The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from January 2002:
CHARITY DRIVE MARC POLLICK WORKS TO PERSUADE STARS IT'S OK TO `GIVE BACK' - AND HELPS THEM MAKE IT COUNT
Jan 01, 2002; ... It began with an idea that, in a perfect world, might have turnedout to be a perfect idea. First, there were the good causes, too many to name. Second, thecelebrities, richer than ever - athletes with unfathoable contracts,entertainers on multimillion-dollar tours. Third, the ...
THE 19 STEPS THAT BUILT THIS LASTING MARRIAGE
Jan 01, 2002; ... Minnie Mae and I have had 19 marriages since that evening 50years, four days, and 12 hours ago when my I will's echoed throughan almost empty First and Second Church at the corner of Berkeley andMarlborough in the Back Bay. I am surprised at how long we have been married, but ...
WELL BEFORE THE SUPER BOWL, POPS KNOWS THE SCORE
Jan 01, 2002; ... It's early Saturday morning. Although there are two holidayconcerts to play later in the day, the Boston Pops Orchestra hasalready assembled on the Symphony Hall stage. The Tanglewood FestivalChorus is ranged - unconventionally - in front of the orchestra on an11-foot stage extension ....
OZAWA'S VIENNA DEBUT WILL BE A WALTZ WORTH THE WAIT
Jan 01, 2002; ... VIENNA - In the window of one of this city's poshest hotels standsa poster of its most famous current guest, Seiji Ozawa. When he's intown, the music director-designate of the Vienna State Opera usuallystays in Placido Domingo's apartment, but this trip is different. This morning, ...
EAGLES DECK THE HALL IN BIG EAST OPENER
Jan 01, 2002; ... BC 81 Seton Hall 66 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The Honolulu holiday is over, thetemperature is freezing, and Troy Bell is recovering from laryngitis.But the Boston College basketball team is warming to the situationafter an 81-66 victory over Seton Hall yesterday in the Big ...
AT A GLANCE, IT'S A LOSS BAD BOUNCE ENDS BRUINS' WIN STREAK
Jan 01, 2002; ... DALLAS - If the shot that beat the Bruins last night were taken1,000 more times, goaltender Byron Dafoe would stop it 999 times. Any time an opponent tees up a shot from the blue line, as long asthe netminder sees it, it's as good as saved. On this occasion, with Dallas forward ...
ND GETS A COACH, FINALLY WILLINGHAM TO BE INTRODUCED TODAY
Jan 01, 2002; ... Finally, it is over. A coaching search that started out with high expectations and thentook a nose dive that brought embarrassment and even ridicule toNotre Dame ended yesterday when school officials announced thatStanford's Tyrone Willingham would be the Fighting Irish's ...
TIME OFF MAY NOT BE A GOOD BREAK
Jan 01, 2002; ... FOXBOROUGH - So what do you root for this weekend if you are aPatriots fan? Good bye or bye bye to another bye? Of the 32 possible playoff scenarios, eight have them getting abye in the first round, meaning they would play one game in threeweeks (25 days, to be exact). If you think ...
IN '32, WINTER CARNIVAL LAKE PLACID'S 1ST OLYMPIC GAMES COZY BUT NOT WITHOUT CONTROVERSY
Jan 01, 2002; ... LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Jack Shea remembers how it was, the winterwhen Olympus was just across from his house and he was the local boyturned golden. "As I walked up the street in my Olympic uniform, Iwas signing autographs all the time," says Shea, who, at 91, isAmerica's oldest living ...
2 SEEN EYED FOR CEO OF HOSPITAL BETH ISRAEL LOOKING AT NONPHYSICIANS
Jan 01, 2002; ... Five months after firing its physician chief executive,financially troubled Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center isconsidering two non-doctors to replace him, including one executivewho made his name launching the cleanup of the nation's dirtiestharbor, Boston Harbor. Paul Levy, ...
FOUR ISSUES THAT WILL SHAPE MASS. BUSINESS IN 2002
Jan 01, 2002; ... Here's our only New Year's prediction worth the paper it's printedon: The vast majority of the other predictions for 2002 you read orhear this week will turn out to be dead wrong. Predicting the future is a daunting task, whether you're talkingabout the business world or anything ...
SMALL CHANGE, BIG CHANGE
Jan 01, 2002; ... In just 59 days, the little sheaves of European folding money andstacks of coins that may linger on your dresser top will beworthless. Some cities have begun collection drives to pool theselittle sums of francs, marks, schillings, and Irish pounds. InWashington, for example, Washington ...
US FINDS BODIES IN QAEDA CAVE MARINES HUNT TALIBAN CHIEF IN BAGHRAN
Jan 01, 2002; ... JALALABAD, Afghanistan - US special forces scouring the battle-blasted highlands around Tora Bora uncovered the bodies of 18 AlQaeda fighters yesterday after clearing rocks and wreckage from themouth of a cave. The followers of Osama bin Laden had been killed last month by ...
SUSPECT'S ARREST EASES INDIA-PAKISTAN STRIFE
Jan 01, 2002; ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Backing away from the brink of war, Indiasaid yesterday that Pakistan's arrest of the leader of the groupblamed for a deadly attack on the Indian Parliament was a step "inthe right direction." India gave Pakistan the names of 20 other people it wants to ...
IN SURVIVAL TEST, SPEAKER SHOWS HIS SKILL USES CARROT AND STICK TO KEEP FOES IN CHECK
Jan 01, 2002; ... Representative Christopher Fallon of Malden got $790,000 for atechnology park in this year's austere state budget. RepresentativeAlice Wolf of Cambridge gained a second legislative aide after votingto eliminate term limits for House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran. Thespeaker helps ...
RESOUNDING START BUOYED BY HOPE, RECORD CROWD USHERS IN 2002 AT HUB'S FIRST NIGHT
Jan 01, 2002; ... Hope walked and sang on Boston's streets last night as First Nightcelebrants chose to shake hands with puppets and dance a samba ratherthan sit home and dwell on the events of last year. With thoughts of terrorism looming last night after September'sdeadly attacks, the effects of ...
LATINO CANDIDATES SEE A BRIGHT FUTURE IN MASS.
Jan 01, 2002; ... Four years ago, Jarrett Barrios was a no-name political underdogwho came out of nowhere to trounce a five-term incumbent. But thestate representative from Cambridge will soon set a higher benchmarkfor Latino candidates in Massachusetts. In a few weeks, Barrios will officially ...
LOTTERY RINGS IN THE NEW YEAR WITH A PERFECT MATCH
Jan 01, 2002; ... The numbers dropped as they do only once in 10,000 times, butlast night the daily lottery numbers lined up in perfect sync withthe new year: 2002. Whether measured by odds or as a harbinger for a new deck of 12months, the number was greeted as an auspicious start. "I ...
MEDICAID BUG SLOWS DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS
Jan 01, 2002; ... The state gave more than 1,000 Massachusetts pharmacies anunwanted pre-Christmas surprise - a meltdown of the new computerizedMedicaid prescription drug processing system. "It was a nightmare, not just for our customers, but also forpharmacists," said Jay Leary of Sutherland ...
LIMITS TO REINING IN DOCTORS CITED CARE GOES ON DESPITE MALPRACTICE CASES
Jan 01, 2002; ... Over the last decade, Dr. Warren J. Courville set a dubious recordin Massachusetts medicine: The orthopedic surgeon and his insurancecompany made more payments to settle malpractice suits than any otherdoctor in the state. In nearly all of the 15 cases, patients accused him of ...
REICH RAISES POSSIBILITY OF CAPITAL GAINS TAX
Jan 01, 2002; ... CAMBRIDGE - Edging close to what has become a third rail inMassachusetts politics, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich saidyesterday that if he became governor, he would consider reinstating astate capital gains tax of 4 percent, to make up for gaps in thestate's finances. Reich, ...
E-MAIL GLITCH HITS HARVARD APPLICANTS
Jan 01, 2002; ... For thousands of college applicants this fall, the news fromHarvard was the most anticipated e-mail of the year: Did they get inor not? But someone forgot to tell America Online. The nation's biggest Internet service provider bounced back dozensof e-mail messages sent by ...
SOME SEE YANCEY OUT AS COUNCIL HEAD
Jan 01, 2002; ... Charles C. Yancey rode in on the coattails of his ideologicalenemy, winning the Boston City Council presidency exactly a year agotoday in an upset few predicted and many declared an aberration. From the start he was dubbed a one-hit wonder. Now, as councilors prepare to vote ...
LION KILLED LIONESS AT ZOO DEATH ANOTHER BLOW AMID CUTS; OFFICIALS SAID LITTLE ABOUT NOV. ATTACK
Jan 01, 2002; ... It was supposed to be a routine procedure at the Franklin ParkZoo: the introduction of a female African lion, Binti Mafuta, to amale lion named Cliff who had recently been purchased by the zoo. But four minutes after the two animals were released in the sameholding area, Binti ...
THE MATH IN `A BEAUTIFUL MIND'
Jan 01, 2002; ... In Ron Howard's new film, "A Beautiful Mind," Russell Crowe playsthe tormented math genius, John Nash. Among other things, Nash fallsin love, mesmerizes federal code breakers, makes some imaginaryfriends, and suffers through brutal schizophrenia-treating shocktherapy. But, oddly, he does ...
CONTROLLING TREMORS WITH A PACEMAKER IN THE BRAIN
Jan 01, 2002; ... A year ago, John Gulash, a clothing salesman who had struggled foryears with Parkinson's disease, lay down on the operating table atBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and steeled himselffor a six-hour operation. Awake the whole time, Gulash, who is 39 and lives in ...
ONE POWER STATION UNDER GOD HUNDREDS OF FEET BENEATH COPLEY PLAZA'S TRINITY CHURCH, CONSTRUCTION CREWS ARE DRILLING BOSTON'S FIRST GEOTHERMAL ENERGY TAP
Jan 01, 2002; ... Throughout history, Christians have looked into the bowels of theEarth and seen hell. Milton described "a dungeon horrible." Dante envisioned an infernoof pain and suffering. Bosch painted an elaborate subterraneantorture chamber. But, when the preachers at Trinity Church in ...
BE IT RESOLVED TODAY . .
Jan 01, 2002; ... .YOU WILL LOSE FIVE POUNDS. YOU WILL FIX THE BROKEN WINDOW. YOUWILL CLEAN THE BASEMENT. YOU WILL DO YOUR EXERCISE FIVE DAYS A WEEKINSTEAD OF TWO. YOU WILL VISIT THE CEMETERY WHERE MOM AND DAD AREBURIED. YOU WILL CALL YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. YOU WILL ENCOURAGEYOUR CHILDREN. YOU WILL BE ...
MAY HOPE REPLACE HOPELESSNESS
Jan 01, 2002 ... FOR A NEW Year's resolution, let's decide right now never again tounderestimate the importance of our individual and cooperativethinking and leadership on the world stage, locally and globally. Our challenge is to unite with each other in pursuit of whatMohandas Gandhi called ...
OUTSIDER OR NOT, A FINE NEW OWNER
Jan 01, 2002 ... I'M A BOSTONIAN AND A LIFELONG SOX FAN, AND I AM HAPPY WITH THENEW OWNERSHIP AND LOOK FORWARD TO MY HOMETOWN TEAM ENTERING A NEWCHAPTER OF ITS HISTORY UNDER JOHN HENRY AND LARRY LUCCHINO. I feellike a minority because most people seem to be angry that "outsiders"bought the team. Well, ...
AND NOW THE GOOD NEWS . . .
Jan 01, 2002 ... JANUARY'S FRESH slate is a good opportunity to consider theaccomplishments of the past year, the better to build upon them in2002. In the midst of the grief and uncertainty caused by the Sept.11 attacks, it is important to remember the quiet victories,especially those close to home. Here ...
ONLY A GAS TAX WILL CURB OIL USAGE
Jan 01, 2002 ... IN A DEC. 21 column ("Ford's finest hour," op ed) RepresentativeEd Markey called for more stringent mileage standards to reduce ourdependence on foreign oil. While his intent is a good one, historyproves that his proposal won't work. In order to reduce our dependence on foreign ...
WE SHOULD FEAR HARRY POTTER?
Jan 01, 2002 ... THE BATS ARE IN THE BELFRY AND SEEM TO FLY FREELY IN THE MINDS OFFUNDAMENTALISTS. WHETHER IT'S "LORD OF THE RINGS" OR "HARRY POTTER,"WHAT, IN HEAVEN'S NAME, IS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?They may bemagical, provocative tales of wizardry and witchcraft, but these arealso stories, pure and ...
FROM 1961, WORDS FOR OUR TIME
Jan 01, 2002 ... I HEARTILY WISH IN 2002 FOR WHAT ERICH FROMM ONCE CALLED"PSYCHOLOGICAL DISARMAMENT." HE DEFINED THIS AS "THE ENDING OF THEHYSTERICAL HATE AND SUSPICION AMONG THE MAIN PROTAGONISTS THAT UP TONOW" (HE WROTE THESE WORDS IN 1961) "HAVE MADE REALISTIC ANDOBJECTIVE THINKING VERY DIFFICULT, IF ...
BEST-WORST POLL WON'T ENCOURAGE SPORTSMANSHIP
Jan 01, 2002 ... BOB DUFFY'S EXCELLENT PIECE ON THE CHANGING FACE OF SPORTSMANSHIP("THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY," SPORTS, DEC. 28), EXEMPLIFIES HOWTHE OBSESSION WITH WINNING AND LOSING HAS SUPPLANTED THE IMPORTANCEOF CORDIAL COMPORTMENT DURING COMPETITION.How ironic then for theGlobe to run a ...
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION
Jan 01, 2002 ... REMEMBER THE ALAMO. REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR. AND NOW, REMEMBER THETRADE CENTER AND THE PENTAGON.A different kind of enemy, adifferent kind of war, but this rallying cry must fill us with thesame resolve. No ...
DECLARE A TRUCE ON SPRAWL
Jan 01, 2002; ... THE BATTLE OVER SPRAWL RAGES. ON ONE SIDE ARE THE SPRAWLAPHOBICS _PEOPLE WHO SEE THE NEW SUBURBAN CLUSTERS, THE BIG BOX RETAIL CORNERS,AND THE STRIPS OF DOUGHNUT SHOPS-CUM-GAS STATIONS AS A MODERN-DAYMENACE, WIPING OUT SWATHS OF IDYLLIC GREENERY.To stop this menace, the ...
REILLY PROBING SOX SALE - WHY?
Jan 01, 2002; ... SPORTS. POLITICS. AND NOW, REVENGE. IT IS CLASSIC BOSTON PAYBACKTIME, WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL THOMAS F. REILLY LOOKING AS IF HE ISSTEPPING UP TO BAT FOR THE HOMETOWN TEAM. Reilly says he wants toprotect the public interest as he scrutinizes the sale of the BostonRed Sox to a group that ...
CORRECTION
Jan 01, 2002 ... Correction: Because of an editing error, a headline on a briefitem in yesterday's Fighting Terror coverage ...
TO OUR READERS:
Jan 01, 2002 ... To our readers: In observance of New Year's Day, the Globe willfollow its week end/holiday schedule today with delivery to mostareas by 8 ...
CORRECTION
Jan 01, 2002 ... Omission: The name of George McAndrew Jr., a Globe classifiedadvertising ...
YOUNG PEOPLE LOOK BACK AT 2001
Jan 01, 2002; ... DEAR BETH:This New Year's will be unlike any other. While theusual resolutions to drop 10 pounds or to quit smoking may stillexist, it should be everybody's resolution in 2002 to maintain thelove of family and country that exists right now. The threat ofbiological warfare and the ...
APPEALING NEW `KING'S MEN' IS OLD
Jan 01, 2002; ... Robert Penn Warren's novel "All the King's Men" has been in printsince it was first published 55 years ago. The definitive GreatAmerican Novel may remain elusive, but "All the King's Men" has asstrong a claim to the title as any. It is certainly a definitive American story; in ...
DANDO TAKES A BIG STEP ACCOMPANIED BY NEW BAND
Jan 01, 2002; ... Common wisdom holds that people become more like themselves asthey grow older. So it is with Evan Dando, ex-Lemonhead and theonetime alt-rock poster boy who is re emerging slowly and one canonly hope surely from the shadows of drug addiction and careerderailment to embody the country-pop ...
BUZZKILL
Jan 01, 2002; ... Happy New Year! But seriously folks, is this the beginning of theend of the world as we know it? Many people have been suggesting asmuch for centuries, but The New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert makesa good case for worry this week. She has a troubling piece about thehistory of the ...
THE AIR THIS WEEK
Jan 01, 2002; ... Through the week: 8 a.m.-noon Classics in the Morning (Mon.-Fri.)(WGBH: 89.7, 96.3, wgbh.org) . . . 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Classical musicprogramming (Mon.-Fri.) (WFCR: 88.5, wfcr.org) . . . 9:05 a.m.Meridian arts review (Mon.-Fri.) (BBC World Service: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice, Ch 2 Secondary ...
HE CAN STOMACH RETURN
Jan 01, 2002; ... DALLAS - The color had returned to his face, and his appetite wasback as well, so after yesterday's morning skate at American AirlinesArena, left wing Sergei Samsonov said he was ready to return againstthe Dallas Stars last night after missing two games with the flu. Asked if he ...
ALL-STARS DISAPPOINT, AND ARE DISAPPOINTED
Jan 01, 2002; ... As the sound of barking dogs echoed from the nearby Greyhoundracetrack Saturday night, streams of people filed into the SkylineClub, a sprawling place with a large parquet dance floor andperfect acoustics. The DJ spun a nice mix of classic and contemporary merengue,salsa, and ...
FINAL SHOT? IT'S ALL IN WARD'S HANDS
Jan 01, 2002; ... Even if the sun rises on Sunday morning, there's no tomorrow forMicky Ward next Saturday night. When the Lowell junior welterweight enters the ring at the FreemanColiseum in San Antonio to face former 130-pound world champion JamesLeija, he will be there for one thing and one thing ...
A BIT OF SLIPPAGE ON CELTICS' TRIP
Jan 01, 2002; ... There's no real way to sugar-coat a 1-3 road trip unless you notethat it almost was an 0-fer. The Celtics got manhandled in two games,gave up another, and persevered to win the other - and had to go toovertime to do it. In other words, it wasn't what they had hoped. They started ...
FIESTA WILL DO ITS SHARE WINNER MAY YET HAVE A SAY IN TITLE PICTURE
Jan 01, 2002; ... TEMPE, Ariz. - The System. If you listened to the words of the players and coaching staffs ofColorado and Oregon as they prepared for this afternoon's Fiesta Bowlbetween the No. 2 Ducks and the No. 3 Buffaloes, the system didn'twork in their favor. If it had, one of the teams ...
HOCKEY LINDROS SAYS HE HAS CONCUSSION
Jan 01, 2002 ... Eric Lindros said he's suffered his seventh concussion in lessthan four years, but members of the New York Rangers organizationwould not confirm the diagnosis. The 28-year-old Rangers star did notplay last night in Phoenix, the second game he's missed since anapparent helmet-to-helmet ...
SUCCESS IS DOUBLE-EDGED FOR PATRIOTS
Jan 01, 2002; ... FOXBOROUGH - They have gone from underdog to top dog in less thana season. In the days when they got little to no respect, it seemedso much easier. Back then, all the Patriots had to do was prove thecritics wrong. And they were happy to do it. They used the ever-popular "us against ...
END ISN'T FINISHED MCGINEST DENIES RETIREMENT REPORT
Jan 01, 2002; ... FOXBOROUGH - Willie McGinest isn't about to retire. The eighth-year defensive end yesterday tried to squashspeculation in a recent Herald report that his career would be overafter this season. "I never said anything like that," said McGinest, who is sixth onthe all-time ...
QBS IN ROSE BOWL HAVE A DUEL PURPOSE
Jan 01, 2002; ... They got to know each other last month at the college footballawards extravaganza that ESPN stages each year in Orlando, Fla. They spent more time together at the Heisman Trophy festivities inNew York. And Thursday afternoon, in a bowl game neither of them imaginedthey would ...
HE'S GOT HOCKEY DOWN COLD
Jan 01, 2002; ... Dick Osborne's hockey announcing career started at St. LawrenceUniversity in Canton, N.Y., in the late 1950s, handling the onlyDivision 1 sport at the college. He had seen the game only a coupleof times before that, with the semi-pro Syracuse Stars. SLU games were heard on KSLU ...
LAWSUIT SETTLED
Jan 01, 2002; ... A British speech-recognition company that brought a $50 millionpatent-infringement lawsuit against bankrupt Lernout & Hauspie SpeechProducts has settled the case for about $560,000, while reserving ...
VERIZON UPDATE
Jan 01, 2002; ... Verizon Communications said it increased its network of fiber-optic cable serving Massachusetts by 10 percent in the past year, to770,000 miles, as part of an $800 million Bay State network upgrade. More than 500,000 Bay State households have signed up for ...
TREASURY ERROR
Jan 01, 2002 ... The US Treasury said it sold $4.35 billion more in short-termbills yesterday than it originally thought. The Treasury Department'sBureau of Public Debt said it made a rare "clerical error" in itsusually routine auctions of short-term Treasury bills: It understatedbids ...
NOTE TO READERS
Jan 01, 2002 ... Because of technical difficulties, the year-end Market ...
FORCED TO DO AMPUTATIONS, DOCTORS HORRIFIED UNDER TALIBAN AMPUTEE EMBITTERED
Jan 01, 2002; ... KABUL, Afghanistan - It was a visit that Dr. Marouf Niazi hadhoped to avoid, that day last year when four Taliban gunmen marchedup to his operating room door and ordered him to violate hisprofessional oath to heal, not to harm. "Come with us right now to the stadium," the ...
PATENT CASE MAY HURT TECH INDUSTRY
Jan 01, 2002; ... The US Supreme Court will hear on Jan. 8 Festo Corp. v. ShoketsuKinzoku, and its decision could put in jeopardy the technologicalpreeminence of this nation by upsetting a delicate balance that hasworked to encourage investment in research and development for almost150 ...
MIDTERM ELECTION REFRAMES NEW YEAR'S FAMILIAR BATTLES
Jan 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - The old year ended with an international battleagainst terrorism and a domestic fight over economic principles. Thenew year begins today with an international battle against terrorism,a domestic fight over economic principles - and a looming election. The fight against ...
SUSPECT ARRESTED IN ARMED ROBBERY RING
Jan 01, 2002 ... Boston police yesterday arrested a 20-year-old Hyde Park mansuspected of being a member of an armed robbery ring that targetedsmall stores in Dorchester, Hyde Park, and Roxbury in recent weeks.Pedro Tapia, whose image and name were released by police last week,pleaded not guilty in ...
CHARGES FOLLOW FALL FROM SCAFFOLD
Jan 01, 2002 ... A 23-year-old Charlestown man who allegedly tried to kill hisuncle by cutting ropes that supported his window-washing scaffoldpleaded not guilty yesterday to attempted murder charges. DanielCartegena was arraigned in Waltham District Court, where he wasordered ...