The Boston Globe - 07.08.2019

Strugglingdepartment store
chain Barney’sNew Yo rkis
closingmostofitsstores,but
the Back Bay site is expected
to stay in business.B6.

The juryin theBostonCalling

case begandeliberationsafter

a trial that put the spotlight on

the Walsh administration.B1.

Three Bostonhospitals are

teaminguptohelp families

who are facing eviction.B6.

The Red Sox’ collapsecould

costDaveDombrowski hisjob,

writes Dan Shaughnessy.C1.

Oleanais alwaysa special

placefor foodwriterDevra

First,but a coveted patio seat

is never a sure thing.G1.

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DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF

GETTING BETTER, BUT

.. .Things are improving
on the Red Line,nearly
two monthsafter a
damaging derailment, but
many commutersfromthe
southstill face occasional
nightmarish journeys. A
day in the life of riderson
all threebranches,and an
analysis of MBTA data,B1.

ByDeirdre Fernandes

GLOBE STAFF

Dartmouth College has agreed to pay $14 mil-

lion to settle a sexual harassmentlawsuit brought

by currentand formerstudents who alleged that

they were harassed and assaulted by their former

professors — resolving a case that has shadowed

the campusfor two years and broughtnational

attention to the barriersencounteredby young

female scientists.

The settlement is among the larger payouts by

a higher education institution to deal with claims

of sexual harassmentand a hostile education en-

vironment, legal experts said.

“Fourteen million is starting to senda mes-

sage,” said Christina Mancini,a criminaljustice

professor at the Wilder School of Government

and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth

DARTMOUTH,Page A

ByJamesPindell

GLOBESTAFF

The first poll of likely New HampshireDemo-

crats since last week’s debates shows that pene-

trating the top tier of threecandidates mightbe

tougherthanever in the state’s first-in-the-na-

tion primary.

Withsix monthsuntilthe anticipated Febru-

ary 2020 contest, a Suffolk University/Boston

Globepoll released Tuesday foundformervice

president Joe Biden the leader among likely

Democratic primary voters with21 percent. In

second, Senator Bernie Sandersof Vermonthad

17 percent, and, in third,Senator Elizabeth War-

ren of Massachusetts had 14 percent.

“This is shapingup to be a race between three

candidates who all cannotfigureout how to get

past each other, and then everyone else who [is]

really vyingfor fourth placeor just survival,” said

David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk Univer-

sity Political Research Center, who conducted the

survey.

In fourth place is Senator Kamala Harris of

POLL,Page A

ByVictoria McGrane

GLOBE STAFF

Gun-control advocates have scored

majorvictories in red states as well as

blueonesin recentyears,bolstering

their optimismeven as they acknowl-

edge that oddsremainlong that Wash-

ington will respond with federal legisla-

tion to the twin massacres in El Paso and

Dayton, Ohio.

Activists and experts say their success

in enacting gun-control legislation at the

state level reflects the growing public

cloutthe movement has gained since 20

first-gradersand six adults were mur-

dered at Sandy Hook Elementary School

in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.

While Congress has not passed mean-

ingfulgun-control legislationin de-

cades,achievements in more than 40

states reflect the strength of a movement

that is able to go toe-to-toewith the his-

torically powerful NationalRifle Associ-

ation and other gun rights groups, activ-

ists contend.

“When you hearpeople say 20 first-

graderswerekilledat SandyHook and

nothing happened and that’s when it all

becamehopeless... that’s just false,”

said Kristin Goss, a Duke University po-

litical scientist who studies the gun-con-

trol movement. “The gun violencepre-

vention movement of today is just

leagues larger, morestrategic,better

funded,moreenergetic than it was

probably at any point in history.”

SandyHook and,later, the 2018

school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in par-

ticular, sparked the formation of new

groups and energized a young genera-

tion of activists who have in turnbeen

the forcebehindlegislative change, ex-

perts and activists say.

“There is progressbeingmade,” said

Shannon Watts, founder of Moms De-

mandAction,an anti-gun-violence

group formedafter SandyHook that

GUNS,Page A

Trump to visit

The president will go to

El Paso and Dayton today,

despite somepushback.A9.

Action in Ohio

The Republican governor

proposed several steps to

combat gun violence.A8.

JACQUELYN MARTIN/ASSOCIATEDPRESS

Activists ralliedneartheWhiteHouseonTuesday.

Is it the gunsor the insecure little boys who
wieldthem?
Anyone who has had kids has witnessed the
moment. A toddler of about3 or 4 will pick up a
stick and, for the first time,point it at someone
or something and saybang. It’s always boys.It’s
never girls. I saw it hit my daughters’ play groups
duringpre-K. In fact, I remember the specific
boy who did it first and the other boys who im-
mediately imitated him until a little make-be-
lieve Montessori gun battle was raging. Little pri-
mates passingalong the virusof domination.
Beinga movie critic, I thought of Stanley Ku-
brickand “2001: A Space Odyssey” and the scene
of the first ape to pick up a bone and turn it into
a weapon. And of all the prehistoric creatures
who followed, even up to whenthey called them-
BURR,Page A

Ty Burr

COMMENTARY

ByEmilyLanger
WASHINGTONPOST
Toni Morrison, the Nobel
Prize-winning novelist who
conjured a black girl longing
for blue eyes, a slave mother
who kills her childto save her
from bondage, and other indel-
ible characters who helped
transfigure a literary canon
long closed to African-Ameri-
cans, died Monday at a hospital
in the Bronx. She was 88.
Paul Bogaards, a spokesman
for the publishing company Al-
fred A. Knopf, said the cause
was complications from pneu-
monia.
Ms. Morrison spent an im-
poverished childhood in Ohio
steel country, began writing
during what she described as
stolen time as a single mother,
and became the first black
woman to receive the Nobel in
literature. Critically acclaimed
and widely loved, she received
recognitions as diverse as the
Pulitzer Prize and the selection
of her novels — four of them —
for the book club led by talk-
show host Oprah Winfrey.
Ms. Morrison placed Afri-
can-Americans, particularly
women, at the heart of her
writing at a time when they
were largely relegated to the
margins both in literature and
in life. With language celebrat-
ed for its lyricism, she was
credited with conveying, more
than perhaps any novelist be-
fore her, the nature of black life
in America, from slavery to the
inequality that wenton more
than a century after it ended.
Among her best-known
works was ‘‘Beloved’’ (1987),
the Pulitzer-winning novel later
made into a film starring Win-
frey. It introduced millions of
readers to Sethe, a slave mother
haunted by the memory of the
child she had murdered, having
judged life in slavery worse
than no life at all. Like many of
Ms. Morrison’s characters, she
was tortured, yet noble — ‘‘un-
available to pity,’’ as the author
MORRISON, Page C

‘This is precisely thetimewhen

artists goto work.Thereis no time

for despair, noplacefor self-pity, no

need for silence,no roomfor fear.

We speak,wewrite, wedolanguage.

ThaThat is how civilizatiot is how civilizationsns heal.’heal.

Gun-control activists see momentum in states

Whilefederal legislationseemsunlikely, they

pointto many changes sinceSandyHook

Strikingtheirblows

formale privilege

FROM HEART OF BLACK AMERICA,

A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS

tonimorrison1931- 2019

From an essay includedin the 150th anniversaryissue of The Nation magazine.

DAMONWINTER/NEW YORK TIMES/FILE 2008

In poll, it’s

Biden, Sanders,

Warren in N.H.

Afterdebates, toptier

far aheadin huge field

Dartmouth

to pay $14m over

sex harassment

Women in suit said they

were assaulted byprofessors