The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from November 1999:
SEARCHERS RECALL JFK JR. CRASH
Nov 01, 1999; ... NANTUCKET - Emergency crews scrambling before dawn. Flotsam on theAtlantic Ocean. Debris fields and death off the coast ofMassachusetts. For the second time in 15 weeks, that nightmarish tableau darkeneda bright New England weekend morning, disturbing still-raw wounds ofair ...
RELATIVES GREET NEWS WITH TEARS, ANGUISH
Nov 01, 1999; ... CAIRO - Horror and chaos engulfed the makeshift information centerat Cairo International Airport yesterday as scores of family membersscanned a computer list of the 217 people aboard EgyptAir Flight 990. From those who had confirmed loved ones were on board the downedplane, there ...
NO SOS CALL, NO SURVIVORS\ 217 ON EGYPTAIR JET DIE IN CRASH OFF NANTUCKET; BROAD PROBE LAUNCHED
Nov 01, 1999; ... An EgyptAir jetliner en route from New York to Cairo with 217people on board went into a terrifying dive, apparently broke apart,and crashed into the waters off Nantucket early yesterday. There were no distress calls, no clear causes, and no survivors. EgyptAir Flight 990 ...
DISNEY LOOKS TO THE EAST HONG KONG HOPES THEME PARK CAN INVIGORATE ECONOMY\
Nov 01, 1999; ... HONG KONG - Hong Kong has long been the destination where Occidentmeets Orient, where chopsticks sit alongside English tea and scones.But can it also be the place where Mickey Mouse meets Chairman Mao? The Hong Kong government and Walt Disney Co. are expected toannounce tomorrow a ...
IOWA TO PUT INTERNET VOTING TO THE TEST\ ADJUNCT TO POLLS, BUT PURISTS WORRY
Nov 01, 1999; ... DES MOINES - Chet Culver is the blond-haired son of a US senator,a promising political star who is going to cause a sensation heretomorrow at the polls. But Culver isn't running for election. He is running the electionprocess itself. And the newfangled way he's doing it is making ...
FOR CANADA, ARROW'S FLIGHT WILL NEVER END
Nov 01, 1999; ... SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario - Ask Canadians most anywhere about thelegendary "Avro Arrow," a 1950s-era Canadian fighter plane, and theygenerally swell with pride. How proud are they? Well, one guy in Alberta built an 8 1/2-ton, full-size replica;the nation's national ...
MUSLIMS FIND SOLACE AT SERVICES\
Nov 01, 1999; ... About 80 men and a few women gathered at the Islamic Society ofBoston in Cambridge last night to pray for the victims of theEgyptAir crash and their families. Mohamed Attawia, the society's director, said he did not thinkanyone in the religious community was a friend or relative ...
EGYPT ASKS US TO TAKE LEAD IN INVESTIGATION\
Nov 01, 1999; ... In addition to the normal challenges that federal investigatorsfaced in trying to determine the cause of the crash of Egypt AirFlight 990, there were international complications as well. Early yesterday, members of the National Transportation SafetyBoard were ready to leave ...
SIMILARITIES DRAWN BETWEEN TWO TRAGEDIES\
Nov 01, 1999; ... The ghost of the TWA Flight 800 tragedy three years ago hoveredover yesterday's EgyptAir crash, as government officials and newsanchors seemed intent on avoiding their mistakes of 1996, whenspeculation about bombs and terrorism proved wrong. This time, officials from President ...
EARLIER BOMB THREAT UNFOUNDED\ OFFICIALS DOWNPLAY CHANCE OF SABOTAGE\
Nov 01, 1999; ... WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration warned airsecurity personnel in September of a bomb threat against anunspecified plane leaving from the same US cities as EgyptAir Flight990, but government officials yesterday said the threat hadultimately proved "not ...
NEW TRICKS
Nov 01, 1999 ... Vice President Al Gore last night portrayed himself as a decidedUnderdog, the cartoon dog, that is, while ...
UNDERCOVER WORK
Nov 01, 1999 ... Big Dig workers have begun the world's largest application of jack-tunneling under the rail lines. Trains continue to move undisturbedabove ground, while 12 feet below the tracks one of three tunnels isbeing pushed or jacked into place to connect the Ted Williams Tunnelto Interstate ...
FEW USE `BATTERED WOMAN' DEFENSE\ \ EXPERTS CITE DECLINE IN DOMESTIC KILLINGS
Nov 01, 1999; ... Five years ago, when the controversy over releasing eight femaleprisoners who had killed their abusive partners was at its peak, itlooked like there would be a lot more cases like Michelle Tourigny's. Yet, when the 32-year-old Lowell woman goes on trial today inMiddlesex Superior ...
40-MINUTE CHASE ENDS IN CRASH, ARREST
Nov 01, 1999; ... An East Douglas man was arrested Saturday night on a variety ofcharges after he led police on a wild, 40-minute car chase throughseveral towns and crashed into two police cruisers, officials said. Trooper Tim Murphy of the State Police Hudson barracks said noone was injured in the ...
MAN SURRENDERS AFTER STANDOFF
Nov 01, 1999; ... A short but tense standoff between Needham police and a manthreatening to commit suicide at a church ended peacefully yesterdaymorning after the man dropped his weapon and surrendered. Police received a 911 call from the First Baptist Church on GreatPlain Avenue about 10 a.m ....
VOTER TURNOUT LEVEL WILL TELL WHO GETS SEATS ON CITY COUNCIL
Nov 01, 1999; ... It's the old vs. the new in tomorrow's City Council election, butthe big question is how many voters will go to the polls to furnishtheir opinion on the subject. The four citywide incumbents seeking re-election, Councilors atLarge Francis M. "Mickey" Roache, Stephen J. Murphy, ...
CANCER RUN THERAPEUTIC\ \ RACERS CONTINUE FUND-RAISER AFTER ORGANIZER ACCUSED OF FRAUD
Nov 01, 1999; ... Organizers could have called it the "Turn a Wrong into a Right"Road Race. Variations of that phrase were on the lips of most everyone whoran, walked, or helped organize the 5-kilometer First South BostonRoad Race for Ovarian Cancer Awareness yesterday. The wrong they spoke of ...
WHERE INJUSTICE PREVAILED, DEBATE LINGERS
Nov 01, 1999; ... Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were not heroes. At least oneof them - Sacco - might actually have been connected with the crimefor which both were executed. But what happened to them at the handsof the Massachusetts judicial system, say scholars and historians,stands as one of the ...
WOMAN, 58, KILLED IN STAB ATTACK NEAR WELLESLEY POND
Nov 01, 1999; ... A 58-year-old woman was killed yesterday morning during a walk atMorses Pond in Wellesley, law enforcement officials said. The stabbing death is at least superficially similar to two otherrecent slayings in the towns of Westwood and Walpole. Authoritiesacknowledged that those two ...
PATIENCE WITH FRANKLIN PARK SPEED REGULATIONS HAS ITS LIMITS
Nov 01, 1999; ... It turns out whenever we need a commuter experience worth tellingabout all we need to do is drive through Franklin Park. It was months ago that we raised the issue of speed limits: howthey should be obeyed, but also how they have to be set realisticallyto be respected. And how 25 ...
BECOMING A MILLIONAIRE\
Nov 01, 1999; ... A FEW WEEKS AGO, AT THE BOSTON GLOBE'S PERSONAL FINANCECONFERENCE AND EXPO, I MET A MAN WHO WAS CONVINCED HE WOULD NEVER BERICH. "The only way I'm ever going to be worth $1 million," he said, "isif I rob a bank." Yet when the man threw out the basic numbers he is working ...
CMGI'S MYWAY TO BUY ALTAVISTA UNIT
Nov 01, 1999; ... One of the Internet companies owned by Andover-based CMGI will buya business unit from a different CMGI company, as part of anaggressive expansion campaign. CMGI owns about 80 percent of AltaVista, a prominent Internetportal site, and 90 percent of MyWay, another portal that ...
PUTTING THE SQUEEZE ON PATRIOTS?\ SOME FOXBOROUGH RESIDENTS SEEK MORE MONEY FROM TEAM\
Nov 01, 1999; ... First, House speaker Thomas Finneran invited the team to walk. Then, after lawmakers finally agreed to a compromise packageintended to keep the New England Patriots in Massachusetts, a groupof local trailer park residents balked at the deal. The team is alsorunning into ...
WE DON'T NEED `BEACHED WHALE'\
Nov 01, 1999; ... It is time to stop referring to it as a "$700 million conventioncenter." Jacoby's First Law of Infrastructure states, and I quote:"The final cost is always twice, and often triple, the `projected'cost." The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority can insist allit likes that the new ...
INSULTS WON'T SOLVE HOUSING CRISIS\
Nov 01, 1999; ... There is perhaps no more important issue facing us than housing.Unfortunately, the discussion can easily degenerate into name-calling and finger-pointing. This is too important an issue to allowthat to happen. Contrary to some accounts, the Greater Boston Real Estate ...
SOLVING NEW HAMPSHIRE'S SCHOOL CRISIS\
Nov 01, 1999; ... For two years, we in New Hampshire have grappled with how to bestmeet a state Supreme Court mandate to find a new way to pay foreducation. Last April, we enacted a law that fundamentally changed the way wepay for education. We moved from a system in which the state paidless than ...
TURNING AN ANGUISHED CHILDHOOD INTO A LIFE OF POETRY
Nov 01, 1999; ... Perhaps no passage better captures the humor and heartbreak ofMark Doty's vivid, exquisite memoir "Firebird" than his recollectionof an incident when he was 10. When his friends decide to put on aplay, Doty's contribution is his rendition of Judy Garland's classic"Get Happy." With a red ...
A STATELY SALUTE
Nov 01, 1999; ... Newton playwright David Mamet addressed his troops, thanking themfor their efforts on "State and Main," his latest turn behind thecamera, and then sneaked out a side door. But much of the crew stayedfor several hours Saturday night at the movie's "wrap party" at thedowntown pool hall The ...
IF ANYONE KNOWS DIETS, IT'S DEE DEE
Nov 01, 1999; ... Our all-purpose advice columnist's correspondence is clogged withmessages from anguished readers desperate for diet advice. Dee Dee knows the source of their panic. Last week, a specialissue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reportedthat more Americans are fatter ...
SYRACUSE FAN GETS BIG RETURN ON PLAY
Nov 01, 1999; ... While most in the Carrier Dome crowd of 47,487 bemoaned the factthat DuJuan Daniels returned the opening kickoff 100 yards for ascore in Boston College's 24-23 victory Saturday, there was one luckySyracuse fan who cheered wildly for Daniels. Kevin Kurak, 28, of Syracuse, won ...
BC BOWLED OVER BY A WINNING FEELING
Nov 01, 1999; ... SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Boston College coach Tom O'Brien stood in ahallway outside the visitors' locker room in the bowels of theCarrier Dome when his defensive coordinator, Frank Spaziani, and hisoffensive line coach, David Magazu, wearily approached. Before he made his postgame comments ...
NET CHORD: TALLAS BOOSTS GRAHAME
Nov 01, 1999; ... Rob Tallas knows exactly how John Grahame is feeling right now. Inhis first year with the Bruins in 1994-95, Tallas came into trainingcamp with no contract and dazzled management enough to win one. Hespent that year mostly in Charlotte, in the East Coast League, andplayed two games in ...
EAGER ANDERSON IS READY FOR FUN-AND-GUN CELTICS
Nov 01, 1999; ... WALTHAM - There are fewer than 48 hours left before the start ofthe NBA season. The roster is set. Training camp's over. Ditto theexhibition season. What else can the Celtics do to prepare, to makecertain they advance to the playoffs for the first time since 1995? Kenny Anderson ...
COATES: CLOUD ON HORIZON?
Nov 01, 1999; ... TEMPE, Ariz. - Ben Coates yesterday did not have a reception forthe second game this season and was irate afterward, charging he'sbeen excluded from the game plan and saying he wants out if hedoesn't receive a bigger role. "There's nothing I can do about it except try to get the ...
GIVE O'BRIEN CREDIT - HE HAD EAGLES FLYING\
Nov 01, 1999; ... While the Boston College players deserve most of the credit fortheir 24-23 win over Syracuse Saturday, coach Tom O'Brien alsodeserves some praise. O'Brien faced the monstrous task of getting his team mentallyprepared after last week's 31-28 loss to Miami. How do you convince ...
NAMES MOORE KILLED IN MARLBORO 500 CRASH
Nov 01, 1999 ... Greg Moore was killed yesterday in the season-ending CART race atFontana, Calif., when on the 10th lap of the Marlboro 500, he lostcontrol of his Reynard-Mercedes, which skidded onto the infieldgrass, crashed into a retaining wall, and broke into pieces, with theopen-cockpit driver's ...
DEFENSE HAS A LINE ON HOW TO SECURE VICTORY\
Nov 01, 1999; ... TEMPE, Ariz. - The future is not now for the Arizona Cardinals,who could not overcome the mistakes of their young offensive lineyesterday. "If we can run the ball even this much," said Cardinals generalmanager Bob Ferguson before the game, spreading two fingers about aninch ...
BROADCAST WAS A REAL YAWNER - CLICK\
Nov 01, 1999; ... Yesterday's Patriots telecast was not exactly riveting, especiallyconsidering the other NFL telecasts and the ongoing coverage of thetragedy of EgyptAir Flight 990. As the Patriots-Cardinals game was kicking off on CBS, over on FoxSt. Louis was mounting a fourth-quarter comeback ...
THIS PATRIOT SHOWED HIS GRIT ON THE GRIDIRON\
Nov 01, 1999; ... Steve Nelson was the core of the New England Patriots defense for14 long seasons, from 1974-87. His No. 57 was retired by the team, hewas elected to the Patriots Hall of Fame in 1993, and he made the ProBowl three times. Nelson is No. 61 on the Globe's list of the top NewEngland sports ...
AS MAIN FOES WANDER, TEAM HEADED IN RIGHT DIRECTION\
Nov 01, 1999; ... TEMPE, Ariz. - The Patriots played a home game in Tempeyesterday, which is what happens sometimes when you're on your way tocontrolling your destiny and your opponent is on its way to oblivion. Those are the directions the New England Patriots and ArizonaCardinals seem headed ...
DESERT BREEZE\ \ HOT PATRIOTS BLAST PAST CARDINALS
Nov 01, 1999; ... TEMPE, Ariz. - Their charter flight arrived here five hours laterthan expected Saturday because of mechanical problems. Then they hadto play in 90-degree-plus heat, many, many miles from their hometurf. Those could have been easy excuses, but instead the Patriots tookit out on ...
SUN AND FUN FOR FANS TEAM HAD AMAZING NUMBER OF WELL-WISHERS IN STANDS
Nov 01, 1999; ... TEMPE, Ariz. - Owner Robert Kraft looked around at the sea ofPatriots jerseys and well-wishers in the Sun Devil Stadium crowd andwas amazed. He couldn't believe the number of New England fans in Arizona,which seems to produce the most Patriots fans outside of New ...
JEFFERSON SEIZES PASSES, NOT PRAISE\
Nov 01, 1999; ... TEMPE, Ariz. - If you were a New England Patriot, the entire daywas fun, fun, fun and Daddy never even threatened to take the T-Birdaway. And if you didn't know any better, you'd have thought this 27-3dispatch of the impotent Arizona Cardinals was a home game. "It was obvious ...
PETTIJOHN 1 OF 3 PLAYERS STABBED IN SYRACUSE BAR
Nov 01, 1999; ... Maynard "Duke" Pettijohn from Mattapan was one of three Syracuseplayers stabbed in an attack at an off-campus bar early yesterday. Pettijohn, 22, was treated for head and ear cuts and released fromSt. Joseph's Hospital. David Byrd, a 21-year-old senior cornerback from ...
DAY OF MIXED BLESSINGS\ MIRACULOUS ENDINGS FOR BROWNS, GIANTS PROVE CURSED FOR LOSERS\
Nov 01, 1999; ... A Hail Mary beats the Saints? On a Sunday? Is nothing sacred? Trailing, 14-13, to the expansion Browns with less than twominutes remaining, New Orleans, with a steady diet of Ricky Williams,moved into field goal position, and Doug Brien booted a 46-yarderwith 21 seconds left to ...
ONE-SHOT DEAL FOR WESTON
Nov 01, 1999; ... Weston coach Bob Desaulniers has coached high school football fornearly 30 years, but has yet to win a Super Bowl. That could changeif the Wildcats stay on track and give their coach a ring in hisfirst and only season as the head coach. Desaulniers, who has been the school's ...
AIRLINE PREPARES TO ASSIST RELATIVES OF PASSENGERS\
Nov 01, 1999; ... NEW YORK - Family members of the 217 people aboard Flight 990grieved at JFK Airport yesterday, comforted by the Red Cross, cityworkers and airline officials who have learned from eerily similarscenes in the past three years. This was the third time since 1996 that families gathered ...
QUOTING CLEANLY
Nov 01, 1999; ... A few days ago, in designing Page 1 around Wil Haygood's series onAIDS in Africa, an editor plucked out a quotation by a Zimbabwe womanand dramatized it in large type - "If you would have seen me withthese children . . . " That bothered Anne McKinnon of Jamaica Plain - not the ...
LOCAL AGENT BOOKED TRIP FOR A LOYAL SENIOR SET\
Nov 01, 1999; ... The typical Grand Circle Travel tourist is a 72-year-old sunbird,retired and living far from New England, but the Boston company thatapparently had 54 passengers on EgyptAir Flight 990 yesterday hasinspired such loyalty that clients have occasionally driven in fromother states just to ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Nov 01, 1999 ... Q. WE HAVE OWNED SHARES OF STOCK OF STANDARD METAL CORP. SINCE1968. WE WERE NOTIFIED IN 1987 THAT THE STOCK WOULD BE LISTED ONNASDAQ UNDER THE SYMBOL STMC AND THE TRANSFER AGENT WAS THE BANK OFNEW YORK ON WALL STREET. WE HAVE TRIED TO CONTACT THE COMPANY AND THEBANK, BUT OUR MAIL WAS ...
DR. DAVID A. COLLING, 64 WAS PROFESSOR AND METALLURGIST
Nov 01, 1999 ... Dr. David Allen Colling, a retired professor and metallurgist,died at his home in Cambridge on Friday of cancer. He was 64. Born and raised in Lancaster, N.Y., he received his bachelor's,master's, and doctoral degrees in metallurgy from the MassachusettsInstitute of ...
JAMES W. GEARY, 85 WAS SUNSHINE BISCUIT MANAGER
Nov 01, 1999 ... James W. Geary, a retired regional accounts manager for SunshineBiscuit Co., died of cancer on Saturday at his home in Revere. Hewas 85. Born in Chelsea, Mr. Geary was raised and educated in the Bronx,N.Y. He spent his career at ...
FREDERICK MAHONY, 97\ WAS REAL ESTATE PARTNER
Nov 01, 1999 ... A memorial Mass will be said tomorrow for Frederick J. Mahony, whodied Friday after a brief illness. He was 97. Born in East Boston, he graduated from Boston Latin School in 1921and Boston College in 1925. He was a founding partner of Cohen, Mahony & Ward in Brookline, ...
FRANCES RODDY, 84 AVID GARDENER AND ARTIST
Nov 01, 1999 ... Frances Newbury Roddy of Concord, an avid gardener and artist,died Friday in Massachusetts General Hospital. She was 84. Mrs. Roddy was born in Belgrade, Mont. She graduated in 1933 fromConcord Academy and later from the Katherine Gibbs School. Mrs. Ruddy worked for a brief ...
LEO JOSEPH SULLIVAN, 81 WAS PHYSICIST AT LEXINGTON LAB
Nov 01, 1999 ... Leo Joseph Sullivan of Lexington, a physicist at LincolnLaboratory, died Tuesday in the Carleton Williard Nursing Home inBedford. He was 81. Mr. Sullivan received a degree in physics from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology in 1940, and from 1942 to 1945, he worked atthe MIT ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Nov 01, 1999 ... Q. WHERE CAN I FIND A REPLACEMENT RIBBON FOR MY SMITH-CORONAEXECUTIVE TYPEWRITER? I ...
OLD HOLLYWOOD COMES TO LIFE
Nov 01, 1999; ... We remember Alfred Hitchcock as possibly the greatest filmmaker ofall time, a towering figure whose stylistic imprints are stillapparent on movie screens. If we remember David O. Selznicj at all,it's as a symbol of vanished Hollywood ruled by cigar-chompingmoguls with a weakness for ...
FRANCES RODDY, 84 AVID GARDENER AND ARTIST
Nov 01, 1999 ... Frances Newbury Roddy of Concord, an avid gardener and artist,died Friday in Massachusetts General Hospital. She was 84. Mrs. Roddy was born in Belgrade, Mont. She graduated in 1933 fromConcord Academy and later from the Katherine Gibbs School. Mrs. Ruddy worked for a brief ...
LEO JOSEPH SULLIVAN, 81 WAS PHYSICIST AT LEXINGTON LAB
Nov 01, 1999 ... Leo Joseph Sullivan of Lexington, a physicist at LincolnLaboratory, died Tuesday in the Carleton Williard Nursing Home inBedford. He was 81. Mr. Sullivan received a degree in physics from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology in 1940, and from 1942 to 1945, he worked atthe MIT ...
DR. DAVID A. COLLING, 64 WAS PROFESSOR AND METALLURGIST
Nov 01, 1999 ... Dr. David Allen Colling, a retired professor and metallurgist,died at his home in Cambridge on Friday of cancer. He was 64. Born and raised in Lancaster, N.Y., he received his bachelor's,master's, and doctoral degrees in metallurgy from the MassachusettsInstitute of ...
JAMES W. GEARY, 85 WAS SUNSHINE BISCUIT MANAGER
Nov 01, 1999 ... James W. Geary, a retired regional accounts manager for SunshineBiscuit Co., died of cancer on Saturday at his home in Revere. Hewas 85. Born in Chelsea, Mr. Geary was raised and educated in the Bronx,N.Y. He spent his career at Sunshine Biscuit Co., before retiring ...
A CRITICAL LOOK AT WELFARE
Nov 01, 1999 ... Welfare reform took a rhetorical beating at a recent SimmonsCollege symposium that was partly sponsored by Fleet Bank, asupporter of welfare to work. Reform was called a disaster, a policythat gets people off welfare but not always out of poverty, and aploy by President Clinton to stay ...
KING OF HOOKS
Nov 01, 1999; ... Matthew Sweet will forever rank high on Go!'s list of favoritemusicians based on his third, and most perfect, album, "Girlfriend,"a copy of which should be in every pop music lover's collection. (Thefollow-up, "Altered Beast," has some magical moments as well, notablythe sample from ...
A DOUBLE WHAMMY AT ELLIS ANTIQUES SHOW
Nov 01, 1999; ... As if the Ellis Memorial Antiques Show needed anything more thanperfectly gorgeous vintage furniture to draw a crowd, this year itpacks a double whammy with the loan show "Treasures of the ChinaTrade: Two Centuries of Collecting Asian Export Art," from thePeabody Essex Museum's 200th ...
SITE HAS ALL THE RESEARCH THAT FITS\
Nov 01, 1999; ... In the elite world of medical research, Dr. Harold Varmus is atthe top of the heap. He runs the government's biggest health researchengine, the National Institutes of Health, and won the 1989 NobelPrize for his groundbreaking work on cancer genes. Yet Varmus, 59, has proposed such ...