But please, please, in however
many days it takes for us to learn the results
of the 2020 election, let it finally be true.
Joan Wickersham’s column appears regu-
larly in the Globe.
Opinion A11
Inbox
For backers near and far,
Question 2 is the answer
No good reason to fear out-of-state
money backing ranked choice
After the biggest signature drive in recent Massachusetts
history put Question 2 on the ballot, we sought help from
any reputable source that would support our campaign for
ranked-choice voting, including former governors William
Weld and Deval Patrick; many forward-thinking Bay
Staters, such as Michael Porter, Ron Shaich, and Steve and
Judy Pagliuca; and democracy activists from outside the
state. We called all of them; they didn’t call us.
While Monday’s article, “Billionaires bankroll bid on
vote choice” (Page A1, Oct. 26), repeatedly hinted that vot-
ers should be wary of out-of-state money on this issue, it
never said why. Probably because there isn’t any good rea-
son why. There is no financial or business incentive for all
these people to support ranked-choice voting. Just like peo-
ple in Massachusetts who selflessly fund charities working
in other states or countries, these are Americans who think
our democracy would be better if election outcomes in ev-
ery state reflected the will of the majority.
RCV will provide major benefits to our democracy, in-
cluding more elected officials with majority support, fewer
extremist winners, less negative campaigning, better candi-
dates, fewer “spoilers,” and more voter participation. We
have more than 7,000 Massachusetts volunteers working
on the campaign, which was founded entirely by people of
Massachusetts. We should not be scared or ashamed to
hear from people both inside and outside the state who
support it.
MIKE ZARREN
Brookline
The writer is a member of the board of Yes on 2.
Two-party system weaponizes politics
— RCV would disarm that
In her Oct. 23 Opinion column, “Even voting is now polar-
ized,” Renée Loth points out that even promoting the act of
voting has become a partisan issue during this election cy-
cle. But this shouldn’t be surprising given the two-party
system’s hegemonic control over our political process. For
all intents and purposes, you must be either a Democrat or
a Republican to get anywhere in American politics. Anyone
who succeeds outside the two parties will eventually be
dubbed a spoiler candidate by one of them.
As such, with each major party having only one real op-
ponent, any aspect of civic life that can be dichotomously
weaponized for politics eventually will be. It is simply too
tempting for each party not to take up these increasingly
benign issues in search of an advantage. (Take mask-wear-
ing, for example.)
Only by bringing the two-party system down a peg or
two can we hope to reverse this unrelenting trend toward
polarization. We have just such an opportunity to do this in
Massachusetts by shifting to ranked-choice voting. It would
both eliminate the two parties’ problem with spoiler candi-
dates and give these alternative candidates a fighting
chance to win elections.
SCOTT WHITBREAD
Winchester
Weighing Trump immigration policy
just makes it all the more hurtful
Kimberly Atkins’s op-ed “Immigration policy is on the bal-
lot. If voters don’t decide, the conservative Supreme Court
will” (Opinion, Oct. 27) reminds readers of the importance
of voting in this election, if they even needed a reminder.
With the appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the
Supreme Court, I am terrified over the outcome of future
rulings regarding various policies, including immigration.
Atkins provides some comfort in the fact that a Joe Biden
victory would mean immigration policy that is more inclu-
sive and humane.
It is shocking to read that President Trump’s move to
phase out the temporary protected status of asylum seekers
and his imposition of the “public charge” rule could be sent
to the highest court if he is reelected. Actions such as these
are past the point of being defined as immigration policy.
They are, quite frankly, an attack on the basic human rights
of innocent people.
How does turning away terrified people seeking a better
life or stripping the legal status of immigrants because they
use Medicaid “make America great”? Such policy decisions
aim to destroy the values of diversity and honor that we
claim to hold high. It would truly be devastating to see the
reelection of Trump lead to decisions on immigration such
as these.
KAITLYNN SLATTERY
Washington, D.C.
Youth hockey world must be compelled
to cooperate with virus protocols
The list of things that have infuriated me during these pan-
demic months is long indeed, from the callous ineptitude
on display at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home to the president’s
endless series of super-spreader rallies. But the reports of
selfishness and stupidity in the local youth hockey commu-
nity really made my blood boil (“Baker ties virus spike to
people under 30,” Page A1, Oct. 28).
It’s bad enough that families and coaches insisted on en-
gaging in a crowded indoor activity in a cold, dry space
(ideal conditions for the spread of the coronavirus), but
now we read claims that that they are stonewalling contact
tracers. To what purpose? They can’t possibly think this
will help them get back on the ice any sooner.
This should not be tolerated. Rink owners must insist
that the leagues and teams who use these facilities cooper-
ate fully with public health authorities or lose access to the
rinks for good. And, because such a response runs counter
to rink owners’ financial interests, local health authorities
must insist that the rinks may not open until they take such
action. Further, mask-wearing and social distancing (off
the ice) must be enforced. With COVID-19, we all pay when
groups who think they are above the rules won’t follow
them. The public should not put up with it.
NANCY WATERS
Acton
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T H E B O S T O N G L O B E F R I DAY, O C T O B E R 3 0 , 2 0 2 0 | B O S T O N G L O B E .C O M / M E T R O

A WINDOW INTO GOVERNMENT Convicted

murderer
free after
49 years
Verdict altered on
evidence of jury bias
By Shelley Murphy
GLOBE STAFF

Forty-nine years after Arnold King fa-

tally shot a Boston mayoral aide during a
robbery on Newbury Street, a judge va-
cated his murder conviction based on evi-
dence that prosecutors deliberately ex-
cluded Black residents from an all-white
jury that found him guilty.
Superior Court Judge Janet L. Sanders
on Thursday granted a motion by Suffolk
District Attorney Rachael Rollins to re-
duce King’s first-degree murder convic-
tion for the killing of 26-year-old John La-
banara to voluntary manslaughter and
sentence him to 20 years in prison. Since
King, 67, had spent 49 years in prison be-
fore he was released on bail in April, he is
now a free man.
“The issues being raised in the Arnie
King case speak directly to Boston’s docu-
mented and painful history on race rela-
JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF
tions,” Rollins said in a statement. “Mr.
Dozens of raindrops mirrored the Massachusetts State House from the window of a car parked on Beacon Street during heavy rain King stands convicted of a heinous mur-
Thursday afternoon. New England should expect a wintry mix on Friday, with Halloween clearer but cold. B2. der. Mr. Labanara had the brightest of fu-
tures ahead of him and his loved ones
and community still feel his loss five de-
cades later. I can only image how difficult
it is for Mr. Labanara’s family to have to

Markey decries trucking regulation as lax
Cites oversight gaps
exposed by Globe
By Laura Crimaldi
GLOBE STAFF
Senator Edward J. Markey issued
a scathing letter Thursday to the fed-
eral agency that oversees the truck-
ing industry, citing its “dereliction of
responsibility” and demanding that
it address widespread safety failures
exposed in a recent Globe investiga-
tion.
In the letter, Markey asked the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin-
istration to explain why it has re-
fused to more strenuously scrutinize
nascent trucking companies and en-
hance the system for background
checks of commercial drivers.
“Given the FMCSA’s loophole-rid-
den and patchwork system of ac-
countability, it is no wonder that the
commercial trucking industry is in-
creasingly deadly for all users of the
road,” wrote Markey, a member of
the Senate Committee on Com-
merce, Science and Transportation.
“I believe that your agency’s fail-
ures go well beyond financial or per-
sonnel constraints and appear to
represent a dereliction of responsi-
bility.”
Other members of the Massachu-
setts congressional delegation have
also recently pressed the FMCSA to
address gaps in its oversight and do
more to prevent roadway crashes, a
leading cause of death in the nation.
Several lawmakers also want to ad-
vance legislation that would allow
states to tap federal funds to improve
communication between state li-
censing agencies, which regularly
fail to act on warnings and to flag
drivers’ out-of-state convictions.
“People are dying across our
country because of this problem,”
Representative Seth Moulton told
the Globe. “You know, this isn’t the
days of the Pony Express here, folks.
There’s no excuse for this.”
The gaps in oversight have al-
lowed for companies like Westfield
Transport, the West Springfield
trucking business that hired Volod-
ymyr Zhukovskyy, a young driver
with a litany of arrests and road vio-
lations. Zhukovskyy, 24, is accused of
causing a crash that killed seven mo-
torcyclists in Randolph, N.H., on
June 21, 2019.
He has pleaded not guilty and is
expected to face a trial next year.
On Wednesday, the National
Transportation Safety Board re-
HIGHWAY, Page B4
relive this horrific crime and loss.”
In April, King’s attorney, David Na-
thanson, filed a motion for a new trial or
reduced verdict, arguing that King, who
is Black, did not receive a fair trial for the
slaying of a white, politically connected
lawyer because his case was decided by
an all-white jury while Boston was “in the
throes of racial upheaval.” King was sen-
tenced to life in prison without the possi-
bility of parole.
In an e-mail Thursday, Nathanson said
it was “a somber day but an important
one” to win King’s freedom after months
of discussions between his office and
prosecutors. The “wholesale exclusion” of
Black citizens from the jury was “funda-
mentally wrong,” he said.
“I commend DA Rollins for both ac-
knowledging the seriousness of this error
KING, Page B4

Colleges prep for vote’s aftermath

Parties, possible olence after the election,” said
Cynthia Lynch, the executive
But this year university
leaders are facing heightened
violence feared director of Salem State Univer- anxiety brought on by both
sity’s Center for Civic Engage- COVID-19 and heated political
By Deirdre Fernandes ment & Frederick E. Berry In- rhetoric. Supporters of Presi-
GLOBE STAFF stitute of Politics. dent Trump and the Demo-
College campuses have For the past few weeks, cratic nominee, former vice
been eerily subdued this fall dozens of Salem State admin- p r e s i d e n t Jo e B i d e n , a r e
with students stuck in dorms istrators, faculty, campus po- sharply divided, and that’s
and social gatherings limited lice officials, and mental mirrored on college campuses,
to small groups. But what hap- health experts have been de- raising concerns that tensions
pens on the night of a deeply veloping plans to ensure that could spill into physical clash-
polarizing presidential elec- students feel safe, can express es on election night.
tion and the ensuing days if their opinions, and find sup- In many parts of the coun-
the results are unknown or port on Election Day and the try, where colleges serve as lib-
hotly contested? weeks after. eral bubbles in conservative
With the election just days “Everyone from the top communities, university offi-
away, colleges across the coun- down has a pit in their stom- cials fear their campuses could
try and in the Boston area are ach about what may ensue no be a draw to right-wing and
preparing for potential turbu- matter what the results are, militia groups, spurring many
lence — celebratory parties, because of the unknown,” leaders to plan for additional
angry protests and counter- Lynch said. police presence.
SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF
protests, and bursts of vio- College campuses have long Colleges also want to avoid
lence, all in the midst of a glob- been hot beds of activism and having any election-related Tom Croswell, CEO of Tufts Health Plan, dyed his hair purple for a fund-raising project.
al pandemic. action over issues such as war, parties or protests turn into
“I’ve never prepared for an
election and then potential vi-
racial justice, police reform,
and immigration.
coronavirus super-spreader
COLLEGES, Page B3 ‘Do what’s right. Help people’
Lessons passed from father to son pay medical dividends
Board strips pension of former trooper Thomas
Farragher
By Matt Rocheleau $29,000 for overtime hours he did not actually
GLOBE STAFF work in 2016. He was sentenced to serve a year
The state’s retirement board on Thursday of supervised release and ordered to pay restitu- WATERTOWN — He was a proud
stripped the pension of a veteran Massachusetts tion as well as a $5,500 fine. man who began his career inspecting
State Police trooper convicted in a high-profile In retirement, Cesan collected thousands of telephone poles in central Maine,
payroll fraud scheme, marking the first time the dollars in pension benefits each month from the working his way up — as one phone
panel has punished an officer implicated in the state, until the board halted payments in July company gobbled up another — into
sprawling scandal. 2019 as it took up this case. Cesan will still keep corporate accounting.
The five-member board voted to take away $180,000 he contributed to his pension. Glen Croswell loved baseball,
former trooper Paul Cesan’s pension, which Cesan did not participate in Thursday’s hear- could build straight-and-solid stone
would have paid the 52-year-old from South- ing, officials said. Cesan’s attorney, Nick Poser, walls from boulders hauled out of the
TOM CROSWELL
wick and his former wife nearly $80,000 a year vowed to fight the ruling. “The forfeiture of this woods, and was a wizard around the
for the rest of his life. The board rarely strips pension violates the excessive fines prohibitions house, equally skilled with a carpen- Tom Croswell
pension benefits from state employees. in the federal and Massachusetts constitutions,” ter’s hammer or an electric circuit. laid down the law.” and his father,
Cesan, a 25-year veteran of the State Police Poser wrote in an e-mail Thursday evening. “He was just very hard-working, But as time wore on and retire- Glen, at Fenway
force, retired in March 2018 as the pace of the Cesan has until late December to appeal the disciplined, and responsible,” his son, ment took him into his mid-80s, Park. Glen
federal probe quickened. He was arrested in retirement board’s decision in court. Tom Croswell, told me the other day. something elemental in Glen Cro- Croswell died in
June 2018 and later pleaded guilty in federal The ruling could set the stage for the board “His family was his first priority. He swell shifted — and then began to slip May 2014 of
court to charges he collected more than STATE POLICE, Page B3 was a disciplinarian. He definitely FARRAGHER, Page B4 Alzheimer’s.
B2 Metro
Wellesley to ban sales of fur products
Town’s vote takes
effect in one year
By Emily Sweeney
GLOBE STAFF
The town of Wellesley voted
to ban sales of fur Wednesday
night, making it the first mu-
nicipality to do so in the state of
Massachusetts.
The proposed bylaw passed
by a vote of 140 to 64 (with two
abstentions) at a Special Town
Meeting, which makes the tony
suburb the fifth municipality in
the country to outlaw sales of
new fur products, according to
the Humane Society of the
United States.
The new bylaw won’t take
effect until Oct. 28, 2021, to
give merchants time to sell
through any existing inventory,
town officials said.
The move to ban sales of fur
produc ts in Wellesle y was
spearheaded by Liza Oliver, a
Wellesley College professor
who serves as a district leader
volunteer with the Humane So-
ciety. According to the new by-
law, the banned fur products
Former city
councilor
Scondras
dies at 74
By Jeremy C. Fox
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Boston’s first openly gay city
councilor, who ser ved five
terms before losing by a nar-
row margin but later in life
pleaded guilty to a crime, died
last week, his family an-
nounced.
David Scondras, 74, died
Oct. 21, according to a death
notice posted on the website of
Bishop Funeral Home in
Worcester by his family. The
notice did not give a cause of
death.
After his election in 1983,
Scondras was celebrated at a
time when few lesbian, gay, bi-
sexual, transgender, or queer
politicians spoke publicly
about their sexuality. Later, he
was twice accused and once
pleaded guilty to a sex crime
against someone he believed to
be a teenage boy.
Former mayor Raymond L.
Flynn said Thursday night he
was “so sad to hear the news of
David’s passing.”
Flynn recalled working with
Scondras to pass a rental pro-
tection law and an anti-dis-
placement law for low-income
residents— at a time “when
most Massachusetts politicians
and the media were against
poor people housing rights.”
Scondras was voted onto
the City Council in 1983, a
Harvard-educated tenant ac-
tivist from the Fenway who
pledged to fight for the less for-
tunate.
Scondras lost his reelection
bid in 1993 after he was caught
making rambling calls to po-
lice and said publicly that he
was an alcoholic, had been tak-
ing pain medication, and that
his partner had been diag-
nosed with AIDS.
After leaving office, Scon-
dras ran a nonprofit AIDS or-
ganization, Search For A Cure,
from his home in Cambridge
and was with the Area 4 Neigh-
borhood Coalition, an advoca-
cy group for residents who live
between Central and Kendall
squares.
In 1997, Scondras was ac-
cused of trying to fondle a 16-
year-old boy in a Back Bay
movie theater, but the charge
was dropped when the teen re-
fused to testify in court.
In 2007, Scondras pleaded
guilty in Lawrence to attempt-
ing to lure a person he believed
to be a teenage boy into meet-
ing him for sex. Prosecutors
said Scondras had sent porno-
graphic images and messages
to a 20-year-old hospital secu-
rity guard who he believed was
a 15-year-old boy. He was sen-
tenced to 18 months' proba-
tion and required to register as
a sex offender.
Material from the Associated
Press and prior Globe reports
was used in this story.
Jeremy C. Fox can be reached
at jeremy.fox@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@jeremycfox.
can include clothing, hand-
bags, shoes, slippers, hats, ear-
muffs, scarves, shawls, gloves,
jewelry, key chains, toys, trin-
kets, and any home accessories
and décor that are made of fur.
The bylaw states that any
fur product sold or displayed
for sale in violation of the bylaw
could result in a $300 fine.
“Each fur product and every
day upon which any such viola-
tion shall occur shall constitute
a separate offense,” the bylaw
states.
Kimberly Kissam and her
sister grew up in Wellesley and
own Isabel Harvey, a boutique
on Central Street. They haven’t
sold fur for about eight months
now. She said she loves animals
and was proud that Wellesley
was the first community in the
state to pass a fur ban. But at
the same time, she had con-
cerns about the impact it could
have on local merchants who
are already struggling to sur-
vive the pandemic. “I was con-
cerned about Wellesley’s down-
town, and that these incremen-
tal restrictions could cause
more problems for the small
A pedestrian’s umbrella coordinated with the fall colors of Boston.
A little pre-Halloween howlin’
Winds to join rain and, yes, some of that white stuff
By John R. Ellement
GLOBE STAFF
Stormy weather will contin-
ue Friday, according to the Na-
tional Weather Service, leading
to a chilling Halloween — as in
temperatures, if not in spooki-
ness.
Wind-swept rain, which
soaked much of Eastern Massa-
chusetts Thursday, could be fol-
lowed Friday with light snow-
fall in Greater Boston and a bit
more in Central and Western
Massachusetts.
The winds accompanying
the rain and snow will be stron-
gest on Cape Cod and the Is-
lands where gusts are expected
to reach as high as 50 miles per
hour, the weather service said,
adding that the storm was a
remnant of Hurricane Zeta.
The rain, snow, and wind
will steadily fade away Friday as
This day in history
Today is Friday, Oct. 30, the
304th day of 2020. There are 62
days left in the year.
Birthdays: Movie director
Claude Lelouch is 83. Rock
singer Grace Slick is 81. The
Temptations singer Otis Wil-
liams is 79. Actor Henry Wink-
ler is 75. Broadcast journalist
Andrea Mitchell is 74. Actor
Harr y Hamlin is 69. Ac tor
Charles Martin Smith is 67. Ac-
tor Kevin Pollak is 63. Comedi-
an Ben Bailey is 50. Actor Billy
Brown is 50. Actor Nia Long is
50. Actor Matthew Morrison is
42. Business executive and
presidential adviser Ivanka
Trump is 39.
ºIn 1735 (New Style calen-
dar), the second president of
the United States, John Adams,
was born in Braintree.
ºIn 1961, the Soviet Union
tested a hydrogen bomb, the
“Tsar Bomba,” with a force esti-
mated at about 50 megatons.
ºIn 1974, Muhammad Ali
knocked out George Foreman
in the eighth round of a 15-
round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire,
known as the “Rumble in the
Jungle,” to regain his world
heavyweight title.
T h e B o s t o n
businesses down here,” she
said.
Her sister, Alexis Kissam,
echoed those sentiments.
“We’ve lost a lot of business-
es in Wellesley,” she said.
Both sisters said they were
glad that an amendment was
passed that would give busi-
nesses a full year to prepare for
the new rule.
“That was important to us,
just to give everyone time to
take a breath,” said Kimberly
Kissam.
Officials with the Humane
Society said if the Massachu-
setts attorney general approves
the measure, Wellesley will be-
come the first municipality out-
side of California to ban fur
sales. Four cities in California
— West Hollywood, San Fran-
cisco, Los Angeles, and Berke-
ley — already had bans in place
when California passed a state-
wide ban on fur sales in 2019,
officials said.
Oliver said she was inspired
by California’s statewide ban
and said it was “the abhorrent
and inexcusable cruelty of the
fur industry and the environ-
the weather systems shift
around in the atmosphere. Fri-
day night will feature the cold-
est temperatures of the season
so far, with communities at
higher elevations dropping to
the high teens and low 20 s,
forecasters said.
The cold will continue Satur-
day, when some communities
will allow trick-or-treating
amidst the coronavirus pan-
demic. (Some communities
have canceled traditional Hal-
loween activities, though.)
“ T h i s m e a n s if y o u f i n d
yourself outside on Saturday
evening you’re looking at tem-
peratures in the 30s. We won’t
be dealing with any precipita-
tion Saturday, though, thanks
to the ridge of high pressure,”
forecasters said.
Sunday promises to be less
frightfully cold, with daytime
ºIn 1975, the New York Dai-
ly News ran the headline “Ford
to City: Drop Dead” a day after
President Gerald R. Ford said
he would veto any proposed
federal bailout of New York
City.
º In 1 9 9 1 , a n o r ’e a s t e r,
which would build into a rare
late-season hurricane, pum-
meled the Northeast and Cana-
dian maritimes. Called then the
No-name storm or Halloween
storm, it would become known
as the Per fec t s torm, with
waves approaching 100 feet off
Nova Scotia, tidal flooding, and
winds raking coastal proper-
ties. At least 13 people were
killed, including the crew of six
on the Gloucester-based fishing
boat Andrea Gail, and about
100 homes were destroyed or
severely damaged in Massachu-
setts.
ºIn 1995, by a razor-thin
vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 per-
cent, Federalists prevailed over
separatists in a Quebec seces-
sion referendum.
ºIn 1997, a jury in Cam-
bridge convicted British au pair
Louise Woodward of second-
degree murder in the death of
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in brief
mental degradation it causes”
that prompted her to file a citi-
zen’s petition for the new by- BOSTON
law.
“So many Town Meeting Father, son win reprieve for extradition
members came to the Special Former Green Beret Michael L. Taylor and his son won a last-
Town Meeting having done minute delay Thursday in their extradition to Japan, where
their research on issues sur- they are wanted for allegedly helping former Nissan chief exec-
rounding fur, and they were utive Carlos Ghosn flee Japanese law enforcement. Taylor and
ready to engage in thoughtful his son, Peter M. Taylor, were scheduled to be transported from
debate about the petition,” Oli- Boston to Japan on a 1 p.m. flight Thursday, but defense attor-
ver said in an e-mail. “It takes neys persuaded US District Court Judge Indira Talwani to give
courage to be the first one to them a chance to argue against the extradition. Another federal
act, not only in the state, but in judge had approved it in September, but the final decision rest-
the entire country outside Cali- ed with the State Department. In court papers, the Taylors said
fornia. So, I was incredibly they were told Wednesday they were to be sent to Japan on
proud of Wellesley last night.” Thursday — eliminating their right to challenge the State De-
Kitty Block, president and partment decision in court. Thursday afternoon, Talwani
CEO of the Humane Society of blocked the immediate removal of father and son. The Taylors,
the United States, applauded who have been in custody since they were arrested in May at
the Wellesley vote. their Harvard home, face up to three years in prison if convict-
“Ending fur production and ed in Japan. Japanese authorities allege the pair were paid
fur sales should be a no-brain- more than $1.3 million to help Ghosn flee while he was on bail
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“Millions of animals suffer tre- Nissan.
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Emily Sweeney can be reached Man fatally shot at residence
at emily.sweeney@globe.com. A 26-year-old man was fatally shot inside a residence on Elm-
Follow her on Twitter wood Street early Thursday, and authorities said those involved
@emilysweeney. in the shooting were known to each other. Deandre A. Scott of
Attleboro was found with a gunshot wound to his chest when
police arrived at 25 Elwood St. at 12:43 a.m. after someone
made a 911 call reporting the shooting, according to the Nor-
folk district attorney office. No one has been charged in connec-
tion with Scott’s death, but officials said they do not believe
there is an ongoing threat to the public at large. The Norfolk of-
fice is leading the investigation along with Franklin and State
Police. Police Chief Thomas J. Lynch said in a statement the fa-
tal shooting was the first “of this type in the town since 1997.”
The first police officers on the scene provided first aid to Scott,
a task picked up by firefighters when they arrived. The victim
was taken to Milford Regional Medical Center, where he was
pronounced dead.
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Eagle Scout sentenced in bank robbery
An Eagle Scout who researched how to rob banks on YouTube
has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison after his attorney re-
quested leniency because his client had reached a low point in
his life and was driven by substance abuse and undiagnosed
mental illness, the US attorney’s office said Thursday. Samuel
Jose Baptista, 27, of Boston, was also sentenced Wednesday in
US District Court in Worcester to two years of probation and
was ordered to pay restitution, prosecutors said in a statement.
He had faced up to 40 years in prison; prosecutors had asked
for nearly four years. Baptista pleaded guilty in February to
robbing banks in Worcester and Revere in October 2019. In
JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF
both cases he claimed to have a bomb in his backpack, prosecu-
tors said. In a 10-page sentencing memorandum, defense attor-
ney Timothy Watkins said his client was a decent man who had
never been convicted of a crime. Despite a difficult upbringing,
he had reached the rank of Eagle Scout, but a series of misfor-
tunes including addiction, homelessness, and the loss of a job
drove him to the robberies. (AP)
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2m ballots cast so far in Mass., twice 2016 tally
Mail-in and early
voting spur flood
By Matt Stout
GLOBE STAFF
More than 2 million Massa-
chusetts residents have already
cast ballots ahead of Tuesday’s
general election, doubling the
number who voted ahead of
Election Day in 2016, accord-
ing to state data released
Thursday.
That flood of early ballots
has also surpassed another,
more unofficial, milestone:
More Massachusetts residents
have voted this year than the to-
tal number who cast ballots for
Hillary Clinton for president
four years ago, when she won
the state by nearly 30 points.
Ballots have continually
poured into local clerks offices
in recent weeks, fueled by the
state’s expanded mail-in voting
option and a two-week early-
voting period that ends Friday.
Of the 2.1 million votes already
submitted as of Thursday, 60
percent, or 1,267,294, had been
cast by mail.
For comparison, Clinton
and running mate Tim Kaine
earned 1,995,196 votes here in
the 2016 election, nearly dou-
bling what President Trump
won.
Thursday’s new vote totals
marked a dramatic uptick from
even last week, when one of ev-
ery four registered voters in the
state — and nearly 1.2 million
in total — had submitted a bal-
lot by Oct. 21, also underscor-
ing what were dramatic differ-
ences in turnout to date be-
tween wealthy suburbs and the
state’s urban centers.
With five days left until Elec-
tion Day, 44 percent of the
state’s 4.66 million total regis-
tered voters had already
weighed in as of Thursday.
Eastham had the highest
turnout so far, with 69.3 per-
cent of its 4,600 voters submit-
ting ballots — followed by Lex-
ington (68.8 percent) and Con-
cord (67.6 percent), towns that
served as the cradle for the
American Revolutionary War.
In Springfield, 21.1 percent
of 106,300 registered voters
have returned a ballot, the low-
est share of any town or city
with more than 2,000 people in
the state.
Secretary of State William F.
Colleges prepare for parties, protests on election night
uCOLLEGES
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events just weeks before the
Thanksgiving break, when
many institutions are sched-
uled to send students home for
the semester.
“We’re all desperate to get
together, and here we’re going
to have an emotional trigger,
the election,” said Herman
“Dutch” Leonard, a professor at
Harvard’s Kennedy School and
business school. Students are
going to want to be together to
celebrate or commiserate. “But
you don’t want to create a su-
per-spreader event 10 days be-
fore you send them home.”
Leonard cohosted a virtual
town hall earlier this week at-
tended by leaders from 152
campuses to discuss crisis man-
agement and contingency plan-
ning for Election Day and the
weeks that follow.
Todd Diacon, president of
Kent State University in Ohio,
who attended the virtual town
hall, said preparing for poten-
tial clashes makes sense, given
the current tense political cli-
State board strips pension of former trooper convicted in fraud scandal
uSTATE POLICE
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to similarly strip the pen-
sions of four other troopers
convicted on charges stemming
from the fraud scandal, while a
fifth could also lose his pension
if convicted.
However, most troopers im-
plicated in the scandal have not
been criminally charged and
will get to keep their pensions.
State Police declined to com-
ment Thursday. Governor Char-
lie Baker spokeswoman Sarah
Finlaw said in a statement he
“believes that any individual
who has violated the public’s
trust and stolen from taxpayers
should be held accountable, in-
Poll worker Alice Machinist helped a voter at the Newton Free Library.
Galvin has said he already ex-
pected a historic turnout this
year, which appeared likely to
“significantly” exceed the cur-
rent record from 2016, when
more than 3.3 million ballots
were cast.
Voters were given a variety
of options amid the coronavirus
pandemic, including casting a
ballot by mail, as more than
800,000 did in the state’s Sep-
tember primary, or during the
in-person early-voting period.
(About 1.04 million people had
voted early in 2016.)
Every municipality is also
expected to offer a secure drop
box, which officials have urged
people to use amid warnings
from the Postal Service that any
ballot mailed less than a week
before Election Day might not
arrive in time.
Massachusetts voters can
track their ballots through an
online portal.
Galvin this week directed lo-
cal election officials around the
state to increase security at the
drop boxes, including employ-
ing police to monitor them, us-
ing video surveillance, or emp-
mate. This year, Kent State
commemorated the 50th anni-
versary of the shooting of four
student anti-war protesters by
the Ohio National Guard.
Kent State also hosts a poll-
ing site, and Diacon said trucks
bearing Trump flags have been
driving by the campus. Even at
his own polling site recently a
dispute broke out over a voter
wearing political gear that re-
quired police to step in, he said.
Kent State plans to have
more police presence around its
voting site.
“At Kent State, more than
most places, we understand
what happens when height-
ened passions lead to violence,”
Diacon said.
Some of the college election
planning is a result of Trump’s
victory in 2016, which caught
many higher-education institu-
tions off guard. After Trump
won, many students were de-
spondent, fearful, or angry
about what the victory could
mean for them because of their
gender, race, sexual orienta-
tion, or immigration status.
cluding forfeiting their pension
as the law provides.”
Of the 46 troopers implicat-
ed in the overtime fraud scan-
dal, 10 have been charged crim-
inally, eight of whom pleaded
guilty and were sentenced,
mostly to probation.
Four of them, including Ce-
san, had worked long enough
within State Police to be eligible
for a pension. The retirement
board has opened inquiries into
their cases and halted pension
payments in the interim.
One other trooper has plead-
ed guilty and is awaiting sen-
tencing, and another is fighting
criminal charges in court. They
both retired while under inves-
T h e B o s t o n
Every municipality
in the state is
expected to offer a
secure drop box to
help ensure that
all ballots arrive
on time.
tying them more frequently, af-
ter the authorities said an emo-
tionally disturbed Boston man
had set one on fire in Copley
Square.
Galvin’s office also sent an-
other directive Monday, telling
local officials that if they’re un-
able to have “personal security”
watch drop boxes on Hallow-
een night, they should empty
unattended boxes by 5 p.m.
that night and keep them
locked until the following
morning.
The state has also loosened
several rules to ensure votes are
counted. A voter who legally
submits an absentee ballot but
dies before Election Day will
Some colleges reported in-
creased complaints of racially
biased incidents before and af-
ter the 2016 election.
“One of the lessons we
learned is a need for people do
deal with heartbreak, fear, their
anxiety,” said Kenneth Elmore,
Boston University’s associate
provost and dean of students.
BU president Bob Brown
has sent a letter to students re-
minding them of the need for
civility during the elections.
The university is also offering
forums and listening sessions,
in-person and virtual, in the
coming days and after Tuesday.
Usually, election night on
college campuses involves so-
cial gatherings with undergrad-
uates coming together in the
student union and watching
the results on multiple televi-
sion screens. Students tradi-
tionally stay up late into the
night rehashing the outcomes
with friends in their dorm
rooms.
The pandemic has compli-
cated those traditions. Tufts
University said it will hold a
tigation and are continuing to
collect pensions while their cas-
es remain open.
When Cesan was sentenced
in federal court, he spoke brief-
ly. “I’d like to apologize, and I
accept full responsibility for my
actions that have brought me
here today,” he said at the June
2019 court hearing. “I know I
can do better. I will do better.”
Investigators had found that
troopers regularly wrote phony
tickets and falsified time sheets
to cover up how they had
skipped shifts.
The scheme, which one fed-
eral judge likened to a criminal
conspiracy, allegedly stretched
back more than two decades,
G l o b e
Election volunteers in Boston inspected the front of a
security envelope.
still have the vote counted, a
change from past elections.
And any ballot postmarked
by Tuesday and received by a lo-
cal election official by 5 p.m. on
Nov. 6 will be counted.
The flexibility will give vot-
ers more breathing room, but it
also means that in any tightly
contested contests, it may now
take days before a race is called.
Voting-rights advocates are
watch party, but students will
need a ticket to attend and it
will be monitored by staff. The
university has also offered fac-
ulty training on post-election
discussions, since many stu-
dents are studying remotely
and their first conversation
about the election with their
peers may be in the Wednesday
morning virtual class.
“You may have to talk poli-
tics in the chemistry class,” said
Nancy Thomas, the director of
the Institute for Democracy &
Higher Education at Tufts Uni-
versity’s Tisch College. “The
bottom line is that faculty mem-
bers have additional burdens
on them.”
At BU, university officials
are setting up large tents on the
lawn where students can gather
with phones or laptops and
watch the results come in while
masked and staying socially dis-
tanced. BU also plans to place
platforms and microphones in
the tents for students to use to
express opinions.
Salem State is holding sever-
al virtual watch parties on the
and was hatched by top com-
manders who pushed troopers
to write citations under an ille-
gal ticket quota system.
As long as troopers handed
in enough tickets to meet the
quota, supervisors allegedly
turned a blind eye and didn’t
require them to actually work
their shifts. The scandal fea-
tured a series of other stunning
revelations in the past two-plus
years, including the depart-
ment’s acknowledgement that
it destroyed key documents
that could have shown more
wrongdoing.
Rocheleau can be reached at
matthew.rocheleau@globe.com.
SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF
JESSICA RINALDI/GLOBE STAFF
also keeping an eye on an up-
tick in ballots being rejected.
Massachusetts election officials
turned aside nearly 18,000
from last month’s state primary
— almost half because they ar-
rived late — more than triple
the number discarded in the
2018 and 2016 elections.
Matt Stout can be reached
at matt.stout@globe.com.
night of the election for stu-
dents who support different
candidates and for students of
color and other groups.
Many universities empha-
sized that their mask and so-
cial-distance policies will still
apply to election-related events.
But after a summer of pro-
tests over the police killings of
Black people, including George
Floyd, universities also more
cautious about when they de-
ploy police to enforce rules
around on-campus student
gatherings.
Co n s i d e r i n g t h e p u b l i c
health and public safety ramifi-
cations of this election, univer-
sities need to be prepared, said
Leonard, the Harvard profes-
sor.
“I hope they are overpre-
pared and none of this happens
and it all goes down without a
ripple,” he said.
Deirdre Fernandes can be
reached at
deirdre.fernandes@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@fernandesglobe.
Former trooper Paul Cesan, who pleaded guilty to fraud
charges, leaving Moakley Federal Courthouse in 2018.
Metro B3
Boston
releases
climate
reports
Plans for North
End, Dorchester
By Danny McDonald
GLOBE STAFF
Mayor Martin J. Walsh re-
leased a pair of reports Thurs-
day detailing measures that will
try to mitigate the effects of cli-
mate change in the North End
and Dorchester.
Walsh’s office said the re-
ports “outline a road map for
near- and long-term solutions
to protect from coastal flood-
ing, increase access and open
space along the waterfront, and
enhance the public-private col-
laboration necessary for stake-
holders in each neighborhood
required for successful transfor-
mation and protection.”
Measures for Dorchester in-
clude the redesign of Morrissey
Boulevard to stop flooding, the
creation of a more accessible
waterfront, connecting the
Neponset River Trail in Matta-
pan to the Harborwalk from Te-
nean Beach to Victory Park,
and coordinating with UMass
Boston to further open the wa-
terfront along Columbia Point.
‘Now more than
ever, we must
protect the health
and well-being of
all residents and
communities in
Boston.’
MAYOR MARTY WALSH
In the North End, the city
plans to convene a “Long Wharf
Property Owner Stakeholder
Group” in coming months. The
wharf is owned by the Boston
Planning & Development Agen-
cy, and the hope is the stake-
holder group will foster collabo-
ration and lead to “solutions to
create a connected and resilient
sub-district, and enhance Long
Wharf as the gateway for water
transportation,” according to
Walsh’s office.
A d d i t i o n a l l y, t h e r e i s a
planned redesign of the North
End’s Christopher Columbus
Park that will include elevation
to protect against flooding
while improving waterfront
open space and connections to
the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Another North End project
is slated to be completed later
this fall. According to officials,
the $15.3 million initiative
would raise the level of athletic
fields along the harbor out of
the flood zone, elevate the har-
borwalk by 4 feet, and strength-
en the sea wall.
“Now more than ever, we
must protect the health and
well-being of all residents and
communities in Boston, and en-
sure our vulnerable neighbor-
hoods are protected from the
impacts of climate change,” said
Walsh in a statement. “These
reports focus on creating an eq-
uitable, sustainable path for-
ward, and outline transforma-
tive plans to protect our homes,
neighborhoods, and businesses
from sea-level rise and flood-
ing.”
Danny McDonald can be
reached at
daniel.mcdonald@globe.com.
BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF/FILE
B4 Metro
Murder conviction vacated after almost 50 years in prison
uKING
Continued from Page B1
and for carefully considering
the proper resolution,” Na-
thanson said. “Today’s reduc-
tion of the verdict is a compro-
mise in the interest of free-
dom, of finality, and allowing
Mr. King to take responsibility
for the harm he caused, which
is important to him.”
King was 18 years old and
looking for someone to rob on
an October night in 1971
when he and a friend spotted
Labanara sitting in his car on
Newbury Street.
Labanara, a campaign aide
to Boston Mayor Ke vin H.
White, had been out with
friends to celebrate passing
the bar exam.
King, who had been out of
jail just two days, stuck a gun
through his window and shot
him in the head, the jury
found.
Nathanson said that King
apologized to Labanara’s fami-
ly during a video hearing on
Thursday, telling them, “I can
n e v e r b r i n g b a c k M r. L a -
banara, so instead I continue
o ff e r i n g m y l i f e’s w o r k i n
atonement as I strive towards
Tom Croswell checked in with his staff after he dyed his hair in an effort to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association.
Father’s lessons spur son’s actions
uFARRAGHER
Continued from Page B1
away.
He seemed confused. A fa-
ther of four, he drove to a fami-
ly member’s house in Water-
ville, Maine, a trip he had
made dozens of times, and got
hopelessly lost.
“It wasn’t clear that he had
full-scale dementia,” Tom Cros-
well said. “And he didn’t at
that point, but it was clear that
there was something not quite
right there. And then there
were times when I’d be with
him and he would just seem a
little confused.”
The confusion worsened.
Glen Croswell couldn’t
sleep. He wandered around his
house in Gorham, Maine. The
man who once was a whiz ca-
pable of intricate repairs to an-
tique clocks was now befud-
dled by his television set’s re-
mote control.
The diagnosis? Alzheimer’s
disease, a devastating illness
that his son is devoting part of
his professional life to help
vanquish.
All of that helps explain
why Tom Croswell, the but-
toned-down CEO of Tufts
Health Plan, was sporting a
purple hairdo the other day, at
the center of a Zoom call with
other equally colorful Tufts ex-
ecutives, committed to con-
quering an irreversible, pro-
gressive brain disease that is
the sixth-leading cause of
death in the United States.
As their images flashed
across laptops they were — for
a moment — no longer highly
skilled insurance company ex-
ecutives. They were electronic
pixels, fanciful studies in rain-
bow-colored hair rarely seen in
the corporate boardroom.
All of it was part of an ongo-
ing effort that has so far raised
$71,000, which was matched
by the Tufts Health Plan Foun-
John Labanara (left, with then-Boston Mayor Kevin White, for whom he was a campaign aide) was killed by Arnold King
(right) in 1971. King’s conviction was reduced based on evidence that Black residents were excluded from his jury.
continuous redemption.”
Labanara’s sister-in-law,
Lynne, who in 1972 attended
much of King’s trial with her
late husband and mother-in-
law, declined to comment. She
has previously said that she
opposed his release.
Joseph Monahan, a Med-
ford lawyer who was John La-
banara’s friend, said he be-
dation, for a total contribution
of $142,000 to the Alzheimer’s
Association’s Massachusetts-
New Hampshire chapter.
“You never looked better,” a
smiling Croswell, leaning into
the screen, told his team from
his kitchen in Lexington.
‘He was just very
hard-working,
disciplined, and
responsible.’
TOM CROSWELL
CEO of Tufts Health Plan,
describing his father, Glen
“Wow! Your hair took well
to the color, Tom,” one execu-
tive told him.
There were some technolog-
ical glitches with webcam con-
nections. There were good-na-
tured jabs and virtual high-
fives. There was lots of cross-
talk like this, now familiar to
virtual meeting attendees ev-
erywhere:
“Paul, looking good!”
“I can’t hear again. I have
no audio.”
“We can hear you.”
“Did you restart your com-
puter last night?”
And through it all, Tom
Croswell’s thoughts remained
with his father, the man who
once participated in the largest
airborne operation of World
War II, parachuting with more
than 16,000 others into Ger-
many from thousands of air-
craft soaring high over Europe.
“My father had not been di-
agnosed but he was starting to
show worrisome signs of de-
mentia,” he said. “He progres-
sively got worse and worse. He
wasn’t the type of person to ev-
er tell you that he was scared.
But I’m sure he was. I think it
T h e B o s t o n
BOSTON GLOBE ARCHIVE
lieved King’s apology was sin-
cere and “he owned up to ev-
erything he did.”
While many of Labanara’s
friends might feel differently,
Labanara would likely have
supported King’s release after
so many years, Monahan said.
“John was a compassionate
person who probably would
have said, ‘Enough is enough,
was certainly frustrating for
him.”
The disease forced Glen
Croswell from his home and
into an assisted-living facility.
He died at age 88 on Memorial
Day in 2014.
“I remember going to visit
him in Saco,” his son recalled.
“I said, ‘Hey, dad, how are you
doing?’ And he said, ‘How
would you like it if you were
incarcerated?’ ”
No son could ever forget an
exchange like that. Searing.
Sad. Motivating.
Poignantly, there were —
amid the fog of the disease and
through all that anger and
frustration — flashes of hu-
manity, moments when the old
Glen Croswell seemed himself,
if only briefly.
When Tom’s wife, Lisa,
asked her father-in-law wheth-
er he’d like to take a ride for an
ice cream, he brightened,
agreed, and enjoyed the sim-
plest of outings.
“She brought him back and
she pulled into the parking lot
and he turned to her and said,
‘Lisa, I want to thank you very
much for taking the time to
come up here to see me. I real-
ly do appreciate it. I know you
went out of your way.’ He was
just completely lucid,” Tom
Croswell said.
His father was a master of
anagram puzzles. He remem-
bered his wartime experience
like it was yesterday.
But the real yesterday was
lost to him.
Moments like that drove
Tom Croswell and his company
to develop a dementia care co-
ordination program to connect
patients and their families to
the support they need.
“So we were the first insur-
ance company to work with
the Alzheimer’s Association to
develop that program,” Cro-
swell said. “In part, that was
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let him out,’ ” he said.
Monahan said he believes
Rollins showed courage by
supporting King ’s release,
based on the exclusion of
Black people from the jury and
King’s remorse and rehabilita-
tion.
“I think he made the most
of the last 20 years in prison,”
Monahan said. “No one is well-
SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF
my response to what I was see-
ing with my dad.”
There remains a steep med-
ical mountain for medical re-
searchers to climb.
“There’s no cure,” said Cros-
well. “It’s the only disease that
has nothing you can do for it.
There’s nothing that will slow
its progression. And the causes
aren’t well understood. So we
still have a long way to go.”
And then he paused and
collected himself at that inter-
section of the disease and his
dad.
“Everybody always wants to
please their father, you know?”
he said. “So, sure, that makes
me feel good. I and we have
been able to do something to
help people in similar circum-
stances.
“He wasn’t one to dwell on
praise. I was more likely to
hear from somebody else that
he said something really nice
about me than him saying it
directly. Growing up, he was
always afraid that he would
spoil his kids. Yeah, he was
kind of a classic New England-
er.”
But the father was teaching
lessons to his children, lessons
that they absorbed.
“Do what’s right,’’ Tom
Croswell said, repeating his
dad’s paternal creed. “Help
people who are in need. But
more than anything it was: Do
what’s right.”
Turns out the man who
once parachuted into Germa-
ny, the guy who could build
solid stone walls in the woods
and learned to repair the intri-
cate mechanisms of antique
clocks, was a pretty skilled
teacher, too.
Now, his lessons in life are
paying dividends.
Thomas Farragher is a Globe
columnist. He can reached at
thomas.farragher@globe.com.
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served with him remaining in
jail for the rest of his life.”
In prison, King has earned
undergraduate and master’s
degrees, published articles,
mentored fellow inmates, and
counseled at-risk youths. He
expressed remorse for L a-
banara’s slaying, saying he was
high on drugs when he pulled
the trigger “in a moment of
Trucking regulator
must be reformed,
Mass. senator says
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leased investigative doc u-
ments that show the company
had no safety plan or drug-test-
ing program, employed another
driver with a suspended
license, and falsified records to
appear to comply with federal
regulations governing how long
drivers can work.
One company official admit-
ted to lying to investigators, a
federal crime.
The tragedy also led to reve-
lations of bureaucratic neglect
at the Massachusetts Registry
of Motor Vehicles, which failed
to act on two notices from Con-
necticut to suspend Zhuk-
ovskyy’s license.
Published in late August, the
Globe’s “Blind Spot” series re-
vealed that government negli-
gence has for decades allowed
drivers with menacing traffic
records to remain on the road.
The series described a regulato-
ry system full of loopholes, find-
ing that one in five of the more
than 4 million commercial
trucks regulated by the FMCSA
is in such disrepair that if
stopped by safety inspectors, it
would immediately be taken
out of service.
In his letter, Markey asked
the FMCSA to provide detailed
statistics about its oversight
and enforcement actions
against individual trucking
companies, as well as industry-
wide safety statistics. He cited
federal statistics that show an
estimated 48 percent increase
in crash fatalities involving
large trucks from 2009 to 2019,
calling the trend deeply dis-
turbing.
The FMCSA released a state-
ment Thursday saying it had
yet to receive Markey’s letter,
but pushed back on his criti-
cism.
“The Agency’s top priority is
always to reduce crashes involv-
ing commercial motor vehicles,
and any suggestion otherwise is
inaccurate and unfounded,” its
statement said. “FMCSA works
with its state partners to com-
plete more than 3.5 million an-
nual truck and bus inspections
and conduct as many as 15,000
safety investigations of inter-
state motor carriers annually,
placing a priority on high-risk
carriers.”
The agency said recent im-
provements include the imple-
mentation of electronic logging
devices and an enhanced drug
and alcohol screening program.
The FMCSA also said it had pre-
viously considered one propos-
al highlighted by Markey and
concluded it wouldn’t be effec-
tive.
The FMCSA’s acting admin-
istrator, James “Wiley” Deck, is
the third person to direct the
agency since October 2019.
Just last week, the inspector
general for the Department of
rage and stupor.”
In the motion to reduce
King’s sentence, Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney David Lewis,
chief of Rollins’s Integrity Re-
view Bureau, wrote that King’s
trial occurred “as racial ten-
sions roiled Boston” and the
NAACP sued the Boston
School Committee over segre-
gation in the c ity ’s p ublic
schools.
“John Labanara was mur-
dered and his family has lived
and will continue to live with
that awful fact,” Rollins said.
“The man who killed Mr. La-
banara, however, did not re-
ceive a fair trial as afforded
and required by our Constitu-
tion. Racism undid this verdict
a n d c o nv i c t i o n . T h e ra c e -
b a s e d c h a l l e n ge s o f e v e r y
Black juror by the Suffolk
County DA’s office undid this
conviction. Any anger and dis-
appointment should fall
squarely at the feet of this of-
fice’s decisions in 1972.”
Shelley Murphy can be
reached at
shelley.murphy@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@shelleymurph.
Transportation wrote in a re-
port that the FMCSA faces “key
safety challenges,” including
the ability to identify troubled,
high-risk trucking and bus
companies.
The Globe’s investigation
documented how the FMCSA,
with approximately 1,200 em-
ployees, is dwarfed by the in-
dustry it regulates, a sector of
half a million companies that is
growing by more than 30,000
businesses annually. And de-
spite repeated pleas from the
NTSB, the agency doesn’t re-
quire companies to prove that
they understand and comply
with safety regulations before
granting them authority to op-
erate.
Cathy Chase, president of
Advocates for Highway and Au-
to Safety, said in a statement
that the Globe’s investigation
showed rogue motor carriers
are “easily evading enforcement
because of systemic agency in-
eptitude.”
“Truck drivers and all mo-
torists deserve better — and
better is available, affordable
and accessible,” said Chase,
whose group has lobbied for in-
creased oversight, as well as
technology upgrades and safe-
guards. “The agency needs to
stop sticking its head in the
sand and start doing its job.”
Markey also inquired Thurs-
day about whether states are
complying with federal rules for
warning each other about trou-
bled drivers. The Globe report-
ed last month that more than
half of states miss deadlines for
notifying other jurisdictions
when drivers with commercial
license get suspensions or con-
victions.
Representative Lori Trahan,
a Westford Democrat, said the
country ’s “laissez-faire ap-
proach to oversight of the
trucking industry simply isn’t
working,” and the lack of action
by FMCSA has “led to danger-
ous increases in fatalities that
could have been prevented.”
“Leaving the trucking indus-
try to regulate itself has failed,”
she said in a statement. “Con-
gress has an obligation to step
in and demand that the FMCSA
conduct serious oversight to
save lives.”
Trahan cosponsored legisla-
tion with Moulton that would
let states use federal grant mon-
ey to improve communication
between licensing agencies.
The United States doesn’t have
a national system that tracks
drivers who commit serious of-
fenses in other states.
House lawmakers passed
the provision in an infrastruc-
ture bill and included it in
transportation legislation to be
debated next year, Moulton’s of-
fice said.
Laura Crimaldi can be reached
at laura.crimaldi@globe.com.
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ACTON
SAMPERI, Kathleen M. (Ferguson)
ARLINGTON
GUZELIAN, Charles
BEVERLY
MICHETTI, Viola (Latini)
BILLERICA
HARRINGTON, Geralyn
BOSTON
HEADSPETH, William Leslie
SOLOV, Bess Sybil
BOXBOROUGH
SAMPERI, Kathleen M. (Ferguson)
BOXFORD
SMITH, Reid H.
CAMBRIDGE
BELLINI, Christopher J.
HARRINGTON, Geralyn
CHARLESTOWN
HARRINGTON, Geralyn
FALMOUTH
BUCKLEY, A. William Jr. DMD
FRANKLIN
McCORMICK, Richard D.
HOPEDALE
McCORMICK, Richard D.
HYDE PARK
MILLER, Isabelle
MALDEN
LEARNED, Richard M. Ret. Newton
Firefighter
MANSFIELD
BUCKLEY, A. William Jr. DMD
MEDFORD
WHITE, Frank A. Jr.
METHUEN
SEABERG, Mary R. (Stewart)
NEWTON
LEARNED, Richard M. Ret. Newton
Firefighter
PEPPERELL
McCARTHY, Susan P. (Bryson)
RANDOLPH
HALEY, Gerald Peter
READING
SEABERG, Mary R. (Stewart)
REVERE
McCARTHY, Susan P. (Bryson)
BELLINI, Christopher J.
Of Falls Church, VA, Cambridge,
MA and Somerville, MA. Died Oct.
22, 2020, born 1961 to Mary F. and
Joseph Bellini (deceased). He leaves
his wife Lily (Kling), a son Alexander,
two daughters Kristen and Nicole, his
mother Mary and stepfather George
Boudreau, also his brother Joseph
Bellini and wife Rachel of Franktown,
CO, two sisters Suzanne Lees of
Andover, MA and Joanne Novelli of
Lunenburg, MA, in addition to many
aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and
cousins.
After graduating from Malden
Catholic, he attended the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. He
worked as a CPA at Arthur Anderson
Company for two years. He decided
to pursue a law degree at Georgetown
University Law Center. He was a noted
attorney in Washington, DC for the last
30 years. He specialized in advising
U.S. and international clients in the
financial services industry. He was
a frequent lecturer, presenter and
writer on matters relating to financial
institutions.
Christopher had many interests
and activities which he often shared
with his brother, Joe. Vacationing
at his summer home in Mavillette
Beach, Nova Scotia with his family
and his brother Joe’s family gave him
immense pleasure. The love he gave
and received by all he knew will long be
remembered.
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SOMERVILLE
BELLINI, Christopher J.
CASEY, Robert W.
STONEHAM
SEABERG, Mary R. (Stewart)
STOUGHTON
BUCKLEY, A. William Jr. DMD
UXBRIDGE
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MICHETTI, Viola (Latini)
NEW HAMPSHIRE
LEARNED, Richard M. Ret. Newton
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NEW YORK
SAMPERI, Kathleen M. (Ferguson)
TEXAS
HALEY, Gerald Peter
BUCKLEY, A. William Jr.
DMD
Age 90, longtime resident
and retired respected
dentist in Stoughton, died
Tuesday, October 27, 2020, at his home
at age 90, surrounded by his beloved
family. Born and raised in Stoughton,
he was a graduate of St. Mary’s
School, Admiral Farrugut Academy
in NJ, St. Anslem’s College in NH and
Tufts Dental School. On July 4, 1952
at St. Patrick’s Church in Brockton,
he married Norma T. Bismore and
together they enjoyed 68 years of
marriage and raised 7 children. Bill
was a proud Veteran of the US Navy,
where he served from 1951 until 1954
and then spent over 45 years in the
Naval Reserves, earning the rank of
Captain. In 1959, he started his dental
practice in Stoughton and operated it
with professionalism and care until his
retirement in 1998. In the early years of
his practice, he was the Dentist for the
Stoughton School System. Dr. Buckley
was one of the founding members of
the Stoyac, and was a youth football
coach for many years. He was a
longtime summer resident of Falmouth,
where he enjoyed working in his yard
and scuba diving. Bill was a member of
the Massachusetts Dental Society, the
Knights of Columbus Council 200 and
the VFW, both in Stoughton, the Tin
Can Sailors and the Disabled American
Veterans. In his free time, he enjoyed
spending time with his family.
In addition to his loving wife Norma,
he is survived by his children Paula
T. Gulinello of Falmouth, Ambrose
William “Bill” Buckley, III and Joseph
Buckley and his wife Nancy, all of
Stoughton, Thomas M. Buckley and
his wife Cindy of Mansfield, Mary
Ann Caldwell and her husband Alan,
Christine Richard and her husband
Stephen and Peter M. Buckley and his
wife Lisa, all of Stoughton. He was the
brother of the late Ellin Powell, Robert
Buckley and Corneilia McGowan. He
is also survived by 14 grandchildren, 9
great-grandchildren and several nieces
and nephews.
Visiting Hours will held in the Farley
Funeral Home, 358 Park St. (Rte.
27), STOUGHTON, on Sunday from
2-6 PM, with Covid-19 precautions
of mandatory face masks and social
distancing required. Due to Covid-19
restrictions, a private Funeral Mass will
be celebrated in the St. James Church
with Burial to follow at Holy Sepulchre
Cemetery in Stoughton. Donations in
Bill’s memory may be made to the St.
James Church, 560 Page St., Stoughton,
MA 02072 or to Old Colony Hospice,
321 Manley St., West Bridgewater,
MA 02379. Obit and guestbook at
www.farleyfh.com
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(781)344-2676
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GUZELIAN, Charles
Charles “Charlie” Guzelian
C
harles “Charlie” Guzelian,
age 66, of Indian Land,
SC and former longtime
resident of West Newbury,
MA, passed away peacefully
after a long illness. He was the
husband of Karen (Plakas) Guzelian.
The son of the late Lucille and
Charles Guzelian, Sr., Charlie was
born in Boston, MA and raised in
Arlington, MA. He was a class of 1972
graduate of Arlington High School
and later received a Bachelor’s Degree
in Hospital Management from Lesley
University.
He enjoyed a career in ultrasound
and PET-scan diagnostics, having
worked for Urology Consultants of
the North Shore in Salem, MA until
his retirement just five years ago. He
always enjoyed the opportunity of
working for several Greater Boston
Health Care Facilities during his
employ with them. Charlie made
many career-long friends who shared a
common interest with him during this
time.
It was in 1979 that Charlie was
married to his sweetheart, Karen, with
whom he shared 40 wonderful years in
marriage. The couple settled in West
CASEY, Robert W.
Of Somerville, October 29, 2020.
Beloved husband of the late Virginia
(O’Connell) Casey. Loving father of
Ryan Casey of Boston, Kristyn Casey
and her husband Willy Watson and
Kayla Casey, all of Somerville. Brother
of Steven Casey and the late Debbie
Casey. Dear grandfather of Willow
Watson. Loving friend of Devin
Splaine. Visiting Hours will be held in
the George L. Doherty Funeral Home,
855 Broadway (Powder House Sq.),
SOMERVILLE, Sunday, November 1,
2020, 3:00-6:00. Relatives and friends
invited. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made in Robert’s memory to
the Cystic Fibrosis Center at Children’s
Hospital, C/O Boston Children’s
Hospital Trust, 401 Park Drive, Suite
602, Boston, MA 02215. Late member
Local Union #25.
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Newbury to raise their children, as it
was a wonderful community which
offered a respected school system for
the children. Though Charles was
committed to many hours at work,
his family was always his priority. He
enjoyed spending leisure time playing
backgammon, and traveling with his
Karen, his children and friends. He
also loved to hike in Vermont, enjoyed
many days on the beaches of Cape
Cod and always looked forward to Street, METHUEN, MA. A Funeral
his many trips to Aruba and Jamaica Service will be celebrated at 11:00 AM
with his beloved Karen. He was an on Monday, November 2, 2020 at St.
active member of St. Sarkis Armenian
Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church,
Apostolic Church in Charlotte, NC. 158 Main Street, North Andover, MA.
In addition to his wife Karen, Charlie
Interment will follow in West Parish
is survived by his children Krista Abler Garden Cemetery in Andover. In lieu
and her husband Ryan of Broomfield, of flowers, donations in Charlie’s
CO, Michael Guzelian of Louisville, memory may be made to St. Sarkis
KY, grandson Maxwell, sister Diane Armenian Apostolic Church, 7000
Antonitis and her husband Richard of Park Road, Charlotte, NC 28210 or
Suwanee, GA, his Aunt Pearl Larosa of
to the American Lung Association,
Tewksbury, niece Melanie of Kentucky, 460 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, MA
and many cousins. 02451. For directions or to leave a
Visiting Hours: Relatives and message of condolence, please visit
friends are respectfully invited to visit www.cataudellafh.com
with Charlie’s family between the
Cataudella Funeral Home
hours of 3:00-6:00 PM on Sunday, 126 Pleasant Valley Street,
November 1, 2020 at Cataudella Methuen, MA 01844
Funeral Home, 126 Pleasant Valley
HALEY, Gerald Peter HARRINGTON, Geralyn LEARNED, Richard M. Ret.
Newton Firefighter
Of Billerica, formerly of Charlestown
Of Houston, Texas, formerly of Ran-
and Cambridge, Oct. 28. Loving mother
dolph, Massachusetts, passed away on Of Tamworth, NH, died
of John Harrington of Billerica. Sister
October 11, 2020, at the age of 75. Born suddenly Oct. 23, 2020.
of Mary Beth Harrington of Billerica,
November 11, 1944, in Weymouth, Richard was born on
Christine Chase of Cambridge, Daniel
Massachusetts, Jerry grew up in Ran- April 30th, 1950 in Brighton, MA to
Harrington of Summerfield, NC, Gerard
dolph and graduated from Randolph Thomas and Anna (Sheridan) Learned
Harrington of Wilbraham and Robert
High School, where he met his high of Newton, MA. Raised in Newton, MA
Harrington of Burlington. “Auntie
school sweetheart, Diana Haley. They and graduated from Our Lady’s High
Lynn” was beloved by her many nieces
were married on October 12, 1967, and School in 1968. While attending Our
and nephews. She loved a party, music
celebrated more than 51 years together. Lady’s, Richard participated in baseball
and dancing and was the “Karaoke
Jerry, Diana and their children had the and was the captain and MVP of his
Queen.” Fiercely independent, she
pleasure of traveling to many destina- basketball team. Richard was also a
enjoyed solving puzzles, art work,
tions together. As a family, they lived member of Our Lady’s Church, where
writing poems and was a gifted athlete.
in Europe, Asia and across the United he was an altar boy for many years.
A Funeral Mass will be held Monday
States.
at St. Matthew the Evangelist Parish at After high school, Richard enrolled in
Jerry was a successful procurement
St. Theresa Church, 466 Boston Rd., the US Army. In 1969, Richard was
executive who leaves a large legacy
Billerica at 10 a.m. All attendees must deployed to Vietnam where he served
of former colleagues and friends. He
register at https://cli.re/ccb-funeral- as a Crew Chief in the 1st Cavalry
loved socializing with his friends at his
signup and face masks must be worn. Division, one of the most famous and
favorite restaurants around the world,
Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett. well decorated units to ever serve in
as well as having large family Thanks-
Memorial contributions may be made Vietnam. During his time there, he
giving gatherings. Jerry had a gift for
in her name to St. Coletta’s Day School, spent a majority of his days as a door
connecting people and his influence
85 Washington St., Braintree, MA gunman on a Loach helicopter, widely
will forever remain in the lives of all
who knew him.
02184. Arrangements under the care of known as one of the most dangerous
jobs in Vietnam. He ran over 50 combat
the Sweeney Memorial Funeral Home,
Jerry was the loving father of
Stephen Haley and his wife Alicia,
BILLERICA. sweeneymemorialfh.com missions which took on heavy enemy
fire and almost lost his life being
Carolyn Givens and her husband Greg,
Michael Haley and his wife Courtney HEADSPETH, William Leslie shot down twice. He was awarded
two Air Medals, Vietnam Campaign,
and the late Jerry Haley and his wife
Allison, son of the late Joseph and
Good Conduct, National Defense,
Sharpshooter and later received a
Glenda Haley, cherished grandfather of
Purple Heart.
10 wonderful grandchildren, devoted
brother of the late Joseph Haley, Paul
When Richard returned from the
war in 1971, he dedicated his life to the
Haley, Dennis Haley, Kathy Nestor and
fire service. Richard served 31 years
Robert Haley.
for the Newton Fire Department. From
Relatives and friends are respect-
fully invited to attend Visiting Hours on
the time he was appointed in January
Sunday, November 1st from 4:00 – 8:00
Richard continued to dedicate his life to
PM at the Cartwright Funeral Home,
protecting others.
419 N. Main St. (Rt. 28), RANDOLPH.
Richard was a beloved brother to
All must follow the Covid-19 guidelines,
which include face coverings, social his late sister Mary Russo and brother
Thomas Learned. He is survived by his
distancing and wait times in line due to
temporary limited capacity. A private brother Joseph Learned and his wife
Funeral Mass for immediate family only Age 84, formerly of Boston, MA, went Jeanne, brother-in-law George Russo,
(due to Covid-19 church requirements) from labor to rest Sunday, October 25, life partner Debbie Mercurio, children
will be celebrated on Monday, Novem- 2020 at Norton Hospital downtown Melissa Forbes, Nicole Learned, son-
ber 2, in St. Mary’s Church, Randolph. in Louisville, KY. William worked in-law Keith Forbes, Terri Mercurio,
for the Boston school systems as Ronnie Mercurio, Greg Habeeb, and his
Following the Mass, all are invited to at-
a teacher and administrator from adored grandchildren Skylar, William,
tend the Burial in St. Mary’s Cemetery,
Devonte, Alyssa and RJ.
245 North St., Randolph at 11:00 AM. 1967-2004. With a hunger and thirst
Visiting Hours will be held on Sun.,
The family appreciates the many kind for knowledge, in 1983 he earned
his doctorate in education. Knowing Nov. 1, from 3-7 PM in the Eaton &
responses they have received. Jerry will
be dearly missed by all and he would the lasting bonds of brotherhood, Mackay Funeral Home, 465 Centre
want you to express your love to those he was also an active member of St., NEWTON CORNER. Relatives
you value. In honor of him, take a
moment to reach out to an old friend
KAPPA ALPHA PSI Fraternity. At an
early age the foundation was laid for
and friends are kindly invited and all
attendees must wear face coverings
or family member and reconnect. For William when he made his profession and follow COVID-19 social distancing
directions or to leave a sympathy mes- of faith at First Baptist Church in requirements. His Funeral Service will
sage for the family, please visit Elizabethtown, KY and later joined up be private. A public Graveside Service
www.cartwrightfuneral.com with People’s Baptist Church in Boston, will be held on Tues., Nov. 3, at 12
Massachusetts. He was preceded Noon, with US Army Military Honors
in death by his loving parents, Paul at the New Hampshire State Veterans
and Hattie Headspeth; two brothers, Cemetery, 110 Daniel Webster Highway,
Leonard and Amos Headspeth; and Boscawen, NH. All attendees must wear
two sisters, Nellie Brown and Dora face coverings.
Headspeth. In lieu of flowers, a donation in
memory of Richie to Clear Path for
Left to mourn his passing is one
sister, Mary Cooper of Radcliff, KY and Veterans, The Fund Development
a host of nieces and nephews. With Dept., 8 Chicatabut Rd., Norfolk, MA
no children of his own, William was 02056, www.clearpathne.org would be
a surrogate father to a special niece appreciated.
and nephew and his beloved pet, Leo To share a memory or send a note
Headspeth. of condolence to Richie’s family, please
Services will be held at Brown visit www.eatonandmackay.com
Funeral Home in ELIZABETHTOWN, Eaton & Mackay Funeral Home
KY. Visitation is open to the public Newton Corner 617-244-2034
from 10-11 am with a private service to
follow. Condolences may be expressed
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Of Saugus, formerly of Revere, age 49,
MILLER, Isabelle SMITH, Reid H. WHITE, Frank A. Jr.
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that paying
McCarthy. Loving mother of John
McCarthy, III & his fiancée Sara of
Pepperell and Amanda McCarthy &
her fiancé Christopher of TX. Beloved
fiancée of Daniel White of Saugus.
Dear sister of Brenda Vega of Revere.

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Relatives & friends are invited to
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Ave., SAUGUS on Sunday, 2-6 p.m.
Interment Woodlawn Cemetery,
Everett. Adhering to the regulations Of Boxford, passed away
Died peacefully at the age of 100 on Of Woburn, peacefully,
of the state and CDC guidelines,

face coverings and proper social
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For directions & condolences,
Saturday, October 24, 2020 at her
home alongside her family. She was
born on May 31, 1920 to the late Saul
Wilson and Ella Nora (Dones) Wilson.
She is survived by her sons, Robert
Miller (Penny) and Kevin Miller, 5
peacefully on September
28 at the age of 80 after a
6 year fight with pancreatic cancer. He
was the beloved husband of Martha
W. Smith and loving father of Donna
Frith, Hess Smith, Chuck Smith, Gail
Wayne, and Meredith Irwin. Loving
your loved
October 28th at the age
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McCORMICK, Richard D. as a host of family and friends.
Services: Greater Faith Worship
“Dick” Center, 120 Safford St., Hyde Park, MA
02136, Friday, October 30, 2020. Public
grandfather to Madison, Wilson, Norah,
and Luke. Beloved son of the late
Charles and Phyllis Smith, brother of
the late Gail Smith Blanton, and uncle
of Patti Lawrence and David Floyd. He
will be greatly missed.
ones is
Brian White, his wife Joanne of
Henrietta, NY, Mark White, his wife
Jamie of Rhode Island, Matthew White,
his wife Samantha of Woburn, and
the late Francis A. White, III, his wife
Julie of Osterville. Loving brother of
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October 31, 2020. Family & invitees
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Reid grew up in Wilmington, DE
Woburn, Barbara Cooper, her husband
where he met his beloved Martha at the
Bennie of New Hampshire, and the late
age of 12. He attended Mount Pleasant
Rita Burt, her late husband Allison.
High School where he played basketball
Cherished grandfather of Garrett and
under Coach Jack Ramsay. He was
Brendan White, Andrew, Elizabeth,
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Age 78 of Franklin, Oct. 27, 2020.
Beloved husband of Pauline A.
(Schofield) McCormick. Father of
Richard C. McCormick and his partner
Cheryl Pincince of Franklin, Susan E.
Siros and her partner Mark Reardon
of Hopedale, Patricia A. Machado
and her husband Trevor of Franklin,
Robert P. McCormick and his wife
Wilma of Mississippi and Elizabeth
A. Hallfelder and her husband David
of Uxbridge. Grandfather of the late
Richard A. McCormick and brother of
the late Robert McCormick and John
“Jackie” McCormick. Also surviving
are 11 grandchildren and 5 great-
grandchildren. Relatives and friends
are invited to attend his calling hours
Saturday Oct. 31st, in the Charles F.
Oteri and Son Franklin Funeral Home,
33 Cottage St., from 9-11:30AM. A
graveside service will follow at St.
Mary’s Cemetery, Franklin at 12PM.
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MICHETTI, Viola (Latini)
SAMPERI, Kathleen M.
“Kate” (Ferguson)
Age 91, formerly of Boxborough, MA,
and Wantagh, NY, passed peacefully on
Oct. 27, 2020 in Acton, MA. Kathleen
is survived by her two children, Gary T.
Samperi (Pamela Doyle) of Boxborough,
MA & Kathleen M. Monaco (Joseph) of
Southlake, TX, 5 beloved grandchildren
and a great-granddaughter and their
families, several nieces and nephews
and their families. Predeceased by
her husband Rosario C. Samperi,
parents Patrick J. and Mary Ellen
(Battle) Ferguson, sisters Margaret
Timko (William) and Eileen Ferguson,
a brother Patrick Ferguson (Jean),
and her daughter-in-law Melinda C.
Samperi. Relatives and friends are
invited to visit Sun., Nov. 1st, from
4-8PM at the Acton Funeral Home, 470
Massachusetts Ave. (Rte. 111), ACTON.
Funeral Mass Mon., Nov. 2nd, at 8AM
in St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church,
89 Arlington St., Acton. Burial will
follow Mon. afternoon at 2PM in Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY.
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the state of Delaware. He went on to
Andrew and Kyle Leone, Keegan and
the Naval Academy where he rowed
crew for four years. He graduated in
Madison White, Emily and Camryn
White, Sophie and Abigail White.
1961. He earned a MS in Physics at
Also survived by many loving nieces,
Catholic University and taught physics
nephews, cousins and dear friends.
at the Naval Academy. Reid served
Relatives and friends are invited to
on multiple nuclear submarines and
briefly pay their respects on Monday,
was Commander of the USS Bergall
November 2nd at the Lynch-Cantillon
(SSN 667) during the final 5 years
Funeral Home, 263 Main St.,
of 20 years of service to his country
WOBURN. Those who are 65 and older
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Age 103, died October 26, 2020, in
Palm Coast, FL. She was born in
Beverly on July 8, 1917, to the late
Biagio and Agata (Bellucci) Latini,
and was married to the late Florenzo
Michetti. She lived in Beverly most
of her life, moving to Florida in
2014 to be near her children. Viola
graduated from Beverly High School
in 1935 and worked as a seamstress
in Beverly prior to her marriage, and
later worked again for several years
before retiring in 1995 at the age of
78. She also worked briefly as a data
transcriber for the Federal government.
As a young mother in the 1940s and
1950s, she loved to knit and crochet,
and made many beautiful hand-knitted
outfits of clothing for her family. In
her later years, she kept a sharp mind
and loved watching television game
shows and doing crossword puzzles.
Viola was a strong, determined, and
kind-hearted woman who had a big
heart for her family and loved to recite
the names and birth dates of all of her
grandchildren, great-grandchildren,
and great-great-grandchildren. She
also had a special place in her heart for
her many pets and grandpets. She is
survived by a son, Richard Michetti of
Palm Coast, FL, two daughters, Patricia
Orlando and her husband Salvatore
of Ormond Beach, FL, and Donna
Sweeney of Flagler Beach, FL, with
whom she lived, ten grandchildren,
seventeen great-grandchildren and
seven great-great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by a daughter
Linda Nicosia, a granddaughter, a
grandson, and two great-grandsons.
Her Funeral Mass will be held at
St. Mary Star of the Sea Church on
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 at 10:30a.m.
Visitation will be held in the Campbell
Funeral Home, 525 Cabot Street,
BEVERLY on Monday, November 2,
2020 from 2 to 4p.m. Burial in St.
Mary’s Cemetery, Beverly. Contributions
may be made in her name to the
Halifax Humane Society, 2364 LPGA
Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32124.
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Of Reading, formerly of
Stoneham, October 28,
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and her husband Edward. Cherished
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Stewart. Also survived by seven nieces
and 1 nephew. US Army Veteran,
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Nurses. A Funeral Mass Celebrating
Mary’s Eternal Life will be held on
Saturday, October 31st at 10am in
St. Patrick Church, 71 Central St.,
Stoneham. Family and friends are
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Cecilia Chiang, grand dame of Chinese cooking in America; at 100
By Tim Carman
WASHINGTON POST
Cecilia Chiang, the elegant
San Francisco restaurateur
who introduced generations of
Americans to the authentic
provincial cooking of her native
country, earning the title the
‘‘Julia Child of Chinese food,’’
died Wednesday at her home in
San Francisco. She was 100.
A granddaughter, Siena
Chiang, confirmed her death.
She did not cite a specific cause
but said it was not related to
the novel coronavirus.
The seventh daughter in an
elite family in Beijing, Mrs.
Chiang was a child of privilege,
living in a 52-room mansion
with servants and cooks. Her
upbringing could not have pre-
pared her for the hardships
ahead: a 1,000-mile journey
across China to avoid Japanese
invaders; a hasty flight off the
mainland during the Commu-
nist revolution; and an unlikely
entry into the hospitality busi-
ness, first in Tokyo and later in
San Francisco, with no experi-
ence running restaurants.
Her son, Philip, would later
cofound one of the most recog-
nizable names in Chinese din-
ing, P.F. Chang’s.
Mrs. Chiang established
herself as owner at the Manda-
rin in San Francisco. From
1961 to 1991, at two incarna-
tions of the restaurant, she
greeted customers and
watched over every detail of the
establishment that redefined
Chinese cuisine for many West-
ern diners, chefs, and celebri-
ties.
Under her guidance, the
Mandarin rejected the ortho-
doxy of Chinese restaurants in
mid-20th-century America: It
didn’t serve chop suey or wa-
tered-down Cantonese dishes.
It wasn’t located in Chinatown,
and it didn’t deal in cultural
stereotypes.
The Mandarin’s second loca-
tion — a million-dollar project
that opened in 1968 in a mid-
19th-century building where
Ghirardelli chocolates were
once produced — grafted West-
ern-style service on Chinese re-
gional cooking in a setting that
rivaled the finest French res-
taurants.
The Mandarin’s menus ven-
tured well beyond the corn-
starch-coated stir-fry dishes
Jimmy Orr, 85; receiver
connected with Unitas
By David Ginsburg
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jimmy Orr, a sure-handed
wide receiver who played for
the Pittsburgh Steelers and Bal-
timore Colts after starring at
the University of Georgia, died
Tuesday. He was 85.
His death was confirmed by
Edo Smith and Sons Funeral
Home in Brunswick, Ga.
Jim Irsay, owner of the Indi-
anapolis Colts, said on Twitter:
“Rest in peace to another NFL
legend, JIMMY ORR. . . .
“Orr’s Corner” in the south end-
zone at Baltimore’s Memorial
Stadium was sacred ground.
Our condolences to Jimmy’s
family.’’
Hall of Fame quarterback
Johnny Unitas had plenty of
targets to choose from in the
1960s, including Raymond Ber-
ry, John Mackey, and Lenny
Moore. But he often connected
with Mr. Orr in a place that be-
came known to many as “Orrs-
ville.’’
“I must have caught 45 or 50
touchdowns in that right cor-
ner,” Mr. Orr once said. “It was
sloped some, a little downhill,
which helped me, speed-wise. I
wasn’t all that fast.”
After playing with the Steel-
ers from 1958-61, Mr. Orr
teamed with Unitas to form a
formidable passing combina-
tion.
Over 13 NFL seasons, Mr.
Orr caught 400 passes for 7,914
yards and 66 touchdowns over
1 4 9 g a m e s . He av e ra ge d a
whopping 19.8 yards per catch
and three times led the league
in yards per catch.
Mr. Orr was selected to the
Pro Bowl in 1959 with Pitts-
burgh and in 1965 with Balti-
more after catching 45 passes
for 847 yards and 10 scores. His
best season was in 1962, when
he had 55 receptions for 874
yards and 11 TDs.
Food-world luminaries said Mrs. Chiang had done for Chinese cuisine what Julia Child had done for French cooking.
that many Americans under-
stood as Chinese food. Offer-
ings included tea-smoked duck,
prawns a la Sichuan, hot-and-
sour soup, soup dumplings,
and other specialties from Chi-
na’s provinces.
‘‘Because of Cecilia Chiang’s
personality, culinary ambi-
tions, and decades of what
might be called outreach, her
take on Chinese cuisine, exem-
plified by her restaurant, has
had an immense effect on how
Chinese food has been con-
sumed and understood in the
United States,’’ Yale University
history professor Paul Freed-
man wrote in his book ‘‘Ten
Restaurants That Changed
America.’’
The restaurant became a
shrine for such food-world lu-
minaries as James Beard, Mari-
on Cunningham, and Alice Wa-
ters, who said that Mrs. Chiang
had done for Chinese cuisine
what Julia Child had done for
the cooking of France.
Mrs. Chiang, who adopted
FILE 1970
A two-time Pro Bowler, Mr.
Orr caught 400 career
passes for 7,914 yards.
One of the most notable
plays of Mr. Orr’s career came
in the third Super Bowl, when
the heavily favored Colts lost to
the New York Jets. On a flea-
flicker late in the first half, Mr.
Orr was wide open and waving
his arms in an effort to get the
attention of quarterback Earl
Morrall, who never saw him
and threw an interception.
At Georgia, Mr. Orr led the
Southeast Conference in receiv-
ing twice, catching 24 passes
for 443 yards in 1955 and 16
passes for 237 yards in 1957.
He also punted for the Bull-
dogs.
Mr. Orr played at Georgia
with Bill Curry, who ended up
being the head coach at Ala-
bama, Georgia Tech, Kentucky,
and Georgia State.
Curry tweeted: “My wonder-
ful friend/teammate Jimmy Orr
died last night. He was one of
those few men who could find
the good when the rest of us
could not . A s a WR no one
could cover him - He quietly
put up incredible numbers, and
didn’t know it! Thanks Jimmy,
Love you Man.’’
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Obituaries
the name Cecilia as a young
woman, was born Sun Yun in
1 9 2 0 i n Wu x i , o u t s i d e o f
Shanghai, and was the 10th of
12 children. Her parents
moved the family to Beijing
when Mrs. Chiang was 4 and
settled into their palatial home,
where children were not per-
mitted in the kitchen and ser-
vants did all the cooking. Her
father was a prosperous engi-
n e e r. H e r m o t h e r r a n t h e
household with a hypercritical
eye.
In 1942, years after Japa-
nese soldiers had seized the
city, Mrs. Chiang and her sister
Qin fled Beijing largely on foot
for the faraway city of Chongq-
ing, where leader Chiang Kai-
shek had established a provin-
cial capital for the Nationalist
government.
Mrs. Chiang married busi-
nessman Chiang Liang in 1945
and had two children while liv-
ing in Shanghai after World
War II. The Communist army’s
march into the city forced the
Leanza Cornett, Miss America who was AIDS activist, 49
By Amy Argetsinger
WASHINGTON POST
In 1992, Leanza Cornett was
a part-time college student, a
full-time singing mermaid at
Walt Disney World in Orlando,
Fla., and an ambivalent contes-
tant preparing for the Miss
Florida pageant.
She was advised to find a
cause, a signature issue to
champion if she were crowned.
For the previous year, she
had been volunteering with
young AIDS patients. When she
informed local pageant direc-
tors that she wanted public
awareness of the disease as her
issue, they winced and asked if
she had a second choice.
She recalled telling them,
‘‘You know what, I don’t care. If
this is not OK, this is not an or-
ganization I want to be a part
of.’’
Months later, Ms. Cornett
was named Miss America 1993
— and turned her year-long
reign into a crusade to bring at-
tention to AIDS and to promote
safe sex. At a time when AIDS
was considered a terminal ill-
ness and HIV-positive people
faced discrimination, Ms. Cor-
nett jolted the pageant’s prim
reputation and made headlines
for bringing her pro-condom
message into schools.
‘‘Girls, no love unless he
wears a glove,’’ she told her
teenage audience. ‘‘Boys, if you
love her, wear a cover. Don’t
leave home without it.’’
Ms. Cornett clashed with
some nervous educators but of-
ten managed to prevail, one
way or another. At a school that
tried to bar her from using
graphic words, she made a deal
to substitute her speech with a
question-and-answer session —
knowing full well the students
would bring up the R-rated top-
ics for her.
When a rural school district
in Florida refused even to let
her utter the word ‘‘AIDS,’’ she
G l o b e
couple to flee on the last com-
mercial flight out of town. They
had only three tickets for Tokyo
and left their son, Philip, in the
care of Mrs. Chiang’s sister,
who took the boy to the Nation-
alist stronghold of Taiwan. The
family reunited more than a
year later.
In Tokyo, Mrs. Chiang and a
small group of her friends
opened a restaurant they called
the Forbidden City.
‘‘She is very much a person
who has never let fate push her
around,’’ said author and for-
mer restaurant critic Ruth Re-
ichl in ‘‘Soul of a Banquet,’’ a
2014 documentary about Mrs.
Chiang.
In 1960, Mrs. Chiang
learned from her sister Sun
that Sun’s husband had died
and that she was alone in San
Francisco. Mrs. Chiang secured
a three-month visa to visit the
States. During her stay, two
Chinese friends persuaded
Mrs. Chiang to help open a res-
taurant. Mrs. Chiang negotiat-
reluctantly complied — and
promptly told a Rotary-Kiwanis
luncheon audience that same
day how she had been cen-
sored.
‘‘I can adhere to any school
board’s needs,’’ she said. ‘‘But I
will not be an accomplice to the
spread of this disease. People
are dying from this disease. I
feel guilty that I didn’t speak
about it. I don’t want to lay
blame, but the school board
should feel guilty.’’
Journalists were present at
the lunch, and the dust-up be-
came national news.
Cornett, 49, who went on to
a career as a television host,
died Oct. 28 at a hospital in
Jacksonville, Fla., after suffer-
ing a serious head injury two
weeks earlier in a fall at her
home in that city, according to
Elizabeth Tobin Kurtz, a long-
time friend.
Her triumph in September
1992 marked the start of Miss
America’s last flourishing years,
a decade before the onslaught
of reality TV when the annual
pageant still commanded tens
of millions of viewers and its
winners were guaranteed a
measure of instant fame.
It was an era when the pag-
eant’s organizers were eager to
modernize the 70-year-old in-
stitution by emphasizing merit
as well as beauty: Contestants
that year included a physician,
a military intelligence officer,
and several future lawyers.
Many were surprised when
Ms. Cornett — an academically
undistinguished student who
had bounced among colleges
before taking time off to star in
‘‘The Little Mermaid’’ at Orlan-
do’s Disney-MGM Studios Park
— emerged as the winner.
But the petite, self-possessed
21-year-old quickly demon-
strated a natural command of
her new spotlight. In her early
days as Miss America, she de-
clared herself ‘‘a Christian who
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ed a 10-year lease and wrote a
$10,000 check for the deposit.
Within days, the two part-
ners pulled out. The landlord
informed Mrs. Chiang that her
deposit was nonrefundable. ‘‘I
was embarrassed to admit to
my husband that I had come to
America and lost $10,000 of his
money,’’ she wrote in her mem-
oir and recipe book ‘‘The Sev-
enth Daughter’’ (2007). ‘‘I de-
cided I would try to make the
best of it.’’
Through her diplomatic
contacts, Mrs. Chiang obtained
an extended visa to remain in
the United States. She strug-
gled at first with the Mandarin:
the menu was too large, she
struggled to locate ingredients,
and she was forced to pay exor-
bitant prices for products from
Taiwan.
But she had a secret weap-
on: a married couple who made
their own wrappers for pork-
and-cabbage dumplings, which
were pan-fried into pot stick-
ers. The dumplings quickly be-
is pro-choice’’ and called for dis-
tributing clean needles to ad-
dicts and condoms to students
who want them. A registered
Republican, she blasted the
shortcomings of then-President
George H.W. Bush’s AIDS ef-
forts.
She would later carry a pan-
el of the AIDS Quilt in President
Bill Clinton’s 1993 inaugural
parade and appear on the
Christian Broadcasting Net-
work’s ‘‘700 Club’’ program to
call on religious communities
to help fight the disease.
Ms. Cornett jolted
the Miss America
pageant’s prim
reputation and
made headlines for
bringing her pro-
condom message
into schools.
She also took the stage at a
drag-show fund-raiser in New
York City — startling an audi-
ence that assumed at first she
must be a Miss America imper-
sonator — and taught the
crowd how to do the pageant
wave. (“Elbow, elbow, wrist,
wrist, touch your pearls and
blow a kiss.”)
Not everyone in the pageant
community was endeared by
her activism. Miss America
1933 Marian Bergeron called
her amoral in an interview with
the St. Petersburg Times: ‘‘She’s
talking about condoms. Being
Miss America certainly isn’t
about condoms or whatever
they are doing with them.’’
Ms. Cornett also had to con-
tend with hecklers. ‘‘Are you a
virgin?’’ some smart-aleck stu-
B7
came an attraction at the Man-
darin. A rave in print from the
popular San Francisco Chroni-
cle columnist Herb Caen in
1963 established her as a force
in the Bay Area’s food circles.
But even Caen’s seal of ap-
proval did not insulate Mrs.
Chiang from prejudice when
she required a larger space in
the new Ghirardelli Square de-
velopment. An agent told her
the other tenants were con-
cerned about the ‘‘sanitation
standards’’ of a Chinese restau-
rant. Outraged, Mrs. Chiang in-
vited the agent to visit the Man-
darin. A rental agreement ar-
rived the next day.
During the 1970s and 1980s,
the Mandarin became a magnet
for tourists, chefs, and celebri-
ties. Its 300-seat dining room at-
tracted John Lennon and Yoko
Ono, Henry Kissinger and the
king of Denmark, and Oscar-
winning couple Paul Newman
and Joanne Woodward.
Mrs. Chiang also hosted
cooking classes at the Manda-
rin with students including
Waters, Beard, Chuck Williams
(founder of Williams-Sonoma),
Child, and actor Danny Kaye.
Mrs. Chiang opened a sec-
ond Mandarin in Beverly Hills
in 1975. The Beverly Hills res-
taurant never matched the San
Francisco original in its cachet,
and Mrs. Chiang ceded control
of the Los Angeles business to
her son in the mid-1980s.
In 1991, Mrs. Chiang sold
the Mandarin in San Francisco.
The restaurant closed in 2006.
In semiretirement, she contin-
ued to consult for other restau-
rants and host private dinners.
In 2013, she won a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the
James Beard Foundation, and,
in 2016, she was the subject of
‘‘The Kitchen Wisdom of Ceci-
lia Chiang,’’ a six-part cooking
miniseries on PBS.
Her husband remained in
To y k o w h e n M r s . C h i a n g
moved to San Francisco. They
did not divorce but never lived
together again. He died in
1992. In addition to Philip, she
leaves another child, May Ong-
bhaibulya; three grandchil-
dren; and three great-grand-
children.
Material from The New York
Times was used in this
obituary.
dents asked her during one
safe-sex lecture, USA Today re-
ported.
‘‘I will tell you this,’’ she re-
plied. ‘‘I practice what I
preach.’’
Eva Leanza Cornett was
born June 10, 1971, in the Ap-
palachian community of Big
Stone Gap, Va., the only child of
a coal mine manager and a
homemaker. She was 12 when
the family settled in Jackson-
ville, where her parents operat-
ed a Greek fast-food restaurant
called Gyro Wrap.
She sang in the Methodist
church as a child and began
performing as a teenager with a
Christian pop group and in pro-
fessional stage musicals. Later,
while living in Orlando, she
worked at a service organiza-
tion, which led to volunteering
at Serenity House, a pediatric
foster house for children with
AIDS.
‘‘ That really humanized
AIDS for me,’’ she told the Chi-
c a g o Tr i b u n e . ‘ ‘A t f i r s t , I
thought, ‘Oh, I can handle this.’
I went in, and on my first day at
Serenity House I met maybe
seven children, 5 years old and
younger, who had AIDS. . . .
These kids taught me a lot
about life.’’
It was at her mother’s urging
that she first decided to enter a
local pageant to try to secure
scholarship money for college.
She originally hoped to use
Miss America as a launchpad
into show business, and as she
neared the end of her title year,
she was hired as a correspon-
dent for the celebrity-interview
TV show ‘‘Entertainment To-
night.’’
In 1995, she married Mark
Steines, who had a long career
on ‘‘Entertainment Tonight.’’
The couple divorced in 2013.
She leaves her parents and two
sons.
In recent years, Ms. Cornett
returned to Florida.
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By Kara Baskin tant for kids to have the stability of
seeing both parents instead of rigid-

A
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s a contentedly di- ly adhering to old arrangements. It

vorced friend once told might even be a good thing.
me, nobody sets out to “Interestingly, it might give a
split up. But life hap- parent a different ability to have a
pens: You grow apart. different type of time with the child.
You develop different viewpoints on A parent who was seeing the chil-
raising kids that can’t be reconciled. dren evenings or weekends because
And, yes, sometimes you meet of their schedule might get a chance
someone else and realize that you to have a different role,” she says,
owe it to yourself — and to your such as with the McCauls.
family — to be happy instead of in- Identify your true deal-breakers.
ert. Indoor sports and no masks? Maybe
Navigating all this is hard those are a no-go. But if your kid is
enough without a pandemic. But on the iPad more, or watching more
what happens when you’ve created TV with mom because she’s on
a bubble and your ex has a new girl- Zoom, well, you might just have to
friend with three children? What if deal.
he’s sloppy with masks, or she won’t “What are your priorities, and
let the kids play hockey? Nothing what can you let go of? Your child
draws out personal differences quite may be watching more TV than you
like COVID-19. want him to, but that isn’t going to
“COVID is like having a third be the end of the world. What are
party involved in your marriage,” your boundaries? What can you live
says Alexis Davis, a parental guid- with?” Gurevich asks.
ance consultant and clinical social Davis agrees.
worker with Tufts Medical Center. “Sometimes what families get up
PROSTOOLEH/STOCK.ADOBE.COM
I talked to two divorced families caught up in the day to day is not

How to co-parent
who made it work, and two thera- what matters. I dealt with a mom
pists for ideas. Their lessons are in- and a daughter over the teen want-
structive for all of us — even those ing to wear thong underwear. Her
who are muddling through our own wearing thong underwear is not im-
(somewhat functional?) marriages. peding her from going to college.
Ask teachers to e-mail both par- Let’s take the focus off the under-

ents. You know who hears from the
teacher, tutor, school nurse, and
coach? Moms. But Mom shouldn’t
be the one fielding every e-mail.
Maybe one parent takes the lead on
school communication, but each
parent needs to be copied.
“We look at the week ahead for
both kids and pass the baton, pick-
ing up where the other parent left
off, because the district has pushed
out information to both of us,” says
Luke McCaul, a Danvers dad who
shares custody of two elementary-
schoolers.
Show up and step up, even if it’s
messy. “What fathers need to do is
step up beyond what your separa-
tion agreement says. This is a brave
new world,” says McCaul. In fact,
the pandemic has given him more
time with his kids because of his
work schedule.
“If you’re going to co-parent, it
can’t be one parent every other
weekend. It’s not enough to show up
to the holiday musical and parent-
teacher conference,” he says.
As the pandemic set in, McCaul
had to come to terms with not being
the “fun” one: finding ways to fill
the time when playgrounds were
closed, taking the lead on parame-
ters around school.
“I think the biggest thing is that
dads in general have a natural ten-
dency to defer to their child’s moth-
er, whether they’re together or di-
vorced. There are situations where
your ex-partner might not ever ask
you for help. You should have
enough common sense to offer it
even if not asked. It’s the only way to
co-parent. Co-parenting is just a
buzzword unless you actually do it,”
he says.
in a pandemic
COVID-19 is like having a third party in a relationship,
especially if you’re divorced.
Plan, plan, plan. For Medford’s
Brittney Ferguson, time without her
5-year-old daughter was even loneli-
er because of quarantine. And be-
cause her ex was laid off (and avail-
able to help more), she was alone
more often. So she and her former
husband devised ways to gather
even during off times.
“I don’t like being alone. The
days I wasn’t with her, I was sad. So
we came up with a plan,” she says.
They would meet for dinner once a
week or gather at a splash park for
continuity. They’ll spend Christmas
as a family, too.
Obviously this only works if
you’re on good terms with your ex,
but Ferguson says it actually helped
their family dynamic.
“We ended up doing a lot more
together the last six months because
of this. I was exhausted, and he was
ready to be the person with the en-
ergy and step in for me,” she says.
“Planning is the best thing you can
do.”
Recognize what’s rational and
what’s baseless anxiety. I mean,
anxiety is totally justified right now
— but check in to see if you’re wor-
rying needlessly. At the beginning of
the pandemic, Jen McCaul felt un-
easy with her kids out of sight, even
though she has a solid relationship
with her ex-husband, Luke.
“When everything shut down, I
was nervous. I did check with my
lawyer to see whether I should send
them to their dad’s because he lives
in another town. People weren’t
leaving their houses! Custody is
binding even during states of emer-
gency, so I had no other choice,” she
says.
But she wondered what her kids
were up to when they were out of
sight, from masks to potential expo-
sures. Luke has a girlfriend, which
expanded their bubble even more.
“I definitely worry about their
health. In terms of co-parenting, I
don’t fully know what’s going on
when they’re not with me. That’s
more of my anxiety,” she says.
The upside is that the whole fam-
ily was nudged to communicate
more than ever.
“We’re forced to talk more and
check in more,” she says. “It’s the
best we’ve gotten along.”
Meanwhile, she reminds her kids
that the same rules apply, like wash-
ing hands, wherever they are.
Call in a neutral third party. If
co-parents really can’t agree on a
safety baseline, call in someone neu-
tral, like a pediatrician, who can re-
frame the issue objectively: When it
comes to health, certain issues are
clear-cut — it’s about the best inter-
est of your kid.
“It’s not your opinion or mine;
we have a common goal. The com-
mon goal is, ‘What’s in the best in-
terest of our child?’ Usually parents
are genuinely able to talk about it
from that [angle],” says Tanya
Gurevich, a therapist and mediator
in Needham. “When you get into
that reframing, parents are more
apt to say, ‘OK, you’re right.’ Re-
frame it to what you can agree on.”
And if you really can’t agree, con-
sider finding a universal marker
that’s indisputable. For instance,
your child will play soccer until your
town passes a certain number of
cases.
Flexibility is key. “We’re living in
times when flexibility is an essential
human quality. If one parent has to
be out of the house, and a kid has to
be home, you may need to change
the parenting arrangement to ac-
commodate it. It is a tough decision,
but it is temporary,” Gurevich says.
To the extent that each house-
hold is safe, she believes it’s impor-
wear. How can we help her make
good decisions and not make poor
choices? Take a step back,” Davis
says.
If your ex lets your child eat too
many Twizzlers but you’re on the
same overall page about safety, well,
you might have to let some things
slide — even though it feels like
we’re exerting some kind of control
when we nitpick the little things.
Remember your old hobbies.
Yes, self-care is a big buzzword, and
right now that might look like
doom-scrolling Twitter since going
to a bar or a spa aren’t easy options.
When you’re at loose ends without
your kids and rattling around an
empty house, Davis suggests dig-
ging back into the past to think
about what brought you relief be-
fore.
She asks clients to come up with
five strategies, four of which are self-
directed (as in, not dependent on
friends being available or stores be-
ing open).
“Think back over your whole life:
What has brought you joy, made you
feel calm, or helped you release
stress? Maybe it means knitting
again. Maybe it means start a mys-
tery novel. It has to be something
you can do on your own, and sched-
ule the time to do it,” she says.
Finally, I couldn’t resist asking
the experts whether divorces will
spike post-pandemic.
“People had a lot of external out-
lets and are now forced to spend
more time together. Make your own
conclusions,” Gurevich says.
Kara Baskin can be reached at
kara.baskin@globe.com. Follow her
on Twitter @kcbaskin.

Can ‘friluftsliv’ help get us ter as a great opportunity to try something new,”
Arentzen says; say, snowshoeing, cross-country
skiing, or running in the city. “Find the thing

through the pandemic winter?
By Diane Bair and Pamela Wright
GLOBE CORRESPONDENTS
Remember all those sun-splashed afternoons
when you sat under a shady tree with your bub-
ble buddies and someone said, “Isn’t this great?”
And someone else Debbie Downer-ed with, “But
what will we do when winter comes?” Ah, good
times, good times!
Well, guess what, folks? It’s here. Fourteen
inches of snow fell on Mount Washington last
weekend, and the wind chill was zero degrees. La
Nina notwithstanding, it’s only a matter of time
before the temperatures dip, the winds howl,
and the snow flies. (Today in some places!)
Meanwhile, the pandemic is still raging, and the
medical experts are warning it will only get
worse as we all head inside with our potentially
toxic droplets. What can we do? Here’s one solu-
tion: We can take a cue from our friends in Nor-
way and embrace friluftsliv.
Pronounced “free-loofts-liv,” the word trans-
lates to “open-air living,” and was coined by Nor-
wegian playwright/poet Henrik Ibsen in the
1850s. The idea is to connect with nature and
embrace the outdoors every day, no matter what
the weather. “Norway is cold and dark during the
winter, and ‘winter-friluftsliv’ is a part of our
DNA,” says Trygve Sunde Kolderup, head of sus-
tainability for the Norwegian Trekking Associa-
tion, Norway’s largest outdoor activities organi-
zation.
“To cope, we have to learn to appreciate out-
door activities in the winter.”
You don’t need to be a hard-core adventurist
to get into the spirit of it, Sunde Kolderup says.
“In summer or winter, friluftsliv is about enjoy-
ing outdoor activities in the nearest forest or
beach. It’s about a hike in the outskirts of the
city, making a bonfire at the beach, or skiing on
the cross-country slopes.” Friluftsliv even encom-
passes low-key pursuits like winter picnics and
OUTDOORS
chilling in a sauna. (Note: Never make a bonfire
on the beach or in the woods without checking
local regulations.)
Norway’s outdoor lifestyle seems to pay off. In
the United Nation’s 2020 World Happiness Re-
port, Norway came in fifth. And lest you think it
is only residents of remote, picture-book villages
who are giddy with joy, consider that Norway’s
urban centers, Bergen and Oslo, were among the
world’s happiest cities. “[The Norwegian Trek-
king Association] has been working hard to facil-
itate ‘urban friluftsliv’ — outdoor experiences
very close to the city,” Sunde Kolderup says. Even
a cabin getaway is doable in the city; among the
500-plus trekking association-operated huts and
cabins in Norway, one of the most popular is lo-
cated just a few kilometers outside of Oslo’s city
center. It is located near a tram station and has
views of city skyline.
The mental health benefits of being outdoors
have been well publicized in recent years, includ-
ing a Nature report in 2019 that concluded that
spending just two hours per week in nature pro-
motes well-being. Whether you live in Bergen or
Beantown, that can’t hurt. “We conducted a poll
and discovered that four out of 10 Norwegians
say the outdoors and nature have become smore
important for them as a result of COVID-19,”
Sunde Kolderup notes.
If Norwegians can find the joy in a polar win-
ter, we should be able to manage it, no? Here’s
some advice.
Go out every day, even for a few minutes.
“I try very hard to get outside every day for my
mental health,” says Clare Arentzen, an outdoor
guide and instructor for the AMC (Appalachian
Mountain Club; www.outdoors.org.) “Getting
outside takes the stress away, and that’s especial-
ly important right now.” Of course, Arentzen is a
MARIUS DALSEG SAETRE
naturalist in the White Mountain National For-
est, so she’s tuned into the outdoors. But she’s
seen winter haters who become believers during
a winter excursion, excited by what they observe.
“Animal tracks are everywhere, and you can
see things you can’t ordinarily see, like pine mar-
tens and snowshoe hares,” Arentzen says. “The
snow on the ground makes things quiet, so you
can get closer to wildlife.” Even in cities and sub-
urbs, you’ll see different birds in the winter.
There’s no need to go out for long expeditions,
Sunde Kolderup says. “Start with a soft adven-
ture and get used to it.” And bring along good
food and warm beverages to help keep you
toasty. “One of the best tricks for staying warm in
the winter is to stay fed and hydrated,” Arentzen
notes.
Find the thing that will get you hooked on
winter. It’s like what they say about working out;
if you find an activity you like, you’ll stick with it.
The same is true of winter sports. “Look at win-
that’s going to hook you,” she says, even if it
means renting equipment until you find your
winter love match.
Dress the part. None of the above will work if
you’re freezing to death. It’s shocking how many
people who live in our region don’t understand
how to dress for the weather, Arentzen says. The
AMC offers outdoor skills classes that include
gearing up. By now, we all know the virtues of
layering clothing: a thin base layer (never cotton,
which gets wet and stays wet), followed by a
fleece or wool jacket, followed by an insulating
(puffy) layer, topped with a waterproof, wind-
proof shell layer. “If you combine those, you’ll be
so comfortable,” Arentzen says.
One of the big mistakes people make is wear-
ing thick wool socks under their hiking boots,
she says — “you’ll cut off your circulation and
your feet will get cold.” Thin wool socks and insu-
lated waterproof hiking boots are the perfect
combo. As for hats, “we usually recommend a
fleece hat or tightly knit hat, not a loosely knit
fashion hat,” she notes. Look for a snug fit
around the ears. Layer your gloves, too. Find
some fleece or wool liner gloves with tech-com-
patible fingers as a base layer, and add a pair of
insulated gloves on top to keep you warm,
Arentzen says. That way, you can use your phone
and take pictures and your body heat won’t es-
cape.
Boost your outdoor intel. Still not feeling it?
Take an outdoor skills class to build confidence.
AMC and other organizations offer courses in
outdoor intel that aren’t survival courses but of-
fer useful basics, like what to put into your pack,
how to plan a route, and how to use a map and
compass. “It’s very empowering, and will really
help you embrace winter,” Arentzen says.
As for us, we’ll be embracing our inner Nor-
wegian, and Googling how to build a sauna.
For more information: www.visitnorway.com;
https://english.dnt.no.
Diane Bair and Pamela Wright can be reached at
bairwright@gmail.com.
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Lawrence
has COVID
star quarterback will not
play saturday against bc
By Julian Benbow
Globe staff

clemson quarterback trevor lawrence re-

vealed thursday he tested positive for
covid-19 and will be unavailable saturday
when the tigers face boston college.
lawrence, the front-runner in this year’s
race for the heisman trophy, is in isolation
with mild symptoms. players and staff who
test positive are required to quarantine for at
least 10 days, which could jeopardize law-
rence’s availability for clemson’s biggest
game of the season, a nov. 7 showdown with
no. 4 notre dame.
atlantic coast conference protocol re-
quires teams to be tested three times a week.
lawrence released a statement via clem-
son’s twitter account.
“i have tested positive for covid-19, and
my symptoms have been relatively mild while
i’m following the protocol from clemson and
the acc,” lawrence said. “the only thing that
hurts is missing an opportunity to be with my
teammates this weekend and play the game i
love. i hate that i can’t be there, but i’ll be
watching from isolation and pulling for our
guys while i wait for the opportunity to rejoin
the team. God bless and Go tigers!”
in a separate statement, clemson coach
dabo swinney confirmed initial reports that
lawrence tested positive.
“trevor has authorized us this evening to
announce that he has tested positive for
covid-19 and is now in isolation,” swinney
said. “he is doing well with mild symptoms
but will not be available for this week’s game
against boston college. while we certainly
will miss trevor, this is an opportunity for
other guys to step up and we’re excited about
barry chin/Globe staff
competing against a very good bc team on
The Patriots have yet to decide if Julian Edelman (right) will be placed on injured reserve or if his recovery will be treated week to week. saturday. Go tigers.”
no one from boston college was available
for comment. the eagles’ program has had

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after knee procedure;

Harry is hurting, too
By Nicole Yang
Globe staff

patriots wide receiver Julian edelman will miss sun-

day’s game against the bills in buffalo after undergoing a
procedure on his left knee on thursday morning, accord-
ing to an nfl source. his timetable to return is uncertain.
because of the procedure, edelman missed practice for
the first time this year, although his knee has been bother-
ing him for the majority of the season. the 34-year-old has
been listed on the injury report as a limited participant in
all practices but one, the friday before the season opener.
through six games, edelman has 21 receptions for 315
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yards and no touchdowns. his most productive outing
Jakobi Meyers (above) can expect to see more playing time Sunday against the came against the seahawks in week 2, when he set a ca-
Bills with injuries to Patriots teammates Julian Edelman and N’Keal Harry. reer high with 179 receiving yards.
“[Julian’s] my guy,” quarterback cam newton said
EDELMAN AND HARRY’S STATISTICS THROUGH THE PATRIOTS’ LAST THREE LOSSES thursday. “his presence was missed today. what he
WEEK 4 — AT CHIEFS WEEK 6 — VS. BRONCOS WEEK 7 — VS. 49ERS brings to this team, he’s more than just an unsung hero.
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EDELMAN HARRY EDELMAN HARRY EDELMAN HARRY he is everything the patriots represent — heart, tough, re-
3 receptions 3 receptions 2 receptions 0 receptions 1 reception 1 reception silient, gritty.” Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence
on 6 targets on 6 targets on 6 targets on 2 targets on 3 targets on 2 targets the patriots have yet to decide if edelman will be said he has mild symptoms of COVID-19
for 35 yards for 21 yards, 1 TD for 8 yards for 0 yards for 13 yards for 6 yards PatRiots, Page C2 and he said he is in isolation.

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What are options
UMass tennis appeal to stage Marathon?
getting bigger By John Powers
Globe correspondent

the first time figured to be a one-off aberration like the 100-

the ncaa should consider itself warned.
the umass women’s tennis team isn’t going
away.
in the days since its punishment was an-
nounced and the public’s eyes have been
opened to what a bloated, overmanaged,
and tone-deaf organization the ncaa is,
support for umass tennis continues to grow,
extending from media pundits to program
boosters to legal experts to powerful politicians. shame on the
ncaa if it gets this wrong a second time around and fails to re-
store the team’s 2017 atlantic 10 conference title.
Judy dixon is one of the faces of the program’s official appeal
to the ncaa, and she knows how it feels to take on power. she
says she was “young and naive and full of energy” in her first go-
round as an agent for change, when as a 24-year-old she became
the first plaintiff in a title iX case; dixon sued her then-employer
yale university until it provided the women’s tennis team with
equal resources as the men.
that was 46 years ago, but dixon, 71, hasn’t lost an ounce of
energy. she has gained a whole lot of perspective, though, and
with the same righteousness of that long-ago fight the retired
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year storm that scuttled the head of the charles regatta in 1996.
this year’s boston marathon, which had been held every patriots’
day since 1897, first was postponed until september, then can-
celed. almost every other iconic sporting event was either de-
ferred or deleted, too — the olympics, march madness, wimble-
don, the masters, the kentucky derby, the indy 500, et cetera.
so the boston athletic association held a virtual event and be-
gan making plans for next year’s 125th race that would be a cele-
bration of the resilience of the planet’s most fabled footrace, just as
was the 2014 event following the boylston street bombings. now
the 2021 edition has been postponed, too, until autumn at the ear-
liest. the coronavirus is surging again in Greater boston and with
an uncertain (and unpromising) winter ahead race organizers an-
file/Justine ellement/Globe staff
nounced wednesday that an april date would be impractical.
marathoning is the world’s greatest mass participation sport,
Former BU hockey player dies the only one in which grannies can cover the same course on the
travis roy (above) was truly an inspiration. stories, a1, C6 same day as the olympic champion. but what makes boston and
the other majors alluring also makes them exceptionally danger-
Falcons hold a lead, finally ous amid a global pandemic.
they stave off panthers, 25-17, for second win of year. C3
we’re talking about more than 30,000 runners and wheelchair
Batting around athletes from approximately 100 countries being penned into cor-
thoughts (some on mookie) after world series. Finn, C4 rals for a couple of hours then going shoulder-to-shoulder for 26
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SportsLog
Coyotes cut ties
with draft pick
the arizona coyotes on thursday
renounced their rights to their top
2020 draft pick after saying they
learned more about his bullying of a
black classmate with developmental
disabilities four years ago. the team
parted ways with Mitchell Miller after
taking criticism for selecting him in
the fourth round earlier this month de-
spite knowing of his 2016 assault con-
viction. arizona acknowledged it knew
about the incident when it selected
Miller 111th overall. Miller pleaded
guilty at age 14 to one count of assault
and one count of violation of the ohio
safe schools act. he and another teen-
ager were accused of making 14-year-
old isaiah Meyer-Crothers eat a candy
push pop after wiping it in a bathroom
urinal, and surveillance video showed
them kicking and punching him. after
the story broke earlier this week in the
arizona republic, Miller issued a
statement through the coyotes, in
which he said, “i am extremely sorry
about the bullying incident that oc-
curred in 2016 while i was in eighth
grade. i was young, immature, and feel
terrible about my actions. at the time,
i did not understand the gravity of my
actions and how they can affect other
people.”
panthers GM cleared
the nhl cleared Dale tallon of any
wrongdoing after an independent in-
vestigation found it could not substan-
tiate claims he made inappropriate ra-
cial, religious, and ethnic comments as
general manager of the florida Pan-
thers . . . tampa bay re-signed forward
patrick Maroon to a $1.8 million, two-
year contract and defenseman Luke
schenn for $900,000 for next season.
Maroon and schenn were among the
newcomers who helped put the stan-
ley cup-winning lightning over the
top after several years of playoff heart-
break, adding some grit and experi-
ence to a talented core . . . the stars of-
ficially removed the interim tag and
gave 65-year-old coach rick bowness a
two-year contract, making him the
franchise’s 24th head coach, and ninth
since moving to dallas in 1993 . . . the
ontario hockey league’s next season
is slated to start feb. 4 and will be
shorter because of the coVid-19 pan-
demic. the season will have 40 games,
down from the usual 68, and the play-
offs will have eight teams instead of
the usual 16.
golf
pGa elects president
Jim richerson was elected the 42nd
president of the PGa of america at a
virtual annual meeting that included
tim rosaforte becoming the first jour-
nalist to be awarded honorary mem-
bership. richerson, the senior vice
president of operations for arizona-
based troon Golf, succeeds suzy Wha-
ley. he previously was general manag-
er and director of golf for wisconsin-
based Kohler, where he first was
elected a PGa officer . . . peter Malnati
shot an 8-under-par 63 for a one-
stroke lead at the bermuda champion-
ship in southhampton. the tourna-
ment is the first to allow limited fans
— no more than 500 a day at Port roy-
al — since the opening round of the
Players on March 12. it was the third
time in his last three events that Mal-
nati posted a 63 or lower.
Boxing
tyson, Jones to fight
Mike tyson and roy Jones Jr. got
permission from california’s athletic
commission to return to the ring next
month because their fight would be
strictly an exhibition of their once-un-
paralleled skills. these 50-something
former champions still say they’re tak-
ing this showdown far more seriously
than any exhibition. Promoters of the
pay-per-view spectacle announced
that los angeles’s staples center will
be the site of the 54-year-old tyson’s
return to boxing on nov. 28 for an
eight-round main event against the 51-
year-old Jones.
Miscellany
tennis player banned
ashley kratzer, a 21-year-old cali-
fornian who once earned a Us open
berth by winning the Us tennis asso-
ciation’s national girls’ championship,
was given a four-year doping ban after
testing positive at a tournament. she
can appeal the decision to the court of
arbitration for sport . . . two-time de-
fending olympic champion gymnast
kohei Uchimura of Japan tested posi-
tive for coVid-19. the positive test
comes a little more than a week before
an international meet in tokyo that
will test countermeasures against the
virus . . . the la Galaxy fired coach
Guillermo barros schelotto with three
games remaining in the regular sea-
son. the Galaxy are last in the western
conference with 18 points and have
dropped eight of their last nine games.
T h e B o s t o n g l o b e f r i d a y, o c t o b e r 3 0 , 2 0 2 0
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Cam Newton acknowledged his struggles since returning from a COVID-19 diagnosis and called Sunday’s game in Buffalo “a must win.”
Newton knows losing not an option
By Jim McBride “when you’re trash, and when the losing streak reaches four. punt. you kind of just want to hit it
Globe staff you put performances like i did the “listen man, good vibes, good en- out of your hand. in terms of kick-
foXboroUGh — Cam newton past week, anybody can start talking ergies, you have to speak things into offs, it’s kind of, you just want to cut
has been a Patriot since July 8. to you — from the whisperers and existence. i refute [that thought],” he the wind the best you can. i get a lot
now he’s officially a new eng- the chirpers,” he said. “when you said. “My main focus is to play a bet- of practice in the elements here out
lander. now he offi- play the way i played on sunday, ter- ter version of what i’ve been playing on the practice field and i am excited
patriots cially knows what’s rible, you open the doors. this whole lately — protecting the football. for a good challenge.”
notebook expected from the week, starting on sunday from the that’s the key to victory.”
team that occupies first quarter, was a humbling experi- thin at receiver
the space at 1 Patriot Place. ence. Getting the tap on the shoulder Game conditions in addition to Julian edelman
“losing is not acceptable in this [that he was being lifted for Jarrett the Patriots practiced in the slop (knee procedure), the Patriots also
locker room. in this county. in this stidham to come out of the game] for the second straight day, and with were without n’keal Harry (concus-
state. in this area. in this region,” the was a humbling experience. i’m not more rain and possibly snow (yikes!) sion) at practice, likely meaning the
quarterback said, pausing for effect used to that. now i’m at a cross- in the friday forecast, it likely will be club will be without its two top re-
while wearing a smile on thursday. roads.” three in a row. ceivers sunday . . . defensive tackle
“so cameron newton, you need to as he attempts to right the ship it couldn’t come at a better time. Carl Davis (concussion) was out, as
pick your expletive up. that’s what this week, newton will face a famil- the weather hasn’t been a con- well . . . the lengthy list of limited
i’ve learned.” iar face on the opposite sideline in cern since training camp — there’s players grew by two, with stephon
and yes, he kept it family-friendly, bills coach sean McDermott, the de- been just one practice with signifi- Gilmore (knee) and shilique Calhoun
actually using the word “expletive.” fensive coordinator during newton’s cant precipitation since august — (knee) added. also limited: Damien
newton has acknowledged his first six seasons in carolina. but it’ll likely be a factor sunday af- Harris (ankle), Joe thuney (ankle),
struggles in back-to-back losses since newton said his familiarity with ternoon. the outlook for the greater Justin Herron (ankle), shaq Mason
returning from his coVid-19 diag- Mcdermott’s schemes will “without a buffalo area calls for rain, wind gusts (calf), kyle Dugger (ankle), Law-
nosis — he said it’s been “humbling” doubt” help in the quarterback’s of up to 50 miles per hour, and tem- rence Guy (ankle), and John simon
— and also called this sunday’s road preparations, but he’s not naïve peratures in the upper 40s. (shoulder) . . . with the rise in popu-
game against the bills “a must win.” enough to think Mcdermott won’t be it’s a sure bet that new england’s larity of quarterbacks wearing no. 1
newton said he’s simply thinking throwing some curveballs, as well. coaching staff has put a heavy em- (including arizona’s kyler Murray
too much on the field, and that is not “i’m pretty sure coach Mcdermott phasis on ball security this week. the and Miami’s tua tagovailoa), new-
his style. the former league MVP . . . will have some type of wrinkles,” Patriots are an uncharacteristic mi- ton was asked what led to his picking
said when he’s reading and reacting newton said. “he’s a great coach. nus-2 in turnover differential this the number. he said when he got to
he plays his best football, and that’s he’s been doing a great job there, season. carolina, he actually wanted no. 2,
what he’s aiming to do to help snap him and [bills general manager “we’ve been preparing for that which he wore at auburn, because he
new england’s three-game skid. brandon] beane, just getting the this whole week. we have a little bit is his mom’s second son, but incum-
for the season, newton has right guys in for what they’re trying of rain in the forecast too, and it will bent Qb Jimmy Clausen had it. new-
thrown just two touchdown passes to do. i’ve been extremely impressed be a little chilly,” said punter Jake ton said he wasn’t willing to pay the
(zero to wide receivers) against seven and look forward to a great, competi- bailey. “it’s going to be a fun game. price requested, so he picked another
interceptions. tive battle on sunday.” we’re preparing for all the elements. number.
the 10-year veteran has pointed newton rejected any talk about for my job, it kind of comes down to
fingers only at himself and said he what might happen after sunday if it is really windy, you don’t want Jim McBride can be reached at
knows he’s playing to keep his spot (the trade deadline is tuesday) and the ball to be in the air a whole lot james.mcbride@globe.com. Follow
atop the depth chart. what the Patriots might look like if when you’re dropping the ball for the him on Twitter @globejimmcbride.
Edelman out Sunday after knee procedure
upatriots
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placed on injured reserve or if his re-
covery will be treated week to week.
should he be placed on ir, edelman
will be required to miss at least three
games. after the bills, the Patriots’
next three opponents are the Jets,
ravens, and texans.
also sidelined thursday was sec-
ond-year receiver n’Keal harry, who
missed his second straight practice
after sustaining a head injury in last
sunday’s loss to the 49ers.
without edelman and harry,
new england’s wide receiver depth
chart is reduced to damiere byrd,
Gunner olszewski, and Jakobi Mey-
ers. isaiah Zuber, Kristian wilker-
son, and Mason Kinsey are also
available on the practice squad.
if the Patriots sign or trade for a
receiver, the newly acquired player
would not be active on sunday under
the nfl’s new protocols amid the
coronavirus pandemic.
Meyers, whose snap count
against the 49ers increased dramati-
cally following harry’s injury, will
likely see another boost in playing
time. Prior to last sunday, Meyers
had appeared in three games and
was on the field for no more than 11
percent of new england’s offensive
Matthew J. lee/Globe staff
snaps.
“i’m definitely excited for the op- Damiere Byrd is one of the few healthy Patriots receivers who has seen significant playing time this season.
portunity,” he said. “i’m going to do
my best to put my best foot forward had no bearing on his confidence the same confidence i already know put me out there and they put their
and continue to try to play the way i moving forward. i have. it’s more about gaining trust name behind me, i’m something
know i can play.” “confidence wasn’t something i with me. i don’t need too many peo- they can stand on proudly.”
against the 49ers, Meyers caught was lacking,” he said. “i just want to ple to be on the bandwagon or boost
four passes on six targets for 60 keep proving myself. i’m just going me up, but i do need people to be- Nicole Yang can be reached at
yards, but he said that performance to keep going into every game with lieve in me and know that when they nicole.yang@globe.com.
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expanded NFL standings
aFC
EAST
W L T Pct. PF/G PA/G Home Conf. Div. Spread Streak This week
Buffalo............................5 2 0 .714 24.9 25.4 2-1-0 4-2-0 3-0-0 3-4-0 W 1 New England
Miami .............................3 3 0 .500 26.7 18.8 1-2-0 2-2-0 1-2-0 4-2-0 W 2 LA Rams
New England.................2 4 0 .333 19.2 23.8 2-2-0 2-2-0 1-0-0 2-4-0 L 3 At Buffalo
NY Jets...........................0 7 0 .000 12.1 29.0 0-4-0 0-5-0 0-3-0 1-6-0 L 7 At Kansas City
NORTH
Pittsburgh......................6 0 0 1.000 30.5 19.7 4-0-0 4-0-0 1-0-0 5-1-0 W 6 At Baltimore
Baltimore.......................5 1 0 .833 29.8 17.3 2-1-0 3-1-0 2-0-0 3-2-1 W 3 Pittsburgh
Cleveland.......................5 2 0 .714 28.6 31.6 3-0-0 3-2-0 2-2-0 3-4-0 W 1 Las Vegas
Cincinnati ......................1 5 1 .214 23.3 27.7 1-2-0 1-5-0 0-3-0 5-2-0 L 3 Tennessee
SOUTH
Tennessee......................5 1 0 .833 31.3 25.5 3-1-0 4-1-0 2-0-0 2-4-0 L 1 At Cincinnati
Indianapolis ..................4 2 0 .667 26.2 19.2 3-0-0 2-2-0 0-1-0 3-3-0 W 1 At Detroit
Houston .........................1 6 0 .143 23.7 31.0 1-3-0 1-4-0 1-1-0 1-6-0 L 2 Bye
Jacksonville...................1 6 0 .143 22.0 31.4 1-2-0 1-5-0 1-2-0 2-5-0 L 6 Bye
WEST
Kansas City ...................6 1 0 .857 31.1 20.4 2-1-0 6-1-0 2-1-0 5-2-0 W 2 NY Jets
Las Vegas ......................3 3 0 .500 28.5 32.8 1-2-0 1-2-0 1-0-0 3-3-0 L 1 At Cleveland
LA Chargers ..................2 4 0 .333 24.8 25.7 1-2-0 2-1-0 0-1-0 5-1-0 W 1 At Denver
Denver............................2 4 0 .333 19.3 25.5 0-3-0 2-3-0 0-1-0 4-2-0 L 1 LA Chargers

NFC grant Halverson/getty images

EAST Blidi Wreh-Wilson made sure the Falcons did not invent another way to lose a heart-
W L T Pct. PF/G PA/G Home Conf. Div. Spread Streak This week breaker, intercepting a pass intended for D.J. Moore to seal a 25-17 win over Carolina.

Atlanta finally holds its lead

Philadelphia ..................2 4 1 .357 23.3 28.0 1-2-1 2-2-0 1-1-0 2-5-0 W 1 Dallas
Washington...................2 5 0 .286 19.0 23.6 2-2-0 2-3-0 2-1-0 3-3-1 W 1 Bye
Dallas .............................2 5 0 .286 25.1 34.7 2-2-0 2-4-0 1-1-0 0-7-0 L 2 At Philadelphia
NY Giants.......................1 6 0 .143 17.4 24.9 1-2-0 1-5-0 1-2-0 4-3-0 L 1 Tampa Bay
NORTH
Green Bay......................5 1 0 .833 32.8 26.5 2-0-0 4-1-0 2-0-0 5-1-0 W 1 Minnesota By Steve Reed yards receiving, and the Fal- picked off by Wreh-Wilson
Chicago..........................5 2 0 .714 19.7 20.0 2-1-0 5-1-0 1-0-0 4-3-0 L 1 New Orleans associated Press cons defense limited the Pan- when he threw a pass up in traf-
Detroit ............................3 3 0 .500 26.0 27.5 0-2-0 2-3-0 0-2-0 3-3-0 W 2 Indianapolis
Falcons 25 cHarlotte, thers to 2 of 10 on third-down fic near the end zone.
Minnesota .....................1 5 0 .167 25.8 32.0 0-3-0 0-3-0 0-1-0 3-3-0 L 2 At Green Bay n. c . — m a t t conversions to improve to 2-1 bridgewater was limited to
SOUTH Panthers 17 ryan threw for since raheem morris replaced 176 yards passing as the Pan-
Tampa Bay ....................5 2 0 .714 31.7 20.3 3-0-0 2-2-0 1-1-0 4-3-0 W 2 At NY Giants
281 yards and ran for a touch- dan Quinn as head coach. the thers (3-5) lost their third
New Orleans .................4 2 0 .667 30.0 29.0 3-1-0 3-1-0 2-0-0 2-4-0 W 3 At Chicago
down, younghoe Koo made win came in front of a crowd of straight game without injured
Carolina .........................3 5 0 .375 22.4 24.1 1-3-0 2-4-0 1-3-0 4-4-0 L 2 Lost to Atl., 25-17 four field goals, and the atlanta 5,240 because of covid-19. christian mccaffrey.
Atlanta ...........................2 6 0 .250 26.1 28.0 0-4-0 2-6-0 1-1-0 3-5-0 W 1 Def. Carolina, 25-17 Falcons held on to beat the car- bridgewater tried to spur the Falcons avenged a 23-16
WEST
o l i n a Pa n t h e r s , 2 5 - 1 7 , o n carolina to a comeback after loss to carolina 18 days ago in
Seattle............................5 1 0 .833 33.8 28.7 3-0-0 3-1-0 0-1-0 4-2-0 L 1 San Francisco
thursday night despite their Koo missed an extra point that which bridgewater threw for
Arizona...........................5 2 0 .714 29.0 20.9 2-1-0 4-2-0 2-0-0 5-2-0 W 3 Bye
penchant for squandering leads would have made it a two-pos- 313 yards and two scores, and
LA Rams.........................5 2 0 .714 25.1 17.7 3-0-0 5-1-0 0-1-0 4-3-0 W 1 At Miami
this season. session game. mike davis piled up 149 yards
San Francisco ...............4 3 0 .571 25.9 19.4 1-3-0 2-2-0 1-1-0 4-3-0 W 2 At Seattle
the Falcons (2-6) were 1-3 b r i d g e w a t e r, w h o w a s rushing. davis was held to 77
when leading entering the knocked out of the game for yards this time on a wet field
fourth quarter. carolina was two possessions with a neck in- where players routinely
driving late, but atlanta stalled jury following a late hit that re- swapped cleats to adapt to the
NFL schedule, results the rally when blidi Wreh-Wil- sulted in charles Harris being changing conditions.
son intercepted teddy bridge- ejected, took over with the Pan- Falcons wide receiver calvin
a Fc nF c water near the Falcons’ 10-yard thers down by 8 points. He ridley left the game in the sec-
line with 1:04 remaining. completed a 35-yard strike to ond quarter with an ankle inju-
east south east south todd gurley grinded out 46 d.J. moore on third and 18 to ry after making a reception in
BUFFALO (5-2)
27.....................NY Jets.....................17
HOUSTON (1-6)
20...............at Kansas City...............34
DALLAS (2-5)
17..................at LA Rams..................20
ATLANTA (2-6)
25......................Seattle......................38
yards rushing and a touch- move the Panthers into Falcons the red zone and did not re-
31....................at Miami....................28
35....................LA Rams....................32
16...................Baltimore...................33
21................at Pittsburgh................28
40..................... Atlanta..................... 39
31...................at Seattle...................38
39....................at Dallas....................40
26.....................Chicago.....................30
down, Julio Jones added 137 territory, but bridgewater was turn.
30................at Las Vegas................23 23...................Minnesota...................31 38...................Cleveland...................49 16................at Green Bay................30
16................at Tennessee................42 30.................Jacksonville.................14 37...................NY Giants...................34 16.....................Carolina.....................23

Giants, Chargers have positives

17.................Kansas City................. 26
18...................at NY Jets...................10
N. 1 New England.............................1
N. 8 Seattle........................................1
N. 15 at Arizona.............................4:05
Bye week
N. 29 LA Chargers..............................1
D. 7 at San Francisco.................8:15
D. 13 Pittsburgh............................ 8:20
D. 20 at Denver.................................1a
D. 28 at New England...................8:15
J. 3 Miami..........................................1
MIAMI (3-3)
11..............at New England..............21
28......................Buffalo......................31
31...............at Jacksonville...............13
23......................Seattle......................31
43.............at San Francisco.............17
24.....................NY Jets..................... 0
Bye week
N. 1 LA Rams.....................................1
N. 8 at Arizona.............................4:25
N. 15 LA Chargers.........................4:05
N. 22 at Denver..............................4:05
N. 29 at NY Jets..................................1
D. 6 Cincinnati.................................. 1
D. 13 Kansas City...............................1
D. 20 New England.............................1
D. 27 at Las Vegas...........................1a
J. 3 at Buffalo....................................1
NEW ENGLAND (2-4)
21...................... Miami...................... 11
30...................at Seattle...................35
36...................Las Vegas...................20
10...............at Kansas City...............26
Bye week
12......................Denver......................18
6............... San Francisco............... 33
N. 1 at Buffalo...................................1
N. 9 at NY Jets.............................8:15
N. 15 Baltimore..............................8:20
N. 22 at Houston................................ 1
N. 29 Arizona.......................................1
D. 6 at LA Chargers....................4:25
D. 10 at LA Rams...........................8:20
D. 20 at Miami.................................... 1
D. 28 Buffalo...................................8:15
J. 3 NY Jets........................................1
NEW YORK JETS (0-7)
17...................at Buffalo...................27
13............... San Francisco............... 31
7...............at Indianapolis...............36
28......................Denver......................37
10.....................Arizona.....................30
0....................at Miami....................24
10......................Buffalo......................18
N. 1 at Kansas City..........................1
N. 9 New England....................... 8:15
Bye week
N. 22 at LA Chargers....................4:05
N. 29 Miami.........................................1
D. 6 Las Vegas..................................1
D. 13 at Seattle..............................4:05
D. 20 at LA Rams..............................1a
D. 27 Cleveland.................................1a
J. 3 at New England.........................1
North
BALTIMORE (5-1)
38...................Cleveland................... 6
33..................at Houston..................16
20.................Kansas City................. 34
31...............at Washington...............17
27...................Cincinnati................... 3
30.............. at Philadelphia.............. 28
Bye week
N. 1 Pittsburgh..................................1
N. 8 at Indianapolis..........................1
N. 15 at New England.................. 8:20
N. 22 Tennessee.................................1
N. 26 at Pittsburgh....................... 8:20
D. 3 Dallas.................................... 8:20
D. 14 at Cleveland.........................8:15
D. 20 Jacksonville...............................1
D. 27 NY Giants...................................1
J. 3 at Cincinnati...............................1
CINCINNATI (1-5-1)
13.................LA Chargers.................16
30.................at Cleveland.................35
23.............. at Philadelphia.............. 23
33.................Jacksonville.................25
3.................at Baltimore.................27
27...............at Indianapolis...............31
34...................Cleveland...................37
N. 1 Tennessee.................................1
Bye week
N. 15 at Pittsburgh....................... 4:25
N. 22 at Washington..........................1
N. 29 NY Giants...................................1
D. 6 at Miami.................................... 1
D. 13 Dallas..........................................1
D. 21 Pittsburgh............................ 8:15
D. 27 at Houston.................................1
J. 3 Baltimore....................................1
CLEVELAND (5-2)
6.................at Baltimore.................38
35...................Cincinnati...................30
34.................Washington.................20
49....................at Dallas....................38
32.................Indianapolis.................23
7................at Pittsburgh................38
37.................at Cincinnati.................34
N. 1 Las Vegas..................................1
Bye week
N. 15 Houston.....................................1
N. 22 Philadelphia..............................1
N. 29 at Jacksonville..........................1
D. 6 at Tennessee............................ 1
D. 14 Baltimore..............................8:15
D. 20 at NY Giants..............................1
D. 27 at NY Jets................................1a
J. 3 Pittsburgh...................................1
PITTSBURGH (6-0)
26.................at NY Giants.................16
26......................Denver......................21
28.....................Houston.....................21
Bye week
38.................Philadelphia.................29
38...................Cleveland................... 7
27................at Tennessee................24
N. 1 at Baltimore..............................1
N. 8 at Dallas............................... 4:25
N. 15 Cincinnati.............................4:25
N. 22 at Jacksonville..........................1
N. 26 Baltimore..............................8:20
D. 6 Washington...............................1
D. 13 at Buffalo..............................8:20
D. 21 at Cincinnati........................8:15
D. 27 Indianapolis...............................1
J. 3 at Cleveland...............................1
36................at Tennessee................42 10.....................Arizona.....................38 40................at Minnesota................23
20...................Green Bay...................35 3...............at Washington...............25 22......................Detroit......................23
Bye week N. 1 at Philadelphia....................8:20 25..................at Carolina..................17
N. 8 at Jacksonville..........................1 N. 8 Pittsburgh............................4:25 N. 8 Denver........................................1
N. 15 at Cleveland..............................1 Bye week Bye week
N. 22 New England.............................1 N. 22 at Minnesota.......................4:25 N. 22 at New Orleans........................1
N. 26 at Detroit............................12:30 N. 26 Washington..........................4:30 N. 29 Las Vegas..................................1
D. 6 Indianapolis...............................1 D. 3 at Baltimore.........................8:20 D. 6 New Orleans.............................1
D. 13 at Chicago.................................1 D. 13 at Cincinnati..............................1 D. 13 at LA Chargers....................4:25
D. 20 at Indianapolis........................1a
D. 27 Cincinnati.................................. 1
D. 20 San Francisco......................8:20
D. 27 Philadelphia.........................4:25
D. 20 Tampa Bay................................1
D. 27 at Kansas City..........................1
associated Press matter internally. ing) thumb, an injury that
J. 3 Tennessee.................................. 1
INDIANAPOLIS (4-2)
J. 3 at NY Giants...............................1
NEW YORK GIANTS (1-6)
J. 3 at Tampa Bay............................1
CAROLINA (3-5)
an unidentified new york Jones, injured running back could prompt coach Doug Mar-
20...............at Jacksonville...............27
28...................Minnesota...................11
16...................Pittsburgh...................26
13..................at Chicago..................17
30...................Las Vegas...................34
17...............at Tampa Bay............... 31
giants player has tested posi- Saquon Barkley, receiver Ster- rone to turn to rookie Jake Lu-
36.....................NY Jets..................... 7 9............... San Francisco............... 36 21.............. at LA Chargers.............. 16 tive for covid-19 and gone in- ling Shepard, and other players ton after the team’s bye week.
19..................at Chicago..................11 9..................at LA Rams..................17 31.....................Arizona.....................21
23.................at Cleveland.................32 34....................at Dallas....................37 23...................at Atlanta...................16 to isolation. had dinner at a new york city the person spoke to the aP
31...................Cincinnati...................27 20.................Washington.................19 16.....................Chicago.....................23 NFL the team restaurant in private. after- on the condition of anonymity
Bye week 21.............. at Philadelphia.............. 22 24..............at New Orleans..............27
N. 1 at Detroit...................................1
N. 8 Baltimore...................................1
N. 2 Tampa Bay...........................8:15
N. 8 at Washington..........................1
17..................... Atlanta..................... 25
N. 8 at Kansas City..........................1
NOTEBOOK learned of the ward, some went to a closed because the Jaguars (1-6) have
N. 12 at Tennessee.......................8:20 N. 15 Philadelphia..............................1 N. 15 Tampa Bay................................1
N. 22 Green Bay..................................1 Bye week N. 22 Detroit........................................1 result Wednes- bar at the invitation of the not disclosed minshew’s injury
N. 29 Tennessee.................................1 N. 29 at Cincinnati............................. 1 N. 29 at Minnesota.............................1
D. 6 at Houston.................................1 D. 6 at Seattle..............................4:05 Bye week day night and contact tracing owner. they were filmed there publicly. the person said the
D. 13 at Las Vegas........................4:05
D. 20 Houston...................................1a
D. 13 Arizona.......................................1
D. 20 Cleveland...................................1
D. 13 Denver........................................1
D. 20 at Green Bay...........................1a
began. the player’s close con- without masks. team didn’t know about min-
D. 27 at Pittsburgh.............................1
J. 3 Jacksonville................................1
D. 27 at Baltimore..............................1
J. 3 Dallas...........................................1
D. 27 at Washington..........................1
J. 3 New Orleans.............................. 1
tacts were identified and told the 1-6 giants are set to shew playing the last two
JACKSONVILLE (1-6)
27.................Indianapolis.................20
PHILADELPHIA (2-4-1)
17...............at Washington...............27
NEW ORLEANS (4-2)
34..................Tampa Bay..................23
to remain home thursday and play Tom Brady and the 5-2 games in pain until this week.
30................at Tennessee................33 19....................LA Rams....................37 24................ at Las Vegas................ 34 participate in meetings re- buccaneers on monday night. Jacksonville is not required
13...................... Miami...................... 31 23...................Cincinnati...................23 30...................Green Bay...................37
25.................at Cincinnati.................33 25.............at San Francisco.............20 35................... at Detroit................... 29 motely. the rest of the team on the other side of the to submit an injury report
14..................at Houston..................30 29................at Pittsburgh................38 30.................LA Chargers.................27
16......................Detroit......................34 28...................Baltimore...................30 Bye week was following normal practice country, the los angeles char- while on a bye.
29.............. at LA Chargers.............. 39 22...................NY Giants...................21 27.....................Carolina.....................24
and meeting schedules. gers placed guard Ryan Groy
Garrett hobbled
Bye week N. 1 Dallas....................................8:20 N. 1 at Chicago............................4:25
N. 8 Houston.....................................1 Bye week N. 8 at Tampa Bay......................8:20
N. 15 at Green Bay.............................1 N. 15 at NY Giants..............................1 N. 15 San Francisco......................4:25 “We are working closely on the league’s covid-19 re-
N. 22 Pittsburgh..................................1 N. 22 at Cleveland..............................1 N. 22 Atlanta.......................................1
N. 29 Cleveland...................................1 N. 30 Seattle...................................8:15 N. 29 at Denver..............................4:05 with the nFl’s chief medical of- serve list and canceled prac- browns star defensive end
D. 6 at Minnesota.............................1
D. 13 Tennessee.................................1
D. 6 at Green Bay........................4:25
D. 13 New Orleans........................4:25
D. 6 at Atlanta...................................1
D. 13 at Philadelphia....................4:25
ficer regarding next protocol tice. Myles Garrett was held out of
D. 20 at Baltimore..............................1
D. 27 Chicago......................................1
D. 20 at Arizona.............................4:05
D. 27 at Dallas................................4:25
D. 20 Kansas City..........................4:25
D. 25 Minnesota............................4:30
steps,” the giants said in a the chargers said they were practice for the second straight
J. 3 at Indianapolis...........................1
TENNESSEE (5-1)
J. 3 Washington................................1
WASHINGTON (2-5)
J. 3 at Carolina..................................1
TAMPA BAY (5-2)
statement. notified of a positive test day with an ankle injury.
16...................at Denver...................14 27.................Philadelphia.................17 23..............at New Orleans..............34 nFl network reported that Wednesday night and that a garrett, who leads the nFl
33.................Jacksonville.................30 15...................at Arizona...................30 31.....................Carolina.....................17
31................at Minnesota................30 20.................at Cleveland.................34 28...................at Denver...................10 the player is an offensive line- player immediately went into with nine sacks, didn’t practice
Bye week 17...................Baltimore...................31 38.................LA Chargers.................31
42......................Buffalo......................16 10....................LA Rams....................30 19..................at Chicago..................20 man, which has prompted the quarantine. the team also as the browns (5-2) continued
42.....................Houston.....................36 19.................at NY Giants.................20 38...................Green Bay...................10
24...................Pittsburgh...................27 25.......................Dallas....................... 3 45................ at Las Vegas................ 20 team to quarantine much of identified the player’s close to get ready for sunday’s game
N. 1 at Cincinnati............................. 1 Bye week N. 2 at NY Giants........................ 8:15
N. 8 Chicago......................................1 N. 8 NY Giants...................................1 N. 8 New Orleans........................8:20 the position group. contacts, and they remained against the raiders (3-3).
N. 12 Indianapolis.........................8:20 N. 15 at Detroit...................................1 N. 15 at Carolina................................ 1
N. 22 at Baltimore..............................1 N. 22 Cincinnati..................................1 N. 23 LA Rams...............................8:15 on tuesday, giants coach away from the complex. coach Kevin Stefanski said he
N. 29 at Indianapolis..........................1 N. 26 at Dallas............................... 4:30 N. 29 Kansas City..........................4:25
Joe Judge said he had spoken expects garrett to be on the
D. 6 Cleveland...................................1
D. 13 at Jacksonville..........................1
D. 6 at Pittsburgh.............................1
D. 13 at San Francisco.................4:25
Bye week
D. 13 Minnesota..................................1 with quarterback Daniel Jones Minshew hurt? field for practice Friday.
D. 20 Detroit......................................1a D. 20 Seattle........................................1 D. 20 at Atlanta...................................1
D. 27 at Green Bay........................8:20
J. 3 at Houston..................................1
D. 27 Carolina..................................... 1
J. 3 at Philadelphia.......................... 1
D. 27 at Detroit.................................1a
J. 3 Atlanta........................................ 1
and several other players about a person familiar with the stefanski indicated the
a video taken last weekend in situation said Jaguars quarter- browns didn’t want to risk gar-
West North West which they were shown with- back Gardner Minshew has a rett practicing outdoors in
DENVER (2-4)
14.................. Tennessee.................. 16
CHICAGO (5-2)
27................... at Detroit................... 23
ARIZONA (5-2)
24.............at San Francisco.............20
out masks in public. Judge said strained ligament and multiple chilly weather and rain fore-
21................at Pittsburgh................26
10..................Tampa Bay..................28
17...................NY Giants...................13
30...................at Atlanta...................26
30.................Washington.................15
23......................Detroit......................26
the team would handle the fractures in his right (throw- cast.
37...................at NY Jets...................28 11.................Indianapolis.................19 21..................at Carolina..................31
Bye week 20..................Tampa Bay..................19 30...................at NY Jets...................10
18..............at New England..............12 23..................at Carolina..................16 38....................at Dallas....................10
16.................Kansas City................. 43 10..................at LA Rams..................24 37......................Seattle......................34
N. 1 LA Chargers.........................4:05 N. 1 New Orleans........................4:25 Bye week
N. 8 at Atlanta.................................. 1
N. 15 at Las Vegas........................4:05
N. 22 Miami....................................4:05
N. 8 at Tennessee............................1
N. 16 Minnesota............................8:15
Bye week
N. 8 Miami....................................4:25
N. 15 Buffalo.................................. 4:05
N. 19 at Seattle..............................8:20
Globe staff’s pro picks WeeK 8
N. 29 New Orleans........................4:05 N. 29 at Green Bay........................8:20 N. 29 at New England........................1
D. 6 at Kansas City.....................8:20 D. 6 Detroit........................................1 D. 6 LA Rams............................... 4:05
D. 13 at Carolina.................................1 D. 13 Houston..................................... 1 D. 13 at NY Giants..............................1 Las Vegas Chad Jim Tara Scott Ben
D. 20 Buffalo..................................... 1a D. 20 at Minnesota.............................1 D. 20 Philadelphia.........................4:05
D. 27 at LA Chargers.......................1a D. 27 at Jacksonville..........................1 D. 27 San Francisco.........................1a line Finn McBride Sullivan Thurston Volin
J. 3 Las Vegas..............................4:25 J. 3 Green Bay...................................1 J. 3 at LA Rams............................4:25
KANSAS CITY (6-1) DETROIT (3-3) LA RAMS (5-2) Last week 6-8 7-7 7-7 3-11 9-5
34.....................Houston.....................20 23.....................Chicago.....................27 20.......................Dallas.......................17
23.............. at LA Chargers.............. 20 21................at Green Bay................42 37.............. at Philadelphia.............. 19 Season 48-56-1 51-53-1 58-46-1 56-48-1 46-58-1
34.................at Baltimore.................20 26...................at Arizona...................23 32...................at Buffalo...................35
26................New England................10 29................ New Orleans................ 35 17...................NY Giants................... 9 Best bets 3-4 5-2 5-2 5-2 3-3
32...................Las Vegas...................40 Bye week 30...............at Washington...............10
26...................at Buffalo...................17 34...............at Jacksonville...............16 16.............at San Francisco.............24
43...................at Denver...................16 23...................at Atlanta...................22 24.....................Chicago.....................10
New England Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo New England New England New England
N. 1 NY Jets.......................................1 N. 1 Indianapolis.............................. 1 N. 1 at Miami....................................1 at Buffalo by 3½
N. 8 Carolina..................................... 1 N. 8 at Minnesota.............................1 Bye week
Bye week N. 15 Washington...............................1 N. 15 Seattle...................................4:25 Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis Detroit Detroit Indianapolis Detroit
N. 22 at Las Vegas........................8:20 N. 22 at Carolina................................ 1 N. 23 at Tampa Bay......................8:15 at Detroit by 2½
N. 29 at Tampa Bay......................4:25 N. 26 Houston..............................12:30 N. 29 San Francisco......................4:05
D. 6 Denver...................................8:20 D. 6 at Chicago.................................1 D. 6 at Arizona.............................4:05
D. 13 at Miami.................................... 1 D. 13 Green Bay..................................1 D. 10 New England........................8:20 LA Rams LA Rams LA Rams LA Rams Miami LA Rams LA Rams
D. 20 at New Orleans...................4:25 D. 20 at Tennessee..........................1a D. 20 NY Jets.....................................1a at Miami by 3½
D. 27 Atlanta....................................... 1 D. 27 Tampa Bay..............................1a D. 27 at Seattle..............................4:05
J. 3 LA Chargers...............................1 J. 3 Minnesota...................................1 J. 3 Arizona...................................4:25 Las Vegas Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Las Vegas Cleveland
LA CHARGERS (2-4) GREEN BAY (5-1) SAN FRANCISCO (4-3)
16.................at Cincinnati.................13 43................at Minnesota................34 20.....................Arizona.....................24 at Cleveland by 2½
20.................Kansas City................. 23 42......................Detroit......................21 31...................at NY Jets...................13
16.....................Carolina.....................21 37..............at New Orleans..............30 36.................at NY Giants................. 9 Minnesota Green Bay Minnesota Green Bay Green Bay Green Bay Minnesota
31............... at Tampa Bay............... 38 30..................... Atlanta..................... 16 20.................Philadelphia.................25 at Green Bay by 7
27..............at New Orleans..............30 Bye week 17...................... Miami...................... 43
Bye week 10............... at Tampa Bay............... 38 24....................LA Rams....................16 NY Jets Kansas City Kansas City NY Jets Kansas City Kansas City Kansas City
39.................Jacksonville.................29 35..................at Houston..................20 33..............at New England.............. 6
N. 1 at Denver..............................4:05 N. 1 Minnesota................................. 1 N. 1 at Seattle..............................4:25 at Kansas City by 19½
N. 8 Las Vegas.............................4:05 N. 5 at San Francisco.................8:20 N. 5 Green Bay............................ 8:20
N. 15 at Miami...............................4:05 N. 15 Jacksonville...............................1 N. 15 at New Orleans...................4:25 Pittsburgh Baltimore Pittsburgh Baltimore Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh
N. 22 NY Jets..................................4:05 N. 22 at Indianapolis..........................1 Bye week at Baltimore by 3½
N. 29 at Buffalo...................................1 N. 29 Chicago.................................8:20 N. 29 at LA Rams.......................... 4:05
D. 6 New England........................4:25 D. 6 Philadelphia.........................4:25 D. 7 Buffalo...................................8:15 Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee
D. 13 Atlanta..................................4:25 D. 13 at Detroit...................................1 D. 13 Washington..........................4:25
D. 17 at Las Vegas........................8:20 D. 20 Carolina...................................1a D. 20 at Dallas................................8:20 at Cincinnati by 5½
D. 27 Denver......................................1a D. 27 Tennessee............................8:20 D. 27 at Arizona................................1a
J. 3 at Kansas City...........................1 J. 3 at Chicago..................................1 J. 3 Seattle....................................4:25 LA Chargers No line LA Chargers LA Chargers LA Chargers LA Chargers Denver
LAS VEGAS (3-3) MINNESOTA (1-5) SEATTLE (5-1) at Denver
34..................at Carolina..................30 34...................Green Bay...................43 38...................at Atlanta...................25
34................ New Orleans................ 24 11...............at Indianapolis...............28 35................New England................30
20..............at New England..............36 30.................. Tennessee.................. 31 38.......................Dallas.......................31
New Orleans New Orleans New Orleans Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago
23......................Buffalo......................30 31..................at Houston..................23 31....................at Miami....................23 at Chicago by 4½
40...............at Kansas City...............32 26...................at Seattle...................27 27...................Minnesota...................26
Bye week 23..................... Atlanta..................... 40 Bye week San Francisco Seattle Seattle San Francisco Seattle Seattle San Francisco
20..................Tampa Bay..................45 Bye week 34...................at Arizona...................37 at Seattle by 3
N. 1 at Cleveland..............................1 N. 1 at Green Bay.............................1 N. 1 San Francisco......................4:25
N. 8 at LA Chargers....................4:05 N. 8 Detroit........................................1 N. 8 at Buffalo...................................1
N. 15 Denver.................................. 4:05 N. 16 at Chicago............................8:15 N. 15 at LA Rams.......................... 4:25 Dallas Philadelphia Dallas Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia
N. 22 Kansas City..........................8:20 N. 22 Dallas....................................4:25 N. 19 Arizona................................. 8:20 at Philadelphia by 9
N. 29 at Atlanta.................................. 1 N. 29 Carolina..................................... 1 N. 30 at Philadelphia....................8:15
D. 6 at NY Jets..................................1 D. 6 Jacksonville...............................1 D. 6 NY Giants............................. 4:05 Tampa Bay No line Tampa Bay NY Giants Tampa Bay Tampa Bay Tampa Bay
D. 13 Indianapolis......................... 4:05 D. 13 at Tampa Bay...........................1 D. 13 NY Jets..................................4:05
D. 17 LA Chargers.........................8:20 D. 20 Chicago......................................1 D. 20 at Washington..........................1 at NY Giants
D. 27 Miami.......................................1a D. 25 at New Orleans...................4:30 D. 27 LA Rams............................... 4:05 Best bets in bold. Selections are against the pointspread. Staff records are calculated using the final spread for each
J. 3 at Denver...............................4:25 J. 3 at Detroit....................................1 J. 3 at San Francisco..................4:25 game, which may differ from the lines above.
c4 Sports
Lots to bat around from Series
Chad Finn
playing nine innings while
wondering if the boos are still
ringing in rob Manfred’s ears
… 3. turner is a beloved mem-
1. those Mookie betts-
doesn’t-perform-in-the-playoffs
narratives were always disin-
genuous, if not downright stu-
pid. Now, they’re dead. in win-
ning his second World series ti-
tle in three years, betts slashed
.296/.378/.493 in 18 games
this postseason. His sixth-in-
ning double was a pivotal hit in
the go-ahead rally in Game 6,
and his home run in the eighth
inning was the exclamation
point.
He was the run-saving de-
fensive star of at least two
games — which, of course, mat-
ters immensely, because those
old narratives were always so
tied up in batting average, ig-
noring the various other ways
he impacted games. He was the
tone-setting all-around star of
Game 1, with a homer, two
steals, a savvy baserunning de-
cision, and that brilliant de-
fense.
the dodgers seem to appre-
ciate what they have, don’t
they? Manager dave roberts
called the trade for him “a
steal,” and if dave roberts
knows anything, it’s steals.
2. there is one disappoint-
ing thing about betts: His re-
sponse to Justin turner’s self-
ish decision to celebrate with
his teammates — at times
maskless, and blissfully un-
bothered by how his presence
might affect others — after he
was pulled from Game 6 for a
positive coVid-19 test. When
betts was asked about turner
coming out on the field, hug-
ging teammates and posing for
photos, he said, “He’s part of
the team. forget all that. He’s
part of the team. We’re not ex-
cluding him from anything.”
i recognize it’s not entirely
fair to ask even a player and
person of betts’s high character
to be the one dodger to exhibit
some common sense regarding
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turner’s situation, but that
“forget all that” element really
rubbed me the wrong way. ask
old teammate eduardo rodri-
guez how easy it is to forget all
that.
ber of the dodgers who has
been through a lot of disap-
pointment in recent years. it’s
understandable why he’d want
to be on the field, and why his
teammates would want him
there. but his actions are a mi-
crocosm for the mess we’re in
nationwide, too many among
us unwilling to make even a
modest sacrifice for the benefit
of others. they warrant a sig-
nificant suspension for the
free-agent-to-be.
apparently Mlb security —
i’m envisioning several varia-
tions of “paul
blart: Mall ‘Kind of fitting
cop” — told
turner to re- that Blake Snell’s
turn to isola- season began
tion, and he
refused in a with him
way that was
apparently as
threatening not to
colorful as his pitch and ended
hair. it’s ridic-
ulous that that
with him not
was the end of being allowed to
it. Manfred
and higher pitch long enough.’
Mlb authori-
ties should have threatened im-
mediate suspension, or told the
dodgers that if he didn’t leave
the field, there would be no tro-
phy presentation and the party
was over.
4. the dodgers, as you may
have noticed, ended their 32-
year championship drought on
the 16th anniversary of the red
sox ending their 86-year
drought. the dave roberts fac-
tor should have been enough
for red sox fans to pull for the
dodgers, but even if you
couldn’t bring yourself to pull
for an la team, there were
some common themes, includ-
ing the privilege of watching an
all-time great pitcher (pedro
Martinez then, clayton Ker-
shaw now) get a well-deserved
moment of postseason redemp-
WINDOW SAVINGS
T h e B o s t o n
tion. those 2004 red sox, of
course, are forever remem-
bered as the idiots. these
dodgers will be remembered
that way too, not just because
they were fun-loving and obliv-
ious to pressure, but for that
collectively pea-brained cele-
bration.
5. Kind of fitting that blake
snell’s season began with him
threatening not to pitch and
ended with him not being al-
lowed to pitch long enough.
the rays’ decision — executed
by manager Kevin cash, but
certainly not something he
came up with without the in-
put of the front office — to pull
the electrifying snell in the
sixth inning of Game 6 back-
fired spectacularly. it already
stands as exhibit a for those
who want to
blame “analyt-
ics” for every-
thing that ails
baseball right
now.
i get that to
some degree.
that decision
wholly disre-
garded hu-
man nature,
not to men-
tion the frus-
tration snell
was inducing
in the dodgers’ hitters. i sus-
pect that if the decision had
been completely up to cash,
who spent eight years in the
majors as a backup catcher, he
would have had the sense to
leave snell in at least until trou-
ble began percolating.
6. it is transparently disin-
genuous to say one bonehead-
ed data-driven decision proves
“analytics” — the brush always
paints broadly with that word,
with few specifics offered —
don’t work or should be hereto-
fore dismissed after the snell
disaster. i love old-school base-
ball — how much more butch
Hobson fan fiction do i have to
write, people? — but also ap-
preciate sabermetrics and the
new ways to understand base-
ball, and i know this: analytics
Replacemydraftywindows.com
G l o b e
were a winner in this season
and series, despite the snell di-
saster.
7. the rays won 51 of 80
games and wiped out the yan-
kees, and lost the World series
to a data-driven dodgers orga-
nization with the benefit of a
much fatter wallet. Many of the
rays’ front office brains are un-
derstudies of the dodgers’ an-
drew friedman, who left tam-
pa bay for la in 2014. Heck,
and it’s not like the dodgers
were conventional in the
clincher, using seven pitchers,
with finisher Julio Urias (2‚
innings to close it out) pitching
longer than starter tony Gon-
solin (1„ innings).
8. When cash (again, as the
conduit of the front office)
made the boneheaded decision
to pull snell for the struggling
Nick anderson, the flashbacks
to Grady little’s blunder with
pedro Martinez in Game 7 of
the 2003 alcs came roaring
back. but that was really an op-
posite scenario. little disre-
garded data provided by the
front office — i believe there
was a folder titled alert: pe-
dro’s arM Melts after
105 pitcHes — and left a tired
pitcher in too long. cash ap-
peased his bosses and their da-
ta and pulled a cruising pitcher
too early.
9. it shouldn’t go unnoticed
that roberts made a similar (if
slightly more justifiable) deci-
sion to the cash/snell debacle
two years ago, to the great aid
of the red sox, when he pulled
rich Hill after 91 pitches and
just a single hit in Game 4 of
the 2018 World series. the sox
trailed, 4-0, in the seventh in-
ning when Hill was removed
with one out and one on for
scott alexander. dodgers re-
lievers allowed nine runs (in-
cluding one charged to Hill)
and recorded eight outs the
rest of the way. feels like a long
time ago, huh?
Chad Finn can be reached at
chad.finn@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter
@GlobeChadFinn.
f r i d a y, o c t o b e r 3 0 , 2 0 2 0
Tony La Russa previously managed the White Sox and led
them to a 522-510 record over parts of eight seasons.
La Russa, who is 76,
new White Sox skipper
associated press
Tony La Russa didn’t envi-
sion returning to the dugout
when he stood at the podium in
MLB
cooperstown
six years ago
NOTEBOOK and took his
place alongside
baseball’s greats in the Hall of
fame. that started to change
the past few seasons.
and he simply couldn’t re-
sist the opportunity the chica-
go White sox gave him.
the 76-year-old la russa,
who won the 1989 World series
with the oakland athletics and
retired after a second title with
the st. louis cardinals in 2011,
is returning to manage the
White sox 34 years after they
fired him.
la russa, the oldest manag-
er in Mlb by five years, was
522-510 over parts of eight sea-
sons with the White sox start-
ing in 1979. He was fired in
1986 by then-general manager
Ken Harrelson, a move chair-
man Jerry Reinsdorf has long
regretted allowing.
Hinch to Tigers close
detroit is poised to make
A.J. Hinch its new manager, ac-
cording to Mlb.com and Mlb
Network. the tigers inter-
viewed the former Houston
skipper, whose one-year sus-
pension for the astros’ sign-
stealing scheme in 2017-18
ended with the World series.
DOUBLE AND TRIPLE
PANE OPTIONS!
1983 file/associated press
Hinch is one of at least a
dozen candidates the tigers
have spoken to about replacing
Ron Gardenhire.
Hand on waivers
apparently, $10 million is
too rich for cleveland’s blood,
as they’ve placed american
league saves leader Brad Hand
on outright waivers.
the 30-year-old Hand was
16 for 16 on save opportunities
in the 2020 regular season,
though he took the loss in
cleveland’s playoff ouster to the
yankees. He has 58 saves and a
2.78 era in 111 regular-season
appearances since being ac-
quired from san diego in 2018.
Britton staying put
the yankees plan to plan to
exercise two option years on re-
liever Zack Britton worth $27
million, and to decline options
on outfielder Brett Gardner
and pitcher J.A. Happ . . . Mil-
waukee declined to exercise a
$15 million mutual 2021 op-
tion on veteran outfielder Ryan
Braun. the 37-year-old, due a
$4 million buyout, often said
this year that this might be his
final season . . . righthander
Darren O’Day’s $3.5 million
club option for 2021 was de-
clined by the atlanta braves,
making him eligible for free
agency . . . philadelphia waived
longtime red sox reliever
Heath Hembree.
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miles, exhaling, coughing,
sneezing, spitting all the way
while hundreds of thousands
of spectators line the streets
cheering for them. it’s the ulti-
mate super-spreader event.
only two world majors were
held this year. tokyo took place
at the beginning of March and
was limited to elite competi-
tors. london, also slated for
april, was rescheduled for early
october. the race was held
amid a driving chilly rain on a
loop course around st. James’s
Park with no spectators. the
other four majors — boston,
berlin, chicago and new york
— were scratched.
boston wasn’t the first to
push back next year’s date.
london and tokyo now will be
held in october, which would
mean at least five majors (and
possibly all) happening in six
weeks if berlin, chicago and
new york keep their customary
spots on the calendar. While
the baa hopes to announce a
new date by year ’s end the
number of unknowns is daunt-
ing.
should the race be elite-only
for the first time? if not, how
many amateur runners will be
allowed to take part? how can
they post qualifying times with
so few events available? Will
foreign competitors be allowed
to come to the city? Will specta-
tors be kept off the sidewalks?
Will the Mayah have to toss the
laurel wreaths to the winners
from 6 feet away?
Most of those answers are
beyond the baa’s power to pro-
vide. state and local officials
file/Pat Greenhouse/Globe staff
will decide whether and when
there’ ll be a 125 th race next Because of the coronavirus pandemic, it is not known when we will see a crowded Boston Marathon field, such as this one in 2019, again.
year and what it will look like.
but for most folks hereabouts if olympics) and it became the lore and the landmarks — hop- nearly 16,000 runners from head of the charles. no har- the hoses’) and amid a partial
it isn’t happening on Patriots people’s race in the 1970s when kinton, heartbreak and the more than 80 countries ran 26 vard-yale game at the stadium. solar eclipse. it was held during
day and if there aren’t tens of victors bill rodgers and Joan hancock. miles anywhere they chose. but no thanksgiving day football. two world wars and the span-
thousands of people chasing benoit helped spark the run- the unicorn finisher’s med- it was nothing that any of them Will there be a beanpot tourna- ish flu epidemic. but until this
their dreams all the way to ning boom that still is going al is like olympic gold for the wants to do again. ment in february? Who can year it always was held. it will
copley square, it won’t be the nearly half a century later. bos- five-hour set. it has been a disjointed and say? be held again — once everyone
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Groundswell of support for UMass tennis
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uMass coach is fighting for
change again.
“ this is the way i felt at
yale,” dixon said. “this kind of
thing cannot continue, and if
someone doesn’t speak up it
will continue. as long as the
Power five schools do what
they do and the ncaa turns a
different face to them than it
does to programs like the one
we had at uMass, it will contin-
ue.”
She is far from alone, and
this time, she is flanked by 25-
year-old brittany collens,
whose creation of an online pe-
tition is one of the many ways
this story has expanded from
the pages of the Globe to those
of the uK’s Guardian.
their headline demand is
obvious: the ncaa must re-
verse its ridiculous punishment
for the $252, self-reported er-
ror uMass made by reimburs-
ing two former players for a
phone jack they didn’t use, and
restore the championship and
three years of wins the program
was forced to vacate. but that is
only a start. this is about fair-
ness, about equal treatment,
about common sense, and do-
ing what’s right.
reactions the past week
make it clear the voices at uM-
ass are being heard, at least in
the court of public opinion.
from influential eSPn com-
mentators Jay bilas and dick
vitale, whose indefatigable en-
thusiasm for college sports is
unmatched; to lawyer Greg
tarone, who is fighting for ath-
letes rights vis a vis the ncaa’s
draconian power; to a reddit
thread that surpassed 1,400
comments; to the office of con-
necticut senator chris Murphy,
the verdict is unanimous.
“everyone is on the same
page — the ncaa needs
change,” said collens, one of
the two players who received
the extra money, though she
Clemson’s Lawrence has COVID, out vs. BC
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just one player test positive
for covid since returning for
voluntary workouts in June.
they’ve conducted more than
5,500 tests.
When the ncaa allowed
teams to return over the sum-
mer, clemson was immediate-
ly hit hard with infections. the
program shut down voluntary
workouts in June after an out-
break of 37 infected players
and staff members.
Since June, the clemson
athletic department has con-
d u c t e d 1 1 , 5 5 4 c o v i d -1 9
tests, with 173 positive results,
and 137 of those positives
were student-athletes. thirty-
six were staff. none of them
needed to be hospitalized.
according to a new york
times report on oct. 8, the
4,082 confirmed covid cases
on clemson’s campus was sec-
ond only to the university of
Georgia among colleges na-
tionwide. clemson is now up
to 4,565 cumulative positive
cases since it started testing in
June.
Swinney was among the
more outspoken coaches
pushing for the return of col-
lege football this year. While
spor ts were suspended in
april, he told eSPn he had
“zero doubt” that the college
football season would start on
time.
“that’s just my mind-set.
i’ve got one plan, and that’s to
get the tigers ready to play in
late august, early September,”
Swinney said. “i’ll leave it to
the smart people to figure out
the doomsday scenarios.
Globe staff’s college picks WEEK 9
Las Vegas
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Last week
Season
Boston College No line
at Clemson
Texas Oklahoma St.
at Oklahoma St. by 3
Memphis Cincinnati
at Cincinnati by 6½
Coastal Carolina Coastal Carolina Coastal Carolina Coastal Carolina Coastal Carolina Georgia St.
at Georgia St. by 2½
North Carolina North Carolina North Carolina
at Virginia by 7
Selections are not against the pointspread.
Brittney Collens (left) and former coach Judy Dixon (right) are lobbying to get their 2017 team its conference title back.
had zero knowledge of it until
the ncaa’s ruling. “it needs to
reform. Student-athletes are
not the best interest of the
ncaa right now, and that’s
been apparent for so many ex-
amples.”
vitale has kept his 880,000-
plus twitter followers informed
of his outrage, which he shared
in a phone call this week.
“use my voice, tell them it’s
criminal, insane, ludicrous,” vi-
tale said. “it’s unfair and terri-
ble what they did to those kids.
We’ve got people out there
cheating big-time, schools,
coaches on tape talking about
buying ballplayers, and it takes
Quarterback Trevor Lawrence, the front-runner for the Heisman Trophy, is required to quarantine for at least 10 days.
We’ve got one scenario, and
that’s to run down that hill
and kick it off in the valley.”
lawrence, who has thrown
for 1,833 yards and 17 touch-
downs for the 6-0 tigers, was
asked Wednesday about the
protocols at clemson.
“Just trying to stay safe,” he
said. "you can’t control it obvi-
ously. there’s some situations
where guys get it, you just
don’t know how to get it. but
Julian Greg
Benbow Lang
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Oklahoma St. Oklahoma St.
Cincinnati Cincinnati
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years and years to penalize
them. and here you’ ve got
Mickey Mouse stuff and it’s a
joke. When i read the article,
where uMass admitted its mis-
take, and the ncaa knew there
was no intent involved to cheat,
it’s criminal.”
he l e f t m e w i t h t h i s : “ i
would not let that rest.”
and so we won’t. collens,
who learned of the decision by
reading about herself in a news
story, is meeting with Murphy’s
office thursday. that support
c o u l d b e a g a m e - c h a n g e r.
While the number of signatures
on her petition won’t play any
role in the official appeal, they
i’m just trying to be as safe as
p o s s i bl e . b u t y e a h , w e’ v e
thought about it and we’re
preparing for any situation.
“ We know that at some
point in the year it’s more like-
ly than not that that’s going to
happen to somebody on our
team, just with the way the vi-
ruses and how fast it spreads.
you just never know, so we’re
preparing every week. that’s
why ever ybody ’s got to be
Craig Michael
Larson Vega
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10-4 6-8
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Oklahoma St. Texas
Cincinnati Memphis
North Carolina North Carolina
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are important in reflecting
public disgust for a team so
clearly wronged by an honest
mistake.
to wit: dixon has been in
cont ac t with the Women’s
Sports foundation. collens is
meeting with the national Stu-
dent athlete advisory commit-
tee. uMass ad ryan bamford
doesn’t go a day without multi-
ple texts and emails of support.
their phones don’t stop — dix-
on from tennis colleagues all
over the country, collens from
media outlets from Sports illus-
trated to local radio. the out-
rage shared by a-10 commis-
sioner bernadette McGlade,
ready to play.”
Without lawrence in the
lineup, the tigers will likely to
turn to freshman d. J. ui-
agalelei, who has emerged as
clemson’s no. 2 quarterback.
in five games this season, the
6-foot-5-inch, 245-pound ui-
agalelei is 12-for-19 passing
for 102 yards.
lawrence, 21, was a lead-
ing figure in an august cam-
paign by a number of college
football players to push
against calls for the sport to
shut down amid the pandem-
ic.
“People are at just as much,
if not more risk, if we don’t
play,” lawrence wrote then on
twitter. “Players will all be
sent home to their own com-
munities where social distanc-
ing is highly unlikely and med-
ical care and expenses will be
placed on the families if they
were to contract [the virus] . . .
football is a safe haven for so
many people. We are more
likely to get the virus in every-
day life than playing football.”
President trump, who for
f r i d a y, o c t o b e r 3 0 , 2 0 2 0
courteSy brittany collenS
who called the decision “overly
harsh and a disservice to the
student-athletes and coaches,”
is being echoed everywhere.
on tuesday, it was ceo
timothy russell of the intercol-
legiate tennis association, the
governing body of college ten-
nis, who wrote, “the ncaa di-
vision i committee on infrac-
tions should do the right thing
by reconsidering their overly
harsh original decision and
granting the appeal . . . Such a
decision will show leadership
and serve our sport, the stu-
dent-athletes, and common
sense.”
or this from the attorney
Ken ruinard/Pool Photo via aP
months has advocated for
economies to reopen and for
sports events to resume, said
in august that he had spoken
with lawrence about the is-
sue. lawrence, whom trump
described as “very smart,”
wanted to “play football,” said
the president, adding, “let
’em play.”
the world of college foot-
ball was rocked earlier this
month when alabama coach
nick Saban was announced as
having tested positive for the
coronavirus. however, he test-
ed negative three straight
times shortly after that and
was on the sideline for the sec-
ond-ranked crimson tide’s
next game, a win over then-
no. 3 Georgia.
alabama’s team physician,
Jimmy robinson, said at the
time that according to the
Sec’s coronavirus protocols,
the three negative tests al-
lowed Saban’s initial result to
be deemed a “false positive.”
Material from the Associated
Press was used in this report.
tarone, who represents and ad-
vocates for athletes, and partic-
ipated in harvard’s recent an-
nual sports law symposium,
held virtually: “that the com-
mittee on infractions had to
draw blood for such minor and
non-malintent errors is incred-
ulous, disgraceful to american
athletics across the board, and
blatant abuse of that commit-
tee’s discretion on its face.”
dixon isn’t having it. When
her 25-year run at uMass ten-
nis ended so perfectly, riding
into the sunset on the wings of
such an unexpected champion-
ship, she never expected to
have it turn into this, being
pulled back into the fray over a
$9,000 mistake, much of which
can be attributed to the men’s
basketball team.
“ that’s where i am,” she
said. “i did ask ryan [bamford,
the ad], ‘for a mid-major
school that spent $100,000 for
a $9,000 clerical error, that is
now in middle of the covid-19
pandemic, and is going to
spend a huge amount more to
appeal this ridiculous decision,
is there some recourse for the
university to recoup some of its
loss vis a vis the amount of
money spent?’ he said, ‘no, we
can’t do that. When we agree to
abide by ncaa rules as a uni-
versity, we agree to all of this.’ i
said, ‘there’s no way to go after
the ncaa?’ he said no.
“So in my mind, i’m think-
ing could i find someone will-
ing to do some pro bono work?
that’s what my lawyer did for
yale, be willing to take this on
an issue. i would be willing to
be that person, be that face and
that voice.”
She’s been there before. the
ncaa should consider itself
warned.
Tara Sullivan is a Globe
columnist. She can be reached
at tara.sullivan@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@Globe_Tara.
Tributes
abound
for Roy
By Christopher Price
Globe Staff
in the wake of thursday’s
news that travis roy died at the
age of 45, tributes from around
the sports world started pour-
ing in to honor the former bos-
ton university hockey player
who would go on to inspire so
many.
“it is with heavy hearts that
we mourn the passing of travis
roy. his story is the epitome of
inspiration and courage, and he
was a role model and a hero to
so many people. travis' work
and dedication towards helping
fellow spinal cord-injury survi-
vors is nothing short of amaz-
ing,” boston university said in a
statement.
“his legacy will last forever,
not just within the boston uni-
versity community, but with the
countless lives he has impacted
across the country. our sincere
thoughts are with his wonder-
ful family as well as his vast
support group of friends and
colleagues.”
“hockey east and the entire
conference family mourns trav-
is’s passing,” read a statement
from hockey east officials.
“travis roy was one of the most
cherished members of our fam-
ily and his legacy will live on for
generations to come. rest in
peace, travis.”
“travis roy was the ultimate
symbol of determination and
courage. the impact that travis
had on the new england hock-
ey community is immeasur-
able, and his relentless advoca-
cy for spinal cord research was
inspiring,” said bruins presi-
dent cam neely.
“the bruins offer sincere
condolences to the roy family,
the travis roy foundation, bos-
ton university, and all of those
who knew and loved travis
roy.”
in addition, athletes, media
members and other notables
took to twitter to honor the
memory of roy and what he ac-
complished.
Christopher Price can be
reached at
christopher.price@globe.com.
F r i d a y, o c t o b e r 3 0 , 2 0 2 0
Winter tournaments nixed
MIAA: Season may run
Nov. 30 through Feb. 21
By Jim Clark
Globe correspondent
the fate of winter high school
sports, as expected, rests squarely in
the hands of the state’s executive office
of energy and environmental affairs.
during a virtual meeting thursday,
the Miaa board of directors unani-
mously approved its coVid-19 task
Force’s recommendations for the win-
ter season, including the cancellation
of 2021 winter tournaments.
by a 20-0 vote, the board agreed
with the tournament Management
committee’s recommendation last
week to not hold Miaa-sponsored win-
ter tournaments during the ongoing
pandemic. that completes one full cal-
endar year with no Miaa state champi-
onships, as basketball and hockey title
games were canceled last March at the
outbreak of the pandemic, followed by
the scrapping of the entire spring 2020
season and then postseason play this
fall.
the vote leaves open the possibility
for individual leagues and districts to
conduct postseason events, as a hand-
ful of leagues and pods are doing in the
Fall 1 season.
duxbury athletic director thom
holdgate, co-chair of the task force,
presented five motions outlining how a
winter season could look. all passed by
20-0 votes, including recommenda-
tions to uphold the board’s previous
Plymouth North made Eyleen Dias the focal point of the girls’ volleyball team and it has paid off in wins.
GirLS’ VoLLeYbaLL notebook
Dias lifts her team to new heights
By Brandon Chase
Globe correspondent
eyleen Dias is happy she came back
to america. in hindsight, so are her
volleyball teammates at plymouth
north.
“i didn’t have an interest in com-
ing, but then i visited [my mother,
raquel Pereira] for two weeks, and
that changed,” she said.
the north senior was born here,
but moved to brazil at age 2 with her
mother and father. but with her par-
ents separated, she lived on and off
with each in different parts of the
country for two years until her mother
moved back to the United states. at
11, she started playing volleyball in
brazil. in 2018, dias returned to the
Us to live with her mother. north fin-
ished 2-16 that fall. a year later, with
the addition of dias, the eagles earned
their first postseason berth in almost
20 years.
this season, with dias as the an-
chor at outside hitter and libero, the
eagles just might be the most under-
players of the week
Top performances of girls’ volleyball players
from EMass leagues in the past week:
Carly Kennedy, Hingham — A junior setter,
she recorded 29 assists, 15 digs, and 6 aces in
two 3-0 Patriot League wins over Silver Lake
and Plymouth North.
Sarah Leonard, Duxbury — The senior middle
recorded 20 kills and two blocks in wins over
Plymouth North (3-0) and Hingham (3-2). She
hit .333 with 13 kills against the Harborwom-
en.
Kat Morse, Dracut — The junior outside hitter
tallied 15 digs and four aces as the Middies
defeated previously undefeated Billerica, 3-1,
on Wednesday.
Ellie Openshaw, Notre Dame-Hingham — In
two matches, a 3-0 win over Hanover and a
3-0 loss to Hingham, the senior outside hitter
had 8 kills, 8 digs, and 7 aces. Six of the aces
came against Hanover.
Abigail Quinn Archbishop Williams — The ju-
nior served up 11 aces in Archies’ first win of
the season, 3-1, over Matignon last Friday.
brandon chase
T h e
timeline for a winter season running
from nov. 30 through Feb. 21.
however, all is pending approval
from the eea for individual winter
sports and required modifications,
then subsequently the individual sport
committees, sports Medicine commit-
tee, and board of directors.
holdgate and Marshfield superin-
tendent Jeffrey Granatino, president of
the Miaa, said they expect eea guid-
ance soon, perhaps by the middle of
next week. as part of holdgate’s mo-
tion, the task force may recommend a
delay to the nov. 30 start date if eea
guidance is not received by nov. 9.
“We’re hopeful that if we do get
[eea guidance] by then, that we can
quickly go through and have every-
thing in place for [nov. 30],” holdgate
said.
Mount Greylock ad lindsey von
holtz noted that when the board set
the new four-season timeline in au-
gust, it granted leagues and districts
flexibility to move start and end dates
as they wished.
“i do know there were conversations
regarding moving it off the 30th right
from the get-go,” said holdgate, adding
he is aware of some districts already
targeting a start after Jan. 1, or consid-
ering delaying their start. “We simply
wanted to keep the date of the 30th as
is for now, because there are parts of
the state that believe they can start by
the 30th, as long as we get that eea
guidance by the ninth.”
brookline ad peter rittenburg ex-
pressed concern about the short turn-
rated team in the patriot league as
the end-of-season patriot cup ap-
proaches.
plymouth north is 6-4 after
Wednesday night’s 3-0 win over notre
dame-hingham, with all four losses
coming against two teams, duxbury
and hingham. plymouth north is
third in the patriot league’s Keenan
division, behind duxbury and hing-
ham, who battled for the Keenan title
on Wednesday night, with the host
dragons prevailing in five sets.
after a 1-2 start, plymouth north
won four straight matches. that surge
surprised coach Jane burt, whose
team graduated eight seniors off the
2019 roster. the eagles also didn’t get
in many offseason workouts because
their main summer league at the
hyannis youth center was canceled
because of the pandemic.
“at the beginning of the season we
were a little rusty, and it seems every
game i’m trying something a little dif-
ferent and it’s all coming together,”
burt said.
What’s worked the best, however, is
something that’s stayed the same —
making dias the focal point.
late last season, she moved from
libero to outside hitter and still put up
impressive numbers at both positions.
in 66 total sets, she recorded 33 kills,
59 aces, 351 digs, and a 90.8 serve
percentage to earn patriot league all-
star honors. this year, she has five
times as many kills per set than last
year (0.5 to 2.5) for a total of 73 in just
29 total sets. she also has 28 aces
(serving one 24 percent of the time)
and a team-leading 119 digs.
and, oh yes, she’s 5 feet 7 inches,
small for an outside hitter, but with an
excellent vertical leap.
“i realize that not the whole state’s
playing right now, but i would put her
up against anyone,” burt said. “seeing
a lefty outside hitter that can go line,
middle, or cross[court] is pretty rare.”
plymouth north has two regular-
B o s t o n G l o b e
around and the time needed to line up
a potential winter season.
“it seems an impossible timeline,”
rittenburg said, noting there was a full
month in Fall 1 from the receipt of eea
guidance to the official start of the sea-
son.
holdgate agreed it does seem “ag-
gressive,” but that without having to
squeeze in postseason play by the Feb.
21 end date, it gives more flexibility
during the 12-week window for the
winter season.
the board also voted to encourage
schools and districts to create sched-
ules within leagues or geographic pods
to reduce travel, a format being used
statewide during the Fall 1 season.
noting the limited scheduling op-
tions in the berkshires, von holtz asked
if schools are restricted to playing with-
in Massachusetts only.
“We didn’t discuss that as a piece, as
far as crossing the border,” holdgate
said.
Granatino acknowledged the chal-
lenge ahead of the board, as was the
case during the canceled spring season
and the discussions for Fall 1 and be-
yond, in trying to get athletes back to
competition safely.
“We’re on uncharted grounds here,”
Granatino said. “everyone is doing
what they feel is in the best interests of
our student-athletes . . . to be able to af-
ford them the chance to take part in
these athletic endeavors is huge.”
Jim Clark can be reached at
jim.clark@globe.com.
debee tlUMacKi For the Globe
season games remaining, against
Whitman-hanson and Marshfield —
teams the eagles already have beaten.
For a program that was at the figura-
tive basement of the patriot two years
ago, they’ve improved dramatically,
even with the shortened season and
the outside stressors of 2020.
Service points
R the patriot league won’t be the
only league with a postseason tourna-
ment in this abbreviated Fall 1 season.
the catholic central league — one of
three leagues currently playing girls’
volleyball — will hold a single-elimina-
tion ccl cup beginning nov. 14. nine
teams will participate and the final is
scheduled for sat., nov. 21.
R eight seemed to be the theme
Wednesday night in hingham, where
duxbury defeated the harborwomen,
3-1, to win its eighth straight patriot
Keenan title. but that also was the
case in Quincy, as the presidents
swept pembroke, 25-22, 25-14, 25-14,
to improve to 8-0, as well. it’s Quincy’s
second 8-0 start in as many seasons.
R dracut knocked billerica from
the ranks of the undefeated in the
Merrimack Valley conference on
Wednesday, 25-23, 22-25, 25-21, 25-
19. kyra robles had 10 kills and 10
digs for the Middies.
Matches to watch
Friday, Cardinal Spellman at bish-
op Feehan, 5:15 p.m. — Feehan (6-0)
and spellman (3-0) are first and sec-
ond in the catholic central large, but
spellman has played one game since
oct. 13 because of coVid-19 cases at
the school postponing athletics.
Saturday, Lowell at Central Catho-
lic, 1 p.m. — Following billerica’s loss
to dracut, central catholic is now in
first place in the MVc division 1.
Saturday, bishop Fenwick at aus-
tin Prep, 1 p.m. — austin prep won
the first meeting, 3-2, on oct. 22, with
the fifth set going to 18-16.
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Passing .................................. 270 157
Punt returns........................... 0-0 0-0
Kickoff returns ...................... 0-0 2-46
Interception returns............. 1-3 1-0
Comp-att-int ...................21-30-1 16-27-1
Sacked-yards lost............... 2-11 3-22
Punts-avg. .........................1-39.0 2-39.0
Fumbles-lost .......................... 0-0 0-0
Penalties-yards ................... 6-63 6-30
Time of possession .......... 36:30 23:30
INDIVIDuAL STATISTICS
RUSHING—Atl, Hill 11-55, Gurley II
18-46, Ryan 6-27, Ollison 1-3; Car, Davis
13-66, Bridgewater 5-30, Chinn 1-28,
Samuel 3-23
PASSING—Atl, Ryan 21-30-1-281;
Car, Bridgewater 15-23-1-176, Walker
1-4-0-3
RECEIVING—Atl, J.Jones 7-137, Hurst
5-54, Ridley 3-42, Gage 2-25, Blake 2-14,
Hill 2-9; Car, Anderson 5-48, Samuel 4-
31, I.Thomas 3-28, Moore 2-55, Davis 1-
11, Manhertz 1-6
TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS—Atl, Neal
6-1-0, D.Jones 5-1-1, Oluokun 4-1-0, Ter-
rell 4-1-0, Jarrett 1-4-0, Wreh-Wilson 3-
1-0, Oliver 3-0-1, Tuioti-Mariner 2-0-0,
Fowler Jr. 1-1-1, Means 1-0-0, Powell 1-
0-0, Ri.Allen 1-0-0, Sheffield 1-0-0, Bai-
ley 0-1-0; Car, Chinn 6-4-0, Boston 6-
2-0, Whitehead 3-3-0, S.Thompson 3-
3-0, Burns 4-1-0, Franklin 3-1-0,
Weatherly 2-2-0, Pride Jr. 1-3-0, Brown
1-3-0, Elder 3-0-0, Jackson 3-0-0,
Haynes 2-0-1, Taylor 1-1-0, Hartsfield 1-
1-0, Obada 1-0-1, Larkin 1-0-0, Thomas-
Oliver III 1-0-0, Roy 0-1-0, Hamilton 0-
1-0
INTERCEPTIONS—Atl, Wreh-Wilson
1-3; Car, Jackson 1-0
this date in baseball
Oct. 30
1945 — Branch Rickey signed Jackie
Robinson to a minor-league contract
for the 1946 season with Montreal of
the International League.
1963 — Sandy Koufax of Los Angeles
became the second player to win the
Cy Young and MVP in the same year.
Koufax beat out Dick Groat of the St.
Louis Cardinals for the MVP award.
2001 — Roger Clemens and Mariano Ri-
vera shut down Arizona for a 2-1 win
that cut the Diamondbacks’ World se-
ries lead to two games-to-one. Clem-
ens allowed only three hits and struck
out nine and Rivera threw two perfect
innings in relief. An early home run by
Jorge Posada and a tiebreaking single
by Scott Brosius in the sixth were
enough to win for the Yankees.
2010 — Mitch Moreland hit a three-run
homer in the second inning, Josh Ham-
ilton added a solo shot in the fifth and
the Texas Rangers beat the San Fran-
cisco Giants 4-2 to close to 2-1 in the
World Series.
2013 — David Ortiz and the Boston Red
Sox, baseball’s bearded wonders,
capped their remarkable turnaround
by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1
in Game 6 to win their third World Se-
ries championship in 10 seasons. Ortiz,
named Most Valuable Player, had him-
self a Ruthian World Series. He batted
.688 (11 for 16) with two homers, six
RBIs and eight walks including four in
the finale for a .760 on-base percent-
age in 25 plate appearances, the sec-
ond-highest in Series history.
2015 — David Wright and Curtis Grand-
erson homered, rookie Noah Synder-
gaard pitched six effective innings and
the New York Mets roughed up the
Kansas City Royals 9-3, cutting their
World Series deficit to 2-1.
2016 — Aroldis Chapman got eight outs
in the longest relief appearance of his
career and the Chicago Cubs held off
Cleveland 3-2, cutting the Indians’ lead
in the World Series 3-2. Kris Bryant’s
homer sparked a three-run burst in the
fourth inning that gave Jon Lester and
the Cubs the lead.
this date in sports
Oct. 30
1974 — Muhammad Ali knocks out
George Foreman in the eighth round
in Kinshasa, Zaire, to regain the world
heavyweight title.
1975 — John Bucyk of the Boston
Bruins scores his 500th career goal in
a 3-2 victory over St. Louis.
2001 — Michael Jordan misses his
biggest shot of the night and commits
two crucial late turnovers in the
Washington Wizards’ 93-91 loss to the
New York Knicks, Jordan’s first regu-
lar-season game after a 3 1/2-year
retirement.
2003 — In the first regular-season
game of his NBA career, 18-year-old
LeBron James has 25 points, nine
assists, six rebounds and four steals,
but the Cleveland Cavaliers lose 106-
92 to the Sacramento Kings.
Sun Mon
11/1 11/2
Buf
1:00
CBS
DC
7:30
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Golf
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CBSSN
Golf
bermuda championship
At Port Royal Golf Club,
Southampton, Bermuda
Yardage: 6,828; par: 71
Peter Malnati..............................63
Ryan Armour...............................64
Doug Ghim...................................64
Doc Redman................................65
Chase Seiffert.............................65
Vaughn Taylor............................65
Stewart Cink............................... 66
Wyndham Clark..........................66
Eric Dugas....................................66
Emiliano Grillo.............................66
Hunter Mahan.............................66
Ollie Schniederjans....................66
Josh Teater..................................66
Johnson Wagner.........................66
Padraig Harrington....................67
Kramer Hickok............................67
Russell Knox................................67
Scott Piercy.................................67
Roger Sloan.................................67
Robert Streb................................67
Brian Stuard................................67
Hudson Swafford....................... 67
D.J. Trahan...................................67
Jhonattan Vegas.........................67
Danny Willett..............................67
Ryan Brehm.................................68
Brice Garnett...............................68
Rhein Gibson...............................68
Michael Gligic.............................68
Chesson Hadley..........................68
David Hearn................................ 68
Matt Jones...................................68
Anirban Lahiri.............................68
Hank Lebioda..............................68
Nelson Ledesma.........................68
Luke List.......................................68 -3
Tyler McCumber.........................68
Rob Oppenheim..........................68
Patrick Rodgers..........................68
John Senden................................68
Scott Stallings.............................68
Shawn Stefani.............................68
Zack Sucher................................ 68
Kevin Tway..................................68
Aaron Wise..................................68
Mark Anderson...........................69
Joseph Bramlett......................... 69
Luke Donald................................ 69
Fred Funk.....................................69
Robert Garrigus..........................69
Will Gordon................................. 69
Scott Harrington.........................69
Max Homa...................................69
Maverick McNealy.....................69
Troy Merritt.................................69
Seamus Power............................69
Andrew Putnam......................... 69
Seth Reeves.................................69
Adam Schenk..............................69
Henrik Stenson...........................69
Justin Suh....................................69
Harold Varner III........................ 69
Will Zalatoris...............................69
Wesley Bryan..............................70
Jonathan Byrd.............................70
Brian Gay.....................................70
Rasmus Hojgaard.......................70
Kyoung-Hoon Lee.......................70
Denny McCarthy.........................70
Keith Mitchell..............................70
Henrik Norlander........................70
Cameron Percy...........................70
D.A. Points...................................70
Wes Roach...................................70
Kyle Stanley................................70
Sepp Straka.................................70
Cameron Tringale......................70
Kristoffer Ventura......................70
Vincent Whaley..........................70
Kiradech Aphibarnrat................71
Sangmoon Bae............................71
Chris Baker..................................71
Ricky Barnes............................... 71
Lucas Bjerregaard......................71
Ryan Blaum.................................71
Rafa Cabrera Bello.....................71
Jason Dufner...............................71
Bo Hoag........................................71
Beau Hossler...............................71
Tom Lewis...................................71
Jamie Lovemark.........................71
Michael Miller.............................71
Pat Perez..................................... 71
Camiko Smith............................. 71
Ben Taylor................................... 71
Brendon Todd.............................71
Bo Van Pelt..................................71
Tim Wilkinson.............................71
Fabian Gomez.............................72 +1
Kelly Kraft....................................72 +1
George McNeill...........................72 +1
Luke Schniederjans....................72 +1
Peter Uihlein................................72 +1
Camilo Villegas...........................72 +1
Matt Borchert............................. 73 +2
Taylor Funk..................................73 +2
Tommy Gainey............................73 +2
Michael Gellerman.....................73 +2
Branden Grace............................73 +2
Brandon Hagy.............................73 +2
Charley Hoffman........................73 +2
Ben Martin...................................73 +2
John Oda......................................73 +2
Michael Sims...............................73 +2
Danny Walker.............................73 +2
Nick Watney................................73 +2
Graham DeLaet...........................74 +3
Bill Haas.......................................74 +3
James Nicholas...........................74 +3
Paul Stankowski.........................74 +3
Arjun Atwal................................. 75 +4
Aaron Baddeley..........................75 +4
Rafael Campos............................75 +4
Derek Ernst..................................75 +4
Jordan Gumberg.........................75 +4
Michael Kim................................75 +4
Kevin Stadler...............................75 +4
Bronson Burgoon....................... 76 +5
Alex Cejka....................................76 +5
Matt Every...................................76 +5
Anthony Phipps..........................76 +5
Dominic Bozzelli.........................81 +10
tennis
Vienna open
At Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna
Men’s singles
Second Round
Daniel Evans, def. Jurij Rodionov, 7-5,
6-3; Lorenzo Sonego, def. Hubert
Hurkacz, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (2); Daniil Medve-
dev (4), def. Vasek Pospisil, 4-6, 6-3,
6-2; Andrey Rublev (5), def. Jannik Sin-
ner, 2-1; Dominic Thiem (2), def. Cris-
tian Garin, 6-3, 6-2; Grigor Dimitrov,
def. Stefanos Tsitsipas (3), 6-7 (5), 6-4,
6-3.
astana open
At Daulet National Tennis Centre -
Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan
Men’s singles
Second Round
Emil Ruusuvuori, def. Jordan Thomp-
son (8), 6-2, 3-6, 6-4; Adrian Mannarino
(3), def. Yuichi Sugita, 6-1, 6-1; Mack-
enzie McDonald, def. Andreas Seppi,
3-6, 6-3, 6-3; Mikhail Kukushkin, def.
Benoit Paire (1), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2), 6-1.
Sports c7
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tue Wed thu
11/3 11/4 11/5
latest line
College football
friday
Favorite Pts. Underdog
At Tulsa...............17 ..........E. Carolina
Minnesota...........19½ .......At Maryland
At Wyoming..........1 .................Hawaii
Saturday
At Michigan........24½ .......Michigan St.
Wake Forest....... 12 ........At Syracuse
N. Carolina............7 ..........At Virginia
At FAU....................5 ....................UTSA
At W. Virginia.......3½ .......... Kansas St.
At Clemson.........NL ........................ BC
Va. Tech................3½ .......At Louisville
Notre Dame........ 20 ........At Ga. Tech
At Duke................. 9½ .............Charlotte
Coast. Carolina....2½ ....At Georgia St.
Indiana.................11 ..........At Rutgers
Ohio St.................12 .........At Penn St.
At Cincinnati........ 6½ .............Memphis
Purdue...................7 ............ At Illinois
San Diego St.........7½ ..........At Utah St.
At BYU.................28½ .......W. Kentucky
Boise St............... 14 ........At Air Force
Nevada.................14 ..............At UNLV
At So. Miss........... 1½ ......................Rice
At SMU................12½ .................... Navy
At Iowa..................2½ .....Northwestern
At Okla. St.............3 ...................Texas
Oklahoma........... 14½ ....At Texas Tech
At Tulane...............4 ................Temple
La.-Lafyt...............17 ........At Texas St.
At Arkansas St.....2½ .....................Troy
TCU........................ 2½ .............At Baylor
UCF.........................2½ .........At Houston
Iowa St................ 28 ...........At Kansas
LSU.........................2½ ...........At Auburn
UAB......................12½ .........At La. Tech
Mississippi..........16½ .....At Vanderbilt
Applchn. St.........31½ ....At La.-Monroe
At Alabama.........31 ..............Miss. St.
At Texas A&M....12½ .............Arkansas
At Florida............12½ ..............Missouri
-8
-7
Georgia................17 .......At Kentucky
At San Jose St....13½ .......New Mexico
-7 NfL
-6 Sunday
-6 Favorite Pts. Underdog
-6 Indianapolis..........2½ ............At Detroit
-5 At Green Bay........7 .......... Minnesota
-5 At Buffalo..............3½ ..NEW ENGLAND
-5 Tennessee.............5½ ......At Cincinnati
-5 At Cleveland.........2½ ...........Las Vegas
-5 At Kansas City...19½ ................NY Jets
-5 LA Rams................3½ .............At Miami
-5 New Orleans.........4½ ..........At Chicago
-5 At Seattle..............3 ....San Francisco
-4 At Phila..................9 .................. Dallas
-4 LA Chargers.......NL ........... At Denver
At Baltimore.........3½ ...........Pittsburgh
-4
-4 Monday
-4 Tampa Bay.........NL ......At NY Giants
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transactions
-3 Baseball
-3 Baltimore: Signed C Taylor Davis,
-3 RHPs Marcos Diplan, Mickey Jannis
-3 and Ofelky Peralta, INF Ryan Ripken
-3 and INF/OF Stevie Wilkerson to minor
-3
-3
-3
league contracts. Assigned RHPs David
Hess, Branden Kline, Kohl Stewart and
INF/OF Andrew Velazquez outright to
-3 Norfolk (IL).
-3 Chicago White Sox: Signed Tony La
Russa as manager with multi-year con-
-3 tract.
-3 Seattle: Agreed to terms P Kendall
-3 Graveman to a one-year contract.
-3 Atlanta: Declined 2021 option on P
-3 Darren O'Day.
-3 Milwaukee: Declined 2021 option on
-3 OF Ryan Braun.
-3 NY Mets: Announced P Brad Brach
-3 has exercised his player option for
-2 2021.
-2 Miami: Sent RHPs Josh A. Smith and
-2 Mike Morin outright to Wichita (PCL).
-2
-2 fRONTIER LEAGuE
-2 Sussex County: Released INFs Man-
-2 ny Jefferson and Sean Phelan, RHPs
-2 Cory Jones and David Palladino and OF
-2 Tristan.
-2 Washington: Released OF E.P.
-2 Reese.
-2 NfL
-2 Atlanta: Activated LB Edmond Rob-
inson to the active roster as a COVID-
-2
19 replacement.
-2
-2 Detroit: Signed RB Dalyn Dawkins to
-2 practice squad. Released DT Albert
-2 Higgins. Released LB Elijah Lee.
-1 Jacksonville: Activated K Aldrick
-1 Rosas from practice squad injured
-1 reserve.
-1 Las Vegas: Released DB D.J. White
-1 from practice squad with and injury
-1 settlement.
-1 LA Chargers: Placed TE Virgil Green
-1 on injured reserve. Placed G Ryan Groy
-1 on reserve/COVID-19 list.
-1 NY Giants: Placed G Will Hernandez
-1 on reserve/COVID-19 list.
-1 NHL
-1 Arizona: Announced decision to
-1 renounce the rights to D Mitchell Miller
-1 effective immediately.
-1 Carolina: Promoted G Mike Horton,
E
E
DB Natrell Jamerson and WR Marken
Michel to active roster as COVID-19 re-
E placements.
E Chicago: Loaned F Kirby Dach to
E men’s junior Canadian team from Dec.
E 26 - Jan. 5.
E Dallas: Named Rick Bowness to
head coach.
E
E New Jersey: Signed D Colton White
E to a one-year, two-way contract.
Tampa Bay: Re-signed F Pat Maroon
E
E to a two-year contract. Signed D Luke
E Schenn to a one-year contract.
E AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGuE
E Bridgeport: Signed D Seth Helgeson
E
E
and Fs Jeff Kubiak, Erik Brown and
Nick Pastujove.
EAST COAST HOCKEY LEAGuE
E
E Idaho: Signed D Chase Stewart for
2020-2020 season.
Worcester: Signed F Eddie Matsush-
ima to a one-year contract.
MLS
fC Cincinnati: Signed F Brandon
Vazquez to a multi-year extension.
LA Galaxy: Announced Guillermo
Barros Schelotto was relieved as head
coach effective immediately.
Announced Dominic Kinnear as interim
head coach for remainder of 2020 sea-
son.
uNITED SOCCER LEAGuE
Orlando City B: Released M Austin
Amer, G Austin Aviza, D Franklin
Carabali, F Fablo Dos Santos, D Owen
Guske, D Juan Pablo Monticelli, M Ted-
dy Ndje, D Nicholas O'Callaghan, M Ad-
am Ozeri, M Ignacio Poplawske, D Ma-
teo Rodas and D Jonathan Rosales.
mls
EASTERN CONfERENCE
GP W D L Pts.
Philadelphia ............ 21 13 5 3 44
Toronto FC .............. 21 12 5 4 41
Columbus ................ 20 10 5 5 35
Orlando City SC ..... 20 9 8 3 35
New York City FC .. 21 10 3 8 33
NEW ENGLAND....... 20 7 8 5 29
Nashville SC............ 20 7 7 6 28
NY Red Bulls ........... 20 7 5 8 26
Montreal.................. 21 7 2 12 23
Inter Miami CF ....... 21 6 3 12 21
Chicago.................... 20 5 6 9 21
D.C. United .............. 21 5 6 10 21
Atlanta ..................... 21 5 4 12 19
FC Cincinnati .......... 21 4 4 13 16
WESTERN CONfERENCE
GP W D L Pts.
Sporting KC............. 20 11 3 6 36
Seattle...................... 19 10 5 4 35
Portland................... 20 10 5 5 35
Los Angeles FC....... 20 9 4 7 31
Minnesota ............... 19 8 6 5 30
FC Dallas.................. 19 7 7 5 28
San Jose................... 21 7 6 8 27
Vancouver............... 21 8 0 13 24
Real Salt Lake......... 20 5 7 8 22
Houston ................... 21 4 9 8 21
Colorado.................. 15 5 4 6 19
LA Galaxy ................ 19 5 3 11 18
SATuRDAY’S GAMES
FC Dallas at Houston........................3:30
Nashville at Chicago.........................8:30
SuNDAY’S GAMES
Columbus at Philadelphia................3:30
Atlanta at Cincinnati..............................7
NYC FC at NY Red Bulls........................ 7
Toronto FC at Inter Miami...............7:30
NEW ENGLAND at DC United.......... 7:30
Montreal at Orlando City.................7:30
Sporting KC at Minnesota...............7:30
Colorado at Seattle................................9
Portland at Vancouver........................ 10
San Jose at LA FC............................10:30
LA Galaxy at Real Salt Lake..........10:30
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Business
Warp speed vaccines? Not so fast Economy
Timelines for rolling
them out to the public
and efficacy data appear to be adding
up to a slippage in the estimates of
grew at
33% rate
when a vaccine will be deployed.
asked wednesday about when he ex-
may be a bit too rosy pects the fda to greenlight use of the
first vaccines, dr. anthony fauci moved

By Helen Branswell
stat
the ambitious drive to produce
covid -19 vaccines at warp speed
seems to be running up against reality.
we all probably need to reset our expec-
tations about how quickly we’re going
to be able to be vaccinated.
pauses in clinical trials to investigate
potential safety issues, a slower-than-
expected rate of infections among par-
ticipants in at least one of the trials, and
in Q3
the administration’s stated goal post.
“could be January, could be later. we
don’t know,” fauci, director of the na-
tional institute of allergy and infectious
diseases, said in an online interview
with JaMa editor howard bauchner.
But big challenges
on tuesday, front-runner pfizer re-
vealed in an earnings call that the first
remain before US
interim analysis in its phase 3 clinical can see full rebound
trial had not yet occurred. that means
there hadn’t yet been enough covid in- By Martin Crutsinger
fections among the trial participants to associated press

signals that an expert panel advising
the food and drug administration may
not be comfortable recommending the
use of vaccines on very limited safety
Ellen R. Gordon (pictured in Chicago in 2013) is the chief executive of Tootsie Roll Industries.
take a first stab at analyzing whether
the people randomly assigned to receive
vaccine were infected at a lower rate
vaccinE, Page c9
washinGton — the Us econo-
cincinnati children’s hospital Medical center via ap my grew at a record 33.1 percent an-
Some clinical trials have been paused to investigate potential safety nual rate in the July-september quar-
issues, forcing revisions in the forecasts for a widely used vaccine. ter but has yet to fully rebound from
its plunge in the first half of the year
— and the recovery is slowing as coro-
navirus cases surge and government
aid dries up.
the commerce department’s esti-
mate on thursday of third-quarter
growth showed that the nation has re-
gained only about two-thirds of the
output that was lost early this year
when the eruption of the virus closed
businesses, threw tens of millions out
of work, and caused the deepest re-
cession since the Great depression.
the economy is now weakening
again and facing renewed threats.
confirmed viral cases are surging.
hiring has sagged. federal stimulus
has run out. with no further federal
aid in sight this year, Goldman sachs
has slashed its growth forecast for the
current fourth quarter to a 3 percent
annual rate from 6 percent.
Gregory daco, chief Us economist
at oxford economics, noted that the
record-high third quarter growth in
the nation’s gross domestic product
“tells us little, if anything, about mo-
mentum heading into” the current
quarter.
“the strong Gdp performance
gives a false impression of the econo-
my’s true health,” daco wrote in a re-
search note. “Much of the Q3 gain
came from carry-over effects from
fast progress in May-July . . . we antic-
ipate a much slower second phase of
the recovery, with output not reclaim-
ing its pre-covid level until late
2021.”
the latest Gdp reading is the last
major economic report before elec-
tion day, after a campaign that presi-
dent trump has sought to build
will crockett / willcrockett.pro
around his economic record before
the pandemic hit. trump has drawn

‘Eating a piece of candy is a

generally solid public support for his
handling of the economy.
on thursday, the government also
reported that the number of ameri-
cans seeking unemployment benefits

relaxed feeling in troubled times’

fell slightly last week, to 751,000.
that was the fewest weekly applica-
tions since March, but the level re-
mained historically high and indi-
cates that the pandemic is still forcing
many employers to cut jobs.
Scott Kirsner Despite pandemic sales losses, the woman behind in Massachusetts, more than
47,000 people filed new claims for
innovation Economy Junior Mints and Sugar Babies is still sweet on the business unemployment benefits, up nearly

I
f you were a kid watching tv in the 1960s and ’70s,
you probably remember the omnipresent ad that
asked “how many licks does it take to get to the
tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?”
(“the world may never know,” the narrator iin-
toned, after someone invariably gobbled up the
whole lollipop.)
in more recent years, i have been wondering, “how
many interview requests must i lob before i get an inter-
view with the ceo of tootsie roll industries, ellen r. Gor-
don?”
i was worried the world would never know the answer
to that question, either.
i’ve been asking since 2018, when i wrote about the last
candy factory in cambridge, owned by tootsie roll indus-
tries. it produces the world’s entire supply of candies such
as Junior Mints and sugar babies.
in doing that story, i learned that Gordon and her late
husband, Melvin, had extensive ties to boston and spent
much of their lives in wellesley. he was a native of boston,
and she was from new york. her father and uncle had pur-
chased tootsie roll in 1935, about four years after the
tootsie pop was invented.
i didn’t succeed in getting a live interview with Gordon.
but this week, just three days before halloween, she did
send along short responses to some of the questions i sent
to her public relations rep.
innovation Economy, Page c10
2,700 from the week prior. More than
12,000 more filed claims for pandem-
ic Unemployment assistance bene-
fits, the federal program that provides
aid for gig workers and others who
are not eligible for standard state un-
employment.
though the national unemploy-
ment rate, at 7.9 percent, is down sig-
nificantly from 14.7 percent at the
start of the pandemic recession, it is
still historically high. and hiring has
slowed for three straight months. the
economy is still roughly 10.7 million
Economy, Page c11

Seeking to calm business owners’ nerves,

SimpliSafe will donate 250 alarm systems
After a tumultuous year, it’s working with the
City of Boston to help support small companies
By Andy Rosen
Globe staff
the home security company sim-
plisafe will distribute free alarm sys-
tems to 250 small businesses through-
out boston as part of a program orga-
nized with the city to help calm the
frayed nerves of store owners buffeted
by a turbulent year.
Mayor Martin J. walsh was expected
to announce the partnership on thurs-
day. simplisafe, headquartered near
downtown crossing, will cover the cost
of monitoring the systems for a year.
ceo christian cerda said some of
the company’s customers have ex-
pressed heightened concern about secu-
rity this year, with many storefronts
closed for months — along with some
break-ins, looting, and vandalism dur-
ing the summer’s largely peaceful pro-
tests for racial justice — though he not-
ed that simplisafe has not registered an
unusually high number of burglaries
this year.
worries about tuesday’s presidential
election are also a factor, he added.
“this is not subsiding,” cerda said.
“there continues to be quite a bit of un-
certainty — and feelings of uncertainty
— now.”
cerda said that by giving away secu-
rity systems — they include sensors and
motion detectors that set off a loud
alarm and trigger a response from a
monitoring center — the company
hoped to provide some peace of mind to
businesses around boston.
Jerome warren, co-owner of the dor-
chester avenue clothing shop dareales,
said it was among those damaged dur-
ing June 1 protests, though it is not near
where the major demonstrations took
place. he said the store, which had al-
ready suffered months of diminished
sales during the covid-19 lockdown,
lost more than $20,000 in inventory and
equipment.
dareales, which requested assistance
shotbylewry
from the city, expects to receive a sim-
plisafe system. the city said the value of Christopher Bray (right) and Jerome Warren own Dareales, a
SimPLiSaFE, Page c11 Dorchester Avenue clothing shop being helped by SimpliSafe.
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talking points
CABLE TELEVISION cable giant comcast is opening an Xfinity store in
downtown crossing. the company plans to employ
Comcast to open about 15 people at the 3,300-square-foot shop at 350
office in Washington st., between tJ maxx and homegoods,
when it opens in February. the shop will include
Downtown product demonstration areas for various comcast
Crossing products, such as its X1 video service and Xfinity
mobile. comcast has two other Xfinity stores in boston — in allston and east boston —
along with several smaller service centers. — JoN chesto

INDUSTRY vmd companies of North andover is betting on the strength of the region’s industrial
market by making two real estate purchases this month for a combined $16.7 million.
North Andover vmd acquired 523 Pleasant st. in attleboro, an almost fully leased 179,000-square-
company makes foot warehouse, for $7.65 million. and then vmd bought a 150,000-square-foot
warehouse at 50 John hancock road in taunton for $9 million. tenant Quad/graphics
two big real plans to exit in the next few months, leaving the building vacant, vmd managing
estate director Jim vitas said. he plans to reposition the taunton property for e-commerce or

purchases biomanufacturing. vmd was part of one of the state’s biggest-ever industrial
transactions in January when clarion Partners acquired the former Necco property in PaUl Faith/aFP via getty images

revere for $355 million from vmd and atlantic management; amazon leased the Pfizer had forecast it would know by Sept. 30 if its vaccine
entire 830,000-square-foot building last year. — JoN chesto works; now it may seek an emergency OK in mid-November.

INTERNATIONAL amazon and apple face german antitrust scrutiny over a policy that excludes Drive to produce
vaccines quickly is
independent sellers of brand products on the online market place. germany’s Federal
Amazon and cartel office, the country’s antitrust regulator, is probing both companies over a policy
Apple focus of at amazon called “brandgating,” the authority said in an e-mailed statement. the
policy allows makers of branded products such as iPhones to have independent sellers
antitrust probe
in Germany
removed from the platform as long as amazon can sell the items, according to the
statement. — bloomberg NeWs
facing challenges
ELECTRIC VEHICLES Panasonic reported operating income that beat analyst estimates as the division that uVACCINE time. vaccines are difficult to
Continued from Page C8 produce, and there are always
supplies tesla inc. with batteries turned a profit. the Japanese company’s operating in-
Panasonic come rose 11 percent to 93 billion yen ($900 million), exceeding the highest analyst es-
than people who were as-
signed to get an injection of
bumps in the road.
“While it’s unfortunate, i
profits from timate. the automotive business that supplies the american maker of electric vehicles
made an operating profit of 5.1 billion yen. the two companies jointly operate a mas-
placebo. don’t find it surprising that the
it’s possible the company timeline is being moved back,”
making batteries sive battery plant in the United states, where Panasonic makes the cells, and tesla will cross that threshold sooner said michael osterholm, direc-
for Tesla strings thousands of them into battery packs for each car. but elon musk has sought rather than later. but Pfizer, tor of the University of minne-
additional suppliers to reduce tesla’s dependence, while Panasonic has said it can’t which has been one of the most sota’s center for infectious dis-
aggressive players in the vac- eases research and Policy.
supply the automaker on its own. — bloomberg NeWs
cine race, had earlier predicted “clinical trials like this routine-
it would know by the end of ly have unexpected occurrences
september if its vaccine worked that delay planned timelines.
AVIATION United airlines will offer rapid coronavirus testing on flights to london from Newark — an estimate that was later it’s just not unexpected.”
in a bid to show governments that a pre-departure testing regime can provide a way to pushed back to late october. as for the idea that all amer-
United to offer ease strict quarantine rules. the pilot program, running from Nov. 16 to dec. 11, also
the company now projects that
it could apply to the Fda for an
icans will have had a chance to
be vaccinated by early spring,
quick virus tests is aimed at giving customers on the trans-atlantic route “an added layer of peace of
mind,” United spokesman Josh earnest said. Us and british airlines have been seeking
emergency-use authorization osterholm suggested it’s going
on flights government approvals for an “air bridge” between the New york city area and
for the vaccine it’s developing
with bioNtech in mid-Novem-
to take longer.
“For many of us, we never
from Newark london’s heathrow airport that would relax isolation rules and spur international ber. thought that that was doable,”
to London business travel. corporate tickets and overseas routes are traditionally among the most
profitable and have been especially hard hit during the covid-19 pandemic.
it is important to note that,
to date, none of the vaccines be-
he said. “i commend operation
Warp speed for what it has ac-
ing developed for the Us mar- complished in the time it has,
— bloomberg NeWs
ket have been proven to be ef- but to have vaccinated the Us
fective in preventing covid-19 population by march in my
disease. early stage clinical tri- mind was never a realistic goal.”
STREAMING spotify stock fell more than 3 percent after its premi- als have shown what appear to
um revenue fell short of analysts' expectations even as be promising signals; multiple
Spotify stock subscriptions rose, with consumers in some markets
vaccines have triggered produc- ‘I commend
tion of important antibodies in
falls on resisting the company’s price increases. the world’s
people who have been immu- Operation Warp
largest streaming audio service said thursday that
subscription premium revenue, generated by its paid subscriptions,
nized.
but data generated in a few
Speed . . . but to
report was 1.79 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in the third quar- hundred people aren’t enough have vaccinated
ter. analysts expected 1.83 billion euros, according to a to determine whether a vaccine
will actually fend off illness.
the US population
consensus compiled by bloomberg. spotify cited price increases for its family plans in
australia, belgium, switzerland, bolivia, Peru, ecuador, and colombia. however, spo-
that answer comes from large by March in my
Phase 3 trials, five of which are
tify added 21 million monthly active users in the third quarter, bringing its total to 320
underway in the United states. mind was never a
million. that topped analysts' estimate of about 316 million. — bloomberg NeWs their findings will ultimately
tell us how soon vaccines may
realistic goal.’
start to be rolled out to the michael osterholm
masses. University of Minnesota
AVIATION struggling plane maker airbus says new european virus lockdown measures are mak-
the administration has been
ing its life “a bit more difficult,” as it announced 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion) in pan-
saying for months that a vac-
Airbus loses demic-related losses for the third quarter thursday amid a slower-than-expected re- cine would be ready for deploy-
more than covery in air travel. but ceo guillaume Faury said airbus has already repeatedly
adapted its operations to cope with the virus and is not predicting major disruptions
ment before the end of the year.
in fact, President trump had
two of the vaccines being
supported by operation Warp
$1 billion due from the new restrictions, notably those announced in France and germany on been hinting a vaccine could be speed have seen their Phase 3
to the pandemic Wednesday. the toulouse, France-based company said it managed to stop losing cash pushed out before election day,
which it will not be; at a cam-
trials paused to investigate un-
expected illnesses among a
in the third quarter after a devastating first half of the year, as airlines collapsed or
paign rally Wednesday night, small number of participants.
grounded most of their planes. it maintained its forecast that air traffic won’t return to
he said a vaccine would be astraZeneca, which in June
2019 levels until 2023-2025. — associated Press ready “momentarily.” projected it could begin to sup-
other officials have been ply up to 2 billion doses of vac-
bullish in their own right. Just cine in september, saw its
last Friday, Paul mango, deputy Phase 3 trials in multiple coun-
LUXURY the largest deal in luxury is back on after New york’s famed jeweler tiffany agreed to a
chief of staff for policy for tries put on hold when a partici-
slightly reduced offering price from from lvmh in Paris. lvmh will now pay $131.50
health and human services pant experienced neurological
Tiffany, LVMH for each tiffany share putting the total price tag at $15.8 billion, down from the $16.2 secretary alex azar, reiterated symptoms that chairman Pas-
deal back on billion that was first offered earlier this year. the owner of louis vuitton, christian
dior, and Fendi along with a basket of wine and champagne brands, appeared to walk
the administration’s projection
that all americans who want to
cal soriot said were consistent
with transverse myelitis, a seri-
away from the acquisition last month after it said the French government had pushed be vaccinated will have that op- ous inflammatory disorder.
for a delay because of the threat of proposed Us tariffs. but the reasons for its cold feet portunity by early spring. While regulators in britain, in-
“We believe before the end dia, and south africa quickly
seemed to shift, and there was pressure from investors on both sides to make a deal
of this year we will be able to cleared Phase 3 trials to resume
happen. — associated Press
vaccinate our most vulnerable enrolling volunteers, the Us tri-
citizens,” mango told journal- al was paused for five weeks.
ists in an update on the work of Johnson & Johnson, the only
VIDEO GAMES sony’s Playstation 5 and microsoft’s Xbox series X haven’t hit stores yet, but the video operation Warp speed, the gov- manufacturer among the major
ernment’s effort to fast-track vaccine makers testing a one-
game console showdown has already begun in the online black market. demand for
PlayStation 5 the Playstation 5 on resale websites is outstripping that of the new Xbox, and shoppers
covid-19 vaccines, drugs, and
diagnostics.
dose covid vaccine, also saw
its Phase 3 trial paused, for two
edges out XBox are paying more to get their hands on the first run of products, market research shows.
the vibrant market for scalpers offers a preview of next month’s contest when the two
“by the end of January, we weeks, after a male volunteer in
believe we’ll be able to vacci- h i s 20 s suffe red wh at t he
Series X on the rival game companies will release their new consoles to a global audience with a seem- nate all seniors. by the march Washington Post reported to be
black market ingly endless appetite for home entertainment. — bloomberg NeWs and april timeframe, we believe a stroke.
we’ll be able to vaccinate any after an investigation, the
american who desires a vacci- Fda allowed J&J to resume the
nation,” mango said. trial.
OIL royal dutch shell increased its dividend payout to in reality, that timeline has another manufac turer,
shareholders following a better-than-expected third always been aspirational — Novavax, has pushed back the
Shell increases quarter of the year, months after cutting it for the first probably excessively so. While start date for its Us Phase 3 tri-
Warp speed and vaccine manu- al to the end of November; it
dividend after time since World War ii. the oil giant, which is trying
to transform itself into a carbon-neutral energy com-
facturers and others involved in had earlier said the trial would
better third pany, said thursday that it was planning to increase
the effort have moved heaven
and earth to accelerate vaccine
start this month.

quarter its dividend by 4 percent. though down 97 percent compared to last year because of production, at the end of the Helen Branswell
the sharp slide in oil prices, the company’s earnings still beat the consensus in financial day, developing, testing, and can be reached at
markets of $146 million. — associated Press manufacturing vaccines take helen.branswell@statnews.com.
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Trump rule seeks health costs up front Pelosi:

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar year period, and patients face a department, and the treasury, an informed decision. currently,
Stimulus
deal was
associated press considerable learning curve to which share jurisdiction over most patients find out what they
Washington — trying to make cost-versus-quality deci- health insurance plans. they owe after they get back from the
pull back the veil on health care sions about procedures such as would: hospital and receive their “expla-

costs to encourage competition,
the trump administration on
thursday finalized a require-
ment for insurers to tell consum-
ers up front the actual prices for
common tests and procedures.
the late-innings policy play
comes just days ahead of election
day as president trump has been
hammered on health care by
democratic challenger Joe biden
for the administration’s handling
knee replacements or hernia re-
pairs. add to that political uncer-
tainty about the policy’s survival
if trump doesn’t get reelected,
and the whole effort is running
into skepticism.
Health and administration officials are
Human adamant the changes will stand,
Services arguing the goal of price trans-
Secretary Alex parency transcends political par-
Azar said the tisanship.
Trump “it will be impossible to walk
R starting in 2022, require in-
surers to make available data
files on the costs of various pro-
cedures, allowing technology
companies to design apps that let
patients see costs not only under
their own plan but other insur-
ers’ plans as well.
R starting in 2023, require in-
surers to make available to their
policyholders cost-sharing de-
tails on 500 specific services,
never close
nation of benefits” statement.
“We need to keep pricing on
the front end, not the back end,”
said seema verma, head of the
centers for medicare and medic-
aid services. “We have seen in ev-
Speaker says she,
ery single industry that when Mnuchin at odds
this information is provided to
consumers, it creates a new era on multiple issues
of consumerism.”
verma said administration of- By Erica Werner
ficials have been working to fos- Washington post

of the coronavirus pandemic and
its unrelenting efforts to over-
turn “obamacare,” the 2010 law
providing coverage to more than
20 million people.
a related trump administra-
tion price disclosure requirement
applying to hospitals is facing a
federal lawsuit from the industry,
alleging coercion and interfer-
ence with business practices.
the idea behind the new regu-
lations on insurers is to empower
patients to become better con-
sumers of health care, thereby
helping to drive down costs.
but the requirements would
take effect gradually over a four-
administration backwards on this,” health and
requirements human services secretary alex
for insurers to azar said. “how do you fight
tell consumers transparency on prices? how do
up front the you actually articulate the argu-
actual prices ment that you should conceal
for common what something costs from the
tests and person trying to purchase it?”
procedures insurance companies contend
would stand. that the rules will boomerang ec-
onomically, driving up costs.
hospitals and doctors now ac-
cepting discounted rates will
press to get paid more once they
see what their upper-end com-
petitors are getting.
the new rules are being is-
sued jointly by hhs, the labor
medical equipment, and other
items, as called for by the govern-
ment.
R starting in 2024, require in-
surers to make cost-sharing in-
formation available on all the
services and goods they cover.
patients would use an online
shopping tool from their plan to
see the negotiated rate between
their doctor and the insurer, as
well as an out-of-pocket cost esti-
mate for procedures, drugs, du-
rable medical equipment, and
any other item or service they
may need.
the information would be
available ahead of time, enabling
ter price disclosure since 2017,
soon after trump, a republican,
came into office.
if the trump rules withstand
legal review, it’s unclear to what
degree patients and their fami-
lies will become a force reshap-
ing the market. patients usually
follow the recommendations of
their doctors. and people pick
doctors by reputation, by word of
mouth or from the lists of physi-
cians who contract with their in-
surers.
the issue of health care price
transparency started attracting
more attention under the obama
administration.
Washington — house speak-
er nancy pelosi revealed in a letter
on thursday that she and treasury
secretary steven mnuchin had not
reached a consensus on multiple is-
sues in their stimulus negotiations,
showing the White house and
democrats had remained far apart
despite pelosi’s repeated expres-
sions of optimism about getting a
deal.
in the letter to mnuchin, re-
leased just days before the nov. 3
election, pelosi listed a litany of out-
standing issues including state and
local aid, school funding, child care
money, tax credits for working fam-
ilies, unemployment insurance aid,
and liability protections for busi-
nesses sought by the administra-
tion but opposed by democrats.

Despite she also said that she was still

awaiting a final answer from the
administration on agreeing to the

pandemic, democrats’ language on a national

coronavirus testing strategy —

she’s sweet
something mnuchin had said on
oct. 15 that he was prepared to ac-
cept subject to minor edits. she put

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uINNOVATION ECONOMY
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gordon grew up in a candy
industry family: “i remember
going to see candy being made at
a plant in brooklyn, and later in
new Jersey,” she wrote. “the nice
thing about candy-making is that
it’s done in the open, so you can
see the pots and the candy being
stirred and made in great big
vats. oh, the chocolate aroma is
unforgettable.”
after graduating from bran-
deis university, gordon started
working for tootsie roll in 1968,
while she was also enrolled in a
graduate program at harvard.
(her family’s name is now on a
major building at harvard medi-
cal school.) she and melvin had
four daughters — one of whom,
Karen gordon mills, was head of
the small business association
under president obama. aside
from their philanthropy, the
gordons remained pretty much
below the radar in boston’s busi-
ness scene.
tootsie roll industries is
headquartered in chicago, and
its brands include andes, dubble
bubble, dots, charms, cella’s
chocolate covered cherries, sug-
ar daddy, and Wack-o-Wax, a
leading supplier of cherry-fla-
vored wax lips and fangs. it’s a
public company, but the gordon
family owns a controlling stake,
so the company is every bit as
guarded as the gordons. it
doesn’t hold quarterly earnings
calls for stock market analysts, so
no analysts cover it.
among the company’s recent
product launches, gordon high-
lighted mini versions of charms
and tootsie roll pops, along with
the andes snap bar. (“the tradi-
tional andes three-layer crème
de menthe, but in an easy-to-
snap off candy bar format,” she
says. “it’s more of something
that’s been very popular, plus it’s
easy to share.”)
as ceo and chairman, gor-
don earned $5.3 million in total
compensation in 2019. the com-
pany also spent $144,000 last
year to rent her an apartment in
chicago, and $655,000 on a jet to
fly her between massachusetts
and illinois, and on other busi-
ness trips, according to a proxy
statement filed earlier this year
with the securities and exchange
commission.
the company’s stock is down
about 6 percent this year, and
tootsie roll’s sales seem to have
been hit harder by the pandemic
than others in the candy indus-
try. in the most recent quarter,
tootsie’s sales dropped almost 25
percent, which the company
blamed in a filing on fewer con-
sumers buying its products when
retail stores were shuttered in
the spring and early summer. but
candy companies such as her-
shey’s and mondelez saw their
sales drop just 3.4 percent and
2.5 percent, respectively.
When i asked about all of the
changes in 2020, and how they’d
been affecting the company, gor-
don responded that “the pan-
demic has left no one un-
touched,” adding optimistically
that “sometimes eating a piece of
candy is a relaxed feeling in trou-
bled times, a warm and familiar
feeling.”
bernie pacyniak may have
conducted one of the most recent
in-person interviews with gor-
don. as editor in chief of the
trade publication candy indus-
try, he got a tour of the compa-
ny’s chicago production facility,
led by gordon herself, sampling
still-warm tootsie rolls and
freshly made dots. that was only
a few months after melvin died
and ellen gordon had taken on
the ceo title.
“the key in confectionery is to
keep manufacturing costs down,”
says pacyniak, “and technology is
the way to do that. i remember
that their factory is huge, and
very automated. the people she
has stay on top of the latest de-
velopments in terms of technolo-
gy.” gordon, he says, “is very
sharp. she had a firm grip of ev-
erything that’s going on.”
the company’s big challenge,
he says, is keeping up with some
of the bigger-league competitors
like mars, Wrigley, and her-
shey’s. in many retail stores,
their products dominate the
shelves, and it can be “difficult
for tootsie roll to maintain space
where they want it,” pacyniak
says. “but they have such iconic
brands, so that’s in their favor.
there’s a segment out there of
people who love nostalgic can-
dies.”
asked about the challenge of
maintaining visibility in stores,
gordon wrote: “the candy cate-
gory is very competitive, but the
strength of our brand helps stabi-
lize and improve our position on
the shelf.”
tootsie roll recently expand-
ed its central square factory,
which has been making candy
ap photo/sun-times media
for various entities since 1908.
tootsie acquired it in 1993. un-
like Willy Wonka’s place, there
isn’t even an occasional tour for
lucky members of the public.
the big question surrounding
tootsie roll industries is, what
happens next? When i asked
gordon if she has any plans to re-
tire, she chose not to answer. in-
stead, she offered only that
“tootsie roll has a succession
plan in place.” that may involve
one of her daughters or grand-
children, who have either worked
for the company or who occa-
sionally attend board of directors
and management meetings. and
while gordon has said that she
wants the company to remain in-
dependent, there is always spec-
ulation that it may be an appetiz-
ing acquisition for one of the big-
ger players.
i asked gordon if she had any
favorite ad campaigns from her
lifetime of being involved with
tootsie roll industries. of
course, she cited “how many
licks.” but she also mentioned
one that i didn’t remember:
“chewy, chewy tootsie roll lasts
a long time.”
the same can be said of the
ceo running a company found-
ed while grover cleveland was
president.
Scott Kirsner can be reached at
kirsner@pobox.com.
the onus on president trump and
senate majority leader mitch mc-
connell for a deal to emerge in con-
gress’ “lame duck’’ session after the
election — if at all.
“your responses are critical for
our negotiations to continue,’’ pelo-
si wrote in the letter, which was
first reported by politico playbook.
“the president’s words that ‘after
the election, we will get the best
stimulus package you have ever
seen’ only have meaning if he can
get mitch mcconnell to take his
hand off the pause button and get
senate republican chairmen mov-
ing toward agreement with their
house counterparts.’’
there was no response from the
treasury department.
mcconnell himself summed up
the state of play in a recent inter-
view with politico where he re-
marked, “that was a very compli-
cated negotiation. depending on
In this 2003 who you talk to, i’m not sure they
photo, Melvin got very close.’’
Gordon, at the in multiple recent media inter-
time CEO of views and private meetings with
Tootsie Roll house democrats pelosi has ex-
Industries, and pressed optimism about getting a
his wife, Ellen deal before the election — even
Gordon, who while justifying her refusal to make
took over the a deal by insisting there was really
job after his no deal to take.
death, posed in an exchange on msnbc earli-
for a photo at er this week, host chris hayes
the Candy Expo pressed pelosi on the question, tell-
in Chicago. ing her: “you have negotiated so
many deals in your life. i have to
say, i feel like i’ve been insane. i’m
watching this, there’s no deal hap-
pening. ... i’m like the donkey with
the carrot in front of me. it’s not
happening, right?’’
pelosi replied: “Well, that’s when
people said, ‘accept the deal.’ and i
was like, ‘What deal? they haven’t
agreed to any of this.’’’
the letter did not reveal any new
outstanding issue that had not al-
ready been publicly known. but it
summed it all up, casting every-
thing in a newly negative light with
the election imminent. stocks have
been falling as coronavirus cases
rise, and the president campaigns
around the country accusing dem-
ocrats of focusing obsessively on
“covid, covid, covid’’ in their
quest to deny him a second term.
“the american people are suf-
fering, and they want us to come to
an agreement to save lives, liveli-
hoods and the life of our american
democracy as soon as possible,’’
pelosi wrote. “in light of these chal-
lenges, i respectfully await your at-

Asgard and Kinsale pubs hopeful for spring reopenings
On Boylston By Kara Baskin
Street alone, globe correspondent
Lir, McGreevy’s, in early october, the asgard in
the Pour central square and the Kinsale at
House, and government center announced
Whiskey’s have they were closing. that sent
all closed. The shockwaves through the bar-go-
Asgard and ing community in boston and
Kinsale hope to cambridge, already sobered by
avoid the same closures such as those of lir,
fate. mcgreevy’s, the pour house, and
Whiskey’s.
“With the lack of people in of-
fice buildings and in the hotels, it
just wasn’t viable. We were losing
money,” co-owner peter sarma-
david l. ryan/globe staff
nian said at the time.
happily, thanks to negotia-
tions with the landlords, the two
irish pubs will remain in place
through the winter, which will al-
low sarmanian to reevaluate his
options in the spring. provided
that covid -19 doesn’ t still
threaten, he’ll be able to reopen
his beloved bars.
“if the business environment
gets better post-covid-19, the
plan is to open back up,” he said.
“We’re optimistic.”
Kara Baskin can be reached at
kara.baskin@globe.com. Follow
her on Twitter @kcbaskin.
tention to these urgent matters.’’
congress has not passed any
new economic relief or health care
help for the coronavirus since april.
negotiations have sputtered off and
on between pelosi and mnuchin,
with trump an erratic force at
times calling off talks altogether on-
ly to urge an even bigger number
than the $2.2 trillion bill approved
by house democrats at the begin-
ning of the month.
senate republicans have shown
little interest in approving a big
new deal, and mcconnell advised
the White house not to make one
before the election — meaning the
pelosi-mnuchin talks were almost
destined to fail to produce a legisla-
tive outcome.
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a system and the monitoring
will be about $800.
warren, who had relied on a
basic security camera system,
said it makes sense to improve
his electronic protection. he
said was surprised his store had
become a break-in target.
“we thought, we’re a local
brand, based out of the commu-
nity," he said. “ we probably
don’t have to take additional
measures because we probably
won’t be impacted.”
natalia Urtubey, boston’s di-
rector of small business, said
she has not heard much con-
cern from business owners
about a recurrence of vandal-
ism and theft, but some worry
about keeping an eye on their
stores if they have to close again
because of the coronavirus.
Urtubey said the program
with simplisafe is about “empa-
thy and making sure that busi-
nesses feel protec ted, and
they’re getting responses to
their concerns.”
businesses that want to par-
ticipate ishould send a message
to smallbiz@boston.gov.
walsh said businesses need
all the help they can get.
“boston’s small businesses
are the lifeblood of our neigh-
borhoods, and have faced in-
credible challenges as they
serve their communities during
this time,” the mayor said in a
statement.
Andy Rosen can be reached at
andrew.rosen@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@andyrosen.

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jobs short of recovering all the
22 million jobs that were lost to
the pandemic.
the government’s estimate
Former vice president Joe
biden argued that it showed the
country is “in a deep hole, and
President trump’s failure to act
has meant that Q3 growth
wasn’t nearly enough to get us

Markets of the third-quarter jump in the

gross domestic product — the
total output of goods and ser-
out,” saying the recovery “is
slowing if not stalling.”
trump took to twitter to
Wall Street wobbles its way higher vices in the United states — was
the biggest such increase on re-
proclaim “biggest and best in
the history of our country, and steven senne/associated Press

stocks closed broadly higher thursday after shaking off a cords dating to 1947. in the not even close. next year will be Reduced consumer spending — and the perhaps permanent
wobbly start. the s&P 500 rose 1.2 percent following January-March quarter this Fantastic!!!” loss of many jobs — continue to weigh on the US economy.
encouraging data on the pace of layoffs and the strength of year, GdP had contracted at a 5
the economy’s third-quarter rebound — though economists percent annual rate before a re-
warn that big challenges still lie ahead. the s&P 500 fell 3.5 cord-setting 31.4 percent annu-
percent wednesday on worries about the worsening al tumble in the spring.
pandemic and health of the economy. “the future still Mark Zandi, chief economist
looks cloudy,’’ said chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Moody’s analytics, said he
for independent advisor alliance. “what happens with the thinks GdP will regain pre-pan-
virus will definitely determine consumer behavior.” Fresh demic levels by spring, with
concerns about the outlook for technology giants sent thier GdP expanding 4.2 percent for
shares lower in late trading. Futures on the nasdaq 100 2021. but he warned that the
and s&P 500 were about 1 percent lower following reports job market might not fully re-
from amazon, Facebook, alphabet, and apple. the iPhone cover until perhaps 2023.
maker fell 5 percent in after-hours trading. oil slid to a “Many of the jobs in retail-
multi-month low on fears of falling demand because of new ing, leisure, and airlines have
lockdown measures. Uncertainty remains elevated heading been permanently lost,” he said,
into next week’s Us elections, and global equities are “and those folks will have to
headed for the worst weekly decline since March amid the find different work, and that
new lockdown measures and the lack of agreement on a Us will take time.”
stimulus plan. the third-quarter economic
growth was powered by a re-
DOW JONES industrial average cord 40.7 percent annual in-
crease in consumer spending.
americans began shopping
again after the spring shut-
down, which caused consumer
spending to sink at a record
31.4 percent annual rate. con-
sumer spending accounts for
roughly two-thirds of economic
activity.
business investment rose at
a strong annual rate of 20.3 per-
cent, reflecting a 70.1 percent
surge in investment in equip-
ment. residential investment
surged at a a 59.3 percent rate,
reflecting a solid rebound being
NASDAQ Composite index enjoyed by home builders as de-
mand for homes rises.
the government reports the
quarterly GdP changes as an-
nual rates. that means the
change for any given quarter is
calculated as if it had occurred
for an entire year. Measured an-
other way, GdP grew 7.4 per-
cent from the april-June quar-
ter to the July-september quar-
ter, after tumbling 9 percent
from the first quarter to the sec-
ond and dropping 1.3 percent
from last year’s fourth quarter
to the first quarter this year.
overhanging the economy
S&P 500 index now are growing uncertainty
and worry as a resurgence of
the virus raises the prospect of
new lockdowns and threatens
the economy, especially without
more federal help. that fear
burst into the open this week
across global financial markets.
on wednesday, Us stock aver-
ages tumbled roughly 3.5 per-
cent, with the dow Jones indus-
trial average shedding 943
points.
Five days from election day,
the two presidential campaigns
offered sharply divergent inter-
SOURCE: Bloomberg News pretations of the GdP report.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Pursuant to the authority of M.G.L. c. 118E and in accor-
dance with M.G.L. c. 30A, two public hearings will be held
remotely on Friday, November 20, 2020, each at the re-
spective time relative to the adoption of amendments to:
1. 9:30 a.m.: 101 CMR 420.00: Rates for Adult Long-
Term Residential Services. M.G.L. Chapter 118E, Section
13D, requires EOHHS to establish by regulation and bien-
nially update rates to be paid by governmental units to
providers of social service programs. In accordance with
this statutory requirement, the amendments to 101 CMR
420.00 update the rates to be paid by governmental units
for adult long-term residential occupancy services to in-
clude a cost adjustment factor (CAF) of 1.78%. The CAF
was determined by using baseline and prospective Mas-
sachusetts Economic Indicator data from IHS Economics
– Fall 2019 Forecast, optimistic scenario data. The CAF re-
flects the period between the rates’ base period (Calendar
Year 2020 Q2) and the prospective period fiscal years 2021
and 2022. Furthermore, two additional occupancy rates
have been established to apply more accurately to efficient
or matured sites. The proposed amendments to 101 CMR
420.00 also include the addition of two add-on rates effec-
tive July 1, 2020. The first is a 2% bridge funding add-on
rate to supplement the operational rates during the period
from July 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020, prior to the
implementation of the revised rate structure described
further below. The second is an add-on rate of 3.25% for
day staffing. The day staffing add-on rate is to support the
daytime staffing and related expenses incurred when sup-
porting individuals who are home during the day due to day
program closures, reduced program capacity, transporta-
tion issues, and/or health and safety considerations result-
NOTICE OF ACTION BROUGHT FOR EXONERATION
FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Plaintiff G&J Fisheries, Inc.
has filed a Limitation Complaint pursuant to 46 U.S.C. §§
30501-12 and Supplemental Rule F of the Federal Rules of
Civil Procedure for exoneration from or limitation of liabil-
ity for any and all claims for injuries, damages, and losses
arising from its vessel F/V GEORGES BANKS fishing voyage
beginning in New Bedford, Massachusetts on or about June
9, 2017 and ending in New Bedford, Massachusetts on or
about June 16, 2017, including, without limitation, alleged
personal injuries of Eduino Costa.
All persons having claims for injuries, losses, or dam-
ages must file a Claim, as provided by Supplemental Rule
F(4) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, with the Clerk
of the United States District Court for the District of Mas-
sachusetts, Eastern Division, 1 Courthouse Way, Boston,
MA 02210, and to serve a copy on Plaintiffs’ attorney, Olaf
Aprans, Farrell Smith O’Connell, 27 Congress Street, Suite
109, Salem, MA 01970 on or before November 18, 2020 or
be defaulted;
Any Claimant desiring to contest Plaintiffs’ right to ex-
oneration from or right to limitation of liability must also
file an answer to the Limitation Complaint, as required by
Supplemental Rule F(5) of the Federal Rules of Civil Proce-
dure.
DATED this 21st day of October, 2020.
/s/ Christina Lima
Deputy Clerk
District of Massachusetts
Hour
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the meeting.
The Federal 2020 Annual Plan Amendment #1 provides
details about the Authority’s operations in the current fis-
cal year (April 1, 2020 – March 31, 2021). The purpose of
Amendment #1 is to improve its waiting list administration
and admissions policies: 1) to streamline and consolidate
eligibility verification requirements across its public and
leased housing programs, 2) to prioritize Boston residents
who have been displaced or are facing imminent dis-
placement due to being cost burdened, and 3) to modify
income recertification policies for existing BHA tenants to
promote asset building by delaying the required reporting
of increased earned income until the next regular annual
recertification, and 4) to update and enable waivers to the
Tenant Participation Policy for remote participation. Prior
to December 31, 2020 per HUD Notice 2020-13 (HA), REV-1
due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the amended policies will
be effective upon submission.
The Federal 2021 Annual Plan and State 2021 Annual Plan
provide details about the Authority’s operations in the
coming fiscal year (April 1, 2021 – March 31, 2022).
Draft documents are available for public review and com-
ment from November 1 through December 15 in the Plan-
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website at www.bostonhousing.org. If you have a reason-
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
This proposed amended regulation is planned to go into Boston, Massachusetts, Channel 68 (RF Channel 22), from
effect no sooner than July 1, 2020. There is no fiscal impact Media Holdco, LP to Scripps Media, Inc. IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPLAINT OF BELLA SKY, LLC,
to cities and towns. FOR EXONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILTY AS
The attributable interest holders in ION Media Boston OWNER OF F/V BELLA SKY, A 1977 72’ STEEL HULL FISHING
2. 11:30 a.m.: 101 CMR 346.00: Rates for Certain License, LLC are ION Media Stations, Inc.; ION Media Net- VESSEL, BEARING USCG DOCUMENTATION NO. 580932
works, Inc.; Media Holdco, LP; Media Holdco GP, LLC; Media
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders Programs. Holdco Parent, Inc.; BD ION Media GP Holdings LLC; BDCM C.A NO.: 1:20-cv-11719-GAO
M.G.L. Chapter 118E, Section 13D, requires EOHHS to es-
tablish by regulation and biennially update rates to be Opportunity Fund II Adviser, L.L.C.; BDCM Fund Adviser,
LLC; Black Diamond Capital Holdings, LLC; SD Capital Man- AMENDED NOTICE TO CLAIMANTS OF COMPLAINT
paid by governmental units to providers of social service agement, LLC; SD Investments, LLC, Nahas Holdings, LLC; L. FOR EXONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILTY
programs. In accordance with this statutory requirement, Meier Holdings, LLC; Brandon Burgess; Timothy Clyne, Da-
the proposed amendments to 101 CMR 346.00 update the vid Christman, Dan Hsieh; Kay Koplovitz; Terri McGalliard; NOTICE is hereby given that the above named Petitioner
rates to be paid by governmental units for ambulatory, Christopher Parker; Carl Vogel; Stephen Deckoff; Mounir has filed a Complaint, pursuant to 46 U.S.C. § 30501 et seq.,
recovery coach, and supportive case management sub- Nahas; and Leslie Meier. for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability for all claims
stance-related and addictive disorders services with rates for any damages or injuries, arising out of, or occurring as a
governed by this regulation. The proposed amendments to The attributable parties of Scripps Media, Inc. are: The result of, an incident on the navigable waters of the United
these rates include an increase by a cost adjustment factor E.W. Scripps Company, Scripps Family Shareholders, Wil- States, wherein a 1977 72’ steel hull fishing vessel, bearing
(CAF) of 2.40%. The model budgets for these services have liam Appleton, Jason Combs, Robin Davis, Michael Epstein, United States Coast Guard Doc. No. 580932, was involved
been updated to incorporate an employer and employee David Giles, Lisa Knutson, Mark Koors, Brian Lawlor, Doug- in a marine incident on or about March 8, 2020, as more
contribution required by the Massachusetts paid family las Lyons, Kevin McDonald, Julie McGehee, Jeffry Mathews, fully described in the Petition for Exoneration from Limita-
and medical leave law. As part of the workforce initiative, Carolyn Micheli, Michael O’Brien, Daniel Perschke, Rebec- tion of Liability.
the staff salaries for the clinical, nursing, and direct care ca Riegelsberger, Adam Symson, Laura Tomlin, Danyelle
staff positions have been benchmarked to the most recent Wright, Candace Anderson, Marcellus Alexander, Jr., Joe All persons having such claims must file their respective
Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) median Antonelli, Gary Baxter, Richard Boehne, Jeff Brogan, Matt claims, as provided by Supplemental Rule F of Civil Pro-
wages for 2018, the tax and fringe rate has been bench- Brown, Lloyd Bucher, Amy Calvert, Adam Chase, Kathleen cedure, with the Clerk of Court in writing and must serve
marked to 22.40%, and the administrative allocation has
been benchmarked to 12%. Choal, Ed Chapuis, Leon Clark, Ekri Diehn, Jim Doty, Bryan
Dunbar, Timothy Ermish, Bart Feder, Eduardo Fernandez,
a cop thereof on attorneys for Petitioners, Michael J. Daly,
Esq., Pierce Atwood LLP, One Financial Plaza, 26th Floor,
The total estimated annual cost to state government from
the addition of the rate being established via the proposed
Larry Forsgren, Alexander Friedman, Darryll Green, Ste-
phen Hayes, Heath Heggem; Robert Hermes, Anita Helt,
Providence, RI 02903, on or before December 2, 2020 or
be defaulted. Personal attendance is not required.
amendments to this regulation is $1,904,169.40, of which Cathy Heppler, Bill Hooper, Marc Jaromin, Robert Kalut-
kiewicz, Vagelis Kontopos, Kimberly Krause, Maureen Lang, Any claimant who desires to contest either the right to Ex-
$1,459,702.63 represents the estimated annual aggregate Kevin Littleton, Sean Laughlin, Wonya Lucas, Justin Martin, oneration from or the right to Limitation of Liability shall
expenditures for Medicaid-covered services provided to Alison Morris, Michael Murri, Nick Nicholson, Evan Pappas, file and serve on attorneys for Petitioners an answer to
MassHealth members, and of that, $697,903.63 in annual David Peterson, Ramona Pineda, T. Lynn Plantinga, Joseph the Complaint, on or before the aforesaid date, unless the
aggregate expenditures is attributable to Medicaid-cov- Poss, Ken Ritchie, Jon Saunders, Blake Sabatinelli, William claim includes an answer, so designated, or be defaulted.
ered state plan services provided to MassHealth members. Schuerman, Lana Durban Scott, Andrew Shenkan, William
The actual annualized expenditures may vary depending Siegel, Thomas Sly, Ray Thurber, Sean Trcalek, Christopher
on actual utilization of services. This proposed amended Cellco Partnership and its
NOTICE IS HEREBY
regulation is planned to go into effect no sooner than Jan-
uary 1, 2021. There is no fiscal impact to cities and towns.
Way, Steven Weinstein, Ellen Weiss, Tregg White, Charles
Barmonde, Kelly Conlin, Lauren Rich Fine, John Hayden, GIVEN THAT A
controlled affiliates doing
business as Verizon Wire-
Anne La Dow, Robert Scagliotti, Kim Williams, Peter La C O M M U N I T Y less (Verizon Wireless) is
Due to the coronavirus emergency, EOHHS is holding Dow, Charles McCabe, Barbara Scripps, Charles Scripps,
Jr., Eaton Scripps, Edward Scripps, Jonathan Scripps, Paul
OUTREACH MEETING
Notice is hereby given
proposing to collocate an-
tennas on an existing build-
this public hearing remotely on the date and time speci- Scripps, William Scripps and Virginia Vasquez. that a Community ing at 584 Colombia Road,
fied above. To join the remote hearing online, go to https:// Outreach Meeting, being Dorchester, Suffolk County,
statema.webex.com and enter meeting ID 644 151 469. A copy of the application is available for public viewing held in conformity with MA 02125. The building
To join the remote hearing by phone, call (866) 692-3580, at https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/. the regulations of the has a top roof elevation of
and enter meeting ID 644 151 469# when prompted. As Massachusetts Cannabis 53 feet with a penthouse
an alternative to attending the remote hearing, you can Control Commission, for roof elevation of 64 feet.
view an unofficial live written recording of the hearing in
a proposed Marijuana The proposed antennas
progress provided by the Communication Access Realtime UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT Retailer is scheduled for will be mounted on the
Transcription (CART) service at https://hricart.1capapp. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS November 17th at 6:00 side of the penthouse wall
com/event/eohhs. PM (EST). The proposed for total overall tip heights
In the Matter of Marijuana Retailer of approximately 65 feet.
Individuals who notify EOHHS of their intent to testify at would be operated Public comments regarding
the hearing will be afforded an earlier opportunity to speak. JORGE RODRIGUEZ by KG Collective LLC potential effects from this
Speakers are strongly encouraged to notify EOHHS of their Owner of M/Y VITAMIN SEA and is anticipated to site on historic properties
intention to testify at the hearing by registering online at (HIN: CDRH6018G889) be located at 1589 may be submitted within
www.mass.gov/service-details/executive-office-of-health Columbus Ave in Boston, 30-days from the date of
-and-human-services-public-hearings. Plaintiff, MA 02119. The meeting this publication to: Project
For Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability will occur remotely 6120008815 - SJ c/o EBI
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the body of the email with the name of the regulation in Telephone: Dial in: 1 408 via telephone at (267) 581-
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if any. Individuals who are unable to submit testimony an opportunity for the
by email should mail written testimony to EOHHS, c/o D. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitioner Jorge Rodri- public to ask questions.

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sexual orientation, veterans Written testimony must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on Fri- 30501-12 and Supplemental Rule F of the Federal Rules of provide a comment or
status, or source of income day, November 20, 2020. Civil Procedure for exoneration from or limitation of liabil- question before the
ity for any and all claims for injuries, damages, and losses meeting please send it to
or any intention to make any All persons desiring to review the current draft of the pro- arising from his vessel’s June 10, 2020 fire at Bridge Marina mike@kushgroove.com.
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complain of discrimination tions taking into account relevant comments and any other feet. Proposed antenna and
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Time Sunday, November interested party wishing to
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of Joshua Miller.
October 30, 2020 Commonwealth of Massachusetts at: www.maritime.edu/
The Trial Court have on any historic prop-
available-vessels. erty may do so by sending
Suffolk Probate and Family Court
Docket No. SU20P1079EA such comments to: Project
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rooms For OFFICE AND HEARING ROOMS SPACE IN ANDOVER,
HAVERHILL, LAWRENCE, OR NORTH ANDOVER Estate of: Lester Moy Fong
Date of Death: February 06, 2020
at: www.maritime.edu/
fall-2020-boat-sale.
sulting, 21 B Street, Burling-
ton, MA 01803, or via tele-
reNt On behalf of the Department of Industrial Accidents, the
To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by
Petition of
phone at (267) 581-5651.
Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Gerard Fong of Boston, MA
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that time.
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of the RFP, referencing Project Number 202018000.1. For
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available at www.masspublicnotices.org.
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The estate is being administered under informal procedure
by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts
Uniform Pobate Code without supervision by the Court. In-
ventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the
Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regard-
ing the administration from the Peronal Representative and
can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate,
including distribution of assets and expenses of administra-
tion. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to
institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminat-
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art
When the sculptural
is political
barbara Fletcher’s ‘invasive
eaters’ depicts donald trump
and Kim Jong-Un. and it was
pulled from a concord art show.
television
A vote for Hugh Laurie in the
otherwise formulaic ‘Roadkill’
By Matthew Gilbert
Y
Globe staff
ou’re probably familiar
with the double-dealing
political world of “road-
kill,” a new four-part pbs
“Masterpiece” series writ-
ten by david Hare. Hugh laurie stars
as a crooked, utterly self-interested
british politician named peter lau-
rence, whose blunders and misbehav-
ior never seem to get in the way of his
Hugh Laurie stars as a charismatic but corrupt politician in “Roadkill.”
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popularity. He greets every pr crisis
with some “honest” talk and a bit of
charm on a radio show, which his con-
stituency receives gratefully, eager to
forgive him. “You can get away with
anything,” he says at one point, “if you
just brazen it out.” He’s in love with
power and money, and he only cares
about voters when they threaten to
take one or both of them away.
It’s the world of so many political
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susan Israel
Barbara Fletcher’s
sculpture “Invasive
Eaters” features a
figure (second from
left) that resembles
President Trump.
By Cate McQuaid
Globe correspondent
concord — an artist and a curator are cry-
ing censorship after the umbrella arts center re-
moved an artwork from its 2020 art ramble, an
the piece depicts an alice-in-Wonderland-style
tableau, with alice presiding over a table over-
flowing with invasive species. circling the table
are figures that resemble senator Mitch Mccon-
nell, north Korea leader Kim Jong-un, and presi-
exhibition at Hapgood Wright town forest. an
umbrella spokesman says the artist didn’t live up
dent trump.
this year’s art ramble — subtitled “Water
to an agreement to alter the work.
“the bottom line is they didn’t want it because
change: Where spirit, nature, and civilization
Meet” — was curated by susan Israel, president
it’s political,” said barbara fletcher, whose sculp-
ture “Invasive eaters” prompted the conflict. “It’s
and founder of climate creatives, a consulting
agency promoting cultural change around cli-
pure censorship.”
“Invasive eaters” is a mixed-media sculpture,
mate through art and architecture.
When Israel presented fletcher’s proposal to
with materials including wire, plaster, paint,
the umbrella last May, staff recognized the faces
polyurethane, something fletcher called “exterior
in the mockup. the umbrella’s director of arts &
foam,” and bittersweet vine. and probably more.
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movies
Watching through terrified fingers
By Ty Burr
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Globe staff
e don’t remember
the movies that
scare us so much as
the moments in
them that do their
bloody work. looking over the many
online lists recommending horror
films for Halloween, I’ve found myself
revisiting sequences that have stuck
with me over six decades of moviego-
ing, scenes first watched through ter-
rified fingers and subsequently replay-
ing on the screen in my mind when
least expected. Here’s a lucky 13, al-
phabetically arranged.
crIterIon collectIon
the Birds (1963) one of the first old man with his eyes pecked out. but Robert Mitchum plays a
Hitchcock movies to play on tV was the creepiest scene? the playground demented preacher in “The
a l s o o n e o f t h e f i r s t my m o t h e r jungle gym slowly filling with crows Night of the Hunter.”
wouldn’t let me stay up to watch, behind tippi Hedren’s back. Watch on
probably because of that shot of the movies, Page g4
Inside Movies
Music sealed with
ranging far, wide kitsch
Collaborators from all over Emma Roberts and Luke
contribute to an eclectic Bracey rom-com ‘Holidate’ is
Elvis Costello album so full of fluff, it lacks heart
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The Ticket
Upcoming in-person and online events, chosen by globe critics and writers

MUSIC Windhover Performing arts cen-

pop, Folk & world
HIPSTORY local hip-hop incuba-
tor Hipstory brings the house
party to your living room, bed-
room, back porch, or graveyard
with a Halloween virtual bill fea-
turing anson rap$, dom Jones,
and optic bloom. Oct. 31, 7 p.m.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can.
http://hipstory.org/hshp
ONCE BALLROOM somerville’s
once ballroom has cued up two
nights of spooky revelry; first it’s
a Zoom dance party (costumes
encouraged) with dJs black
mamba and aJ spinning the
sweetest cuts from ’90s and ’00s
hip-hop and r&b (oct. 30, 10
p.m.). the next night, legendary
performance art/rock troupe
bentmen blast your screen with
archival footage from their last
performance at once and previ-
ously unreleased material. throw
your own shaving cream, but
you’ll have to clean it up yourself
(oct. 31, 8 p.m.). www.once-
somerville.com/virtual-venue
ZoË madonna
Classical
GUERILLA OPERA as part of the
boston new music festival, this
indefatigable chamber opera
troupe offers a program of con-
temporary works called “dream-
walker.” it will feature a double
bill consisting of “Papillons,” a
new work with animation built
on Kaija saariaho’s cello score
“sept Papillons,” alongside caro-
line louise miller’s piece “ofelia’s
life dream,” which is described
as “a psychedelic tale of transfor-
mation.” Oct. 30, 8 p.m.,
www.guerillaopera.org
Jeremy eicHler
ter and nyc-based dušan týnek
dance theatre has given rise to a
series of site-specific dances cre-
ated each summer around the
pristine landscapes of cape ann’s
many granite quarries. this
year’s virtual offering is a 35-min-
ute piece filmed at three different
quarries by videographer anders
Johnson, who used a variety of
water vessels (including an inflat-
able swan) to enable eye-catching
perspectives. boston-based com-
poser russ Gershon contributed
the original score. free streams
Nov. 1 at 6 p.m., with subsequent
on-demand access via
www.windhover.org
Visual Arts
THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS in
salem, there’s always a little Hal-
lows’ eve to be found. that’s es-
pecially true at the Peabody essex
museum, which just opened an
exhibition on the harrowing his-
tory of persecution in the city
that famously led to the execu-
tion of 25 people in the late 17th
century. at the center of the show
is the Philips library collection of
original trial documents form
1692 to 1693, capturing the brief
timeframe when hysteria peaked.
Through April 4. Peabody Essex
Museum, 161 Essex St., Salem.
978-945-7500, www.pem.org
francisco colom
mUrray WHyte
Works from around the world
mark Day of the Dead EVENTS
Comedy
the “dia de los muertos, day of the dead” show marks the mexican version of all THE COMEDY STUDIO: VIRTU-
ALLY THE SAME studio owner
souls day with works from around the world. in a ritual especially resonant in light of
rick Jenkins hosts a mix of up-
this year’s losses, curator marc mannheimer and several other artists will create an altar and-comers and established com-
to the dead. Visitors may add remembrances. coVid restrictions enforced. Oct. 31-Nov. ics from his home, just as he
1, 3-6 p.m., and by appointment through Nov. 8. The Switchboard, 41 Washington St., would from the stage in normal
times. friday it’s ben Katzner, Ja-
Haverhill. www.switchboardhaverhill.com/events. Pictured: Francisco Colom’s mixed
net mcnamara, Jeff medoff, car-
Oct. 31, 8 p.m. $25. The Comedy
Scene, 200 Patriot Place, Foxbor-
ough. www.thecomedyscene.club
CABIN FEVER’S SPOOKY HAL-
LOWEEN SHOW this biweekly
stand-up showcase is a multi-city
effort, produced and hosted by
boston-based comedian nash
flynn and chicago’s andrew na-
deau and michael martin. this
week, they get festive with debra
diGiovanni, curtis cook, dane
arden, Grace thomas, and amy
silverberg. shows are free, with
all donations going to black lives
matter. Oct. 31, 8:30 p.m. Free.
www.twitch.tv/comedyhub
nicK a. Zaino iii
Family
KIDS OPEN MIC NIGHT sing
your heart out at this open mic,
put on by music studio the music
loft. the event is designed to
showcase the talents of kids from
all over. though the event is to be
held outside, attendance is limit-
ed to three people per party, in-
cluding the performer. the show-
case will be Halloween themed
and costumes are welcome and
encouraged. Oct. 30, 6 p.m. Free.
Bridgewater Music Alley, 50 Cen-
tral Square, Bridgewater. event-
brite.com
HALLOWEEN STORY WALK Get
in the spirit of the holiday by
reading a family-friendly tale
while trekking along a nature
path. the story, “it’s Pumpkin
time!,” will be posted, page by
page, on signs lining the path to
follow along as you stroll. at the
end of the walk, attendees can
say hello to farm animals on the
premises like sheep and chickens.
costumes are encouraged and
each young participant will re-
ceive a gently-used book donated
from a local library to take home
with them. Oct. 31, 11 a.m. Free
with registration. Revive the

ARTS
Theater
VIRTUALLY OBERON streamed
productions from the archives of
cambridge’s oberon, which func-
tions as the american repertory
theater’s club theater, as well as
new performances co-created
with the loop lab, which de-
scribes its mission as “to empow-
er Womxn and People of color in
the media arts to develop careers
in audio/video.” ongoing. Tickets
and registration at www.ameri-
canrepertorytheater.org
media collage “Circulo de Vida.”
cate mcQUaid
DREAM BOSTON two new plays in John Kuntz’s “the moment
in the Huntington theatre com- before the lights Went out on
pany’s series of short audio dra- the rothkos,” directed by rebec-
mas set in boston in the near fu- ca bradshaw, two museum-goers
ture, after the pandemic has (played by marianna bassham
passed. in Patrick Gabridge’s and diego arciniegas) “discover
“echoes,” directed by rosalind the mystery of each other“ after
bevan, two friends (played by encountering a pair of paintings
omar robinson and rachel cog- by mark rothko in the Harvard
nata) pay a late-night visit to the art museums. ”echoes,“ “the
old state House on the 255th an- moment before the lights Went
niversary of the boston massacre. out on the rothkos,” and nine
other plays (by melinda lopez,
Kirsten Greenidge, Kate
snodgrass, elle borders, and oth-
ers) are available for free at
www.huntingtontheatre.org.
don aUcoin
Dance
QUARRY DANCE IX the long col-
laboration between rockport’s
olyn Plummer, and angela saw-
yer; saturday, it’s dhaya laksh-
minarayanan and lamont Price;
and sunday, nikki bon, erin
maguire, Gabriel Pacheco, rohan
Padhye, and carrie ross. Oct. 30-
31, Nov. 1, 8 p.m. $10-$12.
www.thecomedystudio.com
COREY RODRIGUES you can see
rodrigues in person and on tV
this weekend. the boston comic
taped a 30-minute, socially dis-
tanced set this summer for the
epix stand-up series “Unprotect-
ed sets,” which airs on the net-
work’s late-night schedule friday
at 12:35 a.m., then he’s onstage
in foxborough for Halloween.
Roots, 374 Farnum Pike, Smith-
field, R.I. eventbrite.com
SCARECROW FEST Haven’t got
your fill of fall fun yet? look no
further than the 2020 Hopedale
scarecrow fest. for weeks, com-
munity members have crafted
spooky and silly scarecrows and
decorated the Hopedale commu-
nity House’s grounds with these
frightening friends. Visitors can
walk the land and take in all the
submissions, voting for their fa-
vorite at the end of the event. Oct.
31, noon. Free. Hopedale Commu-
nity House, 43 Hope St., Hoped-
ale. facebook.com
Grace Griffin

Hip-hop, holidays, en-part series, which launched thurs-

day with a music video by stl Gld

and ‘Music in Changing

featuring bso string players, includes
Wilkins and orchestra musicians in
conversation with stl Gld, Pope, and

Times’ on tap for BSO

By Malcolm Gay
Globe staff
Gearing up for a season like no oth-
er, the boston symphony orchestra is
hoping would-be concertgoers will mi-
grate online for a series of newly re-
corded performances by the bso and
boston Pops, as well as a novel video
series with area hip-hop artists.
the digital programming, dubbed
bsonoW, will include 15 hourlong
concerts that feature bso musicians
playing at symphony Hall as well as
prerecorded performances of the Pops
playing holiday standards.
but perhaps the orchestra’s most
surprising offering arrived thursday,
when it released the first installment
of “Us: sessions,” a seven-part collab-
orative series between maestro thom-
as Wilkins, bso players, and boston
hip-hop artists moe Pope and stl
Gld.
the digital programs were an-
nounced Wednesday, on the heels of
the bso’s decision to scrap live perfor-
mances during the 2020-21 season —
another blow to an orchestra that has
already seen the tanglewood season
canceled, deep administrative layoffs,
and an estimated $35 million in lost
revenue.
in a joint statement, bso leader-
ship described its “full-on commit-
ment to its digital platform.” they add-
ed that the orchestra intends its online
offerings as a complement to live per-
formances, which were abruptly can-
celed last march as the pandemic’s
first wave washed over the region.
“all of us at the boston symphony
hope that our virtual offerings will pro-
vide the orchestra’s music community
a deep sense of sustenance, joy, and
beauty,” they said.
Virtual concerts featuring the full
orchestra kick off nov. 19 with conduc-
tor Ken-david masur leading antonín
dvorák’s symphony no. 9 (“from the
new World”), charles ives’s “the Un-
answered Question,” and florence
Price’s string Quartet in G.
Price, a 20 th century american
composer, is one of several black art-
ists the bso is featuring after calls in
recent years for the orchestra to diver-
sify its programming.
Wilkins will follow up on nov. 26
with a program featuring works by a
number of black composers, including
Jessie montgomery’s “starburst,” Wil-
liam Grant still’s “out of the silence,”
and duke ellington’s “new World a-
comin’.”
the third installment will arrive on
dec. 3: a recording that features con-
ductor Giancarlo Guerrero leading
works by aaron copland, Joan tower,
and samuel barber.
the bso began recording the digi-
tal concert series, known as “music in
changing times,” at symphony Hall
Wednesday morning on a stage that’s
been expanded to accommodate social
distancing.
in a nod to uncertainty born of the
coronavirus, the orchestra said it
would announce future recordings on
Former BSO associate conductor Ken-David Masur led the BSO in
Dvorák’s “New World” Symphony Wednesday at Symphony Hall.
US: SESSIONS
Available via www.bso.org/STLGLD
MUSIC IN CHANGING TIMES
Launching Nov. 19 via www.bso.org/
NOW
BOSTON POPS 2020 HOLIDAY
CELEBRATION
Available Dec. 10 via www.bso.org/NOW
a “rolling basis,” which will be released
on select thursdays through april.
each new recorded concert will in-
clude artist talks about the program
and will be available on the sympho-
ny’s website for 30 days after its re-
lease.
“the bso is now moving beyond an
immediate response to the pandemic
and enthusiastically embracing the
aram boGHosian
online content model,” said orchestra
leadership, adding that some 13 mil-
lion people have been “interacting
with the orchestra’s digital content”
over the past six months.
the bso will release its Holiday
Pops program on dec. 10, which this
year will feature new recordings of
conductor Keith lockhart leading the
boston Pops orchestra at symphony
Hall and fenway Park. the online con-
cert will include seasonal melodies, a
virtual performance by the tangle-
wood festival chorus, and local per-
sonalities reciting portions of “a Visit
from saint nicholas,” known popular-
ly as “ ’twas the night before christ-
mas.”
in advance of these more tradition-
al offerings, however, the bso has de-
livered the first installment of its new
video podcast, “Us: sessions.” the sev-
other artists such as Julia easterlin,
cliff notez, and najee Janey.
“the sheer joy of sharing our music
with each other could certainly have
sufficed,” Wilkins said in a statement,
“but what we learned about and from
each other deepened our friendship in
fresh and profound ways.”
Pope added that although his
dream of hearing hip-hop at sympho-
ny Hall has been derailed for now, he is
excited to offer the podcast, which will
be released over the next two weeks.
“it feels especially fitting to share
this now, considering how divided we
are,” he said. “my hope is that this
serves as an example of how two differ-
ent genres can unite, and merge into
something beautiful, powerful, and in-
novative. times have evolved, so
should music, so should people.”
the bso is making the “Us: ses-
sions” available free of charge. the
complete bsonoW series will be of-
fered on a complimentary basis to
2019-20 bso subscribers, as well as
college card holders, essential work-
ers, and select others.
“We are grateful for the essential
role our online and recorded content
continues to play, side by side, as a
complement to the live experience — a
role that has become powerfully more
meaningful during this time of perfor-
mance hiatus,” leadership said. “[W]e
hope our online offerings will lift ev-
eryone’s hearts and spirits and inspire
well-being, especially over the holiday
season.”
Malcolm Gay can be reached at
malcolm.gay@globe.com. Follow him
on Twitter @malcolmgay.
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Where you can
break with the
utopian dream
By Murray Whyte
Globe staff
lincoln — Would it surprise you
to know that buttoned-up new eng-
land, land of the puritans and their
boat-shoe wearing spawn, has a long
history of utopian schemes? it
shouldn’t. idealized societies tucked
into the thick northeastern woods are
as foundational to local mythmaking
as turkey on thanksgiving. you might
not think of a cornerstone like
“Walden,” henry david thoreau’s
chronicle of his solitary pondside idyll,
as part of the plan — “society,” typical-
ly, means more than one. but the book
tucks neatly into the overriding no-
tion: of living outside the strictures of
convention, where one might “live
deep and suck out all the marrow of
life.” that’s the utopian promise: some-
thing better, deeper, more.
eight months into a pandemic life
of perpetually less, a dose of utopian
bounty is a welcome daydream. “Vi-
sionary new england,” an exhibition
at the just-reopened decordova sculp-
ture park and Museum, is such an es-
cape. it starts small but ultimately
feels cosmic, with fervent imagination
and fever dreams both rooted in earth
and stretching to the stars. a dozen
thoroughly contemporary artists rub
up against various out-there notions
mined from local turf. (Vitrines sprin-
kled throughout the galleries link
agrarian communes like fruitlands —
established by amos bronson alcott,
father to louisa May — to experimen-
tal psychology, psychic metaphysics,
and telepathy.) truth is often stranger
than fiction; i had my face pressed
against the glass, trying to read things
like a paper delivered in 1956 to a
meeting of the psychic research soci-
ety, just as much as i spent time with
the art itself. that’s a sign of curatorial
success. When the context feels as im-
portant as the content, you’re on to
something.
if you believe, as i do, that exhibi-
tion-making is as much about story-
telling as discreet experiences, piece by
piece, then “Visionary new england”
is for you. here, you’ll find both — sen-
sual pleasure, narrative thread, loopy
fantasia, provocative repudiations of
the world as it is. utopia, whether a
place or a state of mind, is predicated
on the darker premise of escape — if
the world were more perfect, who
would feel the need to build idealized
societies apart from it? ideal, of
course, depends on your point of view,
of which you’ll find many here. they
stretch from the grand to the personal,
from whole orders to a utopia of one.
a small gallery serves as a primer:
Josephine halvorson’s spare paintings
— of a felled branch wrapped with
pink surveyor’s tape, of a torn “no tres-
passing” sign pinned to a rotting trunk
— are made in the woods near her
home in the berkshires and often
painted in one sitting, in solitary com-
munion. caleb charland’s spiraling,
intimately cosmic photographs are vi-
sual poetry, the stuff of a waking
dream. (that includes one of his “solar
plexus” series, for which he lies on the
ground on a clear night, camera on his
belly with the shutter open for hours,
On ‘Hey
Clockface,’
Costello
ranges far
and wide
By Stuart Munro
Globe correspondent
from “almost blue” to “north” to
“Wise up Ghost” (to name but a few
examples), a restless eclecticism has
been one of the hallmarks
Album of elvis costello’s career.
review h i s n e w a l b u m , “ h e y
clockface,” distills that
chameleonic proclivity into a single
outing. its eclecticism is rooted in the
way in which its songs came to be.
costello recorded three of the album’s
tracks, working alone, in helsinki last
february. he then headed to paris,
where he recorded nine songs a few
days later with an ensemble, led by
stalwart collaborator steve nieve,
that costello dubbed “le Quintette
saint Germain.” then the pandemic
intervened. the music for the two re-
maining tracks on “hey clockface”
was recorded in new york by Michael
T h e
capturing the movement of the heav-
ens at the same time it records his
breath.) there is something lovely
about finding right here alongside
them Marsden hartley’s “rock doxol-
ogy,” one of the many paintings he
made in the 1930s of dogtown — an
abandoned, deeply creepy settlement
in Gloucester. it brought darkness to
the enterprise, idealism with a sell-by
date.
up on the top floor, you’ll find a fel-
low traveler in paul laffoley, whose
dystopic visions — dizzyingly intense
schematic paintings synthesizing ar-
chitecture, mathematics, and technol-
ogy with spiritualism and philosophy
— are another dark side of utopian
gambit. they overwhelm with exhaus-
tive crazy-logic, berate with densely or-
dered insanity. far from the sunshine
of idealism, this is the rabbit hole — a
deep well of paranoia and thwarted vi-
sions, a prison of unrequited dreams.
natural light spills into the muse-
um’s main gallery space with vaulted
ceilings. the room glows, austere and
serene. here you’ll find captivating lit-
tle sidelines to the main event: Josiah
Wolcott’s beatific “brook farm With
rainbow,” from 1845. a marble bust
by harriet hosmer, a well-known new
england sculptor of the 19th century
who reportedly showed “psychic ten-
dencies” beginning in childhood.
“Veiled future,” a shrouded figure by
Meta Vaux Warrick fuller, a framing-
ham-born protégé of auguste rodin
whose meaty sculptures elevated black
figuration toward the spiritual. and
books — so many books! — spanning
everything from an 1838 alcott vol-
ume on veganism and andrija pu-
harich’s “beyond telepathy” from
1962 to b.f. skinner’s “Walden two,” a
thoreau-inspired treatise from 1948
that became a veritable bible for the
back-to-the-land movement of the
1960s and ’70s, spawning at least a
dozen communes all on its own. (to
close that thought: the vitrine with
“Walden two“ sits alongside a set of
hand-made pencils by thoreau him-
self.)
What did all this daydreaming
amount to? Maybe a better question is:
to whom did these daydreams appeal?
communes most frequently disband-
ed; some morphed into cults. (a few
stumble on, blithely apart from the big
ugly world.) it’s telling, though, that
the biggest footprints in the show be-
long to kim Weston, who is part Mo-
hawk, and sam durant, who is black.
Weston’s big, bright photo prints are
radiant blurs, capturing powwow
dancers in motion. they evoke 19th-
century “spirit photography,” when
light bleeds in negative processing lent
a ghostly presence. nearby, a mound of
tiny red pouches stuffed with tobacco
is on display, their sweet, acrid scent
heavy in the air, making up “15,000
Missing flowers, 15,000 prayers,” a
tribute to the missing and murdered
indigenous women whose numbers
grow day by day.
if the powwow-dancing spirit pic-
tures shift, suddenly, from light to
dark, i think you’re getting the point.
fantasy ideals, Weston seems to say,
are a luxury available to those whose
leonhart, with contributions from
bill frisell, nels cline, and others;
costello added lyrics to complete
them from an undisclosed location
“via the miracle of telecommunica-
tions,” as the press release for the al-
bum puts it.
each of those sessions turns out to
have a distinct sonic character. the
helsinki tracks have an urgent, con-
structed intensity about them. “no
B o s t o n G l o b e
complaints with the old-world order
are relatively minor. durant, whose
work helps expose the privilege of all
this blue-sky dreaming, is on the same
track. in 2016, he created an installa-
tion for concord’s old Manse, not far
from Walden pond, all of it an epicen-
ter of the 19th-century’s transcenden-
talism craze. not privy to the benefits
of such spiritual enlightenment, du-
rant made clear, was the community of
freed slaves living in the woods near
the pond long before thoreau, where
basic survival took precedence over vi-
flag,” which offers a statement of
principles (or rather, a statement of
no principles — “i’ve got no religion,
i’ve got no philosophy,” costello
barks), brings to mind early, rocking
elvis (c., not p.); “hetty o’hara confi-
dential,” the story of a gossip colum-
nist’s reign and fall, has a jagged, an-
gular syncopation.
in contrast, the paris songs, which
make up the bulk of the record, have
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caleb charland
brational resonance.
at the decordova, durant brings el-
ements of his old Manse project, a fic-
tional utopia merging ideals impossi-
ble in their own time. “transcendental
(Wheatley’s desk, emerson’s chair)” is
a ghostly communion between the
black 18 th-centur y poet phyllis
Wheatley and ralph Waldo emerson,
the icon of american self-reliance and
the leader of the transcendental move-
ment; chair and desk coalesce, an un-
likely meeting of spirits. behind it is
durant’s simple wooden wall, evoca-
Elvis Costello,
shown in Madrid
in 2018, began
recording “Hey
Clockface” in
Helsinki this past
February. He then
did sessions in
Paris, before the
pandemic
intervened.
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an organic immediacy that encom-
passes both the jazzy (the buoyant
whimsy of the title track, complete
with a coda copped from fats Waller;
the noir-ish, trumpet- and clarinet-led
vibe of “i do [Zula’s song]”), and the
poppy (the chanson-like “What is it
that i need that i don’t already
have?”; the classic vocal pop of “the
Whirlwind”).
the two collaborative songs offer
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At the deCordova Sculpture Park and
Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln.
Through March 14. 781-259-8355,
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From top: A view of Kim Weston’s
“15,000 Missing Flowers, 15,000
Prayers”; Paul Laffoley’s “Alchemy:
The Telenomic Process of the
Universe”; Sam Durant’s
“Transcendental (Wheatley’s
Desk, Emerson’s Chair)”; Caleb
Charland’s “A Color Spectrum
With the Setting Sun, Bass
Harbor, Maine.”
tive of the homes the first free black
americans built near the pond during
the revolutionary War. on the bare
planks is a stanza from kevin young’s
poem “a frieze for trayvon Martin,”
one of four works by black poets du-
rant commissioned for the piece. (an-
other, by former boston poet laureate
danielle legros Georges, is on the gal-
lery wall.)
durant’s piece itself is called “every
spirit builds itself a house, and beyond
its house a world ... build therefore
your world,” a paraphrase of an emer-
son essay on the freest of free will.
ironic? yes indeed. look at durant’s
house and ask yourself what kind of
world might flow from it. Guess what:
you’re living in it. for all the lofty ide-
als, is it any wonder we’re still stuck
here on the ground?
Murray Whyte can be reached at
murray.whyte@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter @TheMurrayWhyte.
yet another change-up; “newspaper
pane,” which moves from chronicling
an unfortunate shut-in to range
across centuries, has an epic sound
that culminates in leonhart’s sweep-
ing, orchestral soul passages, and
“radio is everything” is a recitation
that reads like a late-night confession
with accompanying soundtrack.
throughout, there seems to be
something afoot that costello various-
ly hints at: a preoccupation with mat-
ters of communication (particularly
the various public forms it assumes
via the media) that surfaces both in
the record itself and the preceding
publicity for it, in songs such as
“newspaper pane,” “byline,” “radio is
everything,” and “hetty o’hara confi-
dential” and in the pr “bulletins” that
announced the five song previews re-
leased over the summer.
be that preoccupation as it may,
other costello constants besides sonic
variation are here in abundance as
well: his way with words and with
wordplay (here are a couple of gems:
“no forgiveness in your heart, you
turned your coat and asked me to
turn my cheek ”; “no God for the
damn that i don’t give”), his abiding
tendency for the scathing and the
heart-on-sleeve, and the lyrical en-
gagement he solicits by giving the lis-
tener enough to surmise, but rarely
enough to know. “hey clockface” rep-
resents them all to generally marvel-
ous effect.
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environment, nancy lippe, and exec-
utive director Jerry Wedge oversee the
annual outdoor exhibition.
“We communicated with Susan
that we could not accept this piece as a
nonprofit exhibiting on public land,”
Stewart ikeda, the umbrella’s director
of marketing and strategic communi-
cations, wrote in an e-mail to the
Globe.
over the intervening months, israel
negotiated with lippe and Wedge. in
an e-mail provided by israel to the
Globe, lippe suggested the piece
might work if none of the faces were
recognizable. israel agreed, although
in an e-mail to fletcher she suggested
the artist do what she wanted.
A list of 13 frightfully good films for Halloween
uMOVIES
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Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Mi-
crosoft, Peacock, YouTube.
The Descent (2005) a group of friends
go spelunking in a remote appala-
chian cave — what could go wrong?
this british underground variation on
“alien” is notable for its all-women cast
and a sense of entrapment that is pal-
pable. and that first appearance of the
critters is a doozy. Watch on Amazon,
Apple TV, Google Play, Hoopla, Micro-
soft, YouTube.
Diabolique (1955) a brutish school-
master is murdered by his wife and his
mistress, who’ve both had enough of
him. So why doesn’t he seem to want
to stay dead? classy french suspense
— avoid the 1996 remake — that keeps
its characters and audience off-balance
to the very end. and, oh, that bathtub
scene. Watch on Amazon, Criterion
Channel, HBO Max, Kanopy.
Eyes Without a Face (1960) besides
providing billy idol with a most excel-
lent song title, this chiller from Georg-
es franju — also known as “les yeux
Sans Visage” — is memorable for a
face-swapping scene to put you off
plastic surgery for life and the haunt-
ing performance of edith Scob behind
an expressionless mask that directly
influenced “halloween,” “friday the
13th,” and “Scream.” Watch on Ama-
zon, Apple TV, Criterion Channel, HBO
Max, Kanopy.
Freaks (1932) anyone who has seen
this jaw-dropping work of Studio era
exploitation — featuring real sideshow
performers in a narrative of vengeance
— knows the money scene: the freaks
welcoming the beautiful but evil tra-
peze artist (olga baclanova) with a
banquet, a loving cup, and the chilling
chant, One of us, one of us, we will
make you one of us. Watch on Amazon,
Apple TV, Google Play, Microsoft,
Vudu, YouTube.
Hausu (1977) you haven’t plumbed the
depths of wiggy 1970s Japanese cine-
ma until you’ve marveled at this in-
comprehensible horror comedy about
schoolgirls in a haunted house. tough
to choose a scene. the giggly severed
head that bites people on the butt? the
piano that eats people? the watermel-
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fletcher moved forward crafting
“invasive eaters.” in the end, she said,
she couldn’t abide with the agreement.
“they wanted generic faces. i at-
uniVerSal StudioS hoMe entertainMent
courteSy of a24
on with eyeballs for seeds? Watch on
Amazon, Apple TV, Criterion Channel,
HBO Max.
The Night of the Hunter (1955) the
only movie directed by actor charles
laughton is a fairy-tale nightmare
about two children fleeing from a de-
mented preacher played by an unfor-
gettable robert Mitchum. he turns the
old-time hymn “leaning on the ever-
lasting arms” into a tune to plague
your dreams. Watch on Amazon, Apple
TV, Google Play, Microsoft, YouTube.
Nosferatu (1922) you know what real-
ly gives me the willies? a face silently
staring at me from a nighttime win-
dow. you know what scene from f.W.
Murnau’s silent vampire classic re-
mains lodged in my head? the night-
marish count orlok staring at the her-
B o s t o n G l o b e
tempted to do that,” she said. “it would
have taken the meaning away from the
piece.”
She delivered it anyway, along with
a second, abstract work for the show,
and israel installed it in September.
“[t]he piece delivered was much
larger than proposed, and did in fact
depict the same images of political fig-
ures as in the originally rejected pro-
posal,” wrote ikeda. “Given the dis-
crepancy between what Susan had as-
sured us in July and what was
installed, we asked that the piece be re-
moved from the exhibition.”
“We installed it tuesday or Wednes-
day. … it was gone by Monday,” israel
said. “they didn’t say, ‘this isn’t what
we talked about, what can we do to re-
solve it.’”
Clockwise from left:
Scarlett Johansson as
an alien in Glasgow in
“Under the Skin”; crows
gather at the playground
jungle gym in Alfred
Hitchcock’s “The Birds”;
Max Schreck as Count
Orlok in “Nosferatu”;
Rabah Nait Oufella,
Garance Marillier, and
Ella Rumpf (from left)
in the French freak-out
“Raw.”
oine from a nighttime window. Watch
on Amazon, Apple TV, Criterion Chan-
nel, Hoopla, Kanopy, YouTube.
The Old Dark House (1932) director
James Whale (“frankenstein”) takes
the old travelers-stranded-in-a-storm
story line and both plays it straight
and sends it up. the treat here is boris
Karloff as a gibbering hulk of a butler
named Morgan. in case you’re wonder-
ing where lurch in “the addams fam-
ily” came from. Watch on Amazon,
Google Play, Kanopy, Microsoft, You-
Tube.
Raw (2016) Sometimes the scariest
horror movies break taboos you didn’t
even know were there. this french
freak-out about a shy private school
girl with a taste for cannibalism heads
into unknown territory when the hero-
lane turner/Globe Staff
in a July e-mail to israel, Wedge
said the reason for excluding “invasive
eaters” boiled down to the organiza-
tion’s 501(c)(3) status, citing irS lan-
guage prohibiting nonprofits from “di-
rectly or indirectly participating in, or
intervening in, any political campaign
on behalf of (or in opposition to) any
candidate for elective public office.”
“We are a creative community and
welcome freedom of expression. Politi-
cal topics are by no means taboo,” ike-
da wrote to the Globe. “We also value
our 501(c)(3) status and will follow the
requirements the irS sets out. this is
an election year, and the president is a
candidate.”
attorney luke blackadar, director
of legal services for the arts & business
council of Greater boston, called the
ine accidentally severs her sister’s fin-
ger and discovers a new kind of snack.
Watch on Amazon, Apple TV, Google
Play, Microsoft, YouTube.
Signs (2002) this spooky, suggestive
alien-invasion movie — the last film M.
night Shyamalan made before he ar-
guably went around the bend — stays
in my mind not for a scene but a single
image: farmer Mel Gibson turning a
flashlight on a nighttime cornfield —
and seeing an extraterrestrial leg pull
back behind a stalk. Watch on Ama-
zon, Apple TV, Google Play, HBO Max,
Microsoft, YouTube.
The Thing (1982) a classic of body-
horror at least two decades ahead of its
time, John carpenter’s remake of the
1951 sci-fi warhorse was reviled upon
release and is revered now. Most peo-
f r i d a y, o c t o b e r 3 0 , 2 0 2 0
umbrella’s reading of the irS regula-
tion “a mischaracterization.”
“hosting a piece of artwork critical
of the government on publicly owned
land — you can say we’re putting it
here for discourse,” blackadar said. “i
think that won’t jeopardize their tax-
exempt status.”
“Most people will understand this
is an exhibition space,” he added. “the
point is to share works of art, which
can be provocative or challenging or
politicized.”
‘They wanted generic
faces. I attempted to
do that. It would have
taken the meaning
away from the piece.’
barbara fletcher, on being
unable to agree to Umbrella Arts
Center’s request to obscure the faces of
world leaders in “Invasive Eaters” so
that it could be included in the 2020
Art Ramble
according to blackadar, the irS
bars 501(c)(3) agencies from soliciting
donations for political campaigns or
spending inordinate amounts of time,
money, or manpower lobbying for spe-
cific legislation.
“the umbrella would want to avoid
saying ‘Vote for trump,’ or ‘Vote for
biden.’ that’s strictly prohibited,” he
said. “but this is so far removed from
that.”
the umbrella could have posted a
disclaimer, he added, stating the sculp-
ture represents the views of the artist
and not the presenting organization.
israel is concerned that the umbrel-
la’s removal of fletcher’s piece is a red
flag.
“the fact is, we are in a time period
when people are afraid to speak out,”
she said. “We cannot just roll over and
allow this administration to shut us
up.”
Meanwhile, “invasive eaters” ap-
pears in “art and activism” presented
by the Massachusetts chapter of the
national association of Women art-
ists, at a SoWa pop-up space that
opened this week.
“i’m still in shock,” said fletcher.
“but in the end, maybe it’s just as well.
it will be seen downtown.”
Cate McQuaid can be reached at
catemcquaid@gmail.com. Follow her
on Twitter @cmcq.
Kino international
Pieter de ridder, courteSy of focuS World
ple cite the creepy-crawly spider-head
scene, but for me it’s when the alien
hatches out of that poor sled dog.
Watch on Amazon, Apple TV, Google
Play, Microsoft, YouTube.
Under the Skin (2013) an alien dis-
guised as a human female (Scarlett Jo-
hansson) drives around Glasgow look-
ing for men to take home and feed to
its extraterrestrial overlord. there’s a
beach scene here, involving heavy surf
and an abandoned toddler, that re-
mains one of the most primally dis-
turbing moments i’ve ever had at the
movies. Watch on Amazon, Apple TV,
Google Play, Microsoft, Hoopla, Kano-
py, YouTube.
Ty Burr can be reached at
ty.burr@globe.com. Follow him on
Twitter @tyburr.
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Jaeden
Martell in
“The True
Adventures of
Wolfboy.”
When whimsy meets grim realism
By Ty Burr
Globe Staff
the hero of “the true ad-
ventures of Wolfboy,” a new
movie appearing on demand,
suffers from hypertrichosis, a
medical condition in which hair
grows all over the body and
face. the movie itself suffers
from hyperbole, hyper-self-con-
sciousness, at times hyperventi-
lation. a magical-realist com-
ing-of-age fairy tale set in buffa-
lo and environs, it toggles
between whimsy and grim real-
ism.
but there’s talent here in an
original script by olivia du-
fault, colorful direction by Mar-
tin Krejcí, and the acting of Jae-
den Martell, the plaintive child
star of “Midnight Special,” “the
book of Henry,” and “it,” who
here gives a credible perfor-
mance from behind a thick lay-
er of fur.
His character, Paul, spends
most of the movie on the run,
having fled from an overprotec-
tive dad (chris Messina) in
search of the mother who aban-
doned him long ago to the
stares of strangers and taunts of
bullies. on the edge of turning
She hates holidays, and so does he.
(Care to guess what happens?)
By Ty Burr
Globe Staff
the best romantic comedies
dance delightfully on a knife
e d ge o f c y n i c i s m a n d go o ,
whereas the ones that fall off to
one side or the other are . . . not
the best. “Holidate” isn’t the
worst — how could it be with
that kitsch-perfect title? — but
in trying to play up the naughty,
witty side of the rom-com equa-
tion, the movie se ttles for
snarky. it’s an acrid fairy tale, if
not without a few pleasures,
and it arrives on Netflix just in
time for — wait, christmas?
t h a t ’s w h e n t h e m o v i e
opens, with the single Sloane
(emma roberts) hounded by
her marriage-obsessed mother
(frances fisher) at a hellish
xmas family dinner. Some-
Movie review
YY
THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF
WOLFBOY
Directed by Martin Krejcí.
Written by Olivia Dufault.
Starring Jaeden Martell, Sophie
Giannamore, Chris Messina,
Eve Hewson, Chloë Sevigny.
Available on VOD. 88 minutes.
PG-13 (mature thematic content,
drinking, some strong language,
sexual references and violence
— all involving teens)
13, Paul is ready to strike out on
his own, and the movie is the
story of how the boy finds his
first real friends among the
misfit youths of buffalo.
but first he gets employed in
the freak show of a carnival run
by Mr. Silk, who is played by
John turturro with a ponytail
of silver hair and the kind of
grandiloquent overacting that
delivers its own kind of plea-
sure. a scene in which Mr. Silk
strolls imperiously into a dive
bar and says, “tequila and cin-
namon — and light it on fire”
Movie review
Y½
HOLIDATE
Directed by John Whitesell.
Written by Tiffany Paulsen.
Starring Emma Roberts, Luke
Bracey. Available on Netflix.
103 minutes. Unrated (as R: sex
and drugs and naughty talk).
where else in chicago, Jackson
(luke bracey), a lanky austra-
lian golf pro, endures similar
torments at a girlfriend’s par-
ents’ house, complete with hid-
eous holiday sweaters.
Sloane and Jackson meet ar-
gumentatively cute in the re-
turns line of a clothing store
and come up with a plan to save
T h e B o s t o n
may be the most fun you’ll have
all week.
less digestible are the antics
of Paul’s new crew, who include
a trans teen named aristiana,
played by the trans actress So-
phie Giannamore, with her
own mother issues, and an eye-
patched troublemaker named
rose, who is played by eve
Hewson, bono’s daughter, and
who likes to stick up conve-
nience stores for the fun of it.
Here’s where the tonal balanc-
ing act of “the true adventures
of Wolfboy” turns gluey and off-
putting, since our sympathies
tend to lie with the terrified
store clerks (usually working-
class people of color) rather
than the high-spirited teen reb-
els robbing them. “Spring
breakers” this ain’t.
the plotting gets further
tangled as the hirsute hero and
aristiana make a trek by bus
and foot to Pennsylvania for
reasons that never do become
clear and a vengeful Mr. Silk
stalks their trail in ways that
elude logic. director Krejcí, a
czech-born filmmaker with ex-
perience in tv commercials,
brings high style to some scenes
Steve dietl/Netflix via aP
them both: they will be each
other’s “holidate” to satisfy fam-
ily and friends while avoiding
the complications and certain
disappointments of an actual
relationship. “Not that you’re
not attractive,” assures Jackson.
“you’re just not attractive to
me.”
He’s lying, obviously, and
even as Sloane scoffs at the con-
ventions of movie romances —
“No one’s ever ‘taking a break’
from dating” — “Holidate” rolls
down a well-rutted road. the
movie takes place over a year of
holidays (including St. Patrick’s
day and cinco de Mayo and
their respective sodden carica-
tures), and while the banter
sparkles decently in the early
scenes, screenwriter tiffany
Paulsen’s dialogue tries hard to
G l o b e
vertical eNtertaiNMeNt
while rooting others in a squal-
id urban landscape, and the
film’s colorful sideshow-poster
“chapter headings” — “Wolfboy
deals with the devil,” “Wolfboy
and the Pirate Queen” — prom-
ise a lift-off into tough-minded
fancy that is only partly realized
onscreen.
if you’ve seen Martell in his
earlier films (or as the creepy
alt-right son in “Knives out”),
you know he’s an actor able to
convey much with a minimum
of gestures. a role that renders
the actor’s expressive features
nearly invisible behind a thick
coat of hair does him no favors,
and since Paul’s role is largely
reac tive to the cha rac t ers
around him, there’s a hole at
the center of “the true adven-
tures of Wolfboy” that’s never
satisfactorily filled, even when
the mystery of his condition is
explained via a couple of inter-
esting guest appearances to-
ward the end. the result is a
movie that plays like a noble
but misfired adaptation of the
young adult novel it never was.
Ty Burr can be reached at
ty.burr@globe.com.
Emma Roberts and Luke
Bracey star in “Holidate.”
be sexy and too often comes off
as crude. or maybe the problem
is the amiably lightweight rob-
erts, who lacks the mordant
heft to deliver Sloane’s zingers
with the oomph they need.
ironically, the lesser-known
bracey more than holds his
own as the unflappably chau-
vinistic Jackson. rom-coms de-
mand only that their male leads
be handsome, humorous, able
to furrow their brows during
the serious scenes, and take off
their shirts as necessary. bracey
acquits himself on all counts
with a confidence that keeps
him just this side of generic.
Surrounding the central duo
w h i l e t h e y f i g u r e o u t t h at
they’re meant for each other is a
crew of supporting cartoons:
fisher’s strident noodge of a
mother, Sloane’s ditzy future
sister-in-law (cynthy Wu), a
handsome doctor (Manish day-
al) to make Jackson jealous.
Jessica capshaw earns honors
for playing Sloane’s sister, mar-
ried with children and wanting
to stray, with a dollop of nu-
ance. Kristin chenoweth does
what she can — which isn’ t
much at all — with the role of
the heroine’s aunt, a cougar
with revolving-door boyfriends.
Some of the pratfalls land
but more don’t and the movie
feels increasingly prefabricated
as it rolls toward its expected
end; it’s maybe no coincidence
that a number of key scenes
take place in a shopping mall.
Prefab can be fun, but it has to
have a genuine heart some-
where, and “Holidate” is plastic
fluff. you’ll find better deals on
the sale shelf at the christmas
Store — on dec. 26.
Ty Burr can be reached at
ty.burr@globe.com. Follow him
on Twitter @tyburr.
Hugh Laurie as a scandal-plagued politician in “Roadkill.”
Traveling a familiar
road with ‘Roadkill’
u‘‘roADKill’’
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dramas, from “Scandal” and
“ H o m e l a n d ” t o “ Ho u s e o f
cards,” as they conspire to re-
mind us that “the West Wing”
was impossibly idealistic. and
the predictability of that world
and its corruption undermine
the UK-set “roadkill” to an ex-
tent, since it follows the formu-
la to a t. We get it, the people of
the government — here, there,
and everywhere — are often ve-
nal and all about using their
power to preserve their power.
We get it, elected officials are
transactional to a fault. We get
it, and i wish “roadkill” took
the idea a little further down
the road, or on some kind of un-
expected detour. We get it, we
got it the last 10 times we saw
it, and and we get it when we
see it play out on the news over
and over again.
the too-busy plot at times
comes down to Peter, so smug
and charismatic, versus a small
army of (mostly) women from
various parts of his personal
and professional lives. in the
premiere, Sunday at 9 p.m. on
GbH 2, he wins a high-profile
libel case against a newspaper
that claimed he’d received ille-
gal money. everyone, including
his attorney, knows that he is
guilty of the crime, but instead,
the reporter (Sarah Greene’s
charmian Pepper) stumbles out
of the courtroom in shame,
bent on vindication. She is after
him, and so is one of his daugh-
ters, lily (Millie brady), be-
cause a tabloid has published
photographs of her on a
drugged-out bender. there’s an-
other woman, a prisoner, who
claims she knows of a daughter
Peter unknowingly had with a
former affair, not to be con-
fused with the married Peter’s
current affair, Madeleine (Sidse
babett Knudsen). and there are
others after him, hoping to
bring him down, but i don’t
want to spoil anything here.
What “roadkill” has to offer
are a few standout performanc-
es, as Peter dodges fire from all
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Starring: Hugh Laurie, Helen
McCrory, Sarah Greene, Iain De
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Knudsen, Saskia Reeves, Millie
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sides. laurie is, as is often the
case, outstanding as a creep
who gets by on his charm and/
or brilliance. He was particular-
ly chilling in the 2016 minise-
ries “the Night Manager” as a
high-living billionaire arms
dealer who, in his spare time,
also happened to be a merchant
of death. He’s less cold-blooded
as Peter, but he nonetheless
makes villainy into something
nuanced and, at times, enter-
taining to behold. Peter’s need
for cleanliness and order only
adds to his megalomaniacal
bent. on “House,” laurie was
all cruel bluster, underneath
which was a good heart. Here,
he’s all cool likability, under-
neath which is a block of ice.
i couldn’t get enough of Hel-
en Mccrory as Prime Minister
dawn ellison, who has a very
good time toying with Peter’s
ambitions. She and her assis-
tant, Julia (olivia vinall), make
a dryly amusing team, as they
out-psych the men who try to
mansplain them into submis-
sion. there are a few scenes in
which Peter comes to downing
Street only to be played ruth-
lessly by the pair, who secretly
smirk at each other as they pre-
vail. i’d watch a show about
those two any time. Saskia
reeves brings a few extra notes
to the worn-out role of long-suf-
fering wife, and Pip torrens, as
a newspaper editor, is undeni-
able as always. the material is
routine but they do their best to
give it some zest.
Matthew Gilbert can be reached
at matthew.gilbert@globe.com.
@LetHimGoMovie | #LetHimGo
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Chicago 45/33 S 56/34 S New York City 43/34 R 45/42 S  Cancun 86/74 T 87/73 T Paris 61/48 C 64/58 C South
Dallas 63/43 S 67/46 S Philadelphia 48/36 R 50/42 S Mexico City 74/52 Pc 75/52 Pc Rome 68/48 Pc 68/51 S ♠ 10 8 4
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North East South West
1♣ 1♦ 1♥ Pass
horoscope VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) People appreciate your creativity 2♥ 3♦ 3♥ All Pass
both business and personal rela- and breezy personality. Opening lead — ♦ 8
tionships reach a turning point. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, night: invoke an angel or spirit Hidden factors are revealed to Modernization of your surround- “Your honor,” the District Attorney intoned, “we will
oct. 30, 2020: guide for assistance and protec- change your opinions and per- ings might be pleasing. a new prove that South committed a felony. He lost a cold
Multitalented, gutsy and atten- tion. spective. detective and research theme or home remodeling proj- contract.”
tive, you often work in the service GEMINI (May 21-June 20) skills serve you well. Problems ect appears. the sale or purchase “Proceed,” the judge instructed.
of a cause. this year, spend more today offers a marvelous cycle for and arguments are resolved. to- of property could pave the way to “South might have passed three diamonds,” the DA
time and energy on yourself and professional networking. call up night: an early night's sleep for financial freedom. a family mem- began. “East would have gone down two. Against three
keep in mind the larger picture. old friends with whom you ha- the detective. ber's contribution or advice brings hearts, West led a diamond, and East took the K-A and led
you become top of your field. if ven't spoken to in eons. Politics, LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) welcome financial assistance. to- a third diamond: queen, ruff by West, overruff. Declarer
single, prepare for a time of ex- community activities and new you greet the day with a volatile night: relax. next led a club to his queen. He drew trumps and led
citement and intensity in love, friendships link to long-term and intense relationship situation AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) another club: seven, nine, 10.
even when playing the field. if at- goals. tonight: you feel it all drop- in progress. Meditate on whether today finds you especially talk- “East then led the king of spades. South took the ace
tached, your brightest love cycle is ping into place and coming to- to hold on or to just let go and ative and promises an interesting and ruffed a club, but when the ace didn’t fall, he lost two
this year. your partner is also suc- gether. move forward. a matter can be re- daily schedule punctuated by nu- spades.”
cessful. taUrUS never lets you CANCER (June 21-July 22) solved in your favor. tonight: a merous messages and outings. “My client is blameless,” South’s counsel roared.
go. express creative ideas at work. it's make-up date. the stars favor a focus on plan- “Guilty,” the judge ruled. “South must let the king of
a wonderful day to combine busi- SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ning and correspondence. em- spades win. East has shown six diamonds and two trumps.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) ness with pleasure. one who ad- revel in the success someone brace future travel opportunities If he has a second spade to lead, he started with only three
a fiery natural leader who is quick mires you can offer a valuable rec- close to you enjoys. then the rest too. tonight: catching up with a clubs, and South can ruff a club to drop the ace and set up
to act and speak, aries keeps life ommendation leading to a promo- of today is just for you. the magic sibling or a neighbor. the king for a discard. As it is, East must lead a diamond,
moving. each new day brings a tion. Place a small potted pine of extra sleep. drink fluids to de- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) conceding a ruff-sluff, or lead the ace of clubs.”
fresh start, a time to welcome a tree in your workspace. tonight: toxify the body. try foot baths or you experience some frustration
myriad of novel possibilities. Love it will promote growth and stabil- steep healing herbs in your bath linked to money matters today. Go
DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ K ♥ 10 5 ♦ A K 10 9 7 6 ♣ A
prospects and great opportunities ity. water. tonight: Pampering day be- over everything with a fine-tooth
10 8 6. Your partner opens one heart, you respond two dia-
abound today. tonight: in won- LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) comes pampering night. comb, and consider new strate-
monds, he bids two spades and you try three clubs. Partner
derment at your good fortune. Projects that were once laborious SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) gies for enhancing your finances
then bids three diamonds. What do you say?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) are easier to complete today. you are a wandering free spirit in and your security. talk with an el-
dreams reflect and provide in- Make a social occasion of doing matters of the heart, even if com- derly female family member. to-
ANSWER: Your partner has a good hand. In most partner-
sights concerning your path. be chores by asking for a friend's as- pletely attached. your romantic night: be adaptable and econo-
ships, his “reverse” bid of two spades shows above-mini-
aware of how repeating habits sistance. your creativity is blos- needs are evolving. today initiates mize. don't let yourself splurge.
mum strength. He also suggests shortness in clubs, so your
and patterns affect your life's path soming. trust your hunches and some unexpected developments
ace is a perfect card, and your diamonds are magnificent.
for good or ill. examine the past if reach out to those who can help in love, perhaps a change in the (c) 2020 by King Features Syndi-
Bid 4NT. A grand slam is likely.
you would know the future. to- you. tonight: a touch of magic. status of a relationship. tonight: cate inc.

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tv critic’s corner Love Letters

by matthew gilbert by meredith goldstein

I left home for him

freeform via aP
Leslie Odom Jr., Abigail Breslin, Aida Turturro, and S. Epatha Merkerson (clockwise from
top left) are featured in “The Paley Center Presents Law & Order: Before They Were Stars.”
The many ‘Law & Order’ actors who achieved acclaim
Watching “law & order” reruns on basic ca-
ble is an addiction, for me and many others. the
best part of it is stumbling across familiar faces,
actors who went on to greater glory after playing
a perp or a victim in one of the many crimes of
the week.
right after the premiere of “law & order:
SvU” on thursday, Nov. 12, Nbc is going to fea-
ture some of those actors in a special called “the
Paley center Presents law & order: before they
Were Stars.” in my rerun-watching, i’ve seen
claire danes, emmy rossum, Julianna margu-
Hilary Gayle/foX
Nicole rivelli/Nbc (far left)
lies, adam driver, ellen Pompeo, Philip Seymour
Hoffman, and Stephen colbert, among many,
many others.
those who’ll appear in the special include
ron cephas Jones, chris Sullivan, leslie odom
Jr., michael imperioli, aida turturro, ariel Win-
ter, abigail breslin, S. epatha merkerson, and
clark Gregg. i’m looking forward to it, but i don’t
plan to watch the “SvU” episode; i’m just tired of
the characters. in the criminal justice genre,
shows that are entering their 22nd season are
usually worn out.
Q. i met an amazing, loving, smart, and sensi-
tive guy; someone i never thought i’d find.
We met in my country, and we had such a
great year discovering each other as i showed
him around. after a year together, he decided
he wanted to move back home. i couldn’t
imagine my life without him so i decided to
move with him after eight months of dating. i
quit my job and got a great remote job, which
would give me the flexibility to travel home as
often as i needed.
Here’s the problem: i keep feeling that i’m
missing out on time with my family. my par-
ents are my best friends and i love hanging
out with them. i feel like i always have to
make a decision between spending time with
my boyfriend or my family. Whichever i
choose, i miss out! While i know that i have to
live my own life and be with the person who
makes me so happy, i also feel like i am al-
ways missing moments.
So my question is: How do i stop feeling
anxious about being away from home, and
what should i tell my boyfriend? (We’ve spo-
ken about this countless times, but never
come up with a solution, as we don’t want to
break up.)
WiSHiWaScHilled
A. you’ve had “countless” conversations with
your boyfriend. i have to wonder how much
you’ve talked about the future when you have
these discussions.
does he want to live where he is forever? is
he open to living in your country in a few
years, down the road? or spending a season
there, if possible? i guess i’m wondering
about compromise. Where is he willing to go
over time?
if he knows he wants to stay put, you do
need to think about the future you imagine
for yourself. No matter who you’re with,
you’re going to miss out on some moments at
home — because you will have your own life.
but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to
stay close to family. Some people do better
finding a partner right around their home-
town. or they meet someone who is happy to
move there. right now, you’re building a rela-
tionship and a community. you have to decide
whether the nucleus of that world will always
be back at home.
for now, though, feel it out, pay attention
to what you miss (and how your feelings
change), and end the spiral of discussion that
goes nowhere. it’s not helping, and you’re
both frustrated by a seemingly answerless
question. instead, if things continue to go well
with this boyfriend, ask what compromise
looks like to him. decide whether his take on
it works for you.
and if you can, spend a few weeks at
home. it might remind you that some days are
just . . . routine.
mereditH
READERS RESPOND:
you didn’t leave home for him, you left
home for you. Now, it’s not your parents call-
ing you back home, it’s what you want. you
think you’re conflicted, but a little more self-
awareness about your true motives might
help you find clarity.
rcardZ
i love my parents but i can’t imagine them
being my best friends. Seems like figuring out
how to build your own life without them, and
building in meaningful time with them (a
week here or there; can they visit you?) is the
best compromise. talk to your boyfriend
about how — and how much — to work them
into your lives.
Hollyivy
one of my kids moved with her boyfriend,
1,800 miles away from me. We adore each
other. We text almost daily. We facetime on
occasion. We visit each other on occasion. She
is building a life with her boyfriend (whom
i’m fairly certain is “the one”), making new
friends as a couple, finding places and activi-
ties she enjoys. this is what well-adjusted
young adults who love their families do. try
it.
SeeNittoo
my wife is here with me in the US but
much of her family is in europe. She goes
home for a couple weeks every other year and
her mom comes here the same (except for
during covid). in general, i’d say she does
miss her family fairly frequently. decide if this
is oK before you get married and before you
get pregnant.
myaNSWer69
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