The Boston Olympics The Hub is all a’twitter about its selection as the United States’ candidate city for the 2024 Olympics. Those of us who call Boston home understand why it has progressed so far in the selection process. It has a great sports tradition. It can fulfill its promise in a timely and efficient manner. Yet, the […]
WGBH Donald Trump, Boston Olympics & Go Fund Me campaigns Donald Trump – When he first entered the race, it was an open question whether the press would treat Donald Trump seriously. But now, there’s little question he has commanded the news agenda, and despite controversial comments, the polls as well. Boston Olympics – The group “No Boston 2024” has helped inform news coverage of […]
As Boston eyes the 2024 Olympics, its colleges see a chance for growth Others deliver similar messages, if in more measured tones. Universities “are champions of the intellectual and physical human endeavor,” said Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern. “The Olympics do the same.” Anthony P. Monaco, president of Tufts, said he sees an Olympics in Boston as an opportunity to encourage civic-minded attitudes among youths. A key […]
Is a Boston Olympics a good idea? Reactions from the web “To win the public’s approval, however, those who would lead this project must show the permanent payoff. How will the T be improved? How about infrastructure improvements? How will Boston in 2034 be a better place because of the Olympics of 2024?” — Roger I. Abrams, Richardson Professor of Law, Northeastern University, via HuffPost Sports
For Boston-area colleges, Olympics would provide a chance to shine Several college presidents said Friday that while many details remain to be ironed out, they were excited by the prospect of using the games to highlight the city’s higher-education players on the world’s stage. “We all realize this is a special moment for Boston, and we support the opportunity and frankly the obligation to work […]
Fukushima Facility to Become Soccer Training Camp for 2020 Olympics “This promised handover of J-village would serve as a symbol of progress,” Daniel Aldrich, professor and director of the security and resilience studies program at Northeastern University in Boston, said by e-mail. “Tepco clearly hopes that this will show the nation that it is on track in the Fukushima accident clean up process,” Aldrich said. […]
New research finds low risk of Zika virus at Olympics Alessandro Vespignani – a professor of physics, computer science and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston – is developing a model that predicts where the virus will spread based on travel patterns to and from places where the virus already is being transmitted. The model is based on the CDC’s list of more than […]
Does the Olympics in Rio put the world in danger of Zika? Officials are expecting around 500,000 spectators and athletes. Then the model predicts, there will be — at most — 16 cases of Zika at the Olympics. So attendees are much more likely to get the flu or food poisoning at the games than Zika, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control concluded. “If I […]
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 […]
Why should it take a Boston Olympic bid to fix the T? “If you’re going to host the Olympics, now you have to get it done on a certain day,” Professor Stephanie Pollack, of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, told Quinn. “It gives you a calendar that you cannot miss, and public projects don’t usually have this.” So, if this is […]
Discovery News Can watching the Olympics make us fitter? As spectator sports, Olympic events make hearts race and palms sweat as viewers vicariously experience the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. But can watching some of the world’s fittest athletes compete actually make spectators fitter? When people watch sports, even if they are sitting on the couch eating popcorn, their brains and […]
Musical by former Northeastern professor to debut in New York Just in time for Purim, local playwright Samuel Bernstein has a new musical for Jews and non-Jews alike — if you can make the trip to New York. Bernstein, a former Northeastern University English professor for 55 years, wrote another play with Jewish roots. His “Olympics Über Alles,” from 2014, was about track stars Marty […]