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John Connolly the retired FBI agent who is in prison in Florida according to Whitey Bulger cannot accept that he is going to die in prison. It is hard to tell how Whitey feels about this. He presently has intense dislike for Connolly because of one thing. Connolly set up an informant file on him…

Kevin Weeks was Whitey’s sidekick and strong-arm man. He wrote a book Brutal that was published in 2006. Knowing that year is important. First, it is during the time when the Whitey Myth was nearing its height. People were rushing to take advantage of any connection that they had with him. Second, Whitey had been on…

Some black parents came up with a solution for avoiding the poor education in the schools their children would have been sent to by opting to send their children into the METCO program. That program made arrangements with schools outside of the city who would be willing to accept some black students from the city….

I’ve been away from the desegregation battles of the Boston School System since the 1970s. I was one of the attorneys representing the Boston School Committee before federal judge J. Arthur Garrity who I believe most fair-minded people agree caused immense damage to the Boston Public School system with his sledgehammer approach to the problem…

One of my favorite poems is Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” The poem speaks to the plight of the farmer on his little plot of land who works for his daily bread. The lines that are pertinent to this post are: Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with…

Two recent articles are worth considering. One in the Boston Globe on August 1 titled: “Can the US stop the scientific brain drain to China?” written by Arthur W. Lambert a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He tells us “Recently, I was having lunch with a prominent US-based cancer scientist.  We…