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 William Bulger,
Bulger's brother, James “Whitey” Bulger, a local mob leader under indictment for murder and racketeering, has been a fugitive since 1994.
Romney charged that the testimony was evasive and defiant, and said it proved Bulger was unfit to run the university.
One of the most powerful and prominent politicians in the state, Bulger, a Democrat, served as the president of the state senate for 17 years.
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 New England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The region has remained consistently openminded towards other backgrounds however, a tradition which has continued from the abolitionist days of William Lloyd Garrison and Charles Sumner to the region's recent controversial legal battle in legal relationships between homosexual couples.
Due to the fact that so many recent European immigrants live in the region and due to the influence of the many universities, the region often shows a greater receptivity to European ideas and culture than the rest of the country.
The region has remained consistently openminded towards other backgrounds, a tradition which has continued from the abolitionist days of William Lloyd Garrison and Charles Sumner to the region's recent controversial legal battle in regarding relationships between homosexual couples.
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 New England - All About All   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
According to US News and World Report, 8 of the nation's top-50 universities and 13 of its top-50 liberal arts colleges are located in New England.
A number of the graduates settle in the region after school, providing the area with a well-educated population and one of its most valuable resources.
As of 2005, Massachusetts permits same sex marriages, and Vermont and Connecticut allow for civil unions between gay couples, putting the region at the forefront of this most recent American civil rights struggle.
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Romney also succeeded in pressuring William Bulger to resign as President of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) on September 1, 2003.
Bulger came under pressure to resign when he invoked his fifth amendment privilege not to testify when he was subpoenaed by a Congressional committee to testify about his notorious brother, James J. Bulger.
James (Whitey) Bulger is one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/New England
Banished from Massachusetts, Roger Williams led a group south, and founded Providence, Rhode Island in 1636.
Volleyball was invented by William G. Morgan in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1895.
The earliest known written reference to the sport of baseball is a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts by-law banning the playing of the game within 80 yards of the town's new meeting house.
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 UMass Magazine Online
Burn was called "the leading personality in the higher-education exchange field," by Jack Egle, chairman of the board of the Council of International Educational Exchange.
President William M. Bulger also praised Burn as "a loyal and valuable member of the University of Massachusetts community.
He leaves his wife, Jean Hubley Steiner; two daughters, Dianne M. Myers of Whitelake, Mich., and Karen E. Steiner of Urbana, Ill.; a son, William E. Steiner of Carmel, Ind.; a stepdaughter, Janet Asikainen, and her husband, Alan, of Glastonbury, Conn.; two sisters, two brothers and their wives, six grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
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