The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 1993:
Arditti Quartet masters every last detail
Mar 01, 1993; ... ARDITTI STRING QUARTET At: Gardner Museum yesterday afternoon. The Arditti String Quartet is a wonderful ensemble that rankswith the great, historic quartets because of its association withimportant composers and the quality of its work. As performers, the ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1993 ... Q. Why is there a harp on the Irish flag? M.J., North AndoverA. According to Facts About Ireland, published by the Department ofForeign Affairs in Dublin, the national flag of Ireland is a green,white and orange tricolor. It does not have a harp on it. There is,however, a harp -- gold with ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1993 ... Q. I've always heard that the finest iron grillwork in Washington,D.C., can be seen on the Octagon Building. Where is that? M.M.,BostonA. Home to the American Architectural Foundation, the Octagon withits eight-angled (not eight-sided) facade is a historic Washingtonbuilding now ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1993 ... Q. How many veterans were killed in Washington, D.C., in 1932 whenpolice fired on the "bonus marchers"? J.P., BostonA. One veteran, 37-year-old William Hushka of Chicago, was killedwhen Washington police fired on demonstrators on July 29, 1932. Some15,000 veterans, hungry and in need in ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1993 ... Q. Why are dollars called "bucks"? And what's the origin of theexpression, "to pass the buck"? J.L., BostonA. A "buck" is a poker expression for a marker placed beside a ...
BC can breathe Victory takes some pressure off Eagles
Mar 01, 1993; ...There would have been no telling how tight Boston College mighthave become in the final week of the season had the Eagles not scoreda much-needed 70-58 victory over Miami Saturday night at Conte Forum. With BC needing to win at least two of its final three games tokeep its hopes ...
Kenny's last puff
Mar 01, 1993; ... Brad Krevor isn't sure when the last cigarettes will be smokedin the United States. "No one has a clear image of where this is allgoing," says the executive director of the Tobacco DivestmentProject. -- Report in The Washington Post BOSTON, March 1, 2006 -- Kenny asked me to ...
At Biosphere 2, food is running low
Mar 01, 1993; ... Biosphere 2, the huge hermetically sealed greenhouse in theArizona desert where eight people are trying to live aself-sufficient existence, has suffered through one problem afteranother. Carbon dioxide built up in the air and oxygen plummeted,necessitating an oxygen infusion. From the ...
Health talk gives biotech jitters
Mar 01, 1993; ... The biotechnology industry is probably glad February, especiallylast week, is history. Biotech companies were left reeling by a combination of events inWashington and on Wall Street that sent investors fleeing and castdoubt on just how they would fare in the future. The ...
Wesley is keeping first things first
Mar 01, 1993; ... Defenseman Glen Wesley said the last thing the Bruins should beworrying about is trying to vault into first place in the AdamsDivision. Tonight, the Bruins host the first-place Canadiens, whoare 13 points ahead of Boston, and Wesley said they should just takeit day to day. "If we ...
From the hospital to the stage
Mar 01, 1993; ... DAVID EVITTS, baritone, RANDALL HODGKINSON, piano, and CRAIG SMITH, piano At: the Emmanuel Church Library yesterday afternoon. The fourth concert in Emmanuel Music's complete survey of thepiano, vocal and chamber music of Brahms ran into some problems butcame ...
Free association Brooks explores options in new NFL setup
Mar 01, 1993; ... The ball is the same as it was when Billy Brooks was 10 years oldand running free down the streets of Mattapan, but not much elseabout football is the same. Not even freedom itself. "There are so many rules in the game now," the Indianapolis Colts'eighth-year wide receiver said ...
Green light for Blue against Canadiens
Mar 01, 1993; ... Andy Moog played extremely well toward the end of his first gameback in a month Saturday against the Washington Capitals, a 5-4overtime win, but when the Bruins take on the first-place Canadienstonight at the Garden, it'll be John Blue in net for Boston. Blue (7-5-4) was in goal in ...
Hope brewing for Brunansky
Mar 01, 1993; ... CHANDLER, Ariz. -- Tom Brunansky is happy in his newsurroundings. Poorer, perhaps. But confident that, if he does agood job for the Milwaukee Brewers, there will be the customaryrewards. Brunansky, 32, thought that would be the case in Boston after theend of last season. With a ...
Scott N. Bruskin, 33 Co-founded environmental firm
Mar 01, 1993 ... Scott N. Bruskin, co-founder of an environmental company, died atJohn F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, N.J., on Friday after along illness. He was 33 and a resident of Boston. Born in Newark, Mr. Bruskin was a 1977 graduate of J. P. StevensHigh School there. He received a ...
Rita A. Callaghan, 74 Was teacher in Boston schools
Mar 01, 1993 ... Rita A. (Hayes) Callaghan, 74, a teacher for a quarter of acentury in Boston public schools, died yesterday after a battle withcancer. She was from Milton. Born in Boston, Mrs. Callaghan graduated from Framingham StateCollege in 1940. During World War II, she worked at the ...
HE CAME TO PLAY
Mar 01, 1993 ...Asa Rubin, 6, of Brookline, takes the ice at ...
RURAL SCENE
Mar 01, 1993 ...Sledders head home after an outing at Wagon Hill ...
TAIWAN ANNIVERSARY
Mar 01, 1993 ...About 2,000 Taiwanese march in Taipei yesterday to mark theanniversay of a 1947 ...
WORLD'S TALLEST
Mar 01, 1993 ...A crowd in St. Cyrille de Wendover, Quebec, admires Thiro, at 23meters the world's tallest ...
Celtics win going away Portland loses Drexler in fourth quarter, can't keep up with Boston
Mar 01, 1993; ...With four minutes left in the third quarter last night, RobertParish pulled down a rebound full force, swiveled and started whatmay have been the most exciting fast break the Celtics have run thisseason. Parish snapped out a pass near midcourt to Dee Brown, whoadvanced the ball ...
Jamaica Plain rec center will now open Saturdays
Mar 01, 1993; ... City officials have announced expanded weekend hours at a JamaicaPlain community center, a move they said will provide a host ofrecreational activities for youngsters. The Hennigan Community Center, normally open after school Mondaythrough Friday, will now be open on Saturdays as ...
Authorities sifting through bomb claims
Mar 01, 1993; ... NEW YORK -- Croatian nationalists? The Medellin cartel? Agroup of disgruntled former workers? Divining the identities ofthose behind the bombing of the World Trade Center has become a NewYork guessing game.But with more than 50 claims of responsibility and counting,federal ...
Time-share plan a success for participants
Mar 01, 1993; ... With people suddenly lining up to sing the praises of ex-pariahSherman Douglas, coach Chris Ford found a way to keep both of hiserstwhile point guards happy in last night's 122-110 victory over theTrail Blazers.When it came time to turn to Douglas in the second quarter, ...
Senate leader promises more budget cuts
Mar 01, 1993; ... WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell saidyesterday that the Democratic Congress would make additional spendingcuts in the federal budget before passing President Clinton'seconomic package. "Never mind the president, never mind the Office of Management andBudget," ...
Help urged for parishioners on periphery of abuse cases
Mar 01, 1993; ... ATTLEBORO -- The workshop was about the other victims of sexualabuse, the ones who almost never get talked about, but whose hurtsand needs may unexpectedly keep the problem alive in their parishesand congregations. "Often the last group anyone thinks of is the congregation, ...
National book critics honor McCarthy, Maclean
Mar 01, 1993; ... Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses," a rhapsodic novel setin the badlands of Texas and Mexico, has won the 1992 National BookCritics Circle award for fiction. In general nonfiction, the prizewent to "Young Men and Fire," Norman Maclean's posthumously publishedaccount of the ...
Boggs doesn't miss reporter's fat pitch
Mar 01, 1993; ... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- I miss Wade. I am one of the few.Around the Fort Myers camp, you hear Wade's name about as oftenas you hear Frank Duffy's or Jim Gosger's. Wade was a member of theRed Sox organization for 17 years and nobody says his name. Whenthey do talk about him, ...
Clinton's start in statecraft
Mar 01, 1993 ... It was foreseeable that the world would not wait for PresidentClinton to tidy up America's domestic problems. Dynamic forces inthe Balkans, the Mideast and the nations of the dissolved SovietUnion have already obliged the new administration to make harddecisions. Less foreseeable was the ...
At the corner drugstore
Mar 01, 1993 ... Chain pharmacies advertise their services as rooted in thecomforting traditions of the corner drugstore. It is a cleverstrategy in that many Massachusetts residents, particularly theelderly, cling to memories of sitting at a soda fountain nursing abromide seltzer or sipping a milkshake ...
Lightweight heavyweight
Mar 01, 1993 ... If the American automobile is ever to be liberated from dependenceon petroleum as fuel and to eliminate contributions to urban airpolution, some form of electric vehicle will be needed. Most peoplethink of battery-powered cars, but increasing attention is beingdrawn to hydrogen as a ...
A monument at Wounded Knee
Mar 01, 1993 ... The agreement that returns to the Lakota people artifacts from themassacre at Wounded Knee is a welcome one, a testimony to thereasonable approach that was taken by the Lakota to the repatriationissue -- and to the generous spirit of the museum at Barre where theartifacts had been ...
Snake oil & electromagnetic fields Has a history of quackery kept us from serious study
Mar 01, 1993; ... Dr. Roger M. Macklis opens up the Victorian box he bought in amedical antiques shop, plugs in two electrodes and cranks up thecontraption. Holding the electrodes in one hand and turning thedevice's brass handle with the other to create a current, he harkensback to a time when ...
Judges who blame victims
Mar 01, 1993; ... I can't write a column about judges and domestic violence withouta tip of the hat to Paul Heffernan of Somerville District Court. In1986, he scolded a battered wife for wasting his time and said shedidn't need police protection. "If you want to gnaw on her and sheon you, fine, but let's ...
Saving battered women Through programs and fund-raising, her coalition gets the job done
Mar 01, 1993; ...It was the first day in a new office suite and Carolyn Ramsey,executive director of the Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women'sServices, sat amid stacks of boxes and files -- symbols of asuccessful, growing organization -- and remembered a long-ago butstill painful past. ...
Grand entrance today
Mar 01, 1993; ... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- More than 200 members of the media willbe on hand when George Steinbrenner makes his triumphant return tobaseball this morning at the Yankees spring training complex. Yankees publicists yesterday handed out a two-page "mediaadvisory" that recommended local ...
William Hauser Jr., 77 Was Arlington assessor
Mar 01, 1993 ... William O. Hauser Jr., former assessor in Arlington, diedyesterday at his home of leukemia. He was 77. Mr. Hauser lived his entire life in Arlington, graduating fromhigh school there in 1933 and continuing on to Boston Universitywhere he earned a bachelor's degree in business ...
Angela Horn launches a career
Mar 01, 1993; ... ANGELA HORN, mezzo-soprano with TIM STEELE, piano At: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Saturday afternoon. Rumor has had it that the best unheard voice in town belongs toAngela Horn, who is still officially a student of Edward Zambara's atthe New England ...
HOW & WHY
Mar 01, 1993; ...Q. Why do transportation entrepreneurs not reconsider thedirigible (the rigid airship, not the blimp) as an alternative tohigh-speed jet-air freight or the relatively slow ocean shipping?There should be a market for such moderately paced conveyance offreight.V.B.Stratham, N.H.A ....
First Irish team hopes to scale Everest
Mar 01, 1993 ... A group of eight Irish mountain climbers hope to become the firstexpedition team from that country to reach the summit of MountEverest this spring. The team, made up of climbers from the Irish Republic and NorthernIreland, will leave Dublin for Katmandu, Nepal, on St. Patrick's ...
Developer sees no barriers to new Garden Jacobs in `build mode'
Mar 01, 1993; ... WELLINGTON, Fla. -- Despite the "silliness" of Massachusettslegislators in handling the project, Boston Garden developer JeremyM. Jacobs said yesterday he sees no way the $160 million projectcould again fall off track. "We're in build mode at this point," Jacobs said. "I don't ...
Sounding out a war's surge 10 JFK tapes go to Washington
Mar 01, 1993; ... As fall, 1963 brought the final weeks of his presidency, thesubject that appeared most often on the secret recordings John F.Kennedy was making in the White House was Vietnam. The war was still new to most Americans. Few thought of it astheirs. Yet at least 19 times in the ...
Sheriff affirms campaign hand is back on payroll
Mar 01, 1993; ... Middlesex County Sheriff John McGonigle's campaign manager, whosehiring as a deputy sheriff was the focus of a probe into an extortionand no-show job scheme, has quietly returned to his old position. Anthony LaRosa, who also holds a separate, full-time$67,500-a-year job as a school ...
N.Y. commodity exchanges are open for trading Many firms seek alternate space
Mar 01, 1993; ... NEW YORK -- Scrambling to cushion the blow of the World TradeCenter explosion on global financial markets, officials struck a dealyesterday that will allow the city's five commodity exchanges to openthis morning. But hundreds of other tenants, including several major ...
Woman slain at wedding reception 2 to be arraigned today in Dorchester shooting
Mar 01, 1993; ... A 21-year-old East Boston mother of two was fatally shot whiledancing at her sister's wedding reception in a Dorchester apartmentearly yesterday morning, according to police and guests at theparty. Police say they arrested two people last night in connection withthe shooting ...
NAMES & FACES Parents, you don't want to read this
Mar 01, 1993; ... The key to selling candy to kids isn't taste, it's revulsion. In other words, you can almost gauge the success of the product indirect relationship to how distasteful it is to adults. The latestbig hitter is called Tongue Splashers. It's a bubble gum designed inseveral bright ...
Picking up the pieces Ex-gang member counsels youths, tries straight path
Mar 01, 1993; ... Baby-faced Frankie's on his feet now, talking soft and straightto a roomful of addicts about how he's been there too, all the way tothe wall, about how he's never going back to dealing dope or sniffingcoke or suffering the stink of a cellmate going cold turkey on aprison ...
Woman found dead on beach
Mar 01, 1993 ... The body of an unidentified woman was found washed up on the rocksalong the shore of Thompson's Island in Boston Harbor yesterdayafternoon, police said. Boston Police spokesman Jerry Vanderwoodsaid two people walking along the beach on the island's northernshore ...
Waltham man, 34, killed in car crash
Mar 01, 1993 ... One man was killed and two others were injured in a two-caraccident on Route 128 in Woburn at about 12:30 a.m. yesterday.Kevin Murphy, 34, of Waltham, was driving south on Route 128 near theBurlington border, when he struck another car and hit a guardrail,causing his Ford Aerostar van to ...
Snowmobiler dies in N.H. accident
Mar 01, 1993 ... New Hampshire State Police said a Massachusetts man was killedSaturday afternoon in a snowmobile accident in Goshen, N.H., south ofNewport. Donald McNutt, 34, of Dartmouth, was killed while ridingwith friends ...
Officials attribute N.Y. blast to bomb
Mar 01, 1993; ... NEW YORK -- Federal and state authorities declared yesterdaythat a bomb was behind the blast that rocked the World Trade Centerand shook the nation on Friday. And an official close to theinvestigation said agents had found evidence that explosives "packedinto a small van or truck" had ...
Losses leave McHale trying to find himself
Mar 01, 1993; ... They were waiting for a verdict, but an hour before game time,there was no verdict in sight. That's because Kevin McHale was nowhere in sight. "I'm waiting for him," said trainer Ed Lacerte, when asked ifMcHale, who was suffering from a sprained foot, would suit up ...
A night of black tie and boxing
Mar 01, 1993; ... Several hundred partygoers turned out for Fight Night at the WestinHotel Friday, raising money for the Joey Fund/Cystic FibrosisFoundation and the Boys and Girls ...
PC women skate to ECAC crown
Mar 01, 1993; ... Having won the ECAC women's hockey championship last season bybeating New Hampshire, Providence made a pledge during preseasonworkouts not to be satisfied with anything less than capturing whatis essentially the national title for a second consecutive season. Easier said than done, ...
Perelman, Ch. 38 owner deal may be completed this week
Mar 01, 1993; ... New York investor Ronald Perelman may complete a deal as early asthis week to acquire the company that owns WSBK-TV (Ch. 38), the RedSox and Bruins television outlet, an industry source said yesterday. Last month Perelman offered to pay $100 million for a 51 percentstake in SCI ...
Privatization faces roadblock Hearing slated on bill to limit Weld powers
Mar 01, 1993; ... Gov. Weld today will confront Democratic lawmakers andhuman-services advocates in a showdown that promises sound and furyand may signify nothing less than the end of his most cherishedinitiative: privatization. On trial will be Weld's policy under which many servicestraditionally ...
Deadly fire in R.I. laid to revenge; 2 are sought
Mar 01, 1993; ... PROVIDENCE -- Police issued arrest warrants yesterday for twoProvidence teen-agers who, in apparent revenge for a car accident,allegedly set a three-decker homeon fire Saturday morning, killing aGuatemalan couple and their four children who were trapped on the topfloor. "This is ...
Prudential partnerships probed Possible fraud in sales costing investors millions
Mar 01, 1993; ... Massachusetts securities regulators are investigating possiblefraud in connection with the sale of limited partnerships byPrudential Bache Securities Inc. that cost investors millions ofdollars in losses. Authorities in at least five other states are also investigatingthe ...
Chortling and chirping with Skelton
Mar 01, 1993; ... America's favorite clown, Red Skelton, has been in show businessfor 70 years, and because of all those performances in tents,circuses, vaudeville and minstrel and medicine shows, and because heappeared in 58 motion pictures and on television for two decades, thecapacity crowd at the ...
Speedy ascent for McNeely?
Mar 01, 1993; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Speed, power, hope. They live and breathe amid this team of temporaries in the form ofone explosive, potentially exciting package named Jeff McNeely, whocould be the poster child for Boston's two-year plan. Look across the Red Sox clubhouse and one can see ...
A US aid policy that's hurting Nicaragua
Mar 01, 1993; ... Randolph Ryan is a member of the Globe staff. Last in a seriesOne might assume that the purpose of the Agency forInternational Development, which distributes US foreign assistance toThird World countries, is development. But that would be wrong. Development ...
Business life in vertical city at a standstill
Mar 01, 1993; ... NEW YORK -- With its own police force, hospital and zip code,the World Trade Center is a vertical metropolis of 50,000. But fornow, the towers that define New York's skyline sit sealed andshuttered like a soaring ghost town.The two buildings will be closed for at least a week ...
Losing hair isn't just a problem for men
Mar 01, 1993; ... For a brochure on hair loss or referrals to dermatologists in your area, write to the American Academy of Dermatology, Box 681069, Schaumburg, Il. 60168. Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.The woman noticed that her hair was thinning on top ...
Clinton to air plan today for youths' service jobs
Mar 01, 1993; ...WASHINGTON -- President Clinton sets out today to unveil hisNational Service program, which, officials say, could offer work fortens of thousands of young people by the fall of 1995. The program, according to its designer, Eli Segal, will include aloan repayment plan designed to ...
Beatrice Sherman, 97 Benefactor of many institutions
Mar 01, 1993 ... Beatrice Sherman, a generous benefactor of institutions in theBoston area and in Israel, died Saturday at the Heathwood NursingHome in Newton. She was 97 and a resident of Newton. Born in Boston, Mrs. Sherman was a 1920 graduate of EmersonCollege. She and her late husband, ...