The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from June 2001:
SHOOTING PAINS
Jun 01, 2001 ... FOUR FATAL shootings by Boston or Municipal police officers in thelast seven months represent an alarming trend for a department wherefirearms discharges of any kind, including accidents, aretraditionally low. Police Commissioner Paul Evans and Suffolk CountyDistrict Attorney Ralph ...
MIDWESTERN HAZING
Jun 01, 2001 ... BACK IN THE 1960s, coal-burning electric utility power plantowners were proud that they had "solved" the emissions problem bybuilding 1,000-foot stacks that presumably carried the noxious stuffto altitudes where it would be wafted out of the region. Neighborswere temporarily relieved, ...
PARKWAYS, NOT EXPRESSWAYS
Jun 01, 2001 ... WHEN THE Legislature took the first steps toward establishing theMetropolitan District Commission in 1892, it gave high priority tothe recreational value of open land and parkways that accommodate thepublic. While there have been modifications of the system, theunderlying principle ...
BLINDED BY CIGARETTE SMOKE
Jun 01, 2001; ... SMOKE TILL YOU CROAK. THAT IS WHAT MASSACHUSETTS IS TELLINGWELFARE RECIPIENTS AND THE WORKING POOR.The state, in itsinfinite fiscal myopia, has decided to ban smoking cessation drugsfrom coverage. Some physicians were giving patients Zyban, a drugapproved by the state to combat ...
IS BIG BROTHER GLOBE WATCHING US?
Jun 01, 2001 ... I WAS ENTRANCED BY LAST FRIDAY'S STORY ON SHERIFF RICHARD J.ROUSE, BUT PERHAPS FOR DIFFERENT REASONS THAN THE GLOBE MIGHT EXPECT.Initially, as I read through the list of his work habits compiledover a six-day surveillance period, part of me was indeed impressedby this piece of ...
THE INFLUENCE OF A REGULAR JOE
Jun 01, 2001 ... THIS WEEK THE WORLD LOST ONE OF ITS BEST AND FINEST. ALTHOUGH ITWAS MADE PUBLIC BY JOE MOAKLEY HIMSELF THAT HIS DOCTORS SAID HEWOULDN'T LAST THROUGH HIS TERM, HIS DEATH IS STILL TOUGH TO SWALLOW. Joe Moakley was a devoted son, brother, husband, friend, advocate ofsocial justice, ...
A FEW PLANKS AWAY FROM A GOVERNORSHIP
Jun 01, 2001; ... GREETINGS, MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS. Thousands of you will leavefor Springfield today for Saturday's party convention, certain thathappy days are almost here again. Here's some advice: Don't pop the champagne cork just yet. At the gubernatorial level, your party has been locked ...
$33,000 RETREAT: THAT'S A BARGAIN
Jun 01, 2001 ... THE GLOBE'S SUBHEADLINE AND REPORT ON THE BOSTON REDEVELOPMENTAUTHORITY'S PLANNING RETREAT FOCUSED ON THE COST ("3-DAY STAFFCONFERENCE TO COST AGENCY $33,000," CITY & REGION, MAY 22). FOR THISCRITICAL 400-PERSON PLANNING AGENCY TO SPEND $33,000 ON A ...
OUT OF FOCUS
Jun 01, 2001 ... WHAT HAPPENED TO FOCUS? MERGING THAT SECTION WITH THE BOOKSSECTION WAS A TERRIBLE DECISION. IF YOU HAVE TO ...
OFFICIAL POOR PERFORMANCE
Jun 01, 2001 ... SHERIFF RICHARD ROUSE'S USE OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY IS ANOTHER EXAMPLEOF PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHO ARE REWARDED FOR POOR JOB PERFORMANCE INMASSACHUSETTS.Speaking for many ...
MASON STEERS STATE IN RIGHT DIRECTION
Jun 01, 2001 ... I WANT TO THANK NATHAN COBB FOR HIS FANTASTIC ARTICLE ABOUT ABNERMASON ("MINORITY LEADER," LIVING/ARTS, MAY 24). IT WAS ONLY A MATTEROF TIME BEFORE HIS WORK AS A BRIDGE-BUILDER WAS RECOGNIZED.Fewpeople in the public sector have captured what it takes to balancethe competing and ...
JUDGED BY HOW WE TREAT INMATES
Jun 01, 2001 ... REGARDING YOUR SERIES THAT INVESTIGATED THE BRUTALITY ANDMALFEASANCE IN SUFFOLK COUNTY JAILS ("CRIMES OF PUNISHMENT," MAY 23-25): DURING MY 34 YEARS AS A CRIMINAL DEFENSE AND CIVIL LIBERTIESLAWYER, I'VE SEEN HORROR UPON HORROR, AND I'VE COME TO UNDERSTANDWHY IT'S TRUE THAT YOU CAN ...
KYOTO WON'T STOP GLOBAL WARMING
Jun 01, 2001 ... I READ KOFI ANNAN'S CRITICISM OF THOSE WHO QUESTION THE KYOTOPROTOCOL ("ANNAN FAULTS BUSH ON GLOBAL WARMING," PAGE A1, MAY 21)WITH MUCH SKEPTICISM. I DOUBT IF HIS MAJOR MOTIVATION FOR SUPPORTINGIT IS TO LIMIT GLOBAL WARMING.The agreement, if fullyimplemented, will not stop global ...
THE COURAGE OF JOE MOAKLEY
Jun 01, 2001; ... I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY. IT WAS FRIDAY, FEB. 9, WHEN JOEMOAKLEY CALLED ME INTO HIS BOSTON OFFICE TO TELL ME HE HAD JUST BEENDIAGNOSED WITH AN INCURABLE FORM OF LEUKEMIA. SINCE JOE HAD FACEDHEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE PAST - FROM HIS LIVER TRANSPLANT TO CANCER TOKIDNEY DISEASE - I ...
WHAT HIS SUCCESSOR MUST BE ABLE TO DO
Jun 01, 2001; ... A BELOVED CONGRESSMAN sleeps forever now. His colleagues andconstituents weep. This being Boston, mourners are overwhelmed bywarm memories - and cold calculations. Who's gonna get Joe Moakley's seat? In another city, it might be dis respectful to raise the questionbefore the ...
SCHNEIDER'S `THE ANIMAL' IS BEASTLY
Jun 01, 2001; ... One minute, he's like a Frisbee-catching dog. The next, he'sswinging with an orangutan. Then, he's giving Flipper the fin. Butthrough it all, Rob Schneider comes off as a jackass in "TheAnimal." Granted, this hybrid of "RoboCop" and "Dr. Dolittle" was nevermeant as high art. But ...
CORRECTION
Jun 01, 2001 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, yesterday's Calendarpublished the wrong ...
`ENLIGHTENMENT' GUARANTEES A SATISFYING TRIP
Jun 01, 2001; ... Doris Dorrie has always gone her own idiosyncratic way as afilmmaker. Her streak, if it can be called that, stays alive with herlatest, "Enlightenment Guaranteed." Dorrie - whose earlier films,"Men" and "Nobody Loves Me," were powered by a similar sense ofhumane amusement - has said she ...
BUSH WATCH
Jun 01, 2001; ... We know you're hesitant about going out for a big night on thetown, worried that if you're not within earshot of a TV you're goingto miss yet another story about first daughter Jenna Bush gettingbusted for - well, for something. Relax. Any new Jenna infractionwill be duly reported on ...
MEYER TURNS CONCERT INTO LIVELY JAM SESSION
Jun 01, 2001; ... Perhaps it's the intimate timbre of his double bass. Perhaps it'shis relaxed, laidback stage demeanor. But hearing Edgar Meyer playis like sitting in on a jam session in his garage or basement. Evenin the grand expanses of Symphony Hall, his performance issurprisingly low-key, ...
BOO-LA-LA `MOULIN ROUGE' HAS PLENTY OF SHOWGIRLS BUT NOT ENOUGH KICK
Jun 01, 2001; ... "Moulin Rouge" is a high-energy kitschfest that promisingly eruptsin a burst of audacious freshness, then chokes on its own artifice.It's one of those films that sounds good in the conception - namely,to deconstruct and reconstruct the lusty lowlife luxe of fin desiecle Paris through ...
GOLD MEDAL FLOWER
Jun 01, 2001; ... If Frank Gardener doesn't have gardening in his blood, he'scertainly got it in his name. The 53-year-old Quincy native, who in aprevious life worked at the New England Aquarium, Museum of Science,the Massachusetts Audu bon Society, and the MDC, just won a goldmedal at the Chelsea Flower ...
`NICO AND DANI' GETS COMING OF AGE RIGHT
Jun 01, 2001; ... Although films about adolescents stumbling urgently toward sexualself-identity are plentiful, most are put to shame by the delicacy,poignancy, and honesty of "Nico and Dani." In Spanish director CescGay's portrayal, two teenage boys are faced with the prospect ofgoing their separate ...
'N SYNC DELIVERS ROUSING HARMONIES 'N SYNC DELIVERS ROUSING HARMONY IN CONCERT
Jun 01, 2001; ... Once upon a time in pop's Pleistocene era - circa 1990 or so - a 4-year-old band would be just getting ready to hit its stride: honingsongcraft, building an audience, perfecting the live show. In the ageof factory-assembled superstars and instantaneous fame, the boys inthe 4-year-old ...
`SIX FEET UNDER' BURIED IN CLICHE
Jun 01, 2001; ... Let's play Name That Show. The heroine flies in for a familyevent, but Mom dies unexpectedly in episode No. 1. So she stays forgood, a boarder in her childhood home, which happens to sit atop thefamily business. In between the stresses of her love life, she copeswith the messes made by ...
IN `TOO TALL BLONDES IN LOVE,' A DIFFERENT KIND OF LOVE STORY
Jun 01, 2001; ... Love is never easy. Imagine, then, love between a bisexual whose desire is fluid and atranssexual whose identity is often in flux. Kate Bornstein has. Drawing on their own lives as a couple, sheand Barbara Carrellas have turned the experience into their play "TooTall Blondes ...
POPS' SOUND GETS WATERED DOWN IN HODGEPODGE OF MUSIC
Jun 01, 2001; ... Call me a purist. What I can't stand about crossover or fusionmusic is the way all idioms get diluted in the mix. Take the Boston Pops' collaboration with Paul Winter and the EarthBand, with the Manhattan Samba Band as special guests. In a programtaped for an "Evening at Pops" ...
CRIMES BUT NO PASSION IN `WHAT'S THE WORST' `WHAT'S THE WORST' COULD BE BETTER
Jun 01, 2001; ... "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" isn't even close to beingthe worst comedy of recent months. Not in a year when you've got"Tomcats," "Saving Silverman," and "See Spot Run." It's not even theworst movie made in Boston. It towers over, say, "Celtic Pride." But with a title like ...
BOURQUE'S CUP IS HALF-FULL
Jun 01, 2001; ... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Forget what they call the trophy. Everyoneknows these are in fact the Ray Bourque finals. So it was almostinevitable that a climax like last night's should be part of thefairy tale. You don't think that after 21 glorious but unfulfilled years withthe ...
DEADLINE LOOMS FOR BRUINS
Jun 01, 2001; ... The Bruins have until 5 p.m. today to make decisions on fourplayers - defenseman Martin Grenier, goaltenders Donald Choukalos andSeamus Kotyk, and right wing Kyle Wanvig. The team has been negotiating with the junior players, but if itis to work out a deal with any of them - all of ...
SAMPRAS AGAIN TURNS INTO PIGEON ON FRENCH'S CLAY
Jun 01, 2001; ... PARIS - In this town, the famed chestnuts blossom in April, andthe famous Pete Sampras fades in May. You can count on it: The French Open opens, and Sampras closes -almost as fast as a Broadway musical in Sanskrit. He's been doingthis for years, and has become a part of Parisian ...
WIND HAS DEALT BLOW TO ANGLERS' CHANCES
Jun 01, 2001; ... Memorial Day is the apex of the trout and salmon fishing year, oras some old-timers say, fish inland between forsythia and lilac time,then head for the salt. That may be a more fragrant notion than a true one these days. Thetrout have been right on schedule this year, but the ...
BONDS SHARES ABILITY OF GREATS, NOT POPULARITY
Jun 01, 2001; ... The numbers are the easiest part of the story. A lot of people areimpressed with the numbers, and numbers only. They want to put BarryBonds's 28 home runs in a trophy case and admire them from the otherside of the glass. Can't get too close. You know, they do belong ...
WORTH INCLUDING DELP'S EVER-IMPROVING COLT LOOKS LIKE ONE TO BEAT
Jun 01, 2001; ... Include, little known until this year, has just continued toimprove. He's gotten better, and better, and better, to the pointwhere he's one of the top three handicap horses in the country. OnlyTiznow, Horse of the Year in 2000, and Dubai World Cup winner CaptainSteve have stronger ...
NAMES KING SETS HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE DOUBLEHEADER FOR BEIJING
Jun 01, 2001 ... Promoter Don King signed David Izon to fight Hasim Rahman, theWorld Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation heavyweightchampion, as part of a title doubleheader in Beijing Aug. 5. Theother bout will be World Boxing Association champion John Ruiz'sdefense against Evander ...
MASSCAP OUT OF THE MONEY SUFFOLK'S TOP RACE MAY GET NOSED OUT
Jun 01, 2001; ... Another year had come, the names changed, but the quality was thesame. Once again - remarkably so - some of the best older horses in thecountry were coming to East Boston for the $500,000 MassachusettsHandicap. Bob O'Malley, chief operating officer at Suffolk Downs, looked ...
ALL IS COOL AMID DRY SPELL CATCHES PILING UP ON THE FLAT WATER
Jun 01, 2001; ... Last winter's record snowfall - more than 30 feet in the deepnorth country - seemed sure to set up a spring of high, fast water inwhich anglers would have trouble dealing with too much, not toolittle. The late March snowfall kept skiers smiling through an extendedspring season on ...
EXPOS SAY ALOHA, ALOU: COULD GOODBYE SOON BE HELLO?
Jun 01, 2001; ... TORONTO - On the last day of May 12 years ago, Cito Gaston wasnamed permanent manager of the Blue Jays, replacing Jimy Williams,who had been fired two weeks earlier. At the time Williams was fired,the Jays had a record of 12-24, a wretched performance for a teampicked by many to go to ...
PATRIOTS LOOK FOR JOHNSON, SMALL TO CATCH ON
Jun 01, 2001; ... FOXBOROUGH - Charles Johnson and Torrance Small signed lucrativedeals with the Philadelphia Eagles on the same day - Feb. 16, 1999. Yesterday, the veteran receivers, friends off the field,officially signed not-so-lucrative deals with the Patriots. Protecting themselves in case ...
SOX BATTER JAYS LATE ERUPTION EARNS BOSTON PIECE OF FIRST
Jun 01, 2001; ... TORONTO - Hideo Nomo sat in the clubhouse, pondering where it allwent wrong. Rich Garces was nearby, engrossed in his own self-reflection. And Rod Beck languished in the dugout, knowing full wellhow he had failed. The Red Sox were on the ropes, as the Blue Jays had just ...
FRANCHINO HAS FIELD OF VISION
Jun 01, 2001; ... FOXBOROUGH - It doesn't matter whether Joe Franchino playsdefender or one of the midfield spots - either way, he's helping theRevolution. "It doesn't matter which position coach [Fernando Clavijo] wantsme to play," said Franchino, who was picked up off waivers from theLos Angeles ...
ROAD RACES DON'T GET ANY BIGGER
Jun 01, 2001; ... At 10 a.m. tomorrow, approximately 1,000 runners will toe thestarting line at six YMCAs in Greater Boston for a 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) road race. But they are only part of the story. At 700 YMCAsacross the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico at the same time,200,000 people are ...
THERE'S A ROOT TO PROBLEM SINDEN HAS TOUGH TIME PICKING TEAM
Jun 01, 2001; ... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Harry Sinden always had a simple rule ofthumb for determining his loyalties in the Stanley Cup finals whenthey didn't involve Boston. "I'd find myself cheering for World War III to break out," saidthe diplomatic Bruins president, "so they'd call the whole ...
IT'S A SORE SPOT AS LANSING BOTTOMS OUT
Jun 01, 2001; ... TORONTO - One thing about Mike Lansing. He speaks his mind, as hedid yesterday when he took a gander at the Red Sox lineup for lastnight's game against the Blue Jays. It was manager Jimy Williams's 39th different lineup in 52 games.The surprise of the day was Brian Daubach, a ...
ZELASKO EMERGING AS FOX'S RISING STAR
Jun 01, 2001; ... It's a latter-day discovery story. Hollywood movie moguls of old used to tell stories of findingpotential stars waiting on tables or sitting at a soda fountain. Today's TV poohbahs apparently find talent as they sit in LosAngeles freeway traffic listening to, of all things, ...
LEWIS CATCHES ON AT CH. 7
Jun 01, 2001; ... Kip Lewis has made it to Boston. Finally. Back in the early 1980s, none other than Bill Walsh, then thecoach of the 49ers, tried to point Lewis, a high school wide receiver(and son of Sherman Lewis, a Walsh assistant at the time and now theVikings' offensive coordinator), toward ...
A WHO'S WHO LIST IT'S NOT STARS AREN'T OUT AT WOMEN'S OPEN
Jun 01, 2001; ... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. - The names atop the leaderboard - theunheralded A.J. Eathorne and Cindy Figg-Currier, author of just onewin in her 17-year career - made you look twice. But a scroll of thenumbers, many of them black, some of them ugly, confirmed this,indeed, is the US Women's ...
FITCHBURG G&E ORDERED TO REBATE
Jun 01, 2001; ... Fitchburg Gas & Electric was ordered by Massachusetts regulatorsto rebate $1.3 million in overcollections to 15,000 gas customers inFitchburg, Gardner, and four adjacent towns over the next 10 years.Customers should see their gas bills drop by about 1 percent fromwhat they would have ...
ETC.
Jun 01, 2001 ... Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. plans to finish installing new self-serve scanning lanes in 39 New England supermarkets next monthfollowing a test run. The scanners are online in 33 stores now,company spokeswoman Faith Weiner said. . . . Bacou USA, was sued inDelaware by a shareholder who ...
TODAY . . .
Jun 01, 2001 ... The Labor Department releases the May unemployment rate. Analystsexpect the rate to ...
BAD GETS WORSE
Jun 01, 2001; ... She was a guard at one of the state's medium-security prisons,working the graveyard shift. Thankfully, she says today, sheremembers precious little of that brutal night nearly eight years agoon the cell block. It was 2:30 in the morning when a prisoner, using a plastic ...
FORECAST DISMAL FOR N.E. ECONOMY BUT DESPITE SLOWDOWN, ECONOMISTS SAY THAT A RECESSION ISN'T LIKELY
Jun 01, 2001; ... NEEDHAM - Economists are rapidly lowering their forecasts for NewEngland this year amid a continuing meltdown in the technologyindustry and growing evidence the region's blockbuster growth isscreeching to a halt. Economists and business executives who packed into a Needham ...
IMPENDING ISO REPORT SAID UNLIKELY TO FAULT GENERATORS STUDY SO FAR SHOWS NO MANIPULATION
Jun 01, 2001; ... NEEDHAM - A long-awaited report from New England power gridofficials addressing the question of whether generating companieshave withheld power to jack up prices is unlikely to charge anyserious wrongdoing, a top grid executive disclosed yesterday. Speaking to a New England ...
FCC OUTLOOK
Jun 01, 2001 ... Chairman Michael Powell said yesterday the shift to the newdigital technology will be "messy" and "confusing," but ultimatelythe consumer will benefit. "But that's . . . the evolutionaryprocess," he ...
IOWA COURT'S RULING COULD AFFECT NEW ENGLAND INSURERS CASE UNDERSCORES POLICYHOLDER RIGHTS
Jun 01, 2001; ... In a decision that could have ramifications for New Englandinsurers, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a class-actionlawsuit against Allied Mutual Insurance Co. should be allowed to goforward. The decision reversed a lower court's 1999 ruling that had thrownout the ...
CHAPPELL WHITE, BORN OF DOT-COM BOOM, SOLD TO CHICAGO LAW FIRM
Jun 01, 2001; ... A Boston law firm founded at the height of the dot-com boom tocater to entrepreneurs went the way of its best clients yesterday. Chappell White LLP, which opened its doors in early 1999, sold outto a bigger national firm for an undisclosed amount of money.Effective immediately, the ...
JUDGE RULES AGAINST BULL IN SUIT OVER BIAS WAIVERS SAYS FIRM VIOLATED OLDER-WORKER LAW
Jun 01, 2001; ... A Boston federal court has ruled that a Massachusetts high- techcompany illegally forced older workers seeking to collect severancepay or retirement packages to waive their right to file age biasclaims against the company. The court ruled that Bull HN Information Systems of ...
COFFEE ADS PLAY TO HOME GROUNDS
Jun 01, 2001; ... TV ads from New England Coffee Co. are its label come to life.With a Currier-and-Ives look, the label shows a horse and wagon aboutto cross a covered bridge. Thanks to animation, the label in the TVad seeks to trace the history of the coffee trade in New England. Though this ...
UNISPHERE BASKS IN PRIVATE SUCCESS
Jun 01, 2001; ... WESTFORD - Last summer, Unisphere Networks seemed poised to enjoythe next multibillion-dollar initial public offering for aMassachusetts telecommunications start-up. Then the telecom IPO gatesuddenly slammed shut, and it has refused to reopen. Life has gone on for Unisphere, ...
MASS. STUDENT FINDS REMAINS OF 70-TON DINOSAUR IN EGYPT
Jun 01, 2001; ... It was one of the largest creatures ever to walk the Earth -weighing 70 tons and measuring up to 100 feet long from the tip ofits tail to the nose of its tiny head. The dinosaur, possibly the second-largest ever unearthed, wasfound by a graduate student from Massachusetts near an ...
MCVEIGH SEEKS A STAY OF EXECUTION DEFENSE TEAM ALLEGES FRAUD BY GOVERNMENT
Jun 01, 2001; ... LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for confessed Oklahoma City bomber TimothyJ. McVeigh, accusing the federal government of having committed a"fraud upon the court," yesterday sought to have his June 11execution delayed. The lawyers filed a request for a stay of execution after a two-hour ...
SINGLE-MOTHER HOMES ABOUNDING IN HARTFORD
Jun 01, 2001; ... HARTFORD - Sitting in a corner booth at a McDonald's, Ivette Ramosthought hard about the mothers she knows. The ones who work with herat the Stop & Shop bakery. The ones in her building. The ones in herchurch. All of them - including herself - are on their own. "Either they ...
SPELLING CHAMP
Jun 01, 2001 ... Sean Conley, 13, holding up his trophy after he won the 2001Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee yesterday in Washington, D.C.The teenager from Shakopee, Minn., who came in second place ...
FOR SHARPTON, BOOST FROM FOES
Jun 01, 2001; ... NEW YORK - There's something uncanny about the political career ofAl Sharpton: Just when he seems to be stumbling, one of his foescommits a blunder and the Reverend Al - as he's widely known -rebounds to greater heights than ever. His latest recovery comes courtesy of a federal ...
IRAQ WARNS IT WILL HALT OIL EXPORTS IF UN ACTS SECURITY COUNCIL SET TO EXTEND SANCTIONS
Jun 01, 2001; ... UNITED NATIONS - In a move that is likely to rattle already-highgas prices, Iraq threatened yesterday to halt all future oil exportsif the UN Security Council approves a resolution extending the oil-for-food program for just one month while considering replacement"smart ...