The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 2002:
DELTA AIR LINES
Feb 01, 2002; ... Delta Air Lines finished 2001 with record losses for the fourthquarter and the year, as the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks took a heavyfinancial toll despite millions in federal aid. Delta, the nation's third-largest airline, had a net loss of $734million, or $5.98 per share, compared ...
MAYOR SEEKS PROPOSITION 2 1/2 OVERRIDE
Feb 01, 2002 ... Mayor David Cohen said yesterday that he will ask residents topass an $11.5 million Proposition 2 1/2 override for schools,municipal departments, and public safety. The override election, ifapproved by the Board of Aldermen, would take place on April 30.Without an override, the city ...
QUICK PICK
Feb 01, 2002; ... New Orleans - It won't be easy for the Patriots in the Big Easy.The St. Louis Rams are by far the best team New England has faced allseason. There are a few good matchups when the Rams have the ball,and not many obvious ways to exploit their defense. - Worse, thisgame will be played ...
ETC. . .
Feb 01, 2002; ... Two antismoking ads produced by a coalition of ad agencies led byArnold Worldwide of Boston are set to appear during the Super BowlSunday. Aimed at teens, the ads are part of the "truth" campaign forthe American Legacy Foundation, a group created by the settlementbetween the tobacco ...
TERRORISM IN THE TROPICS
Feb 01, 2002; ... AND THE FRANKS ENGAGED THE MEN OF MALACCA IN BATTLE. . . . THECANNON BALLS CAME LIKE RAIN . . . AND THE NOISE OF THEIR MATCHLOCKSWAS LIKE THAT OF GROUND NUTS POPPING IN THE FRYING PAN. THEREUPONSULTAN AHMAD CAME FORTH, MOUNTED ON HIS ELEPHANT, JITUJI. - MALAYACCOUNT, 1511 ...
LEFT TO PREY
Feb 01, 2002; ... PRAYING TO OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN WOULD HAVE MEANT MORE HAD A FEWHOLY FATHERS IN BOSTON DELIVERED US FROM EVIL. INSTEAD, THEY SWEPTEVIL UNDER THE ALTAR IN THE SPIRIT OF PAUL'S LETTER TO TIMOTHY: "THEYTHAT BE RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A SNARE, AND INTO MANY FOOLISHAND HURTFUL LUSTS, ...
THE PEOPLE'S COURT
Feb 01, 2002 ... IF THE CLEAN ELECTIONS standoff deepens into a real constitutionalcrisis, the fault will lie entirely with the Legislature. The Supreme Judicial Court was not spoiling for a fight when itissued its landmark order last Friday declaring that the CleanElections Law - which provides ...
A RETURN TO LEADING THE WORLD
Feb 01, 2002; ... THEY WERE JUST A FEW OVERSHADOWED LINES NEAR THE END OF PRESIDENTBUSH'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, AND YET THOSE WORDS WERE FULL OFPROMISE.Calling for a new effort to "encourage development andeducation and opportunity in the Islamic world," Bush said: "We havea great opportunity ...
FOR A US CHURCH
Feb 01, 2002 ... FOLLOWING THE HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THEEASTERN ORTHODOX AND THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE REFORMATION, I HOPETHAT CONCERNED ROMAN ...
GENDER BIAS IN HEALTH COVERAGE
Feb 01, 2002 ... I APPLAUD THE RECENT HOUSE VOTE REQUIRING INSURERS TO COVERCONTRACEPTIVE DRUGS FOR WOMEN, AND I AM MORE THAN WILLING TO HAVE MYOWN HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUM RISE IF SUCH A SMALL RISE WILL PROVIDESUCH AN IMPORTANT SERVICE.I am, however, offended by thecontinuing argument by proponents ...
BOTTLERS SHOULD PAY BOTTLE FEES
Feb 01, 2002 ... THE ARTICLE "HANDLERS PRESS FOR A HIKE IN BOTTLE FEES" (PAGE B1,JAN. 31) RAISES A QUESTION. WHY SHOULD THE EXPENSE OF RETURNINGBEVERAGE BOTTLES FOR ...
DON'T REDUCE TOBACCO EFFORT
Feb 01, 2002 ... PREVENTION IS THE MANTRA OF PEDIATRICIANS. WE KNOW, LITERALLY,THAT AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE.Imagine ourfrustration as we watch Governor Swift freeze funding for the award-winning Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program, which has demonstratedits effectiveness ...
BITING THE HAND THAT FUELS US
Feb 01, 2002 ... HOW NAIVE OF JEFF JACOBY TO THREATEN THAT THE UNITED STATES COULDSIMPLY DECLARE SAUDI ARABIA OUR ENEMY. ISN'T THIS THE SAME COLUMNISTWHO REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS COUNTRY'S UNWILLINGNESS ...
BUSH'S DAUGHTER NEEDED HELP
Feb 01, 2002 ... IF NOELLE BUSH HAS AN ANXIETY DISORDER, AS YOU HAVE REPORTED (GOV.BUSH'S DAUGHTER ARRESTED," PAGE A5, JAN. 30), I'M AFRAID THAT SOMETHERAPIST OR DOCTOR LET HER DOWN.Speaking from experience, I havea daughter who has been diagnosed with panic attacks, and afterseeing nine (yes, nine) ...
STORIES OBSCURE CHURCH'S GOOD WORK
Feb 01, 2002 ... CARDINAL LAW HAS SHOWN DEEP REGRET AND HAS VOWED TO MAKE AMENDS TOTHE VICTIMS OF ABUSE BY PRIESTS. OF COURSE, NOTHING HE CAN DO WILLEVER BE SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THOSE WHO HATE THE CARDINAL AND THECATHOLIC CHURCH. THE FEEDING FRENZY TENDS TO OBSCURE THE WONDERFULWORK THE CARDINAL HAS ...
DISGUISED GREED
Feb 01, 2002 ... WHERE DOES MORAL OUTRAGE END AND GREED BEGIN? MORAL OUTRAGE SEEKSTO PUNISH OFFENDERS AND CHANGE POLICIES THAT SHIELD THEM. GREEDBEGINS WHEN YOU SEEK OUTRAGEOUS SUMS OF MONEY (MILLIONS) IN DAMAGES,DOING IRREPARABLE HARM TO A CHURCH THAT HAS DONE AND IS DOING ...
GRADE INFLATION ISN'T ALL BAD
Feb 01, 2002 ... THERE ARE UNDERSTANDABLE REASONS WHY GRADES IN THE HUMANITIES TENDTO BE HIGHER ON AVERAGE THAN GRADES IN THE "HARD SCIENCES," NOT JUSTAT HARVARD UNIVERSITY BUT AT VIRTUALLY ALL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES("HARVARD LOOKS TO RAISE BAR FOR GRADUATING WITH HONORS," PAGE A1,JAN. 31). THE ...
'A SOCIAL FIREBALL' HIS ATTENTION-GETTING GALLERY MAY BE CLOSING, BUT KENN GRAY VOWS THE PARTY'S NOT OVER
Feb 01, 2002; ... When it came to planning his Provincetown commitment ceremony twoyears ago, Kenn Gray threw himself into it with his trademarkpanache. He decided that he and his partner, Christopher Ellsworth, wouldbe transported to the Universalist Meeting House by horse-drawncarriage. He asked ...
BERKLEE'S HEAVY ROTATION CLASS GETS A BREAK OF EPIC PROPORTIONS
Feb 01, 2002; ... The staff of Heavy Rotation records is holding one of its finalmeetings before the launch of the label's latest release. There's alaundry list of last-minute preparations to go over: promotionalstrategies, press contacts, a splashy CD-release concert. Specialarrangements must be made ...
HOLLYWOOD FOUR-STARS A FILM LOVER'S NIGHTMARE
Feb 01, 2002; ... It's the time of year when critics and organizations around theglobe announce their choices for the best and the brightest ofmovies, when mere mortal filmgoers obsess about how far behind we arein seeing the films that will be competing for this year's AcademyAwards. Why we continue to ...
PLAYWRIGHT EXPLORES HIS `SERIOUS' SIDE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Mark Twain once observed that "everyone is a moon and has a darkside he doesn't show to anyone." Clearly, he hadn't met Adam Rapp,33, a sweetly shy playwright and young-adult novelist whose oeuvre todate documents a penetrating and poetic preoccupation with thefallout from violence, ...
ENDANGERED SPECIES EARLY DEPARTURES, INJURIES HAVE THE UNDERMANNED EAGLES ON A SIX-GAME SKID AND LOOKING LIKE AN . . .
Feb 01, 2002; ... As his hand slides along the bulletin board that serves as a depthchart in his office, Jerry York moves a couple of names to differentpositions. Again. Some names never made it to the board in the aftermath of lastsummer's premature departures - defenseman Brooks Orpik and ...
TRADING PLACES RAPTORS PULL A SWITCH WITH FADING CELTICS
Feb 01, 2002; ... TORONTO - When Antoine Walker and Paul Pierce were asked if theCeltics have lost their edge, they bristled. Pierce called recentlapses in focus and execution no more than a midseason lull. IfBoston had not squandered a 17-point lead and lost, 97-92, to Torontolast night, Walker claimed ...
UPSETS ARE IN SEASON ALL IS NOT LOST AFTER FALL OF TOP TEAMS
Feb 01, 2002; ... OK. What's going on? Illinois, one of the preseason favorites inthe Big Ten, loses by 30 points to Indiana and then gets spanked byOhio State. Texas Tech rips off double-digit wins against OklahomaState and Oklahoma, moves into the Top 25, then goes to Lincoln andloses to ...
GETTING A GOOD LOOK AT THE OLYMPICS USE OF CONTROVERSIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY REKINDLES PRIVACY DEBATE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Security officials will use facial-recognition software to scancrowds at the Winter Olympics in Utah, one of the largest deploymentsto date of the controversial technology. The plan has revived a debate that began after police used asimilar system at last year's Super Bowl in ...
PROTECTING THE GUILTY
Feb 01, 2002; ... Question: If that predator, defrocked priest John Geoghan, hadbeen exposed in 1980, when his obsession with young boys first cameto the attention of those at the highest levels of the Archdiocese ofBoston, would he still have been assaulting the children entrusted tohis care 15 years ...
STUDENTS EYE HARVARD LINK TO ENRON SAYS SCHOOL MAY HAVE PROFITED BY HEDGE FUND'S SHORT SELLING OF SHARES
Feb 01, 2002; ... A Boston hedge fund that manages part of Harvard University'sendowment appears to have reaped millions of dollars in profits byshorting shares of Enron Corp., or betting the stock would fall,starting last summer. The hedge fund, Highfields Capital Management, in August held ...
POLAROID PENSION THREAT SEEN CREDITORS' LAWYER SAYS A QUICK SALE WOULD LIKELY SPELL END OF PLAN
Feb 01, 2002; ... A lawyer for a group of Polaroid creditors issued a letter warningthat a quick sale of the bankrupt Cambridge company "will almostcertainly result in the termination of the Polaroid pension plans." That could hurt hundreds of Polaroid retirees whose pensions couldbe cut if the ...
TO OUR READERS
Feb 01, 2002 ... Starting this week, we will introduce several changes to theSunday Business section. Page 2 of the Sunday section has been redesigned to add a weeklyfeature by D.C. Denison called Business Intelligence, on new ideasfrom business schools, consulting firms, business executives, ...
BIG FIVE FIRM SET TO SPIN OFF UNIT PRICEWATERHOUSE AIMS TO HIVE OFF CONSULTANCY, AVOID ANDERSEN WOES
Feb 01, 2002; ... As questions continued to mount about the role of Arthur Andersenin the collapse of Enron Corp. yesterday, PricewaterhouseCoopers saidit would speed up plans to separate its own accounting and consultingdivisions. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the biggest of the Big Five ...
FBI OFFICE CHIEF MAWN TO RETIRE; EYES BOSTON
Feb 01, 2002; ... NEW YORK - Barry W. Mawn, the FBI assistant director in charge ofthe New York office, will retire March 1. He reaches the mandatoryretirement age of 57 in May. Mawn, who spent 30 years in the FBIafter teaching in Bourne, said he is interested in security andconsulting work, "my primary ...
AFGHANISTAN RIVALS BATTLE OVER KEY CITY
Feb 01, 2002; ... GARDEZ, Afghanistan - A Pashtun warlord laid claim to a strategicsouthern city yesterday, shelling a rival faction, killing at least33 people, and injuring scores of fighters and civilians. It was an uncompromising step backward for Afghanistan's troubledquest for reconciliation, ...
BUSH AGAIN ASSAILS 3 TARGETED NATIONS
Feb 01, 2002; ... ATLANTA - President Bush used more blunt language yesterday todescribe the threat he believes that Iran, Iraq, and North Korea poseto the United States and its allies. Bush called those nations an "axis of evil" during his State ofthe Union speech Tuesday night, drawing criticism ...
BUDGET FOR PENTAGON WOULD GIVE N.E. BOOST
Feb 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush's proposal for the largest defensespending increase in two decades would inject at least $2 billioninto the struggling New England economy, with Raytheon Co., GeneralDynamics Corp., and other regional firms in line for militarycontracts, according to ...
BUSH PLAN DEFINES FETUS AS PERSON
Feb 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - The Bush administration yesterday stirred theabortion debate by proposing that states classify fetuses as unbornpersons so that low-income mothers qualify for prenatal coverageunder a government health insurance program for children. Women's rights groups said that ...
SPECIALISTS DISCUSS HITTING TERRORIST FINANCES
Feb 01, 2002; ... RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Far from the bombed-out trenches ofAfghanistan, another front line in what Washington calls phase two ofthe global war on terrorism opened here this week, not to the crackleof machine guns, but to the quiet click of a slide projector. At a conference center, ...
SHARON REGRETS SPARING ARAFAT REMARKS ON '82 SIEGE ELICIT ANGER, LAUGHTER
Feb 01, 2002; ... JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sparked cries of outragefrom peace activists and Arab politicians and laughter from his ownsupporters yesterday when a newspaper quoted him as saying that hewished Israeli forces had killed Yasser Arafat 20 years ago when theyhad the ...
KIDNAPPERS EXTEND DEADLINE ON THREAT TO KILL US REPORTER
Feb 01, 2002; ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The group holding American journalist DanielPearl said yesterday that it would give the United States "one moreday" to give in to its demands before following through on a threatto kill the Wall Street Journal reporter. In an e-mail message sent to Western and ...
ECONOMIC FORUM'S FIRST DAY IS LARGELY UNPROTESTED
Feb 01, 2002; ... NEW YORK - Thousands of police hit the streets here yesterday, aspromised, to protect the World Economic Forum and its participantsfrom the threat of violent protesters. But not a single shouter or sign-waver, much less a brick-thrower, came anywhere near the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, ...
MORE, DEADLIER ATTACKS FORESEEN
Feb 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld warnedyesterday that the United States is "likely" to suffer anotherterrorist attack even more devastating than the Sept. 11 assaults onNew York and Washington that killed more than 3,000 people. Rumsfeld, addressing students at ...
EGGS PRODUCE STEM CELLS AND WIDEN DEBATE ON LIFE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Scientists at Advanced Cell Technology Inc. in Worcester havefound a way to trick unfertilized monkey eggs into growing as thoughthey were impregnated, a feat of biological artistry that couldprovide a new source of stem cells for use in disease research. The laboratory ...
LAWYER DENIES SUSPECT SOLD GYM MEMBERS' IDS TO TERRORIST
Feb 01, 2002; ... Mohamed Amry may not have known that the chef from Amrheins inSouth Boston he befriended at his Cambridge health club was aterrorist who would become Boston's link to a millennium plot to blowup Los Angeles International Airport. But that man, Abdelghani Meskini, is now serving 24 ...
SUPER BOWL PLAYERS
Feb 01, 2002 ... Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops rehearsing yesterday in NewOrleans. The ...
COLLEGE OFFICIALS SCRUTINIZE ALTERNATIVES TO SAT
Feb 01, 2002; ... One day after the University of California took a major step awayfrom using the SAT, dozens of US college officials met in Washingtonto preview a new generation of college admissions exams yesterday,including a much-anticipated test designed to measure creativity andyield a diverse group ...
OFFICIALS DISCLOSE MORE BIG DIG DEFECTS FIRE ALARMS, ROAD SURFACES NEED FIX
Feb 01, 2002; ... Central Artery officials, stung by press reports highlightingconstruction flaws and potential lapses in the Big Dig's qualityassurance program, detailed a series of previously undisclosedglitches yesterday in an effort to prove the success of the importantproject. Nevertheless, ...
LAWMAKERS MAY ACT ON CAMPAIGN LAW
Feb 01, 2002; ... Under pressure from the state's highest court, legislators appearto be moving toward approving a watered-down version of the CleanElections Law that would exempt them from facing publicly financedchallengers. After meeting in private caucuses yesterday for several hours,House and ...
DOWN TO THE WIRE DEMOCRATS PUT FINISHING TOUCHES ON CAUCUS BATTLE
Feb 01, 2002; ... ARLINGTON - On Tuesday night, seven supporters of Shannon O'Brienwere seated all over political activist David Hoover's apartment,each armed with a cellphone and a list of sympathetic Democrats. Theymade their way down the lists, urging attendance at tomorrow's localDemocratic ...
STATE TAX COLLECTIONS TAKE PLUNGE JANUARY REVENUE OFF 18 PERCENT; MORE CUTS EYED
Feb 01, 2002; ... State tax collections in January fell 18 percent from last year,doubling the deficit in this year's budget and spurring immediatecalls for deeper cuts in programs. The drop in January revenues, attributed to reduced income andbonuses and a slowdown in business activity, leaves the ...
PEACE PLEA IS HEARD AT FUNERAL NO ARRESTS YET IN SHOOTING OF BOY, 3
Feb 01, 2002; ... Amid the mournful cries that reverberated through the snow fallingon New Calvary Cemetery in Mattapan yesterday, it was the desperatebanging of a mother's hands on a casket no bigger than a toy chestbox- and guarded by a teddy bear - that brought home the sorrow of thedeath of one of ...
HARVARD TO HIKE ITS LOWEST WAGES
Feb 01, 2002; ... In a long-awaited decision, Harvard president Lawrence H. Summersyesterday promised that the university would boost the wages of itslowest-paid employees above the "living wage" that scores of studentsdemanded in protests last spring. However, Summers ruled out setting a permanent ...
DOCTOR SAYS SECRECY KEY IN OVERDOSE PROBE CONFIDENTIALITY STRESSED IN PROBE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Fairness and confidentiality were driving forces in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's investigation of Dr. Lois Ayash'sresponsibility for two chemotherapy overdoses, according to thedoctor who led the investigation. Testifying yesterday in Ayash's defamation lawsuit against ...
IN ENEMY TERRITORY
Feb 01, 2002; ... ST. LOUIS - So imagine my delight when my editor handed me a planeticket a couple of days back and asked, "Ready to roll?" Oh, yeah. The Big Easy. All aboard the bayou express. Anotherorder of jambalaya, please, and why do I always have to wear pants? Ihad visions of walking ...
ROBINSON EYEING NEW CAMPAIGN
Feb 01, 2002; ... His ill-fated US Senate campaign unleashed unseemly admissions ofpast plagiarism, allegations of sexual assault, and brushes with thelaw. For a time, it seemed the only sunny image Jack E. Robinsoncould convey in the media was the memory of his appearance as a 13-year-old extra in a ...
HAROLD RUSSELL, ACTOR AND INSPIRATION, DIES
Feb 01, 2002; ... Harold Russell, chairman of the President's Committee onEmployment of the Handicapped for many years and an Oscar winner forbest supporting actor, died Tuesday of a heart attack at a nursinghome in Needham, his family said yesterday. Until recently a resident on Cape Cod, Mr ....
INJURED OFFICER GETS SETTLEMENT
Feb 01, 2002; ... A former Boston police officer who was critically injured in a1999 accident has won a $10-million settlement against two companiesand one of their employees who was accused of causing the collision. Michael Carroll, 58, lives in a Needham nursing home where hereceives ...
STATE SUES CONCORD FIRM OVER RADIOACTIVE WASTE
Feb 01, 2002; ... About 4 million pounds of low-level radioactive waste is stuck inConcord because the company that produced it is nearly bankrupt,state officials said this week. The state attorney general's office filed a lawsuit to forceStarmet Corp. to dispose of 3,800 barrels of depleted uranium ...
DA SEES LACK OF PRIEST CONTROLS SAYS ABUSE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A FOCUS
Feb 01, 2002; ... After releasing documents yesterday related to last year'sprosecution of a Middleton church worker who pleaded guilty to sexcrimes against 24 youths, Essex District Attorney Kevin M. Burkecriticized the Archdiocese of Boston for not implementing a systemthat would keep parishioners and ...
`BEIJING BICYCLE' PROVES A LIGHT RIDE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Wang Xiaoshuai's "Beijing Bicycle" starts promisingly as an off-screen woman interviews a group of young men, who are shown inshadowy close-ups. The youths have come to Beijing from the countryand are applying for bicycle courier jobs. We next see the successfulapplicants - including ...
`BIRTHDAY' SURPRISE FROM KIDMAN
Feb 01, 2002; ... This bizarre, uneven comedy is notable mostly for the unsettlingpresence of Nicole Kidman in full, kinky, sex-kitten mode. Kidman'sdelicious turn as Nadia, a Russian mail-order bride who isn't allthat she seems, comes close to rivaling the actress's best role todate, in Gus Van Sant's ...
AWARD NOMINATIONS GO TO HARD-ROCK ACTS
Feb 01, 2002; ... It was a great year for local hard-rock bands - a verdict reflected in the Boston Music Awards nominations, announcedyesterday. Breakthrough act Staind copped seven nominations, the samenumber scored by Aero smith and American Hi-Fi. Right behind them arethe hard-edged Godsmack and ...
`BLACK COFFEE' COULD BE FRESHER
Feb 01, 2002; ... Tracy Price-Thompson, a retired Army engineer, draws on hermilitary past in her first novel, "Black Coffee," a love storybetween two sergeants: a romantic self-proclaimed "king" and astubborn woman who dreams of Officer Candidate School. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Romulus ...
A WELCOME VERSION OF THE WITTY `ALBERT HERRING'
Feb 01, 2002; ... Benjamin Britten's opera "Albert Herring" is a dappled scherzo for13 singers and 13 musicians, and it is virtually foolproof. TheEnglish village characters are stock, and the moral is questionable -the story rests on the cozy assumption that alcohol solves problemsand the way to grow up ...
HORNS, SOLO VIOLIN ENRICH VARIED BSO PROGRAM
Feb 01, 2002; ... The current Boston Symphony Orchestra program provides continuous,varied, and profound pleasures. The newest pleasure came in a recent masterwork by one of today'sgreatest composers, Gyorgy Ligeti, the "Hamburgisches Konzert," heardlast night in its first American performance. ...
A `NUEVO' SOUND FROM KRONOS
Feb 01, 2002; ... The Kronos Quartet was in town for a live performance of PhilipGlass's "Dracula" score in 2000, but it's been a while since thegroup has appeared here on its own. Tomorrow night at 8 the quartet plays a concert for CRASHarts andWorld Music in Sanders Theatre. The characteristically ...
FOR THE RECORD
Feb 01, 2002 ... CORRECTION: BECAUSE OF A REPORTING ERROR, AN ITEM IN YESTERDAY'SNAMES & FACES COLUMN OMITTED ONE OF THE ARTISTS CHOSEN ...