Morning Updates: L.A. residents like the Olympics way more than Boston did
Good morning, Boston. L.A. residents are happy to take the 2024 Olympics from Boston, last night saw a series of bloody shootings around the city, and the rest of the news you need to know today.
A bloody night: “Five people were shot, one fatally, in two separate shootings in Roxbury and Mattapan on Wednesday, in a night of violence that swept through Boston’s neighborhoods, police said. … Two other shootings occurred in the Boston area late Wednesday into early Thursday. The Associated Press reports a woman was shot and killed early Thursday in a municipal parking lot in Everett, according to police. In Cambridge, a man in his 30s was shot and killed in a car near the Kendall MBTA station on Wednesday night. (The Boston Globe)
L.A. happily takes the Olympics from Boston: “Los Angeles already had a lot going for it as a potential host of the 2024 Summer Games — a healthy Olympics legacy and ready-made stadiums. But on Wednesday US Olympic officials revealed an advantage that would seem inconceivable in Boston: 81 percent public support for a bid to host the Games. It is hard to imagine 81 percent of Bostonians agreeing on anything, beyond maybe free lobster. … Boston’s bid collapsed because of poll numbers that couldn’t climb out of the low 40s.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Hypocrisy, thy name is Facebook: “Three months ago, Harvard student Aran Khanna was preparing to start a coveted internship at Facebook when he launched a browser application from his dorm room that angered the social media behemoth. … [T]he company that Mark Zuckerberg famously launched from his Harvard dorm room withdrew its internship offer from this Harvard student, who apparently made the mistake of…launching an app from his dorm room.’’ (Boston.com)
Courtroom artists explains her Tom Brady drawing: “I’m lucky enough people realized it was Tom Brady,’’ sketch artist Jane Rosenberg said. “Tell Tom Brady I’m sorry I didn’t make him pretty enough. He’s very pretty.’’ (Boston.com)
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Why kids don’t make phone calls anymore – it’s the phone itself: “[N]obody seems to have admitted that using the telephone today is a different material experience than it was 20 or 30 (or 50) years ago, not just a different social experience. That’s not just because our phones have also become fancy two-way pagers with keyboards, but also because they’ve become much crappier phones.’’ (The Atlantic)
Remember the Titans, Hyde Park version: “The Cowboys didn’t necessarily set out to make a political statement. But they did, simply by challenging the prevailing us-versus-them mind-set and affording space for black and white players to come together — at practices, at weekend games, and then at the bar afterward. For the Cowboys, it was us-versus-everybody-else, a shared drive to knock the stars out of their opponents.
“‘We just wanted football players,’ says Larry DeVoe, a founder and guiding force behind the Cowboys. ‘I didn’t give a [expletive] what color they were.’’’ (The Boston Globe)
When you wish upon a Perseid meteor shower:
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The Goodbye: How it looks for those in the sky looking down on us.
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