The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from December 1998:
Lowell hospital settles US suit
Dec 01, 1998 ... Without admitting to the allegations, Lowell General Hospital hasagreed to pay $50,000 to settle federal charges that its in-housepharmacy did not track and control the drugs it ordered, officialssaid yesterday. US Attorney Donald K. Stern said that because of laxcontrol, a hospital ...
ASK THE GLOBE THE ADDRESS BOOK
Dec 01, 1998 ... For W. K., South Easton -- Speaker of the House Thomas M.Finneran, State House, Room 356, Boston, MA 02133 ...
Saugus lawmaker to leave House
Dec 01, 1998 ... SAUGUS -- State Representative Steven V. Angelo, Democrat ofSaugus, said yesterday he will resign his House seat this spring toassume the post of Saugus town manager. Angelo, a nine-termlegislator, has been serving as acting town manager in Saugus sinceJuly. Shortly before he was ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1998 ... Q. Who played the bride in the late-1950s television sitcom, "TheReal McCoys?" K. W., Marblehead A. Kathy Nolan played the youngbride Kate McCoy on "The Real McCoys," which first aired on ABC in1957. The series starred actor Walter Brennan, who at first refusedthe role. This story ...
House proposes adoption system changes
Dec 01, 1998; ... Joined by House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, State RepresentativeJohn H. Rogers of Norwood yesterday released a legislative proposalto change the state's adoption system. "We believe this proposal begins to help the Commonwealth'schildren resolve many of the problems with the ...
Southern Africa in grass-roots AIDS war
Dec 01, 1998; ... TOKOZA, South Africa -- Ask a classroom of students here whatAIDS stands for and more than a few jokers will respond: AmericanIdeas to Destroy Sex. Papi Thetele hears it too often. As director of the Katorus AIDSControl Program, a community-based project, Thetele roams ...
TAKING AIM
Dec 01, 1998 ... A monk fired a slingshot at rival monks yesterday at the ChogyeTemple in Seoul. The clash erupted when ...
Haverill landlord sentenced for arson
Dec 01, 1998; ... A Haverhill teacher convicted of setting fire to a three-storybuilding he owned was given a suspended sentence in Salem SuperiorCourt yesterday. Essex County prosecutors had asked that Gary F. Standley, 41, ashop teacher at a Haverhill middle school, get five to seven yearsfor ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1998 ... Q. How much money does the federal government borrow from SocialSecurity every year? How much interest does the government pay?M. C., Maynard A. The amount the government borrows varies from yearto year depending on need. According to its commissioner, KennethS. Apfel, the Social ...
Payton to UNH's Azumah
Dec 01, 1998; ... Jerry Azumah, the All-Everything senior tailback from Worcesterand the University of New Hampshire, added to his long list of honorsyesterday when he collected the Walter Payton Award as the bestDivision 1-AA offensive football player in the land. "I was surprised; I think anybody ...
Why Generation X supports Clinton
Dec 01, 1998; ... Meredith Baby is the author of "Rational Exuberance: HowGeneration X is creating a New Economy." Like Monica Lewinsky, I am 24. Like her, shortly after my 18thbirthday in 1992, I had the opportunity to vote in my firstpresidential election. In that election and in 1996, we ...
BIRTH OF A GIANT
Dec 01, 1998 ... Rolf E. Breuer (left), chairman of Deutsche Bank AG, announced the German bank's $10.1b acquisition of Bankers Trust Corp. At right isBankers Trust chairman Frank Newman. The ...
Boston Bed & Bath cites competition in Chapter 11 filing
Dec 01, 1998; ... Stiff competition, particularly from department stores, forced theBoston Bed & Bath retail chain to file for Chapter 11 protection inBankruptcy Court last week. In court filings, the Sharon-based company that operates 27 storessaid it had assets of about $19.13 million and ...
Teenagers must learn the art of interviewing
Dec 01, 1998 ... I am taking up another aspect of a letter about hiringinexperienced youth, part of which ran in the previous Ask Beth.Dear Beth: I am a longtime assistant manager of a fast-food restaurant, aswell as the hiring manager. During the hiring process I have to keepthe teenager focused ...
Scholar calls for new black leadership
Dec 01, 1998; ... At a forum last night called to address the need for a newgeneration of black leaders, Harvard University professor Cornel Westrailed against the widespread acceptance of what he called "mediocreleaders" and called for a new type of collective leadership ...
Taylor set to return Center back in line tonight vs. Canucks
Dec 01, 1998; ... WILMINGTON -- Tim Taylor has missed all but four games thisseason because of a badly sprained ankle suffered Oct. 14 inColorado. After playing three games, Taylor sat for 12 and then cameback for one Nov. 13, only to reinjure himself in a game against theRangers. Tonight against ...
Greer Garson and the curse of `Mrs. Miniver'
Dec 01, 1998; ... A ROSE FOR MRS. MINIVER The Life of Greer Garson By Michael TroyanUniversity Press of Kentucky, 463 pp., illustrated, $25 There are reasons that Greer Garson, queen of the MGM lot in the'40s, faded so quickly from America's collective memory. KatharineHepburn, Bette Davis, Joan ...
Concentra proves a textbook case for young firms
Dec 01, 1998; ... We should all be this loved. Months after it was formed by the merger of two smaller companies,Concentra Managed Care Inc. of Boston had won over with breathtakingsuccess the stock brokerages and institutional investors who workWall Street. Concentra, which helps manage ...
Consultant for BHA overseeing Bromley
Dec 01, 1998; ... A consultant hired by the Boston Housing Authority began workyesterday at the Bromley-Heath housing development, agreeing tooversee management of the 1,500-apartment complex in Jamaica Plain"over the next several months," according to Sandra Henriquez, BHAadministrator. One month ...
Inconsistency plagues Thornton Burns wants more from Bruins center
Dec 01, 1998; ... WILMINGTON -- He has bounced up and down in the Bruins' lineup for22 games, playing on the second line some nights, the fourth line onothers. Some nights, he has been benched for a shift at a time;other nights, he's been benched for an entire period. Such is the very public ...
Few minorities apply for school board seats
Dec 01, 1998; ... An effort to attract more minorities to apply for seats on theBoston School Committee by extending the application deadline largelyfailed, with far more whites applying than any other race. Boston officials extended the deadline for applications by 12days, until yesterday, to see ...
BU breaks into win column
Dec 01, 1998; ... The weight of the world, it seemed, was on their shoulders afteran 0-3 start. And it became even more burdensome for BostonUniversity's men's basketball team when it faced a 6-point deficitwith 2:25 left in last night's nonconference game against AmericanUniversity. But the ...
Hatcher will play `Cabaret' lead here
Dec 01, 1998; ... Teri Hatcher, who starred for four seasons as Lois Lane ontelevision's "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," willstar in the Kander and Ebb's "Cabaret," the Tony-winning musicalcoming to the Colonial Theatre in April. Hatcher, who was in the James Bond movie "Tomorrow ...
Town, neighbors can't ban day-care center, court rules
Dec 01, 1998; ... Three years ago, Joseph M. Petrucci decided to open a child-carebusiness in a renovated barn on his Westwood residential property.Yesterday, the state Appeals Court said the town and Petrucci'sneighbors cannot stop him. A three-judge panel ruled that Petrucci must be allowed ...
Court gets a taste of census debate Justices seem to indicate displeasure at refereeing White House- GOP dispute
Dec 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court got between the White House andGOP House yesterday on the hot topic of how to count the 2000 Census,and it was notably uncomfortable being there. Ousted gay Boy Scout leader's appeal is rejected. A5. "I don'tlike injecting us into a battle between ...
CORRECTION
Dec 01, 1998 ... CORRECTION: Because of editing errors, a Page One story yesterdayon a painting in the Monet exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts gavesome ...
CORRECTION
Dec 01, 1998 ... CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, a Globe story on Nov. 21incorrectly stated that Israel's Likud government ceded West Bankland to Palestinians for the first time in ...
MARRIAGES THAT WORK While it's not for everyone, couples who work together; find flexibility lessens stress
Dec 01, 1998; ... There's been only a few times in their 30-year partnership thatDr. Barbara Ann Payne Rockett has had to put Dr. Francis XavierRockett in his place, publicly. And one of those occasions wasduring a marathon operation on a 21-year-old woman with a braintumor. Six or seven hours into the ...
Federal ruling bans creche in Somerset
Dec 01, 1998; ... For more than half a century, a nativity scene has graced themain front lawn of the Somerset Town Hall. But not this year. A federal judge has ruled that the annual display, put up bylocal firefighters each year, is unconstitutional because it givesthe impression that the town ...
Discovering democracy
Dec 01, 1998; ... Amy Crutchfield, a former US diplomat in Eastern Europe, teachesAmerican politics at Moscow State University. MOSCOW - Like Proust sent into reveries by the aroma of amadeleine, I was recently helped to an epiphany by a Soviet raisinscone, circa 1985. Standing in a bread shop, I ...
Sit-in at State House urges reprieve of benefits cutoff
Dec 01, 1998; ... About 30 people were arrested last night after crowding intoGovernor Paul Cellucci's office to urge postponement of today'swelfare benefits cutoff for more than 5,000 families. The protesters, mostly women, held a daylong sit-in on couches andon the floor in the lobby outside the ...
Anna DeFronzo, 91; East Boston activist fought Logan expansion
Dec 01, 1998; ... Anna M. (DiPietro) DeFronzo, a feisty community activist whofought the expansion of Logan Airport and the presence of heavytrucks in her neighborhood in East Boston, died Saturday in GovernorWinthrop Nursing Home in Winthrop. She was 91. Years ago, when the Massachusetts Port ...
Clippers sailing on collision course
Dec 01, 1998; ... Before the season, Norwell coach Jim Sullivan spoke with veteranEast Bridgewater coach Ron St. George about the prospects ofrepeating as South Shore League champion and was told by the five-time Super Bowl coach, "It is one thing to get there, quite anotherto get back." That ...
Not just like old times Fenwick, D-R bring new looks to a familiar place
Dec 01, 1998; ... While both Bishop Fenwick and Dighton-Rehoboth were in the SuperBowl just two years ago, there are few similarities between the 1998teams and their earlier editions. Bishop Fenwick, under first-year coach Dave Woods, completed anundefeated regular season with a 19-13 win over ...
Assuring accuracy in the census
Dec 01, 1998 ... Oral arguments before the Supreme Court yesterday showed why theUS Census in 2000 needs to use statistical sampling to produce themost accurate possible count. What is the population of an apartment building where no onesends back the mailed census form and no one answers a ...
The dislodging of Diem
Dec 01, 1998 ... Some of the original squalor of US complicity in theassassination 35 years ago of South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diemwas recalled last week when the John F. Kennedy Library made publicaudiotapes that include President Kennedy's musings about the US rolein Diem's murder. The ...
Furby lows
Dec 01, 1998 ... There is an antidote for Furby fever: the word no. It should haverung like a Christmas bell in young ears at the first sign ofmarketing hype for this high-priced, disappearing holiday fad toy. That hype began in early fall with sellers predicting the run towhet children's appetites ...
DOGGED PURSUIT
Dec 01, 1998 ... Thomas Reed of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice ledtracking dogs across the heavily wooded and swampy areas around EllisPrison in Huntsville yesterday in the hunt ...
Reformulating welfare reform
Dec 01, 1998 ... Today, welfare officially ends for thousands of Massachusettsfamilies. This makes it an ideal time for Governor Paul Cellucci --now that he is free from the pressure of campaigning -- to look atwelfare reform with fresh eyes. Eager and able to help the governor are the state's ...
George Fernald Jr., 72 Retired Polaroid vice president
Dec 01, 1998 ... George H. Fernald Jr. of Lincoln, a retired vice president ofPolaroid Corp., died of leukemia Wednesday at New England MedicalCenter in Boston. He was 72. Mr. Fernald was born in Boston and raised in Newton. He graduatedfrom Williams College and earned an engineering degree ...
Legislature erects hurdle for federal officeholders eyeing state seats
Dec 01, 1998; ... Massachusetts Democratic Party leaders yesterday were trying toassess the impact on their future gubernatorial prospects after abill that undercuts several of their potentially leading candidatesquietly slipped through the Legislature on Thanksgiving Eve. The new law, which all ...
Specialists impressed by Bledsoe
Dec 01, 1998; ... Credit the custom-made three-quarter cast that stabilized hisfinger but left the tips free to grip the football. Credit the "very tiny bit" of painkiller doctors administered tothe fracture to numb it while preserving the sensation needed tocontrol the ball. But most of all, ...
Finneran goes long on bill for Patriots Says stadium deal may still be in play
Dec 01, 1998; ... House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, under fire for blocking astadium bill that could have kept the New England Patriots inFoxborough, yesterday said there may still be ways to prevent theteam's departure if a deal with Connecticut falls apart. Finneran, in a wide-ranging discussion ...
Putnam to centralize funds marketing
Dec 01, 1998; ... Putnam Investments, already one of the strongest marketing forcesin the mutual fund business, is going one step further byconsolidating and centralizing the ways it peddles funds. Yesterday, the Boston firm named Louise R. Kuo to the new positionof head of corporate marketing. The ...
Quiet pragmatist for the `average guy' St. George leads TEAM in changing times
Dec 01, 1998; ... James St. George's eyes brighten behind big round glasses. Hewould like nothing better than to give you his favorite statisticalgem of the moment. Residents of Massachusetts since 1995 have paid less of theirincome (10.88 percent) in state taxes than have residents ofMississippi ...
How city gave black soldiers their due glory
Dec 01, 1998; ... RETURN TO GLORY Narrated by: Andre Braugher Written and producedby: Anthony Cromwell Hill On: WCVB-Ch. 5 Time: Tonight at 9 Few sculptures have a more stirring story behind them than theRobert Gould Shaw Memorial, a bronze bas-relief opposite theMassachusetts State House that ...
Teenage suspect in fatal hit-run surrenders
Dec 01, 1998; ... CAMBRIDGE -- Five days after she fled the scene of a car crashnear Central Square that killed a Cambridge man and seriously injuredhis toddler daughter, the 16-year-old who police say was driving thecar surrendered to authorities yesterday. Within hours of walking into the ...
Despite epidemic, South Africa cuts AZT project
Dec 01, 1998; ... Acting on new evidence that a short course of the drug AZTsharply lowers an infected mother's risk of transmitting the humanimmunodeficiency virus to her unborn child, Dr. Glenda Gray and hercolleagues in Johannesburg have been lining up women eager to receivethe treatment. At a ...
RELIEF MISSION
Dec 01, 1998 ... Congressman J. Joseph Moakley addressed a gathering, includingSenator Edward M. Kennedy and Cardinal Bernard Law, at Hanscom AirForce Base ...
Panel may widen case to impeach Reportedly is set to examine president's 1996 fund-raising
Dec 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- The Republican-controlled House JudiciaryCommittee, in a sudden shift, is poised to widen the impeachment caseagainst President Clinton by examining White House fund-raisingpractices in the 1996 elections, congressional sources said lastnight. Committee Republicans ...
43 Boston public schools share $500,000 for improvement
Dec 01, 1998; ... Boston public school teachers received a gift yesterday that israrely given in public to their profession these days: appreciation. Honoring 43 of the district's 128 schools for making the mostimprovement in test scores, attendance, and drop-out rates,Superintendent Thomas W ....
Clinton calls for better Internet commerce Seeks better fraud, privacy protections to encourage on-line shopping
Dec 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- President Clinton, invoking a future in whichInternet commerce helps everyone from American holiday shoppers toimpoverished Third World farmers, yesterday unveiled new steps toencourage more people to buy and sell products on line. In accepting a report from his staff ...
Billy Joel adds depth to song and dance
Dec 01, 1998; ... BILLY JOEL At: the FleetCenter last night; show tomorrow andMonday Before the show, Billy Joel scanned a song list from the openingnight of his tour last January in Portland, Maine. "Wow, I can'tbelieve we did that many songs!" he said. "What, 24 songs? Yeah,we did a ...
NO KIDDING
Dec 01, 1998 ... Three-year-old Emilee Nicolas of Pittsfield was all set to do hercivic duty yesterday after being called for jury duty ...
It's unreasonable to blame the victim
Dec 01, 1998 ... I am incensed by the Globe's Nov. 17 Metro article concerning JeanAntoine, who killed his girlfriend, Creziel Grandison, and then shothimself ("Man who murdered girlfriend dies"). Grandison had takenout a temporary restraining order against Antoine a few weekspreviously but failed to ...
Mass. parents of special needs students talk to US
Dec 01, 1998; ... Have an education issue you want aired, or thoughts on the stateof education today? Write to Lesson Plan, City Room, The BostonGlobe, P.O. Box 2378, Boston, MA 02107-2378, or send e-mail toeducate(at sign)globe.com. Saying that special education programsin Massachusetts public ...
Kenneth Starr vs. Thomas Jefferson
Dec 01, 1998 ... Thomas Jefferson paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase,which added so much to our nation. Kenneth Starr has spent more than $40 million ...
America's on-line profiteers
Dec 01, 1998 ... While I am in agreement with the overall opinion of your Nov. 27editorial, "Shadow over AOL-Netscape deal," your giving credit toAmerica Online as having "attractive programming plus novice-friendlyaccess to the Internet" is definitely misplaced. It's important to remember that ...
Experiments were heinous and twisted
Dec 01, 1998 ... I just finished reading your last installment on the research doneon the mentally ill ("Still no solution in the struggle onsafeguards," Page A1, Nov. 18). It is a gross understatement to saythat I am shocked and appalled at the attitudes of some of theseresearchers. I have been ...
Colleges: Notre Dame accepts bid to play Ga. Tech in Gator
Dec 01, 1998 ... Notre Dame yesterday accepted a bid to play No. 12 Georgia Tech inthe Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 1. The No. 16 Irish hadhoped for a Bowl Championship Series appearance bid -- and theaccompanying $11 million-$13 million payoff -- but lost to SouthernCalifornia Saturday to ...
Cartoon on J.C. Watts betrayed racial bias
Dec 01, 1998 ... Dan Wasserman's Nov. 21 editorial cartoon displays the insidiouslogic that arises in an atmosphere of ubiquitous racial preferences.By criticizing the supposed hypocrisy of J.C. Watts's promotion to aRepublican leadership post, the cartoonist assumes that any successWatts may enjoy ...
Viewers flocked from all angles
Dec 01, 1998; ... Horrid officiating didn't prevent the Patriots from winning onthe field and in the ratings Sunday. The game against the Billsscored one of the highest regular-season ratings in the history ofthe franchise. The game pulled a 36.3 rating and 57 share, drawing almost 250,000more ...
Dow sheds 216.53 in tech fallout Profit-takers help fuel drop; Nasdaq falls 3.3%
Dec 01, 1998; ... Led by a nose dive in Internet and technology shares, the US stockmarket fell sharply yesterday, a week after hitting record highs. The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 216.53 points, adecline of 2.32 percent, on a wave of profit-taking that wiped outlast week's 173-point ...
Anti-Hartford reports prompt Menino apology
Dec 01, 1998; ... Mayor Thomas M. Menino sent a serious missive of sympathy andsupport to Hartford Mayor Mike Peters last week for all theHartford-bashing by the Boston press over the Patriots' stadiumdeal. "There is no call for people to take unwarranted shots atHartford or Connecticut," Menino said, ...
Foes of high-rise plan assail Menino's stance
Dec 01, 1998; ... Dozens of angry Back Bay and Fenway residents demonstratedoutside City Hall last night and later packed a City Council hearing,hoping to derail the $300 million Millennium Partners complexproposed over the Massachusetts Turnpike near Massachusetts Avenue. Much of the discontent ...