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Updated Apr 04, 2021;
Posted Apr 04, 2021
Kevin J. O’Toole, chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says these past 12 months have been difficult. There is so much hate.
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By Kevin J. O’Toole
When my children were born a generation ago, I envisioned they would grow up in a better world than I had. It is a universal hope of parents that the societal failures of the past will be corrected before their children experience discrimination and potentially, hate-fueled violence. Sadly, my children have not inherited such a world.
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President Joe Biden is making the strengthening of democracy abroad a top priority. The past 12 months have been a turbulent period for human rights, the rule of law, pluralism, and progressive movements. Around the world democracy is in retreat, with the leaders and populations of many countries weighing the purported efficiency and consistency of more authoritarian regimes against the confusion, policy reversals, and social discord recently on display in the U.S.
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The Mystic Massacre of 1637 (also known as the Pequot Massacre) was the pivotal event of the Pequot War (1636-1638) in New England fought between the English (along with their Native American allies the Mohegan and Narragansett tribes) and the Pequot tribe of modern-day Connecticut. The conflict was initiated by the English who accused the Pequots and one of their tributaries, the Niantics, of murdering English traders. Even though governors Sir Henry Vane (l. 1613-1662), and John Winthrop (l. c. 1588-1649) both accepted the explanation of the Pequot chief Sassacus (l. c. 1560-1637) for the murders, as well as the
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It started with a bully. “The noise bully,” Nancy Rosenblum calls him, a man who lived in her Cambridge loft building years ago and tormented the family next door with a rooftop air conditioner whose roar and vibrations shook their apartment day and night. They couldn’t sleep. They tried earplugs and insulation; they tried moving their bed to the back of the room. Finally they tried selling their place. They received no offers.
Meanwhile, the noise bully refused to move the air conditioner, even after Rosenblum and other neighbors confronted him on behalf of the sleepless family, even after they got together and offered to help pay for the cost of relocating the AC unit to a quieter spot on the roof. Instead he hired engineers to certify that the sound and vibration were within legal limits and posted the paperwork in the hallway. “This was malice,” Rosenblum says. “It was an act of deliberate cruelty.” In part, he liked the attention. �