The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from August 2000:
THE CRUELEST MONTH OF ALL
Aug 01, 2000; ... I have written columns each year to commemorate the bombings ofHiroshima and Nagasaki, but lately I have been reading John Keegan'shistory of World War I, and the violence of August was what struck meas I prepared to write this - the "Guns of August," as BarbaraTuchman put it. I began to ...
BARAK BESIEGED
Aug 01, 2000 ... It was a spectacle that fused the historic with the mundane. Therewas Ehud Barak, the military commander renowned for his fastidiousplanning of operations, absorbing the stunning defeat of hiscandidate for president of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate ShimonPeres, and then barely ...
BOOKSTORE BULLY
Aug 01, 2000 ... Barnes & Noble, which calls itself the nation's largestbookseller, appears to be acting more like the book world's biggestbully. In April, a New York City law firm claiming to representBarnes & Noble- Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn & Berman - senta letter to the New England ...
GOP'S JUGGLING ACT
Aug 01, 2000 ... PHILADELPHIAAt a campaign stop in Ohio yesterday, George W.Bush pledged to "rally the armies of compassion" if electedpresident. Shoe-horning "armies" and "compassion" into the samesentence may require mental acrobatics for some, but not for thethrongs of believers at the GOP ...
SHORTCHANGING YOUNG MDS
Aug 01, 2000 ... One of the biggest health problems in the United States is thelack of access to care faced by residents of rural areas and innercities. To get more doctors to work in such underserved parts of thecountry, the federal government for over a decade has been offeringbonuses to help cover the ...
WHAT DOES CHENEY STAND FOR?
Aug 01, 2000 ... George Will likes to weight his writings with phrases like"derivative gravitas" and expects that rhetoric alone will bamboozlereaders. For example, in his July 27 column, "Bush goes forgravitas," Will fills space with empty language while avoidingdiscussion of what Dick Cheney stands ...
MUSICIANS SHOULD APPLAUD NAPSTER
Aug 01, 2000 ... In response to Luanne Crosby ("Musicians deserve to be paid,"letter, July 31): Crosby sounds like the girl in the song, "I've got what it takes,but it breaks my heart to give it away." The best thing that couldever happen to Crosby would be if 1 million people downloaded one ...
ABRASIVE, AGGRESSIVE, NASTY, AND MODERATE
Aug 01, 2000 ... Why do you laud Dick Cheney, George W. Bush's choice for runningmate ("Cheney's mixed resume," editorial, July 26)? He belongs tothe far right-wing of his party. And his voting record reflects alifelong opposition to progressive legislation. I'd ...
DEMOCRATIC DREAM TEAM: GORE-NADER IN 2000
Aug 01, 2000 ... If Democrats are concerned that Ralph Nader will siphon votes fromAl Gore and tip the election toward George W. Bush (Page A1, July24), why not add Nader to the ticket as Gore's running mate? It would move ...
BOSTON'S ABUSE OF EMINENT DOMAIN
Aug 01, 2000 ... The city is about to make an offer that its citizens literallycan't refuse. The citizens are Fenway property owners who happen tobe in the way of the rich and powerful and their runaway abuse ofeminent domain. The underlying justification for eminent domain is "the publicgood," ...
W. CRACKS THE WHIP
Aug 01, 2000; ... PHILADELPHIABehind the unity lies The Whip, the other "W"dominating this Republican convention. On public education, The Whip cracked, and all the delegates ranto the center. On abortion, The Whip didn't crack, and all thedelegates ran to the right. On immigration, The Whip ...
THE AVENGERS
Aug 01, 2000; ... PHILADELPHIARepublicans are putting on smiley faces to avoidthe mistakes of Houston in 1992, when a conservative message morechilling than compassionate turned voters away from the GOP.Democrats are launching attack ads to rewrite the script from 1988,when a Republican vice president ...
VENEZUELA'S NEW DEAL
Aug 01, 2000; ... The electoral victory of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela onSunday, greeted with celebration by the country's poor majority, mayhave implications beyond Venezuela's borders. Chavez's revolution from above is in many ways a logical responseto 20 years of Latin American attempts at ...
TEENS NEED LIMITS ON THE NET, TOO
Aug 01, 2000 ... DEAR BETH: Several months ago, my 17-year-old granddaughter visited a chatroom and began corresponding with several boys. She was givenspecific instructions from her mother not to become personal, giveher real name, address, or phone number. She disobeyed and did all ofthe above ....
MOVIES AS A TALE, AND TOOL, OF SOCIETY
Aug 01, 2000; ... This is the most exhilarating work of revisionist film historysince Pauline Kael's "Citizen Kane" book. In a day when the massmedia more than ever seem designed to keep people stupid andscattered, Lary May's "The Big Tomorrow" reminds us that the firsthalf of the 20th century was a lot ...
CONCERT UPDATE
Aug 01, 2000; ... Brazilian pop star Daniela Mercury will appear at the LowellMemorial Auditorium Sept. 16. It will be a carnival-style concertwith an open dance floor and seats only in the loge and balcony.Tickets are $46, ...
OZAWA LEADS TANGLEWOOD IN A `FALSTAFF' TO REMEMBER
Aug 01, 2000; ... LENOX - Seiji Ozawa conducts nothing better than he conductsVerdi's "Falstaff," and in this listener's opera-house experience,the only conductor who has led it as well was Ozawa's mentor, LeonardBernstein. Bernstein did face an insurmountable obstacle: He had to projectVerdi's ...
CLANGIN' WITH THE KULT
Aug 01, 2000; ... Just because you missed the Fetish Fair Flea Market at the BaysideExpo Center over the weekend does not mean you have to go withoutover-the-top escapades by leather-clad lovelies this week, and thankgoodness! My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, the Chicago-based crewthat has for the past ...
WE HAVE TO HAND IT TO YOU, GERALDO!
Aug 01, 2000; ... So, here's the story behind that Geraldo Rivera dust-up, whichsome radio stations are characterizing as the Beantown Brawl. Seems our favorite former journalist was in town this weekendknocking back a few cold ones at a local drinking and dancingestablishment. He was accompanied by ...
REVISING MADAME MAO NOVELIST ANCHEE MIN DRAWS A NEW PICTURE OF A LEADER OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Aug 01, 2000; ... "Do you know the difference between a traditional opera and aMadame Mao opera?" Anchee Min, addressing an audience packed into thereading room at Brookline Booksmith, proceeds to demonstrate. Whilesinging the traditional Chinese opera, she stands still at thelectern, smiling gently, her ...
BLETHYN'S CAREER BASKS IN LATE BLOOMIN' SUCCESS
Aug 01, 2000; ... These days, Brenda Blethyn has been asked a certain question sooften one might confuse her with a presidential candidate. "So," the inquiry goes, "have you, you know, ever tried, uh, youknow, marijuana?" In these scandal-happy times, such queries are usually posed ...
FROM SAVAGE GARDEN, A PERFORMANCE TOO TAME
Aug 01, 2000; ... Their albums have been called plastic, overproduced, and slick.Those same descriptions could easily be applied to Savage Garden'sperformance in Boston Friday night. The Australian duo's polishedshow at the FleetBoston Pavilion felt about as spontaneous as MarthaStewart hosting a dinner ...
WRITER CONQUERS THE GIGA-UNIVERSE ONE BYTE AT A TIME
Aug 01, 2000; ... Once upon a time, a writer had an antique computer, 2 1/2 yearsold. Although it did everything the writer needed most of the time, thewriter read about new computers that were faster, much faster, andhad more memory, much more memory. When he envied Ralph's new computer, or ...
NBA GETS DOWN TO DOTTED LINE
Aug 01, 2000; ... In some places, like Orlando, the work is all but finished. Inother places, like Chicago, the work has yet to begin. In most other locales, the courtships and face-to-face bargainingcontinue today even as the NBA reopens for business after anagonizing month of July. For 31 days - ...
GILES PICKS ND OVER BC
Aug 01, 2000; ... Call it the luck of the Irish. After months of deliberation, Marshfield lineman Zachary Giles hasdecided to play football for Notre Dame. Giles, who had narrowed his choices to Boston College, Penn State,and Notre Dame, signed his letter of intent Friday after meeting ...
PITINO'S REFURBISHING DRIBBLES ALONG
Aug 01, 2000; ... For most of July, he whispered NBA sweet talk into the ears ofplayers who usually don't hear it. Rick Pitino found himself sayingincredibly nice things to and about Tariq Abdul-Wahad, Randy Brown,and Bimbo Coles. Those guys hadn't heard themselves described sokindly since their last ...
NHL LINDROS JILTS FLYERS; CHICAGO NABS TALLAS
Aug 01, 2000 ... After being stripped of his captaincy and ostracized from theteam, Eric Lindros had enough of the Philadelphia Flyers. Lindrosrejected the team's $8.5 million qualifying offer yesterday andelected to become a restricted free agent. Lindros, still recoveringfrom his sixth concussion, has ...
YEARNING FOR YESTERYEAR MODERN NFL DOESN'T SIT WELL WITH SOME HALL OF FAMERS
Aug 01, 2000; ... CANTON, Ohio - Deacon Jones's voice was rising. Chuck Bednarik had - yet again - called modern pro footballplayers "pussyfoots" whom he can't stand to watch, even for one play,and Jones was in agreement. The Hall of Fame defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams said he,too, ...
MILLER HAD NO COSTLY FUMBLES HE HOLDS HIS OWN IN NETWORK DEBUT
Aug 01, 2000; ... Not in recent memory has there been more hype surrounding abroadcaster than the ado about Dennis Miller, who debuted as acommentator on ABC's "Monday Night Football" last night. On Channel 5's 6 p.m. newscast, Mike Lynch teased the Hall of FameGame between the 49ers and Patriots by ...
NO DEALS - FOR NOW
Aug 01, 2000; ... SEATTLE - The trading deadline may have passed yesterday withoutanother peep from Yawkey Way (was it only a month ago that theheadlines were screaming Sammy Sosa's name?), but anyone who haswatched Dan Duquette operate knows that the Red Sox roster shufflingis far from over. Kent ...
DON'T CANONIZE BISHOP JUST YET
Aug 01, 2000; ... CANTON, Ohio - Attention, talk radio denizens. Maybe it's a littleearly to trade Drew Bledsoe, don't you think? This is not meant as a knock on the exuberant Michael Bishop, whodid well enough in his first moments of the summer facing real, live(if you can call the defense the ...
A ROUT, WITH STRINGS ATTACHED PATRIOTS DOMINATE 49ER BACKUPS
Aug 01, 2000; ... CANTON, Ohio - Lawyer Milloy didn't care much that the SanFrancisco 49ers barely fielded a team last night. "A shutout is a shutout," said Milloy. "It doesn't matter when ithappens or why it happens. When you shut out a team in this league,you've done a good job." There were ...
AT SAFETY, JONES NETS A POSITION OF COMFORT
Aug 01, 2000; ... CANTON, Ohio - "It's time for Tebucky to fly," Lawyer Milloy saidof his new partner at safety last night. "I've got to let him loose." The score of the first exhibition game of any season is quicklyforgotten, as it should be, as the only losses that count are playerslost to injury ....
GOOD BATTLES FOUGHT AGAINST DEPLETED FOE
Aug 01, 2000; ... CANTON, Ohio - The 49ers had recently inducted Hall of Famers JoeMontana and Ronnie Lott on the sideline calling a few plays lastnight. The 49ers also had a half-dozen starters out of the lineup. The 49ers knew they would struggle, but the Patriots, under newcoach Bill Belichick, ...
SUFFOLK STALLED BY LAWMAKERS
Aug 01, 2000; ... There is not going to be a racing bill this year, which means thatthe work done by the special committee is going for naught. At the close of the business day yesterday, Bob O'Malley, chiefoperating officer of Suffolk Downs, held almost no hope that the billwould come out of the ...
SOX PULL IT OUT RALLY IN EIGHTH SCUTTLES SEATTLE
Aug 01, 2000; ... SEATTLE - Things were looking bleak. The Red Sox trailed, 4-0, inthe first. They trailed, 5-4, in the eighth. They were in danger offalling four games out of first place for the first time since May 9. It was 5-4 when Seattle Mariners closer Kazuhiro Sasaki came onwith two on and ...
KNEE LANDS OFFERMAN ON DL BURKHART BACK UP FROM PAWTUCKET
Aug 01, 2000; ... SEATTLE - The Red Sox yesterday placed infielder Jose Offerman onthe 15-day disabled list because of a deep bone bruise on his leftknee. Offerman, who has been struggling at the plate and in the field,reluctantly agreed to the move, saying, "It's something I don't wantto do, but ...
AN ISLAND TEAM OUT OF ISOLATION PIONEER HAITIANS BACK IN THE GAME
Aug 01, 2000; ... Jamaica's Reggae Boyz phenomenon has been an inspiration for thehemisphere's island nations. The Jamaicans qualified for the France'98 World Cup, and their performance helped promote the country'ssporting image as well as showcase players such as Ricardo Gardnerand Theodore ...
FRESH FACES VAULTING INTO TRIALS PICTURE
Aug 01, 2000; ... Sixty floors above the Hub, in the Summit Room of John Hancock'slooking-glass tower, only the keenest eye in the land yesterday couldhave fixed a direction on Sydney. Peter Kormann and Bela Karolyi were in town to talk about Olympus -specifically the US Olympic gymnastic trials to ...
SOME STILL SINGING THE BANK-MERGER BLUES SOVEREIGN, FLEET CALL TRANSITION A SUCCESS, BUT SOME CUSTOMERS STILL FACE PROBLEMS
Aug 01, 2000; ... When the elephants wrestle, it's the grass that gets trampled. Patricia Power, a nurse from Wilmington, feels as if she's beenliving that old African proverb, caught in a major mix-up involvingFleet and Sovereign. Her case is one of several that reflect the lingering problems ...
SPEECHWORKS RAISES IPO PRICE TO $20 SHARE
Aug 01, 2000; ... Boston-based SpeechWorks International, which sells speech-recognition systems used by airlines and other companies, yesterdayboosted the planned price for its initial public offering to $20 ashare, up from $13 to $15, as it seeks to raise more than $90 millionfor expansion. SpeechWorks ...
MASS. HIGH TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL TAPS NEWENERGY
Aug 01, 2000; ... The Massachusetts High Technology Council has chosen NewEnergy,successor to Boston-based National Energy Choice LLC, as thecouncil's exclusive supplier of energy products and services forparticipants in a council energy-buying plan. Financial terms werenot disclosed. NewEnergy will act ...
LIKE BUNGEE JUMPING? BUY TECH STOCKS INVESTORS CONFIDENT BIG CLIMBS FOLLOW DIVES
Aug 01, 2000; ... You might think last week's 10.5 percent drop in the NasdaqComposite index would rattle technology investors, especially sinceit came just a few months after the scary 37 percent drop in theNasdaq last spring. But you would be wrong. Tech fans are a hardy lot. Like bungeejumpers, ...
STRUGGLING CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL EXPECTED TO NAME CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Aug 01, 2000; ... Children's Hospital, for years ranked the country's top pediatricmedical center, is expected today to name a new physician chiefexecutive to steer the hospital through a hoped-for financialrecovery. Dr. James Mandell, the dean of the Albany Medical College inupstate New York and ...
RED SOX FOCUS ON FINANCING TEAM SAYS THAT IT'S COMMITTED TO FINDING $350M FOR BALLPARK
Aug 01, 2000; ... Less than 48 hours after state lawmakers passed a bill authorizingpublic aid for the Red Sox's $665 million new Fenway Park project,team officials are now focused on their next big hurdle: finding morethan $350 million to fund the team's portion of the project. But while team ...
23 S. SHORE FISH MARKETS FINED FOR OVERCHARGES
Aug 01, 2000; ... State regulators yesterday issued small fines to 23 South Shorefish markets for overcharging customers by improperly weighinglobsters and scallops. The Massachusetts Division of Standards found 70 percent of the 33fish retailers they checked were weighing their products ...
GILLETTE, BRISTOL-MYERS GET READY TO MARKET HAIR-BLOCKING CREAM
Aug 01, 2000; ... Move over lipstick and blush, Vaniqa may be jostling for space inwomen's handbags. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., estimating that 41 million women arelooking to shed unwanted facial hair, yesterday said that it hasgained government approval for Vaniqa cream, a prescription drug ...
INTEL REGAINS POLE POSITION IN CHIP WAR
Aug 01, 2000; ... In the ongoing game of one-upsmanship between chip makers IntelCorp. and Advanced Micro Devices Corp., Intel has once more hoppedinto the lead. The company yesterday announced a new Pentium IIIprocessor that, at least in theory, is faster than any of rival AMD'sAthlon chips. The ...
KELLY VOWS TO PURSUE IMMEDIATE VOTE ON FENWAY DEAL IF LEGAL, COUNCIL PRESIDENT'S MOVE SEEN LIKELY TO KILL PLAN
Aug 01, 2000; ... City Council President James M. Kelly may attempt to outmaneuverMayor Thomas M. Menino on the deal for a new Fenway Park bysubmitting it directly to the council for a vote instead of waitingfor Menino to hand it over months from now. The move, if it turns out to be legal, ...
GRIM REALITIES THAT JUST DON'T SELL
Aug 01, 2000; ... I was circling the globe in my private Boeing 737-700 businessjet, searching for a dramatic story to drop in on - as we parachutejournalists do - when a tidbit from the Philippines caught my eye.Cruising at 30,000 feet, I was still able to tune into "Good MorningAmerica" for the ...
HUSBAND STUCK TO PRINCIPLES, SHE SAYS
Aug 01, 2000; ... PHILADELPHIA - George W. Bush's biggest fan and best characterwitness told the Republican National Convention last night that herhusband would be a president the American people could trust andrespect and a leader who would "inspire us to dream and to do more." "His core principles ...
NOMINEE PACES HIMSELF FOR LATE SPEECH
Aug 01, 2000; ... COLUMBUS, Ohio - When George W. Bush gives his acceptance speechat the Republican convention on Thursday, it will mark the mostimportant moment in his political life. It will also be past his bedtime. That seemingly trivial coincidence has become a source of concernfor the ...
CANADA WARSHIP SHADOWS FREIGHTER LADEN WITH CARGO OF ARMS
Aug 01, 2000; ... HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - A Canadian warship surged out of heavy fogin the North Atlantic yesterday in an attempt to force into port arogue US-owned freighter that for two weeks has refused to relinquisha cargo of battle tanks and other combat gear representing 10 percentof Canada's armored ...
GOVERNOR DEMONSTRATES LOYALTY TO BUSH
Aug 01, 2000; ... PHILADELPHIA - As he bounced from interview to interviewyesterday, Governor Paul Cellucci delivered a well-honed message:George W. Bush is good because he has learned to be inclusive. And asthe governor of liberal Massachusetts, that's something I know allabout. Cellucci is ...
WEARY CREWS BATTLING WILDFIRES IN WEST PLEAD WITH PENTAGON TO SEND IN MILITARY
Aug 01, 2000; ... FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - As 45 large forest fires burned about a half-million acres across the West yesterday, national fire officialsprayed for rain and asked the Pentagon for troops to help battle whatmay be the worst wildfire season in a decade. Since the Western fire season began in ...
REPUBLICANS PITCH THEIR BIG TENT POWELL, LAURA BUSH TALK OF BRIDGING GAPS
Aug 01, 2000; ... PHILADELPHIA - In a strategic appeal to minorities, moderates, andwomen, the Republican National Convention kicked off a four-dayextravaganza yesterday celebrating the nomination of George W. Bush.Retired General Colin Powell told the delegates that many blacks arecynical about the ...
CORRECTION
Aug 01, 2000 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story on the ImproperBostonian in Saturday's Living/ Arts section ...
REPUBLICANS PITCH THEIR BIG TENT A FATHER'S TOUCH DRIVES SON'S ASCENT
Aug 01, 2000; ... PHILADELPHIA - They were so confident then, and worldly. It was1964, the spring of senior year at Andover, and the boys, alreadyaccepted into college, were ready to let their hair down. A group ofthem trooped into Boston, mostly to hang out or, in the phrase of thetime, to hang ...
HARVARD-AFFILIATED GENE STUDIES IN CHINA FACE FEDERAL INQUIRY
Aug 01, 2000; ... For researchers hunting the genetic causes of disease, the 1.2billion residents of China offer choice targets. Not only are theynumerous, but many have lived in isolated villages for generations,making genetic defects easier to spot. However, human research in China is also a ...
FOR ISLANDERS, SYMBOLISM AND TRAVEL TIME ADD UP
Aug 01, 2000; ... PHILADELPHIA - If 90 percent of life is showing up, then score abig one for Guam and American Samoa. The Republican National Committee may talk pretty to them, but thedelegations from these two Pacific hiccups made the 20,000-mile roundtrip to the City of Brotherly Love on their ...
BARAK SURVIVES CLOSE VOTE, BUT LOSES A BATTLE PERES, PRIME MINISTER'S CHOICE, LOSES VOTE FOR PRESIDENCY
Aug 01, 2000; ... JERUSALEM - The worst heat wave in the history of the country wasnothing compared to the rising political temperature in Israel'sParliament yesterday. First, there was the stunning upset in the vote for president, inwhich Iranian-born Moshe Katsav, a little known Likud ...
SPRUCED-UP WASHINGTON MONUMENT REOPENS
Aug 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - For years, Katie Dallman, 11, and her 12-year-oldsister, Natalie, have been fascinated with the Washington Monument -building paper models, watching television specials, and studying itshistory. But it was a recent school project on the 112-year-old obeliskthat ...
SESSION RUNS OUT OF TIME FOR ADDRESS BY ROBINSON
Aug 01, 2000; ... It rr could have been a shining moment for Senate candidate JackE. Robinson, who is fighting for attention and respect this week fromin- and out-of-state Republicans. What better sign of establishmentsupport than an appearance on the convention podium? And Robinson said he almost ...
BUSH BLUEPRINT GETS NOD, WITH ABORTION PLANK INTACT
Aug 01, 2000; ... PHILADELPHIA - Bob Dole, the GOP presidential candidate in 1996,showed his respect for the Republican platform when he said he didn'teven plan to read it. Most candidates skim the party statement ofprinciples and then ignore it. It's different with Governor George W. Bush of ...
MARIJUANA EXTRACT MAY HELP EASE ARTHRITIS
Aug 01, 2000; ... An extract of marijuana that does not make users "high" bluntedthe attack of rheumatoid arthritis in mice, scientists are reportingtoday, suggesting a possible new weapon against the crippling diseasethat affects more than 2 million Americans. The substance is called cannabidiol, ...