The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from November 1996:
Q&A WITH MARC SILVESTREI, STAR OF THE WEEK
Nov 01, 1996; ... Revere senior Marc Silvestri had an average game in a win overCambridge last week. But for Silvestri, an average game is everyoneelse's career day. He scored three TDs, had 255 all-purpose yards,two fumble recoveries, two sacks and, oh yeah, 10 tackles. Today, hegoes one-on-one with the ...
CASUALTY OF WAR
Nov 01, 1996 ...An Afghan man grieves for his 6-year-old nephew, one of threechildren killed yesterday in artillery duels just north of ...
Silber backs appointed school board
Nov 01, 1996; ... John Silber, the Boston University chancellor and one-timegubernatorial candidate, tossed his support yesterday behind MayorThomas M. Menino's campaign to retain an appointed Boston SchoolCommittee."There is now a school committee that works as a team to makethe schools ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Nov 01, 1996 ... Q. Last April the Boston Globe ran an article about an all-blackregiment in Korea. The article mentioned a revised document titled"Black Soldier, White Army" that would be published by the US Army'sCenter for Military History. How can I get a copy of the document?P.M., BridgewaterA. The ...
ASK THE GLOBE THE ADDRESS BOOK
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Stalinet at a loss for an explanation
Nov 01, 1996; ... PITTSBURGH -- Stalin Colinet wore a stunned expression. The 6-foot-6-inch senior defensive tackle submitted perhaps hismost inspired effort of the season, leading Boston College with seventackles (three for losses), a sack and a fumble recovery, but it wentfor naught in last ...
BC suffers frightful upset by lowly Pitt
Nov 01, 1996; ... PITTSBURGH -- Playing the better part of the game beneath a moonshrouded by a cloudy Halloween haze, Boston College's football teamrealized its horror of horrors when the Eagles suffered a 20-13 lossto the lowly Pitt Panthers last night at Pitt Stadium. Talk about a bad moon ...
She's scared for friend who joined gang
Nov 01, 1996 ... Dear Beth: My friend joined a gang. I'm scared of them and scared for her.They shoplift and get into fights. One of them brags he muggedsomeone. We never hang out anymore and I miss her. I tried to tellher how dangerous this is, but she just says I'm jealous. I'm not!SCARED No ...
Bourque has been shouldering a separation
Nov 01, 1996; ... It was originally reported as a severe bruise but yesterday,Bruins captain Ray Bourque said his ailing shoulder was actually amild separation. Bourque, who last night missed his fourth straight game, skatedduring the morning workout and said he's aiming for a return tomorrownight ...
Untangling the tale of the `Tube'
Nov 01, 1996; ... TUBEThe Invention of TelevisionBy David E. Fisher andMarshall Jon FisherCounterpoint, 427 pp., illustrated, $30 "Tube: The Invention of Television" adequately explains how TVworks and how it came to be. Even if it didn't, thescience-made-simple style of authors David and ...
BOOTLEGS BETTER THAN EVER (BUT JUST AS ILLEGAL) MAJOR LABELS FIGHT BACK WITH ARREST AND OUTTAKE ALBUMS SUCH AS THE BEATLES' `ANTHOLOGY'
Nov 01, 1996; ...When Erik Flannigan was a teen-ager, he used to scour the bins atrecord stores. A rabid Bruce Springsteen fan, he spied one copy of anumbered, three-LP boxed set by the Boss called "Piece deResistance," recorded at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, N.J. Thiswas puzzling. Columbia, ...
Placing bets on Northeast Utilities' battered bonds Aggressive investors see buying opportunity in troubled company
Nov 01, 1996; ... Cautiously, some bottom feeders are starting to take note of thebattered bonds of Northeast Utilities. New England's largest power company has been badly beaten up, andalmost all of it was the company's own doing. Northeast deliberatelybuilt a high-cost nuclear empire, operated it ...
Indicted Serb town official `not uncatchable'
Nov 01, 1996; ... BOSANSKI SAMAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- It may be a flagrantviolation of the Dayton peace accord, but Blagoje Simic says he hasno intention of stepping down as the highest-ranking public officialin this town by the Croatian border, even if he has been indicted forwar ...
Bourgeois' drawings offer glimpses of her soul
Nov 01, 1996; ... LOUISE BOURGEOIS: DRAWINGSAt: MIT's List Visual Art Center, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, throughDec. 29 CAMBRIDGE -- Louise Bourgeois' parents owned a tapestry workshopin Paris, and as a young adult she helped out in the family business.Drawing body parts was her specialty. Fragments of ...
Smartly tailored Chain shifts focus, cuts costs in fight to survive
Nov 01, 1996; ... A week after filing for bankruptcy protection in the summer of1995, Bradlees Inc. staged a "revival meeting" at the Hynes VeteransConvention Center for 1,400 managers and employees. To gain admittance, all hands were required to show up completelygarbed in clothing bought at a ...
Bruins scrap for tie on Tocchet goal
Nov 01, 1996; ... He has watched Raymond Bourque do it countless times. Bourquewill get the puck at the point and then just throw it toward the net,usually causing something, anything to happen. So last night, with just over three minutes left in the game andthe Bruins trailing by a goal, rookie ...
With different approach, he passes the crash test
Nov 01, 1996; ... Rick Tocchet wasn't a happy camper going into last night'sFleetCenter matchup against the Whalers. A week earlier, the veteran right winger didn't put a single shoton goal in a 2-1 loss to Toronto and he wasn't exactly pouring it onin either the loss to Detroit Saturday or ...
Zimerman, Rattle scale heights with Brahms
Nov 01, 1996; ... BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASir Simon Rattle, guest conductorAt: Symphony Hall last night (repeats this afternoon, Saturdayand Tuesday nights) Last night Krystian Zimerman and Sir Simon Rattle evened thescore. Of the greatest Boston Symphony Orchestra concerto performances ...
Dole vows a 96-hour sprint to wire Clinton campaigns in GOP territory
Nov 01, 1996; ... MIAMI -- In a final show of determination, Bob Dole vowedyesterday to campaign nonstop for 96 hours through 14 states to winthe '96 presidential race, beginning at noon today in Ohio. "I will not rest until we have made my case to every worker,every family and every voter," Dole ...
The good, the bad and the ugly They'll lose a lot, but these Celtics are likable bunch
Nov 01, 1996; ... A switch: We begin this season by actually outlining theacceptable things the Celtics do on basketball courts. Please, holdall snickers and rolled eyes for at least 30 seconds. An examinationof the stuff that makes fans queasy will soon follow. But there ismore on the Celtics' resume ...
Chelsea chief calls Teamster ties a blot Regrets officers' choice of union
Nov 01, 1996; ... CHELSEA -- By most accounts, reformer Ed Flynn has helped bringlaw and order to this hardscrabble city and to his once-troubledPolice Department. But after years of image buffing, Chief Flynn said yesterday hewas worried that the public perception of his department may sufferfrom ...
Satie fans can reach satiety with `Uspud'
Nov 01, 1996; ... When the director of the Paris Opera failed to answer Erik Satie'sproposal for a new ballet in 1892, the composer challenged him to apistol duel. The episode made Satie even more of a hero in bohemian Montmartre,the Paris Opera more of a laughingstock. Then, unexpectedly, ...
Driggers is odd man out in numbers game
Nov 01, 1996; ... One guy had to go. Mathematically, M.L. Carr had no choice.Yesterday, on the final day of training camp, the Celtics cut NateDriggers, a fiery guard who had as many technicals (three) asturnovers in the exhibition season. Driggers was expendable due mainly to his size; he's ...
Capitol Hill majorities still up for grabs, analysts say
Nov 01, 1996; ...WASHINGTON -- As congressional campaigns move into the finalfrenetic weekend, Democrats are within striking distance of regainingcontrol of the House. The Cook Political Report, which monitors congressional races, putsthe odds of the Democrats winning the House at 50-50 ....
Care workers to be checked
Nov 01, 1996; ... After three months of delay, the Legislature passed a billyesterday requiring criminal background checks for home-care workerswho serve the elderly or disabled. Gov. William F. Weld is expectedto sign the bill.Nobody had raised objections to the bill, but it got lost in ...
CORRECTION
Nov 01, 1996 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a story in yesterday'sMetro/Region section said that a disputed political advertisementwas "expected" to be published in The Patriot Ledger, the South Shoredaily ...
CORRECTION
Nov 01, 1996 ... CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, two captions were switched onartwork with yesterday's ...
To our readers
Nov 01, 1996 ... Things To Do listings are not included in today's Sports Plus ...
Tough sell: the Celtics of the '90s
Nov 01, 1996; ...Do you know the name of the Celtics radio broadcaster as theseason gets under way tonight against the Bulls? It's Spencer Ross,starting his second season on play-by-play, and if he is still astranger it is an indication of the fading of a dynasty. The lateJohnny Most was never needed ...
Shakespeare & Co.'s tricks are a treat
Nov 01, 1996; ...Halloween isn't the time of year that makes people want to packoff and head somewhere, but if you happen to be in the Lenox areatonight or tomorrow, "The Monkey's Paw" at Shakespeare & Company is atasty trick-or-treat entertainment. The evening begins in theStables Theatre, where Walton ...
Transcendent `Cyclo' moves powerfully
Nov 01, 1996; ... CYCLODirected and written by: Tran Anh HungStarring: Tran Nu Yen Khe, Le Van Loc, Tony Leung-Chiu WaiAt: Coolidge Corner (in Vietnamese, subtitled)Unrated Although not without flaws, Tran Anh Hung's "Cyclo" is,nevertheless, the most ambitious and impressive achievement ...
John T. Dalton,77 Retired Quincy ophthalmologist
Nov 01, 1996 ... Dr. John T. Dalton, a retired ophthalmologist, died of canceryesterday in his home in Quincy. He was 77.Before his retirement five years ago, Dr. Dalton maintained aprivate practice and was chief of ophthalmology at Quincy CityHospital. He was also affiliated with South Shore, ...
At last, schools that mean business
Nov 01, 1996 ...It wasn't so long ago that fear shaped the urban strategies ofBoston's downtown bank presidents, insurance executives and utilityheads. Hale Champion, who headed the Boston Redevelopment Authorityunder former Mayor Kevin White, once described Boston's businessleaders as a "quivering ...
Kerry says tax break should include tuition control
Nov 01, 1996; ... With President Clinton's education secretary campaigning at hisside, Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday said Clinton's proposed educationtax cuts will be "nonsensical" unless he attaches them to limits ontuition increases.But US Education Secretary Richard Riley, in an interview ...
A worthy experiment in Maine
Nov 01, 1996 ... Second in a series. On Tuesday, Maine voters will consider the nation's first ballotinitiative calling for full public financing of state elections. Anidentical but non-binding plan is being put to Massachusetts votersin 24 districts of the state's House of Representatives as a ...
The pope's mission in Cuba
Nov 01, 1996 ...The news from both Havana and Rome is that sometime in the comingyear Pope John Paul II will visit Cuba -- one of the last redoubts ofunreconstructed communism. There will be those who would cautionagainst the visit, counseling that such a gesture by the Holy Seewould be seen as a papal ...
Electromagnetic research review finds no danger
Nov 01, 1996; ... An exhaustive review of possible health risks from theelectromagnetic fields that surround power lines and home applianceshas found no conclusive evidence that the low-level exposure in mosthomes causes cancer or any other disease. In recent years, fear of the weak electric and ...
Foreman focused on future -- and Tyson
Nov 01, 1996; ...TOKYO -- George Foreman no longer carries the WBA or the IBFheavyweight titles with him when he enters a ring, as he willtomorrow night at the Tokyo Bay NK Hall, but he has retained a moreimportant one. He remains the AARP champion, a title no organizationhas been able to strip ...
THE ORIGINALS Nov. 2, 1946: 4,406 watched
Nov 01, 1996; ...They had no notion that they were pioneers. Some had justreturned from World War II, happy to find a basketball league toemploy them. The idea that they were launching a league that one daywould be a multibillion dollar, global enterprise wasn't even part ofthe equation. "No one ...
`Dear God': Please redeem this film
Nov 01, 1996; ... DEAR GODDirected by: Garry MarshallScreenplay by: Warren Leight, Ed KaplanStarring: Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Maria Pitillo, TimConway, Roscoe Lee Browne, Jon Seda, Hector ElizondoAt: Copley Place, Fresh Pond and suburbsRated: PG (language and mild thematic elements) To put ...
Gore heads to N.H., Boston Bid to boost Kerry's effort
Nov 01, 1996; ... GALVESTON, Texas -- Vice President Al Gore will make stops inBoston and Derry, N.H., today on behalf of Democrats in tightcongressional races.Gore will campaign for Sen. John F. Kerry at an outdoor rallyat Faneuil Hall, where he will be joined by organized labor ...
Aide's White House visits assailed
Nov 01, 1996; ... WASHINGTON -- Republicans yesterday issued a blisteringassessment of Democratic star fund-raiser John Huang's five dozenWhite House visits this year, even alluding to possible broken laws,as Clinton aides continued a well-rehearsed stall they hope willguide them through Election ...
Energized about education
Nov 01, 1996; ... No one wants to regress to yesterday, but I am rooting for thepeople who want to return to an elected Boston School Committee. Iroot for their spirit. There has not been grass-roots activism likethis since Mel King ran for mayor 13 years ago. With just $3,186 to spread their ...
Judge begins suspension Charlestown jurist cited over ethics
Nov 01, 1996; ... Charlestown District Court Judge Allen J. Jarasitis begins atwo-month suspension without pay today for misconduct in attemptingto influence a fellow judge in a landlord-tenant dispute in whichJarasitis had a financial interest. In a decision made public yesterday by the state's ...
CAMPAIGNING ON CAMPUS
Nov 01, 1996 ... Sen. John F. Kerry holds up a shirt given to him during anappearance ...
McGinest vs. offensive line
Nov 01, 1996; ... Things have changed since Opening Day, when the Miami Dolphinswhipped the Patriots, 24-10. The Patriots are a game ahead of theDolphins in the AFC East and a 4-point favorite. There's been a significant change in the Patriots defense, too --defensive end Willie McGinest and outside ...
Murray takes a trunk line to nowhere
Nov 01, 1996; ... LARGER THAN LIFEDirected by: Howard FranklinWritten by: Roy Blount Jr.Starring: Bill Murray, Janeane Garafalo, Matthew McConaughey,Jeremy Piven, Linda Fiorentino, Harve Presnell, Pat Hingle,Keith David, Lois SmithAt: Copley Place and suburbsRated: PG "Larger Than Life" is a ...
Carlisle Levine, oversaw design, construction of Expressway; at 88
Nov 01, 1996; ... When most people look at a bridge they see a cold mass of steel.When Carlisle N. Levine looked at one, he saw a symphony. Mr.Levine, who oversaw the design and construction of the SoutheastExpressway, died Tuesday of complications from an aneurysm inNewton-Wellesley Hospital. He was ...
Names: National Horse Show will feature gala farewell party for Cigar
Nov 01, 1996 ...Cigar, America's favorite race horse, is officially retired andwill make a farewell appearance at the National Horse Show tomorrowin Madison Square Garden. Cigar's owners, Allen Paulson and his wifeMadeleine, retired the 6-year-old horse yesterday in an announcementreleased by the ...
John MacEachern, 74 Retired church custodian
Nov 01, 1996 ... John David MacEachern, retired custodian at Our Lady of thePresentation parish in Brighton, died, apparently of a heart attack,Monday in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton. He was 74. Mr. MacEachern worked for Our Lady of the Presentation for 34years. Since his retirement two ...
Macy's confirms plan to lease part of Boston store
Nov 01, 1996; ... The parent of the Macy's department store chain confirmedyesterday it is exploring leasing out the top four floors of itsDowntown Crossing store as office space. The lower three floors and the basement, which are larger andrepresent about three-quarters of the building's 750,000 ...
Students stab, and beat man on T, police say
Nov 01, 1996; ... An Allston man was stabbed in the forehead by a group of highschool students riding the MBTA train, the third violent incidentinvolving students in as many days, T police said. The 43-year-old man, who was stabbed between his eyes, wasreleased after treatment, Massachusetts ...
Bruce McLaren of Adams, at 50; recently retired as chief of police
Nov 01, 1996 ...Bruce A. McLaren, the former police chief of Adams, died ofcancer Wednesday in his home in Adams. He was 50. Mr. McLaren retired on Aug. 26, the day after the town marked his50th birthday with a celebration and tributes to the chief who knewevery child in town by name. The ...
Menino's support of Kerry called ineffective by some in party
Nov 01, 1996; ... Only four days remain before voters decide the race between USSen. John F. Kerry and Gov. William F. Weld, but you wouldn't know itto drive around Boston. In this heavily Democratic city, there arefew placard-waving Kerry supporters at rotaries and only a handful ofhouse signs bearing ...
SPECIAL TREATMENT
Nov 01, 1996 ... Lora Feltham, a child life specialist at Massachusetts GeneralHospital, helps Cory Hillsgrove with his Uncle Fester costume while"doctor" ...
Congressman battles back
Nov 01, 1996; ...Last fall, US Rep. J. Joseph Moakley's life was spinning out ofcontrol. He had just struggled through a grueling liver transplantoperation. His wife was dying of a brain tumor. By his own account,he was acting kind of crazy."I bought $10,000 in suits. I bought a new car," he ...
Memorable Moments
Nov 01, 1996; ... Wow. How do you pick the all-time best moments in Celticshistory? And is it a moment, or a game? Some of the greatestCeltics moments came at the end of games that were, frankly, lessthan memorable, for instance, Larry Bird's steal against Detroit in1987. But they help define the ...
Out-of-state money backs Kerry, Weld Donations reach $6m as companies take sides
Nov 01, 1996; ... Out-of-state contributors have poured about $6 million into thesizzling Massachusetts Senate campaign in an attempt to influencevoters' decision next Tuesday. The Bay State has become one of the country's chief battlegroundsfor control of the Senate and a vessel for special ...
PRAYER AND REMEMBRANCE
Nov 01, 1996 ... Residents of Manila repaint the tombs of their deceased ...
Coming soon: `Richard and Me'
Nov 01, 1996; ... Material from wire services and other sources was used in thiscolumn. Michael Moore, who taunted Roger Smith, president of GeneralMotors, in his 1989 film "Roger and Me," is now trying to tormentRichard Levin, president of Yale. Siding with Yale's unions in anongoing contract ...
The Irish in Ireland: fun before the game
Nov 01, 1996; ... DUBLIN -- They flew 4,000 miles to get here, spent nearly eighthours on a plane, traveling through the night, and arrived smilingand acting like tourists, with their cameras and video recorders inhand. The Notre Dame football team is here in Ireland, ready to play onIrish soil ...
Bulls still the one
Nov 01, 1996; ... THIS STORY HAS BEEN ENTERED INTO THE DATABASE IN TWO PARTS THIS ISPART 1. The most anticipated summer in NBA history produced some trultmemorable moves, not the least of which was Shaquille O'Neal's"decision" to join the Lakers. But even after the moves of O'Neal, Dikembe ...
Bulls still the one
Nov 01, 1996; ... THIS STORY HAS BEEN ENTERED INTO THE DATABASE IN TWO PARTS THIS ISPART 2. The most anticipated summer in NBA history produced some trultmemorable moves, not the least of which was Shaquille O'Neal's"decision" to join the Lakers. But even after the moves of O'Neal, Dikembe ...
Man, 18, shot in Dorchester
Nov 01, 1996 ... An 18-year-old man was shot in the back last night in Dorchester,police said. The victim was found by officers suffering from agunshot wound on Florida Street about 5:30 p.m., police said. Policeare seeking two teen-agers in connection with the shooting.Witnesses said ...
Suspect arraigned in hospital
Nov 01, 1996 ... A Dorchester man was arraigned yesterday in his hospital room atBoston Medical Center, charged with attempted murder of a policeofficer. Gerald Kelly, 24, was held on $200,000 cash bail for aWednesday incident that injured a state trooper. The SuffolkDistrict Attorney's office said ...