The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from October 1999:
Showcases for variety of skills
Oct 01, 1999; ... It isn't easy to list Kevin McHale's best games, especially if yourely on Kevin McHale for the information. "I really don't remembertoo many games," he says. "I remember the teammates, the fun, therelationships, the winning. That's what I remember, not the games."Well, if you take the ...
Hell's Angels member sentenced in robbery try
Oct 01, 1999; ... Bill Litchman's eyes were still stinging from mace, his pistolstill warm to the touch, when police arrived at the scene of thecrime. Initially, the evidence suggested little more than a botchedrobbery attempt notable only for its brazen daylight hour -- and themisjudgment of two would-be ...
`Animal Farm': pearl amid swine
Oct 01, 1999; ... ANIMAL FARMStarring: Pete Postlethwaite, Alan StanfordFeaturingthe voices of: Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, JuliaOrmond, Paul Scofield, Patrick Stewart, Peter UstinovDirected by:John StephensonOn: TNTTime: Sunday at 8 p.m.Rated: TVPG The pigs whorule "Animal Farm" are ...
Media panel looks at 21st century
Oct 01, 1999 ... `Brave News World: A Greater Boston Forum," airing tonight at 7p.m. on WGBH-Ch. 2, will examine the issues the media will face inthe 21st century. The panel, which will be moderated by "GreaterBoston" host Emily Rooney, consists of Kurt Andersen, ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1999 ... Q. The Sunday Globe Magazine alternates crossword puzzles by HenryHook and the team of Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon. Are these puzzlesavailable in book form?S.T., BostonA. Yes. Random House is publishinga series called "The Boston Globe Sunday Crossword Puzzles." Look ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1999 ... Q. A few years ago I noticed that members of the NorthwesternUniversity football team, a member of the Big Ten Conference, wore apatch on their jerseys with the words "Big Six." What was that inreference to? D.M., AshlandA. The number six ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1999 ... Q. I've heard that the Massachusetts Hunter Education Bureauperiodically offers free courses in outdoor living and hunting andthat several such courses will be offered next fall. Where can Ilearn more? W.O., NewtonA. According to Sergeant Bill Chmura of theMassachusetts Environmental ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1999 ... Q. What's the history of Paramount Studios?E.C., BostonA.Paramount began in 1912 with the furrier Adolph Zukor, who had wontheUS distribution rights to the French movie "Queen Elizabeth,"starring Sarah Bernhardt. Zukor's movies, which later featured"America's Sweetheart," Mary Pickford, ...
BC's Zukauskas to sit out tomorrow against Huskies
Oct 01, 1999; ... Boston College will be without junior right guard Paul Zukauskas,who suffered a head injury at Rutgers Stadium last week, when theEagles host Division 1-AA Northeastern tomorrow at Alumni Stadium.Coach Tom O'Brien reported that Zukauskas, a 6-foot-6-inch, 318-pounder from Weymouth, was ...
State OK's $16 billion bank merger >Last regulatory hurdle to Fleet- BankBoston deal
Oct 01, 1999; ... State officials gave a final nod yesterday to Fleet FinancialGroup Inc.'s proposed acquisition of BankBoston Corp., eliminatingthe last regulatory hurdle to a deal that creates New England'sdominant bank. The Massachusetts Board of Bank Incorporationunanimously endorsedthe $16 billion ...
For Beatty, campaign can wait >Actor outlines agenda, but remains noncommittal on run
Oct 01, 1999; ... LOS ANGELES -- In his taped greeting to the evening's honoree,comedian Garry Shandling provided some campaign advice, Hollywood-style. "If you run," he suggested, "make sure you get your nameabove the title of the country. `Warren Beatty . . . in the UnitedStates of America.' " The ...
Bell Atlantic managers seek pension ruling >Senate asked to investigate conversion to cash balance
Oct 01, 1999; ... Following an earlier change of heart at International BusinessMachines Corp. about converting longtime employees' traditionalpensions to cash-balance accounts, Bell Atlantic Corp. managers havepetitioned a US Senate panel to investigate whether a similar movebytheir employer was ...
Teasing is a guy thing that doesn't have to be
Oct 01, 1999 ... Dear Beth: I'm 18, male, smart, athletic, and relatively good-looking. I have a couple of close friends and don't have problemsmaking friends. I have a group of "friends" I play sports withsometimes. I get made fun of more often than others in the group.I've known them for a long time ...
MFS manager rises to the occasion
Oct 01, 1999; ... It's one thing to replace the manager of a mutual fund that hasgone to the dogs. It's quite another to take the seat of a veryvisible manager who has been doing well by hiscustomers. MauraShaughnessy found herself in the second category a little over sevenmonths ago, when she moved ...
Pronger and Hulbig sent to Providence
Oct 01, 1999; ... WILMINGTON -- Forwards Sean Pronger and Joe Hulbig clearedwaiversand were officially assigned to Providence. Soon to join themare injured players Marquis Mathieu, Jeff Zehr, and Antti Laaksonen.Coach Pat Burns said the trio will take treatments in Boston and assoon as Providence returns ...
Dafoe may be placed on block >Sinden to explore trade possibilities
Oct 01, 1999; ... WILMINGTON -- If yesterday's reaction to Byron Dafoe's request tobe traded was any indication, it appears the Bruins' unsigned freeagent goaltender might just get his wish. President/general managerHarry Sinden said there will be internaldiscussions on which way togo, but his feeling was ...
Holding out hope for success >If young goalies can keep 'em at bay, Bruins have guns to make an attack
Oct 01, 1999; ... WILMINGTON -- Another season is upon us and the Bruins head intothe new year absent their No. 1 goaltender, who was last year's mostvaluable player, because of an acrimonious contract dispute.Independent of that, they have improved on defense, with the youngplayers having another year of ...
Day 91
Oct 01, 1999; ... Where were they?Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham and HouseSpeaker Thomas M. Finneran: Met for an hour in Birmingham'soffice.Governor Paul Cellucci: Spent the day working in hisoffice.The latest victimsAbout 170 young people on a waiting list fora program that helps teens get their ...
Celtics in the Hall of Fame
Oct 01, 1999 ... Three more players with ties to the Celtics join the Hall of Fametonight with the induction of Kevin McHale, Wayne Embry, and JohnThompson. Twenty-four other Hall of Famers were affiliated with theCeltics during their careers. The list, with each honoree's year ofinduction:PLAYERSEd ...
NFL coaching no longer hair-raising for Johnson
Oct 01, 1999; ... Behold the new Jimmy Johnson: husband, father, person. Romanticwalks along the beach. Candle-lit dinners at sunset. Jazz festivalsbefore film breakdowns. Once obsessed with winning, Johnson -- whobriefly quit after last season -- now is obsessed with living,looking beyond the game plan ...
Sizing up beasts of the East . . . as well as best of the West
Oct 01, 1999; ... CENTRAL DIVISIONChicago Blackhawks- Coach: Lorne Molleken.- 1998-99 record: 29-41-12 (70 points).- Significant comings: F BlairAtcheynum, signed as free agent from St. Louis; F Wendel Clark,acquired as free agent from Detroit; D Bryan McCabe, acquired intrade from Vancouver; G Steve ...
Russian troops cross into Chechnya >Soldiers prepare as air war goes on; rebels vow retaliation
Oct 01, 1999; ... MOSCOW -- Russia's campaign against Islamic rebels in Chechnyamoved closer to full-scale war yesterday, as federal forces enteredthe breakaway Caucasus region where Moscow suffered a humiliatingandcostly defeat three years ago. With Russian warplanes hammeringtargets in Chechnya for an ...
Y2K PRECAUTIONS
Oct 01, 1999 ... The Rhone-Poulenc chemical plant in Charleston, W.Va., isplanningto eliminate its stockpile of methyl isocyanate by yearend.The poisonous chemical was responsible for thousands of deaths in aleak at a pesticide plant at Bhopal, ...
Finding tenors for the times
Oct 01, 1999; ... Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo are hanging in there sotenaciously that they have outlasted more than one of the tenorstouted to replace them. The tenors the record companies have chosento anoint as successors are Roberto Alagna, Jose Cura, and BenHeppner. Alagna appears on a new ...
The money goalies
Oct 01, 1999; ... Those who came up big when it counted the most:KEN DRYDENYrsGP SO W-L-T Avg. CupsRegular season 8 397 46 258-57-74 2.24 Playoffs8 112 10 80-32 2.40 6- In 1971, he was a lanky college kid fromCornell with a funny mask and an unorthodox style. He stonewalled theBig, Bad Bruins -- and ...
CMGI buys yet another on-line firm
Oct 01, 1999; ... CMGI Inc., the Andover-based Internet venture company, yesterdayannounced its third major acquisition of an on-line advertising firmin the last two weeks, agreeing to buy a San Francisco marketer forabout $741 million in stock. CMGI said it plans to exchange 7.2million shares for control ...
Christian Coalition in crisis >Group tries to keep GOP influence as convention opens
Oct 01, 1999; ... WASHINGTON -- When the Christian Coalition opens its "Road toVictory" convention with presidential candidates today, theorganization will again put forward its message that a Republicancannot win the White House without focusing on conservative issuessuch as opposition to abortion. But ...
`Common Ground': funny, free, and a good cause
Oct 01, 1999; ... On rare occasions, the best things in life are free. A comedy all-star team will perform Sunday afternoon at 4 at the Strand Theatre inDorchester for nothing. "Laughing on Common Ground," featuringCambridge's Jimmy Tingle, Charlestown's Steve Sweeney, Roxbury'sPatrice O'Neal, ...
Tennessee focus of No. 1 concern
Oct 01, 1999; ... Just when college football seems to be putting its best footforward -- with exciting, competitive games between top teams, suchas Georgia Tech-Florida State, Penn State-Miami, and Florida-Tennessee -- we find ourselves reading about another academicfraudscandal. This one involves ...
CORRECTION
Oct 01, 1999 ... CORRECTION: Due to a reporting error, the Future Shot inyesterday's Calendar gave the ...
CORRECTION
Oct 01, 1999 ... EDITOR'S NOTE: The one-column photo of MBTA general manager RobertPrince that appeared in yesterday's Metro/Region section was takenlast spring at Back Bay ...
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Oct 01, 1999 ... CORRECTION: A photo with the Perspectives column in Wednesday'sLiving/Arts section ...
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Oct 01, 1999 ... CORRECTION: Because of a photographer's captioning error, BostonCollege ...
Geeks go for guffaws >`Computer Stew' puts high-tech, lowbrow humor on the Net
Oct 01, 1999; ... CAMBRIDGE -- Two dancers in distinctly unbusinesslike attire areshimmying in a corporate conference room, performing the kind ofmoves you might see at the halftime show of a third-rate footballleague. A guy in a metallic suit and gigantic turban is either break-dancing on the boardroom ...
Gore maintains pressure in his call for debates
Oct 01, 1999; ... Sharpening his debate challenge to Bill Bradley, Vice PresidentAlGore's campaign chairman formally requested a meeting with theBradley campaign to set up "a thoughtful series of debates" betweenthe two candidates for the Democratic nomination for president. Alsoyesterday, Gore accepted ...
The end of an Ira?
Oct 01, 1999; ... There are three former chairmen who still keep an office atBankBoston's downtown headquarters. Now, with Fleet Financial'stakeover of the bank set for completion today, one is going. Guesswho? Ira Stepanian hasn't been a gracious loser since he was oustedin favor of Chad Gifford in 1995 ....
`Drive Me Crazy' ends up going nowhere
Oct 01, 1999; ... DRIVE ME CRAZYDirected by: John SchultzScreenplay by: Rob Thomas(based on Todd Strasser's novel, "How I Created My Perfect PromDate")Starring: Adrian Grenier, Melissa Joan Hart, Stephen Collins,Susan May Pratt, Mark Webber, Kris Park, Ali Larter, GabrielCarpenterAt: Copley Place, ...
A new and better Fenway Park
Oct 01, 1999 ... Fenway Park, an artifact of 1912, is beloved by many andcomfortable for few. The success of the Red Sox over the past 20years attracts crowds that total 2.4 million a year, badly strainingthe resources of the 87-year-old stadium. To provide better servicefor fans and insure the financial ...
Exotic twist to perils of life in NYC: mosquitoes
Oct 01, 1999; ... NEW YORK -- The area around Powell's Cove Park in northern Queensis a tidy, upper-middle-class neighborhood of spacious, single-family houses with BMWs and SUVs parked in the driveways andsatellite dishes perched on the roofs. It hardly seems like thebreeding ground for a disease more ...
Guenter Grass's prize
Oct 01, 1999 ... Literary folk are a contentious lot. Those who read for purepleasure, no less than professional critics, cherish a right todefend their own canons of taste. The Republic of Letters may be ahierarchal domain, but within it no single authority may restricttheaesthetic freedom of readers ....
Charles A. Federer Jr., was editor >of Sky & Telescope magazine; at 90
Oct 01, 1999; ... Charles Anthony Federer Jr., a self-taught astronomer who parlayedhis avocation into a long career as editor in chief of Sky &Telescopemagazine, died Tuesday in a nursing home in Mystic, Conn. He was 90. Mr. Federer was born in St. Louis. He was raised inConnecticut,where, as a young man ...
Ballpark foes drop task-force opposition
Oct 01, 1999; ... What if they started a revolution and no one came? That's whathappened in the Fenway last night. After a year of battling theplanning process for a new Fenway Park, the lead opponent, the FenwayAction Coalition, staged a brief protest at the first meeting of thenewly minted Fenway ...
Show will be a lure >Boats on display at Trade Center
Oct 01, 1999; ... It's Boston Boat Show weekend, and anglers' dreams are turning tovisions of springtime in a brand new bigger-than-before. This is anin-water show built on the no-payments-until-the-new-millenniummentality, which is sometimes all the encouragement the kid at thecandy store window needs to ...
Bias is alleged in Fire Dept. >Black group cites disciplinary actions
Oct 01, 1999; ... A group of black firefighters, who say they are diciplinedmoreseverely than their white co-workers, pushed city officialsyesterdayto reform the department's "good-old-boy" system. Members ofthe Boston Society of Vulcans, a national black firefightersassociation, testified that the Boston ...
In South End, a victory for flood-weary residents >Private firm to run key pumping station
Oct 01, 1999; ... Tacitly admitting it cannot handle future deluges of sewage intheSouth End, the Boston Water and Sewer Commission announcedyesterday that it will immediately turn over operation of its UnionPark pumping station to a private firm. The move is a triumph foractivists who banded together ...
Public defenders' audit eyes legal work by inmates
Oct 01, 1999; ... The state Committee for Public Counsel Services has asked theDepartment of Correction to turn over all records relating to legalwork that may have been done by inmates William "Lefty" Gilday andJerome Napolitano on cases assigned to lawyers who representindigentclients for the committee ....
Ronnie Gilbert weaves a legacy >At 73, the former Weaver has influenced generations
Oct 01, 1999; ... When America first heard the songs that would ignite thecommercial folk revival of the 1960s, it was not the voices of JudyCollins or Joan Baez or Peter, Paul, and Mary that they heard. Itwasthe voice of the Weavers. From 1950 until the anti-Communistblacklist destroyed their commercial ...
Franchise saviors >More than ever, having a star goalie makes an invaluable difference
Oct 01, 1999; ... The great ones have usually had nicknames that connoteimpermeability or goose eggs. The China Wall. Tony O. The Dominator.Mr. Zero. The goaltender has always been the keystone of his hockeyteam. The gardien. The denier, the time-buyer, the last stop beforethe redlight. "The goalie has ...
Salad days
Oct 01, 1999; ... Life is pretty good for local band Angry Salad. Its self-titledmajor label debut had some critics salivating. (Billboard dubbed ita"runaway hit.") The band recently launched a jam-packed regionaltour, which includes a high-profile opening slot with the Church atthe Bowery Ballroom in New ...
Grahame at home in Bruins' net
Oct 01, 1999; ... The job is his, for now, sort of, at least until, you know,maybethere's an official celebration made down at City Hall Plaza, orbetter yet, the Guvnah breaks out State House parchment and declarestomorrow Official John Grahame Backup Goalie Day in the Commonwealthof Massachusetts. By all ...
Acting saves an uneven `Guinevere'
Oct 01, 1999; ... GUINEVEREWritten and directed by: Audrey WellsStarring: StephenRea, Sarah Polley, Jean Smart, Gina GershonPlaying at: NickelodeonRunning time: 104 minutesRated: R (strong language and sexuality)"Guinevere" is an uneven but far from dismissible take on a romancebetween a tentative young ...
Embry, Thompson among honorees
Oct 01, 1999; ... A look at the other four inductees this year into the Hall ofFame:Wayne Embry He's going in as a contributor, but that onlybegins to address this man's basketball resume. We may remember himhere as Bill Russell's backup on the NBA champion 1967-68 Celtics oras the hated "Wayne The Wall" ...
Closing the money gap for women in retirement
Oct 01, 1999; ... Teresa Heinz is chairwoman of the Heinz Family Philanthropies.Here's a thought as political leaders deal with the dilemma of fixingSocial Security: Even if they succeed, it won't be enough. Peoplestill need to be saving much more, right now, if they expect a secureretirement. And it is ...
Two law professors criticize Marshall for her 1992 letter >Say rule on using Harvard stationery was not enforced in a consistentway
Oct 01, 1999; ... Two activist professors at Harvard Law School, Charles Ogletreeand Alan Dershowitz, criticized SJC chief justice nominee MargaretMarshall yesterday for her reprimand of a professor who hadexpressedantiabortion views on Law School stationery in 1992. Ogletree, a nationally known civil ...
Moves, perspective won't be duplicated
Oct 01, 1999; ... The clues were there, long before he signed his first contract.If"The Kevin McHale Story" were a feature-length film, no one wouldbe silly enough to label it a mystery. The early evidence wasunmistakable: The kid was a bit unusual. Three hours after theCeltics drafted him, McHale sat ...
NEW GROUND
Oct 01, 1999 ... A rendering of a new Comfort Inn & Suites sits on the site at BellCircle in Revere where it will be built. The developer, ...
Median household income rose 3.5 percent in 1998 >But the gap between wage earners at top and bottom widens
Oct 01, 1999; ... Household incomes rose for a fourth consecutive year in 1998, butdisparities between the highest- and lowest-paid Americans widenedata time the nation is enjoying its longest peacetime economicexpansion, according to a US Census Bureau report released yesterday.The median income of ...
60-second drill >Entrepreneurs show off `elevator pitches' meant to land investors
Oct 01, 1999; ... CAMBRIDGE -- Jay Wilkins and Marc Lind each had just 60 seconds --the time it takes to ride an elevator down a dozen floors in anoffice building -- to describe their Internet start-up companies,themarket opportunities for them, and why they will prosper. Using atechnique dubbed "elevator ...
Bush's silence is scary
Oct 01, 1999; ... George W. Bush first babbled about "compassionate conservatism"last winter when he was a cipher in a cocoon. Virtually declared theRepublican nominee for president without having done anycampaigning,he had not yet confronted the unsavory task of wrestlingwith the demons in his party ....
Leak spews radiation in Japan >Plant accident called worst since Chernobyl
Oct 01, 1999; ... TOKYO -- In what experts call the world's worst nuclear accidentsince Chernobyl, dangerous levels of radiation leaked from a uraniumprocessing plant yesterday, creating an uncontrolled nuclearreactionthat exposed at least 49 people to radiation poisoning andforced theevacuation of ...
Harris brings his own vibes to music
Oct 01, 1999; ... Stefon Harris, who presents his music at the Regattabar onTuesdayand Wednesday as part of an intriguing triple bill with altosaxophonist Greg Osby and pianist Jason Moran, is one of the mostimpressive musicians to emerge in recent years. His first Blue NoteCD, "A Cloud of Red Dust," was ...
Councilors give Marshall mixed signals >Call her both `crafty' and `a credit'
Oct 01, 1999; ... Supreme Judicial Court Justice Margaret Marshall was grilled withquestions about her views on abortion rights, the death penalty, andlabor relations yesterday as hearings on her nomination to becomechief justice concluded with a personal attack by a member of theGovernor's Council who ...
Kevin McHale through the years
Oct 01, 1999 ... REGULAR SEASON G Min FGM FGA Pct FTM FTA PctReb.Stl.Ast. Pts.'80-81 82 1645 355 666.533 108 159.679 4.4 27 0.7 10.0'81-82 82 2332 465875.531 187 248.754 6.9 30 1.1 13.6'82-83 82 2345 483 893.541 193269.717 6.7 34 1.3 14.1'83-84 82 2577 587 1055.556 336 439.765 7.4 231.3 18.4'84-85 79 ...
What McHale says about others
Oct 01, 1999; ... Opponents: "There were opponents you went up against and you knewit would be a helluva fight and challenge, like Buck Williams, whowould fight you tooth-and-nail, but you knew you'd win 95 percent ofthe time. I was much more concerned about the teams, where you couldplay well and still ...
True to his roots >McHale does friends, family proud
Oct 01, 1999; ... HIBBING, Minn. -- The Beanhead is concerned. He knows his friendKevin wants the dock cleaned (there's lots of loon droppings), takenin, and stored for the brutal, Iron Range winter that is sure tocome. But he also knows Kevin wants the whole house torn downbecausethe roof leaks, the ...