The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 2001:
A FAIR TRIAL FOR REFORM
May 01, 2001 ... OPPONENTS of the state's Clean Elections Law have given severalreasons why they think the law may not work if it is implemented asscheduled for next year's campaigns. The reasons are so flimsy thatthey point to a different motivation: The law is clearly beingopposed by people who are ...
BOB KERREY'S RAID
May 01, 2001 ... IT IS IMPORTANT that the right lessons are learned fromdisclosures about former Senator Bob Kerrey's role in the killing ofwomen and children in the village of Thanh Phong during America's warin Vietnam. The account in Sunday's New York Times Magazine and fromtwo Vietnamese women who say ...
PARTIAL WELFARE PROGRESS
May 01, 2001 ... YESTERDAY, Acting Governor Jane Swift made wise, welcome, and longawaited progress on welfare reform by saying that education shouldcount toward up to half of the state's work requirement for welfarerecipients. Unfortunately, other parts of her welfare plans aretroubling. Swift ...
RULES OF WAR DON'T ALLOW REVISIONISM
May 01, 2001; ... If American journalism has a soft underbelly, it is theprofession's ludicrous penchant for investigating after-the-fact "warcrimes," generally "committed" by men who have much to lose fromothers' contradictory and often suspect accounts of wartimeencounters in the distant past. I ...
SPEAKING OUT ABOUT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
May 01, 2001 ... Dear Beth: I cried when I read about the shooting at Santana High School inCalifornia. One of the things that upset me so much was PresidentBush's reaction - he called it a "disgraceful act of cowardice." Iknow it's not popular to feel compassion for "killers," but this iswhat ...
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED DISTRICTING SHOWS GERRYMANDERING STILL ALIVE
May 01, 2001; ... Of the words that Massachusetts has contributed to the nation'spolitical vocabulary, "gerrymander" is perhaps the most enduring,resurfacing every 10 years when a new federal census means that it istime once again to redraw the lines of congressional, legislative,and municipal election ...
CHURCH ANSWERS PRAYERS OF FAITHFUL
May 01, 2001; ... It is possible and probably right to be disturbed by the image ofCharlotte Church, and disgusted by the atmosphere of shamelessrapacity that surrounds her. But it is impossible to dislike the 15-year-old Welsh singerherself. Last night she made her local debut in a peculiar event ...
KANE'S `CRAVE' MIRRORS HER LIFE
May 01, 2001; ... "I feel nothing. Nothing," says one of the four characters inSarah Kane's "Crave." The phrase is repeated during the hourlongplay, thus becoming something of a mantra. It could also serve assomething of a review. Kane is the 28-year-old playwright who committed suicide last ...
TRIO FULFILLS ITS DESTINY
May 01, 2001; ... It's a story of woe and dough begging for VH1 "Behind the Music"treatment. Four Houston teenagers who call themselves Destiny's Childland a deal with Columbia Records after years of effort. Just astheir sophomore album, "The Writing's on the Wall" begins spewing asuccession of hits, ...
LABOR DAY
May 01, 2001; ... When Go! was growing up, the only thing we knew about May Day wasthat when we scampered out of bed on May 1, we were sure to find afancy paper basket hanging on our doorknob stuffed with candy. Whatcandy has to do with a celebration of labor rights, we'll never know(Go!'s family is ...
DAVID GRAY MAKES THE ORPHEUM GO POP
May 01, 2001; ... What is it that separated David Gray from the pack? From Donovanto Jeff Buckley, intelligent and well-crafted pop songs reflecting onthe peculiarities of love have met with critical acclaim andsometimes cult worship. On Saturday, Gray played to an audience thathad bought out the ...
METRO SEEKS READERS OTHERS `CAN'T DELIVER'
May 01, 2001; ... Many observers say that in an era of steadily vanishingnewspapers, Boston is fortunate to still be one of the fewcompetitive two-paper towns in America. Starting this week, thequestion is whether it can support a third daily as well. This Thursday, Metro - a free, weekday tabloid ...
PSSST, WANT TO BUY A BOOK?
May 01, 2001 ... While lawyers for Houghton Mifflin and the estate of novelistMargaret Mitchell duke it out over Alice Randall's novel, "The WindDone Gone," a scalper's market in early copies of the book hasapparently been nipped in the bud. Randall's book is a rejoinder to"Gone With the Wind," told by ...
BONO'S BANK SHOT
May 01, 2001 ... Bono was on the phone Friday, wearing not his U2 shades but hisConcerned Citizen chapeau. We sat in on a conference call duringwhich the Irish musician-activist spoke up for canceling Third Worlddebts and funding AIDS research. "I'm personally not here to beat up the World Bank ...
OUR SMALL-TOWN MEMORIES REPLACED BY BIG-CITY REALITY
May 01, 2001; ... We are driving through Exeter, N.H., at 2 in the afternoon,halfway between ice cream and health club, when Minnie Mae asks,"Where's all the traffic coming from?" "Here, in Portmond," I say. "Where?" "The metropolis that extends from Portland, Maine, to Richmond,Va. We ...
O'CONNOR, METAMORPHOSEN PLAY FOR ALL SEASONS
May 01, 2001; ... This week, superfiddler Mark O'Connor and the super string bandMetamorphosen are recording O'Connor's "The American Seasons" inMechanics Hall in Worcester. Sunday night, in preparation for therecording and a major fall tour, O'Connor and Metamorphosen canteredthrough the piece for a ...
BLOOD, SWEAT, AND MONEY DAN PALLOTTA RAISES FUNDS - AND HEART RATES - FOR A GOOD CAUSE
May 01, 2001; ... You're into Day 2 of the Alaskan AIDS Vaccine Ride, 510 miles fromFairbanks to Anchorage. There's snow in the passes on the AlaskanRange. Your lungs are the size of raisins. Even your bike seems tohave frostbite. And there are four more days to go. Or you're into mile 19 of the ...
GOODBYE AGAIN
May 01, 2001 ... As if one weekly shot of Anne Robinson isn't enough, viewers willsoon get two. The Pax network, partly owned by NBC, will broadcastreruns of that week's "The Weakest Link" at 8 p.m. Fridays beginningJune ...
SLOPPY BRICKWORK RESULTS IN FALSE FRONT
May 01, 2001; ... HOPKINTON - One way to make a Toll Brothers home that can cost upto $800,000 look like, well, a million dollars - and perhaps add toits resale value - is to add a brick front. But here at Toll's most expensive Massachusetts subdivision, someof the brickwork might lessen home ...
PLAYOFF A QUALIFIED SUCCESS
May 01, 2001; ... A long day at the golf course came to different endings forhopefuls in yesterday's State Four-ball Championship qualifier atWidow's Walk GC in Scituate. Having gone off in the second group in the morning, John Carey andPaul Littlejohn were still there at dinner time, earning a trip ...
HE CONFOUNDS SOX FANS AND FOES ALIKE
May 01, 2001; ... The Jimy Williams bashing is officially out of hand. You couldn'tgo anywhere in New England yesterday without hearing that Jimy's adope. Jimy's a dope for letting Craig (.059) Grebeck bat instead ofDante Bichette with the winning run on second base in the ninthSunday. Jimy's a ...
VIEWERS YANKED BACK IN TIME HBO AND ABC GO DEEP ON NOSTALGIA
May 01, 2001; ... Nostalgia was big over the weekend, with HBO's "61*" premieringSaturday night and "ABC's Wide World of Sports 40th AnniversarySpecial" on Sunday. The suspicion was that "61*" - the dramatization of the pursuit ofBabe Ruth's home run record by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961 ...
WALL SHEATHING CREATES HEADACHES FOR BUILDER, HOMEOWNERS
May 01, 2001; ... CANTON - David Dyson sold his Toll Brothers home a few months ago,prompted, he said, by Toll's poor workmanship and what he felt werelower quality building materials than he expected in a luxury home -including a cardboard-like wall sheathing Toll has used on more than700 homes in ...
GOLDEN YEARS IRWIN SHOWS NO SIGNS OF FADING ON SENIOR TOUR
May 01, 2001; ... PEABODY - He was in Alabama Sunday, Missouri that evening,Massachusetts yesterday, and it will be Tennessee today. Hale Irwinshrugs it off as the nature of the business; he cares more aboutkeeping himself in a strong state of mind. "If you are willing to accept that 55 is the age ...
FOOTBALL BENGALS BOLSTER LINE WITH VETERAN WEBB
May 01, 2001 ... Richmond Webb, a former Pro Bowl offensive lineman with the MiamiDolphins, agreed yesterday with the Cincinnati Bengals on a three-year, $9 million contract. Webb, 34, will be the likely starter atleft tackle, a problem position for the Bengals. Webb spent all his11 NFL seasons with the ...
SPIRES SETTLES FOR ONE YEAR
May 01, 2001; ... FOXBOROUGH - Greg Spires, the Patriots' co-leader in sacks lastseason with six, accepted the team's one-year restricted free agenttender offer of $512,000 after the sides could not reach agreement ona multiyear deal. The Patriots and Spires's agents worked for months on a ...
PINCAY FEELS `WIND' AT HIS BACK FOR DERBY
May 01, 2001; ... Millennium Wind may be less talented than Point Given, the preracefavorite for the Kentucky Derby, but he has a chance to win the Runfor the Roses simply because Laffit Pincay is going to show up toride him. If Millennium Wind didn't have a shot, Pincay, who won theDerby aboard Swale in ...
FALSE ALARM ON MAY DAY THINGS GOT A LITTLE BIT SHAKY TOWARD THE END, BUT APRIL WAS HARDLY THE CRUELEST MONTH FOR SOX.
May 01, 2001; ... SEATTLE - Sound the alarm. The Nomar-less Red Sox are mired intheir longest losing streak of the season (two games), have droppedinto a tie for first place in the American League East, and arebracing for tonight's opener of a three-game series against theMariners (20-5), the hottest team ...
STOUGHTON'S LINEUP SHIFT PAYS OFF
May 01, 2001; ... Stoughton baseball coach Bob Ashley felt he may have been puttingtoo much pressure on sophomore Matt Cremins to bat leadoff, so hemoved Cremins to second in the order yesterday and reaped thebenefits. Cremins's two-out single in the sixth inning plated junior CoryJohnston with ...
RINGING IN A YEAR OF OPPORTUNITIES BELL COMPANIES HAVE WON RECENT REGULATORY VICTORIES BUT FACE BIG TEST FOR BIGGER GAINS: REVAMP OF TELECOM ACT
May 01, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - In the past month, the Bell companies - traditionalpowerhouses in Washington - have joined the ranks of corporatewinners under the Bush administration, securing victories from aRepublican-led Federal Communications Commission and winning pledgesof legislative relief from ...
ALLMERICA POSTS DECLINE IN RESULTS
May 01, 2001; ... Worcester-based Allmerica Financial Corp. reported first-quarternet operating income of $37.2 million, or 70 cents per share. That'sdown significantly on a per-share basis from the first quarter of2000, when Allmerica reported net operating earnings of $66.4million, or $1.22 per share ....
LEE GROWS BUSINESS
May 01, 2001; ... Thomas H. Lee Co. is amassing a giant telphone directory business.The Boston buyout firm agreed to have its TransWestern Publishing Co.acquire WorldPages.com Inc. for $3 a share in cash, or $215 ...
BANK PLANS OFFICES
May 01, 2001; ... Citizens Bank announced plans to open 21 branch offices in Stop &Shop supermarkets across Rhode Island, replacing branches of rivalSovereign Bank New England. Single branches in Narragansett, Newport,North Kingstown, Richmond, and Westerly ...
WOES SUGGEST IMPORTANCE OF NEW ECONOMY OVERBLOWN
May 01, 2001; ... Is it possible we have exaggerated the importance of the "neweconomy?" The question has to be asked now that we know the US economyhasn't completely collapsed. The government reported Friday thatgross domestic product expanded at a 2 percent annual clip in thefirst three months ...
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC FILES COUNTERSUIT MEDINOL ACCUSED OF FRAUD, DEFAMATION, BREACH OF CONTRACT
May 01, 2001; ... Airing dirty laundry from a soured business relationship, BostonScientific Corp. formally filed a lawsuit yesterday charging MedinolLtd., its sole supplier of cardiovascular stents, with fraud, breachof contract, and defamation. The filing - technically a countersuit responding to ...
NATIONAL, LOCAL CIRCULATION DOWN SLIGHTLY AT MOST NEWSPAPERS
May 01, 2001; ... Overall newspaper circulation was down slightly nationwide and inthe Boston area, according to figures released yesterday by the AuditBureau of Circulations. The nation's three largest papers recorded slight gains (less than1 percent) in the six months ended in March, but the ...
CURBS ON DOCTORS' HOURS SOUGHT GROUPS PETITION OSHA, SAY LIMITS FOR RESIDENTS, INTERNS WOULD CUT ERRORS
May 01, 2001; ... As a first-year medical intern last year, Sonya Rasminsky oftenlogged 36 consecutive hours. But after narrowly missing an oncomingcar on her way home from work, she realized sleep deprivation hadjeopardized her judgment and was compromising her health. "I wish I could call my ...
LABOR CHIEF BUOYS PROTESTERS SWEENEY, YANCEY BACK HARVARD SIT-IN
May 01, 2001; ... CAMBRIDGE - AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and Boston City CouncilPresident Charles Yancey of Dorchester pledged their support to astudent sit-in at Harvard University demanding higher wages forcampus workers. "There is no reason for this wealthy institution to pass along toits ...
STOCK ISSUES LEAD MUTUAL FUNDS DROP
May 01, 2001; ... Mutual funds declined 3.8 percent to $6.63 trillion in March,according to the Investment Company Institute. Assets in stock fundsfell most sharply, by 7.6 percent, to $3.41 ...
PARTNERS MAKES A BOOKKEEPING CHANGE
May 01, 2001; ... Partners HealthCare System has reclassified its operating resultsfor the past three years, a change that effectively lowers thehospital network's operating margins since 1998. Partners' overallmargin is unchanged. Previously, Partners, the parent company of eight ...
TOURISM INDUSTRY WARNS AGAINST PLAN TO TRIM BUDGET
May 01, 2001; ... Boosters of tourism plan to sound the alarm today about a proposedcut in state advertising dollars they said will pose particular risksin a slowing economy. The Massachusetts Lodging Association, to be joined at a 1 p.m.news conference at the State House by representatives of ...
VERTEX TO BUY AURORA IN $600M DEAL PACT MAY HELP SPEED DRUG DEVELOPMENT
May 01, 2001; ... In a move that could speed up its drug discovery process, VertexPharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge yesterday announced plans toacquire Aurora Biosciences Corp. in a stock deal worth nearly $600million. Aurora, based in San Diego, brings techniques for high-speed,extremely accurate ...
MEASURING BUZZ
May 01, 2001; ... I have seen the future of public relations, and it runs onelectricity instead of alcohol. In fact, it came by my office theother day, in the form of a handful of graphics and a few pages oftext spun out of an Internet server. It was the product of a robotthat reads the ...
BERTELSMANN SEEN BUYING HUB FIRM ZOOBA MAY BE USED TO BOLSTER BOOK UNIT
May 01, 2001; ... In a sign that the publishing industry is about to take book clubsfurther into the online marketplace, a Boston-based e-mail contentand marketing company is expected to announce this week that it hasbeen bought by a division of Bertelsmann AG, the German ...
CONSTRUCTION UNIONS SUE TO SCRAP NEW RULES
May 01, 2001; ... The building and trades construction office of the AFL-CIO hasfiled suit in US District Court to overturn President Bush's Februaryexecutive order banning labor agreements that exclude ...
SAVINGS IN FAST-TRACK BYPASS QUESTIONED
May 01, 2001; ... The increasingly shorter hospital stays of coronary bypasspatients - down from about 10 days a decade ago to as little as fivedays now - are not saving the health-care system as much money asexpected, a new study says. Many of these so-called fast-track patients are not simply ...
CORRECTION
May 01, 2001 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in the Globe'sCity & Region section on Friday incorrectly stated that attorneyThomas ...
BUSH'S EDUCATION PLAN ADVANCES ACCORDS REACHED IN DISPUTED AREAS
May 01, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush's education plan moved forwardyesterday on two fronts, as negotiators in the House and Senateannounced tentative agreements designed to increase chances ofpassing the legislation. But a final deal still proved elusive, and the latest compromisessparked ...
ENERGY PLAN TO PROMOTE NEW SUPPLY CHENEY PUSHES DRILLING OVER CONSERVATION
May 01, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - Previewing the Bush administration's energy strategy,Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday downplayed conservation as asolution to the nation's power problems, outlining a policy thatrelies instead on increasing supplies of nuclear power, oil, andnatural gas. Cheney, ...
A MODERN TRAGEDY: TRUTH-TELLER KERREY'S LONG, PRIVATE ANGUISH
May 01, 2001; ... SAN MARCOS, Texas - In one episode - in one agonizing,excruciating moment - all of the tensions, and ambiguities, andlessons of the last four decades of our national life came screechinginto focus. In the center of this morality play stands Bob Kerrey of Nebraska.He was a ...
IN FLORIDA, RISKY SHOTS AT BEING BEAUTIFUL
May 01, 2001; ... MIAMI - In this city of 26-inch waists and high cheekbones, ZandraSpector craved a face lift, Kris Koebel wanted to erase the smallsmile lines around her mouth, and Zoila Romero hoped that passing menwould stare at all of her. "The pretty people down here get their way," said ...
AMERICAN IS KEY WITNESS AGAINST CHIEF OF REAL IRA
May 01, 2001; ... DUNDALK, Ireland - David Rupert bragged that he was part Mohawk,which went down well with his new buddies here in this border town,which is dubbed El Paso because of its shoot 'em up, Wild Westreputation. At 6-foot-4 and nearly 300 pounds, Rupert was an imposing Americanwho mixed ...
COLLEGE-BOUND SCRAMBLE FOR FINANCIAL AID
May 01, 2001; ... From an office at UMass-Boston where Saran Neang is in a college-prep program, there is a sweeping view of gliding sailboats. One day,the 18-year-old might enjoy such a view from her own office - if shegets to own the resort hotel of her dreams. But, right now all Neang can see is ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 2001 ... Q. During baseball's 1946 All-Star Game, I think, Ted Williams wasknown to have stepped out of the batter's box to hit a home run offRip Sewell. The umpire behind the plate let the home run count, asthe American League was far ahead. Could you clarify what actuallyhappened? H.H., ...
FOR YOUNG CRASH SURVIVOR, CONFUSION, TERROR STILL VIVID
May 01, 2001; ... Securely encased, the trumpet rests on the floor of the livingroom near the front door of Zachary Rubin's house. The trumpet madeit back safely, as did 12-year-old Zach, a seventh-grader at Oak HillMiddle School in Newton. Four of Zach's schoolmates - Stephen Glidden, Kayla ...
BU STUDENT DIES IN 60-FOOT FALL
May 01, 2001; ... A 20-year-old Boston University sophomore died early yesterdaywhen he fell from the roof of a campus building near Kenmore Square,in what school officials said was a prank that went awry. Benjamin J. Johnson and a friend decided to climb to the roof ofthe College of Communication ...
NO HIKE ON CAPITAL GAINS TAX HOUSE KILLS BID TO CONSIDER PROFIT AS REGULAR INCOME
May 01, 2001; ... The House last night overwhelmingly rejected an increase to thecapital gains tax that advocates argued would buttress funding forhealth care and schools in an economic downturn. The budget amendment, defeated 111-43, aimed to tax capital gainsat the same rate paid on regular ...
CORRECTION
May 01, 2001 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, the survivors of SidneyHamel were incorrect in his obituary in the Sunday Globe. Mr. Hamelleaves ...
MEDICAL RESEARCHERS WEIGH `ALTERNATIVES' HARVARD TO EXPLORE TREATMENT THEORIES
May 01, 2001; ... Acupuncture, massage, and herbal remedies aren't often mentionedin the same breath with Harvard Medical School. But with a $10 million grant announced yesterday, Harvard and BethIsrael Deaconess Medical Center hope to become leaders in a nationalmovement to apply rigorous ...
STATE EYES MORE LIMITS ON JET SKIS COMMUNITIES CITE NOISE, SAFETY THREAT
May 01, 2001; ... HALIFAX - By now, it's become a national war on water: Peaceversus the personal watercraft. From Biscayne Bay to Cape Cod, the wave-skipping Jet Skis havecome under attack from thousands of nearby residents andrecreationists who say they are too polluting, too loud, and ...
EDWARD KELLY, 54; LAWYER AND ACTIVIST
May 01, 2001 ... Edward F. Kelly, an attorney and activist formerly affiliated withthe group Ohio Citizen Action, died of colon cancer Sunday in hishome in Allston. He was 54. Mr. Kelly was born in New Brunswick, N.J. He graduated from BostonCollege and Harvard Law School and earned a master's ...
EDWARD A. LANG, TAUGHT IN BOSTON
May 01, 2001 ... Edward A. Lang of Salem, a longtime teacher in the Boston publicschools, died March 15 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.He was 76. Born in Wilmington, Mr. Lang attended Boston public schools.During World War II he served in the Navy in the Pacific andreenlisted for ...
ARTURS LIEPKALNS, PASTOR, PRINCIPAL
May 01, 2001 ... The Rev. Arturs J. Liepkalns, a retired educator and Lutheranpastor, died April 23 at his home in West Roxbury. He was 80. Born in Latvia, the Rev. Liepkalns fought in the Latvian Armybefore the country fell to the Soviet Union in World War II. After several years in refugee ...
MASS. HAS THE NUMBERS IN MATH CONTEST
May 01, 2001; ... There are 29 of them. Count 'em. Use your fingers if you have to.Twenty-nine students from Massachusetts will be flexing their mentalmuscles in a math smackdown today, the largest contingent of studentsfrom any state. Officially, it's the 2001 US Math Olympiad, a prelude to ...
T STEPS ON THE BRAKES AGAINST METRO PAPER'S VENDING BOXES REMOVED FROM STATIONS
May 01, 2001; ... In February, when the MBTA told the publishers of Boston Metrothat their free newspaper would never win exclusive distributionrights inside buses and subways, the publication seemed dead beforebirth. After all, Metro papers thrive in transit systems across the worldby paying to ...