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Friday, August 2, 2019

By Jess Bidgood and Jazmine Ulloa
GLOBE STAFF
DETROIT — The attacks flew fast and furious,
echoing off the soaring gilded ceiling of the Fox
Theater here and rattling Democrats with fears
that a protracted and messy intra-party fight will
distract from the real battle royale against Presi-
dent Trump.
Over the course of two nights this week, a soc-
cer team’s worth of low-polling candidates hit
one front-runner after another as they tried to
make a mark. Little-known moderates at the edg-
es of the stage sought to deflate populist liberals

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders at its cen-
ter. The barbed rivalry between Joe Biden and
California Senator Kamala Harris flared up
again, with Cory Booker of New Jersey piling on
the former vice president for good measure.
And, as if fighting solely with the cabal on
stage were not enough, candidates such as Julian
Castro and Bill de Blasio brought President Ba-
rack Obama’s legacy into the fray as they sought
to land a blow on Biden, showing that even the
popular former president no longer occupies the
party’s demilitarized zone.
“There is a vast majority of American voters
that just want to see an adult in the room and
that was not demonstrated onstage,” said Stacy
Pearson, a Democratic campaign consultant in
Arizona. “They really were the parents fighting
on the side of their kids’ football game.”
Political debates are messy, bruising exercises
by definition. But as this week’s clashes turned
remarkably negative, they showcased the un-
wieldy contours of a primary election in which
candidates desperate to stand out from the pack
are laying into each other — and sometimes
Obama — instead of Trump, leaving some in the
party worried that the jostling to take on an un-
DEMOCRATS, Page A

By Laura Crimaldi

GLOBE STAFF

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy was high on drugs and said

he was reaching for a drink on the passenger side of his

2016 Dodge pickup truck when the vehicle crossed the

highway’s yellow center line and crashed into a group of

motorcyclists in New Hampshire in late June, according

to a federal inspection report obtained by the Globe.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration re-

port provides the most detailed account to date of the fi-

ery collision that killed seven, injured three others, and

led to a still-widening scandal at the Massachusetts Reg-

istry of Motor Vehicles, which failed to revoke the 23-

year-old’s commercial driver’s license prior to the crash.

The federal agency, which oversees the trucking indus-

try, is the first investigatory body to raise allegations that

Zhukovskyy was intoxicated at the time of the tragedy.

Zhukovskyy, of West Springfield, tested positive after

the June 21 collision for an unspecified drug that ren-

dered him incapable of driving safely, federal regulators

found. The report does not specify the drug beyond say-

ing it was a narcotic or amphetamine.

The report also includes Zhukovskyy’s admission that

he was reaching for a beverage at the time of the crash,

as well as a detailed description of the destruction the

collision inflicted on the pickup truck and trailer that

Zhukovskyy was operating for Westfield Transport Inc.

of West Springfield.

Albert Mazza Sr., whose son, Albert Mazza Jr., 59, was

killed in the crash, faulted Massachusetts officials for

failing to pull Zhukovskyy’s driver’s license.

DRIVER, Page A

By Zoe Greenberg

GLOBE STAFF

WELLFLEET — It was a postcard-perfect

morning at Cahoon Hollow Beach: sun shining,

waves lapping gently, rainbow beach towels and

umbrellas dotting the warm sand. There was just

one problem.

“What lives in the water? Why are we not

swimming?” Jessica Smith, 38, quizzed her 5-

year-old son, who was running back and forth

between the waves and the blanket, bringing

back various treasures (saltwater in a jar, sand).

“Sharks,” Max answered dutifully. He was

wearing a blue T-shirt with a large white shark

on it, and he knew about the creatures, too.

“They have fins and sometimes their teeth fall

out and you can find them,” he explained.

Every week seems to be shark week on Cape

Cod, with about 24 shark sightings in the past

seven days, according to the Atlantic White

Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app. In the past

five years, around 300 white sharks have been

identified by researchers along the coast of Cape

Cod. And a number of terrifying photos and vid-

eos have gone viral in the past few weeks, docu-

menting great white sharks leaping out of the

water or turning the ocean red with seal’s blood.

With Sharknado-esque predators on the

loose, how are weary vacationers supposed to re-

SHARKS, Page A

Democrats

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Snipingextendedto

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SUN,SAND,SHARKS

That’slifeontheCapethesedays,andvacationersaretakingnotice

By Katie Johnston

GLOBE STAFF

Mike Baker has never been a

big “work from home guy.” He just

doesn’t think he can be as produc-

tive if he’s not in his Fort Point of-

fice, where he serves as marketing

director for the corporate travel

platform Lola.com. There are just

too many distractions — and com-

forts — in his East Boston apart-

ment: “I’m in my home, my bed is

right there.”

Plus he’s had some bad remote-

work experiences, like the time he

dialed into a meeting and had dif-

ficulty hearing, couldn’t tell who

was talking, and got hung up on.

But with roughly 10 percent of

the 100-person Lola.com team

working from home on any given

day, and a handful of full-time re-

mote employees, Baker and some

of his colleagues are working off-

site this week in an attempt to bet-

ter understand what it’s like and

gauge the appetite for telework as

the company expands.

The effort, part of a national

Work From Home Week, reflects a

growing interest in what one

workplace consultant calls the

“fourth industrial revolution.”

About half the workforce tele-

commutes at least once a month,

according to Global Workplace An-

alytics and FlexJobs, a job search

site, and the number of non-self-

employed people in the United

WORKING FROM HOME, Page A

Doingtheirhomeworkonworkingfromhome

Withmoreemployeestelecommuting,

companiestrytolearnwhatit’sreallylike

VOL. 296, NO. 33

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High 80-85. Low 67-72.

Saturday:A bit hotter.

High 84-89. Low 68-73.

High tide: 12:19 a.m., 12:57 p.m.

Sunrise: 5:37 Sunset: 8:

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PHOTOS BY DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF

At Cahoon Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, warnings about sharks are prominent, making some people hesitant about going in the water.

Driverincrashwashigh,reportsays

Zhukovskyyadmittedreaching

forbeverageonpassengerside,

accordingtofederalagency

EAST WINDSOR POLICE DEPARTMENT

The report does not specify

what drug Volodymyr

Zhukovskyy tested positive

for in the June 21 crash in

New Hampshire.

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inquiry,raisingpressureonPelosi.A2.

By Danny McDonald
GLOBE STAFF
and Sofia Saric and Kellen Browning
GLOBE CORRESPONDENTS
HYANNIS PORT — Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the
22-year-old granddaughter of Robert F. Kenne-
dy, died of an apparent overdose Thursday at the
Kennedy compound, according to her family
and law enforcement officials.
A statement released by Kennedy Hill’s fami-
ly Thursday night confirmed her death without
providing a cause. A source familiar with the in-
vestigation said she died at the home of her
grandmother, Ethel Kennedy, the 91-year-old
widow of Robert F. Kennedy.
“Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our
beloved Saoirse,” the family said in the state-
ment. “Her life was filled with hope, promise
and love.... We will love her and miss her forev-
er.”
The family described Kennedy Hill as some-
one who cared “deeply about friends and family,
especially her mother Courtney, her father Paul,
her stepmother Stephanie, and her grandmoth-
er, Ethel.”
Ethel Kennedy said of her granddaughter’s
KENNEDY FAMILY, Page A

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CHRISTINE HOCHKEPPEL FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

The Kennedy compound has been the scene
of family gatherings in good times and bad.