The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 2003:
GRAND DESIGNS
Feb 01, 2003 ... AS FINAL planning for the Rose Kennedy Greenway begins, theMassachusetts Turnpike Authority has given designers of the eightpark parcels a total budget target of $31 million. It is not enough. In fact, no dollar figure should constrain designers now.Eventually their proposals will ...
FIX OUR MALPRACTICE SYSTEM NOW
Feb 01, 2003; ... MEDICAL MALPRACTICE IS HAVING A PROFOUNDLY DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ONHEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES. WOMEN ARE HAVING DIFFICULTYOBTAINING OBSTETRICAL CARE, TRAUMA SURGERY IS DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN INSOME AREAS, AND PHYSICIANS IN MANY STATES ARE FINDING THE RISING COSTAND AVAILABILITY OF ...
THE POETRY OF PROTEST
Feb 01, 2003 ... IT WAS SUPPOSED to be a celebration of poetry at the White Househosted by Laura Bush. Poets were to come on Feb. 12 and speak of WaltWhitman, Emily Dickinson, and Langston Hughes. It was meant tocelebrate "Poetry and the American Voice." Then the world intruded. One poet, Sam ...
THEY LEAVE NO STONE UNSWEPT
Feb 01, 2003; ... WAYLAND - Curling is not a sport you tend to associate withteenagers and young 20-somethings. After all, no one has made a videogame about curling. J.Lo and Ben do not curl. Curling is part of theOlympic Games, not the X Games. And when someone says curling iscool, the statement should ...
NEW OWNERS FOR BMA, NEMO
Feb 01, 2003; ... New owners have taken over the Boston Music Awards. The 16-year-old event, which has featured the best of Boston's local and nationalacts while being no stranger to controversy, was sold yesterday totwo local businessmen who hope to make the BMA and joint entity theNEMO Music Conference ...
ONLY A PAWN IN THEIR GAME
Feb 01, 2003; ... WHEN IT COMES TO OUT-OF-CONTROL, OVER-THE-TOP, SO-BIG-IT'S-VISIBLE-FROM-OUTER-SPACE CEO PAY, THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF PARTIES TOBLAME: DOORMAT BOARDS, SLICK COMPENSATION CONSULTANTS, GRASPINGEXECUTIVES, WELL-MEANING CORPORATE REFORMERS, GREEDY . . . WAIT AMINUTE. WHO PUT CORPORATE ...
US TECHNOLOGICAL SUPREMACY IS IN DANGER
Feb 01, 2003; ... IN A FEW short weeks, our nation will likely be at war with Iraq.But while soldiers train and weapons inspectors search, a hiddenweakness in American classrooms could prove much more dangerous inthe long run to America's military and economic future than SaddamHussein could ever ...
TRAINS AND CARS AND PLANES
Feb 01, 2003 ... THE RECENT opening of the last and costliest stretch of thenation's interstate highway system - the $6.5 billion link betweenthe Massachusetts Turnpike and Logan Airport - is a reminder that thenation is entering a new and uncertain era in intercitytransportation. While population grows, ...
GOTTA RUN AT 40-PLUS, THEIR LOVE OF COMPETITION KEEPS THEM IN FAST COMPANY
Feb 01, 2003; ... Most of the 200 or so athletes competing at the eighth annualadidas Boston Indoor Games tonight traverse the track circuit seekingfame and a good living. But a handful, including about a dozencontestants in the Masters Mile - whose contestants are all 40 or older - race purely for ...
EAGLES TROUNCE MINUTEMEN
Feb 01, 2003; ... There was no pre-Beanpot letdown by sixth-ranked Boston Collegelast night and no suspense after the Eagles threw a five-spot atvisiting Massachusetts in the first period - including a pair ofshorthanded goals 41 seconds apart by J.D. Forrest and Ben Eaves -and coasted to a 9-0 Hockey ...
BC HOMES IN ON 1ST GAMPEL WIN
Feb 01, 2003; ... The Boston College men's basketball team this season has certainlyplayed in a lot of hostile and loud places on the road. The Eagleshave won in the not-so-hospitable environs of North Carolina State'sRBC Center and in the ear-shattering din of Iowa State's HiltonColiseum. But BC has not ...
GOOD SECOND HALF FIRST ON BRUINS' TO-DO LIST
Feb 01, 2003; ... SUNRISE, Fla. - When the Bruins were asked how they planned tospend this weekend's All-Star break, most talked about just wantingto get back to playing the "second half" of the season. Yes, thefestivities - which will feature Boston players Joe Thornton and GlenMurray - have long been ...
WORST-CASE SCENARIO CELTICS SUFFER MOST-LOPSIDED FRANCHISE LOSS
Feb 01, 2003; ... For the second time this season, the Celtics found themselves onthe wrong side of franchise history. Detroit defeated Boston, 118-66, last night at the FleetCenter in what now stands as theorganization's worst loss ever, eclipsing the regular-season recordset Oct. 31, 2002, in Washington ...
DOGGED NORTHEASTERN IN THE HUNT
Feb 01, 2003 ... If Providence thought Northeastern would finish January the waythe Huskies began the month, the Friars were barking up the wrongtree. The Huskies mounted back-to-back wins for the first time sincelate November with a 3-1 victory before 2,300 last night atProvidence's Schneider ...
`RUSTY' WALKER SLOWLY ADJUSTING TO BRACE
Feb 01, 2003; ... It was not quite deja vu all over again for the Celtics when theyplayed the Detroit Pistons for the second time in four days. Boston welcomed Antoine Walker back from a four-game absence lastnight. He mildly sprained his right knee Jan. 20 at Philadelphia andsported a heavy brace ...
HARVARD COMES UP EMPTY AGAIN, FALLS AT PRINCETON
Feb 01, 2003; ... Will Venable scored 21 points and Princeton held off Harvard lastnight, 67-61, the 13th straight time the Tigers have beaten theCrimson at Jadwin Gym. The Tigers (7-7, 1-0 Ivy) have won 55 consecutive home gamesagainst the six Ivy teams other than Pennsylvania. Brady Merchant ...
FANS TURN ON TEAM AS INEPTITUDE REIGNS
Feb 01, 2003; ... What does it take for Celtics fans to applaud - no, make thatcheer for - the other team? It takes an effort by the Celtics that is so inept it leaves theirfaithful eager to see a team, any team, execute and score and defendthe way players at the top level of their sport ...
DRAGILA HAD HIGH HOPES POLE VAULTER OVERCAME EARLY DOUBTS TO MAKE HER MARK
Feb 01, 2003; ... Some mornings she couldn't help but feel tempted to forfeit. The meat cutter from Auburn, Calif., raised Stacy Dragila never togive in to doubt, and the junior college coach never let her forgetthat lesson, but with all due respect, her father, Bill Mikaelson,and the late John ...
GRUMET-MORRIS SHINES GOALTENDER IS THE KEY TO HARVARD'S VICTORY
Feb 01, 2003; ... In a sense, Harvard may have discovered the answer to the dilemmathat is Brown goaltender Yann Danis. Storm him with shots, charge thenet, storm him some more, then charge him some more. Oh, and ask your own goaltender to stand on his head, too. That was the recipe for the ...
WE'VE COME A LONG WAY
Feb 01, 2003; ... When I was a teenager at Westwood High School in the '70s, Imarveled at our sleek basketball uniforms and matching warmups, withour names in Velcro on the back - just like the boys. We really stoodout, especially when opposing teams came to play us wearingturtlenecks and woolen ...
JAMES'S SEASON IS OVER PREP STAR INELIGIBLE FOR ACCEPTING JERSEYS
Feb 01, 2003; ... LeBron James's high school career is over. That does notnecessarily mean he won't be playing competitive basketball until thestart of the 2002-03 NBA season. One word: Europe. It could well be there as an alternative forJames if he so chooses. James was ruled ineligible ...
HOUSTON EXTENDS BIGGIO'S CONTRACT
Feb 01, 2003 ... BASEBALL Craig Biggio will get $4 million more in guaranteedmoney to move from second base to the outfield. The Gold Glove secondbaseman and the Houston Astros agreed to a one-year contractextension through 2004, a deal that contains a club option for 2005and could be worth up to ...
NU PAINED BY VICTORY ROBINSON HURT IN WIN OVER HARTFORD
Feb 01, 2003; ... Javorie Wilson scored his only point of the game on a free throwwith 0.7 seconds left, lifting Northeastern to a 51-50 win overHartford last night at Solomon Court, but it was a painful victoryfor the Huskies. Sylbrin Robinson, America East's leading rebounder, suffered asevere ...
MLB WILL STAY OUT IT WILL NOT MEDIATE DISPUTE OVER MILLAR
Feb 01, 2003; ... Major League Baseball will not mediate the dispute between Red Soxaspirant Kevin Millar and the Chunichi Dragons, reiterating itsposition that Millar has a signed contract with the Japanese team andmust honor it. Chunichi manager Hisashi Yamada, whose team begins spring ...
JAMES NOT TO BLAME INELIGIBILITY RULING FAULT OF ADULTS ADULTS TO BLAME FOR LEBRON
Feb 01, 2003; ... I don't blame the kid. LeBron James may not be an innocent, but I don't hold himaccountable for what's going on now. LeBron James is what we havemade him. How could James possibly have any sense of right and wrong? Fromthe age of 12 or 13, adults have placed him at the center ...
RILEY SET FOR HOME RUN FORMER BROOKLINE HIGH STAR TO MAKE PRO DEBUT IN 3,000
Feb 01, 2003; ... Today's eighth annual adidas Boston Indoor Games representdifferent things to different people. For Brookline's Jonathon Riley,it's an annual homecoming celebration. For Maurice Greene and StacyDragila, gold medalists in the last Summer Olympics, it's the firststep on the comeback ...
UCONN AT DUKE: 1-2 PUNCH SHOWDOWN SHOWCASES TOP TWO TEAMS, PLAYERS
Feb 01, 2003; ... It's not an NCAA championship game, or even a conferencechampionship. But tonight's meeting between No. 1 Duke and No. 2Connecticut seems to be of that magnitude, a battle of two unbeatenteams and arguably the two best women's basketball players in thecountry. Duke junior Alana ...
CONGRESS EYES OVERHAUL USOC PORTRAYED AS DYSFUNCTIONAL BY TOP LAWMAKERS
Feb 01, 2003; ... COLORADO SPRINGS - Dysfunctional. That was the word that keptpopping out of disgusted senatorial mouths this week during the"State of the USOC" hearings in Washington. The US Olympic Committee,with its bloated organizational chart, its volunteers and paidstaffers eternally wrangling, and ...
FDA GIVES APPROVAL FOR BIOGEN DRUG SALE FIERCE RIVALRY FROM COMPETITORS SEEN FOR AMEVIVE
Feb 01, 2003; ... The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday gave Biogen Inc. ofCambridge approval to begin selling its psoriasis treatment, Amevive,capping the company's 15-year effort to bring a second product tomarket. Biogen has built itself into a powerhouse largely on sales ofAvonex, a ...
MASS. ECONOMY DECLINES
Feb 01, 2003; ... The Massachusetts economy declined 0.1 percent, annualized, duringthe fourth quarter, the eighth consecutive quarterly decline, saidMassachusetts Benchmarks, a publication of the University ofMassachusetts at Boston. In 2002, the state economy contracted 0.9percent, while the nation's ...
STATE ST. DEAL LARGELY DONE
Feb 01, 2003; ... State Street Corp. said it completed most its acquisition ofDeutsche Bank AG's global securities services business. Under theterms of the deal, which was announced in November, Boston-basedState Street paid Deutsche $1.1 billion and has agreed to pay about$388 ...
FEAR, RAGE, RESIGNATION ON FAULTY IGNITION COILS
Feb 01, 2003; ... After I wrote last Sunday that more than half a million 2001 and2002 Audis and Volkswagens with faulty ignition coils were on theroad (or off it, as each of their four coils could be failing one byone), and that the companies would replace only coils that failed(not the ones just ...
HOTEL DEAL SAID TO BE IMMINENT DEADLINE IS TODAY FOR SOUTH BOSTON CONVENTION SITE
Feb 01, 2003; ... Today's the deadline for Starwood Hotels to make a commitment tobuild the crucial convention center hotel in South Boston - somethingit has been trying to finance since 1999. Yesterday, city and stateofficials said they were optimistic a deal is imminent. Gloria Larson, chairwoman ...
BUSH SEES REVAMP OF SAVINGS PLANS AIMS TO REPLACE IRAS, 401(K)S, CHANGE TAX RULES
Feb 01, 2003; ... President Bush's budget proposal, due Monday, will includesweeping proposals for new tax-free savings accounts that couldenable individuals to put away up to $15,000 a year, not only forretirement but for general, unrestricted savings. Coupled with Bush's proposal to end most taxes ...
LEAD HAZARDS BRUSHED ASIDE BUYERS SAID TO BE IGNORING HEALTH RISKS OLD PAINT POSES FOR KIDS
Feb 01, 2003; ... PHILADELPHIA - Among buyers of older houses, lead-based paintseems to have fallen from the list of concerns. "Almost none of my buyers cares about it," said Christopher J.Ryan, an associate broker with Prudential Fox & Roach inPhiladelphia. Under Title X of the Housing and ...
HISTORY AND HIGH PRICES SET CONCORD APART
Feb 01, 2003; ... CONCORD - Nearly 186 years after Henry David Thoreau was born in asimple farmhouse on a winding country road, town officials areseeking someone to save the crumbling saltbox-style home, nestledamong acres of conservation land. Nonprofit groups and individuals had until yesterday ...
BUSH, BLAIR DISPLAY UNITY ON IRAQ, BRITAIN SIGNALS PREFERENCE FOR WIDER COALITION
Feb 01, 2003; ... WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain called for abroad coalition to disarm Iraq yesterday, but President Bush said hewould go along with that strategy only if it could be carried out ina matter of weeks. "Any attempt to drag the process on for months will be resisted ...
WHERE MONEY COUNTS, KERRY OUTRANKS RIVALS
Feb 01, 2003; ... WASHINGTON - Senator John F. Kerry started the race for the 2004Democratic presidential nomination in December with the most moneyamong declared candidates, just over $3 million, most of which camefrom Senate campaign funds he had left over because no Republicanchallenged him for ...
FOR THE RECORD
Feb 01, 2003 ... CORRECTION: BECAUSE OF A REPORTING ERROR, THE FOURTH - GRADE MCASRANKINGS IN THE PEMBROKE COMMUNITY PROFILE IN THE REAL ESTATE ...
FONDA CURTAILS $12.5M HARVARD GRANT
Feb 01, 2003; ... Actress Jane Fonda has pulled back most of a $12.5 million pledgeto Harvard's Graduate School of Education, ending the school's plansfor a major research center on gender in education. Harvard officials described the change in plans as a mutualdecision by Harvard and Fonda to ...
`AXIS OF EVIL' STILL RANKLES N. KOREA DIPLOMAT
Feb 01, 2003; ... HONG KONG - A North Korean diplomat yesterday dismissed a reportthat Pyongyang might be moving nuclear fuel rods out of storage toreprocess them into weapons-grade plutonium. Song Il Hyok, North Korea's consul to Hong Kong, said in aninterview with the Globe that Pyongyang has no ...
CDC SAYS TOXIN LEVELS FALLING, BUT SEES RISKS EXPOSURE TO LEAD DOWN; PCBS PERSIST
Feb 01, 2003; ... The amount of toxic chemicals such as lead and cigarette smoke inAmerican bloodstreams has fallen over the last few years, suggestingthat environmental regulations are working, according to a newfederal report billed as the most comprehensive look ever at humanexposure to environmental ...
TEENS ABUSING COUGH AND COLD REMEDIES
Feb 01, 2003; ... At least 20 students in Brookline and Newton have been treated forwhat officials fear is a disturbing craze creeping into local highschools: getting high on name-brand, over-the-counter cough and coldmedications. After years of looking out for students who abuse alcohol orillegal ...
FOUR BANKS HIT BY ROBBERS
Feb 01, 2003; ... The wave of bank robberies in Boston continued without a breakyesterday as four banks, in four different parts of the city, werehit by thieves. Yesterday's robberies bring the total to 56 so far this year, saidGail Marcinkiewicz, FBI spokeswoman in Boston. Yesterday's first ...
ACCUSATION AGAINST MAGISTRATE ROILS COURT
Feb 01, 2003; ... An assistant clerk magistrate in Boston Municipal Court wascharged this week with molesting a female co-worker in a case thathad two judges battling over how the case should be investigated. The female employee has accused Timothy Mazobere, 50, of grabbingher breasts in a court ...
DEMOCRATS HIT ROMNEY BUDGET PLAN REQUEST FOR VOTE ON CUTS STIRS ANGER IN THE HOUSE
Feb 01, 2003; ... House Democrats yesterday balked at Governor Mitt Romney's requestthey approve $143 million in budget cuts, saying that the governor,after winning expanded powers to make unilateral cuts, should haveaccomplished the job himself. After a nearly three-hour, closed-door caucus in ...
JOHN H. BURKE JR., AT 78; BASKETBALL COACH AT MIT, BU
Feb 01, 2003; ... John H. Burke Jr. of Wayland, a former golf pro and college sportscoach, died Monday in Eliot Healthcare Center in Natick. He was 78. Mr. Burke coached varsity basketball at Wesleyan University, theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston University. He wasalso a golf pro, ...
IN KENMORE SQUARE, A SIGN OF DISTRESS
Feb 01, 2003; ... There is something missing from the moonlit sky, a dark spot overthe Charles, a vacancy in Boston's twinkling skyline. Arthur Krim, 59, first noticed it a month ago. And in the placewhere he keeps a record of such things - the log by his hometelephone in Cambridge - he made a note ...
US SAID TO SEEK INFORMATION FROM CONNOLLY
Feb 01, 2003; ... Former FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. is being pressured tocooperate with federal investigators who recently had him moved froma federal prison in Kentucky to an undisclosed jail in WesternMassachusetts, according to sources involved with the investigation. The US Department of ...
SUSPECTED CAR THIEF IN DORCHESTER CRASH
Feb 01, 2003; ... A suspected car thief trying to elude pursuing officers careeneddown a residential Dorchester street yesterday, hit an oncomingfurniture delivery truck, and smashed into a parked sport utilityvehicle, injuring a woman and her 10-year-old daughter, authoritiessaid. After the ...
SERGEANT ACCUSED, HELD FOR EVALUATION
Feb 01, 2003; ... STOUGHTON - Terror marked every word Maura K. White shouted to theStoughton police dispatcher. "He just put a gun in my mouth!" she said. And, seconds later: "Hehas a gun and he's in my daughter's bedroom!" He is State Police Sergeant Timothy C. White, who for about fouryears ...
CHARLES FARREN, DAIRYMAN AT MEDFIELD STATE HOSPITAL
Feb 01, 2003; ... Charles A. Farren, 72, who worked as a dairyman at Medfield StateHospital in the years when patients at the facility for the mentallydisabled helped grow food onsite, died Sunday in his home inConcord, N.H. "At one time the hospital was a self-sustaining community of2,000," Leo ...
TODDLER FOUND ALONE IN MINIBUS DROP-OFF AT DAY CARE APPARENTLY FORGOTTEN
Feb 01, 2003; ... LOWELL - The state is investigating how an 18-month-old toddlerwas left strapped into his seat inside a locked minibus for 5 1/2hours after the driver apparently forgot to drop him off at a daycare center. A passer-by called police after finding the child alone and cryinginside ...
MENINO WINNING SUPPORT FOR LOCAL OPTION TAXES
Feb 01, 2003; ... Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino floated a new version of his requestto the Legislature to allow Boston to create local option taxesyesterday, winning support from several mayors searching for ways toboost revenues in the face of $114 million in local aid cuts. In a meeting between ...
DEATH IN MATTAPAN IS RULED A HOMICIDE
Feb 01, 2003; ... THE DEATH OF A MATTAPAN MAN, WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND ON THE BANKS OFTHE NEPONSET RIVER, HAS BEEN RULED BOSTON'S SECOND HOMICIDE OF 2003,AUTHORITIES SAID YESTERDAY. Jerry Napier, 26, was found in Mattapanearly Thursday afternoon on the river's wooded embankment by a manwalking his dog near ...
NSTAR, HOMELESS SHELTER AT ODDS CUTOFF IS THREATENED DUE TO $162,000 BILL
Feb 01, 2003; ... The region's dominant electric utility company yesterday told oneof the city's largest homeless shelters it plans to cut off itselectricity next week. NStar won't treat the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans,which houses hundreds of the city's homeless every night, ...
LESTER OSTERMAN, THEATER PRODUCER
Feb 01, 2003 ... NEW YORK - Lester Osterman, a Broadway theater producer, theaterowner, and three-time Tony Award winner, died Tuesday in Norwalk,Conn. He was 88. Mr. Osterman, a successful Wall Street broker who began producingtheater in his early 40s, made his Broadway debut in 1956 as ...
LAWYERS REPORT FILES ON 24 MORE PRIESTS THEY NOTE ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE OF CHILDREN
Feb 01, 2003; ... Lawyers who are suing the Archdiocese of Boston announcedyesterday that they have discovered records of another 24 priests whoallegedly molested children, months after a court order required suchrecords to be given to the plaintiff attorneys. The new files, which were delivered ...
EIGHT ARE ARRESTED IN DRUG RAID AT EVERETT ALDERMAN'S BAR
Feb 01, 2003; ... A bar owned by an Everett alderman was raided by a police taskforce last night and eight people were arrested on drug charges,including an Everett auxiliary police officer. Alderman Michael Marchese is the owner of McDonald's Cafe on FerryStreet in Everett, where State and local ...
SHERIFF: ARRESTS PART OF A BROADER EFFORT 2D OFFICER FACING DRUG CHARGES
Feb 01, 2003; ... On the day that the second Nashua Street Jail officer in two weekswas arraigned on drug charges, Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabralsaid yesterday that the investigations that led to the two arrestswere part of an ongoing effort to roust out corrupt officers andrestore integrity and ...
HELPING SOLDIERS FACE FEARS, QUESTIONS
Feb 01, 2003; ... [A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.] [CORRECTION - DATE: Friday, February 7, 2003: CLARIFICATION: THESPIRITUAL LIFE COLUMN IN SATURDAY'S CITY & REGION SECTION WASINCOMPLETE IN ITS DESCRIPTION OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH'SPOSITION ON WAR WITH IRAQ. ARMY ...
LEONARD WILSON, HOOD MILK CEO
Feb 01, 2003 ... Leonard M. Wilson, 76, former CEO of Hood Milk Co., died Jan. 19in his home in Falmouth. Mr. Wilson was chief executive of New England's largestdistributor of dairy, citrus, and cheese products from 1986 until hisretirement in 1990. He previously was a vice president of ...
A STERN JUSTICE YOUNG'S SPEECH TO REID DRAWS NATION'S ATTENTION
Feb 01, 2003; ... It was a rare display of emotion in the usually reserved confinesof federal court. Chief US District Judge William G. Young, confronting RichardColvin Reid, the admitted Al Qaeda member he had just sentenced tolife in prison for trying to blow up an American airplane with ...
ACTIVISTS AREN'T TILTING AT WINDMILLS `GREEN POWER' DEAL IN HULL AIMS TO BOOST RENEWABLE ENERGY PUSH
Feb 01, 2003; ... Those who advocate more "green power" electric generating projectslike the windmill in the South Shore town of Hull soon will be ableto vote with their wallets. Hull's Municipal Light Plant, which operates the 660-kilowattturbine, said yesterday that it has a precedent-setting ...
A RECKLESS FISCAL POLICY
Feb 01, 2003 ... ACCORDING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE, THE ON-BUDGETFEDERAL DEFICIT FOR 2003 WILL BE $361 TRILLION. COMBINING THIS WITHTHE LARGE SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS, THE FEDERAL UNIFIED DEFICIT IS"ONLY" $199 BILLION. THE LATTER NUMBER IS THE ONLY ONE THAT APPEAREDIN THE STORY "US DEFICIT SEEN ...