Word: bulger
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...Massachusetts state college system starts its academic year, it will be dealing with some crippling losses—sharp budget cuts that include reduced support for community colleges. But there is at least one reduction that will actually provide a boost to the university: the loss of William M. Bulger as its president...
...leader of UMass and a former Massachusetts Senate President, William Bulger was one of the most powerful figures in state government—which left him in a unique position to represent the university’s interests at the State House. He was also the brother of notorious New England mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, one of the FBI’s ten most wanted. The Bulger family’s seeming dichotomy of public figure and public fugitive was a motif that often left William to play the part of the innocent...
William Bulger’s embarrassingly evasive testimony before the U.S. House’s Government Reform Committee illustrated the root of the problem. When asked if he would want to see his brother brought to justice, Bulger could not answer in the affirmative. His numerous obfuscations and reliance on “memory lapses” in response to legitimate questions about contact with his brother—and steps taken to aid Whitey’s continued escape—were all too emblematic of his continued flouting of the law. Familial loyalty is an admirable quality...
RESIGNED. WILLIAM M. BULGER, 69, as president of the University of Massachusetts; in Boston. The former Democratic president of the state senate for 17 years, he had faced months of controversy--and attacks by Republican Governor Mitt Romney--over his ties to his brother James (Whitey) Bulger, a reputed gang member who has been a fugitive since 1995. In June, William Bulger gave what Romney said was evasive testimony about his brother to a U.S. House committee, in which he denied recognizing the name of his brother's gang...
Orfield says that Romney’s proposed restructuring of the state university system—which would eliminate the position of University of Mass. President William T. Bulger, and allow individual campuses to “spin off” by setting their own course—would actually force the campuses to compete for fewer resources...