The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from April 2003:
AN APRIL FOOLS' DAY SURPRISE - AND HOPE
Apr 01, 2003; ... ON APRIL FOOLS' DAY 35 YEARS AGO, MORNING NEWSPAPERS TRUMPETED THEEXCEEDINGLY UNLIKELY STORY THAT LYNDON B. JOHNSON HAD ANNOUNCED HISINTENTION NOT TO SEEK REELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.IT WAS NOT A GAG.In a speech the night before, the beleagueredpresident had insisted ...
AFFIRMATIVE FRIENDS
Apr 01, 2003 ... AS THE Supreme Court justices hear arguments today aboutaffirmative action at the University of Michigan, they should keepone thing in mind: The policy works. Don't ask Jesse Jackson or the NAACP Legal Defense and EducationalFund for proof. The overwhelming evidence comes from a ...
COURT SHOULD STAND BY BAKKE RULING
Apr 01, 2003; ... TODAY THE SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR ORAL ARGUMENT IN TWO MUCH-ANTICIPATED LAWSUITS AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. IN THESECASES, WHITE COLLEGE AND LAW SCHOOL APPLICANTS HAVE SUED TO CHALLENGETHE ADMISSIONS POLICIES OF THE UNIVERSITY'S UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE ANDLAW SCHOOL, BOTH OF WHICH ...
A NEW CAUTION IN DESCRIBING WAR
Apr 01, 2003; ... WASHINGTONIT WAS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO NOTICE THE CAUTION WITHWHICH BUSH ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS HERE PASSED THE WORD ON SUNDAYTHAT ARMY TROOPS SOUTH OF BAGHDAD HAD BEGUN MOVING AGAIN. I justused the magic word Baghdad, but they were quite careful to focus onwhat were described as ...
ROMNEY'S UPHILL BATTLE OVER BULGER
Apr 01, 2003; ... HE IS HUNKERED DOWN AND PREPARED TO FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF HISEMPIRE. A LOYAL CADRE OF FOLLOWERS IS RESISTING ALL EFFORTS TOIMPOSE REGIME CHANGE. THE BATTLE TO OVERTHROW HIM NOW LOOKS TO BELONGER, MEANER, AND TOUGHER THAN FIRST PRESUMED.University ofMassachustts President William M ....
WEB FILTERS AT LIBRARIES ARE OVERDUE
Apr 01, 2003; ... Ionce wrote that "librarians are indeed the unac knowl edgedlegislators of the universe," and I meant it. Their pay stinks, theirworking conditions are worse than at the post office, but they bringthe world to us. Now librarians are caught up in a dramatic First ...
ONCE UPON A TIME, WHEN SOMERVILLE THEATERS REIGNED
Apr 01, 2003; ... At the turn of the last century, they were Odd Fellows Halls,churches, or private men's clubs. At the turn of this one, they arerock-climbing gyms, warehouses, or, sadly, parking lots. In between,though, they were neighborhood movie theaters. And Somerville,starting with its first in ...
THE CONFLICT AT HOME AFTER LOSING ONE OF THEIR OWN IN AFGHANISTAN, RESIDENTS OF CHESHIRE ARE TORN ABOUT THE WAR IN IRAQ
Apr 01, 2003; ... CHESHIRE - Town Hall in this hamlet of 3,400 is a Victorian brickbuilding with bow windows that houses a public library open only 15hours a week and a part-time clerk who keeps jelly beans for theselectmen. Even if a sign over the door didn't identify it asmunicipal headquarters, its ...
ULTRA-HIP `COWBOY' STANDS AT ANIMATION'S FRONTIER
Apr 01, 2003; ... "Cowboy Bebop" is the greatest anime series ever. ("Neon GenesisEvangelion"? "Dragon Ball Z"? Please.) This, of course, will mean little to many Americans whoseknowledge of Japanese animation probably stops and starts with "SpeedRacer" and "Pokemon." While last week's best animated ...
BC'S DEFILIPPO TO SIGN EXTENSION
Apr 01, 2003; ... In a move that should end speculation about his commitment toBoston College, Gene DeFilippo will sign a contract extension toremain as the Eagles' athletic director through 2008. Theannouncement will be made today. When contacted yesterday, DeFilippo declined comment. There ...
`ELEPHANT' IS AN EXERCISE IN EXTREMES
Apr 01, 2003; ... Simplicity is no mere virtue for the White Stripes. The Detroitduo strips music to the bone with a fervor bordering on thereligious. On their first two albums, made in relative anonymity,Jack and Meg White cobbled a grimy minimalist fusion of Delta blues,primal rock, and ferocious punk ....
CLINCH KNOT: BRUINS TIE UP PLAYOFF BERTH
Apr 01, 2003; ... A sure thing at the start of the season, a nightly horror show forthe better part of three months, their coach fired only two weeksago, the 2002-03 Bruins last night entered yet another phase of theirmultiflex personality. Some 20 minutes after working to a 2-2 tiewith the Tampa Bay ...
NOVEL IDEA HAS JARRING FIRST CHAPTER NOVEL IDEA HAS SAD 1ST CHAPTER
Apr 01, 2003; ... ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - He sat alone in the office of his manager,who was elsewhere in the building attempting to make some sense ofthe calamity they'd just witnessed. Perhaps there were days like this at Brookline High School or atYale or maybe even when he was working in the front ...
BULLPEN MUST SAVE FACE NOW
Apr 01, 2003; ... PETERSBURG, Fla. - Chad Fox has yet to set foot in Fenway Park asa member of the Red Sox, but he knows what you're thinking. The Committee should be disbanded. Immediately. Don't even bothercounting the votes. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays were still celebrating the greatest winin ...
ODD ITEMS AT THE END A COUPLE OF ODD ITEMS AT THE END
Apr 01, 2003; ... Somehow it would be appropriate if the NCAA title game is Syracuse-Kansas. That would guarantee that either Syracuse coach Jim Boeheimor Kansas coach Roy Williams has the label of "best coach never towin a national championship" removed. The oddity of this Final Four, which will ...
CASE ISN'T CLOSED COMMITTEE SYSTEM FAILS AS RAYS SHOCK SOX IN 9TH
Apr 01, 2003; ... ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Call it what you will, but the concept ofthe Red Sox succeeding without an established closer went completelykaput last night in one of the worst possible scenarios - against thelowly Tampa Bay Devil Rays on the grand stage of Opening Day. Giving rise to the ...
LASME IS UMASS'S LATEST LOSS
Apr 01, 2003; ... University of Massachusetts shooting guard Mike Lasme has saidthat coach Steve Lappas was like a father to him. Yet the freshmanfrom Ivory Coast decided last week to transfer from the school - inpart because he wanted more playing time at point guard - and thatappears to have created ...
IT'S A BACK-TO-BACK TARGET UCONN IS USED TO THE ATTENTION
Apr 01, 2003; ... DAYTON, Ohio - University of Connecticut women's basketball coachGeno Auriemma smiles when he hears that other coaches havecomplimented the way his team plays. He smiles even more when hehears that some people are wishing anyone besides the Huskies win thenational ...
GAINING ALTITUDE US AIRWAYS OUT OF BANKRUPTCY; AMERICAN SKIRTS IMMINENT FILING
Apr 01, 2003; ... US Airways, the nation's seventh-largest airline, emerged frombankruptcy yesterday, and the parent corporation of the world'slargest airline, American Airlines, reached tentative cost-cuttingagreements with three key unions, apparently heading off an imminentChapter 11 ...
AT&T TO OFFER LOCAL SERVICE FIRM WOULD COMPETE AGAINST VERIZON, RENT RIVAL'S LINES
Apr 01, 2003; ... AT&T Corp. yesterday said it plans to begin offering local phoneservice this month in Massachusetts, the tenth US state where itwould rent phone lines from Baby Bells to compete with them directly. AT&T offered no details about what it will charge or what kind ofservices it will ...
HARVARD TOPS BIDS FOR TURNPIKE LAND $75M OFFER EXPECTED TO GIVE UNIVERSITY 90 ACRES IN ALLSTON
Apr 01, 2003; ... Harvard University was the apparent winning bidder yesterday for90 acres of Massachusetts Turnpike Authority land in Allston,offering to pay $75 million to add to its growing campus south of theCharles River and the school's main campus. Turnpike officials may accept or reject the ...
PURCHASE TO SAVE BOSTON $55 MILLION BUYS BUILDING IT HAD BEEN LEASING; SAVINGS EXPECTED OVER 20 YEARS
Apr 01, 2003; ... [A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.] Takingthe advice of its financial watchdog, the City of Boston haspurchased a building where it was paying high rent to house severalmunicipal agencies. Boston is expected to save an estimated $55million over the next 20 ...
QAEDA, TALIBAN SAID TO BE REGROUPING ISLAMIST WARLORD EMERGING AS LEADER
Apr 01, 2003; ... KABUL, Afghanistan - Al Qaeda and Taliban remnants have regroupedunder the leadership and funding of former prime minister GulbuddinHekmatyar, who is behind a current rash of more sophisticated andruthless attacks on Western targets in Afghanistan, securityofficials said yesterday, ...
`WHERE JOBS DISAPPEAR'
Apr 01, 2003; ... I've always been convinced that the trick to living inMassachusetts is to stay in the spring, summer, and fall and leave inthe winter. But I have changed my mind. Now I think the trick is tostay during the economic booms and leave during the busts. They arenastier than the ...
LOYALTY TO BA'ATH PARTY RUNS STRONG IN JORDAN
Apr 01, 2003; ... AMMAN, Jordan - The headquarters of the Jordanian Ba'ath Partyoccupy a shabby basement apartment thick with cigarette smoke and asense of defeated purpose. Surrounded by Stalinesque posters, ahangdog official in a rumpled, dandruff-flecked suit declares SaddamHussein "the only legitimate ...
US MAY FACE SHORTAGE OF SMART BOMBS
Apr 01, 2003; ... A smart-bomb shortage looms if the war in Iraq drags on forseveral months, military analysts say, and the Bush administrationhas already taken steps to boost the supply of weapons, such as theTomahawk cruise missile and other precision ordnance. In its supplemental budget request ...
BUSH CALLS LIBERATION HIS MOTIVE FOR WAR
Apr 01, 2003; ... PHILADELPHIA - With coalition ground forces drawing towardBaghdad, President Bush declared yesterday that US troops had"performed brilliantly" in the war and that, "day by day, we aremoving closer to victory," despite reports that the military advancehas stalled. Shifting his ...
FOR THE RECORD
Apr 01, 2003 ... CORRECTION: BECAUSE OF A TRANSCRIPTION ERROR, A PHOTOGRAPHER'SNAME WAS MISSPELLED IN A PHOTO CREDIT WITH A STORY ABOUT THEARCHITECTURAL CHARMS OF ...
SPOILS OF WAR INCLUDE LIKENESSES OF HUSSEIN
Apr 01, 2003; ... U MM QASR, Iraq - A US Navy truck pulled up onto the median of thenow deserted main road through this strategic port at about midnight,and stopped just beneath a lamppost. A lone military man hoisted himself atop the truck, anglingforward dangerously, machete in hand, and snatched ...
CENTRAL COMMAND GRILLED BY MEDIA
Apr 01, 2003; ... CAMP SAYLIYAH, Qatar - The foreign reporter wanted General TommyFranks's evaluation of the US campaign of attacking "so-called regimetargets." He asked Franks, the commander of allied forces, to respondto "those who say the people most likely to be shocked and awestruck. . . are the ...
THIS TIME, MISSILES FAIL TO MATERIALIZE
Apr 01, 2003; ... CENTRAL IRAQ - The war came a little closer yesterday for the USArmy's 27th Field Artillery at its base in central Iraq. A call fromheadquarters saying an enemy artillery strike was expected had thesoldiers running to the edge of the defensive berm. Troops from allparts of the camp ...
FEDAYEEN MILITIA WILL BE A POSTWAR THREAT, SOME SAY
Apr 01, 2003; ... WASHINGTON - US military and intelligence officials said yesterdaythey fear that the Fedayeen Saddam, the deadly paramilitary grouppreying on US troops in southern Iraq, will become a long-lastingvigilante force, carrying out attacks on US targets long after SaddamHussein is ...
US FIGHTS IN STREETS, SEIZES BRIDGE AMERICANS KILL SEVEN CIVILIANS AT ROADBLOCK NEAR HOLY CITY
Apr 01, 2003; ... CAMP SAYLIYAH, Qatar - US ground troops engaged in street battleswith Iraqi soldiers yesterday near the ancient ruins of Babylon andseized a strategic bridge over the Euphrates River just 50 miles fromthe capital. Farther south, outside the embattled Shi'ite holy cityof Najaf, American ...
ISRAELI COURT ACQUITS EX-INFORMANT IN PLOT TO ASSASSINATE RABIN
Apr 01, 2003; ... JERUSALEM - An Israeli court yesterday acquitted a former secretservice agent charged with knowing in advance about the 1995 plot toassassinate Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and failing toprevent it, in a case that has stoked conspiracy theories about themurder. Avishai ...
IRAQIS LOSING GRIP ON A STRATEGIC AREA
Apr 01, 2003; ... x AMMAN, Jordan - The war in northern and southern Iraq isplaying out on television screens around the world. But in the vastwestern desert between Baghdad and the Jordanian border, the campaignis being waged - and apparently won - in secrecy and stealth. In a rare reference to ...
MARINES RESUME MARCH TO CAPITAL
Apr 01, 2003; ... MADHATIYAH, Iraq - Thousands of US Marines on the east bank of theEuphrates River ended a five-day pause in their march toward Baghdadyesterday, moving north to make space for a temporary airfield lessthan 90 miles from the Iraqi capital. After fighting the Fedayeen Saddam militia ...
UNDER FIRE, MANY GIVE UP TO KURDS
Apr 01, 2003; ... KALAK, Iraq - US warplanes launched their fiercest bombardmentyet against Saddam Hussein's front-line troop positions in northernIraq yesterday, and several hundred Iraqi soldiers surrendered toKurdish guerrilla forces, preferring to risk execution squads ratherthan face another day of ...
9/11 SURVIVORS RECOUNT HORROR FOR FEDERAL PANEL
Apr 01, 2003; ... His face was reddish and scarred, as was, unseen, most of hisbody. His voice was a raspy whisper, verbal evidence of the permanentdamage that inhaling burning jet fuel did to his vocal chords. But yesterday at the first public hearing of the independentcommission established to ...
2 US BASES HIT IN AFGHANISTAN
Apr 01, 2003; ... KABUL, Afghanistan - In the latest in a string of attacks on USforces here since the start of the war in Iraq, two US military basescame under fire Sunday night, US military spokesman Colonel RogerKing said yesterday. Twelve 82mm mortar rounds fell Sunday night outside the small ...
BASIC UTILITIES RETURN TO WAR-TORN PORT CITY
Apr 01, 2003; ... UMM QASR, Iraq - Last night, for the first time since the warstarted, incandescent bulbs lit the darkness in this rough Iraqi porttown instead of the phosphorescent orange flares fired by Britishcommandos on night raids. For three-quarters of this town's 40,000 dirt-poor ...
MAN SOUGHT IN ASSAULTS ON ESCORTS
Apr 01, 2003; ... In increasingly violent attacks, female escorts have been beatenand robbed over the past six weeks in upscale Boston hotel rooms by aclient wielding a box cutter and a stun gun, authorities and anescort service said. One assailant is believed to be responsible for the ...
ROMNEY COMPILES NAMES FOR US JUDGESHIP
Apr 01, 2003; ... As he prepares to recommend names to President Bush to fill avacancy on the federal bench in Boston, Governor Mitt Romney isconsidering former top officials in the Weld and Cellucciadministrations, onetime Republican political candidates, andlawyers with strong Democratic ...
MARGARET BOOMER, TEACHER, TRAVELER
Apr 01, 2003 ... Margaret M. (Hathaway) Boomer, a former elementary school teacherand world traveler, died Friday of a heart attack at NewportHospital in Rhode Island. She was 91. A native of Tiverton, R.I., she graduated from the Rhode IslandCollege of Education and taught elementary school for ...
ROMNEY CANCELS CHAT WITH UMASS CHIEFS
Apr 01, 2003; ... Governor Mitt Romney is canceling the meeting planned tomorrow with several University of Massachusetts officials after they saidthey would not attend unless UMass president William M. Bulger wasalso invited. It was to have been the first meeting of the governor and ...
LEGISLATORS BEGIN DEBATE ON EPHEDRA
Apr 01, 2003; ... Wading into a national health controversy, state lawmakers begandebate yesterday on a bill that would ban the dietary supplementephedra, a popular herbal slimming substance implicated in a MajorLeague baseball player's death two months ago. If passed, the bill would give state ...
WITH MANY BEREFT OF THEIR EXITS, CONFUSION RULES DOWNTOWN
Apr 01, 2003; ... While traffic sailed through the new submerged artery yesterday,the scene on downtown streets was more chaotic, with drivers findingthemselves in the wrong location during morning rush hour. Part ofthe problem was that some motorists' old exits disappeared, forcingthem to take unfamiliar ...
SOME GUIDANCE FOR ACCIDENTAL TOURISTS
Apr 01, 2003; ... Heading to the FleetCenter but ended up in Medford? Find yourselfat Logan when you wanted to go to Government Center? Here's a quickprimer on how to get back on the beaten path: * If you mistakenly went over the Zakim Bridge, get over to theright lane while heading north on ...
GOVERNOR IS READY TO PUT VIDEO SLOT MACHINES TO TEST
Apr 01, 2003; ... Governor Mitt Romney is ready to "experiment" with gambling, a topadministration official told legislators yesterday, by allowing videoslot machines at two to four sites around the state, with five-yearlicenses to be auctioned to the highest bidders. The move would raise as much as ...
POOR RECOVERY ON BIG DIG ERRORS TARGETED
Apr 01, 2003; ... State lawmakers grilled Turnpike Authority managers yesterdayabout their failure to recover Big Dig funds lost to mistakes, saying that any new recovery effort should be conducted independentof the agency. In the first of what some called historic hearings, TurnpikeAuthority ...
REV. PARKMAN HOWE JR., 88; A REBEL WITH MYRIAD OF CAUSES
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Rev. Parkman Dexter Howe Jr., 88, an Episcopal minister whodescribed himself as "a rebel against almost everything that theusual Harvard graduate represents," died Saturday in his home inGilford, N.H. Rev. Howe raised Hereford cattle in Gilford, worked as ashipfitter at the ...
TWO GUARDS ACQUITTED IN BEATINGS
Apr 01, 2003; ... In a dramatic end to a four-year investigation of the state'slargest county corrections system, a federal jury yesterday clearedtwo of three Suffolk County jail guards who were charged with beatinginmates and covering up the episodes. Two years after the men were indicted, the jury ...
ONE COMMUTER FINDS THE RIDE TO WORK A PLEASANT SURPRISE
Apr 01, 2003; ... As Mike Lawrence, 51, a television reporter turned publicist,started into Boston yesterday at 7:33 a.m., he met with stiff yetfamiliar resistance on the Massachusetts Turnpike at the Naticktolls. "Eight or nine out of 10 days, it's backed up," he said. He hit highway speed after ...
DRIVE TIME
Apr 01, 2003; ... So I pull onto Route 3 in Braintree at 7:45 yesterday morning inwhat is the first day of the rest of our motoring lives. It is cool outside, even cold. Gentle flakes gallivant as ifsomeone has given a snow globe a haphazard shake. And the air iselectric with every rightful ...
BAY STATE STRIPS 36,000 OF MEDICAID
Apr 01, 2003; ... Last-minute efforts to reverse cuts to the state Medicaid programfell short yesterday, meaning that more than 36,000 chronicallyunemployed adults today lose their state-funded health insurance. Some of these patients, who were notified two weeks ago that theywere about to be ...
COMMUTE IS JOY RIDE
Apr 01, 2003; ... As Big Dig spokesman, Sean O'Neill had a lot riding on yesterday'scommute. He was supposed to assist with a hearing at 9 a.m., and hiscredibility was on the line: He'd spent months touting the newInterstate 93 north tunnel. "You have these nightmares that something will go horribly ...
SOME REALLY DIG FLOW
Apr 01, 2003; ... Emily Shapiro and Joshua Miller got engaged in Miami on Friday andwere greeted in Boston yesterday by yet more snow and cold. At 7:50a.m., the bleary-eyed Brighton residents weren't giving much thoughtto the wondrous new Liberty Tunnel: They just wanted to get home fromLogan Airport - ...
KERIMOV, KERIM
Apr 01, 2003 ... KERIMOV, Kerim - In Russia, Saturday, at 85. One of the fathers ofthe Soviet space program, ...
BILL WOULD RAISE PAY OF SOME LAWMAKERS SPEAKER SEEN POISED TO REWARD CRITICS QUESTION NEW BILL PUSHED AGAIN BY FINNERAN
Apr 01, 2003; ... A month after retreating in the face of heated controversy, HouseSpeaker Thomas M. Finneran is again pushing a measure that would givehim more authority to increase the pay of select legislators. Under a bill to be debated tomorrow, legislative leaders couldhand out raises to ...
CUTS HAVE SOME SCHOOLS IN HUB FACING LAST BELL
Apr 01, 2003; ... At William E. Endicott Elementary, a distraught teacher rushed from the classroom crying when Principal Vera Johnson broke the newsto a second-grade class. At the Margaret Fuller Elementary School,Cynthia Willette noted with disappointment that her granddaughterwill no longer learn in ...
TUNNEL CHALLENGES, PLEASES COMMUTERS
Apr 01, 2003; ... On a morning when veteran commuters were forced to relearn theirway to work, when the familiar was suddenly foreign, Liberty Tunnelmade its rush-hour debut yesterday. And while the new Interstate 93 north route didn't cure all theills of Boston's morning commutes, drivers and ...
CHURCH REFUSES GROUP'S MONEY VOICE OF FAITHFUL DECRIES DECISION
Apr 01, 2003; ... Bishop Richard G. Lennon, who has been closing schools, cuttingprograms, and laying off employees because of a severe budget crunch,has decided to refuse any money raised by the lay group Voice of theFaithful. Lennon, the interim leader of the Boston Archdiocese, has gonefurther ...
2 US SUITS OVER INFORMANTS DISMISSED MOB VICTIMS' KIN MAY SEEK APPEAL
Apr 01, 2003; ... A judge yesterday dismissed two lawsuits filed against the federalgovernment by the families of men who were allegedly murdered bylongtime FBI informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "TheRifleman" Flemmi and their associates, ruling they missed the two-year filing ...
QUIET ACTIVIST EMILY THE COW WILL REST IN PEACE ABBEY FAMED BOVINE FLED SLAUGHTER, INSPIRED VEGANS
Apr 01, 2003; ... SHERBORN - Eight years after escaping a Hopkinton slaughterhouse,Emily the Cow, an inarticulate but persuasive spokeswoman forvegetarianism, died in her sleep early Sunday of uterine cancer. Shewas 10. Officials at the Sherborn Peace Abbey, which bought Emily in1995, praised her ...
ANIMAL RECRUITS MINE-SWEEPING DOLPHINS AND BOMB-SNIFFING BEES ARE AMONG THE LATEST TO BE DRAFTED INTO MILITARY SERVICE
Apr 01, 2003; ... The reports filtering back from Iraq can sound like a wartimeparody. Chicken sentries. Mine-seeking dolphin scouts. Pigeonsentinels and whiskered sea lions that can clamp a handcuff on anenemy diver. Threats of new types of warfare are growing in Iraq, and as theydo, the US ...
BOARD NEARS VOTE TO APPROVE SPECIAL PERMIT OPPONENTS AWAITING WORD ON REFERENDUM
Apr 01, 2003; ... After nearly a year of public hearings and pointed protest overthe Villages at Danforth Farm project, the Planning Board earlythis morning was poised to approve a special permit for one of thelargest residential developments ever proposed in the state. The board had not made a ...