Labor Secretary Pick Walsh Is ‘Biden-esque’ Consensus-Builder “I often half-jokingly refer to Marty Walsh as like a Swiss Army knife,” said John Tobin, a Walsh friend and administrator at Northeastern University. “The mayor checks a lot of boxes and appeals to a lot of different constituencies: He’s in recovery, he’s a cancer survivor, he was shot, his family’s from Ireland.”
Trump’s social distancing guidelines quietly expire as the administration shifts focus to reopening Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes in health care and bioethics, said the expiration of the guidelines doesn’t change much as states are already calling the shots on when to lift restrictions.
Why Walmart’s new gun rules won’t actually reduce homicides What’s more, only 13% of homicides involving a rifle or shotgun were committed by people between the ages of 18 and 20 in 2016, according to data that Northeastern University Criminology Professor James Alan Fox provided to TIME based on his analysis of the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports. Another 7% of the shooters in Fox’s […]
UCLA shooting pushes panic button: James Alan Fox Wednesday’s murder suicide at UCLA, in which an esteemed professor was fatally shot inside his office by a former student, was absolutely tragic. But inaccurately calling it an active shooter situation only added to the panic on campus and off. Taking nothing for granted, the police response was forceful, yet no one besides the intended target was […]
CFOs with CPAs skimp in growth industries The study looked at how the two kinds of CFOs performed in high-growth industries, such as pharmaceuticals, electronics, and business services as well as low-growth industries, such as transportation, machinery and petroleum. The upshot was that companies with accounting CFOs tended to be more risk averse. CFOs with accounting backgrounds in high-growth industries on average […]
Uncle Sam wants YOU to read ‘popular’ scholarly books Here is a full list of the newly named Public Scholars, their professional affiliations, book titles and grant amounts: • Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo, “Animals in the History of the United States,” $50,400. • Edward Ball, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., “Constant LeCorgne (1832-1886): Biography of a Klansman,” $50,400. • Nicholas Basbanes, independent scholar, North […]
When a gun is not a gun The Justice Department recently analyzed eight years of shootings by Philadelphia police officers. Its report contained two sobering statistics: Fifteen percent of those shot were unarmed; and in half of these cases, an officer reportedly misidentified a “nonthreatening object (e.g., a cellphone) or movement (e.g., tugging at the waistband)” as a weapon. Many factors presumably […]
Bloomberg Businessweek Why the Ferguson police officer was cleared of charges A white Missouri police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager avoided indictment by a state grand jury, raising concerns of a return to rioting that engulfed the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson after the August shooting. Northeastern University’s Daniel Medwed explains why the police officer was cleared off charges on “Asia Edge.”
Maker Of $1,000 Hepatitis C Pill Looks To Cut Its Cost Overseas Law professor Brook Baker at Northeastern University in Boston, an adviser to Health Global Access Project, or Health GAP, notes that Gilead allows generic manufacturers to sell its HIV drugs in over 100 countries. “So why not a similarly large number of countries for the hepatitis C drug?” Baker tells Shots. “An important question to ask is what […]
Nancy Lanza was a victim, too: Column Saturday will mark the one-year anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting that tragically claimed the lives of 20 young children and six staff members. While the local townsfolk opted not to hold any public observances, Gov. Dannel Malloy has asked that churches across the state ring their bells 26 times, once for each victim of the massacre. […]
Okla. killing fits ‘shared misunderstanding’: Column The senseless killing of Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old senior attending college in Oklahoma on a baseball scholarship, has sent shock waves around the world, especially in the victim’s homeland of Australia. While out for a run on the afternoon of August 16, Lane was shot in the back during an unprovoked attack. It isn’t just the randomness […]
MarketWatch 10 things cruise lines won’t tell you 8. “There is still plenty of peril on the sea.” It seems like something out of a movie: Four masked men armed with shot guns and pistols stick up a tour group of more than 60 cruise passengers and crew viewing a tropical waterfall, then make off into the bushes with money, watches, camera and […]