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BOSTON—Seeking to bring about legislation next year that would reinstitute the death penalty in Massachusetts, Governor W. Mitt Romney (R) announced the formation of the Governor’s Council on Capital Punishment at the Massachusetts State House yesterday...
...commission is expected to meet frequently in the upcoming months and will draft a new capital punishment bill by next year, which will then be presented to the legislature in 2004,” Romney said...
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...
...trees have more presence than the two small humans who scuttle across the canvas. Its wide angle and transformation of horror into almost-beauty conveys emotional impact in a way no photograph can. In 1921 Nash was diagnosed with "war strain" and retreated to the Kent coast, near bleak Romney Marsh. He took refuge in geometry, applying a ruler to nature, and seeking out the regularity of fences, planks, horizons. The Shore (1923) shows the seawall at Dymchurch, which holds the water - in his imagination "cold and cruel" - back from the marsh. A stark composition of gray, blue, gold...
...Romney will return to campus tomorrow to attend his son’s graduation from Harvard Business School, from which Romney himself graduated in 1975 with a joint degree from the Business School and Harvard Law School...