The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from November 1997:
Finlay F. Aikins, 1 Resident of Boston and Ireland
Nov 01, 1997 ... A memorial service will be held today for Finlay Francis Aikins ofBoston and Ireland. The 20-month-old toddler died at home Sunday. He leaves his parents, Kingsley and Claire; a brother, Grattan;his maternal grandparents, Frank and Mary Frances McDonough ofWaterford, Ireland; ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Nov 01, 1997 ... Q. I recently purchased a life insurance annuity from the JacksonNational Life Insurance Co. of Lansing, Mich., from an agent inAndover. I've never heard of the company. What can you tell meabout its reliability? M.B., RockportA. Founded in 1961, Jackson National is a major stock life ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Nov 01, 1997 ... Q. As a child I used to watch movies at the Oriental Theater on BlueHill Avenue with its moving clouds on the ceiling. Were there othertheaters with moving clouds in the Boston area? J.C., BostonA. There were a few other "atmospheric" theaters ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Nov 01, 1997 ... Q. Where can I learn cake decorating? P.M., BostonA. There are a number of locations listed in "EducationalOpportunities of Greater Boston," published by The EducationResources Institute at 330 Stuart St. in Boston. Cake decorating istaught at the Boston and Cambridge centers for ...
ASK THE GLOBE THE ADDRESS BOOK
Nov 01, 1997 ... For P.S., Natick -- Frank Oz, c/o Creative Artists Agency, 9830Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA ...
Au pair agencies Policy changes not expected
Nov 01, 1997; ...The Louise Woodward case may have ignited what some observerscall "the mommy wars" -- an international controversy about thehazards of in-home day care for infants of working mothers. But ithas not lessened the demand for au pairs or nannies, nor has itcaused much change in the way ...
Avery may opt to return to Sox His $3.9 million decision to come Monday
Nov 01, 1997; ... In a decision that could have a profound impact on the moves theRed Sox intend to make this winter, lefthander Steve Avery willannounce Monday whether he plans to exercise his right to return tothe club for $3.9 million next season, his agent said yesterday. Agent Scott Boras would ...
Concert Update
Nov 01, 1997; ... WBCN-FM yesterday announced a partial lineup of bands that willplay its multi-venue charity concert, the Xmas Rave, on Dec. 2. TheOrpheum Theatre will be headlined by the Cure with support from TanyaDonelly and Tara McLean. Twenty-six other bands will spread out overnine clubs, primarily ...
BankBoston expects to expand in Brazil
Nov 01, 1997; ... BankBoston, unfazed by the turmoil that's gripped Brazilianfinancial markets in recent days, is considering doubling itsbranches in Latin America's biggest country, Henrique de CamposMeirelles, the bank's president, said in a telephone interview. "Nothing happened that would ...
Time for BC to show if it has any fight
Nov 01, 1997; ... At the beginning of the year, Boston College football coach TomO'Brien spoke about how he was curious to find out how his team wouldrespond to adversity. Now 2-6 after last week's humbling 52-20 loss at Notre Dame, BC isstaring adversity in the face, given a slow-starting offense ...
Rookie isn't unnerved by rumors
Nov 01, 1997; ... Chauncey Billups spent yesterday contemplating the possibilitythat he was about to be traded. But once the game against Chicagostarted, the Celtics guard took his place on the bench, and soonplayed an important role in the 92-85 victory. Billups injected even more intensity and ...
They're getting out of line
Nov 01, 1997; ... WILMINGTON -- The Bruins' offense was nonexistent Thursday nightin a 3-0 loss to the Mighty Ducks, so coach Pat Burns said he feelscompelled to make some line changes. After his team was shut out forthe first time this season, Burns said new combinations can sometimesdeliver a spark. He ...
Michael K. Bosi, award-winning journalist, sports editor; at 23
Nov 01, 1997 ...Michael K. Bosi of Fall River and Freemont, Ohio, an assistantsports editor/writer on the News-Messenger newspaper in Ohio, diedTuesday from cardiac complications due to Marfan syndrome. He was23. Mr. Bosi was born in Khanh Hung, South Vietnam, and grew up inFall River. He ...
BPL shines up historic Bates reading room
Nov 01, 1997; ...When merchant banker Joshua Bates gave $100,000 for a publiclibrary in Boston in 1852 -- the first major gift to what was tobecome the country's first municipally supported library -- he set asa condition "that there shall be a room for 100 to 150 persons to sitat reading tables" and ...
Parents call the decision `ridiculous'
Nov 01, 1997; ...LONDON -- The mother of Louise Woodward yesterday called theguilty verdict "a ridiculous decision." "They've made a tremendous mistake," Sue Woodward told Britain'sITV. "This can't be allowed to happen." The interview was the first by her and Louise's father, GaryWoodward, ...
BU makes UMass pay a heavy price
Nov 01, 1997; ... The NCAA established the rule two years ago: Hitting from behindnear the boards calls for more than a two-minute penalty.Massachusetts left wing Steve MacKinnon committed the infraction 53seconds into the second period of last night's game against BostonUniversity, and not only did he ...
TRICK? OR TREAT?
Nov 01, 1997 ... The Rick Pitino era began with a bang last night as the Celticsstunned Michael Jordan and ...
Taking Bulls by horn Celtics get off to a rollicking start in stunner
Nov 01, 1997; ... You kept expecting the kids to trash the 18,624-seat house lastnight. At some point you thought they would disrespect the expensiveFleetCenter parquet, recklessly throw around basketballs, or simplyallow their visitors from Chicago to run all evening and hang on therims. A ...
In Boston, the night is bright The city's club, restaurant, and bar scene roars back to life
Nov 01, 1997; ... Aided by a thriving economy and creative entrepreneurs, the Bostonnightlife scene is on the move. New clubs and a bevy ofrestaurant/bars -- many aimed at the upscale-adult market -- havesparked a nocturnal renaissance. Emerging nightspots in the last year include Oskars, ...
Calipari declines to pull trigger on deal for Billups
Nov 01, 1997; ... No matter how you feel about John Calipari, if you're a Celticfan, you should send your good vibes to him this morning. If thecoach had said "yes" rather than "no" a couple of days ago, ChaunceyBillups would be a New Jersey Net. As it was, the rookie point guard may have made the ...
Attleboro makes a major effort to rebuild and diversify
Nov 01, 1997; ... ATTLEBORO -- This old jewelry manufacturing city near the RhodeIsland border continues to come back from adversities of the early1990s, chalking up gains in residential construction andimprovements to the downtown, which was hit hard after the EmeraldSquare Mall opened in North ...
Mass. Pike sees revenue stream in Hub project Eyes deal with Millennium over controversial site
Nov 01, 1997; ...As plans take shape for a controversial new Boston hotel andentertainment center over the Mass. Pike, there is bad news and goodnews. The bad news, for some in the community near Massachusetts Avenue,is that the high-rise development being negotiated by MillenniumPartners, the ...
CORRECTION
Nov 01, 1997 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a Page One article inyesterday's late editions, in referring to observers of the Woodwardcase, said prosecutors had overstepped by asking the jury to consideronly first- and ...
Iannella leads in at-large cash run Murphy 2d among field, reports show
Nov 01, 1997; ...Suzanne Iannella, seeking one of the four at-large City Councilseats in Tuesday's municipal election, is the clear leader in thecampaign fund-raising sweepstakes, according to filings with thestate Office of Campaign and Political Finance. Iannella reported having $64,710, nearly ...
CORRECTION
Nov 01, 1997 ... CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, the starting time forthe Boston University-St. Lawrence hockey game ...
Fans willing to wait Expectations appear to be low at the start
Nov 01, 1997; ... Few Celtics fans seemed to be getting carried away with the latestedition of the team last night. Before Antoine Walker's firstairball had been launched, courtside spectators were settingexpectations low. "A good professional team should be able to beat a great collegeteam," said ...
THEIR ROMANCE WITH DANCE
Nov 01, 1997; ... It is, for them, one of life's necessities, like food and waterand sleep. Without it, their lives would be diminished. It is ballroom dancing. They are not professionals. They do notenter competitions; they dance not for medals or money, but for thesheer, expressive joy of it. ...
Walz, Dartmouth ready for Harvard
Nov 01, 1997; ... Joe Burris and Mark Blaudschun of the Globe staff contributed to thisreport. Zack Walz opted to leave the Los Altos hills of northernCalifornia and trade them in for four years at Dartmouth. Thebiggest game of his high school career at St. Francis was againstBellarmine Prep; now ...
KID THE SHAPE OF MUSIC
Nov 01, 1997; ... It's not your typical petting zoo. Tomorrow's InstrumentPetting Zoo at New England Conservatory of Music is an animal-free,all-music event. It doesn't matter if you don't know how to playanything but a CD. Adults and children can have a hands-on (and, insome cases, mouths-on) ...
Death penalty legislation questioned Martin, Locke warn current versions could be overturned by SJC
Nov 01, 1997; ... Suffolk District Attorney Ralph C. Martin II and Norfolk DistrictAttorney Jeffrey A. Locke said yesterday death-penalty legislationappears to have been so hastily written by state lawmakers that itcould end up being struck down by the Supreme Judicial Court. If the bill becomes ...
Amanda de Costerd, 36 Lender for State Street Bank
Nov 01, 1997 ... A funeral service was held Monday for Amanda Alison (Hubbard) deCosterd of Charlestown, a former corporate lender for State StreetBank. Mrs. de Costerd died Sunday at Massachusetts General Hospital.She was 36. She was born in Atlanta and attended schools there. She receiveda ...
PRE-HALLOWEEN BLAZE
Nov 01, 1997 ... A Detroit firefighter emerged from the smoke and rubble of a housefire Thursday on the city's East Side. What ...
Deal set to close Plainville dump by April 1
Nov 01, 1997; ...Massachusetts' largest landfill, an 88-acre dump off Interstate495 in Plainville, will close by April 1 under a consent order signedyesterday. While environmentalists and area residents hailed the decision andActing Governor Paul Cellucci called it "a huge victory for ...
To Eappens, justice is done
Nov 01, 1997; ... CAMBRIDGE -- Before the sentencing hearing began yesterday,Deborah and Sunil Eappen held the caterpillar toy their baby boyMatthew loved so much -- the one that played "You Are My Sunshine,"that he held when he died. Then they prepared to tell the world how the life and death ...
Rosy economic checkup is a market elixir Spending by consumers is highest in five years; prices rise at slow pace
Nov 01, 1997; ... The stock market might be sagging, but not the US economy.Powered by the strongest consumer spending in more than fiveyears, the economy expanded at very solid 3.5 percent pace in thethird quarter, the government said yesterday. In the samethree-month period, prices rose at ...
No bargain with Saddam
Nov 01, 1997 ...Saddam Hussein's latest defiance of the UN Security Councilconfirms his penchant for overplaying his hand at every opportunity.After the Iraqi dictator united the divided members of the SecurityCouncil by declaring that American members of the UN SpecialCommission will be banned from ...
Jiang at Harvard
Nov 01, 1997 ...Completing what was arguably the most important summit of theClinton presidency, China's leader, Jiang Zemin, journeys toCambridge today, where generations of Harvard scholars have beenstudying the world's oldest civilization. For most of this century China has been riven by ...
Clinton's real legacy: a Democratic Party in shambles
Nov 01, 1997; ... John Ellis is a consultant at Rasky & Co. in Boston. In five short years, Bill Clinton has all but destroyed theDemocratic Party. When he took office in 1993, Democrats controlledboth houses of Congress by comfortable margins. They governed 31states, including key states like ...
Manslaughter, not murder
Nov 01, 1997 ...The prosecution, the defense, and the judge all denied LouiseWoodward's jury the ability to make a crucial choice between murderand manslaughter that ought to have figured in its deliberations.Now that the verdict is in, Judge Hiller Zobel has an opportunity toprevent an injustice by ...
French (yes, French) efficiency
Nov 01, 1997; ...NICE, France The "petite voiture" that took us to the Luberon Mountains inProvence, across the Riviera, into Italy, and back again was almostabsurdly small, especially compared with the hulking sport/utilityvehicles that hog American roads. But we weren't alone in ourjuicebox on ...
PRIMED FOR PICKING
Nov 01, 1997 ... A worker split wood at Pine Tree Farm in Concord yesterday, near ...
Fitchburg plane crash kills pilot, student Twin-engine aircraft falls in residential area
Nov 01, 1997; ...FITCHBURG -- A flight instructor and his student were killedyesterday when their twin-engine Piper Apache crashed in a back yard,narrowly avoiding homes in a residential area near the FitchburgAirport, authorities said. "It sounded like this plane was really low and it was," ...
Formal Gold withdrawn from Breeders'
Nov 01, 1997; ... New England lost a major rooting interest in the Nov. 8 Breeders'Cup at Hollywood Park when it was announced yesterday that FormalGold, owned by Jack Murphy of Quincy and trained by Bill Perry, whois from South Carolina but maintains a residence in Revere, hadsuffered an ankle injury and ...
At Harvard, Gore issues call
Nov 01, 1997; ...CAMBRIDGE -- Vice President Al Gore, speaking at HarvardUniversity yesterday, called inaction on global warming "crazy" andwarned that unless major steps are taken to cut greenhouse gases andto slow population growth the planet's environment will suffer severedisruptions. "With ...
Senate halts campaign hearings
Nov 01, 1997; ...WASHINGTON -- After Republicans expressed concern that the Senatecampaign-finance investigation could lead to a probe of GOPpractices, Senator Fred Thompson yesterday suspended the hearings,saying he had run out of quality witnesses who could testify aboutDemocratic campaign ...
Ernest A. Hoey, 74 Was state parole supervisor
Nov 01, 1997 ... Ernest A. Hoey of North Chelmsford, a retired state parolesupervisor in Lowell, died Wednesday at Lowell General Hospital. Hewas 74. Born in Billerica, Mr. Hoey was educated in Chelmsford schools.He later attended schools in Scotland, where he graduated fromUniversity ...
`Our hearts are heavy every day'
Nov 01, 1997 ... The following are statements read in court by Deborah and SunilEappen:Deborah Eappen: On May 24, 1996, we gave birth to a healthy baby boy. We namedhim Matthew, `gift from God.' Matthew was a beautiful baby withblack, silky hair and rich chocolate eyes. He was a real ...
In a first, Irish elect president from Ulster
Nov 01, 1997; ... DUBLIN -- Mary McAleese, a law professor from Belfast and anorthern nationalist, was elected yesterday as the eighth presidentof Ireland, the first ever from Northern Ireland.Ballots cast on Thursday were counted yesterday, giving McAleesethe biggest mandate since presidential ...
BEREAVED BY FIRE
Nov 01, 1997 ...Family members of some of the 11 people killed in a fire in ahospital in Milan wept outside the building. The fire swept ...
New England International Auto Show up and running
Nov 01, 1997; ... How time flies when you're having fun! July 4 was only a day ortwo ago, I thought, but suddenly here it is November and New EnglandInternational Auto Show time once more. The 41st incarnation of that institution was to open this morningat Bayside Exposition Center in Dorchester and ...
Would-be juror taken aback by conviction
Nov 01, 1997; ...While jurors in the Louise Woodward trial continued yesterday tokeep their silence after rendering their verdict Thursday, onealternate juror said he was surprised by the guilty finding,confirming defense attorney Barry Scheck's contention that thedefense lost potentially sympathetic ...
DRESSED TO DIGEST
Nov 01, 1997 ...Kamira Hunt, 3; William Bell, 4; and Dreana Morgan, 4, from theEllen Jackson Children's Center in Roxbury, ...
Case is now down to three legal options
Nov 01, 1997; ... The defense that began promisingly, with seemingly credibleexperts and a sympathetic defendant on the stand, is down to one lasthope -- that Judge Hiller B. Zobel will take the unusual, if notextraordinary, step of overruling the verdict finding Louise Woodwardguilty of second-degree ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ...I am shocked and appalled by the guilty verdict brought againstLouise Woodward. Either the jury had formed their opinion before thetrial began or they chose to ignore the evidence and judge'sinstructions. Perhaps they just thought they had to even the score after thatother ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ...A gross miscarriage of justice was done. Not only by the unfairand arbitrary manner of the conduct of the trial, but by the mannerin which the participants were simply players in a media event. TheAmerican ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ... I watched most of the televised trial. Louise Woodward is notguilty. I hope the people of Boston don't ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ...First O.J. is freed, then a jury convicts Louise Woodward when itwas clear that reasonable doubt existed. Is ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ... It is obvious that America is not a country where justice is seen tobe done. Having heard all the evidence I do not know how that jurybrought in such a ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ... Even if one might believe that she was guilty of involuntarymanslaughter -- and it is not clear that even that was established-- ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ...While we will never know the total truth on how young Matthewdied, it is not necessary to have another victim. ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ...I always thought of Boston as the most civilized city in America-- until a jury there found Louise Woodward guilty of murder. Do theprosecutors, the jurors, and judge realize how outrageous this isviewed by others across the ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ... Those who think that our justice system is correct enough, oftenenough to fairly apply a death penalty, ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ... Upon hearing her sentence, "Guilty," a tearful Louise Woodwardcried out, "Why did they do this to me?" The answer is painfullyobvious: ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ...I thought that I understood the concept of "reasonable doubt" andcannot possibly imagine how in this case, with the lack of physicalevidence directly linking Louise Woodward to the death of the childand the conflicting medical testimony, the jury could not have foundreasonable ...
THE LOUISE WOODWARD VERDICT
Nov 01, 1997 ...How on earth can the au pair verdict be deemed just when thejudge has allowed a reduction of the jury's verdict options?Limiting choices ...