The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 1997:
Tribunal set up to help workers 100-member coalition designed to promote fair labor practices
Feb 01, 1997; ... Workers who felt they could never get a fair deal in a court oflaw now have their own tribunal: the Massachusetts Workers RightsBoard. Yesterday, during a news conference at the State House, Jobs WithJustice, a grass-roots labor coalition, launched the 100-memberboard. The ...
For most part, assistants are scrambling
Feb 01, 1997; ... staff contributed to this report. FOXBOROUGH -- Last Sunday, they were coaches of a Super Bowl team.Last night, they were scrambling to find life insurance beyond thenext 90 days, to get their health insurance extended, to get someorder in their lives. And this morning the ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1997 ... Q. David Dederer has several strings missing from his guitar when heplays with his rock group, Presidents of the USA. Is thatcarelessness or deliberate? D.A., BeverlyA. Deliberate. The group prefers soft rock, so both guitarists ChrisBallew and Dederer use only about half the normal ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1997 ... Q. Who discovered gold in the Klondike? R.M., BostonA. After a suggestion from Robert Henderson, who had found gold atGold Bottom Creek in Canada's Yukon Territory, prospector GeorgeCarmack tried his luck in 1896 on another, nearby creek he was laterto name Bonanza. On Aug. 17, 1896, ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1997 ... Q. I hear that NBC is selling video tapes that highlight specificevents from the Summer Olympics. I am interested in swimming. Isswimming one of the sports? M.J., SaugusA. NBC is offering two video highlights of the Summer Olympics. Oneis "Olympic ...
ASK THE GLOBE THE ADDRESS BOOK
Feb 01, 1997 ... For M.R., Lynnfield -- Habitat for Humanity International, 121Habitat St., Americus, GA 31709-3498For R.M., Boston -- Joe DiMaggio, c/o Morris Engelberg, 3230 SterlingRoad, Hollywood, FL 33021For D.B., Manchester -- Teemu Selanne, c/o The ...
Boston Baroque rings bright and clear
Feb 01, 1997; ... BOSTON BAROQUEMartin Pearlman, music directorAt: Sanders Theater last night CAMBRIDGE -- Boston Baroque's performance of the MonteverdiVespers in Jordan Hall in November, 1995 was so successful thatTelarc made the decision to record it. In connection with recording sessions ...
No respite for Eagles: PC is next
Feb 01, 1997; ... Danya Abrams sat forlorn in a corner of the visitors' locker roomat West Virginia Coliseum, trying to rationalize Boston College'shumiliating 89-76 Big East loss to the Mountaineers Wednesday night.Sure, as Abrams pointed out, BC was still 13-5 overall and in firstplace in the Big East 6 ...
What Parcells had to say
Feb 01, 1997 ... Bill Parcells began yesterday's press conference by reading aletter of resignation he wrote to Bob Kraft. He then talked forseveral minutes before taking questions. Here's part of what he hadto say:"I delivered this letter to Bob this morning. I don't have anydesire to continue. I ...
Tallas OK, but Schafer might play
Feb 01, 1997; ... TAMPA -- The Bruins have received few, if any, breaks this seasonregarding injuries, but they got one yesterday. Goalie Rob Tallas appeared to be the latest Bruin casualty when hewas struck in the groin by a hard shot during practice. Tallas wasinjured by a one-timer off the stick ...
What Kraft had to say
Feb 01, 1997 ... After listening to Bill Parcells' press conference from the backof the room, Patriots owner Bob Kraft held his own session. Here'swhat he had to say before answering questions:"I want to say a few words on behalf of our organization and allthe fans in New England. We owe a tremendous ...
No rush to defend Bettelheim
Feb 01, 1997; ... One thing that has not happened after the publication ofjournalist Richard Pollak's no-holds-barred biography of reveredchild psychologist Bruno Bettelheim is a rush to defend Bettelheim,says Pollak. There have been a few "yes, but" defenders, according to Pollak,in town this ...
Kentucky home for Bradley
Feb 01, 1997; ... WORCESTER -- Boston College's loss turned out to be Kentucky'sgain. Worcester Burncoat center Mike Bradley, a 6-foot-11-inch seniorwho gave BC an early verbal commitment two years ago as a 15-year-oldsophomore, announced yesterday during a press conference in theschool ...
Blaze of glory for Celtics
Feb 01, 1997; ...You have heard of inspirational halftime speeches. They are apart of sports. To get their teams out of deep funks, coachesattempt to summon words that will act as verbal kicks in thebackside. That didn't happen for the Celtics and M.L. Carr last night atthe FleetCenter. Here's ...
New look for Hamer At long last, rookie gets to trade street clothes for uniform
Feb 01, 1997; ... Steve Hamer has been everywhere this season. He has taken roadtrips with the Celtics. He has attended their practices at Brandeis.He has been at the FleetCenter, watching games in a nice jacket, tieand slacks. One place the 7-foot rookie from Tennessee had not been was on ...
Henry J. Collins, 66 Was reporter for Salem News
Feb 01, 1997 ... A funeral Mass will be said today for Henry J. Collins, a retiredreporter for the Salem News, who died Thursday in his Swampscotthome. He was 66. Mr. Collins was born in Lynn. He attended St. Anselm College inManchester, N.H., and served in the Army during the Korean War. He ...
IN GRAIN --
Feb 01, 1997 ... Co-workers pull an uninjured Darryl Kuntz from an Atchison, Kan.,silo Thursday where he was ...
CORRECTION
Feb 01, 1997 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a story in Friday'seditions of the Globe misidentified a researcher who testified athearings held by the Department of ...
CORRECTION
Feb 01, 1997 ... CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, the day of the Beanpotcollege hockey tournament was incorrect in ...
Icy roads cause dozens of crashes Pileups on I-495 involve 40 cars; slick conditions widespread
Feb 01, 1997; ... Massachusetts State Police said last night that black ice onBoston-area highways caused dozens of crashes, including a series ofpileups on both sides of Interstate 495 in Franklin that involved 40cars. "The roads are a complete sheet of ice." Sergeant Paul Maloney,a State ...
COLLISION
Feb 01, 1997 ... Police inspect the scene (left) of a crash involving a stolen carthey were chasing yesterday at Old Colony Avenue and C Street inSouth Boston. Above, a teenage girl who was ...
Walker is on center stage now
Feb 01, 1997; ... M.L. Carr knew he'd be filling his center position "bycommittee" going into the season. The problem is that his committee-- Dino Radja, Pervis Ellison, Frank Brickowski and Alton Lister --is now a committee of one, and only because Lister just returned tothe lineup in Miami after ...
Hospital stands by reprimanded doctor
Feb 01, 1997; ... Officials at Beverly Hospital say they still have confidence in anemergency room physician who has been reprimanded for the second timein less than two years for misdiagnosing patients' conditions when heworked in Rhode Island. The president of the Beverly Hospital medical staff, Dr ....
Alfred L. Duncombe, 90 Retired Brockton physician
Feb 01, 1997 ... Dr. Alfred L. Duncombe of Brockton, former chief of medicalservices at Brockton Hospital, died Thursday in Bay Path Nursing Homein Duxbury. He was 90. Dr. Duncombe was born in Manhasset, N.Y. He graduated fromRutgers University and Harvard Medical School and served aninternship ...
Finneran offside
Feb 01, 1997 ...House Speaker Thomas Finneran is vehemently opposed to a footballstadium financed by public dollars. So are most other people in thestate, a reality that explains Patriots owner Robert Kraft's decisionto build the $200 million stadium with private money. All he asks isa lease on ...
Death at firehouse ruled an accident But official report leaves questions
Feb 01, 1997; ... The death of Boston firefighter James A. Ellis in December wasdeclared an accident yesterday by a department board of inquiry thatruled out drugs, alcohol, foul play, horseplay, and suicide. Reversing an earlier determination, the four-man board concludedthat Ellis plunged ...
Ethics on vacation
Feb 01, 1997 ...Money, said the world-weary lyric of a song from "Cabaret," makesthe world go round. The old wisdom holds true. Much of the world isdivided into those who have hung a for-sale sign around their necksand those who are eager to pay the price. Witness the loophole of a law that ...
HISTORY LESSON
Feb 01, 1997 ... Guard Charles George Jr. stands watch yesterday at the NationalArchives in Washington as visitors view ...
The latest Patriot games
Feb 01, 1997 ...The Patriots have become not only the best team in town, but alsothe best melodrama. Many of the plots, subplots and sudden reversals of fortune thathave made the adventures of the franchise so entertaining were ondisplay Friday in a doubleheader of a press conference ...
Sharansky's triumph
Feb 01, 1997 ...The decline and fall of the Soviet Union meant different thingsto different people, but to those old-fashioned spirits who searchfor the human drama of history, the collapse of communism meant thata soulless system of power had been vanquished by individualprisoners of conscience such ...
GDP flies in 4th with low inflation Economists say rising prices loom
Feb 01, 1997; ... The US economy ended 1996 with a bang, not a whimper. The government yesterday reported that the economy expandedat a 4.7 percent annual rate in the final three months of the year,paced by solid consumer spending and a big jump in exports. Thefourth quarter growth rate, more ...
GUCCI SLAY CASE
Feb 01, 1997 ...Patrizia Reggiani Martinelli leaves Milan police headquartersyesterday after being arrested along with four others on charges ofkilling her former husband, 46-year-old businessman Maurizio ...
Amelia M. Hartigan, 90 Campaign worker for Democrats
Feb 01, 1997 ... Amelia M. (Yarrow) Hartigan of Dedham, a campaign worker for theKennedy family and other Democratic politicans, died Thursday in theStonehedge Convalescent Center in West Roxbury. She was 90. Mrs. Hartigan was born in Brockton. As a young woman she workedfor United Fruit Co. in ...
It's no one-man show to Kraft
Feb 01, 1997; ... FOXBOROUGH -- The body language said all. Bill Parcells and BobKraft had been on opposite edges of the bed for months, but now wasthe moment when the divorce became final. For 40 minutes, Parcells had given his version of the breakup,saying all kinds of nice words but deflecting ...
Basketball: Season ends for Tate
Feb 01, 1997 ... Center Jermaine Tate, Ohio State's No. 2 scorer and rebounder, hasbeen diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a weakening of the heart muscle,and will miss the remainder of the season. The 6-foot-9-inch Tatehas been advised to withdraw from basketball and other vigorousactivity . . . Simon ...
Robert McIntyre, 72 Was math teacher, track coach
Feb 01, 1997 ...A funeral will be held Monday for Robert McIntyre of Andover, aformer mathematics teacher and track coach at Andover and Melrosehigh schools. He was 72. Mr. McIntyre, who died of cancer Wednesday in Holy Family Hospitalin Methuen, was a driving force behind creation of the state ...
Her secret was never safe
Feb 01, 1997; ...Flee a violent partner in Massachusetts, and you stand a betterchance of being protected by the gas company than by the state'swelfare department. For all the rhetorical attention paid to domestic violence byGovernor William F. Weld in his recent State of the State ...
Seniors lose one of their `medigap' options Mutual of Omaha to stop selling policies, blames state rules
Feb 01, 1997; ...As of today, seniors have fewer options when they shop for healthinsurance to supplement Medicare coverage. The Mutual of Omaha insurance company announced it will no longersell new "medigap" policies, insurance designed to pay medical billsnot covered by the federal health ...
Finneran challenge: How to use power
Feb 01, 1997; ... Power is like fire. Depending on its use, it can be an instrumentfor good or ill. House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran has demonstrated convincingly heknows how to achieve power. Now, he must prove he can wield iteffectively and with fairness. Indeed, the Mattapan Democrat seems in ...
Virginia M. Morgan, 76 Milton native, homemaker
Feb 01, 1997 ... Virgina M. (Hoy) Morgan, a homemaker, died of leukemia Thursday inher home in West Palm Beach, Fla. She was 76. Mrs. Morgan was born in Milton and was graduated from TrinityCollege in Washington, D.C. She also attended Boston University. A former resident of Milton, she ...
Cambridge fire forces Hamilton from her home
Feb 01, 1997; ... Material from wire services and other sources was used in thiscolumn. Ruth Hamilton, the noted local singer who was feted for her 75thbirthday last weekend, was among the two dozen people who were burnedout of their homes by a fire in Cambridge Thursday night. Hamiltoncame out of ...
Manzi's Internet firm will cut 54 jobs in Pa.
Feb 01, 1997; ...Nets Inc., the Cambridge-based business-to-business Internetcompany run by former Lotus Development Corp. president Jim Manzi,said yesterday it is eliminating 54 jobs in its Pittsburgh operationscenter. "This is a painful, yet necessary step if we are to achieve theobjectives we ...
A month to honor presidents, and an also-ran
Feb 01, 1997; ... For such a short month, February is busy with birthdays, some moreremarkable than others. Americans once solemnly observed Feb. 12 inhonor of Abraham Lincoln and Feb. 22 for George Washington'sbirthday. Now, "President's Day" makes them pitchmen for holidaysales on movable Mondays. ...
Sen. Kennedy's brush with football fame
Feb 01, 1997; ... Back in 1955, the left end for the Harvard football team, number88, caught the eye of scouts for the Green Bay Packers. Head CoachLisle Blackbourn sent a feeler to see if the college junior had anyinterest in going professional. "Dear Ted," he wrote. "You have been very highly ...
Owning single-unit rentals is not always profitable
Feb 01, 1997; ... Nearly one-third of the owners of single-unit rental propertieslost money last year, according to the Property Owners and ManagersSurvey conducted by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. The survey found that 29 percent of the owners of single-unitrentals reported a loss; 55 ...
Parcells seeks upper hand
Feb 01, 1997; ... FOXBOROUGH -- It was a morning game, a poker game beginning a fewmoments after 11:30. Bill Parcells played his hand, the handconsisting of a "Dear John" letter to Bob Kraft. "I advise you that I do not desire to continue as an NFL coach orother comparable position after Jan. 31, ...
Were ingredients there?
Feb 01, 1997; ... FOXBOROUGH -- "Groceries," whether they were fresh or rotten,cheap or expensive, clearly were yesterday's -- and the last year's-- bone of contention between Bill Parcells and Bob Kraft. The coach said the best way to describe his frustration in NewEngland was to relate what a ...
Parcells out; Carroll in? 49er assistant is likely to get Patriots job
Feb 01, 1997; ... FOXBOROUGH -- San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator PeteCarroll will be in Boston tomorrow to meet with owner Bob Kraft aboutreplacing Bill Parcells as Patriots coach, and unless the interviewgoes badly, no one else will audition for the job that officiallyopened yesterday when ...
A look at game plan NFL Experience at Super Bowl offers preview of Kraft's theme park concept
Feb 01, 1997; ... NEW ORLEANS -- Ever wonder what it might be like to be Patriotsrunning back Curtis Martin at short and goal, facing a 300-pounddefensive lineman? Try strapping on a high-tension spring-loaded harness and see justhow far you can run the football. Rather, see how it feels to ...
Jets' Glenn is eyed
Feb 01, 1997; ... FOXBOROUGH -- If Bill Parcells, who stepped down as Patriots coachyesterday, winds up with the New York Jets in 1997, the package thatlands him probably will be altered several times before New Englandowner Bob Kraft accepts it. In simplest form, the Patriots would take the Jets' ...
Foxboro trots out start of meeting
Feb 01, 1997; ... Harness racing returns to Foxboro Park tonight as Foxboro HarnessInc. presents the first card of a meeting scheduled to run throughNov. 18. Foxboro Harness Inc., headed by Charles Sarkis, won a license torace in 1997 in a fierce dispute with New Foxboro Corp., which wasbacked by ...
Players take it in stride
Feb 01, 1997; ... Honolulu. For the most part, the Patriots players seemed philosophicalyesterday after Bill Parcells announced he was leaving as coach. Parcells' departure might particularly affect one player,linebacker Chris Slade, an unrestricted free agent who could beinclined to stay now ....
CROWD CONTROL
Feb 01, 1997 ... Bosnian Croat police try to keep civilians from throwing eggs inStolac yesterday as the crowd ...
Bernardin book sparks denial
Feb 01, 1997; ... Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, in a posthumouslypublished memoir, alleges that a priest who had been a longtimecritic urged Steven Cook to falsely name the cardinal in allegationsof sexual abuse. Although Bernardin's book did not identify the critic, the Rev.Charles ...
Canned Tuna doesn't satisfy appetites
Feb 01, 1997; ...FOXBOROUGH -- Give Tuna's Farewell Address a "D." That's D for Disingenuous. I can only imagine the look on Bill Parcells' face if an agent, orsome other kind of low-life (e.g., a writer), tried to run the samekind of jive by him that he tried to run by all of us ...
Salvi's record wiped clean, posthumously Charges voided on technicality
Feb 01, 1997; ... In what may be the ultimate legal technicality, John C. SalviIII's two murder convictions in the 1994 shootings at two women'shealth clinics have been wiped out, with all criminal chargesdismissed, because he died before his appeal was heard. Norfolk Superior Court Judge Barbara ...
No more birds and bees Students get serious about sex education
Feb 01, 1997; ... NEWTON -- No, they're not nervous, insist the ninth graders inNorman Hyett's classroom, as they shuffle, twitch and fidget. Theylearned about ejaculation eons ago when they took reproductiveanatomy, or "plumbing" as it's called around here, back in sixthgrade. But the giggles start ...
People make this `Sideshow' real
Feb 01, 1997; ... Politically correct terms have not yet been devised to denote thefolks, once called "sideshow freaks," who were put on display fortheir peculiarities in circuses and carnivals. Certainly more forgood than for ill, the shifts in our pop culture and our attitudeshave put that kind of ...
Judge clamps down on Simpson jury Tightens restrictions after 1 dismissed
Feb 01, 1997; ... SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki yesterday dismissedthe only black woman juror in the O.J. Simpson civil trial and, afterexpressing concern that the case could "unravel," he ordered theremaining jurors to watch no television and read no newspapers untilafter they reach a ...
Angling for a sporting crowd
Feb 01, 1997; ...Chuck Devereaux lifts his boot and with a flick of a wrist spinsa bass lure underhand from the floor of the Bayside Expo Center intoan open fish tank, 9 feet high and 25 feet away. It lands on targetwith a soft, fish-pleasing plop. "I could put this in someone's mouth if they'd ...
DISPLACED
Feb 01, 1997 ... A girl sifts through the rubble of her home looking for nails at arefugee camp in Tak Province on the Thailand-Burmese border ...
Clerk blames layoff on refusal to fix tickets Brockton case in federal court
Feb 01, 1997; ... Colleen Cronin says she didn't fix tickets. Not for a judge,not for the Army, not even for the police chief, whom she derided asa "dummy" for asking. When the Internal Revenue Service ran up $142in parking tickets in Brockton and wanted to make a deal with Cronin,the city's parking ...
`Light' filters confuse smokers, poll finds State says tests understate risks
Feb 01, 1997; ... More than half of Massachusetts smokers have no idea that manycigarettes have rings of tiny air holes around the filters, dilutingthe smoke that reaches testing machines and allowing tobaccocompanies to understate how much tar and nicotine are delivered tosmokers, according to a poll ...
Trade tiff widens over state `Burma law'
Feb 01, 1997; ... The ambitious Massachusetts foreign policy is facing a newchallenge: Now the Commonwealth may be headed into a trade tusslewith an entire continent.It turns out that Japan is not the only international powerfighting a new Massachusetts law that denies state contracts ...
Davis doesn't win but does delight indoors
Feb 01, 1997; ... The crowd came to see Calvin Davis win. He didn't. But theOlympian from Dorchester High said the 2,000 or so of his closestfriends in the stands shouldn't be disappointed, considering he ranhis fastest 400 meters ever."I think they came to see a good race, plus I looked pretty ...