The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 1998:
GROUP TEACHES YOUNG ABOUT MIDDLE EAST
Feb 01, 1998; ... Despite an increasing emphasis on diversity andmulticulturalism, American children have little exposure to therich traditions of Arab and Islamic culture, according to thefounders of a school enrichment program designed toaddress the void. An engineer by training, Wafaa. Salman ...
IT'S `ALL ABOARD' NEW RAIL SERVICE MBTA: RIDERSHIP ABOVE PROJECTIONS ON THE OLD COLONY
Feb 01, 1998; ... The second rush-hour train of the afternoon on theMiddleborough branch of the Old Colony Railroad left Boston's SouthStation at 4:45 one day last week and pulled into the downtownBrockton station at 5:24, right on schedule. Sean Garrity, a Brockton resident who lives a mile from ...
AREA CODE CHANGES
Feb 01, 1998 ... Bell Atlantic today begins its phase-in of its new area codes,a process expected to take about a month. If you use the wrong areacode now, you should receive a recorded message informing you ofthe correct code and asking you to redial. Recorded assistance willend after April ....
JANUARY'S WEATHER / MILD AND WET
Feb 01, 1998; ... A summary of Boston's weather last ...
CORRECTION
Feb 01, 1998 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, an incorrect phonenumber was published in last Sunday's Learning ...
MADONNA IN TALKS FOR INDIE DEAL
Feb 01, 1998; ... AND THERE'S NO SINGING!: After the musical "Evita," in whichMadonna just sang and sang, and then sang some more, the world'smost famous unwed mother may give her vocal cords a rest for hernext film. The former Material Girl is close to a deal to star in"The Red Door," an independent film ...
IT'S LIKE VISITING A SUNNY ENGLAND CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND, SHINES
Feb 01, 1998; ... CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand -- Punters, pole-taxing themselves,move their narrow wooden boats through the the city with grunts andshoves as part of the scene of a small, charming city that mighthave been shipped in from England in 1850 as a gift from theBritish Empire's Big Mama, Queen ...
KORDA HAS RIGHT STUFF THIS TIME
Feb 01, 1998; ... MELBOURNE -- Petr Korda had waited six painful years for thisday, this moment. And he was ready at 3:45 of a broiling summerSunday afternoon for the knockout punch: one last wiltingcrosscourt forehand smack. The wiltee, Marcelo Rios, flashed an anguished scowl at theball glancing ...
THEY KNEW A NOBLER TIME
Feb 01, 1998; ... They came up the steps Friday night into the top room atCharley's Kitchen in Harvard Square, off a city sidewalk whereprosperity seems to have swallowed all sins and any outrage thatmay have existed about current events in Washington because thecountry is impatient rather than ...
A SHOW OF SENIOR CLASS AT BC O'LEARY, HEMENWAY EMERGE
Feb 01, 1998; ... They are the survivors of the turbulent recruiting season inthe Boston College hockey program's transitional year, finallyreaping the benefits. Jamie O'Leary, out of Needham, St.Sebastian's, and the Northwood School, and Ken Hemenway, out ofAnchorage, Alaska, and the Omaha Lancers have ...
BOOKMAKING
Feb 01, 1998; ... On this week's literary calendar: Today: At the Book Rack, 52 State St., Newburyport, Edward M.Hallowell discusses and signs "Worry," from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Tomorrow: Love poetry read by members of the New England PoetryClub at 7:30 p.m., Yenching Library, 2 Divinity St., Cambridge ....
A TALE OF `THREE BOSTONS'
Feb 01, 1998; ... Those of us who grew up in Boston in the 20 years after WorldWar II did so in an Ozzie and Harriet world. That world is nolonger. Boston now is actually three cities. By Ozzie and Harriet, I mean that -- regardless of whetherneighborhoods were Irish, Italian, Jewish, black, or ...
PROMOTER ROLLS WITH PUNCHES
Feb 01, 1998; ... Bob Arum was outraged last week, but that's all right withhim. Boxing, after all, is a sport in which outrage pays. "This guy {Lennox} Lewis is supposed to be the big, youngguy," the bombastic promoter fumed from his Las Vegas office as hediscussed the World Boxing Council ...
THE SLOW MARCH FORWARD TAYLOR BRANCH'S HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS YEARS RECALLS THE ADVANCES AND RETREATS OF 1963-'65
Feb 01, 1998; ... In an early chapter of this inspired history, the second volumeof a proposed trilogy, Taylor Branch describes the first years ofthe voting-rights campaign in rural Mississippi, where localofficials were as likely to murder black people who asked toregister to vote as they were to sign ...
THORNTON'S LOOKING LIKE A PLAYMAKER
Feb 01, 1998; ... It was an interesting two-on-one: Bruins rookies Joe Thorntonand Sergei Samsonov against the Rangers' Brian Leetch, one of theleague's best defensemen. It began when Thornton stole the puck from Pat LaFontaine justinside the Bruins' defensive zone and calmly started up right ...
BRUINS EXACT REVENGE
Feb 01, 1998; ... It was a little more than a month ago, but the Bruins couldstill feel the sting of blowing a two-goal lead in the third periodof a 4-3 loss in New York. So when the Rangers came to townyesterday, Dec. 28 was still very fresh in the minds of Boston'splayers. "That's what we said ...
BU PULLS TOGETHER WOMEN GET JOB DONE DESPITE INJURY TO GALLAGHER
Feb 01, 1998; ... On the day the Boston University women's basketball programretired the jersey of the most dominant player in the school'shistory, the Terriers played one of their strongest games of theyear, dumping Hofstra, 84-72, at Case Gymnasium before 375, theirlargest crowd of the year. It ...
WEST COAST TAKES THE LEAD IN HEALTH CARE REFORM BUT AS COSTS DROP, EXPERTS DISAGREE ON SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME FOR MASSACHUSETTS
Feb 01, 1998; ... SAN DIEGO -- John Andrews looks like any other doctor. He wearsthe standard issue white coat with his name sewn on. He pores overX-rays and bed charts. But an index card he hands patients identifies him in theparlance of market-driven medicine: Andrews is a hospitalist. Heworks ...
STUART S. CAMPBELL, 84 WAS SALES REPRESENTATIVE
Feb 01, 1998 ... Stuart S. Campbell, a longtime resident of Dedham and a retiredsales representative, died Thursday at CareMatrix of Dedham after abrief illness. He was 84. Born and raised in Roslindale, Mr. Campbell graduated fromNortheastern University with a degree in mechanical ...
ANOTHER MILLENNIUM MINUET: SAYING SO LONG TO THE QUEEN
Feb 01, 1998; ... MONTREAL -- The glory days are gone, but the sun still doesn'tset on the British Empire, reduced now to a dozen or so forlorn andfar-flung colonies, from the rearing rock of Gibraltar to the SouthPacific specks known as the Pitcairn Islands. Far more significantly in terms of royal ...
SMALL TOWNERS GET LEGISLATIVE ACT TOGETHER
Feb 01, 1998; ... Many residents of small towns and rural communities far fromthe political spotlight in Boston have long complained that theirneeds are ignored on Beacon Hill. Hoping there is strength in numbers, 50 representatives andsenators -- constituting a quarter of the Legislature -- ...
NONCALL LEFT PITINO WITH FOUL AFTERTASTE
Feb 01, 1998; ... WALTHAM -- A day after the fact, Rick Pitino was trying to lookforward to tonight's game with Houston. On most occasions, thatwould not be a problem. But this year, the Celtics have as many wins as the Rockets hadheading into last night, and Houston is battered almost ...
INN THE CHAPEL? ZONING FIGHT SLOWS PRESERVATION EFFORT IN MAINE TOWN
Feb 01, 1998; ... KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine -- Last June, an elderly woman perchedherself on the front steps of Sarah and Stephen Murcko's home andrefused to leave. She had shown up for Sunday Mass, as she had done every summerfor the past 30 years, the woman told them. The Murckos were a little ...
IN ASIAN CRISIS, CHINA MAY OWN THE LIFEBOATS COULD BE KEY TO A RESCUE OF FLOUNDERING ECONOMIES
Feb 01, 1998; ... With Asia's financial crisis rumbling on, it has becomeincreasingly evident that China, not the United States or Japan,holds the high cards as Asian nations try to rebuild theironce-vibrant economies. Beijing has three aces that it's deciding how to play: -- Whether to ...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS BOSTON
Feb 01, 1998 ... Boston's Black History, a program about famous AfricanAmericans including Phyllis Wheatley, Crispus Attucks, and soldiersof the Massachusetts 54th Civil War regiment, offered every Sundayin February at 1 p.m. Meet at the Boston Common Visitor InformationCenter. Call ...
CABLE-TV HEARING ON LICENSE RENEWAL
Feb 01, 1998; ... The city is sponsoring is public hearing Tuesday on the renewalproposal from Cablevision of Boston for its cable franchise, whichthe company has held since December 1982. The company's license with the city was scheduled to expirelast December, but Cablevision has entered into a ...
CROSSTOWN EXPRESS
Feb 01, 1998; ... Those who disparage Ray Flynn's decision to run for governormay have forgotten or possibly have never seen the man run formayor. Flynn is a running machine. He can show up at ungodly hours inplaces where most journalists and other assorted "experts" rarelyvisit: a luncheonette, a ...
DOUBLE DUTCH COMPETITION HAS GIRLS JUMPING
Feb 01, 1998; ... DORCHESTER -- Linda Diggs began jumping rope, double dutchstyle, when she was in the sixth grade in Connecticut. "I loved it," she said last week. "It was gymnastics, speed anddancing, all in one. It was so exciting! It still is." Now in her 30s and a reading teacher at the ...
MIDWINTER, FROM SUPERSTITION TO COLD FACTS
Feb 01, 1998; ... In February we reach the midway point of winter. That's oflittle interest to most of us, but it was much more important toour ancestors, who spent a lot more time outdoors, were moredependent on agriculture, and had plenty of time on their handsduring the winter, when they hunkered down ...
COMPOSER PREPARES FOR DEBUT OF `ODYSSEY'
Feb 01, 1998; ... CAMBRIDGE -- Composer Ruth Lomon likens writing concertos andrequiems to going on a fishing expedition. Ideas float around her in the form of melodies, phrases, andsentences. She casts out her net and pulls in a catch. The ideasthat get tangled in her net eventually find their way ...
ASSUMPTION'S ST. MARTIN IS TEAM'S `HEART AND SOUL'
Feb 01, 1998; ... When Assumption College of Worcester basketball coach SergeDeBari refers to senior cocaptain and guard Steve St. Martin ofHyde Park as "the heart and soul" of his team, the reference goeswell beyond St. Martin's work ethic, hustle and determination. St. Martin, former captain at ...
ALL WRAPPED UP AND READY TO EAT
Feb 01, 1998; ... The Blue Shirt Cafe, a mecca for vegetarian wraps, salads, andnutritional as well as delicious juice-based smoothie drinks, isthe newest eatery in Davis Square. Owned and operated by DeborahWollheim and her father, Allan, the small but flavor-packedrestaurant represents a possible answer ...
PARTYLINES
Feb 01, 1998 ... More than 600 people gathered at the Ritz Carlton on Jan. 24 for"An Evening in Venice: A Masquerade Ball," this year's annualBeacon Hill Civic Association fund-raiser. Sharon Glew, newexecutive director of the association, said the group hoped to makeas much as $80,000 at the event, or ...
ARTISTS USE VIDEO AS SCULPTING MEDIUM
Feb 01, 1998; ... Video is one of the hottest mediums in the art world, but notthe kind you sit down and watch like a television program. Instead, under-35 cutting-edge artists like Diana Thater, AlixPearlstein, and Gilliam Wearing, who will be featured in theartists series "VF1" at the Museum ...
Q.& A. WITH PATTY MCMAHON, HEAD OF BOSTON'S YOUTHLINE HOT LINE
Feb 01, 1998; ... A little more than a year ago, Mayor Menino startedYouthline, a confidential telephone hot line run by and forteenagers to help them connect with city services or just talkabout whatever is on their minds. The line, open from 2 to 10 p.m.seven days a week, gets about 9,500 calls a year ....
DIALOGUES FOCUS ON RACE ISSUES NATIONAL GROUP OFFERS NEIGHBORHOOD FORUMS
Feb 01, 1998; ... You are walking down the street. Alone. A black man is walking behind you.Nervous?Yes.Kevin Quinn, who is white, will admit that. Yes, he would benervous. Just like that. Honest. Blunt. That's because theJamaica Plain resident has taken an unblinking look at himself ...
BABY RAY PLAYS `A DIFFERENT FLAVOR' OF POP
Feb 01, 1998; ... Baby Ray does not make rock music the easy way. The sound fallssomewhere between the jagged unpredictability of British poppioneers XTC and the unabashed melodicism of indie-rockers Guidedby Voices. Initially formed as a recording project by guitarists ErichGroat and Ken Lafler, ...
GOOD TIMES CLUB HIT WITH BAD NEWS
Feb 01, 1998; ... The city's Licensing Commission voted last week to suspend theentertainment license of Good Time Emporium for 30 days in responseto allegations that owner Dan Hayes allowed alcohol to be served toa minor and also permitted an event that led to nude dancing on NewYear's eve. The ...
THIS MORRIS IS ONE COOL CAT
Feb 01, 1998; ... ROSLINDALE -- Morris (no middle initial) Katz preened as hesurveyed his domain on the first floor of the Hebrew RehabilitationCenter for Aged. It was 7 a.m. and the sun had begun to peek over acloud on a nearby busy VFW Parkway. Morris had enjoyed a restful night and awoke to the ...
SOME DEMOCRATS BELIEVE MENINO, CELLUCCI ARE TOO CLOSE
Feb 01, 1998; ... Tom Menino is exercising a little mayoral muscle to make surenext weekend's Democratic Party caucuses hand City Hall loyalists ahealthy share of Boston's seats to the state nominating conventionin June. Not much of a man-bites-dog story, it would seem, in thetrenches of big-city ...
BU SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Feb 01, 1998; ... In the popular mind, there used to be three basic styles ofAmerican architecture: Early American, Ugly Victorian, and SterileModern. The building we see here could stand as the icon of UglyVictorian, except for a funny change of taste. Over the past coupleof decades, Victorian has come ...
WHAT'S THE TRUTH?
Feb 01, 1998; ... For President Clinton, who says he never told anybody to lie,the allegations concerning Monica Lewinsky are false and anobstacle to getting the nation's work done. For Lewinsky, the former intern who reportedly says on tapethat she was told to deny having an affair with him, lying ...
CLINTON PLAN TO EMPHASIZE RECORD, AGENDA TRIES TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM SEX ALLEGATIONS
Feb 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- With Monica S. Lewinsky indicating yesterdaythat she may return home to California and with independent counselKenneth W. Starr coming under increased scrutiny for his tactics,relieved White House aides refined a strategy that they believewill allow President Clinton to ...
THERE'S A REASON CM IS UNBEATEN AND ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO SCORE ON. ACTUALLY, THERE ARE TWO REASONS . . . 1. FAHEY; 2. MATTA
Feb 01, 1998; ... Every once in a while, Catholic Memorial defenseman Jim Faheywill confidently collect the puck in his own end, gracefullyaccelerate toward the offensive zone, close in on the goalie, andscore. Mike Matta will watch. Then he'll laugh. Then, he'll thinkof how terribly lucky his teammate ...
WHERE THE CHIPS MAY FALL UNIX SYSTEM, ALPHA PROCESSOR MORE VULNERABLE
Feb 01, 1998; ... With one bold stroke, Compaq Computer Corp. has begun atransformation from a successful maker of PCs to one of the world'sleading computer firms. Compaq's planned purchase of DigitalEquipment Corp. will instantly make it the second-biggest computerfirm, trailing only IBM ...
FLEETCENTER TRAVEL KIOSK GIVEN THE GATE
Feb 01, 1998; ... It's been a fixture at Celtics and Bruins home games since thefall: a kiosk inside the FleetCenter sponsored by New EnglandGetaways, urging fans to enter a contest for a free Bahamasvacation or Chevy Blazer. But the lure of these prizes won't be there anymore:FleetCenter ...
CORRECTION
Feb 01, 1998 ... CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, a Page One index itemlast Sunday ...
A GRAND TIME FOR A CRUISE NEW SHIPS MEAN NEW REASONS FOR SAILING
Feb 01, 1998; ... This could be the year that puts cruising back in lots ofpeople's minds as the choice for a vacation. Not only are there some grand ships coming on line, but the"Love Boat" is reportedly coming back to television. And if thesedon't do it, perhaps a little magic will -- the Disney ...
EDITH C. CURRAN, 97 LONGTIME RESIDENT OF WELLESLEY
Feb 01, 1998 ... Edith C. (McLaughlin) Curran, a longtime resident of Wellesley,died Friday in her home. She was 97. Mrs. Curran, formerly of East Boston, had lived in Wellesleyfor 44 years. She was a member of Friendship Circle of Wellesley, wastreasurer of the 60-Plus Club of Wellesley, and ...
DOLPHIN AUTOPSIES PLANNED REASON IS SOUGHT FOR MASS STRANDINGS ON CAPE COD
Feb 01, 1998; ... No new dolphins washed ashore on Cape Cod yesterday, asscientists tried to determine why 50 of them became stranded on theshoreline last week. For the next several days, volunteers will gather the carcasseswhile veterinarians perform autopsies and gather blood and tissuesamples ...
CLINTON'S EARLY BACKERS IN DOVER HOPING TO WEATHER STORM
Feb 01, 1998; ... DOVER, N.H. -- Jackie Jenkins, the owner of the Traders ofthe Lost Art antique shop, discovered a series of newspaperarticles left on her counter in recent days. To her dismay, aRepublican visitor had circled the words detailing PresidentClinton's alleged sexual activities. The word ...
SAVE THE SWORDFISH
Feb 01, 1998 ... Swordfish, one of the most popular ocean species and afavorite at restaurants and back yard grills, has hit rough waters.Fish supply management specialists have persuasive evidence thatswordfish are dwindling to levels that threaten their ability toreproduce. While various ...
LINKING UP DOLLARS IN ROXBURY
Feb 01, 1998 ... Each One Give One is the thought-changing fund-raisingcampaign that's about to be kicked off. A more pointed name couldbe: Forget the Big Bucks Gifts of Bill Gates and Bill Cosby: YourDollar Counts. Behind this effort to change the public's ideasabout the power of money is the African ...
MAKING PEACE WITH ULSTER'S PAST
Feb 01, 1998 ... By opening a new inquiry into the slaughter on "BloodySunday," Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair is doing his best toexorcise the specters of murder and revenge that sustain theconflict in Northern Ireland. The murders of seven Catholics andtwo Protestants over the past five weeks ...
A FIRST FOR FIRST LADIES
Feb 01, 1998 ... First ladies are more than ball gowns andchina, but Americahas never quite embraced the "wives of" in their own right. The National First Ladies' Library, which opens in Canton,Ohio, in June and will include a comprehensive Web page (going online Feb. 23), seeks to focus hazy ...
THE LIMITS OF CARE
Feb 01, 1998; ... She was consumed in a holy communication that required nosleep, did not know hunger, and inspired her to speak in tongues inthe clinic waiting room. She was radiant, benevolent, full of advice, God's favoredchild. Everyone ought to feel as fine and strong as she did. Shewished it ...
THE MILLENIUM BUG AND THE LAW POTENTIAL LIABILITY FROM COMPUTER PEST HAS LEGAL EAGLES BOLSTERING THEIR RANKS
Feb 01, 1998; ... Except for former Boston Celtic center Robert Parish, there isnothing retiring about double zero, 00: two digits that are causingsome computer professionals to sweat and giving lawyers a newsource of revenue. As the year 2000 approaches, US and foreign companies willspend upward ...
THEY KNOW THE SCORE WITH A MIXTURE OF FAST TALK, WACKY CULTURAL ALLUSIONS, AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE, ESPN BROADCASTERS HAVE REWRITTEN THE PLAYBOOK ON SPORTS NEWS.
Feb 01, 1998; ... "Seven minutes, Boom," shouts a technician on the set of ESPN'sNFL Countdown show, warning host Chris "Boomer" Berman that the11:30 a.m. air time is drawing nigh. It's no mystery how Berman --a large, boisterous man with a voice that could guide ships in afog -- earned that ...
ECHOES OF WATERGATE COLSON ADVISES CLINTON: `TELL EVERYTHING YOU KNOW'
Feb 01, 1998; ... A man who knows something about political storms breaking inthe nation's capital had some advice yesterday for PresidentClinton in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky allegations. "Tell everything you know, admit it all, whatever it is . . .and ask forgiveness," advised Charles Colson, ...
FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES WORKERS, THE JOB MARKET IS VERY BULLISH FIRMS OFFERING LAVISH PERKS IN STRUGGLE TO FILL POSITIONS
Feb 01, 1998; ... The rising tide of the US economy may have carried financialservices companies to new heights, but it has also washed them ontothe barren shores of the labor market. Once able to lure top-flight employees effortlessly, the bigships in Boston's armada of money management firms say ...
GET OUT ON THE HIGHWAY
Feb 01, 1998 ... A rider in Bombay carried a cutout of Sonia Gandhi, widow offormer prime minister Rajiv Gandhi ....
ARTICLE SAYS ENERGY GOALS ARE IN SIGHT
Feb 01, 1998; ... Americans could achieve the reductions in carbon dioxideemissions agreed to in Kyoto, Japan, with little expense and nolifestyle sacrifices, according to a new analysis by renewableenergy specialists at the US Department of Energy and two nationallaboratories. People "will not ...
OUR UNEASY BALANCE
Feb 01, 1998; ... What, then, is the most surprising discovery as we gospelunking down the endless caverns of this tawdry scandal? That Dick Morris actually hypothesized "what if" HillaryClinton was "not necessarily . . . into regular sex with men"? No,that's standard Morris procedure. That ...
BUYING FROM AN ESTATE IS NOT COMPLICATED BUT THERE ARE UNUSUAL ISSUES
Feb 01, 1998; ... Q. I have found a home I would like to purchase, but it is ownedby an estate. Will this pose any problems of which I should beaware?C.P., Everett A. Buying from an estate doesn't have to be any more difficultor more complicated than purchasing directly from the owner(although ...
GUN-SAFETY PROGRAM IS FATHER'S CRUSADE AFTER HIS SON'S DEATH, HE PROMOTES GUN-LOCKS
Feb 01, 1998; ... MATTAPOISETT -- Marc Mathieu always believed that somethinggood can come out of something bad. He just never believed thatsomething so devastatingly bad would happen to him. On May 15, 1996, Mathieu's life changed forever when his12-year-old son, Ross, was accidentally killed by a ...