The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 1998:
Death of youth after restraint subject of probe
May 01, 1998; ... MARLBOROUGH -- The Middlesex district attorney's office has beguna preliminary investigation into the death of a 16-year-old boy afterhe was physically restrained by two counselors at a group home fortroubled youths. Mark Soarez was taken to Marlboro Hospital Thursday night ...
Baffert thinks he has winner
May 01, 1998; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Indian Charlie is the only undefeated horse inthe field for tomorrow's 124th running of the Kentucky Derby, andalthough he has run only four times, he deserves to be the 2-1morning line favorite. He not only sports an unblemished record,highlighted by a win in the ...
Chinese dissident discusses future In Harvard talk, says no deal made on release, but plans to continue studies
May 01, 1998; ... CAMBRIDGE -- Wang Dan, the recently released Chinese dissident,told an audience of Harvard students yesterday that he had made noagreement not to participate in future pro-democracy activities as acondition of his release. Boston University professor Merle Goldman, a fellow at ...
The Dictators grow up Still fast and loud, the proto-punks play it straighter and harder
May 01, 1998; ... It is accepted wisdom that most humorous rock 'n' roll (humor-oriented rock?) fails on at least one count. The Dictators -- a NewYork City proto-punk band formed in the mid-1970s and still kickingtoday -- create hard rock with a high humor quotient that works.What's the ...
Carl de Suze, at 83; for 43 years the morning voice of WBZ radio
May 01, 1998; ... Carl de Suze of Concord, the genial host for decades of Boston'smost widely listened-to early morning radio show, died yesterday inEmerson Hospital in Concord. He was 83. Mr. de Suze, who held sway over WBZ's airwaves for 43 years,perennially ranked No. 1 in the all-important ...
Lukas trains sights on 4th win Back in business with contender, he's eager, feisty
May 01, 1998; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Trainer D. Wayne Lukas loves to be the centerof attention at the Kentucky Derby, and this week his wish has cometrue. Lukas, who has started 32 horses in the Run for the Roses overa record 17 consecutive years, has been right in the middle ofeverything, including ...
FCC rejects newscast complaints, renews licenses of Denver stations
May 01, 1998; ... Is local TV news too violent? Too trivial? Too sensational? Many critics think so. But the Federal Communications Commissionruled yesterday that those questions about news content are not forthe government to decide. The FCC renewed the broadcast licenses of four Denver ...
Spirit of abandon lifts Jaglom's `Deja Vu'
May 01, 1998; ... DEJA VU Directed by: Henry Jaglom Screenplay by: Jaglom andVictoria Foyt Starring: Foyt, Stephen Dillane, Vanessa Redgrave,Glynis Barber, Michael Brandon, Vernon Dobtcheff, Noel Harrison,Anna Massey, Rachel Kempson, Aviva Marks, Graydon Gould Playing at:Kendall Square Running time: 116 ...
Menino unveils a $1m boost for day care
May 01, 1998; ... Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday announced more than $1 millionin state and city funding to improve the quality of day-care servicesin Boston and create 32 new slots for children whose parents mustwork. The funding, part of a collaborative state and city effort overthree years, ...
Families put way of life to pasture, milk innovation Region's fields of dreams converted, diversified in struggle for survival
May 01, 1998; ... The only hint of the past at the Hopkins Vineyard in New Preston,Conn., is the site of the wine bar, a converted hayloft. The fields that were once dotted with cows on the former dairyfarm, which dates back to 1787, now produce Hopkins Vineyard wines. "It's been almost 20 years ...
COURTROOM SCUFFLE
May 01, 1998 ... Murder suspect Alfred Gaynor (left) lay slumped over a railingyesterday in Springfield District Court after being punched andstruck with a chair by Eric Downs (right) ....
CORRECTION
May 01, 1998 ... CORRECTION: A story in yesterday's Metro/Region section ...
MOB HEARING
May 01, 1998 ... Retired FBI agent John Connolly (right) with attorney R. RobertPopeo outside federal court ...
For Jeni, comedy's the best defense
May 01, 1998; ... Richard Jeni, who's at the Comedy Connection at Faneuil Halltonight and tomorrow night, put on the best show I saw last year. The 17-year veteran has starred in four HBO specials, has wonthree Cable Ace awards for comedy specials, had his own situationcomedy called "Platypus Man," ...
Clinton stresses politics of probe Issue dominates news conference
May 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- President Clinton said yesterday that theinvestigations into his actions and the attacks on his morality arepart of an organized effort to damage his presidency -- an effort, headded, that may hurt his reputation but not his character. "It's obvious, I think, to the ...
Fleming has designs on Alagnas' `Traviata'
May 01, 1998; ... A recent announcement from the Metropolitan Opera seems to bedirected as much to the lustrous Romanian soprano Angela Gheorgiouand her husband, the popular French-born tenor Roberto Alagna, as tomembers of the press. Opera's "dream couple" recently ran afoul of Joseph Volpe, ...
With appointments, Yeltsin tilts balance of power in his direction
May 01, 1998; ... MOSCOW -- Checks and balances. In the American political system,they mean the presidency, the judiciary, Congress and so on. Noinstitution can be all-powerful, because each has ways to check thepowers of the others. Russia's strange new democracy also has checks and balances, ...
All in the family: Cellucci embraces Clinton's initiative on child care
May 01, 1998; ... Acting Governor Paul Cellucci is expected to endorse PresidentClinton's child-care initiative today during a forum on women'sissues in Lowell with Hillary Rodham Clinton, US RepresentativeMartin T. Meehan, and six Democratic congresswomen. The president's proposal, which faces ...
Legislature may be thorn in Cellucci's campaign
May 01, 1998; ... It was supposed to be one of Acting Governor Paul Cellucci's keystrengths: an insider's knowledge of Beacon Hill that would help himdeliver the goods. But as the weeks go by with the Legislature brushing off the low-key chief executive, some think Cellucci faces a growing danger ...
Mardi Gras in Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett breaks the rules with a book and his new `Carnival' CD
May 01, 1998; ... A new book, a new album, another tour. Jimmy Buffett may singabout wasting away in Margaritaville, but in real life he neverwastes a minute. He is one of the hardest-working artists of hisgeneration. Unlike most of us, his work also happens to be his play. "I'm not trying to win ...
Inspiring season finale for BSO
May 01, 1998; ... THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, guestconductor At: Symphony Hall, last night (repeats this afternoon andtomorrow night). The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 117th season was scheduled to endin a blaze of glory with concerts by James Levine. Late last ...
Dafoe, Bruins are on the firing line Burns opts to stick with top goaltender
May 01, 1998; ... Pat Burns considered it, thought about it, slept on it. But whenthe Bruins coach came off the FleetCenter ice after practiceyesterday, his mind was made up -- Byron Dafoe will start in goalagainst the Washington Capitals tonight at MCI Center as Boston triesto stay alive in the ...
Big East adjusts bowl lineup for Notre Dame
May 01, 1998; ... Notre Dame as part of the Big East in football? Yes. Forpostseason purposes, at least. Notre Dame and Big East officials yesterday announced anagreement which would put the Irish into the Big East bowl pool whenthey do not qualify for the Bowl Championship Series, the former ...
An inside view of the Rat Pack's showbiz
May 01, 1998; ... RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey & the LastGreat Showbiz Party By Shawn Levy Doubleday, 344 pp., illustrated,$23.95 This is a deceptively artful book, masquerading as it does as ashow business biography, the most self-serving of genres. It's agood read for ...
Donato gets call for survival test
May 01, 1998; ... BRUINS NOTEBOOK After missing the first playoff game of his career because of acoach's decision, forward Ted Donato will be back in the Bruins'lineup tonight in Washington. Donato was odd man out for Game 4 in Boston because coach PatBurns wanted to add some size to his squad ...
Business group sues over Mass. `Burma law'
May 01, 1998; ... In the first court challenge of a growing national trend, anindustry group filed suit yesterday against a Massachusetts law thatpenalizes companies for their overseas activities. The NationalForeign Trade Council challenged a law that prohibits companies doingbusiness with Burma from ...
Try not to worry about being popular
May 01, 1998 ... Dear Beth: How do you get to be popular? I went to a new school this year.There are some kids I like here, and we've had some good funtogether, but I feel bad when the really popular group makes fun ofus. PAULA Talk with your friends about what makes this group so ...
BankBoston-Fleet merger talks reported
May 01, 1998; ... In today's super-heated environment of bank mergers, theunthinkable is now thinkable: Fleet Financial Group Inc. andBankBoston Corp. have seriously discussed a combination of theregion's two biggest banks. Fleet chairman Terrence Murray and BankBoston chairman CharlesGifford held ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1998 ... Q. Where can I locate a copy of "Man of Aran," a documentary which aired a few years ago on PBS? S.G., Teaticket A. The 1934 Britishfilm starring Colman "Tiger" King and Maggie Dirane tells of thefishermen of Aran, a remote Irish coastal community, and their ...
Harry T. Allan, 69 Was UMass dean, NU provost
May 01, 1998 ... Harry T. Allan of Amherst, former dean of the University ofMassachusetts School of Management and provost of NortheasternUniversity, died, apparently of a heart attack, Wednesday in CooleyDickinson Hospital in Northampton. He was 69. Mr. Allan was dean of the University of ...
Thomson Financial acquires Dalbar unit
May 01, 1998; ... Thomson Financial Services, a Boston-based global financialinformation provider, said it had acquired the publishing assets ofDalbar Inc., an investment research and publishing firm also locatedin Boston. Terms were not disclosed. Seven Dalbar ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1998 ... Q. I'm compiling an expanded and corrected list of all recipientsof the Medal of Honor and I need information on Michael J. Perkins, anative of Boston who received the medal for service in World War I.My records indicate he was born in South Boston around 1899, enteredthe service ...
Foxboro Park managers cleared of allegations
May 01, 1998; ... An investigation found nothing to support an anonymous allegationof financial malfeasance by managers of the old Foxboro Park harnessracing track, said a state official. Richard Mudarri, chieffinancial officer and auditor of the Massachusetts Racing Commission,said he has notified ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1998 ... Q. In 1987 the Registry of Motor Vehicles introduced the new red-white-and-blue "The Spirit of America" registration plate. Eventhough it's fairly obvious why Massachusetts was given that nickname,to my knowledge, it has never been documented in historical textbooksor pamphlets. Who ...
FDIC loses bid to recoup from Heritage failure
May 01, 1998; ... The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has lost a bid to recoup someof the nearly $80 million it lost when the Holyoke-based HeritageBank failed. US District Judge Michael Ponsor found the bank'sinsurer, Lloyd's of London, should not be required to pay on a policyprotecting the bank ...
Datapoint files appeal notice in PictureTel suit
May 01, 1998 ... Datapoint Corp. filed a notice of appeal in federal court in Texasof a jury verdict in its patent-infringement lawsuit againstPictureTel Corp. A Dallas jury ruled Danvers-based PictureTel did notinfringe patent claims of Datapoint, relating to Datapoint's video-conferencing ...
Thermo Cardiosystems gets conditional FDA OK
May 01, 1998 ... Thermo Cardiosystems Inc. received conditional approval from theFood and Drug Administration for engineering advancements to itselectric HeartMate left-ventricular-assist system. In a pressrelease, Thermo Cardiosystems said the approval is contingent uponthe company responding to a ...
GeoTel shares rise on word of AT&T pact
May 01, 1998 ... Shares in GeoTel Communications Corp. of Lowell rose almost 10percent after AT&T Corp. announced it would adopt GeoTel's call-center routing software to replace its own product. GeoTel'sIntelligent CallRouter transfers incoming ...
CORRECTION
May 01, 1998 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, yesterday's Upgradecolumn gave incorrect information on whether Apple ...
Irene A. Schmitt named MetroWest Bank president
May 01, 1998 ... RECENT APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS MetroWest Bank of Framingham has elected Irene A. Schmitt aspresident and chief operating officer. She succeeds John J. McArdleIII, who will remain as chief executive. Schmitt previously was executive vice president and chiefoperating ...
Banker gave $50k to '92 Democrats
May 01, 1998; ... A convicted member of a Venezuelan banking family testifiedyesterday that he and his aunt contributed $50,000 to the DemocraticParty in 1992 and were reimbursed by his grandfather's foreign-ownedbusiness. Jorge Castro Barredo, serving a bank fraud sentence in aNew York state prison, ...
`TwentyFourSeven': Debut packs surprising punches
May 01, 1998; ... TWENTYFOURSEVEN Directed by: Shane Meadows Screenplay by: Meadows,Paul Fraser Starring: Bob Hoskins, Jimmy Hynd, Mat Hand, DannyNussbaum, Karl Collins, James Hooton, Darren Campbell, Justin Brady,James Corden, Bruce Jones, Annette Badland Playing at: HarvardSquare, W. Newton Running ...
Millionaire alert: Switch channels
May 01, 1998; ... Tonight is the night when the Massachusetts Lottery drawings shiftto WBZ-Ch. 4. Having wrested lottery rights away from WCVB-Ch. 5, Channel 4 willbegin airing the results of the Numbers Game at 7:53 p.m. from Mondayto Saturday, and at 6:53 p.m. Sunday. Drawings for the Mass ...
Slow, steady learner in spotlight
May 01, 1998; ... Myrtle is a 550-pound turtle swimming a gentle learning curve atthe New England Aquarium as she demonstrates to animal behavioraliststhat a turtle is never too old to learn new tricks. The half-century-old turtle is the star and only subject of theMyrtle Hearing Study, the ...
`Truce' tells survivor's story without compromise
May 01, 1998; ... THE TRUCE Directed by: Francesco Rosi Screenplay by: Rosi, StefanoRulli, Sandro Petraglia, Tonino Guerra, based on Primo Levi's memoirStarring: John Turturro, Massimo Ghini, Rade Serbedzija, StefanoDionisi, Teco Celio Playing at: Kendall Square Running time: 117minutes Rated: R (some ...
IN MEMORY
May 01, 1998 ... A Buddhist nun lit lamps on an altar dedicated to Tibetanactivist Thupten Ngodup in New Delhi yesterday. Ngodup died ...
Monitoring a media `conspiracy'
May 01, 1998; ... Being a conspiracy theorist is not unlike being a newspapercolumnist -- you are always right. So if you have written a booksuggesting that The Boston Globe conspired to torpedo the ChristianScience Church's gajillion-dollar television fiasco, and then a Globecolumnist derides your thesis ...
It's test time for 210,000 pupils
May 01, 1998; ... MARLBOROUGH -- At Marlborough High School, banners sternly remindstudents, "The tests are coming," while urging them to be "cool" and"successful." The principal and teachers have met with small groups of studentsin this suburb west of Boston to boost their confidence, in ...
`Cherry' a succulent existential journey
May 01, 1998; ... TASTE OF CHERRY Written and directed by: Abbas KiarostamiStarring: Homayon Ershadi, Abdolhossein Bagheri, Afshin Bakhtiari,Safar Ali Moradi, Hossein Noori, Ahmad Ansari, Hamid Massomi, ElhamImani At: Coolidge Corner Running time: 95 minutes Unrated Most films rely on the visual or ...
A classic vision of `Swan Lake'
May 01, 1998; ... SWAN LAKE Presented by Boston Ballet At: The Wang Center lastnight. Production repeats, with changing casts, through May 17. In Russia, nearly one in 10 ballet performances is of "SwanLake." The tragic tale is very close to the Russian soul. AndBoston Ballet's "Swan Lake" is very ...
HOT SPOT
May 01, 1998 ... Firefighter Kurt Kause worked to douse a fire in the Great DismalSwamp National Wildlife Refuge in Chesapeake, Va., ...
Rev. Stith completes envoy preparation Returns to Hub to await Senate confirmation hearing on Tanzania ambassadorship
May 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- The Rev. Charles R. Stith of Boston was on CapitolHill yesterday, showing his preparation for a diplomatic assignmentas US ambassador to Tanzania. He has been mastering the fundamentals of Swahili, the principallanguage of Tanzania, and pronounced a standard greeting ...
Redgraves bring world premiere to Springfield
May 01, 1998; ... As mother-daughter acts go, it doesn't get much better than this:Lady Rachel Kempson Redgrave, 87, and her eldest offspring, Vanessa,61, performing a "recital" of Chekhov short stories and femalecharacters. Not bad, that. Oh, and it's also a world premiere inthe unlikely exurb of ...
Hill the king again He conquers Red Sox as Checo falters
May 01, 1998; ... Every pitcher should aspire to be as good as his translator, andRobinson Checo is no exception. "Hey, Petey," Tim Wakefield said to Pedro Martinez after lastnight's 7-2 Red Sox loss to the Angels. "For my next postgameinterviews, will you answer the questions for me, too?" To ...
Sides display diplomacy Sele, Boston brass downplay return
May 01, 1998; ... Aaron Sele -- the undefeated, 5-0 Aaron Sele, Texas Ranger --returns to Boston tonight to face his former teammates for the firsttime since his trade from the Red Sox last November. Parties on both sides are treading carefully not to say anythingcontroversial, though Sele has said ...
Respect can't get on track
May 01, 1998; ... It seems like eons ago when then-MBTA general manager PatrickMoynihan sat in his glitzy Park Plaza office and addressed thepersistent problem of discrimination within the agency rank-and-file.Only a stone's throw away from his new gig as transportationsecretary, Pat nobly tried to look ...
Benjamin Seigel, 93 Prefabricated home pioneer
May 01, 1998 ... A funeral service will be held today for Benjamin Seigel ofBrighton, a real estate developer, who died Wednesday in Brigham andWomen's Hospital in Boston. He was 93. Mr. Seigel was one of the first developers to use prefabricatedhomes, which he had assembled in Plymouth, Quincy, ...
The people's business
May 01, 1998; ... Tom Reilly, the Middlesex district attorney who is running forstate attorney general, and Wayne Budd, New England group presidentof Bell Atlantic, are childhood friends and longtime politicalallies, despite conflicting party affiliations. Budd, a Republican, former US attorney, and ...
Memorial service set for Michael A. Russo
May 01, 1998 ... A memorial service will be held tomorrow for Michael A. Russo ofJamaica Plain, an artist and union organizer who died Feb. 15 in BethIsrael Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He was 89. Mr. Russo's work is in the permanent ...
Spike Lee gets Public Enemy's hot `Game'
May 01, 1998; ... Public Enemy always tells it like it is. The brutally honest rapgroup, responsible for such hits as "Fight the Power," "Bring theNoise," and "Rebel Without a Pause," is back with its first album infour years. It's the soundtrack to Spike Lee's "He Got Game" andit's a forum for Public ...
Rice a hit as coach He's making contact
May 01, 1998; ... Jim Rice quickly realized that the purpose of this interview wasto put him in the spotlight. He wanted nothing to do with it. "I don't want any credit," said the Red Sox hitting coach in hisusual stern, direct way.Rice is the same now as he was as a player. When he went 4 for ...
Starr is dealt new cards Immunity ruling gives him options
May 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr, havingconvinced a judge that he never granted "total immunity" to Monica S.Lewinsky, now is in a much stronger position to force Lewinsky totell her story under a narrow grant of immunity, legal experts saidyesterday. It is ...
Convention win didn't boost Cellucci's lead, poll shows
May 01, 1998; ... Despite a strong victory at the Republican State Convention,Acting Governor Paul Cellucci has not gained ground with voters, aUniversity of Massachustts poll shows, although he still holds a 14percent lead over the leading Democratic contender, Attorney GeneralScott ...
GE charges EPA hid tainted-soil reports Records show agency knew sludge from Pittsfield plant contaminated
May 01, 1998; ... Turning the tables on the US Environmental Protection Agency,General Electric officials yesterday blasted the EPA for not turningover a report that shows it knew since at least 1976 that manyPittsfield homes got PCB soil contamination from sludge the citysewage plant gave away as ...
Pitino Kentucky thoroughbred Now he's hoping for fast break in Derby
May 01, 1998; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A few hours earlier, jockey Corey Nakatani wasoutside Nick Zito's barn -- blissfully quiet this morning,Pitinomania on hold for a few hours -- and made his rounds. Nakataniwas just off the plane from California, a bit sleepy-eyed, and wasmerely doing a jockey's ...