The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from December 2001:
IS AMERICA FIGHTING A JUST WAR?
Dec 01, 2001 ... THANKS TO JAMES CARROLL. HIS COURAGE AND INDEPENDENT THINKING OFFER ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES AND GIVE US COURAGE TO STATE WHAT WETHINK IN THE FACE OF BEING CALLED "UNPATRIOTIC" OR WORSE. ...
DROP THE K
Dec 01, 2001 ... EVERY DAY I READ ABOUT HOW BURKAS OPPRESS AND SUFFOCATE WOMEN INAFGHANISTAN. THIS IS STARTING TO DEPRESS ...
IS AMERICA FIGHTING A JUST WAR?
Dec 01, 2001 ... JAMES CARROLL CALLS FOR A POLICE ACTION RATHER THATN A MILITARYCAMPAIGN IN AFGHANISTAN. THE UNITED NATIONS GRANTED THE UNITED STATESTHE RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE TO STRIKE THE AL QAEDA TERRORIST ...
WORLD AIDS DAY, 2001
Dec 01, 2001 ... IN A YEAR when high percentages of teenagers in Africa have stillnever even heard of AIDS and the vast majority of Africans infectedwith it don't know they are, the most hopeful development in theeffort to control this devastating disease was the unprecedentedspecial session on AIDS at ...
AN INFECTION OF THE BODY POLITIC
Dec 01, 2001 ... LIKE ANY GOOD SURVEILLANCE AGENCY, THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM GUARDSTHE BODY AGAINST FOREIGN INVADERS. T-CELLS PROWL THE ALLEYWAYS OFREMOTE CAPILLARIES AND LYMPH NODES WHERE PATHOGENS MIGHT HIDE OUT,WHILE B-MEMORY CELLS NEVER FORGET A FACE. WE DEPEND ON THEIRVIGILANCE FOR OUR VERY SURVIVAL ....
LOGAN'S RUNWAY
Dec 01, 2001 ... YOUR EDITORIAL ON REFORMS NEEDED AT MASSPORT ("MASSPORTPROSPECTS," NOV. 23) MISSED ONE IMPORTANT POINT: THE AGENCY'SMISGUIDED MISSION TO EXPAND ITS AVIATION FIEFDOM AT ALL COSTS. THISAGENDA STEMS FROM THE COMPLETE IDENTIFICATION OF MASSPORT ...
WE HAVE LOST A GREAT SURGEON
Dec 01, 2001 ... A BRIDGE BUILDER between bedside and research lab; a logicalthinker who made decisions on proven data; a physician equally caringfor university presidents and newly arrived foreign research fellows.These were among the images that surfaced as my wife and I learnedthat Dr. Francis D ....
IN FAVOR OF MUSEUM PLAN
Dec 01, 2001 ... IN DECRYING HARVARD'S PLANS TO BUILD TWO MUSEUMS ON THE TWO-BLOCKMAHONEY'S NURSERY SITE ("A better plan for Harvard," op ed, Nov.26), Cob Carlson suggested that Harvard's president should take awalk through Riverside and ask residents what they think. I would suggest that ...
IS AMERICA FIGHTING A JUST WAR?
Dec 01, 2001 ... REGARDING JAMES CARROLL'S COLUMN "THIS WAR IS NOT JUST" (OP ED,NOV. 27): WHAT IS IT THAT HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND? IS IT HISCONTENTION THAT AL QAEDA IS NOT A MILITARY FORCE CONNECTED TO THETALIBAN? DOES HE CLAIM THAT FULLY FUELED AIRLINERS ARE NOT FEARSOMEWEAPONS WHEN USED IN THIS ...
GOODBY, GEORGE HE WASN'T THE ONE WITH THE OUTGOING PERSONALITY, BUT HIS FANS SAW HIS GENTLE CHARMS
Dec 01, 2001; ... It's easy to spot the ones who loved Paul. Girls, fans of sweetpop tunes, girls, suckers for ballads, and girls. John attracted theedgier fans, the rebels and the intellects. Ringo courted thenurturers and the nerds. But whose favorite was George? He was, famously, the "quiet ...
A SOPRANO WITH PASSION, POWER
Dec 01, 2001; ... Isabel Bayrakdarian's family insisted that she complete a degreein biomedical engineering as insurance against the hazards of amusical career. But there's no chance she's going to need a day jobanytime soon. Not many singers at 27 have has much going for them asthe Canadian-Armenian ...
`TUSCAN SKIES' HAS A FEW HIGH NOTES
Dec 01, 2001; ... "Tuscan Skies" isn't much of a video, but it will please the fansof Andrea Bocelli who want to watch the tenor lip-sync an hour'sworth of songs from his fifth and most recent pop-song CD, "Cieli diToscana." (It airs tonight at 9 on cable's A&E network.) One song,"Tornera la neve," may ...
SCHULTE, WINN ARE IN WITH THE NEW
Dec 01, 2001; ... Go up to anybody who follows the new-music scene and tell themyou've just been to a Rolf Schulte recital - "It was stimulating, itwas newsy, it was gorgeously played!" you rave - chances are theresponse you'll get is: You expected different? Schulte's recital with pianist James ...
ARTIST USES HER PAIN TO FOCUS ON THE TIME WE ALL HAVE LEFT
Dec 01, 2001; ... In May of last year, sculptor Maggie Stark's neck was broken whenher car was hit head-on by a drunk driver. Three vertebrae werefractured, but Stark was lucky. Today, the only aftereffect shesuffers is occasional neck pain. Still, the experience brought home to the artist how ...
A FITTING FAREWELL FOR A CELLULOID HERO
Dec 01, 2001; ... NEW YORK - Pauline Kael was celebrated yesterday at - where else? -a movie theater. At a memorial service at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater,200 or so friends and admirers gathered to celebrate the life andwork of the legendary film critic, who died Sept. 3 at 82. The ...
AFFECTION ACROSS THE GENERATIONS HIS MUSIC TOUCHED BOOMERS AND THEIR KIDS ALIKE
Dec 01, 2001; ... Maria O'Meara, a video scriptwriter in Brookline, shares a deep affection for the Beatles with her 13-year-old son, Chris Branfield.The two listen to the band's albums together, own a well-thumbed copyof "The Beatles Anthology" book, and love the film "A Hard Day'sNight." Like ...
NEWBURY BUYING SPREE YIELDS LUCKY FINDS
Dec 01, 2001; ... In less than 20 minutes of shopping on Newbury Street, Gina Maher,fashion news editor at Lucky magazine, makes a purchase at Intermix,zeroing in on a gray gabardine Marc by Marc Jacobs blazer reducedsignificantly to $139. She skips the dressing room and heads straightfor the cash ...
HARRISON A QUIET PIONEER IN SOUND ALL THINGS MUST PASS . . . SO I MUST BE ON MY WAY. GEORGE HARRISON, "ALL THINGS MUST PASS," 1970
Dec 01, 2001; ... George Harrison ennobled listeners with music often so tender andspiritual that he finally left the commercial world behind. He wasthe most spiritual Beatle - and that element likewise colored his many solo albums. Harrison, often in the shadow of the more visible, ...
COLLECTING CASH
Dec 01, 2001; ... With our stock portfolio headed south, we're wondering whether weshould sell our 1978 Luke Skywalker action figures. Or our 1966 JamesBond lunchbox. Or even our 1953 Roy Rogers watch. After all, Gary Sohmers is bullish on collectibles. "Our industryis very strong right now," says ...
RADIO AND TV SALUTE HARRISON
Dec 01, 2001; ... Boston radio stations reacted quickly yesterday to the news ofGeorge Harrison's death, airing marathon musical tributes, clips frompast interviews, and the personal memories of hundreds of listenerswho called in to mourn. Meanwhile on television, networks such as CNNand Fox News ...
SOLOISTS ADD TO FUN, AND FUND-RAISING
Dec 01, 2001; ... CAMBRIDGE - Attending a concert by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestrais a little like going to a college sporting event. Much the samesense of school spirit prevails. Friends of the players crowd intothe stands (or in this case, the pews of Sanders Theatre) and indulgein a lot of ...
`BRIAN'S SONG' LOSES SOME GRACE
Dec 01, 2001; ... Remakes have come to symbolize so much of what is unimaginative inHollywood that it's hard to watch ABC's remake of "Brian's Song"without a raised eyebrow. Why redo a movie that was good enough thefirst time around, one that's still available on video? Why taint itslegacy with an ...
FILM DEPICTS SIX BOSTONIANS' FIGHT WITH AIDS
Dec 01, 2001; ... Any intelligent discussion of AIDS by now acknowledges that thedisease cuts across every social demographic. From the IV drug userin the 'hood to the grandmother in the suburbs, anyone can contractHIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Even now, though, "Undetectable," adocumentary by Jay ...
HAYDAR MAKES BC FEEL HORRIBLE
Dec 01, 2001; ... DURHAM, N.H. - Sean Collins and Darren Haydar had something toprove as the University of New Hampshire squandered a three-goal leadin the third period against Boston College last night. "Our line was out there for the three goals and it'sembarrassing," Haydar said after converting ...
SIDNEY GLAD TO BE BACK
Dec 01, 2001; ... ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Ryan Sidney has returned home as the leadingscorer and rebounder of Boston College's 15th-ranked basketball team.The mercurial sophomore from Pioneer High in Ann Arbor would likenothing more than to make it a triumphant homecoming trip in BC'snonconference matchup ...
TRICK WILL STICK WITH HIM SAMSONOV'S GOAL ONE FOR ARCHIVES
Dec 01, 2001; ... OTTAWA - When the Bruins interviewed Sergei Samsonov prior to the1997 NHL entry draft, then assistant general manager Mike O'Connellsaid what convinced the team to select Samsonov at No. 8 overall wasas much his demeanor as his talent. Much had been made about Samsonov's size (5 ...
NO KIDDING: NETS, CELTICS ON UPSWING
Dec 01, 2001; ... ORLANDO, Fla. - This is not a true or false test. No tricks orgimmicks or cash prizes here. The following few sentences arestatements of fact, though some may surprise you. The matchup today between the Celtics and Nets at ContinentalAirlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., is a ...
PIONEERS FACE HUGE TEST VS. HIGH-SCORING LONGMEADOW
Dec 01, 2001; ... How do you stop a team that averages more than 45 points per gamewhile giving up a mere 9? St. John's of Shrewsbury will need to come up with the answer whenit faces Longmeadow in today's Division 1 Central/Western Mass. SuperBowl at 12:30 at Springfield College. Longmeadow ...
ROSY OUTLOOK FOR HURRICANES ROSY OUTLOOK AS MIAMI PREPARES FOR HOKIES
Dec 01, 2001; ... BLACKSBURG, Va. - They are close now. So close. Some of themstarted to celebrate a week ago after a 65-7 romp over Washington atthe Orange Bowl by holding roses, a symbol of their desire to playfor the national championship in the Rose Bowl Jan. 3. That was not something Miami ...
THEY'LL MEET AGAIN BLEDSOE CAN EXPECT A VISIT FROM LEWIS
Dec 01, 2001; ... HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - They'll make contact again tomorrow. After thegame. Mo Lewis intends to renew acquaintances at that time, althoughthat isn't how he'd anticipated it would be two months ago. But theJets' All-Pro linebacker was really the last opponent to get in touchwith Drew ...
NAMES GIAMBI IS IN A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
Dec 01, 2001 ... In a daily saga that has engulfed baseball's hot stove, prizedfree agent Jason Giambi told Fox Sport Net Thursday night he'sleaning toward signing with the New York Yankees. Giambi did not ruleout joining another team, and has spoken to St. Louis Cardinalsmanager Tony La Russa and ...
GLENN NOT AT THE END BELICHICK HOPES SOMETHING CAN BE WORKED OUT
Dec 01, 2001; ... FOXBOROUGH - For one side at least, all hope does not appear to belost. Terry Glenn said last Sunday night he didn't care if he were stilla Patriot and Thursday night that he felt it best if he and the teamparted ways, but coach Bill Belichick implied yesterday morning thatgiving ...
ONLY TIME WILL TELL WITH COX, JOHNSON
Dec 01, 2001; ... FOXBOROUGH - You'll find out the availability of ailing insidelinebackers Bryan Cox and Ted Johnson against the Jets tomorrowaround the same time Bill Belichick does. Game time. Both players practiced again yesterday, but there still is nodefinite word on whether Cox will be ...
ONE OPINION ON BALLOT QUESTIONS ONE TAKE ON BALLOT QUESTIONS
Dec 01, 2001; ... WARNING: This is a Glenn-free zone, in which we will not bedealing with selfish, ungrateful underachievers. The issue here isachievement. Any name you find henceforth will be attached to someonewho can look back upon his career with pride. That said, Ozzie Smith can start working ...
AVICI CUTS 40 MORE JOBS
Dec 01, 2001; ... Avici Systems Inc., a Billerica maker of equipment that routesdata traffic, trimmed 40 jobs, or 12 percent of its work force, ascustomers cut spending on telecommunications gear. Avici has fired 67people this year. The company, ...
BETH ISRAEL SELLS BUILDING
Dec 01, 2001; ... Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sold a building to Children'sHospital for $5.4 million as part of a plan to reduce its real-estate debt and turn around major operating losses, executives said.Beth Israel Deaconess, which is spread out on both sides of ...
ENRON FIRES 1,100 IN UK
Dec 01, 2001; ... Enron Corp. fired 1,100 employees in the UK yesterday, the firstof thousands of anticipated job cuts by the energy trader, and soughtto protect assets and line up financing for the largest US bankruptcyreorganization. Also yesterday Salomon Smith Barney analyst ...
COMPUTER CHIP ENDS DETROIT MUSCLE'S REIGN
Dec 01, 2001; ... So the Camaro and the Firebird are going to the big junkyard inthe sky. The General Motors response to the '60s Pony Car craze - so namedbecause the Mustang started it all in 1964 - were these Chevrolet andPontiac muscle cars. But with the 2002 model year, they are gone. Nomore ...
R&D COSTS FOR DRUGS SKYROCKET, STUDY SAYS TUFTS CENTER ESTIMATES AMOUNT UP THREEFOLD FROM A DECADE AGO
Dec 01, 2001; ... A new study places the average cost of developing a prescriptiondrug at $802 million, a more than threefold increase from a decadeago and significantly greater than the oft-quoted $500 millionestimate based on earlier studies. The estimate, released yesterday by the Tufts Center ...
GDP DATA REVISED DOWN IN 3D PULLBACK'S THREE TIMES LARGER THAN FORECAST; WORSE EXPECTED IN 4TH
Dec 01, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - The US economy contracted much more sharply in thethird quarter of the year than initially estimated, the CommerceDepartment said yesterday. The report generated fresh sniping onCapitol Hill, but no signs of a breakthrough on a stalled economicstimulus measure. The ...
EQUITY FIRM SEEN SET TO JOIN SOX BID
Dec 01, 2001; ... Quadrangle Group, a $1 billion private equity firm specializing inmedia investments, appears poised to join New York lawyer MilesPrentice's bid for the Boston Red Sox. In submitting his offer by the team's noon deadline on Thursday,Prentice indicated that he expected Quadrangle to ...
BUILDING A FUTURE, TOO STUDENTS HELP OTHERS, LEARN A TRADE ON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SITE
Dec 01, 2001; ... BILLERICA - Vinnie Cedrone, a junior at Shawsheen Valley TechnicalHigh School, is learning more at the job site at 22 Glenside Ave.than simply how to work with his hands. He and about a dozen otherhigh school students are building the four-bedroom Colonial incollaboration with Habitat ...
HANSCOM FLIGHTS UP AFTER SEPT. 11 LOGAN WOES, BUSINESS JET POPULARITY CITED
Dec 01, 2001; ... Throngs of corporate-plane travelers abandoned Boston's LoganAirport after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, while business trafficat the smaller Hanscom Field in Bedford soared to record levels. Business-jet flights at Hanscom rose 9 percent to 1,747 inSeptember from a month ...
LERNOUT & HAUSPIE LEGAL TROUBLES MOUNT
Dec 01, 2001; ... Failed speech technology giant Lernout & Hauspie's efforts toauction its remaining assets are facing more legal trouble. A British speech-recognition company that has already filed a $50million-plus patent-infringement suit against L&H, AllVoice ComputerPLC, is asking the ...
HOME SALES DOWN 4.1 PERCENT IN OCT.
Dec 01, 2001 ... Sales of single-family homes in Massachusetts fell 4.1 percent inOctober, compared to one year earliler, while the average sellingprice jumped 10.1 percent, according to the Massachusetts Associationof Realtors. The number of sales of single-family dwellings droppedfrom 4,028 in October ...
SHUTTLE AMERICA PICKS NEW CHIEF
Dec 01, 2001; ... Shuttle America will appoint Scott Durgin, who helped steer MesabaAirlines during its massive growth during the 1990s, as chiefexecutive when it officially emerges later this month from bankruptcyprotection. In an interview yesterday, Durgin said Shuttle America, whichflies out ...
OLD MILL TOWN'S A NEW MELANGE
Dec 01, 2001; ... DOVER, N.H. - On a Saturday night at Crescent City Bistro, patronsfrom all walks of life pour through the new restaurant's doors.Decked-out silver-haired couples fill the tiny dining room, while theusual suspects claim a spot at the Washington Street bistro's rumbar. It seems to ...
ONE SPORE SHEDS LIGHT IN CONN. PROBE
Dec 01, 2001; ... A trace of anthrax has been found on the envelope of a letter sentto a house in Seymour, Conn. - about a mile from the home of 94-year-old Ottilie Lundgren, who died of inhalation anthrax Nov. 21. While investigators said only a single spore was detected, notenough to make anyone ...
ASHCROFT MAY EASE RESTRICTIONS ON FBI
Dec 01, 2001 ... Attorney General John Ashcroft is weighing a plan to relaxrestrictions on the FBI's spying on religious and political groups,The New York Times reported, citing senior government officials. Theproposal would mark another step by the Bush administration to limitcivil ...
TALIBAN MUST GIVE UP LEADER IN ANY SURRENDER, US SAYS
Dec 01, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterdaythat the United States will not accept any surrender of the Talibanthat includes amnesty for their leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar. He saidOmar should be tried in a US military court if he is not slain. "I can assure you ...
ALLIANCE RIFT THREATENS TALKS UN SCRAMBLES TO PATCH SPLIT IN DEAL REJECTED BY EX-PRESIDENT
Dec 01, 2001; ... KOENIGSWINTER, Germany - With a power-sharing deal for war-ravaged Afghanistan tantalizingly close, Northern Alliance leaderBurhanuddin Rabbani yesterday came out in opposition to the emergingblueprint, sending negotiations to the brink of collapse. The impasse threatened to split ...
DEFECTION REUNITES BROTHERS
Dec 01, 2001; ... KUNDUZ, Afghanistan - Northern Alliance commander Hanon satsilently at the hearth of his boyhood home in the town he fought sohard to liberate from the Taliban, waving the Polaroid picture he hadjust taken with his younger brother, Ghulam Sarvar. The Taliban presence was still here ...
A GENERATION GENTLY WEEPS AT BEATLE'S PASSING
Dec 01, 2001; ... Until the moment of his death Thursday afternoon, after a longbattle with cancer, he remained the man who wasn't John or Paul. Butas tributes and memories rained in from around the world yesterday,George Harrison emerged in a way that was often obscured in life: asa treasured ...
FIRST PATIENT WITH FULL ARTIFICIAL HEART DIES
Dec 01, 2001; ... Robert Tools died yesterday in Louisville, Ky., after 152 days onthe first fully implanted artificial heart, finally succumbing tosevere internal bleeding and multiple organ failure. He was 59. The retired phone company worker from Franklin, Ky., was weeksfrom death on July 2 when ...
IT'S A GIRL. AND JAPANESE PREPARE ROYAL CELEBRATION
Dec 01, 2001; ... TOKYO - Crown Princess Masako today gave birth to a baby girl and,possibly, the future heir to the Japanese throne and the world'soldest monarchy. The birth was the first for Masako, 37, and her husband, CrownPrince Naruhito, 41, who is next in line to succeed his father ...
EVENTS IMPROVING IRAN, PAKISTAN TIES
Dec 01, 2001; ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's post-Sept. 11 evolution continuedyesterday, as Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said "the sun is shining"now on his country's relationship with Iran, its erstwhile foe. The relationship between the two nations has been thorny, partlybecause of ...
PAKISTANI BACKERS DEFLATED BY TALIBAN'S RAPID COLLAPSE RALLIES TO PROTEST US LOSING NUMBERS
Dec 01, 2001; ... QUETTA, Pakistan - When US airstrikes on Afghanistan began eightweeks ago, this city quickly became the center of violent anti-American protests. Angry Pakistanis looted banks, torched movietheaters, threatened foreigners, and sacked the local United Nationsoffice. Today, the ...
LEADER WOULD LIMIT SIZE OF PEACE FORCE
Dec 01, 2001; ... KABUL, Afghanistan - The former president, Burhanuddin Rabbani,yesterday ruled out a large international security force on Afghansoil and said he would accept no more than 200 peacekeepers in thecountry. Rabbani's comments, which were aimed mostly at the Afghandelegates currently ...
LAST ROUGH RIDE FOR WHALOM PARK
Dec 01, 2001; ... LUNENBURG - When the carousel got sold off piece by piece lastyear to pay overdue bills, when the painted ponies were carted awayin Volvos, it was surely a hint of worse times to come for WhalomPark. Today the Whip, the Tumble Bug, and the Flying Comet rollercoaster are idle, and ...
POLICE PROBE SHOOTING OF BOY, 12
Dec 01, 2001 ... A 12-year-old boy was shot in the leg last night when two teens,described by witnesses as 15- to 16-year-olds, opened fire on a groupof four to six young males in the South End, State Police said. Thevictim, who was not identified by police last night, was taken toBoston Medical Center ...
FOOTBALL TEAM GETS FUNDS FOR TRIP
Dec 01, 2001 ... A Chelsea Pop Warner football team has raised enough money tofulfill their dream of playing in the Pop Warner Super Bowl at DisneyWorld, team officials said yesterday. The Chelsea Red Devils, amidget-level team of 13- to 15-year-olds, had less than a week toraise $53,000 for their trip ...
CONTINUED DETENTION SET IN TRANSFER CASE
Dec 01, 2001 ... A Somali man accused of running a Dorchester money-transferbusiness that allegedly was being used to funnel cash to Osama binLaden's terrorist network was ordered by a judge yesterday to remainjailed pending his federal trial in Boston. US Magistrate JudgeCharles B. Swartwood ...
MARYLAND COMPANY SUES MWRA
Dec 01, 2001 ... A Maryland company that was awarded a $22 million contract in 1997for general construction work on the expansion of the sludge plant atthe Fore River in Quincy filed a federal suit against theMassachusetts Water Resources Authority yesterday seeking another $20million. The suit, filed by ...
FIRE DESTROYS A TURNPIKE CENTER
Dec 01, 2001 ... A fire in Auburn near Route 12 yesterday afternoon destroyed thebuilding that housed the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority's accountprocessing center for its Fast Lane service, Turnpike and fireofficials said. No injuries were reported ....
TWO ARMED MEN ROB BANK
Dec 01, 2001 ... Two men wearing ski masks robbed the Newton South Cooperative Bankon Watertown Street yesterday morning, and one of the ...