Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from February 2001:
VERDICT CAN'T FREE THE PAIN.(MAIN)(Correction notice)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: DINA CAPPIELLO and SAMUEL BRUCHEY Staff writers With the pain of their loss little diminished in 12 years, family members of Pan Am Flight 103 bombing victims, six of whom had direct ties to the Capital Region, said Wednesday's verdict freeing one man and jailing another ...
JUDGE: SHAKEL TO BE TRIED AS ADULT.(MAIN)(Correction notice)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times BOSTON -- A 25-year-old murder case moved closer to resolution Wednesday when a Connecticut judge ruled that prime suspect Michael Skakel will be tried as an adult. Skakel, now 40, was 15 when Martha Moxley -- also 15 -- was slain in the ...
PRO-DREDGERS HOLD EDGE DOWNRIVER.(MAIN)(Correction notice)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: DINA CAPPIELLO Staff writer - An article Thursday on a Manhattan public hearing on dredging the Hudson River incorrectly stated the quantity of PCBs that flows of over the Troy Dam. It is 500 pounds annually, not daily. NEW YORK -- The decades-long ...
STATE TURNS UP THE HEAT ON COLD-CALLING.(BUSINESS)(Correction notice)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: DANIELLE T. FURFARO Business writer Capital Region telemarketing companies seem unconcerned about a new state law that will limit whom they can call. But companies that use telemarketing on the periphery of their business say they are leaving the field for ...
NEXT WEEK'S QUESTION.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... The new episode of ``Survivor'' has debuted. Although it's still early, who do you hate the most? (A.) Jerri, who brought the bongo drum along (SourceLine 8020) (B.) Pukin' Jeff (8021) (C.) All of them, for not realizing that they might want to practice ...
THE BEST TICKETS TO U2'S JUNE 2 CONCERT IN ALBANY WILL COST $130. WHAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS?(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... What does a rock concert have to accomplish to justify a high ticket price? ``Short of the Beatles getting back together with John Lennon on stage, there's no justification to charge more than $100 for a rock concert. By setting such high prices, bands are shutting out people who really ...
RANT & RAGE.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Clamp down on Wolf I'm writing this to express my disgust with the radio station WPYX and, in particular, with the ``Wolf.'' On Friday, Jan. 19, he again made fun of people with mental illness. This is not the first time he has done that. I cannot comprehend such ...
SWEET AND SPONGE-Y.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: KRISTI L. GUSTAFSON STAFF WRITER ``Yes We Have Sponge Candy'' reads the hand-written sign outside Fanny Farmer in Colonie Center. Otherwise known as Seafoam or Honeycomb Toffee, the melt-in-your-mouth sweet treat is nothing short of a puff of frangible spun sugar, ...
SHAKER ECHOES FOR A JOURNEY TO A SIMPLER TIME, PAY A VISIT TO 1848 MEETING HOUSE.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union COLONIE -- Tune out the thrum of traffic along Watervliet Shaker Road. It should only take a second. Then tune out the planes overhead. Center yourself in the large room, and be still. Then open your ears again and you ...
DISCS.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... POP ``You Were Here.'' Sarah Harmer. (Zoe): In a dream world, there would always be something good on the radio, obscure artists would get the recognition they deserve and Sarah Harmer's song ``Basement Apt.'' would be a monster hit. That giddily addictive piece of folky pop (poppy folk?) ...
TOP 10.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... HOT SINGLES 1. ``It Wasn't Me,'' Shaggy 2. ``Independent Women Part I,'' Destiny's Child 3. ``Ms. Jackson,'' OutKast 4. ``Don't Tell Me,'' Madonna 5. ``Love Don't Cost A Thing,'' Jennifer Lopez 6. ``Again,'' Lenny Kravitz ...
HOLLYWOOD PINS ITS HOPES ON VIDEO-GAME STORIES.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: ANTHONY BREZNICAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- The technological line between video games and action movies has become so tenuous that even the nimble Lara Croft may have a hard time detecting it. The ``Tomb Raider'' character's leap to the big screen ...
IRISH ROCKERS ROLLING YOUNG DUBLINERS CULTIVATING THEIR CELTIC-POP SOUND.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: NICK TATE Cox News Service At first glance, the Young Dubliners seem to fit the classic profile of an overnight-success story. The Irish rockers appeared to come out of nowhere, garnering raves from critics and such notables as Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson and ...
FAMILY GUIDE.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: STEVE PERSALL St. Petersburg Times Recommended for family viewingTHE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE (G) Nothing offensive in this uninspired Disney animated throwaway. David Spade and John Goodman lend their voices to a South American fantasy making DreamWorks' similar ...
ENSEMBLE CAST RECITAL-STYLE CONCERT AT UNION BEGINS AND ENDS WITH BRAHMS.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: RON EMERY Special to the Times Union Larry Dutton, the founding violist of the Emerson String Quartet, refers to the concert he'll participate in this weekend as a ``Brahms sandwich,'' with two late pieces by the composer serving as the bread. Brahms wrote ...
STRANGEFOLK'S CAREER TAKES SOME STRANGE TURNS.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: STEVE MORSE Boston Globe There are no guarantees in the music business. Just ask Strangefolk, the jam band that was hoping to follow Phish into the national spotlight last year. The band made an album with producer Nile Rodgers, who had previously worked with ...
JAZZ LEGACY AT RISK MANY NEW ORLEANS LANDMARKS FAILING.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: BRETT MARTEL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS -- It's easy to stroll past the downtown block where Louis Armstrong grew up, around the corner from where ``cornet king'' Buddy Bolden played his regular gigs -- and not even know it. The very neighborhood that ...
MOVIES.(PREVIEW)(Video recording review)
Feb 01, 2001 ... The following capsule reviews of recent releases, long runs and revivals are, where noted, by Times Union critics. Unsigned reviews are from wire services. RATINGS: G -- Suitable for all ages. PG -- Parental guidance recommended. PG-13 -- Parental guidance strongly suggested. R ...
COMING ATTRACTIONS.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Straight from his heartCanadian rocker Bryan Adams hasn't turned in a Capital Region performance in a long time -- since December '92 at the then-Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, to be exact -- but that's about to change: He brings his upcoming U.S. tour to the Palace Theatre in Albany ...
FOR THE BIRDS HISTORIC PARROTT HOUSE NEEDS SOME IMPROVEMENT.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: RUTH FANTASIA Food editor SCHOHARIE -- Diners can be a forgiving lot, returning to a restaurant time and time again, overlooking poor service and mediocre food just because the place has been there since grandma was in diapers. Such seems to be the case at the ...
ALL THINGS MUST PASS, BUT HARRISON'S EPIC ENDURES.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: ROGER CATLIN Hartford Courant George Harrison was celebrating his 26th birthday when he went into Apple Studios alone on Feb. 25, 1969, to record demos for three new songs for the Beatles. One was ``Something,'' which became one of the biggest hits on the ...
PLAY BY PLAY.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union CRAZY FOR YOU. It's the all-Gershwin musical -- that's what the ads will tell you. What they don't say is that this witty rehash of killer tunes is also peppered with wonderful dancing and snazzy set pieces. If you're a softy for ...
COMEDIAN SANDY BARON DIES AT 64.(PREVIEW)(Obituary)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: LAWRENCE VAN GELDER New York Times Sandy Baron, the stand-up comic, actor and songwriter perhaps best known in recent years for his recurring role on ``Seinfeld'' as Jack Klompus, the nemesis of Seinfeld's father, Morty, died on Jan. 21 at a nursing home in Van Nuys, ...
`THUNDERPANTS' OUT OF THIS WORLD.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: CHUCK SHEPHERD Daily Variety reported in January that Britain's Pathe Pictures had scheduled an April shooting date for the $7 million comedy ``Thunderpants,'' which it described as the story of a ``boy whose amazing ability (to break wind) leads him first to fame and ...
`ROAD' FILM A WAY FOR GRAHAM TO REACH YOUTHS.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: RENEE RUBLE Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS -- Mob money and family ties form a strange mix in the first comedy from the Rev. Billy Graham's movie production unit, a story aimed at delivering a moral message to people who might not be tuning into Graham otherwise. ...
BRINGING BACK BING `POCKETFUL' FIRST HALF OF BIOGRAPHY.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: JOHN ANDERSON Newsday Along with Son of Sam, the big blackout and the opening bars of our national malaise, 1977 was marked by the deaths of four vocalists, all American-born, who in their various ways defined singing in the 20th century. Maria Callas. Ethel Waters ....
SCREEN TEST.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Sean Penn's ``The Pledge'' is getting mixed reviews, but most agree that Jack Nicholson has never been better. Since he's slowing down the pace of his screen work, let's take this opportunity to give The Man his due. (The first of two parts.) 1. Who directed Nicholson in ``The Shining''? ...
PHISH OUT OF WATER VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA TO DEBUT WORK BY JAM-BAND GUITARIST TREY ANASTASIO.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES STAFF WRITER Paul McCartney has done it. So have Billy Joel and Joe Jackson. Now, it's Trey Anastasio's turn to make the leap into the world of classical music. On Friday night at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, the Vermont ...
NOTES ON NAPKINS.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Culinarians join forces, schedule top-chef event The two local chapters of the American Culinary Federation have merged. It's about time. Some world class sniping used to go on between the groups, but new and expanding memberships and a more cooperative attitude prevail in the ...
BECOMING A MONSTER WILLEM DAFOE'S ROLE IN ``SHADOW OF A VAMPIRE'' WAS WRITTEN WITH THE ACTOR IN MIND.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: GLENN WHIPP Los Angeles Daily News How do you react when someone tells you that he wrote a movie about a vampire with you in mind? If you're Willem Dafoe well, you're still trying to figure it out. ``I don't know how I feel about that,'' Dafoe muses. ``I ...
TOYING WITH TUNES THE MUSIC ON `GIZMODGERY,' A NEW CD BY SELF, IS CREATED BY USING PLAYTHINGS.(PREVIEW)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer It all started in junior high school when I formed the Zing Kings Jug Band. I was the washboard player in the band, but I also began collecting musical toys like kazoos, slide whistles and bird calls to augment the music. By the time I was on the ...
U.S. WON'T TRY DIALLO CASE.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: THEOLA S. LABBE and DINA CAPPIELLO Staff writers NEW YORK -- The Justice Department will not file federal civil rights charges against the four police officers who shot and killed Amadou Diallo, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White said Wednesday. The long-awaited ...
SKIER JAILED IN DEADLY COLLISION.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press EAGLE, Colo. -- A skier was sentenced to 90 days in jail Wednesday for a deadly collision on the slopes at Vail four years ago that prompted a crackdown on reckless skiing. Nathan Hall, 21, who was convicted of negligent homicide, wept in ...
FED'S RATE CUT TARGETS RECESSION.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: PETER G. GOSSELIN Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve cut key interest rates another half point Wednesday in a drive to keep an already stumbling U.S. economy from lurching into recession. And Fed policy-makers accompanied the cuts with a ...
GIULIANI GETS A $3M DEAL ON MEMOIR.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Talk Miramax Books embraced an old enemy Wednesday, signing New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to a two-book deal worth at least $3 million. Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein was a major supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in her Senate campaign, which featured Giuliani as her opponent ...
BRITISH TO BESTOW AWARDS ON FILM STARS.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... ``Gladiator'' and ``Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' dominated nominations Wednesday for the 53rd British Academy Film Awards, with 14 apiece. ``Billy Elliot'' has 11 nominations. The three films will compete for best picture against ``Almost Famous'' and ``Erin Brockovich.'' ...
WHY DON'T YOU JUST SAVE IT FOR `GATSBY,' EH, SPORT?(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... A collection of some of Ernest Hemingway's letters and writings went on display in Columbia, S.C., for the first time Wednesday, including a note in which Hemingway dismissed as ``idiotic'' F. Scott Fitzgerald's suggestion that he change the ending of ``A Farewell to Arms.'' ...
MAN IDOLIZED SCHOOL KILLERS.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A college student who allegedly assembled an arsenal of guns and explosives in his bedroom and plotted a mass killing at his school apparently was fascinated with the 1999 rampage at Columbine High School, police said Wednesday. ...
LYME VACCINE DRAWS QUERIES.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: Knight Ridder BETHESDA, Md. -- A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee raised concerns Wednesday about the safety data gathered by GlaxoSmithkline P.L.C. since the 1999 launch of its vaccine for Lyme disease. After a public hearing on the vaccine ...
ROADBLOCKS ON THE WAY TO EDUCATION REFORM.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: GEORGE WILL WASHINGTON -- If Archimedes, explaining the principle of the lever, really said, ``Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth,'' he was right in theory but impractical, because he would have had to stand far from Earth with an awfully long lever. When ...
THE WORLD THROUGH GREENSPAN'S EYES.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: MATTHEW MILLER Let me say this first so there can be no misunderstanding: Alan Greenspan has been wrongly bashed by liberals for years when, in fact, the Fed chairman has used his impeccable anti-inflation credentials to preside over an extended economic experiment that ...
THEY WHO BEGGED HIS PARDON.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -- Mark Rich, the billionaire on the lam for 17 years for helping Iranian kidnappers and South African white supremacists evade U.S. sanctions, was unable to buy off Presidents Reagan or Bush. But then he hired Jack (Tell 'em nuthin') ...
SENATE PANEL TO SCRUTINIZE PARDON OF FUGITIVE FINANCIER.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: GAYLORD SHAW and DAN JANISON Newsday WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee, with help from former federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani, moved Wednesday to convene investigative hearings next week into the presidential pardon Bill Clinton gave billionaire fugitive ...
SURVIVORS CONTINUE TO SURPRISE INDIA EARTHQUAKE RESCUERS.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: BETH DUFF-BROWN Associated Press BHACHAU, India -- Rescue workers pulled out more survivors Wednesday just as bulldozers began breaking down the walls of wrecked buildings -- raising fears that people buried alive by a devastating earthquake could be killed by machines ...
SOFT-MONEY BAN PROPOSED IN HOUSE.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: JENNIFER A. DLOUHY Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- Reps. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., and Christopher Shays, R-Conn., on Wednesday introduced a campaign finance bill that would ban the unregulated and unlimited donations to political parties known as soft money. ...
CHARITY FUNDS AIDED HOME PURCHASE.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: Washington Post CHICAGO -- Funds from one of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's tax-exempt charitable organizations were approved in writing for use in helping an employee with whom he fathered a child during an extramarital affair purchase a house in Los Angeles, according to ...
SENATE SET TO CONFIRM ASHCROFT.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: LIBBY QUAID Associated Press WASHINGTON -- With John Ashcroft's confirmation as attorney general a virtual certainty, Democrats were trying to muster enough ``nays'' to send a signal to President Bush that they would fight conservative Supreme Court nominees. ...
BLACKS AIR CONCERNS TO BUSH.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: SONYA ROSS Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Black lawmakers met with President Bush on Wednesday, reiterating their deep opposition to John Ashcroft as attorney general and reminding Bush of the wounds inflicted by the Florida election deadlock. Thirty-one ...
TRIAL ANSWERED ONLY SOME QUESTIONS.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: JOHN LANCASTER and ALAN SIPRESS Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, brings down the curtain on one of the costliest and most complex criminal investigations in ...
HIGH-SPEED TRAIN FUNDING GETS SENATE SUPPORT.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: LAURENCE ARNOLD Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Amtrak advocates in Congress, defeated last year in their effort to finance high-speed train routes, returned Wednesday with a more ambitious and expensive proposal that is supported by Senate leaders of both parties. ...
EPA SHOULD ASSESS IMPACT OF DREDGING HUDSON.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: BRIAN McMAHON Executive Director New York State Economic Development Council Albany - What if a large corporation announced plans to undertake a significant project in the Capital District? And what if that project would destabilize 17 miles of shoreline on the Hudson ...
LIBERAL AGENDA EVIDENT IN HOSTILITY TO `B.C.'.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: MICHAEL CARROLL Schenectady I am writing in response to Luke Canfora's Jan. 22 letter regarding his wish to have the Times Union dispatch the ``B.C.'' comic strip to the opinion page. Mr. Canfora makes the same comparison that others have made in the past, ...
THE RIGHT QUESTION: IS ASHCROFT QUALIFIED?(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: KENNETH EDLUND Delmar I am troubled by the dishonest tactics that unelected special-interest groups are using to impose their will against John Ashcroft's nomination to be attorney general. Too many such groups seem bent on destroying him by whatever distortions of his ...
FRED LEBRUN NEEDS TO STOP WHINING ABOUT BUSH.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: JOHN STELLING East Chatham Fred LeBrun's column on Sunday, Jan. 21, requires a response. He writes of the ``shame'' of President Bush's ``by hook or crook'' victory and that our nation's capital was ``usurped.'' Fred should stop whining and examine the ...
SISTERS WANT TO RING BELOVED BELL AGAIN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: SAMUEL BRUCHEY Special to the Times Union More than half a century has passed since Sister Carol Ryan last rang the massive bell atop Albany's Academy of Holy Names, but she can still remember hearing its warm, rhythmic chimes. During the early 1940s Ryan was ...
SEN. CLINTON'S PLEA.(MAIN)(Editorial)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Here's Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton with what sounds, at first, like an innocuous request. She wants to be judged as just that, as a senator, and not as a part of the prior presidential administration. In time, she probably will be. But Mrs. Clinton can't duck, certainly not by ...
LIBYA'S GUILT.(MAIN)
Feb 01, 2001 ... The best that can be said aboutWednesday's split verdict in the trial of two Libyans accused of murder in the bombing of Pan Am 103 is that U.S. sanctions against Tripoli will stay in place. The conviction of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a 48-year-old Libyan intelligence officer, isn't ...
SCHENECTADY NATIVE GETS LIFE TERM FOR KILLING COP.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer Jeffrey V. McGee of Schenectady avoided a possible death sentence by pleading guilty Wednesday to the highway murder of a Georgia police captain two years ago. He will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. ...
MURDERED TEEN WAS MISSING FOR 2 WEEKS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: THEOLA S. LABBE Staff writer Schenectady City police suspect the body of a murdered teenager found in an unoccupied yard of a Hulett Street home may have been lying in plain view for two weeks before being discovered by a passer-by. Elliott Felder, 18, ...
STORE CLOSED UNDER NEW LAW.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff writer Troy The city closed a corner grocery store for a week Wednesday for being a neighborhood nuisance, one of the first businesses closed under a new law passed last year. The Troy Market at 92-95 Congress St. was closed because the ...
GROUP URGES DECISION ON PLANT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: KENNETH AARON Business writer A Poughkeepsie-based environmental group has lobbied the lone agency blocking the construction of a proposed Greene County power plant to hurry up and settle the matter. And if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers makes its decision ...
MCNULTY PICKED FOR PANEL REVIEWING TAX PLANS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz In the second noteworthy appointment in a month for a Capital Region congressman, U.S. Rep. Michael McNulty, D-Green Island, was named ranking member of the House subcommittee that reviews tax proposals. The selection on the Ways and Means ...
FASO ASKS EPA FOR MORE RIVER DREDGING FORUMS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: James M. Odato ALBANY -- Assembly Minority Leader John Faso, R-Kinderhook, has written to the Environmental Protection Agency seeking additional hearings on the proposal to dredge the Hudson River. In a Jan. 30 letter, Faso asked that the EPA add Clifton Park, ...
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS SEEK FUNDS FOR STAFF.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Capitol bureau AlbanyWhile praising the governor's budget as an ``excellent foundation for further progress,'' state and city university system officials told lawmakers Wednesday more money is needed to improve community colleges and hire full-time ...
NEW UNION PRESIDENT READY TO LEAD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Feb 01, 2001 ... Byline: JAMES M. ODATO Capitol bureau Albany After 14 years as a state trooper, Dan De Federicis tossed aside his pale gray uniform Wednesday. But he still walks and talks like a man carrying a gun. ``I want to be assertive,'' says De Federicis, 34, who takes ...