The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from August 1998:
State unveils college aid plan
Aug 01, 1998 ... The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education unveiled its newCommunity College Access Program yesterday. This program will allowstudents who have a family income below $36,000 and who meet certainfederal financial aid criteria to attend any of the state's 15community colleges for ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Aug 01, 1998 ... For D.C., Plymouth -- The Family Channel, 10960 Wilshire Blvd.,Suite 2200, Los Angeles, CA 90024 For ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Aug 01, 1998 ... Q. I was at the launching and commissioning of LST-71 and servedon the ship in the Pacific area from 1942 to 1945. What was itshistory? S.S., Middletown, N.Y. A. The tank landing ship participated in three operations duringits assignments to the Asian-Pacific theater. First there ...
CORRECTION
Aug 01, 1998 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, it was misstated inyesterday's Globe which two Boston College football games will ...
Childhood dream realized, pilot soars with the Angels
Aug 01, 1998; ... BEDFORD -- As a boy, Doug Verissimo would sit in airports forhours watching planes take off. He built model airplanes in hisFalmouth home, and when he first saw the Blue Angels at Otis AirForce Base in 1975, he knew he belonged in the air. It would be another 12 years before he ...
UN envoy in Angola trying to avoid renewal of civil war
Aug 01, 1998; ... JOHANNESBURG -- A newly-appointed United Nations envoy arrived inAngola's seaport capital of Luanda last night to try to avert anotherlethal round of civil war there. The government forces and rebels of the National Union for theTotal Independence of Angola, or UNITA, have been ...
Police say boy slain in robbery attempt
Aug 01, 1998; ... Police believe a botched robbery attempt led to the killing of oneof the alleged robbers, a 15-year-old Roxbury boy who apparently wasshot by one of his partners. Thomas Cousin, 23, of Everett, was arrested shortly after heallegedly shot and killed 15-year-old Cerrone V. Hemingway ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Aug 01, 1998 ... Q. Whatever happened to the Coca-Cola sign that once overlookedStorrow Drive in Boston? When lit at night, it could be seen formiles. N.T., Arlington A. The sign bit the dust. The 44-by-20 foot, red-and-white massof incandescent and neon lights, complete with clock and ...
Brandeis's Rose names its new director
Aug 01, 1998; ... The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham named a newdirector yesterday -- Joseph Ketner, who has been at the WashingtonUniversity Gallery of Art in St. Louis since 1982, first as curatorand for the last nine years as director. Ketner replaces Carl Belz,the Rose's director ...
Campaign bill, left for dead, still alive in House
Aug 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- The House reached the threshold of what onelawmaker called "the promised land" of a new campaign finance systemyesterday as supporters of a landmark overhaul bill defeated the lastof more than 60 amendments aimed at gutting the measure. The overhaul plan, considered a ...
Woe Canada sounds good to US tourists
Aug 01, 1998; ... HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -- The swoon of the Canadian dollar has put asizzle into the wallets of Americans venturing north of the border,especially those seeking vacation bargains in accommodations,entertainment, and souvenirs. "Listening to the radio on the drive up, it seemed as ...
Ogunquit remains a lure to tourists, year-rounders
Aug 01, 1998; ... OGUNQUIT, Maine -- There were worries here last month that badweather might cut deeply into this picturesque town's tourism trade.But those worries have now been laid to rest. "It's finally beachweather again -- Ogunquit weather," said Brad Ousbach, generalmanager of the Meadowmere ...
CORRECTION
Aug 01, 1998 ... CORRECTION: Because of a photographer's error, the wrong band wasnamed in a caption on the nightclubs page ...
Coyote that mauled Cape boy free of rabies, officials say
Aug 01, 1998; ... and Abby Fung, Globe Correspondent SANDWICH -- The coyote that mauled a 3-year old boy here was notcarrying rabies, but an examination of the animal's body turned up apossibly important clue as to why the rare attack occurred, stateofficials said. The coyote's right front leg ...
CORRECTION
Aug 01, 1998 ... CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, the starting time fortoday's Red Sox game was ...
From BC, with Lovey
Aug 01, 1998; ... FOXBOROUGH -- In his dream of dreams, former Boston College tightend Scott Dragos will be in uniform for the New England Patriots andEleanor "Lovey" Cercone will be in the stands rooting for him. The odds may be stacked against this scenario, but they will notdeter Dragos and ...
Listening to Coolidge
Aug 01, 1998 ... A gathering of scholars, politicians, and pundits met this weekat the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library to take a "new look" atAmerica's 30th president, trying to deconstruct "the origins of theCoolidge stereotype." This sort of revisionism may disconcert ideologues of left ...
A home experiment
Aug 01, 1998 ... Can low-wealth borrowers pay their mortgages? A $50 millionexperiment will help find out. Over the next five years, the FordFoundation will provide $50 million to generate affordable mortgagesfor 35,000 home buyers nationwide. In the process, the countryshould learn invaluable lessons ...
A numbers game
Aug 01, 1998 ... Next time the Powerball jackpot hits $100 million, we intend towin it. Our scheme is a simple one: Buy the numbers -- all of them. Thereare only 80,089,128 possible combinations of numbers in thisparticular $1 lottery, so an investment of a mere $80,089,128 wouldguarantee a ...
Mass. health officials launch assault on medical mistakes
Aug 01, 1998; ... BURLINGTON -- State health officials yesterday unveiled what theysay is America's most ambitious drive to prevent medical errors, amove made partly in response to the fact that several of America'shighest-profile and most tragic recent medical errors occurred athospitals in ...
FAMILY DATEBOOK
Aug 01, 1998; ... Families and kids can have lots of fun helping to "CelebrateSeaport" this weekend. It's a celebration of Boston's Seaportdistrict, and it's taking place on Northern Avenue, from the SeaportHotel to Jimmy's Harborside restaurant. The hours today andtomorrow are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m ....
Genies deal a jolt to Renegades
Aug 01, 1998; ... FRAMINGHAM -- It wasn't supposed to be this difficult for theBoston Renegades. Playing in their W-League Elite Division regular-season finale, the Renegades, who already had clinched first placein the North, were expected to make short work of the badlyunderstaffed Delaware ...
Lawmakers deadlock on HMO compromise
Aug 01, 1998; ... Lawmakers were deadlocked last night over a broad package ofproposals to rein in managed care organizations. "Discussions are going well," according to a statement released bySenator Stanley C. Rosenberg and Representative Paul R. Haley, whoare members of a six-member conference ...
Legislature approves insurers' tax cut in exchange for community funding
Aug 01, 1998; ... Reaching agreement on what is believed to be the first law of itskind, the Massachusetts Legislature last night passed a long-awaitedtax break for insurance companies in return for contributions to acommunity reinvestment fund. After racing to craft a compromise between House and ...
Federal support for research
Aug 01, 1998; ... Edward M. Kennedy is the senior senator from Massachusetts. PaulGuzzi is president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Congress is debating an issue that critically affects thecompetitiveness of our region and the livelihood of more than 180,000of our state's ...
FAMILY DATEBOOK / KIDS
Aug 01, 1998; ... Want to hear the sound of 100 drums? Take in the Charlie HorseMusic Pizza Jam Session that WGBH and Boston's Children's Museum arefeaturing at KidsFair '98 tomorrow at the museum at 300 Congress St.in Boston. The bash, which also features live music by Gary Rosen,is based on the new PBS ...
. . . no, let dog track die and save greyhounds
Aug 01, 1998 ... The situation at Wonderland Park is certainly a "no-winsituation." However, it is not for the reasons Michael Maddendocuments. Not once did he mention the countless greyhounds atWonderland who are mistreated while they are at the park andeuthanized when they are no longer suitable for ...
Dr. Moshe Lahav, 58
Aug 01, 1998 ... Dr. Moshe Lahav, chief of ophthalmology at Veterans AdministrationMedical Center in Boston and director of the diagostic andexperimental eye pathology laboratory at New England Medical Center,died Thursday in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Hewas 58. Dr. Lahav was ...
Addison Wesley merger will lead to 375 layoffs
Aug 01, 1998; ... Publisher Addison Wesley Longman will lay off about 375corporate-services employees from its Reading headquarters nextMarch when parent company Pearson PLC completes its acquisition ofSimon & Schuster's educational publishing business from Viacom Inc.,Addison Wesley officials said ...
Allow slot machines in and save Wonderland track
Aug 01, 1998 ... It's sad to see the once proud and prosperous Wonderland racetrack falling by the wayside ("A no-win situation," Sports, July 26).It does not have to be this way. The racing industry in Massachusetts is being hurt by the casinosin Connecticut and Lincoln Greyhound Park in Rhode ...
Better mental health care can prevent tragedy
Aug 01, 1998 ... As a psychiatric triage nurse in a busy urban emergency room, Icould understand only too well how a tragedy of such proportion asthat at the Capitol could occur. I see patients like Russell Weston every day. They are brought inby the police for their bizarre and self-destructive ...
Tanker leak causes evacuation, closes roads
Aug 01, 1998; ... CAMBRIDGE -- A 22,000-gallon tanker car leaking hydrochloric acidonto railroad tracks in the Lechmere Square area near the Somervilleline yesterday caused buildings to be evacuated, parts of McGrath andO'Brien highways to be closed, and one man to be taken to ...
Bible certainly does back fingerpointing at gays
Aug 01, 1998 ... Contrary to what some letter writers say about the Bible notsupporting "gay bashing" -- it does just that. To say that homosexuality is morally wrong is not attacking anyone-- it's just stating a biblical fact. No, Jesus did not personallymention homosexuality, but other writers in ...
Names: Barnes faces lifetime ban after second failed drug test
Aug 01, 1998 ... Shot putter Randy Barnes faces a lifetime ban from track and fieldafter the B sample from his out-of-competition drug test April 1 waspositive, showing the use of androstenedione, a banned nutritionalsupplement. In order to avoid the lifetime suspension, the 1996Olympic gold medalist, ...
Movie not so accurate
Aug 01, 1998 ... Much has been written about the authenticity and attention todetail on the part of director Steven Spielberg in "Saving PrivateRyan." I saw a film clip on TV that showed a Higgins boat with a whitediamond on the side ...
Pledge of Allegiance: Voluntary or forced?
Aug 01, 1998 ... Jeff Jacoby asks why corporate executives might refuse to opentheir companies' annual shareholders' meetings with the Pledge ofAllegiance ("Patriotism and the CEOs," op ed, July 30). To quote Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court, writingfor the court in the 1943 decision ...
Harrington responds
Aug 01, 1998; ... John Harrington has kept his silence about Mo Vaughn and the RedSox first baseman's accusations about general manager Dan Duquettelong enough. "I didn't want to be out in the public about all of this because Ididn't want to fan any flames," said the Sox CEO yesterday. "Butit's ...
Jackie McLean's alto sax soars at the Regattabar
Aug 01, 1998; ... JACKIE McLEAN QUINTET At: The Regattabar, first set last night(concludes tonight) CAMBRIDGE -- To borrow a phrase from one of his classic albums,alto saxophonist Jackie McLean's playing is one step beyond the bebopconventions his idol Charlie Parker defined, with sharper angles ...
Finneran move kills minimum wage bill
Aug 01, 1998; ... A proposal to raise the state's minimum wage died a remarkabledeath last night despite broad support, after House Speaker Thomas M.Finneran refused to allow it to come up for a vote on the last day ofthe legislative session. Both branches of the Democrat-controlled Legislature have ...
Ubiquitous Bostonians / Larry Moulter
Aug 01, 1998; ... The second in a series on seemingly ubiquitous Bostonians.Inthe mix of aphorisms, adages, and quotes of note in the AmericanHeritage Dictionary of American Quotations is an observation byubiquitous Bostonian Larry Moulter: Three things matter in Boston:sports, politics, and revenge ....
2d man charged in 1997 murder
Aug 01, 1998 ... A Roxbury man yesterday became the second person charged withmurder for stabbing a teenager to death last fall. Boston PoliceSgt. Paul Fitzgerald and members of the Youth Violence Strike Forcearrested Tihisi Ali Williams, 26, at his Irwin Avenue home inRoxbury. Williams was charged with ...
Kennedy duo gets picnic duty in N.H.
Aug 01, 1998; ... Two Kennedys will campaign in New Hampshire, the firstpresidential primary state, on Aug. 9, not for themselves, but foropposing candidates. Representative Patrick Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat, and hiscousin, Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend of Maryland,will be ...
South End community makes connection on 'Net
Aug 01, 1998; ... Cara Gordon has not met many of her neighbors in the South End.Yet she knows their quirks and pet peeves, their hot-button issuesand their politics. They have thrown around their opinions on issues as weighty asracism, as base as trash disposal. They have proffered advice ...
Dorchester project receives $10.6 million in financing
Aug 01, 1998; ... The Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp. is providing $10.6million in financing for the preservation of 61 units of affordablehousing in Dorchester. The agency provided a $4.87 million bridge loan and an equityinvestment of $5.7 million to Wilder Gardens on Wilder Street ...
Vana captures Ouimet
Aug 01, 1998; ... NEWTON -- Frank Vana Jr. is golf's quintessential amateur, afinancial planner whose main assignment this weekend is to getthrough the semifinals of the club championship at Marlboro today.If Vana needed an appropriate tuneup, he found it yesterday in thefinal round of the 31st Ouimet ...
Douglas J. Parker, 55
Aug 01, 1998 ... Douglas J. Parker of Arlington, the art director of Bostonia,Boston University's alumni magazine, died Thursday in his brother'shome in Billerica. He was 55. Mr. Parker was born in Cambridge. He graduated from BostonUniversity in 1966 and was employed by the school ever ...
Brisby earns a start
Aug 01, 1998; ... SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- Vincent Brisby will be the starting receiveropposite Terry Glenn when the Patriots open the exhibition season inSan Francisco tomorrow. Brisby has been getting a lot of work with the first teamthroughout training camp. That's in keeping with a ...
John E. Powers, 87; was president of state Senate and SJC clerk
Aug 01, 1998; ... John E. Powers, a former clam digger, messenger, and machineoperator who went on to become president of the state Senate, diedyesterday in the Cape Cod Hospital Extended Care Community Manor inHyannis. He was 87. Mr. Powers served 25 consecutive years as a member of ...
Drowning renews call to fill quarries
Aug 01, 1998; ... QUINCY -- The latest drowning victim at the Quincy quarries is a19-year-old from Milton, one of hundreds of teens who gather onsummer nights at the quarries despite the redoubled efforts ofauthorities to keep them out. The death of Ryan Whitney, who fell some 60 feet into Lyons ...
Insurers cover cost of needed treatments
Aug 01, 1998; ... Health insurers cover the cost of rabies vaccine after a person isbitten or scratched by an animal, if a doctor considers it a medicalnecessity, say officials of the Harvard Pilgrim and Tufts HealthPlan HMOs and insurer Blue Cross-Blue Shield. Many HMOs also cover preventive ...
Police memo brings Conn. probe
Aug 01, 1998; ... TRUMBULL, Conn. -- The FBI is investigating allegations that theall-white Trumbull Police Department targets black and Hispanicmotorists in what Connecticut minority leaders say is an example ofracial "profiling." The US attorney for Connecticut, Stephen J. Robinson, who is ...
Red Sox wallop Angels
Aug 01, 1998; ... ANAHEIM, Calif. -- With the Oakland undercard out of the way, theRed Sox last night played the first of nine games against teams thatfancy themselves as American League wild-card contenders or potentialplayoff rivals: three this weekend against the Angels, to be followedby a pair in ...
Safety becomes a major concern for agents
Aug 01, 1998; ... More than a dozen years have passed, but real estate agent DoreneA. Menezes will never forget what happened to her one afternoon inSeekonk as she inspected a home she was planning to list. Menezesdescended a flight of stairs to check-out an electrical box in thebasement, the owner of the ...
Feuer's checklist of futility
Aug 01, 1998; ... WELLESLEY -- Ian Feuer has been both the starting and backupgoalkeeper for the Revolution. Each offers a different perspective. "I've learned a lot the past three games that I've been sittingout," said Feuer. What he's learned is that the Revolution are quite ...
Innovate spices up Rock field
Aug 01, 1998; ... SALEM, N.H. -- Innovate, who captured the Rockingham ParkBreeders' Cup July 5, heads a field of 10 drawn yesterday fortomorrow's $75,000 Spicy Living Sweepstakes Handicap at Rock. Innovate, trained by H. James Bond and ridden by Frank Lovato,will have her work cut out for her as ...
Compromise reached on `brownfields bill'
Aug 01, 1998; ... After nearly three years of political wrangling, state lawmakersyesterday reached a compromise on a key piece of environmentallegislation known as the "brownfields bill." The bill would allocate more than $50 million in aid to clean upthe approximately 7,700 polluted industrial ...
NBA shot would put Wood on top of world
Aug 01, 1998; ... ATHENS -- David Wood tells the story on himself. "When I was with the Rockets, Hakeem Olajuwon told {generalmanager} Ray Patterson, `You should have more players on this teamlike David Wood.' " Pretty impressive, huh? "That's right," continues Wood. "He said, `We need ...
Salem ferry tale
Aug 01, 1998; ... SALEM -- Going from Boston to Salem and back by the new high-speedferry is a day trip in which getting there is every bit as great asbeing there. The Salem Ferry began service July 1 and runs through Oct. 31,leaving Boston's Long Wharf six times a day for the 80-minute run ...
Frank R. Scarito, 66
Aug 01, 1998 ... Frank Rosario Scarito of Falmouth, founder of F & R Associatesexecutive recruiting firm, died of cancer Thursday in his home inFalmouth. He was 66. Mr. Scarito was born in Portsmouth, N.H. After serving in theNavy during the Korean War, he graduated from the University of ...
Man is shot dead in front of his home in Dorchester
Aug 01, 1998; ... Police are investigating the murder of a Dorchester man gunneddown early yesterday afternoon in front of his home. Neighbors near the victim's two-story white Everton Street homesaid they heard two loud pops about 1 p.m., just before the man wasfound on the sidewalk. A neighbor ...
Peabody mayor backs Tierney campaign
Aug 01, 1998; ... PEABODY -- US Representative John F. Tierney received a majorboost to his reelection campaign yesterday when Mayor Peter Torigian,who had refrained from backing him in two previous races, said heplans to throw his full support behind the first-term congressman. The veteran mayor, ...
Pumpkins show rock's nobler side
Aug 01, 1998; ... THE SMASHING PUMPKINS At: The Orpheum Theatre, last night The Smashing Pumpkins are in the midst of a 13-city, smallishvenue charity tour and God love 'em: They raised $109,200 forBoston's AIDS Children Program last night at the Orpheum Theatre,donating 100 percent of the take and ...
Stanley's latest stop is familiar
Aug 01, 1998; ... ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Mike Stanley had to tell his soon-to-be 5-year-old, Tanner, that he wouldn't be able to play in the Blue Jays'family game after all and would have to go with his mom, Erin; hisolder brother, Ryan; and his little sister, Jenna, back home toOrlando instead of ...
New debate flares over Jefferson's view of church and state
Aug 01, 1998; ... It is only three paragraphs long, but among the most scrutinizedletters in American history. And nearly 200 years after it waspenned, controversy still exists over the author's intent. The much-disputed letter is one of Thomas Jefferson's more famousand influential writings, ...
US probes Springfield police force
Aug 01, 1998; ... The Springfield Police Department, stung by allegations of racismand reeling from a $2 million jury verdict to the family of anunarmed black motorist shot to death by a white officer, iscooperating with federal authorities investigating the department. A US Justice Department ...