The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from June 2000:
NO RETREAT FROM PROGRAMS THAT PROTECT GAY TEENAGERS
Jun 01, 2000; ... This morning there are a significant number of teenagers who arecontemplating or who will attempt suicide. Not because they arementally ill and not because they get bad grades - just because theyare gay. This afternoon too many kids will be harassed verbally, physicallyassaulted, ...
SUGAR-COATED GUIDELINES
Jun 01, 2000 ... When the federal government held its first summit meeting onnutrition 31 years ago, the principal food problem was hunger, andthe proposed solutions were improvements in food stamps and theestablishment of the WIC program for infants, children, and pregnantwomen. This week, the second ...
STUBBORN FLEXIBILITY ON MCAS
Jun 01, 2000 ... At an education summit in Boston recently, former RepresentativeMark Roosevelt urged that the state be "stubborn but flexible" inimplementing the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests,scheduled to become a high school graduation requirement in 2003. Thephrase was picked up ...
ONE STANDARD FOR SLUMLORDS
Jun 01, 2000 ... The Menino administration is maintaining a disturbing doublestandard for slumlords: suburban owners of derelict properties inBoston take a pounding, but urban owners of equally shamefulproperties get handled with care. In 1998, city officials targeted three suburban landlords ...
THE ACLU AND THE G-WORD
Jun 01, 2000; ... The American Civil Liberties Union has a well-deserved reputationas a scourge of religion in the public square. When a judge in Alabama displayed the Ten Commandments in hiscourtroom, the ACLU filed suit to force their removal. When a churchin Troy, Mich., put a banner promoting ...
THE STORY BEHIND OZ
Jun 01, 2000 ... Regarding the AP story celebrating the centennial publication ofFrank Baum's book, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" ("100 years later,land of Oz lingers in Kansas," Page A3, May 26), I've always lookedbeyond the hayseed stereotype of Kansans to a symbolic story aboutAmerica's coming ...
A HOME FOR THE RED SOX BUT NOT THE HOMELESS?
Jun 01, 2000 ... Your editorial "The young and homeless" (May 24) indicates thatthere are about 8,350 homeless people living in Massachusetts andthat our leaders are asking Washington for $263,000 to pay forpermanent housing for 12 homeless youths. On the same day, Derrick Z. Jackson's column, ...
COLUMNIST IS MISGUIDED ON GIRLS IN SCHOOL
Jun 01, 2000 ... Alex Beam, in yet another column on my dispute with Harvardprofessor Carol Gilligan, now presents himself as an excitedbystander (TGIF, May 26). "It's the battle of the lady professors,"exclaims Beam. "Get out the Texas death cage!" In fact, as his firstcolumn revealed (TGIF, May 19), ...
HOSPITAL CEO IS MORE THAN AN `EX-NURSE'
Jun 01, 2000 ... Regarding Alison Bass's May 30 article on Mount Auburn Hospital'sCEO, Jeannette Clough ("The healing CEO," Living/Arts), I alwayswonder why nurses like Clough are referred to, or refer tothemselves, as "ex-nurses" once they enter fields that some considernot part of a traditional nursing ...
STATE SHOWS LITTLE CONCERN FOR PARENTS OF RETARDED
Jun 01, 2000 ... Many thanks to the Globe and Joan Vennochi for her column, "Stateputs squeeze on mentally retarded" (op ed, May 12). As the parent ofa 33-year-old daughter with severe to moderate mental retardation, Ilive in fear about what will happen to Jennifer when my husband and Idie or are too old ...
COMMENCEMENT PHOTOS
Jun 01, 2000 ... Your photo of two graduates with cell phones during BostonUniversity's commencement (Page A1, May 22) was eye-catching but notnearly as relevant to the meaning of ...
EXPLORING THE COMPLEX ISSUE OF GENDER
Jun 01, 2000 ... Dear Beth: I thought your advice to the boy who got aroused dressing in hismother's underwear was right on the money as far as it went. Theboy's situation could be that of just a sexual fetish as you said butit also could be an indication that he is transgendered. At that ageit ...
BLANKET STATEMENT WITH A VAST COLLECTION, EXHIBITED IN PART AT THE AMERICAN TEXTILE HISTORY MUSEUM, ARTIST DALE CHIHULY CONFIRMS HIS COMMITMENT TO NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS
Jun 01, 2000; ... LOWELLFour short, staccato black lines creep onto the blazingred blanket from the left - indication that its Native American buyerwould have to pay four beaver pelts for it. The simple black-on-reddesign is an early example of an American Indian trade blanket. Theblankets hit their ...
DEIHL'S LOPSIDED VIEWS, BEAUTIFUL LIGHT
Jun 01, 2000; ... Randall Deihl is part of a small band of knockout painters knownas the Valley Realists, because they all lived in the Pioneer Valleyof Massachusetts. Scott Prior and the late Gregory Gillespie bothmade use of their Massachusetts base, showing at Boston galleries.Deihl hasn't shown in ...
CREATIVE LANDSCAPE SOLUTIONS IN CROWDED CAMBRIDGE
Jun 01, 2000; ... CAMBRIDGE - Urban gardening is always a challenge, thanks topollution, tiny lots, and the unyielding shade of surroundingbuildings. But this Sunday 35 yards here that successfully solve these problems will be open ona first-time tour to benefit programs of the Friends of the ...
EAST GERMAN FILMS FINALLY COMING WEST
Jun 01, 2000; ... Given the volume of poor films that somehow manage to getproduced, straight-to-video is fast becoming its own genre. Muchrarer are good films that don't go to video, films that don't goanywhere at all. Two such movies, produced in the former EastGermany, screen tonight at the Brattle ...
INUNDATED WITH INCHWORMS
Jun 01, 2000; ... Q.Help! My trees are being eaten by cankerworms! Exterminatorssaid they will treat small trees, but not big ones like mine, unlessthere are big bugs. Could I spray soapy water on my trees to kill theworms? Would that hurt the trees? The worms' droppings look likepoppy seeds, and when ...
AMERICAN BEAUTY AN 18TH-CENTURY GEM - COMPLETE WITH BARN, MILL POND, AND STONE WALL - FINDS A NEW LIFE
Jun 01, 2000; ... FRAMINGHAM - Built by a descendant of a Salem witch trial victim,passed down from family to family to a wealthy bachelor'shousekeeper, and then abandoned in old age, the once-proud MajorLawson Nurse house faced its own, 20th-century trial several yearsago. The sentence? ...
SURVEY FINDS POSITIVE TILT FOR NEW DRUGS
Jun 01, 2000; ... A study published in today's New England Journal of Medicinestates that mainstream media coverage of new medications "may beinaccurate and overly enthusiastic," blurred by a tendency toexaggerate benefits and downplay risks and a failure to disclosefinancial ties between experts and drug ...
BOYS AND BODY IMAGE
Jun 01, 2000; ... Does your 11-year-old son worry he'll never be popular becausehe's too thin or too short? Have you found your 13-year-old poringover a bodybuilding magazine at the grocery store? Has your 14-year-old decided to shave even though you could count the number of hairson his ...
COSTAR KNOWS GRAMMER'S BARD SIDE
Jun 01, 2000; ... Actress Diane Venora may be one of the few people in America whoassociates her "Macbeth" costar Kelsey Grammer with classical theaterrather than TV sitcoms. "He knew Shakespeare and he taught it to me in the class we werein," said Venora, who studied at Juilliard in New York with ...
20 GROUPS GET GRANTS TO DEVELOP AUDIENCES
Jun 01, 2000; ... The Proscenium Fund for Audience Development yesterday announcedthe first round of what it expects to be annual grants to midsizetheater, dance, and music companies in Greater Boston. Sponsored by Proscenium magazine, the fund provides technicaltraining and cash to performing arts ...
ONE FAMILY'S VALUES BILL SALTONSTALL, A PRIVATE MAN, WRITES `THE LETTER' THAT EMBRACES HIS DAUGHTER AND REJECTS THE GOP
Jun 01, 2000; ... It was William Lawrence Saltonstall who introduced George Bush toBoston voters in 1979, when Bush was making his ill-fated run againstRonald Reagan in the Republican presidential primary. Saltonstall, aformer state senator whose blood is Republican blue, worked on Bush'ssubsequent ...
JUICY, IF YOU SURVIVE THE SHAME OF IT FOR VOYEURS, `SURVIVOR' WILL BE AN INSTANT HIT
Jun 01, 2000; ... Who wants to be a summer voyeur? The premiere episode of"Survivor" last night on CBS proved to be a promisingly dishy hour ofreality-adventure soap opera. From the first moments of the show,which drops 16 people on a remote island for 39 days, there was anabundance of tension and ...
SHIRLEY GETS BACK IN THE SPIRIT
Jun 01, 2000 ... If you've read any of Shirley MacLaine's previous eight best-selling books it will probably not surprise you to learn that in oneof her previous lives she was a mistress of the emperor Charlemagne. Nor will you be stunned to discover that in her current form she wasromantically involved ...
GARDENER'S WEEK: JUNE 1, 2000
Jun 01, 2000; ... Annuals: Plant sunflowers, zinnias, cosmos, and all other annualsnow. Bulbs: Deadhead tulips and others, but leave the stalks tophotosynthesize. Don't remove stalks or foliage until they turnyellow. Since this can be unsightly, many people pull out spenttulips and plant new bulbs ...
BELLEFEUILLE TAKES PLACE IN HISTORY
Jun 01, 2000; ... Blake Bellefeuille made franchise history yesterday with afranchise that doesn't have much of a history. Following a standout four-year career at Boston College,Bellefeuille signed a two-year contract with the Columbus BlueJackets, becoming the first US-born player to sign with the ...
GRAF MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE, TOO
Jun 01, 2000; ... The question is: What is the question? Has the recent talk-radiobrouhaha over the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network's"Teachout 2000" seminar at Tufts been about the right of parents tohave some say over their children's education, as argued by WTKK-FM(96.9) weeknight host ...
A COLD RECEPTION FOR BELFOUR MEDICINE LEFT DALLAS GOALIE LIGHTHEADED
Jun 01, 2000; ... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The trouble for Dallas began long beforethe puck was dropped Tuesday for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. Early in the day, Stars coach Ken Hitchcock asked ailinggoaltender Ed Belfour how he was feeling. The netminder's answerindicated to Hitchcock that all ...
DAVENPORT'S BACK LEADS TO HER BOW
Jun 01, 2000; ... PARIS - They looked like Les Miserables, the homeless of Paris,30,000 soaked and sodden lost souls huddled at Stade Roland Garros,waiting for the rain to stop Tuesday. It never did. For the only timein the 75-year-old French Championships, not a single tennis ball wassmacked. The ...
CORRECTION
Jun 01, 2000 ... CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, the tee times publishedin yesterday's Sports section indicated the State ...
HATCHER READY TO PLAY HYPEREXTENDED KNEE CAN'T KEEP OUT DALLAS DEFENSEMAN
Jun 01, 2000; ... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - As bad as things were for the Dallas Starsin Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals Tuesday, they appeared to be evenmore serious when mammoth defenseman Derian Hatcher went down with ahyperextended right knee in the third period. Hatcher got tangledwith Devils forward ...
LOVE OF ORIGINAL ROCKET WILL NEVER BE QUIETED
Jun 01, 2000; ... MONTREAL - Some of them had risen before the sun, either too wiseor too sad to sleep late on a morning like yesterday's. They knew allthe flags would be at half-staff; that the National Assembly wouldnot be in session; that many of Old Montreal's streets would besealed off by barricades; ...
LAKERS SAY THEY LEARNED LESSON
Jun 01, 2000; ... EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - Listening to the Lakers these days, it seemsthat all they need are two more losses in this series and they'll beright where they want to be. Unable to close out Portland at home Tuesday, they quickly turnedthe stunning defeat into the obligatory "learning ...
NAMES PHILLIPS IS ARRESTED ON ASSAULT CHARGES
Jun 01, 2000 ... Pleas of innocent to six charges, including an alleged beating ofa girlfriend, were entered yesterday in Beverly Hills, Calif., byLawrence Phillips, the former Nebraska running back whose personalproblems cut short his pro football career. Phillips was ordered heldin lieu of $630,000 ...
BACK ON THE OPEN ROAD MORSE FINDING PATIENCE PAYS
Jun 01, 2000; ... Andy Morse's only visit to Pebble Beach Golf Links was as avisitor. He was in the area playing on a mini-tour. Morse simply couldn'tresist the lure of the famous finishing hole along the cliffs of theMonterey peninsula. "We got out of the van and walked up to the 18th green ...
FOOT MAY BEAT CHAMP BEHRENS'S STATUS DEPENDS ON INJURY
Jun 01, 2000; ... If you are anticipating watching defending champion Behrens go fora repeat in Saturday's 61st running of the Massachusetts Handicap atSuffolk Downs, you might be in for a disappointment. The word from trainer James Bond at yesterday's draw was a sourone. In a morning workout at ...
KEEPING SCORE AROUND NEW ENGLAND
Jun 01, 2000; ... IN THE BAGS JOHN RANNIKKO OF AUBURN SHOT A 2-OVER-PAR 73 TO WIN A BOSTONAMATEUR GOLF SOCIETY TOURNAMENT SUNDAY AT JUNIPER HILL'S LAKESIDECOURSE IN NORTHBOROUGH. LOCAL QUALIFYING IS UNDER WAY IN THE ANNUALOLDSMOBILE SCRAMBLE, WITH WINNERS ADVANCING TO ONE OF FIVE ...
LAUZIER, WATT QUALIFY EASILY; THEN THERE'S NASH
Jun 01, 2000; ... PLYMOUTH - The most stressful part of a qualifying tournament isoften the wait to see if your score holds up, an excruciating ordealthat consumed Dave Nash for hours yesterday at Waverly Oaks GolfClub. There is, however, a way to avoid such a dilemma, which is to dowhat Stephen ...
AWKWARD INTRODUCTION MCGINEST LEARNS NAMES, SCHEMES
Jun 01, 2000; ... FOXBOROUGH - "Did you know you were Adrian Klemm's idol growingup?" Willie McGinest was asked. "Who's Adrian Klemm?" said McGinest. "The team's second-round draft pick out of Hawaii, Willie. He grewup in the Los Angeles area and idolized you as a kid." "That's the guy ...
THEY'LL STAY ON SIDELINES
Jun 01, 2000; ... FOXBOROUGH - Don't expect the Patriots to make any major movestoday. June 1 is the day when NFL teams can make cuts and have thesalary cap number spread over two seasons rather than taking asigning bonus hit all in one season. The Patriots usually aren't fast out of the gate with ...
RED SOX GO DOWN FIGHTING WILLIAMS EJECTED BEFORE SPIRITED RALLY FALLS SHORT
Jun 01, 2000; ... It was over - and then it wasn't over. The Red Sox were down sevenruns to Kansas City after seven innings last night. Their manager hadbeen tossed in the second, they had been through four pitchers, andtheir starting shortstop and center fielder were on the bench. Yetsomehow, they had ...
BEASLEY'S SHOT WITH REVOLUTION PAYS OFF
Jun 01, 2000; ... Jamar Beasley had been sitting and watching as the Revolution'sseason unfolded. He was doing plenty of watching, in fact. That is,until he got his first taste of playing time Monday in a 2-1 loss tothe Colorado Rapids at Denver. Beasley, 20, entered in the 84th minute, stepping in ...
RUIZ'S TITLE SHOT ON HOLD INJURY TO HOLYFIELD POSTPONES THE BOUT
Jun 01, 2000; ... John Ruiz knew something was not quite right when he saw hismanager's car pull up in front of his Chelsea home yesterday. Ruiz's intuition became reality when manager Norman Stonedelivered the unfortunate, yet all-too-familiar, news for theheavyweight boxer: his June 10 fight ...
QUINLAN FINDS A NEW COURSE EX-GOLFER NOW HELPS AIDS VICTIMS
Jun 01, 2000; ... To reach her world, you drive past blocks of glass-strewn emptylots, to the edge of Philadelphia's north side where dreams are aprecious few and life's hardships are always on display. At 1133Spring Garden St. - a former rectory next to a church that no longeris open for business - ...
PICHARDO'S COMEBACK A MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT
Jun 01, 2000; ... On an afternoon when the Red Sox talked about the longrehabilitation ahead for John Valentin as he deals with a rupturedleft patellar tendon, righthanded pitcher Hipolito Pichardo returnedto the major leagues yesterday after a lengthy recovery from TommyJohn surgery. Pichardo's ...
EIGHTH IS QUITE ENOUGH
Jun 01, 2000; ... With a sheepish smile, Kansas City left fielder and leadoff hitterJohnny Damon offered an apology. Failing to factor in hiscontroversial second-inning double down the right-field line, Damondid not realize he was a home run away from hitting for the cycle. It was an honest mistake ....
VALENTIN SLATED FOR SURGERY TODAY
Jun 01, 2000; ... As preoccupied as he is with stadium issues, Red Sox CEO JohnHarrington still felt the impact of the season-ending injury to thirdbaseman John Valentin, who is expected to undergo surgery today inNew York for a ruptured patellar tendon in his left knee. "Heartbreaking," Harrington ...
KNEE-JERK REACTION: VERAS ON HOT CORNER
Jun 01, 2000; ... Talk about an internal tug of war. Wilton Veras wanted to play everyday, but not at the cost ofsomeone's else's season. But that's just what happened when thirdbaseman John Valentin ruptured his left patella tendon Tuesday whiletrying to field a ground ball. "[Valentin's ...
PREBOARDING
Jun 01, 2000 ... James Goodwin, chairman and chief executive of UAL Corp., theparent firm of United Airlines, entering a meeting yesterday inRosemont, Ill., with about 150 pilots to persuade them to ...
PALM TO BUY ANYDAY IN $80M DEAL FIRM LOOKS TO EXTEND NET PRESENCE BY BUYING CAMBRIDGE COMPANY
Jun 01, 2000; ... The leading power in palm-based computing is acquiring a CambridgeInternet firm to extend its online presence. Palm Inc., maker of the popular Palm Pilot handheld devices, willpay $80 million in cash and stock for Cambridge-based AnyDay.comInc., which operates a popular Internet ...
SHAW'S SUPERMARKETS HAD EARNINGS OF $129M
Jun 01, 2000; ... The British parent of Shaw's Supermarkets Inc. said the EastBridgewater-based chain of 168 grocery stores earned an operatingprofit of $129 million on sales of $3.9 billion for the fiscal yearthat ended April 1. At stores open for at least a year, sales were up3.1 percent. Results rose ...
DELTA CELEBRATES BOSTON TO WASHINGTON SHUTTLE
Jun 01, 2000; ... Delta Air Lines will celebrate the one-year anniversary of itsBoston to Washington National Airport shuttle service by givingbirthday cake to all shuttle passengers in Boston, New York, andWashington. Shuttle passengers will also have a chance to win freeshuttle tickets with the grand ...
FUND CHIEF'S RARE TRADES PAY OFF IN A BIG WAY EATON VANCE WORLDWIDE HEALTH SCIENCES UP 78% IN ONE YEAR
Jun 01, 2000; ... Sam Isaly isn't going to make any stock trader rich. In the lastyear, his mutual fund has bought a total of 12 new stocks and sold 12stocks. "That can be twisted in an amusing thought, that we work one day amonth," said Isaly, manager of the Eaton Vance Worldwide HealthSciences ...
CONTEST TO AWARD SEED FUNDS
Jun 01, 2000; ... Boston.com and Cambridge Incubator are expected to announce todaya $100,000 business plan contest for budding entrepreneurs, matchingthe seed money handed out by the oldest such contest, sponsored bythe Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The winner of the contest, which closes ...
GROUNDBREAKING FIT TO A `T'
Jun 01, 2000 ... Five years and four developers later, a ground-breaking is set fortoday on an 11-story Back Bay commercial complex that will be knownas 131 Dartmouth Street. The building, next to Back Bay Station, isto contain retail and office space and a four-level, ...
INTERNET BOOSTERS SINGING THE BLUES WEB LEADERS GATHER TO LAMENT THE PAST, SHAPE THE FUTURE
Jun 01, 2000; ... CAMBRIDGE - The Internet blahs are upon us. The bursting Net-stock bubble has imploded the Nasdaq StockMarket. Half of all e-retailers will be dead in a year, reputableanalysts predict. Online shopping and Web surfing feel more and morelike a giant conspiracy to reduce people to ...
FOXBORO CO. PARENT TO BUY AILING BAAN INVENSYS PAYING $802M FOR DUTCH SOFTWARE MAKER
Jun 01, 2000; ... Britain's Invensys PLC, which owns Foxboro Co., yesterday said itwould acquire Baan NV, a financially troubled Dutch software company,for $802 million. Baan, a 22-year-old company that sells customized software toBoeing Co. and other manufacturers, has lost money in the past ...
MULTIUSE MP3 PLAYER EXCELS, ALMOST
Jun 01, 2000; ... Digital audio players began as small, specialized units forplaying MP3 music files off the Internet, but their functionality hasgrown quickly. One of these new multifunctional units is the Nomad IImade by Creative Labs. MP3 is an acronym for Motion Picture Experts Group, audio ...
TALK IS CHEAP BUT NOT REAL CLEAR
Jun 01, 2000; ... I don't phone my mother in Chicago often enough. So she was gladto hear from me recently, even if I'd only called to experiment onher. I was trying out Yap Jack, a $160 device from Net2Phone Inc. thatplugs into a standard telephone and lets you make Internet phonecalls without a ...
AS GORE SHIFTS GEARS, PARTY MEMBERS WORRY SOME SAY IT'S TOO EARLY TO FEAR POLLS; OTHERS CALL FOR A PUSH
Jun 01, 2000; ... They are nervous spectators as the work in progress that is VicePresident Al Gore's campaign rejiggers his message again this week. Leading Democrats across the country say there is no reason toworry too much about polls that show Gore lagging behind GovernorGeorge W. Bush of ...
CORRECTION
Jun 01, 2000 ... Correction: Because of an editing error, a headline in yesterday'sA section incorrectly described the circumstances of the death of thelast ...
A STRETCHED-THIN DOCTOR DRAWS A LINE
Jun 01, 2000; ... When doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital realized they hadto become more productive, Dr. Robert A. Hughes gathered up anelectronic calendar, three piles of yellow message slips and went towork. The Harvard-educated internist told his secretary to schedule onepatient every ...
ECUADOR, ECONOMY HURTING, WARILY SWITCHES TO THE DOLLAR
Jun 01, 2000; ... QUITO, Ecuador - Mauro Vallejo fumbled with his socks and pulledout two thick, wrinkled wads of sucres, his country's currency. Then,he reached into his shirt pocket and quickly produced a thin roll ofcrisp US dollars. "Dollars are easier to handle," said Vallejo, a ...
LEADERS TELL RED SOX TO FIND MORE MONEY
Jun 01, 2000; ... After a two-hour summit at the State House, city and state leaderscalled on the Red Sox yesterday to contribute more private funds totheir proposed $627 million ballpark in the Fenway. Emerging from the meeting, Governor Paul Cellucci said the Red Soxmust "sharpen their pencils" ...