February 21, 2014 Vol. 118 No. 8
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VOL. 118 - NO. 8 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, FEBRUARY 21, 2014 $.30 A COPY OLYMPIC UPDATE ... by Ivanha Paz gold medals. The Nether- won the silver medal and lands have been catching up Russia’s Elena Ilinykh and with 20 medals in total, win- Nakita Katsalapov winning ning their 19th in speed skat- Bronze. ing where they took up all Kim Yu Na of South Korea 3 places. After Germany is is making her mark. The Norway, then the Dutch, the country also won in short U.S. in fourth place and lastly track speed skating, taking Russia. the gold in a 3,000m relay. After a few nail-biters On Wednesday morning Ted Ligety wins gold in Canada and Great Britain the Team Sprint Classic in Alpine Skiing. move on to the curling semi- cross country was held in The past week in Sochi has finals, Great Britain having David Wise captures a gold men’s and women’s. The win- been full of heat as athletes beat Norway in a tie breaker medal in the Half Pipe ners were Norway in women’s from across the world com- on Tuesday. competition. and Finland in men’s. pete for the gold. All four quarter final hockey The Men’s Figure Skating For two talented Ameri- U.S. Ice Dance Gold Medal The U.S. has won its first games took place on Wednes- competition had a major dis- cans, Sochi is their last winners Meryl Davis and medal in Alpine Skiing day, the U.S. was against appointment when Russia’s Olympics: Bode Miller and Charlie White. thanks to Ted Ligety winning the Czech Republic. The U.S Evgeny Plyushchenko had to Noelle Pikus Pace. Miller, a first place on Wednesday’s secured their bye in a game withdraw from the competi- New England native from New finish line in Calgary, giant slalom event. After against Slovenia winning tion just before the men’s Hampshire, had to withdraw Canada. Her legs were bro- Ligety, France won both sil- 5-1 and automatically placing short program due to injury. from what would have been ken, one of them to the point ver and bronze. for the quarter finals. How- Japan’s 19-year-old skating his last Olympic event: the where a titanium rod had to In snowboarding news, ever, America played an sensation Yuzuru Hanyu, par- giant slalom due to injury. He be inserted to replace the Patrizia Kummer won the gold intense game against Rus- ticipating in his first Olym- leaves Sochi with a bronze bone. in giant slalom, Japan silver sia, their main rival since pic competition came in first medal from the Super-G ski- Besides sports, ethics also and Russia’s, Alena Zavar- the winter Olympics in Lake place taking the gold followed ing race, at 36 years of age. surround this week’s events. zina, the bronze. Zavarzina’s Placid, 1980 when the U.S by Canada’s Patrick Chan Pikus Pace, a skeleton racer, The Ukraine requested to husband, also an Olympic beat them in what became and Kazakhstan’s Denis Ten. leaves the Olympics at 31 wear black arm bands to champion won the men’s ver- known as “The Miracle on Meryl Davis and Charlie with a silver medal won last honor the casualties of pro- sion of the same race. Ice.” Emotions were running White of the U.S. captured the Friday, February 14th. Her ca- tests held on Tuesday, but David Wise from America high during the Saturday gold in the Ice Dance compe- reer has been a long journey, their request was denied due won the gold in half pipe ski- game which was a close one, tition beating out reigning including an accident in 2005 to the Olympics’ strict policies ing on Tuesday, but leading the U.S coming out on top 3-2 Canadian champions Tessa when a four man bob-sled hit about prohibiting any form of the way is Germany with 8 after shootouts. Virtue and Scott Moir who her and her team mate at the political expression. News Briefs Mayor’s Safety Initiative to Coordinate by Sal Giarratani Citywide Violence Prevention Efforts Mayor Martin J. Walsh partmental strategies for safety and neighborhood vio- McDonald’s Opens Up in announced the creation of improving the City’s efforts lence, particularly related to Downtown Ho Chi Minh City the Mayor’s Safety Initiative, to prevent violence. Graves at-risk youth and taking Recently, hundreds lined up behind velvet created to address public and Mulhern have worked guns off of Boston streets. ropes at the grand opening of this city’s hottest safety and violence in the closely together for nearly Graves served on the staff of attraction. What is this place you ask? None City of Boston. The Initiative 15 years in their roles in the late Rep. Kevin other than the first McDonald’s restaurant. Yup, will be led by Leon Graves probation and prosecution, Fitzgerald, and in this role you heard correct. McDONALD’S! Ronald and Daniel Mulhern. respectively. worked on community ef- McDonald was there passing out free red (of “Boston is a city that is Their mandate is to exam- forts such as the Highland course) balloons. Besides lining up to get inside, rich in assets, and we need ine and recommend solu- Square Task Force, the the drive-through line had a long trail of cars to build on those assets to tions for the root causes of Grove Hall Initiative, the waiting to order up at the window. build a strong, safe future for violence, such as access to Orange Line Safety Task In addition to all the normal things to eat at our kids,” said Mayor Walsh. illegal guns, trauma among Force, and the Roxbury Stra- McDonald’s was a Vietnamese special, the Mc Pork “I keep saying this: We can- young people, and quality tegic Planning Committee, sandwich. When they open up a restaurant in not arrest our way out of this of life issues such as eco- among others. He has the mid-east, surely pork, will not be a menu problem. We need to take a nomic development, access worked in collaboration with item. However, in Vietnam, pork is apparently comprehensive approach to to education, and pathways neighborhood health cen- king. neighborhood safety, and to careers. They will work ters, community groups, law As a Vietnam-era veteran of the United States this is an important first closely with community enforcement, clergy, and Air Force, I admit being somewhat troubled by step.” stakeholders in developing other nonprofits, conducting this news. Is that why over 58,000 AMERICANS Mulhern and Graves will collaborative broad-based direct outreach to and pro- lost their lives in Southeast Asia, to open up a be responsible for coordinat- strategies for addressing vio- viding counseling for gang store selling McPork sandwiches? ing the City’s efforts around lence. In addition, their members. Most recently, violence prevention. This work will include coordinat- Graves served as a Cameras Here, Cameras There, will include working across ing potential grant awards to Dorchester District Court Cameras Everywhere all City departments — in- assist the City’s anti-vio- Probation Officer assigned to I read the news about the MBTA installing cam- cluding Boston Police, the lence efforts. the Youthful Offender Unit eras all over their buses, inside and out through Boston Public Health Com- Leon Graves is native of in collaboration with the a Homeland Security grant. On the surface, it mission, the Boston Public Mission Hill and a product of District Attorney’s Office. In (Continued on Page 14) Schools, Boston Centers for Boston Public Schools. He this role, Graves worked Youth and Family, and oth- has over 20 years of experi- ers — to provide cross-de- ence addressing community (Continued on Page 2) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 21, 2014 Res Publica by David Trumbull Ohio Senator Brown Files Bill to Require U.S. Government to SALLUST Buy American-made Clothing The Ciceronian period in ments also relate to the war On February 6th, Senator Sherrod Brown (Democrat, Ohio) the “Golden Age” of ancient with Spartacus the gladiator. introduced a bill, S. 2001, to require that textile and apparel Roman literati (men of His fourth work is a col- articles acquired for use by executive agencies be manu- letters) continues with a lection of letters which ap- factured from articles, materials or supplies entirely grown, brief account of the life of pear to have been addressed produced or manufactured in the United States. With cur- Gaius Sallustius Crispus, to Caesar during the Span- rent law only requiring federal agencies to purchase tex- more commonly known as ish campaign and his fifth tile products that are 51 percent American made, Brown Sallust. He was born about and last work is a double sort called for passage of the Wear American Act that would 86 B.C. in the Sabine town of literary effort entitled require all textile products purchased by federal agencies of Amiternum. He became “Speeches of Sallust,” and to be made in the United States. quaestor (treasury officer, “Speeches of Cicero.” “It’s not in the interest of American jobs, American tax- and later became a “tribune Some of the later Roman payers or global human rights when our government pro- of the plebs” (champion of the writers believe that Sallust cures goods from factories with records of blatant interna- people).