CBS Boston Incoming Northeastern student helped Mass. victim of NC shark attack An incoming Northeastern University student was among the people who rushed to the side of a Massachusetts man after he was attacked by a shark off the coast of North Carolina. Andrew Costello of Wareham was bitten by a shark on July 1 while swimming in waist-deep water off North Carolina’s Outer Banks on July 1. […]
What we can learn from Sandra Bland’s tragic end In 1962 Fannie Lou Hamer and a group of Ruleville, Mississippi residents she had taken to register to vote were returning home when they were stopped because their bus was yellow, and state laws prohibited non-school buses from using that shade. The driver was taken to jail and the would-be voters left in the sweltering […]
WGBH Against the establishment: Why Boston’s olympic retreat is like the Market Basket win The defeat of the Boston Olympics bid was this summer’s Market Basket story — a feel-good saga about ordinary people triumphing over the moneyed interests. Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi calls the opponents “heroes.” Of course, there were a lot of good people involved in Boston 2024, and they don’t deserve to be cast as […]
San Jose Mercury News San Jose airport gives CLEAR a trial run Stephen Flynn, co-director of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University, said that collecting biometric information will eventually allow airports to identify threats more easily, since it adds an extra level of screening. “We have a reasonably high level of confidence that the people who use those programs pose no […]
Fortune Low-cost airlines are making progress in train-loving Japan “Some of the traditional things about traveling on the train have been lost for the current generation [of Japanese],” says Allan Bird, professor of global business at Northeastern University, and a business consultant in Japan for much of the 1970s and 1980s. As air travel gets more economical, everything from the pleasures of countryside sightseeing, […]
U.S. scholars drawn to conflict zones stoke college safety debate At Boston’s Northeastern University, officials wonder why there are warnings for countries such as Colombia but not Tunisia, where 38 were killed in a June attack at a beach resort. “To a casual observer, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense,” said Brian Gibson, director of the Global Experience Office at Northeastern, which hires […]
Firms should stop pretending that high-profile mergers will benefit consumers Moviegoers didn’t suffer when Disney bought Pixar. Google’s acquisition of YouTube, and Facebook’s purchase of Instagram, didn’t appear to weaken those free online services. But these are examples of deals that weren’t intended to squeeze more revenue from customers through greater market power. Rather, they involved creation of new opportunities for growth. John Kwoka, an […]
Yahoo! Gossip site Gawker looks to turn over a new leaf Some immediate reactions were skeptical, amid questions on whether the site known for brash and unabashed reporting can be journalistically ethical. “Their mission is to be as mean-spirited as they possibly can. That’s been the Gawker brand from the beginning,” said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. Last week, Tommy Craggs, the executive […]
Who must be killed to beat ISIS and al Qaeda? Analysts and historians of terrorism are divided on the effectiveness of “leadership decapitation” — an approach that has been at the heart of the Obama Administration’s policy through the widespread use of armed drones. Max Abrahms, who studies terrorism at Northeastern University, says the aversion to putting boots on the ground and the growing technological […]
Major flaw in Android phones would let hackers in with just a text Collin Mulliner, senior research scientist at Northeastern University, says, “In this case Google is not the actual one to blame. It’s ultimately the manufacturer of your phone, in combination possibly with your carrier.” Android phones are very different from iPhones, for example. Apple runs a closed system. It controls the hardware and software, and it’s […]
WGBH All revved up about the death of Sandra Bland The Reverends Emmett G. Price III and Irene Monroe were back on Boston Public Radio for “All Revved Up.” They talked about the arrest and death of Sandra Bland in Hempstead, Texas. The following questions were paraphrased, and Price and Monroe’s answers were edited where noted […]. The Rev. Emmett G. Price III is a […]
Yahoo! R.J. Cutler on Trump’s brand bump The Republican party made a concerted effort this cycle to gain more control over presidential primary debates, limiting their number in hopes of avoiding the spectacle of 2012, when such gatherings started taking on the feel of a reality show. How is the plan working out? “Not very well,” says Alan Schroeder, professor at Northeastern […]