The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from July 1999:
ASK THE GLOBE
Jul 01, 1999 ... Q. As a newspaper collector, I am wondering why I have beenholding on to more than a dozen copies of a 63-page subject issue of"New England," published in the Boston Globe on Sunday, Nov. 23,1975. Does this have some collection significance? J.P.,Southfield, Mich. A. It has no ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jul 01, 1999 ... Q. Having just re-read Francoise Sagan's "Bonjour Tristesse" and"A Certain Smile," I am still amazed at her perception of humancharacter. What can you tell me about her? Is she still writing?E.C., Exeter, N.H. A. Francoise Quoirez, better known to readers asFrancoise Sagan, was born ...
MWRA approves 5.3 percent rate hike
Jul 01, 1999 ... The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority yesterday approved a5.3 percent rate increase that will mean ratepayers will see theircombined water and sewer rates rise an average of $36 per year. Muchof the $18 million increase would help pay for the $670 millionMetroWest water tunnel ...
Fagan on `Vanished'
Jul 01, 1999; ... The case of Stephen Fagan, who recently pleaded guilty toabducting his two daughters from his former wife 20 years ago, is asubject on tonight's "Vanished," on WCVB-Ch. 5 at 10 p.m ....
House OK's bid to curb abortions
Jul 01, 1999; ... WASHINGTON -- When George W. Bush faced the abortion question, heanswered in noncommittal terms, suggesting it would not be a litmustest for a running mate. Elizabeth Dole was equally subdued, sayingabortion is low on her list of legislative priorities. But the effort by ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jul 01, 1999 ... Q. What is the average annual salary for town librarians in thestate? Does it vary from town to town? C.C., Peabody A. Salariesfor librarians and other public employees vary from town to town,partly depending on population. In "Massachusetts Public LibraryData" (1998), the state ...
Buyer of Fleet-BankBoston assets must spend $600m on community Stipulation applies to Bay State branches
Jul 01, 1999; ... Bidders eyeing the huge pot of deposits and loans that FleetFinancial Group Inc. and BankBoston Corp. are selling as part oftheir merger have to make an unusual promise if they want to buy theMassachusetts block: They must agree to spend nearly $600 million oncommunity programs for one ...
Light housekeeping
Jul 01, 1999; ... PROVINCETOWN - If you fall off the deck of the home of RichardDiFrummolo and Donald Winter here, you could drown. At low tide,you'll still get wet. Set as it is inside the first knuckle of thehand that is the narrow tip of the arm that is Cape Cod, the house isso close to being in, and ...
A Swan's new songs
Jul 01, 1999; ... Some images die hard and this one of Michael Gira, lead singer-guitarist of Swans, is embedded in my memory: We're at the defunctRat, and Gira is bare-chested, drooling, possessed by the din that heand his band are making. The lyrics concern power, money, sex, andgreed. The rhythm ...
Civil War was women's work for these soldiers
Jul 01, 1999; ... ALL THE DARING OF THE SOLDIER Women of the Civil War Armies ByElizabeth D. Leonard Norton, 368 pp., illustrated, $27.95 The women who served in the Civil War armies were not only asdaring as the men, but, in historian Elizabeth D. Leonard's accounts,had to be even more daring just ...
Officials seen backing demolition of bridge
Jul 01, 1999; ... City officials are expected to push a plan today to demolish theOld Northern Avenue Bridge and build a 150,000-square-foot restaurantand retail complex on its foundations. But the decision to back the plan by Forest City Enterprises --among five proposals submitted to the Boston ...
Mayor puts signature on $1.6b budget
Jul 01, 1999; ... On the last day of fiscal year 1999, Mayor Thomas M. Meninosigned the $1.6 billion budget that will take Boston into the year2000, with an emphasis on improving traffic and paving potholes butalso on after-school programs and affordable housing. "A lot of people have walked away ...
Double-suicide eyed in Burlington deaths Husband, wife leave behind 1-year-old
Jul 01, 1999; ... BURLINGTON -- Just days ago, relatives thought Prabhakar Gandluruhad achieved everything he wanted: a new family and a job in thecomputer industry, which he had sought since leaving his homeland inIndia three years ago. But on Saturday afternoon, Gandluru apparently told a lie ...
Smash Mouth ASTRO LOUNGE; Interscope
Jul 01, 1999; ... Like their radio-friendly tour partners Sugar Ray, Smash Mouthappears to have beaten Andy Warhol's axiom that everyone will befamous for 15 minutes. In fact, the band's new Top 5 single, "AllStar" (which sounds destined for a sneaker commercial), is nowherenear the best cut on this ...
Celtics will use July as a time for talking
Jul 01, 1999; ... WALTHAM -- The Celtics now can tell all their friends that theyhad an interesting end-of-June experience. It was just a couple ofnights ago that they received a call from the Hawks, who werechecking to see if there was any interest in Mookie Blaylock. Thebelief in Atlanta was that the ...
For its own sake, US must welcome China into WTO
Jul 01, 1999; ... Ronnie Chan is chairman of the Hang Lung Development Co. in HongKong. Before May 7, China and the United States were about to concludenegotiations on China entering the World Trade Organization. Thebombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade changed everything. Whatremains ...
Diner loads up on sophistication
Jul 01, 1999; ... Mike's City Diner WHERE 1714 Washington St., South End TELEPHONE617-267-9393 HOURS Daily 6 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. GOOD CHOICESChicken quesadilla; fried clams; mushroom Swiss burger; tuna steak;chicken, broccoli, and ziti; swordfish kebabs; The Big Dig Dinner II(turkey meatloaf); ...
US releases Pinochet documents
Jul 01, 1999; ... SANTIAGO, Chile -- Shedding new light on the US role in thisnation's bloody past, Washington released thousands of classifieddocuments yesterday detailing its intimate knowledge of the killingsof Chileans shortly after a 1973 coup. In one State Department cable sent to Washington ...
Celtics hope Clack will click Texas guard taken with 55th pick
Jul 01, 1999; ... WALTHAM -- Leo Papile and Rick Pitino had a "gentleman's bet" onWayne Turner's draft position last night. Papile thought the pointguard from Mission Hill would be available to the Celtics in thesecond round; Pitino thought he would be gone. Papile was right.Turner, who played for Pitino ...
Wimbledon is no place for questions of race
Jul 01, 1999; ... LONDON -- "Predominantly white." That's the Wimbledon rule towatch out for when you suit up for a scuffle on the grass. No clownensembles, thank you, as may be seen elsewhere on the circuit. It used to be that way in a couple of other departments, too, likethe balls and the ...
CORRECTION
Jul 01, 1999 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, an article in Tuesday'sLiving/Arts section about Harborfest published the wrong date for theMiddlesex ...
CORRECTION
Jul 01, 1999 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a story in yesterday'sMetro/Region section mischaracterized what happened at ...
Trustees mull ideas on college changes
Jul 01, 1999; ... A group of students, faculty, and staff at Dartmouth Collegereleased a host of proposals yesterday on how to make the campus thathelped inspire "Animal House" more socially diverse and less alcoholdependent. Dartmouth's trustees set off a storm of protest -- and a few sighsof ...
North End spot elevates classic Italian
Jul 01, 1999; ... Restaurant Bricco * * 1/2 Where 241 Hanover St., North EndTELEPHONE 617-248-6800 PRICES Tastings $3.75-$5.75; first course $6-$12; main courses $17.50-$26; desserts $6. GOOD CHOICES Grilled porkspiedino; Venetian-style sardines; salt cod fritters; agnolotti withfava beans; tagiatelle ...
Don't bet against gambling
Jul 01, 1999; ... Gambling has triumphed. This is what one takes away afterreading the report of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission,which two weeks ago released the results of its three-year inquiryinto the state of gambling in America. Legally, gambling of one form or another (usually ...
Turkey after Ocalan
Jul 01, 1999 ... The death sentence a state security court handed down this weekfor the leader of the violent Kurdish Workers Party, Abdullah Ocalan,represents a temporary triumph against separatist and terroristforces. It also illuminates an identity crisis that Turkey will haveto resolve wisely if it ...
Westbound to Copley?
Jul 01, 1999 ... A healthy debate has developed over a new westbound exit from theMassachusetts Turnpike to the Copley Square area. Last week the chairman of the Turnpike Authority, JamesKerasiotes, challenged Mayor Menino to take a position on theproposed exit ramp, which is opposed by many Back ...
Jeannette Ernst, 82 Was longtime teacher, volunteer
Jul 01, 1999 ... Jeannette Blackstone Reed Ernst, a former high school teacher ofEnglish and German in the town of Reading, died Friday of cancer ather home in Acton. She was 82. A native of Andover and a 1939 graduate of Smith College, Mrs.Ernst also had taught German and English at high schools ...
Eubanks steps away from TV
Jul 01, 1999; ... KEVIN EUBANKS QUARTET At: Scullers, first set Tuesday night(concluded last night) Kevin Eubanks brought a trio to Cambridge with regularity in thelate 1980s. The music it played was complex and relentlesslyactive, jazz's version of a power guitar unit. In his first ...
Union: FAA purchase of air traffic control system way behind Question whether it will be installed anywhere by year-end
Jul 01, 1999; ... The union representing technicians who certify and repair airtraffic control equipment said yesterday the Federal AviationAdministration's billion-dollar purchase of a delay-plagued Raytheoncomputer display system has fallen even further behind schedule. Theunion questioned whether it ...
Expansion of Pike's electronic toll-collection gets off to slow start Broadening of service causes delays in areas
Jul 01, 1999; ... The FastLane got a little clogged up yesterday. It was the first day for drivers to use the MassachusettsTurnpike Authority's electronic toll-collection system the full 135-mile length of the roadway. While many drivers passed withoutstopping through toll plazas not previously ...
Study touts Fenway benefits New ballpark seen raising spending in Hub by $116m
Jul 01, 1999; ... A new Fenway Park would generate an estimated $116 million inadditional annual spending in the Boston area, according to anecomonic impact study released yesterday by business and tourismofficials. As expected, the study detailed broad economic benefits from the$350 million ...
Risk seen of passing male infertility along in reproductive bid
Jul 01, 1999; ... Troy and Brandy Ciccarelli's story of how they managed to have ababy is becoming commonplace as the medical community makes stridesin treating infertility. After Troy, 34, was told by doctors that he had a low sperm count,the couple consented to an increasingly used fertility ...
Royal Shakespeare Company's road weary looks at love
Jul 01, 1999; ... TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Play in five acts by William ShakespeareDirected by Michael Boyd. Set, Tom Piper. Lighting, Chris Davey.Costumes, Janet Bench A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY Play in two acts byBrian Friel after Ivan Turgenev Directed by Michael Attenborough.Music, John Field. Set, lighting ...
Ex-Fidelity executive sues over dismissal Says tax problem no reason for firing
Jul 01, 1999; ... A former Fidelity Investments executive and one-time rising starwho was fired last year for cheating on his income taxes is suing themutual fund behemoth, alleging that he was unjustly forced out. The former executive, Robert G. Flater, was a $900,000-a-yearsenior manager who was ...
Hub's bid to top NYC ends in shreds
Jul 01, 1999; ... It was supposed to be a grand old flag, a high-flying flag, towave in triumph Sunday over the hundreds of thousands of peopleexpected at Boston's Fourth of July extravaganza on the Esplanade.It was supposed to break New York's world record for the largestaerial banner ever ...
Discovering Truman Seymour; flower power
Jul 01, 1999; ... THE WATERCOLORS OF TRUMAN SEYMOUR At: Richardson-Clarke Gallery,38 Newbury St., through July 15 ELEANOR MILLER: PAINTINGS At: PepperGallery, 38 Newbury St., through July 31 SPIRIT MANIFEST: RELIGIOUSIMAGERY IN CURRENT BOSTON ART At: Gallery NAGA, 67 Newbury St.,through July ...
A CAREER MADE BY CHOICE For 25 years, Planned Parenthood's Nicki Nichols Gamble has been a fighter for reproductive rights
Jul 01, 1999; ... The day after John Salvi gunned down Brookline clinic workersShannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols in 1994, an anonymous callerthreatened to finish off Nicki Nichols Gamble too. So the presidentand CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts was givenround-the-clock protection. After ...
Smart watering practices become crucial in dry spells
Jul 01, 1999; ... Watering becomes the number one concern of good gardeners duringthe hot months of July and August. But this year summer came early,with searing temperatures and a record-breaking five weeks in May andJune without measurable rain. And this was after the driest April onrecord. As ...
Ex-FBI agent asks inmate for help on Gardner artwork
Jul 01, 1999; ... In the latest twist in the attempt to solve the world's costliestart heist, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has recently hired aformer top FBI agent who believes an imprisoned antiques dealer mayhold the key for securing the return of the artworks. According to letters ...
Foes of MBTA Greenbush line air their concerns in Hingham
Jul 01, 1999; ... HINGHAM -- After months of quiet, the debate over restoringcommuter rail service to Hingham and Scituate was revived last nightwith opponents overwhelming supporters at a Town Hall meeting. State Transportation Secretary Kevin J. Sullivan, who is also theMBTA board chairman, said ...
Guns are at center of war of words
Jul 01, 1999; ... BELFAST -- The war may be over in Northern Ireland, but thefighting is not. In Ireland, it always comes down to guns. Fifteen months after the signing of the Good Friday agreement,life for ordinary people in Northern Ireland has never been better,and yet the peace process is ...
SJC says attorney general can restrict gun makers Ruling paves way for safety requirements
Jul 01, 1999; ... In a first-in-the-nation ruling that shook the ever-shiftinglegal ground on gun control, the state's highest court ruledyesterday that the state attorney general has the right to imposesafety measures on gun manufacturers. The unanimous decision by the Supreme Judicial Court paves ...
In one unlucky downtown site, mayor sees dual-use plot of gold
Jul 01, 1999; ... For two decades it has been plagued by false starts andcontroversy: Hayward Place, a parcel of land at the intersection ofDowntown Crossing and the Combat Zone, in the heart of Mayor ThomasM. Menino's regenerating downtown, has seemed almost impossible toremake since plans for its ...
Arthur Ross Hills, 78 Was partner in accounting firm
Jul 01, 1999; ... Arthur Ross Hills of Hanover, N.H., who was wounded during WorldWar II while fighting on Saipan with the Marine Corps, died Monday atthe Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. He was 78. Born in Brooklyn in 1920, Mr. Hills was a graduate of TheNorthwood School, ...
HORSE RESCUED
Jul 01, 1999 ... It took a crane supplied by a utility company and a team ofvolunteers from the Gold Ridge Fire Department to free a Belgiandraft ...
Varnish won't help paint last longer
Jul 01, 1999; ... Q. I just finished painting my porch floor with two coats oflatex decking paint. Can I varnish that finish to protect it? Also,the stairway to the porch is pressure-treated, and the 2 x 8 railingsare splintering. The railings are made in such a way that I cannotsubstitute a smaller or ...
Cigarette blamed in Hull fire
Jul 01, 1999; ... A discarded cigarette left on the back porch of a home is believedto have caused a blaze that seriously injured two firefighters anddestroyed two homes in Hull on Tuesday, State Fire Marshal StephenCoan said yesterday. Hull firefighter John Clasby, 37, remained in critical ...
Holland Mark Martin agrees to buy Ingalls Boston ad agencies' deal latest push toward consolidation in industry
Jul 01, 1999; ... Continuing a wave of industry consolidation, the fifth largest adagency in Massachusetts, Holland Mark Martin Edmund of Boston, saidyesterday it has agreed to buy the fourth largest agency, Ingalls ofBoston, for an undisclosed amount. When the deal is completed, New England's four ...
Down the rabbit hole
Jul 01, 1999; ... It is the most notable boat ride in the history of literature. OnJuly 4, 1862, Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematics scholar at Oxford,went rowing on the Thames in the company of the Rev. RobinsonDuckworth, a fellow Oxonian, and the three lovely Liddell sisters --13-year-old Lorina, ...
Globe columnist Jacoby is honored for work
Jul 01, 1999; ... Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby has won the first annual EricBreindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, awarded tocommemorate the work of a prolific New York Post columnist who diedat 42 last year. "Jacoby is willing to say things others are afraid to say," saidNew York ...
Alba M. Kennedy, 82 Was General Electric employee
Jul 01, 1999 ... Alba M. Kennedy of Lynn, an assembler at General Electric Co. inWest Lynn for 20 years, died Tuesday in Brigham and Women's Hospital.She was 82. Mrs. Kennedy was a lifelong resident of Lynn and attended schoolsthere. She was a member of Local 201 AFL-CIO. She retired from ...
N.Y. pair allegedly took granddaughter
Jul 01, 1999; ... A New York grandmother and her adult daughter, both of whom arecharged with kidnapping the older woman's three-year-oldgranddaughter, were being held without bail last night at the NashuaStreet Jail after being arrested at Logan Airport Tuesday evening. Patricia June Dodds, 58, of ...
Kosovar sees friend lead raid on her village
Jul 01, 1999; ... CUSHK, Yugoslavia -- The first time the Serb paramilitariesencircled this tiny rural hamlet was April 17, more than a monthbefore NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia started. "All of you will be killed if you don't leave," said the man inthe distinctive blue uniform of the feared Ministry ...
Kosovar sees friend lead raid on her village
Jul 01, 1999; ... UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albrightpledged yesterday that 550 American police will trade in their beatsat home for patrol work and police training duties in Kosovo. The first 150 US police will arrive by July 15, said Albright,meeting here with foreign ...
Rabbi Howard Kummer, 68, led Temple Ezrath Israel in Malden
Jul 01, 1999 ... Rabbi Howard K. Kummer, the longtime spiritual leader of TempleEzrath Israel in Malden and a national leader in providing pastoralcare to patients in hospitals and nursing homes, died June 24 ofbrain cancer in Brigham and Women's Hospital. He was 68. A 31-year resident of Needham, ...
Hampering deliveries
Jul 01, 1999 ... I was quite perturbed by the picture of the UPS truck beingtowed. Think of all of the ramifications of undelivered packages andthe problems faced by the business owner and the ...
`Summer of Sam,' Spike, and 1977 Lee recalls the panic that ate at New York all those summers ago
Jul 01, 1999; ... NEW YORK -- Twenty-two summers ago, Shelton Jackson Lee came hometo murder, mayhem, and mercury boiling in thermometers. It was1977, and the 20-year-old had just completed his sophomore year atMorehouse College in Atlanta. He returned to Brooklyn without adeclared major, no summer ...
Britain has a free press, but lacks gun violence
Jul 01, 1999 ... How on earth can Mark Dickson ("NRA represents the interest ofmany Americans," letter, June 27) expect anyone to take any notice ofwhat he has to say in his reply to Derrick Jackson's June 23 columnwhen his supposed facts about the British press are so absurdlywrong? He obviously does ...
Drought worsened by wasting water from rivers
Jul 01, 1999 ... Scott Allen's June 23 article on the drought in New England("Already, N.E. thirsty for summer showers," Page A1) quoted LealdonLangley of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protectionthat this year's drought is less severe than that of 1988. Actually,we've received only 15 1/4 ...
A double standard regarding double parking
Jul 01, 1999 ... In reference to the story on Boston cracking down on doubleparking ("Getting the hook," Metro/Region, June 25): I can only relate as a businessman, here on Cambridge Street atOne Center Plaza. On the southbound side is all commercial parking,but only about 5 percent of the vehicles ...
Hamilton, Washington roll a seven
Jul 01, 1999; ... The underachieving Washington Wizards added a proven winner byselecting the University of Connecticut's Richard Hamilton with theNo. 7 pick in last night's NBA draft. Hamilton was the second of four players with New England tieschosen. Rhode Island's Lamar Odom, who was No. 1 in ...
A flag commandment
Jul 01, 1999 ... Why doesn't the House just make "Thou shall not desecrate theAmerican flag" the 11th Commandment? Then they can have it postedall over the schools and ...
Lycos in services pact with Chicago's Bank One
Jul 01, 1999; ... Lycos Inc. plans to announce today a partnership with a unit ofBank One Corp. to offer checking and other banking services over theInternet. The marketing agreement is worth perhaps $135 million over fiveyears to Waltham's Lycos and marks its first foray into the growingmarket ...
McCain takes aim at system of campaign financing
Jul 01, 1999; ... BEDFORD, N.H. -- In a rare move for a presidential candidate,Senator John McCain declared yesterday that drastic overhaul of thecampaign-finance system and elimination of special-interestinfluence will be the centerpiece of his campaign. With the end of the war in Kosovo, McCain ...