The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from September 2000:
A BET ON CHARTER SCHOOLS
Sep 01, 2000 ... Last week's offer of a $1 million guarantee to some of the thestate's weaker school districts may be a gimmick by the conservativephilanthropist Lovett Peters to hype independent charter schools atthe expense of municipal school districts. But it could offer afighting chance to introduce ...
TO BUSH AND GORE, RSVP
Sep 01, 2000 ... From the voters' perspective, debates have been the backbone ofpresidential campaigns for 40 years. When an occupant of the White House is seeking reelection, debatesprovide a crucial platform for the challenger to meet on an equalfooting with the president, whose incumbency ...
THE RISE OF DIABETES
Sep 01, 2000 ... In the last decades of the 20th century, Americans made twolifestyle changes that improved their chances of living to a ripe oldage: Many quit smoking, and many stopped driving while drunk. Nowanother change of equal or greater magnitude is needed if the countryis to head off devastating ...
HOLY POLITICIANS WITH UNHOLY ALLIANCES
Sep 01, 2000; ... Gabriel! Yes boss!?!? Step into my den. We've got a problem. (Gabriel walks in while God is clicking back and forth betweenstations, catching the nightly news on American television). See these guys, Gabe? Oh, not again boss (Gabriel lets out a sarcastic ...
PARROTHEADS DELIRIOUS WITH BUFFETT, PEERLESS LEADER
Sep 01, 2000; ... MANSFIELD - These are sights that you just don't see every night -males in hula skirts, shark balloons on the backs of limousines,aisles awash with beer ("There's more beer on the floor than incups," said Jimmy Buffett himself), and a flying cell phone, courtesyof a besotted fan who fell ...
GRANDMOTHER TOO IMPORTANT TO FORGET
Sep 01, 2000 ... DEAR BETH:My grandmother died two years ago. We were reallyclose, and now I can't remember what she looked like. It reallyscares me, and I don't know what to do. I have no pictures of her,and I'm mad at myself for forgetting such an important thing. DEBBY It's very hard ...
FILMGOERS EATING THIS ONE UP
Sep 01, 2000; ... Puerile gags? Base potty humor? Bring it on! We're still sheddingexcess testosterone from watching "Full Metal Jacket" several timesthis week, and still amazed at how the tragically flawed private(Vincent D'Onofrio) resembles Cartman on "South Park" as a Marinerecruit. That ...
K.D. LANG WAFTS GOLD INTO A MELLOW NIGHT
Sep 01, 2000; ... It was the last night in August, a warm summer's evening, and k.d.lang was frolicing on a perfect beach with somewhere in theneighborhood of 4,000 fans, soaking up rays at the water's edge,blissed out and carefree and madly in love. Lang is living the California Dream. She's made a ...
INTERACTIVE ARTISTS HUSBAND-AND-WIFE SCULPTORS AIM TO ENGAGE
Sep 01, 2000; ... GROTON - When Paul Matisse was a cocky 17-year-old, the greatsculptor Constantin Brancusi told him the secret of life. "He's cooking dinner for me, smoking away," Matisse says. "Hisbeard was stained yellow from the cigarettes. All around us in thisdark apartment are all these ...
IMPROV ASYLUM MEMBERS BREAK OUT
Sep 01, 2000; ... Right now, Brian Frates, an actor at the Improv Asylum based inthe North End, is in Los Angeles, under the hot glare of studiolights bearing the smug attitude of Alex Trebek. Yes, he's competingon "Jeopardy!" Is he a smart fella? Norm Laviolette, Asylum owner-director-actor, pauses and ...
WRINGING HUMOR FROM IVY AMBITION
Sep 01, 2000 ... Attention, high school seniors: Looking for that perfect collegebut bored by US News & World Report guides and their ilk? Check outthe "Harvard Lampoon's Guide to College Admission," which, like theUS News book, hits the racks today. It boasts a Dave Barry-esque string of ...
HEART OF SHOW IS BELLOWS IN RHODE ISLAND
Sep 01, 2000; ... NEWPORT - George Bellows was a reportorial painter and printmaker.He was a proponent of an art movement called the Ashcan School in theearly 20th century, made up of a small group of artists who portrayedthe telling details of American life. He summered in Middletown,R.I., in 1918 and ...
A PRINTMAKING TECHNIQUE REVISITED
Sep 01, 2000; ... PROVINCETOWN - When Kathi Smith was 4 years old, her grandmothershowed her how to make a white-line woodcut. It was a lesson that hashelped an original American art form survive into the new century. Examples of this print process, which was invented inProvincetown, are on display ...
A LITTLE HITCHCOCK AND SOME GOOD `PSYCHO' FUN AT THE BEACH
Sep 01, 2000; ... In "Psycho Beach Party," Norman Bates meets Gidget. It's a cheekylittle pop tart that somehow does campy, cockeyed, cartoony justiceto both of its sources and will leave you smiling at its genialoutrageousness. One doesn't think of Alfred Hitchcock as a sand-in-his shoes type, but the ...
`HOT 97' GIVES `JAM'N' A RUN ON RADIO DIAL
Sep 01, 2000; ... There was a time when Boston radio was the last place to turn toif you wanted to hear FM renderings of a new Erykah Badu song orrecent hits by Carl Thomas or Jagged Edge. You could flip on WJMN-FM(94.5), a radio powerhouse with high Arbitron ratings, but itsmusical formula tended to ...
TUNE IN TO NOSTALGIA WITH `RADIO GALS'
Sep 01, 2000; ... DENNIS - "Radio Gals" is a throwback to summer theater the way itused to be. It is dizzy, daffy, and silly, demanding enough for theperformers to have fun exerting themselves, undemanding enough forthe audience to relax and have a good time. Dody Goodman stars as Hazel Hunt, a ...
`TIC CODE' REVEALS REAL FEELINGS
Sep 01, 2000; ... In its soft, muted, heartfelt way, "The Tic Code" is about as faraway from Hollywood assembly-line thinking as American movies get.It's got more genuine-seeming feelings and a more accurate take onits particular corner of the world than a colosseum of summerblockbusters. All you need to ...
MOTHER'S PEACE CRUSADE ENNOBLES IRISH `TOWN'
Sep 01, 2000; ... "Titanic Town," filmed a couple of years ago, just before thestill-fragile Easter Sunday ceasefire in Northern Ireland, rides theintensity and heartfelt conviction of Julie Walters as a West Belfastwife and mother radicalized into peace activism. The film loseslittle time demystifying ...
`WHIPPED' A CRASS, WITLESS KNOCKOFF OF BETTER FILMS
Sep 01, 2000; ... We can all thank the Farrelly brothers for "Whipped," which takestoilet humor to new depths. The box office success of the Farrellys' "There's Something AboutMary" was sure to spawn imitators of that film's gross-out gags andHoward Stern-style sex jokes. There is no other ...
AN UPHILL BATTLE EVEN WITH DANTE BICHETTE, THE SOX HAVE A TOUGH CLIMB TO THE PLAYOFFS DUQUETTE ADDS PUNCH TO LINEUP
Sep 01, 2000; ... In his unrelenting - and yet unfulfilled - quest to add consistentpunch to the Red Sox' lackluster lineup, general manager Dan Duquetteyesterday tried again, this time picking up Dante Bichette, one ofthe most productive hitters in baseball for much of the 1990s. The Sox gave up ...
AN UPHILL BATTLE EVEN WITH DANTE BICHETTE, THE SOX HAVE A TOUGH CLIMB TO THE PLAYOFFS BOSTON'S CHALLENGE NEW, AND SO IS TEAM
Sep 01, 2000; ... The Red Sox team that enters September 1 game behind the ClevelandIndians in the American League wild-card race and plays Seattletonight in Fenway Park bears scant resemblance to the team that tookthe field against the Mariners in Safeco Field on Opening Day April4. Mike Stanley ...
HARDWARE FIRMS RIDE BIOTECH WAVE
Sep 01, 2000; ... Imagine a stock market full of companies bursting with the kind ofhigh-tech promise that might change people's lives but scant sales toshow and no profits to speak of. We might be talking about the Internet stock bubble, anextraordinary episode in the recent past. But we could just ...
FIDELITY'S FUND BUSINESS TAKING A HIT DESPITE EARNING $1.2B IN YEAR'S FIRST 6 MONTHS, GIANT SLIPS IN FIGHT TO ATTRACT NEW MONEY DESPITE MEATY EARNINGS, FIDELITY TAKING HIT IN ATTRACTING NEW MONEY
Sep 01, 2000; ... Fidelity Investments may be having a banner earnings year, butit's no thanks to its mutual fund business. The Boston investment giant is being outrun by a host of smallerrivals this year in attracting new money from fund customers, a newreport shows. Fidelity has fallen to 10th ...
MILLENNIUM UNCOVERS NEW GENE DISCOVERY MAY YIELD HEART-FAILURE DRUG
Sep 01, 2000; ... Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. yesterday said it has discovered apotential new gene target for treating cardiovascular disease,advancing its effort with partner Eli Lilly & Co. to develop drugsfor the treatment of congestive heart failure. Although research is at an early stage, ...
NEIGHBOR CORP. HOPES ITS JUICE IS A HIT, EIEIO
Sep 01, 2000; ... It began with a family gazpacho recipe and a nursery rhyme. In product development, a cold soup evolved into a juice, a sortof all-natural V8, and the nursery rhyme gave the juice its name -Eieio. Coming in two "tomato smash" variations and bottled in a Deerfieldpickle plant, ...
ON LEXINGTON GREEN, A CLASH OF WHITE AND BLUE RAYTHEON STRIKE HIGHLIGHTS FIRM'S GROWING NEED FOR MORE HIGH-TECH ENGINEERS, FEWER PLANT EMPLOYEES
Sep 01, 2000; ... LEXINGTON - While an estimated 200 Raytheon Co. strikers ralliedon Lexington Green yesterday, Charlene Palmer stood among them,holding a cigarette, a sign, and a lot of anger. The 46-year-old tester and trouble-shooter, a member of theInternational Brotherhood of Electrical ...
MICROSOFT TO UNVEIL XBOX DEVELOPERS WILL MAKE GAMES UNDER GIANT'S LABEL
Sep 01, 2000; ... OAKLAND, Calif. - With the launch of its Xbox game console 14months away, Microsoft Corp. is expected to announce today it hasenlisted 18 companies to make games for the console under theMicrosoft label. These relationships are crucial to Xbox, whose success or failurewill depend ...
BUSH, GORE DEBATE EDUCATION, HEALTH
Sep 01, 2000; ... SEATTLE - Rounding out a coast-to-coast duel over health care andeducation, Vice President Al Gore yesterday pledged to expandpatients' rights and Governor George W. Bush of Texas promised tobring greater local control of education. The issues were largely overshadowed by news of a ...
GENE FIRM TO ASK BETH ISRAEL PATIENTS FOR TISSUE SAMPLES
Sep 01, 2000; ... Beginning next week, some surgery patients at Beth IsraelDeaconess Medical Center will be asked to allow leftover tissue fromtheir operations to be delivered to a Lexington biotech company thatwill attempt to sell it to genetic researchers around the world. The pioneering agreement ...
GOP TV AD AIMS AT GORE'S CREDIBILITY
Sep 01, 2000; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The presidential campaign erupted into fireworksyesterday even before its traditional Labor Day kickoff, as theRepublicans questioned Al Gore's credibility in a TV ad that showshim attending a Buddhist temple fund-raiser and taking credit forinventing the ...
STUDY OPPOSES WIDESPREAD PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING
Sep 01, 2000; ... Former US senator Robert Dole, Arnold Palmer and Harry Belafontehave all gone on television to urge all men over 50 to get tested forprostate cancer. But widespread screening may do more harm than good,two British researchers argue in a paper being published today in thejournal Lancet ...
FOR AMTRAK'S NEW TRAIN, A HIGH-SPEED CAMEO
Sep 01, 2000; ... It slipped silently to a stop on Track 7 at South Stationyesterday morning like a shimmering hallucination on wheels. Yes,train travelers, that really was Acela Express, Amtrak's endlesslydelayed answer to Boston's transportation dreams, that pulled intothe Hub at 8:45 a.m. But ...
3 CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS PROPOSED FOR SURFACE ARTERY
Sep 01, 2000; ... Still five years away from completion, Boston's new Surface Arterybegan to take shape yesterday, if only on paper. For the first time, urban and landscape architects hired toshepherd competing visions for 30 acres of reclaimed land into anactual plan presented their suggestions to ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 2000 ... Q. In 1950 I visited the reptile building at Brackenridge Park inSan Antonio. In one cage a regal python was listed as measuring 38feet. I wonder if this can be verified. A.L., Holbrook A. The reptile garden at Brackenridge Park operated from 1932until the early 1950s before ...
PREGNANT SECT MEMBER IN STATE CUSTODY
Sep 01, 2000; ... ATTLEBORO - Refusing to "bow down to a false god," a pregnantmember of a fundamentalist sect - who this week spurned a court-ordered medical exam and is suspected of neglect in the death of herlast baby - was ordered yesterday to a secure facility. The decision may be the first ...
ADVOCATES FOR WOMEN SCORN RULING
Sep 01, 2000; ... At first, the decision seems clear: A woman whose strict religioussect forbids modern medicine - but whose previous child perhaps couldhave been saved by a routine medical procedure - is ordered to serveout the remainder of her current pregnancy in a locked, state-runmedical ...
SEEING ACLU FROM BOTH SIDES CURLEY FATHER TO GO UP AGAINST ONETIME DEFENDER
Sep 01, 2000; ... Months before the American Civil Liberties Union agreed torepresent the group being sued by the parents of a murdered Cambridgeboy, the ACLU represented the boy's father in a constitutionalshowdown with his employers. [CORRECTION - DATE: September 2, 2000:Correction: Because of an ...
IN EVERETT, TEACHERS FAULT CELLUCCI PLAN
Sep 01, 2000; ... EVERETT - On the first day of classes yesterday at Everett HighSchool, James Micarelli Jr., science department head and teacher,wasted no time launching into the back-to-school, down-to-businessmode. Pacing in front of his senior biology class, he fired questions atstudents, ...
YOUTH MINISTER OUT ON BAIL IN SLAY CASE BUT WOMAN SAYS SHE'LL PUSH RAPE ALLEGATION
Sep 01, 2000; ... As Louis King Jr., charged with killing his girlfriend 15 yearsago, walked out of a Suffolk courthouse yesterday on $100,000 cashbail, a young Dorchester woman said she has renewed her resolve topursue charges of rape she first made against King four years ago. Ten days after his ...
CITY SEEN FUNDING KELLY'S DEFENSE WOULD PAY LEGAL COSTS IN WATERFRONT LAWSUIT
Sep 01, 2000; ... Although an ongoing fight over the South Boston waterfront'sfuture has soured Mayor Thomas M. Menino's longtime friendship withCity Council President James M. Kelly, his administration will usetaxpayer funds to defend Kelly in a racially tinged lawsuit overwaterfront development funds, ...
T SAYS FARE HIKES CRUCIAL TO PROJECTS MEMO: $745M IN IMPROVEMENTS AT STAKE
Sep 01, 2000; ... The MBTA would have to postpone or abandon $745 million inexpansion and improvements - and perhaps even cut its current levelof service - if opponents are successful in legally challengingplanned fare increases, according to an agency memorandum. In what observers say is an attempt ...
BOSTON'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
Sep 01, 2000; ... I am standing on the waterfront gazing at what undoubtedly shouldbe a magnificent vista. Bright sun streams from the late August sky,dancing across the sparkling blue skin of Boston Harbor. Yachts bobin the foreground; jets slowly ascend in the distance fordestinations ...
JAMES METANIAS, 84 WAS WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
Sep 01, 2000 ... A funeral will be held today for James Metanias of Brookline, aphotographer who specialized in weddings. Mr. Metanias died Monday in Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.He was 84. A Boston native, he owned and operated a studio in Brookline ...
SLAIN TEEN WAS LOOKING OUT FOR HIS SISTER SUSPECT DENIES GUILT, IS HELD WITHOUT BAIL
Sep 01, 2000; ... FRAMINGHAM - Donnell wanted to date Crystal. Crystal's olderbrother wouldn't allow it. That teenage clash, authorities and relatives say, sparked a deepand bitter feud that culminated in the stabbing death of Robert Weir,Crystal's brother, outside his home this ...
JULIO D. PAGLIERONI, 69 WAS FRAMINGHAM CAR DEALER
Sep 01, 2000 ... Julio D. Paglieroni of Marlborough, former owner of GatewayLincoln-Mercury in Framingham, died of leukemia Wednesday in Brigham& Women's Hospital in Boston. He was 69. Mr. Paglieroni was born in Boston. He served in the Army duringthe Korean War and was awarded the Purple ...
GOVERNOR IS TARGET OF PROTEST ON MCAS GROUP OUTLINES MINORITIES' CONCERNS
Sep 01, 2000; ... A day after Governor Paul Cellucci promised he will not abandonthe MCAS test as a graduation requirement, about 20 students,parents, and community leaders gathered in front of the State Houseyesterday and blasted his stance. "It has been used as a punishment, not as an assessment ...
PATRICIA F. RUSSO, 60 SOLD MINIATURE FURNISHINGS
Sep 01, 2000 ... Patricia F. (Kelley) Russo of Braintree, owner and operator of PatRusso Miniatures in Braintree, died Wednesday, apparently of a heartattack, in Quincy Medical Center. She was 60. Mrs. Russo was born and raised in Boston. She sold miniaturefurnishings for doll houses in Braintree ...
JUST WARMING UP
Sep 01, 2000 ... Gerald Forbes, portraying Prince Akim, displaying his fire-spitting prowess yesterday on the Esplanade in a ...
MOVING DAZE
Sep 01, 2000 ... Gary Girardin, a mover with River Mill Logistics, taking a breakfrom carrying tables, chairs, and desks into a dormitory on ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 2000 ... Q. On the Sudbury Reservoir pump house there is a plaque dated1897 with the following inscription: "Ense petit placidam sublibertate quietem." What does it mean? How old is the reservoir? J.S., Ayer A. "Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem" translates to "Bythe sword we ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 2000 ... Q. Several months ago I submitted 10 winning Green Stuff cards tothe lottery office requesting Celtic Pride T-shirts. I have notreceived them. Can you help? L.A., Newton A. The State Lottery Commission is researching your claim.According to Shannon ...
THE MISSION IN COLOMBIA
Sep 01, 2000; ... The most powerful man in the world on Wednesday spent 11 hours inCartagena, the nicest and safest of Colombia's cities, and then left,afraid to sleep there. Despite the fact that President Clinton wasprotected by thousands of security agents, troops and police officersplus six military ...
PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM LEAD PAINT
Sep 01, 2000 ... Thank you for running Jeremy Pressman's Aug. 26 op-ed article onthe difficulty of finding a deleaded apartment in the Boston area("Sure, there are apartments available, but not if you have youngchildren"). Before I read this piece, my husband and I had thoughtthat perhaps our struggle ...
DEMOCRATS' PRO-ABORTION STANCE IS DISHEARTENING
Sep 01, 2000 ... What was so disheartening about the recent Democratic NationalConvention was the not-so-subtle promotion of abortion. The messagewas threaded through the speeches of several of the guests. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg referred to women's reproductiverights, and the vice president's ...
RHETORIC UNDERMINES TRUST IN GOVERNMENT
Sep 01, 2000 ... There's a peculiarity in American politics that, if continued, isguaranteed to alienate the electorate from their government. It isthe custom of many politicians, particularly Republicans, to run against the government. Everything in Washington is evil andeverything in the home-based ...
CHINA MADE THE UN DO IT
Sep 01, 2000 ... I am absolutely disgusted by your decision to print a letter byCatherine O'Neill of the United Nations Information Center defendingthe indefensible: excluding the Dalai Lama from a UN sponsoredconference ("Religion and search for peace," Aug. 23). Her spin is that the UN did not ...
CAMPAIGN 2000: WHO WILL SPEAK FOR THE FORGOTTEN?
Sep 01, 2000 ... Presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore may gliblyevoke the words "God bless America" endlessly, but their words willbe empty of meaning if they fail to speak for "the forgotten" inAmerica ("Are they speaking for the forgotten?" op ed, Aug. 23). Bothcandidates' campaigns are ...
A THREE-BASKET MODEL FOR HEALTH CARE
Sep 01, 2000; ... For the past decade our country has debated how to fix its healthcare system. Despite all the talk, it's unlikely that anyone woulddeclare the patient cured. Why have we failed? It's not for lack of trying: Health carebasked at the epicenter of political attention in the early ...
CORRECTION
Sep 01, 2000 ... Correction Because of a reporting error, a listing in yesterday'sCalendar gave the wrong ...
GORDY TAKES ONE TUNE AT A TIME
Sep 01, 2000; ... No grass grows on Matt Gordy's foot pedals. The drummer/leaderrecorded his new quintet album, "Eclipse" (Everafter), live at theRegattabar, but returns to the room on Wednesday with somethingdifferent - a pianoless quartet. "This is something I've wanted to try in performance ...
MP3@BOSTON.COM
Sep 01, 2000 ... THE BOSTON.COM TOP 10 MP3 DOWNLOADS IN THE WEEK ENDING AUG. 30:ARTIST, SONG 1. CENTRAL BASEMENT, "THE WAY" 2. CENTRAL BASEMENT, " A Part of You" 3. Endswell, "Quote of the Year" 4. rubyhorse, "PunchDrunk" 5. Big Blue Daddys, "Money Don't ...
BRILLIANT PLAYING AS EARL WILD TURNS 85
Sep 01, 2000; ... The great American pianist Earl Wild, still baby-faced,willcelebrate his 85th birthday on Nov. 26. He has marked theforthcoming occasion with the release of a new CD, "20th & 21stCentury Piano Sonatas" (Ivory Classics); three days after hisbirthday he will give a recital in Carnegie ...
PICKING U[P THE STICKS GRATEFUL DEAD DRUMMER REUNITES WITH OTHER ONES AFTER A FIVE-YEAR BREAK
Sep 01, 2000; ... There's only so much fishing, diving, and lazing around that oneperson can do in Hawaii, right? "What was happening was that I wasgetting bored, but I wasn't being honest about it," admits BillKreutzmann, the Grateful Dead drummer who had retired to Hawaii andhadn't toured since Jerry ...
FROM PARIS TO YOUR TV `GREAT PERFORMANCES' BRINGS VERDI'S `LA TRAVIATA' AND THREE OTHER OPERAS HOME
Sep 01, 2000; ... WGBH-TV usually offers famine to local opera lovers; tomorrowbeginning at 1 p.m. there will be an 11-hour feast, with four tapedoperas on Channel 44, including the Washington Opera's production of"Pagliacci" and "La Rondine," "Turandot From the Forbidden City," and"La Traviata in ...
THE MAN WITH THE SONGS IN HIS HEAD DWIGHT YOAKAM TALKS LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION, AND SOUND
Sep 01, 2000; ... Be careful what you say to Dwight Yoakam, because you might end upin a song. Yoakam, a hard-driving country-rock singer, is one ofthose people who have music constantly running through their head.The slightest conversation might spark a fresh lyric or melody. "I communicate with ...