The life and rise of Ayanna Pressley
That's the pregame show, and her opponent also made the front page (second section, below the fold).
Retired N.J. priest says his complaints were dismissed by Boston Archdiocese
In the biotech hurly-burly, a cautionary tale
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The Patriots are a world-class team. So why isn’t the food at Gillette better?
You would be better off eating at Bertucci's before you head over.
What do you mean I can't bet on the game?
The age-old question: How good can Tom Brady be this year?
I guess we will know by 4 p.m. or so.
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Trump administration discussed coup plans with rebel Venezuelan officers
Not really news to those in the know. The article is more limited hangout cover, claiming that the Obama and Trump administrations were approached and rejected a coup attempt. It ignores the soft coup attempt of U.S. economic destabilization (a la' Chile) as evidenced by the currency crisis and oil embargo.
That's not an argument for socialism (or maybe it is). It's just a recognition of fact that if you even trend that way, the capitalist bastards and bankers will come down on you hard. You are not even given a chance to get off the ground.
India hunts man-eating tiger blamed for 13 deaths
Shouldn't grab his tail.
Searches continue in wake of landslide
Former president leaves his party
Bus crash leaves at least 21 dead
UN determined to keep up peace talks
Briefly now, where do you think those things happened?
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Security forces deploy in Iraq’s Basra following violence
They are anti-Iran so we know who is behind them (even if the pre$$ scrubbed that part of it with Ajax).
N. Korea revives iconic mass games for 70th anniversary gala
Looks like fun.
Bombings and air raids kill 4 in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib
Next stop: a full-blown, officially declared, World War III.
Egypt court sentences 75 to death over deadly 2013 protests
But they are a lynchpin ally and close to Israel so it's okay.
They keep those pesky Gazans penned in.
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Subway station buried on Sept. 11 is reopening
Yup, coming up on that again, and its at the time incalculable aftermath.
I've missed the last two.
Top cancer researcher fails to disclose corporate financial ties in major research journals
Still all $miles!
Does he have any time to look at a first responder?
Pope tells bishops to fight abuse, culture behind it
He wants the same people who were the ones behind it to fight it?
You guys need a new one, hey.
For Sessions, Trump’s constant attacks may define his legacy
Need a new one of them, too, and one wonders why Sessions isn't investigating the national sexual abuse of the Catholic Church (or anything else, for that matter. Or he is and I'm not being told by my pre$$, right?)
East Coast faces rising hurricane threat from Hurricane Florence
All throughout the Clinton years and extending through Bush and Obama, the ma$$ media made a big deal of these storms. Now, all they ever talk about is Trump all day long.
Trump doesn’t think deal with Stormy Daniels is valid, lawyer says
That's odd; my printed pos carried an article by Alan Feuer.
US recalls top diplomats from Latin America as worries rise over China’s influence
It's because of China's “checkbook diplomacy” to woo countries by offering aid or other incentives, especially as it has promoted infrastructure projects as part of what it calls its Belt and Road Initiative.
Beyond the hypocrisy of the (yes, New York Times) criticism of China for “checkbook diplomacy,” we have U.S. diplomatic policy based on SANCTION!
So, we ain't writing you the check and if you persist it might even draw military action.
Turns out the whole article is about Taiwan and its increasing lack of recognition.
That's a problem because the U.S. needs Taiwan just as they need South Korea. It's a check on China, right on their front and back porch. Plus it's weapons sales. Can't sell them if peace is breaking out!
Opening of new N.Y. bridge delayed
Unlike Italy.
New law blocks offshore drilling
Wildfire shuts down interstate
Same place.
New Mexico grapples with conquistador history
Why? Were some of them around then?
Trump officials see weaknesses in the midterms
Well, we know from what campaign that is coming from, and how did they get that audio recording?
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Many college students don’t sleep well
It's the partying.
Living history thrives at new Hancock-Adams Common
Isn't that where they sold slaves?
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Hitting the campaign trail, Geoff Diehl pledges strong tie with Trump
That might not be your best strategy up here.
Boston police arrest two Boston men in different incidents
Both involving drugs and guns.
So are you ready for some football?
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I never even glanced at the bu$ine$$ section, and only briefly saw the ideas that brought no interest. Never even made it to the op-ed page.
Go, Chargers, Go!
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Catholic clergyman in D.C. calls on cardinal to resign
Globe says he should be independently probed.
Florence strengthening as it barrels toward the Southeast coast
Dallas police officer who killed man at home arrested on manslaughter charge
"Authorities said three young men were fatally shot in a White Castle on Detroit’s west side. The restaurant’s windows had bullet holes, and handguns were recovered at the scene. It wasn’t immediately known whether the victims were customers or workers at the restaurant. The restaurant is normally open 24 hours but was closed later Sunday. Signs said it would reopen Monday morning....."
The shooting was around 12:25 a.m. Sunday, the three victims were ages 25, 24, and 20, and investigators have no information on the assailants.
Marty Walsh’s very bad week
He didn't mention the school bus problem.
"Man who died in party cruise fall remembered as kind, caring" by Amelia Nierenberg and Jerome Campbell Globe Correspondent | Globe Staff September 09, 2018
PEABODY — Aaron J. Dibella, 21, of Peabody, who died Saturday night after going overboard during a party cruise, was remembered Sunday by family and friends as a kindhearted, outgoing man who prioritized spending time with his family.
“If there ever was a kind heart, it was his,” said his mother, Suzanne Dibella, in a text message. “He made friends so easily. He cared for others so deeply, he lived a good life and he blessed many with his goodness.”
The Bay State Cruise Company, which owns the Provincetown II cruise ship that hosted the tropical luau party, said he had been “engaging in horseplay” before he fell. A friend, who was critical of the staff’s handling of the incident, said Dibella had decided to “joke around” and it was an “honest mistake.”
“He thought it would be funny to sit up on the side and pretend as if he was going to hang off the side of the boat. When he did that, he slipped and fell over,” said Matthew Almon, 21, who had been close friends with Dibella since middle school, in a phone interview Sunday evening.
Dibella fell overboard around 8:30 p.m., more than an hour after the cruise left the dock. He had climbed up the bulwark earlier that night and came down when instructed to by a crew member, but after the crew member left, “the passenger started in on the even more dramatic form of dangerous play,” said a statement from the company.
Almon said “probably an hour” elapsed between when Dibella was told to get down and when he climbed on the railing and fell overboard. He and Dibella had been drinking with other friends, he said, although not to excess.
In any event, isn't it time to ban booze. It kills people.
After Dibella fell, Almon said he ran through the boat screaming for help, but could not find find any staff for the first crucial minutes.
By the time the boat had turned around and located Dibella, Almon said at least 15 minutes had passed. He saw crew members throw three life preservers into the water, but no dinghys or lifeboats, and none of the preservation devices fell close enough for Dibella to reach.
“He was trying to get back. He was just trying to make it back and he was using all of his energy to get back,” Almon said. “I honestly think he thought he was going to make it. It was close.”
Once the boat pulled close to Dibella, a crew member went in the water to try and save him. The boat turned spotlights on Dibella, who started swimming toward the boat.
“He had to swim about 40 yards toward the boat until someone got in the water,” Almon said, speaking of his friend. “[The man who jumped in] was within an arm’s length or two away, but then Aaron went under.”
The watching partygoers cheered when the crew member reached Dibella, thinking he had been saved, but in a video posted to Twitter, the cheers quickly became gasps as the crew member turned back alone.
“I don’t know how they didn’t get him,” Almon said, his voice breaking on the phone.
Dibella’s body was recovered from the water around 1 a.m. by State Police divers near Peddocks Island at a depth of around 45 feet, according to State Police spokesman Dave Procopio.
The Bay State Cruise Company’s owner, Michael Glasfeld, spoke of “the tragic and overwhelming sadness that has swept through all of us.”
“There are no words — none — to convey our deepest and most sincere sympathies,” he said in the company’s statement.
He told the Globe in an e-mail that maritime alcohol rules are “more stringent” than those on land, and that his staff is “certified for serving alcohol.”
He also said many of his crew members are trained in lifesaving, crowd control, and “human behavior management.” He described that training as “well in excess of what is required of domestic vessel operators.”
He said his boats have biweekly drills, although the Coast Guard only requires them monthly.
“That is why so many life rings went into the water so quickly and the crew were rapidly positioned at the rescue point of the vessel with the other retrieval apparatus,” he said in a statement to the Globe.
This is not the first death that has occured on the Provincetown II.
In 2013, a 41-year-old man died after falling from the third deck of the boat, which the Bay State Cruise Company also attributed to horseplay. After this incident, the company raised the ship’s handrails to roughly a foot above the regulatory requirement, Glasfeld said.
After Dibella went overboard, chaos and confusion reigned on deck, as partygoers tried to understand what had happened.
“The only sign we had that something had gone wrong was that the music had been cut,” said Kelly Schwing, a partygoer, in a Twitter message about Dibella’s death. “The crew told us absolutely nothing for about 40 mins.”
No one hollered man overboard?
Others did not initially realize something was wrong.
“At first, I thought it was funny. Everyone did,” said Joshua Fitzgerald, 21, who was on the boat, in a phone interview Sunday. “But he kept going under and then he kept swimming. You see someone die in front of you, and you almost can’t believe it.”
I'm not sure I do.
Tensions flared onboard, Fitzgerald said, as people tried to cope with what had happened.
“Everyone was crying and out of control,” Fitzgerald said. “People were yelling and fighting, and a lot of people had had a lot of alcohol.”
The Saturday night cruise was a deviation from Dibella’s usual weekend plans, according to a family friend and neighbor, Lonny Johnson, 50.
In Peabody Sunday night, Johnson said Dibella spent most of his leisure time sitting around his backyard firepit at his family’s blue colonial-style home.
“I’d see him sitting out there thinking he was a good-looking guy who could be out doing other things at his age, but he was happiest with his family,” said Johnson.
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Poor guy was lookin' for love in all the wrong places, lookin' for love in too many faces.
Charlie Baker stops for beer and banter at L Street Tavern in South Boston
Why not a coffee bar?
