The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 2000:
FLEET'S FEE FLAP
May 01, 2000 ... The merger of Fleet Financial Group and BankBoston yielded amuscular financial hybrid, but one with a tin ear for communityrelations. Little else explains FleetBoston's decision to raise feeson the basic accounts that serve its lower-income clients. The bump in transaction fees for ...
THE RIGHT TO CHEAPER MEDICINE
May 01, 2000 ... For the last 20 years, the federal government has failed toexercise its right to get price breaks for US agencies purchasingprescription drugs that benefited from public research money. It hasdropped the ball on this for two reasons: It gets bulk discountsanyway for drugs purchased by ...
MAY, BE KINDER
May 01, 2000 ... May! We thought you'd never come. April, after all, is thecruelest month. What a relief. We hope. How cruel was April? It was a very fickle companion that startedout gentle, then abruptly turned a very cold shoulder on everyone. The winter had been a breeze. There was very ...
HUMAN SERVICES LEADERS
May 01, 2000 ... The Cellucci administration should tune up its human serviceshiring engine. For months, two key agencies - the Department of Social Services and the Division of MedicalAssistance - have had "acting" commissioners. Finally, this month, two formative decisions were made, one ...
SHE'S GOT IT ALL
May 01, 2000; ... Like all good political consultants, we begin today by looking atthe candidate's background. Our Favorite Daughter may not look 35,old enough to fulfill the constitutional requirement for president ofthe United States, but she was born in 1959. She's been with the same guy for as ...
THE LIMITS TO GLOBALISM
May 01, 2000; ... `THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY" WAS A POPULAR SLOGAN OF THE EARLYENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT. THE IDEA WAS TO APPRECIATE THAT THE WORLD ISINTERCONNECTED AND TO RECOGNIZE THAT POLITICAL ACTION BEGINS AT HOME.WITH THE GLOBALIZATION OF COMMERCE, HOWEVER, THE SLOGAN TAKES ON NEWMEANINGS AND ...
APPALLED BY PHOTO
May 01, 2000 ... I was appalled and offended by the photograph of the federal agenttrying to seize the young boy on the front page of the April 23 Globe. The photo itself was not the offensive part, but the fact thatit was on the front page of the Sunday edition. That photograph seemed to ...
EXILES SHOULD SHOW US GOVERNMENT A LITTLE RESPECT
May 01, 2000 ... I find it ironic, at the very least, that the relatives of ElianGonzalez so blatantly thumbed their noses at the US government. Havethey forgotten that it is this same government that allows them thefreedom in which to express their beliefs? A little respect is due, ...
WHO STANDS UP FOR THE BLACK VICTIMS?
May 01, 2000 ... Another young black man has become a sad statistic. Who stands upfor Cornel Young Jr., Michael Cox, or all the other innocent blackmen and women judged by the color of their skin? ...
BOB SMITH'S UNIQUE VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION
May 01, 2000 ... Just when I believed that there was absolutely no humor to befound in the tragedy of the Elian Gonzalez case, along comes SenatorBob Smith from New Hampshire, pouting that the military officials atAndrews Air Force Base refused to allow him to bring his "guests"(the Miami relatives) onto ...
DON'T DEMONIZE CUBANS
May 01, 2000 ... I am disappointed with Adrian Walker's commentary, "Shock hardensto anger," on the April 23 front page. Walker stereotypes the Cuban-American community as "nutty" and "wildly unhinged." This type of xenophobia in the free press has got to stop. TheCuban-Americans in this country ...
WE NEED MORE MODEL COMMUNITIES
May 01, 2000 ... The observations and action plan included in an April 24 op-edarticle written by Cardinal Bernard Law and Governor Paul Cellucci("Joining forces to ease the housing squeeze") will not advance thecurrent need for more affordable housing. Their observations that "money alone cannot ...
OPERATION FAMILY VALUES
May 01, 2000 ... It seems to me that the elected officials who are loudest in theircondemnation of the government's actions are the same officials whohave been screaming "family values." Isn't reuniting a father and sonthe epitome of family values? I also question the ability of the cousin to care ...
GIVE ELIAN THE LIBERTY TO GROW NORMALLY
May 01, 2000 ... Many of those who cannot understand the frustration and posture ofCuban-Americans on the Elian issue do not realize what's happening inCuba today. Cuban children do not belong to their parents, but to thegovernment. No father or mother has the right to submit his child to a ...
MBTA: INCREASE FARES, IMPROVE SERVICE
May 01, 2000 ... While I fully support the MBTA's plan to raise subway and busfares by a modest amount, it would be nice to see some modest serviceimprovements accompanying this fare increase. Service should beexpanded to take into account the realities of today's longer workinghours. As a ...
HOW MUCH DID ALL THIS COST US TAXPAYERS?
May 01, 2000 ... Elian is back where he should have been five months ago - with his father! The method of reuniting the two will be discussed and debated adnauseum. The political posturing, credit-grabbing, and calls for hearingsare already well underway. Nonetheless, it is to be hoped ...
OUR INTENTIONS IN VIETNAM WERE NOBLE
May 01, 2000 ... Vietnam. It is not just the name of a country. It is a period oftime, an American era unto itself - a trigger word conjuring upmemories of America's 20th century confrontation with all of thebeliefs, successes, and social mores that combined to bring us into adifferent world at the end ...
WHEN A HOMELESS VETERAN OF THE VIETNAM WAR DIES IN THE ALLEY
May 01, 2000 ... Because the Spare Change newspaper office, where I work, sharesbasement offices with an advocacy center for the homeless, I wasfortunate to meet George Camille Fredette, a Vietnam veteran. George came to the center, Bread and Jams, each day to shower, getsomething to eat, and ...
POLITICAL IRONIES
May 01, 2000 ... Isn't it ironic that the very Republicans who are so quick tocriticize the use of guns by the INS in the rescue of ...
DOES THIS MAKE OUR CHILDREN FEEL SAFE AGAIN?
May 01, 2000 ... President Clinton, as well as the nation's highest law enforcementofficer, TV pundits, and talk-show hosts who applauded the show offorce in Miami have lost their moral authority to address violencein America. In rightfully seeking to restore Elian Gonzalez to hisfather, President ...
TEACHER'S REACTION TO STORY IS SCARY
May 01, 2000 ... I am not normally one who defends the mysterious machinations ofhigh school students. But in the case of Boston Latin Academy writerCharles Carithers ("Fact, fiction collide in classroom," Metro, April27), I can only say the wrong person is faced with suspension. It is the lad's ...
POLICE STATE TACTICS CANNOT BE TOLERATED IN A NATION OF LAWS
May 01, 2000 ... The United States is a country of laws, with the highest law ofthe land being the US Constitution. The Constitution guarantees toall people within its jurisdiction the right to due process under thelaw. Due process means that all federal agencies must submit to ajudicial hearing to ...
WILL MCCAIN APOLOGIZE?
May 01, 2000 ... Thanks for the continuing coverage of Arizona Senator John McCainand his recent confession in South Carolina, followed by a contritepublic apology ....
ENTERTAINMENT IN CLASSROOM IS PATHETIC
May 01, 2000 ... I had a mixed reaction to the April 26 Metro report, "Jesus facesmock trial at Harvard." It was comical and clever. In a democracy we can mock religiouspractice and belief without fear of being executed. No one is hurt. My sense of fun was then replaced by sadness the more I ...
IMAGES OF OUR DEMOCRACY
May 01, 2000 ... The now infamous photo of little Elian Gonzalez being taken atgunpoint by an Immigration and Naturalization Service agent depictsthe reality that, even in a democracy, sometimes the use of force isnecessary to enforce the law. But this same photo illustrates thereality of what liberty ...
TODAY, THE SURVIVORS ASK HOW WE CAN HONOR THE MEMORIES OF THOSE WHO FELL IN VIETNAM
May 01, 2000 ... The following is a memorial address I delivered at my classreunion last May: It should not have shocked me, for in 1969 one could be easilynumbed by the addition of just one more name to the Honor Roll. Butthere it was, a single listing in the Globe with a flag next to hisname, ...
EXPOSED IN THE SUPREME COURT: LIES ABOUT `PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION'
May 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON-The State of Nebraska got caught red-handed here lastweek. The exposure was technically legal in nature, and because it wasbefore the Supreme Court there was enough of a veneer of gentility tocushion the blow's humiliating severity. But in getting caught in several ...
HOW CHESS BROTHERS' MOVES PUT EARLY ROCK ON RADIO
May 01, 2000; ... History has it that in 1948, when Leonard Chess first heard MuddyWaters sing, he just didn't get it. In a honey-thick Mississippidrawl, indecipherable to the unseasoned ear, the singer-guitaristpoured out his heart in a blue torrent of passion and pain in suchsongs as "I Can't Be ...
NEW 'GIRL' IN CLASS YOUNG WOMEN FIND SUSANNA KAYSEN'S BOOK HITS A CHORD, EDGING OUT `BELL JAR' ON MUST-READ LISTS
May 01, 2000; ... Gracing the cover of "The Bell Jar" is a fuzzy picture of SylviaPlath, a girl in white who looks as though she is about to disappearinto the mists of history. The jacket of "Girl, Interrupted" is moremodern, featuring a close-up of a model's face, cut in half by typeand somehow ...
DREAM TEAM
May 01, 2000; ... Fifty percent of life is the experience. The other half? Thestory. You know, the brushes with greatness, the intimations of fame.Think of the conversational mileage you'd have gotten from seeing aband called the Quarrymen in Liverpool back in 1959. Seeing Nirvanado MTV's "Unplugged" ...
SUB DRAMA COMMANDEERS BOX OFFICE
May 01, 2000 ... The submarine thriller "U-571" held its own at the top of the boxoffice for the second straight weekend, according to studio estimatesyesterday. The World War II drama starring Matthew McConaughey and HarveyKeitel took in $12.3 million, pushing its total gross to $38.2million in ...
MCMAHON GOES STARGAZING IN BOSTON
May 01, 2000; ... There were dozens of pets at the Petco in Brighton, 40 singersand cheerleaders at Club Passim in Harvard Square, and more than 20comics at Nick's Comedy Stop in the Theater District. And that wasjust Friday. Ed McMahon, television's famous sidekick and announcer,has dusted off his ...
BOSTON BALLET HAS BALL WITH CLEOPATRA
May 01, 2000; ... The Egyptian theme among Boston's arts organizations this year hasbrought out the kid in a lot of formerly fusty figures. Anyone, forexample, who didn't wear something Egyptian to the Boston Ballet'sCleopatra's Ball on Friday night was in costume by the time thedancing began, as ...
PUMPKINS CUT ADRENALIN WITH SUBTLETY
May 01, 2000; ... LOWELL - The Smashing Pumpkins are still unique. A listenerdoesn't get only a full plate of rock 'n' roll but also a post-graduate course in philosophy. Singer and educator Billy Corganremains among the brightest and brashest frontmen of his time,working the crowd like an orator who ...
AN AMERICAN BEAUTY FOR BEST SPORTING SPECTACLE IN THE COUNTRY, IT'S A WORTHY NOMINEE
May 01, 2000; ... The words from Kentucky brought forth an instant image. Thefavorite for the Kentucky Derby was standing on his hind legs at 6a.m. last Thursday, straight up, for so long that his rider wastossed and the horse eventually fell over on his hindquarters.This is the noble pose for a ...
TRIBE'S ANGER HITS HIM THE WRONG WAY
May 01, 2000; ... CLEVELAND - There are some smart men who coach and play for theCleveland Indians. I am sure of that. What I'm not sure of is this:Why did those intelligent people appear to be so ignorant andthickheaded yesterday at Jacobs Field? After hearing the Indians' explanation for being ...
LEWIS STRIKES A BLOW FOR HIS DIVISION
May 01, 2000; ... NEW YORK - It wasn't pretty to watch, but then few assaults are. For nearly six minutes Saturday night, heavyweight champion LennoxLewis bludgeoned overmatched Michael Grant. Nearly every time Lewisslammed rights into Grant's face, the challenger fell to the floor. And Grant ...
NAMES YASHIN GETS CLEARANCE TO PLAY FOR RUSSIA
May 01, 2000 ... Alexei Yashin, who sat out all of this season in a contractdispute with the Ottawa Senators, was cleared yesterday to play forRussia at the world hockey championships in St. Petersburg, Russia.Arbitrator George Nicolau ruled against the NHL, allowing Yashin tojoin the Russian national ...
THE WHOLE NINE YARDS CHRONICLING ODDS AND ENDS FROM PATRIOTS MINICAMP
May 01, 2000; ... FOXBOROUGH - Odds and ends from Patriots minicamp: Coach Bill Belichick and his staff weren't real impressed with theconditioning of his 36 rookies. "Quite a bit was asked of them, but I told them as a group Ididn't think they were in real good condition," he said. "I ...
IT'S THE SAME OLD DRILL MARTINEZ EJECTED BUT BEATS CLEVELAND AGAIN
May 01, 2000; ... CLEVELAND - To an outsider - or someone in a Cleveland Indiansuniform - it might have seemed rash, foolhardy, shortsighted, or justplain dumb when Pedro Martinez hit Robbie Alomar with the first pitchof the eighth inning yesterday afternoon, even though Martinez knewhe would be ejected ...
NOT WHISTLING WHILE THEY WORK CLAVIJO IS PERTURBED BY OFFICIALS' NON-CALLS
May 01, 2000; ... Fernando Clavijo retained his composure a day after the great non-call that likely cost the Revolution a chance to defeat MiamiSaturday night. Actually, Clavijo displayed an admirable balancebetween anger and tranquility after the game, which concluded in a 1-1 tie after referee Noel ...
HE SWEARS . . . THAT HE'S SORRY MARTINEZ REGRETS CURSING AT UMP
May 01, 2000; ... CLEVELAND - Pedro Martinez said he was sorry he cursed at plateumpire Tim Tschida in the sixth inning yesterday, when he walked twoconsecutive batters with two out, the first time this season he haswalked two batters in an inning. Tschida, Sox fans will recall, was the second base ...
THIRD THE CHARM PIPPIG BEGINS HER COMEBACK
May 01, 2000; ... DEDHAM - Clenching her fists and glancing heavenward, a radiantUta Pippig crossed the finish line of yesterday's James Joyce Ramble10K in 34 minutes 33 seconds. Barely allowed to catch her breath, thebeaming three-time winner and darling of the Boston Marathon wasbesieged by TV ...
Q&A WITH DAN LAPOINTE STAR OF THE WEEK
May 01, 2000; ... Everett senior baseball star Dan LaPointe leads a talented squadthat is among the best in the Greater Boston League. However,conquering the GBL is just one of the things the shortstop would liketo accomplish this season. Winning an MIAA state title is the other.In a Q & A last week with ...
THE TANGLES WEB FOR SOME, BROADBAND IS TOO SLOW IN COMING TO TOWN
May 01, 2000; ... Boston and the rest of eastern Massachusetts have, arguably, someof the best offerings in terms of internet service. Most communitieshave access to either cable modem or digital subscriber line service -if not both. But just because a community has access doesn'tnecessarily mean ...
THE TANGLED WEB THOSE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE ACCESS FACE SERVICE CHOICE
May 01, 2000; ... Boston and the rest of eastern Massachusetts have, arguably, someof the best offerings in terms of internet service. Most communitieshave access to either cable modem or digital subscriber line service -if not both. But just because a community has access doesn'tnecessarily mean ...
AVID TECHNOLOGY NAMES PRESIDENT, CEO
May 01, 2000 ... Avid Technology Inc. has promoted David Krall to president andchief executive. He had served as president and chief operatingofficer since October. Krall joined Avid Technology in May 1995 as director of programmanagement for the company's Digidesign audio division, and ...
VENKAT SRINIVASAN, 42 FOUNDER AND CEO, ECREDIT.COM, A DEDHAM-BASED ONLINE FINANCING FIRM
May 01, 2000 ... Transforming activity We're an infrastructure company. We provide business and financialinstitutions with the opportunity to do transactions online. We dothat with a real-time network we call the Global Financing Network.What we do is a transforming-type activity: We're changing ...
POLAROID PUTS FINGER ON SECURITY
May 01, 2000; ... Polaroid Corp. wants to make it cheaper to get to know you. While the Cambridge-based company is primarily a camera-maker, itis also trying to lower the cost of computer security identificationsystems. At a trade show in Florida today, it plans to announcepartnerships with 11 other ...
BEAUTIFUL PROFITS
May 01, 2000; ... Don't add Chris Ambler's voice to the chorus of bricks-and-mortarmerchants complaining about the online competition. In an ironic twist, Internet retailers are sending business to hisstore, Frame Smart in Chestnut Hill. More than a year ago, the storemanager began noticing that ...
MIT GRADS HAVE MADE A PLACE FOR THEMSELVES
May 01, 2000; ... ATHERTON, Calif. - Snickering about snow in Boston, more than 200graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gatheredbeneath a balmy California sunset last week to reflect on their goodfortunes - and not just in regard to the weather. There was Bill Porter, MIT class of ...
THE NEXT HOT SECTOR? TRY `CONVERGENCE'
May 01, 2000; ... Looking for a sector that still excites venture capitalists?Here's one: It's a foggy place full of entertainment and possibility -some where between cyberspace and your living room couch - where TVand the Web mingle. They call it "convergence" (because all things Web-related ...
NEW `TELECOM HOTEL' EYES SEPT. START-UP
May 01, 2000; ... Developers of a planned new "telecom hotel" on the site of theformer Wonder Bread factory in Natick said they have closed the saleand all local permits and hope to start bringing tenants in bySeptember. The project, called TechCommons, will offer 300,000 square feet ofspace for ...
YOUNG LAWYERS' STOCK RISES WITH THE INTERNET
May 01, 2000; ... Mike Kendall was 28 and just a few years out of law school in 1997when his firm, Boston's Goodwin Procter & Hoar, asked him to workwith a Harvard business student, Stig Leschley, who needed helpmaking his e-commerce idea a reality. Kendall soon became the firm's main contact for ...
DREAM JOB: INDULGING A TALENT FOR TINT
May 01, 2000; ... MONTVALE, N.J. - Snowflake, coal, and ho-ho red. That's how Leslie Harrington, director of design at Benjamin MoorePaints, describes the colors of Santa's red-and-white belted suit.She's not being difficult by choosing three slightly obscure colornames; she's just doing her ...
FOR THE RECORD
May 01, 2000 ... Clarification: A story and accompanying photo caption inyesterday's Metro/Region section about Pilgrimage 2000 misidentifiedsome of the organizers. They were ...
WAR BORN
May 01, 2000 ... Leah Solorzano of San Antonio, a Vietnam native who left herhomeland as a child when an American family adopted her near the endof the war, visited the ...
GORE URGES US FOCUS ON AFRICA MUGABE RAPPED AS `DISGRACEFUL'
May 01, 2000; ... Africa, a continent long ignored by the developed world and longtroubled by famine, civil war, and disease, would enjoy a new andheightened focus by a Gore administration, the vice president saidyesterday. Africa "has tremendous potential. And there's too much suffering.And in ...
BANK SCANDAL GETS A DOSE OF TITILLATION
May 01, 2000; ... MOSCOW - References to the Bank of New York have been popping upin strange places in Moscow. In the city's chatty tabloid press, forexample. Last week, the scandal-sheet Versiya reported that it knows of avideotape showing a Bank of New York executive frolicking with ...
JOURNALISTS PAYING FOR THEIR STORIES WITH THEIR LIVES REPRESSION OF PRESS UP, NEWS GROUP SAYS
May 01, 2000; ... PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - Veton Surroi was an ethnic Albanian andSlavko Curuvija a Serb, but still they had a lot in common. Both werejournalists who believed a free, robust press was the most powerfulweapon against tyranny. Both used their talents to report on therepressive regime of ...
GAY ACTIVISTS GATHER
May 01, 2000 ... The Washington Monument provided the backdrop yesterday as a crowdestimated to number at least 200,000 ...
RACIAL ABUSE IS ALLEGED AT BOSTON SCHOOL FEDERAL RIGHTS OFFICE INVESTIGATES
May 01, 2000; ... The US Department of Education is investigating allegations thatCape Verdean children were subjected to racist and abusive treatmentby a teacher at James Condon Elementary School in South Boston, andthat school officials tried to cover it up. The probe focuses on charges that a ...
THREE ARE ARRESTED AFTER POLICE CHASE
May 01, 2000 ... Three people were arrested after leading police on a chase throughback roads in North Andover late last night, police said. The low-speed chase, which is under investigation, lasted about four minutesand ended with the ...
NINE SUFFER INJURIES IN APARTMENT BLAZE
May 01, 2000 ... Seven residents suffered smoke inhalation and two firefighterssuffered minor injuries when a fire ripped through the second floorof an apartment building in Worcester last night. The one-alarm blazeat 50 Great Brook Valley Ave. started at 8:13 ...
FIREFIGHTERS RESCUE RESIDENTS FROM ROOF
May 01, 2000 ... Fire forced seven people last night onto the roof of theirapartment building at 6 Hammond St., where they were rescued byfirefighters. One man suffered burns on his arm, and an infantsuffered smoke inhalation, said Deputy Chief Rick Mitchell ...