The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 2002:
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING NOT SO EARNEST JOHN KERRY HASN'T SAID HE'LL RUN FOR PRESIDENT, BUT HE'S HOPING THAT PEOPLE WILL GET TO KNOW HIM - AND LIKE HIM
May 01, 2002; ... ASHINGTON, D.C. - It was the kind of get-acquainted meeting thatpasses for relaxation in the nation's capital. On one side of the gleaming cocktail table at the trendy Caucus Room restaurant sat USSenator John F. Kerry; on the other side was Andrew Stern, presidentof the Service ...
BELOVED BC ENGLISH PROF TAKES A FINAL BOW
May 01, 2002; ... CHESTNUT HILL - John Mahoney does not allow baseball hats in hisclassroom. Otherwise, unlike Ted Williams in his final game at Fenway42 years ago, he might have tipped his own cap yesterday as hecircled the bases - or, in Mahoney's case, verses - one last time, toa standing ...
US, EUROPEAN PRESS STAND DIVIDED OVER ISRAEL, PALESTINIANS
May 01, 2002; ... The refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin, which was thesite of furious fighting between Israelis and Palestinians, is nowthe focus of an equally intense battle for world opinion. It is alsoa classic example of the profound differences between US and Europeanmedia coverage of the ...
CELTICS SEEK CLOSURE THEY SAY PRESSURE IS ALL ON THE SIXERS
May 01, 2002; ... WALTHAM - The higher-seed, home-court advantage deal never camewith any guarantees. The Celtics knew that at the start of their best-of-five-series with the 76ers. And if they needed any reminders ofplayoff unpredictability, they only had to turn on the televisionyesterday and watch five ...
DUQUETTE ON TARGET WITH THIS ACQUISITION EX-GM ON TARGET WITH TRADE
May 01, 2002; ... Some say Dan Duquette's best move was drafting Nomar Garciaparra.Others contend it was acquiring Pedro Martinez in a trade with theExpos. There's still another theory that Duquette's best move wasgetting Jason Varitek and Derek Lowe from Seattle for the immortalHeathcliff ...
O'CONNELL IS AT A LOSS TO EXPLAIN THIS SETBACK GM AT A LOSS TO EXPLAIN SETBACK
May 01, 2002; ... He had fully expected to be delivering an exhortation for anencore, not a farewell address. So when the Bruins convened at theFleetCenter yesterday, general manager Mike O'Connell's 15-minuteremarks to his off-duty employees included a description of apremature postmortem: "You wake up ...
ZEROED IN RAZOR-SHARP RED SOX BACK OLIVER SHUTOUT
May 01, 2002; ... It's over, the month in which some of the city's most compellingsports questions were answered. The month when the Red Sox learnedthat the Big Three - Pedro Martinez, Nomar Garciaparra, and JasonVaritek - are healthy. When the Sox discovered that Johnny Damon isthe electrifying leadoff ...
AFTERSHOCKS ON CAUSEWAY STREET BRUINS MUST TAKE COLD, HARD LOOK IN THE MIRROR
May 01, 2002; ... Don't be fooled. The better team didn't lose. The Bruins begansummer vacation Monday night for a reason, actually for a number ofreasons, but first and foremost because the Montreal Canadiensoutworked and outplayed them from front to back. Sometimes, as hard as it may be to accept, ...
BIOTECH'S NOSE DIVE SHARES IN THE SECTOR'S COMPANIES HAVE SUFFERED WHAT ONE ANALYST CALLS A `BRUTAL RUN'
May 01, 2002; ... Some of the pessimists on Wall Street are calling it biowreck. Since the start of the year, biotechnology stocks have plunged.While the market as a whole has meandered, broad biotech indexes aredown about 30 percent. The American Stock Exchange Biotechnologyindex yesterday gained ...
AFTER THE HYNES, 2
May 01, 2002; ... Iasked, you answered. Last week, with bookings at alarmingly lowlevels for the new $800 million convention center in South Boston, Iproposed selling the Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center andconverting it into a music and media center with the Berklee Collegeof Music as the anchor ...
LOSSES MAY IMPERIL SALE OF POLAROID REORGANIZATION PLAN FILED; FINANCES WORSEN
May 01, 2002; ... Polaroid Corp. yesterday filed a reorganization plan amid arapidly deteriorating financial position, which could endanger itsplanned sale to a group of Chicago venture capitalists. The crippled instant film giant has lost more than $100 millionsince it filed for bankruptcy in ...
THE DEMISE OF SCUDDER WAS LONG, PAINFUL - AND QUIET NEW OWNER DISMANTLING LOCAL OPERATIONS
May 01, 2002; ... There was no obituary, no funeral, not even a death notice. Thedemise of Scudder, Stevens & Clark Inc., an investment firm startedin Boston by three Harvard colleagues in 1919, has been a long andpainful ordeal, shrouded in silence. In the month since Deutsche Bank bought Scudder ...
CEO VOWS TO `REFOCUS' WORLDCOM
May 01, 2002; ... Following the stunning resignation of WorldCom Inc. chiefexecutive Bernard J. Ebbers, the company's new CEO, John Sidgmore,vowed yesterday to tame the sprawling telecommunications empire thatEbbers lashed together from more than 60 acquisitions and shore upits crumbling ...
ARAFAT DEAL SEEN MODEL TO END SIEGE AT CHURCH
May 01, 2002; ... TEL AVIV - Palestinian negotiators have proposed that the standoffat the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem be solved with the sameformula agreed upon to resolve the Israeli siege of Yasser Arafat'sheadquarters in Ramallah, a leading Palestinian official said lastnight. The ...
ALLIED FORCES KILL FOUR IN SWEEP FOR FUGITIVES
May 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - US-led forces killed at least four suspected enemysoldiers in two separate clashes this week near the Afghan-Pakistaniborder as part of what military officials said was a major sweep forfugitive Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. On Monday, allied special forces who were ...
CANCER DRUG'S LINK TO HEART ILL PROBED A STUDY IN MICE ILLUSTRATES RISK IN USE OF HERCEPTIN
May 01, 2002; ... Researchers have discovered the likely cause of heart damagesuffered by some breast cancer patients taking the promising new drugHerceptin, raising the possibility that treatments could be designedto ameliorate the potentially dangerous side effect. Herceptin, one of the first ...
FOR THE RECORD
May 01, 2002 ... To our readers: Because of a mechanical problem with a press, somecopies ...
ANNAN TALKS OF DROPPING JENIN PROBE UN CHIEF CITES IMPASSE; ARAB STATES CALL FOR ISRAEL REBUKE
May 01, 2002; ... UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday hewas inclined to disband a UN fact-finding team directed toinvestigate allegations of excessive killing and destruction in aPalestinian refugee camp, after Israel decided it would not allowinvestigators to proceed unless ...
MYSTERY, HOPE ALIVE FOR LEVY, LOST A YEAR NO BREAKS IN CASE OF MISSING INTERN
May 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - Chandra Levy went missing a year ago, and whileinvestigators have some leads, they still do not know what happenedto the bubbly intern whose ties to a married congressman sparked amedia frenzy last summer. Today is the first anniversary of Levy's disappearance ...
26 PALESTINIANS IN CHURCH SIEGE QUIT STANDOFF ISRAELI TROOPS PURSUE SUSPECTS AT HEBRON SITE
May 01, 2002; ... JERUSALEM - One by one, 26 Palestinians abandoned Bethlehem'sChurch of the Nativity, a sign that the tense standoff at the siterevered by Christians as Jesus' birthplace might be nearing an end. But another standoff appeared to be looming, as Israeli troopssurrounded the main ...
KOREAN LEAVE-TAKING
May 01, 2002 ... Departing relatives bidding an emotional farewell to North Koreansafter a three-day reunion in the ...
PAKISTAN VOTE GOES MUSHARRAF'S WAY ELECTION EXTENDS HIS TERM AND FUELS CRITICISM OF REGIME
May 01, 2002; ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Pervez Musharraf appeared to getwhat he wanted yesterday: overwhelming voter approval in a one-candidate election to lead the country for five more years. ButMusharraf's critics called the ballot a sham and demanded hisresignation. Campaigning on a ...
GOVERNOR SHUTS MANSION OVER CUTS
May 01, 2002; ... ST. PAUL - Governor Jesse Ventura is locking up the century-oldgovernor's mansion as part of a raft of budget cuts he complains fallunfairly on him, his spokesman said yesterday. The ...
CUSTOMS STEPS UP RADIATION SCREENS MARKEY RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY `BACKDOOR'
May 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - The US Customs Service, acknowledging that it needsto increase its ability to detect radioactive material that isshipped to the United States, says that it is doubling its capacityto screen incoming packages. Customs does not screen all incoming packages for radiation, ...
SLAVERY SUIT TO TARGET BANK, 2 FIRMS PREDECESSORS SAID TO HAVE CONSPIRED TO DODGE TRADE BAN
May 01, 2002; ... The grandson of a North Carolina slave is expected to file alawsuit today in New Jersey seeking reparations from an investmentbank that allegedly owned slaves and two other companies accused ofhaving profited from slavery, a second round of legal claims lodgedby advocates pursuing ...
A FAMILY'S AGONY
May 01, 2002 ... Tameka Jones (center) pleading yesterday for the safe return ofher 2-year-old son, Jahi Turner, who police believe was abductedThursday afternoon after being left unattended in a San Diego park ...
HUB BESET BY SURGE IN BANK ROBBERIES MEASURES PLANNED TO BOOST SECURITY
May 01, 2002; ... The number of bank robberies in the Boston area increased morethan 65 percent last year, to 304, surging after the Sept. 11terrorist attacks and the slumping of the economy. The jump spurredMassachusetts banks to announce a partnership with federal and statelaw enforcement agencies to ...
HATCH BACKS A BILL ALLOWING CLONING STEM-CELL WORK COULD EXPAND, NIH PICK SAYS
May 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - Two of the most controversial issues in medicalresearch moved to the forefront of the congressional agendayesterday, with a leading Republican, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah,joining a key Democrat, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts,in support of a bill that would ...
A NOTEWORTHY CURRICULUM PILOT PROGRAM BRINGS BLUEGRASS INTO HUB SCHOOL
May 01, 2002; ... Turquoise Forde, a fifth-grader at Boston Renaissance CharterSchool, didn't see the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" TreonCooper didn't watch the Grammy Awards, where the movie's soundtrackwon album of the year. And Tashea Coles, who like many of herclassmates enjoys hip-hop, rap, ...
CLUB SNUB: CIANCI, ELITE AT ODDS AGAIN
May 01, 2002; ... PROVIDENCE - Prosecutors say greed is at the root of thecorruption charges against Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. But it may beanother deadly sin - pride - that most threatens the future andlegacy of the popular pol called Buddy. Cianci and his legal team exude confidence that when ...
WOMAN IS KILLED IN COLLISION WITH DAY CARE VAN
May 01, 2002; ... Moments after dropping off children at a day care center, a vandriver drifted into oncoming traffic on a busy Mattapan streetyesterday morning and collided head-on with a car, killing a womanand critically injuring her 19-month-old daughter, police said. The driver of the van has ...
COUNCIL PUSHES FUNDING FOR POLICE
May 01, 2002; ... Worried that a wave of police retirements will hamper crime-fighting, Boston city councilors are vowing to push Mayor Thomas M.Menino for more money to hire additional officers. Roughly 300 officers hired near the end of the Vietnam War will beeligible to retire in July 2004. ...
FINNERAN WOOING HOUSE MEMBERS ON TAX INCREASES
May 01, 2002; ... State representatives, those rank-and-filers who have spent yearsin the House chamber at the mercy of the powerful Speaker Thomas M.Finneran, are encountering a rather novel state of affairs this week. Suddenly, the speaker needs them, and he needs them badly. Finneran is ...
HOMELESS CAUGHT IN BUDGET CRUNCH SHELTERS, ALREADY OVERFLOWING, FACE STATE CUTS
May 01, 2002; ... [A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE GRAPHIC ACCOMPANYING THIS STORY.] A haggard young man saddled with all his possessions ambles into acity homeless shelter shortly before midnight, soaking from thefrigid rain. All around him, rows of men, from teenagers ...
THE BACK-SEAT PROFESSOR HARVARD LAW FIXTURE NESSON STIRS DEBATE, CONCERN WITH ACTIONS
May 01, 2002; ... CAMBRIDGE - Charles R. Nesson is a legend among equals at HarvardLaw School. As a student in the 1960s, he inspired comparisons to thegreat jurist Felix Frankfurter a half-century earlier. As aprofessor, he has blazed trails in Internet law, and as a lawyer heearned the nickname "Billion ...
NEWTON APPROVES $11.5M OVERRIDE CLOSE VOTE AVERTS SCHOOL, SERVICE CUTS
May 01, 2002; ... NEWTON - A property tax hike to bolster this city's vaunted publicschools squeaked by voters last night, in one of Newton's mostcontentious elections in memory. With all 31 precincts reporting, unofficial returns showed that51.3 percent of the voters approved the city's first ...
NO TIME FOR DEFERENCE
May 01, 2002; ... A judge should not be hearing a case involving a Catholic priestwith whom he attended the seminary. A prosecutor should not be advising a cardinal who blames thecrimes of priests on the negligence of their victims. A state's chief law enforcement officer should not be ...
2 ARRAIGNED IN BASKETBALL GAME ASSAULT
May 01, 2002 ... HOLLISTON Two expelled Holliston High School students were arraignedyesterday in Norfolk Superior Court on charges stemming from adisturbance at a February basketball game at Medway High School.William Lichter, 18, pleaded not guilty to one count of assault andbattery on an ...
TOWN MEETING REJECTS FIRE CUTS ACTION SPARES CRUCIAL STATION, AVERTS LAYOFFS
May 01, 2002; ... FRAMINGHAM - "We can't forget what the hell has been going on,"Town Meeting member Virginia Marino said at last night's meeting. Marino invoked Sept. 11 and its lingering aftermath to urge TownMeeting members to avoid cutting the Fire Department in an attempt tobalance the town ...
CATHOLICS DRAWN TO SPLINTER GROUP IN WELLESLEY
May 01, 2002; ... WELLESLEY - In the basement of a parish school at Saint John theEvangelist Church, a quiet revolution is brewing. A group that started three months ago as a listening session forparishioners upset about clergy sexual abuse has grown explosively inthe past few weeks, drawing about ...
HEALTH GAPS PERSIST FOR MINORITIES, POOR ADVOCATES URGE STRONGER EFFORTS WEST OF BOSTON
May 01, 2002; ... Residents of the western suburbs are generally healthier than therest of the state, but their health and quality of life are stillclosely linked to their socioeconomic status, a study releasedyesterday by the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation shows. The study, the first ...
RESCUE ATTEMPT
May 01, 2002 ... Newton firefighters Dana Flynn, right, and Lieutenant John Colellaprepare to rescue a women who had fallen into the Charles River nearEllis Street while taking photographs. A passerby heard ...
FOR THE RECORD
May 01, 2002 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, a column by AdrianWalker that appeared in the City & Region section on ...
HUMAN LOSSES
May 01, 2002 ... JENNIFER ETIENNE, 25, says she makes about $18,000 a year workingat two part-time human service jobs - not enough to cover costs forher and her 5-year-old daughter. They are two faces of a larger problem: Massachusetts pays peanutsto human service workers. Still, Etienne is ...
THE RIGHT ALLIES IN IRAQ
May 01, 2002 ... THE WAR that Saddam Hussein started in August 1990 has neverended. Not for Saddam, who proudly declares in speech after windyspeech that he has not ceased waging war against America and itsallies. And not for America and its regional partners, who are theprimary targets of Saddam's ...
LIFE AFTER DEATH
May 01, 2002 ... WHEN FAMILY members agree to donate the organs of a dying lovedone, they are generously offering extended life to strangers. Butthey are also giving themselves a gift in the form of consolation fortheir loss. "When families agree to donate," says Dr. Howard Koh, the ...
A STATE OF PUBLIC SELFISHNESS
May 01, 2002; ... WHEN EVEN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR NEW TAXES, THERE IS AFLICKER OF HOPE THAT BEACON HILL'S IMMORALITY HAS A LIMIT. HOUSELEADERS HAVE PROPOSED TO SOLVE THE $2 BILLION STATE BUDGET DEFICIT BYCUTTING PUBLIC FUNDS FOR EDUCATION BY MORE THAN $400 MILLION ANDSLASHING AIDS FUNDING, ...
PRIVACY AND NATIONAL ID CARDS
May 01, 2002; ... AMERICANS ARE A LIBERTY-LOVING PEOPLE. OUR EARLIEST NATIONAL MOTTOWAS DON'T TREAD ON ME. EVEN AFTER A SICKENING TERRORIST ATTACK, WERESIST NATIONAL IDENTITY CARDS.Yet we face an ever escalatingassault on our privacy and liberty by both Big Brother and bigbusiness. And some of our ...
ARE WE BECOMING A PARANOID STATE?
May 01, 2002 ... I WAS SICKENED TO READ ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF ELIAS AND ANTOINETTESAWAN AND THEIR FOUR GROWN CHILDREN WHO WILL BE DEPORTED TO LEBANON,A COUNTRY THEY HAD TO FLEE TO SAVE THEIR LIVES ("INS REVIVES SWEEPS,"PAGE B1, APRIL 18).Yes, they ignored a deportation notice 15years ago. Who wouldn't ...
WE NEED MORE JUDGES LIKE LOPEZ
May 01, 2002 ... JUDGE MARIA Lopez was not trying to win a popularity contest. Shedid what she thought was right. We desperately need more judges ...
A TAXING MISCALCULATION
May 01, 2002; ... MIGHT A MORE moderate, flexible Tom Birmingham have helped bluntthe impact of the state's fiscal problems? With the topic of taxescenter stage on Beacon Hill and the Senate president campaigning forgovernor, that's an intriguing question. The Democratic story line, of course, is ...
SIMILARITIES AMONG SURVIVORS
May 01, 2002 ... I READ THE SERIES ON ADRIANA JENKINS'S TREATMENT WITH GREATINTEREST, SINCE THERE ARE MANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN US. SHE AND IWERE BOTH DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER, WERE TREATED WITH HERCEPTIN,AND ARE BEING WELL TAKEN CARE OF AT DIFFERENT HOSPITALS....
KUDOS FOR CANCER SERIES
May 01, 2002 ... REGARDING THE THREE-PART SERIES THIS WEEK ABOUT THE CANCERPATIENT, ADRIANA JENKINS: What a well done and informative series!This was not just the saga of a young woman caught in a horriblemedical and personal trauma but a concise and honest balanceddescription of patient and doctor ...
INS USES GOOD PEOPLE AS SCAPEGOATS
May 01, 2002 ... I WAS DISMAYED AFTER READING THE ARTICLE, "INS REVISES SWEEPS." IPERSONALLY KNOW THE SAWANS. THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE, AND THE WAY THEYARE BEING TREATED IS AN OUTRAGE.I understand the INS's position,but the Sawans are being used as scapegoats by the same agency thatapproved student ...
THE MISEDUCATION OF METCO STUDENTS
May 01, 2002 ... DERRICK JACKSON SHOULD VIEW THE SHRINKAGE OF METCO WITH DELIGHT("SHAME OLD STORY: CRUMBS FOR METCO," OP ED, APRIL 16).Metco'sconcept is condescendingly racist: Quality education for blacks meansbeing transported miles each day to be immersed in the Eurocentricsystem of an unwelcoming ...
UNUSUAL FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
May 01, 2002 ... RALPH RANALLI CORRECTLY QUOTED ME IN HIS FRONT-PAGE REPORT WHEN ISAID THE INVESTIGATION OF SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE MARIA LOPEZ AND,PARTICULARLY, THE SUBPOENA SEEKING THE PRIVATE E-MAILS OF HER HUSBAND(AND MY FIRM'S CLIENT), STEPHEN MINDICH, "HAS BEEN HANDLED IN A MOSTUNUSUAL MANNER FOR A ...
MUSHARRAF MUST SEEK NUCLEAR ARMS BALANCE
May 01, 2002; ... PAKISTANI PRESIDENT PERVEZ MUSHARRAF HAS EXTENDED HIS TERM FORFIVE YEARS BY REFERENDUM. THE STAKES FOR THE UNITED STATES GO BEYONDJUST DEMOCRACY IN PAKISTAN OR THE DURABILITY OF AN ALLY IN THE WAR ONTERRORISM. BOTH ARE IMPORTANT, AND THEY ARE INTERRELATED.SinceSept. 11 Musharraf has ...
CRISPY ROASTED ASPARAGUS
May 01, 2002 ... The crispy coating on the asparagus - from mayonnaise and Frenchmustard, along with the Japanese panko breadcrumbs - provides apleasant and piquant crunch. Panko is available at Asian markets.Serve as an hors d'oeuvre or side dish. Serves 4. 1bunch thick asparagus ...
VIDAL TAKES DIM VIEW OF US IN `PERPETUAL WAR'
May 01, 2002; ... Gore Vidal is not subtle. The acerbic and pugnacious writer andthinker is the kind of person who draws extreme reactions. There arethose enamored of Vidal's jaundiced view of the US government,military, and law enforcement establishment. And there are those whoconsider him an extremist ...
LET THEM MAKE BREAD THE AMERICAN TEAM GRABS A SILVER IN BAKING'S WORLD CUP
May 01, 2002; ... PARIS - Teams from the world over converged last week at La Coupedu Monde de la Boulangerie - The World Cup of Baking - for a chanceto claim the title of the best bakers in the world. Team USA came todefend its title, which they won three years ago, this time withRehoboth's Ciril Hitz, a ...
TOASTING SPRING WITH SEASONAL FARE
May 01, 2002; ... You can almost hear the sighs of relief from chefs when the firstsigns of spring show up on restaurant tables. Finally, fresh peasand morels and greens and all those delicacies that quicken theappetite. Chef Eric Brennan of the Harvest in Cambridge says he startsplotting out ...
BALMY BEETHOVEN HIGHLIGHTS CONCERT
May 01, 2002; ... CAMBRIDGE - A first-class rescue job on a not too highly regardedwork from the classical era, some beautiful vibrations from the hereand now, and a prestige-label package somewhat damaged in transit.That was the story of Friday's outing by the Boston Chamber MusicSociety. Beethoven, John ...
A PARTY FOR QUIRKY WEATHER
May 01, 2002; ... More difficult than dressing for New England's unpredictablespring weather is planning a party for May. Spring comes and goes quickly here, with some days feeling likesummer, others a relapse into winter. When temperatures can swingfrom the 80s to the 60s, entertaining - ...
CONCERT UPDATE
May 01, 2002 ... Summer shows aplenty go on sale this weekend. At the Tweeter Center: the Dave Matthews Band, July 23 at 7 p.m.,on sale Friday at 10 a.m.; $50 reserved, $35 lawn. Marc Anthony, July6 at 7:30 p.m., on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.; $66.50, $51.50, $41.50.Area2 with David Bowie, Moby, and ...
FOR THE RECORD
May 01, 2002 ... Correction: Because of an editing error, a credit for the photo ofOak Hill Middle School principal Marvin "Murph" Shapiro ...