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THE HIGH PRICE OF DISCRIMINATION

Aug 01, 2003 ... THANK YOU FOR RUNNING KIMBERLY BLANTON'S ARTICLE ABOUT THEFINANCIAL PRICE OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST SAME-SEX COUPLES WHEN ITCOMES TO MARRIAGE RIGHTS ("EXCLUSIONARY COSTS," BUSINESS, JULY 29).THOSE OF US WHO ARE HETEROSEXUAL AND LEGALLY MARRIED HAVE THOUSANDSOF RIGHTS THAT MAKE IT EASIER ...

POLITICS BEATS SCIENCE IN SENATE

Aug 01, 2003; ... IN THE LATEST SOUND SCIENCE SEANCE, WE TAKE YOU TO WASHINGTON,WHERE SENATORS, CRINGING UNDER THE SPELL OF EXXON-MOBIL AND FORD,AGAIN REFUSED TO RAISE FUEL ECONOMY STANDARDS TO FIGHT GLOBALWARMING."This is not the place, on the Senate floor, to make acomplex decision that should ...

OVAL OFFICE'S FOGGED INTELLIGENCE

Aug 01, 2003; ... NORTH HAVEN, MAINEEVERY AUGUST IT HAS BEEN MY PRACTICE TO MAKE MYWAY IN A SMALL BOAT ALONG THIS SPECTACULAR COAST. ONE OF THEDRAWBACKS IS THE PREVALENCE OF THE WET, CLINGING, BLINDING GRAYWEATHER PHENOMENON THAT LOCALS CALL A "DUNGEON FOG." WHEN THIS OCCURSIT SHUTS DOWN YOUR SENSES. YOU ...

CLEAN DEAL IN SOUTH BOSTON

Aug 01, 2003 ... MILLIONS of gallons of sewage and storm water continue to floweach year onto the beaches of South Boston and North Dorchesterdespite a federal order that the Massachusetts Water ResourcesAuthority comply with the Clean Water Act by building a pumping andtreatment facility. Still, the ...

REGAINING THE TRUST

Aug 01, 2003; ... NEVER TRUST THOSE WHO LOOK THROUGH THE HOLE OF A HOOD, THE FRENCHSCHOLAR AND WIT RABELAIS, ONCE A FRANCISCAN NOVICE, IS SAID TO HAVEWARNED.But for Sean Patrick O'Malley, the religious hood may justencourage trust, for the Franciscan habit he wears is the very emblemof ...

MAKE DRIVING SAFER - ENFORCE LAWS

Aug 01, 2003 ... THOMAS FOLEY, HEAD OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE, IS QUOTED IN"DRIVER ARRAIGNED IN HITTING OF TROOPER" (CITY & REGION, JULY 29) ASSAYING: "WE'RE VERY MUCH AWARE OF THE SAFETY ISSUE, BUT AT THE SAMETIME YOU'RE ON AN INTERSTATE, AND PEOPLE ARE TRAVELING AT A HIGH RATEOF SPEED OUT ...

FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES IN DANGER

Aug 01, 2003 ... THE GLOBE URGES CONGRESS TO RESTORE THE US CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNPOPULATION FUND THAT WAS BLOCKED BY PRESIDENT BUSH LAST YEAR ("AIDINGFAMILIES WORLDWIDE," JULY 15). THE EDITORIAL SAYS EDUCATION ANDFAMILY PLANNING ARE KEY TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THETHIRD WORLD. I COULD NOT ...

A REAL LIFE `DR. STRANGELOVE'

Aug 01, 2003 ... DAN WASSERMAN'S BRILLIANT EDITORIAL CARTOON (JULY 30) IN WHICH HEPRINTS AN EXCERPT FROM THE STORY OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'SHAREBRAINED PLAN TO ORGANIZE BETTING ON ACTS OF TERRORISM, RAISES THEQUESTION OF WHETHER LIFE IMITATES ART OR ART ...

WHY WEALTHY OPPOSE SAFE ENERGY

Aug 01, 2003 ... ALEXANDRA Dawson's article about the private ownership ofwaterfront property in Massachusetts (op ed, July 13) should be awake-up call to everyone who cares about fairness, sustainable energysources, or funding terrorist nations. Most of the Vineyard Sound shoreline is privately ...

WHEELWRIGHT MOLDS ROCKS INTO MOODS

Aug 01, 2003; ... LINCOLN - Looking like the petrified head of a sleeping giant, aJoseph Wheelwright sculpture fits right in at the DeCordova Museum'ssculpture park. If you've meandered through the park in the pasteight years, you've probably seen Wheel wright's "Listening Stone."Hewn from a granite ...

`DIRTY PRETTY THINGS' TAKES LIVES OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO HEART

Aug 01, 2003; ... "Dirty Pretty Things" is set in the bust ling center of London,and about halfway through you realize you've seen virtually noEnglish people. Anywhere. They live and breathe in the strata abovethe service industry where Stephen Frears has set his film, and theywouldn't notice an immigrant ...

FOOLS FOR LOVE LOPEZ AND AFFLECK'S AWFUL `GIGLI' IS TRULY AN AFFAIR TO FORGET JEN AND BEN MAKE A LOSING PAIR IN `GIGLI'

Aug 01, 2003; ... Schadenfreude can be a beautiful thing. The rumblings that the newromantic comedy starring America's tabloid sweethearts Ben Affleckand Jennifer Lopez is a fiasco of the first order have had any numberof people leaning forward in breathless, how-bad-can-it-be?expectation. Might "Gigli" ...

TIMBERLAKE FINDS HIS LIFE STILL IN SYNCH

Aug 01, 2003; ... The Justin Timberlake-Christina Aguilera juggernaut, a.k.a. the"Justified and Stripped" tour, arrives in Boston next week for twonights at the FleetCenter. (Reportedly, Timberlake will also play asolo show Aug. 29 at Avalon.) Which raises the question: Will Cameron Diaz, who's said ...

JOSH GROBAN'S VOICE IS RISING

Aug 01, 2003; ... Last year, Josh Groban missed his Tanglewood debut with JohnWilliams and the Boston Pops. He had his tonsils out instead. Tomorrow the 22-year-old singing sensation, whose debut discsold more than 2 million copies, makes up for lost time when he joinsWilliams and the Pops for ...

TILTING AT THEATER AT ITS RURAL HOME, DOUBLE EDGE TROUPE PUTS ITS SPIN ON DON QUIXOTE

Aug 01, 2003; ... ASHFIELD - Stacy Klein appears calm, in a grim sort of way, as sheshe looks around the former dairy farm that is home to her DoubleEdge Theatre. It's two days before the opening of the company's latest show, "The UnPOSSESSED," and the artistic director sees that the weedsnext to ...

DEALING - WITH THE PAIN SOX SLAMMED BY RODRIGUEZ IN THE 11TH

Aug 01, 2003; ... ARLINGTON, Texas - Todd Jones will take the bullet. A hardenedveteran of late-inning pain, the former Tigers closer has rarelyshied from accepting responsibility for a defeat, even in thecauldron of pressure he submerged himself in as one of the newmainstays in the Red Sox ...

TRIATHLONS NEED NOT BE THREE-HEADED MONSTERS

Aug 01, 2003; ... If you're a triathlete, you have flip turns, aerobars, cadence,pace lines, and intricate workout schedules. You eat energy gels outof foil packets, put in training mileage that most people don't drivein a week, and relish a debate of carbon fiber versus steel. Or not. Take Larissa ...

LOVE THY NEIGHBOR

Aug 01, 2003; ... WAYLAND - Jordan's Furniture's Barry and Eliot Tatelman are richand famous, savvy brothers who built a business and a fortune on twodecades of goofy yet memorable ads with one simple message: We'reregular guys who sell good stuff at a fair price. One guy who is definitely not ...

IMMUNOGEN COULD EARN UP TO $99M IN AVENTIS DEAL PACT GIVES FRENCH FIRM RIGHT TO DEVELOP, SELL CANCER DRUGS

Aug 01, 2003; ... ImmunoGen Inc. said yesterday it reached a deal with France'sAventis SA in which the Cambridge biotech could reap as much as $99million to advance its research of cancer drugs. The deal, the largest in ImmunoGen's 22-year history, givesAventis the rights to develop and market three ...

PARTIAL RECOVERY PUTNAM REBOUNDS IN QUARTER BUT WITHDRAWALS CONTINUE

Aug 01, 2003; ... Putnam Investments is making money for its mutual fund investorsagain. Unfortunately, fewer of them are around to share in the gains. Helped along by the rising stock market, Putnam's funds scoredtheir best quarterly performance in more than three years - evidence,company ...

TAXPAYERS GIVE EXTRA $800,000

Aug 01, 2003; ... State taxpayers coughed up an extra $800,000 this year that theyprobably didn't have to pay. Some did it out of the goodness of theirhearts while others likely did it out of fear. Fear was the more productive motivator, as the state for the firsttime inserted a line on its 2002 tax ...

UPHEAVAL IN TELECOM LIFE AT ROOT OF VERIZON STRIFE

Aug 01, 2003; ... As federal mediators intensified efforts yesterday to stave off astrike tomorrow night at Verizon Communications Inc., the phone giantand its unions are wrangling over issues roiling much of corporateAmerica, particularly the soaring cost of health insurance and how tobalance job ...

SOME COLLEGES CAUTION STUDENTS ON SHARING MUSIC

Aug 01, 2003; ... Boston College, DePaul University, and several other US schoolsare laying down some entertainment law as part of freshmenorientation this summer: If the recording industry catches yousharing copyrighted music files, they say, we won't protect you. As the recording industry deepens ...

BANK ERROR BLAMED FOR LATE TAX PAYMENT ON KERRYS' VACATION HOME

Aug 01, 2003; ... WASHINGTON - A bank's lapse left more than $10,000 in propertytaxes owed on a vacation home overlooking Nantucket Sound shared bySenator John F. Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. Mellon Financial Corp., the Pittsburgh bank that manages the trustowning the property, issued a ...

LAWMAKERS SEE SHADES OF GRAY SOME SEE A DUTY TO ABIDE VOTERS, NOT THE CHURCH

Aug 01, 2003; ... State Senator Mark C. Montigny, a Catholic Democrat from heavilyCatholic New Bedford, hasn't made up his mind yet about whether hesupports same-sex marriage. But of this he is sure: The Vatican'sedict declaring a vote in favor of same-sex unions "gravely immoral"is an ...

VATICAN WARNS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BROAD EDICT HAS MESSAGE FOR CATHOLIC POLITICIANS

Aug 01, 2003; ... The Vatican yesterday declared that same-sex marriages "go againstnatural moral law" and decreed that for a Catholic politician tosupport gay marriage would be "gravely immoral." The document, which was approved by Pope John Paul II, alsovehemently objected to the adoption of ...

US DEBATES BID TO KILL HUSSEIN AND AVOID TRIAL

Aug 01, 2003; ... WASHINGTON - Senior Bush administration officials are debatingwhether to order military commanders to kill rather than captureSaddam Hussein to avoid an unpredictable trial that could stir upnationalist Arab sentiments and embarrass Washington by publicizingpast US support for the ...

`SOLID PROGRESS' IN WEAPONS HUNT

Aug 01, 2003; ... WASHINGTON - Coalition investigators are making "solid progress"in the search for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction programand have discovered numerous examples of how Saddam Hussein's regimesought to deceive international inspectors, a leader of the searchteam said yesterday, ...

STUDY IN STRIPES

Aug 01, 2003 ... A young Grevy's zebra walked with its mother, named Evita,yesterday at the Franklin Park Zoo. The brown stripes on the ...

WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH ON T FACES EVALUATION

Aug 01, 2003; ... Joyce M. Judge, the woman who gave birth on the Red Line butrefused assistance from passengers and police, is being committed toa psychiatric facility for further evaluation, officials of the stateDepartment of Social Services said yesterday. DSS is planning to take custody of ...

SEC CALLS KERASIOTES, PIKE NEGLIGENT ON BIG DIG OVERRUNS

Aug 01, 2003; ... Former Big Dig chairman James J. Kerasiotes and the MassachusettsTurnpike Authority negligently failed to disclose to the public $1.4billion in cost overruns during three bond offerings in 1999,according to the final Securities and Exchange Commission settlementannounced yesterday, under ...

WASHED OUT LAST BACK BAY LAUNDROMAT FOLDS; HIGH RENT IS BLAMED

Aug 01, 2003; ... Sweeping river views, exquisite restaurants, shopping to die for.Those lucky enough, or rich enough, to live in the statelybrownstones of the Back Bay have it all, it would seem. Except, as ofnow, a place to wash clothes. No longer able to afford the stratospheric rents, ...

WORDS WE'LL NEVER HEAR

Aug 01, 2003; ... Snippets of conversation never heard around our fair city: Yeah, that's John Kerry up at the bar with the Bud in his hand,talking up some construction workers about the Bruins. Boy, did that venture capital company ever get lucky landing JaneSwift for their firm. The ...

DRUMGOLD FIGURE SAYS POLICE HOUSED HIM

Aug 01, 2003; ... A key witness who helped convict Shawn Drumgold of murdering 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore in 1988 recanted his testimonyyesterday, saying he was a homeless teenager when police put him upat a hotel, fed him, and gave him spending money in exchange forhelping them send Drumgold to ...

TRAVAGLINI TO CUT SENATE STAFF EX-LEADERS AFFECTED, SAY HIS SUPPORTERS

Aug 01, 2003; ... Senate President Robert E. Travaglini, facing his biggestchallenge since taking power in January, will slash the staff budgetsof more than one third of Democratic senators to help close a $2million budget gap, Senate leaders said yesterday. By Sept. 1, Travaglini, an East Boston ...

O'MALLEY PICKS NEW LAWYER FOR ABUSE SUITS MAY BE PRECURSOR TO CLAIM SETTLEMENTS

Aug 01, 2003; ... Sending a strong signal that settling the legal claims of clergysexual abuse victims is his top priority, Archbishop Sean P. O'Malleyyesterday selected a new lead counsel for the estimated 500 civillawsuits pending against the Archdiocese of Boston. O'Malley said Thomas H. Hannigan ...

FIGHTING TUMORS WITH BEAMS ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGY GETS BOSTON HOSPITAL TEST ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGY USED TO DESTROY FIBROID TUMORS

Aug 01, 2003; ... The operation is something like destroying the seeds in an applewithout ever cutting into the apple itself. Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital this week annihilated abenign tumor bigger than a softball in a woman's uterus - but therewas no cutting, no suturing, not even any ...

'REALITY' CAMERA GOES FROM CANDID TO CRUEL

Aug 01, 2003; ... REALITY TV IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE LIKE REALITY ITSELF ON A BADDAY - ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO ESCAPE AND INCREASINGLY CRUEL. FROM THESCI-FI CHANNEL'S "SCARE TACTICS" TO MTV'S "PUNK'D," THE LATEST ROUNDOF SHOWS HAS TURNED TO A TIME-TESTED STRATEGY FOR BREAKING THROUGHTHE FACADE: THE ...

SOMETHING OLD, BORROWED ABOUT BLUE `WEDDING'

Aug 01, 2003; ... The sleeper character of the first "American Pie" is the de factostar of the third installment. As crude and unimaginative as it is,"American Wedding" happens to be a bonanza for Seann William Scott,who's become a cult figure playing the insatiably horny jock, bully,and dork Steve ...

EVE 6 IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD RCA

Aug 01, 2003; ... Eve 6 haven't lost their knack for the hooky pop-punk that madethem modern rock hit makers, as they prove with their third album'sopening track, "Without You Here." And their first single, "ThinkTwice," with its reggae-rock guitar melody and swaying beat, couldbecome the new teen anthem ...

BOB DYLAN MASKED AND ANONYMOUS SONY

Aug 01, 2003; ... The self-reflexive, somewhat surreal aspects of the new Bob Dylanfilm are carried over to the soundtrack, which features a number offresh takes on Bob gems as well as some strange covers. Dylan carriesthe show with his crackerjack road band (which appears with him inthe movie) on a ...

WIN MAY BE FINISHING TOUCH FOR PIANIST NING

Aug 01, 2003; ... Pianist Ning An, 26, who trained at the New England Conservatory,won the $20,000 first prize in the William Kapell InternationalCompetition at the University of Maryland last weekend. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ning came to Boston eight years agoto study with Wha-Kyung Byun ...

MAKING THEIR OWN WAY THE EELS' RECORD DEAL ALLOWS THEM COMPLETE CREATIVE CONTROL

Aug 01, 2003; ... Mark Everett is a man who knows how to plan for the future, whounderstands how making sacrifices in the short term can pay off inthe long run. Everett is also a man who tends to get caught up in themoment, who is ruled by his instincts and tends to do things forwhich he ends up paying a ...

SLOWING TO EMBRACE `FRIDAY NIGHT'

Aug 01, 2003; ... If Calvin Trillin can write a novel about a guy who likes to squatin New York City parking spaces, then Claire Denis can make a filmabout a woman who runs into her ultimate fantasy while sitting inParis traffic. Of course, how fascinating you find them depends onyour tolerance for things ...

WITH HELP FROM CUMMINGS, HE PAINTS VISUAL POEMS

Aug 01, 2003; ... Pat Cauley paints to paint. Selling the works is apparently notimportant to him. Although professionally trained and painting fordecades, Cauley hasn't gone out of his way to get into galleries. Artdealer Victoria Munroe happened upon him and showed him in her NewYork gallery. Now that ...

STARGAZING

Aug 01, 2003; ... * Nicole Kidman accepted a public apology and undisclosed damagesyesterday to settle a libel suit against the Daily Mail of London,which suggested she had an affair with actor Jude Law, the AssociatedPress reports. The newspaper had alleged that Kidman tempted Law tocheat on his wife, ...

STAR SEARCH

Aug 01, 2003; ... TONIGHT Star search Our very own Berklee College of Music hasproduced many a superstar, but it seems like the surest way to hitthe top of the pops is not to graduate from Berklee but to drop outof it. Esteemed Berklee dropouts include Aerosmith drummer JoeyKramer, John Mayer, Bruce ...

`THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY' GETS BETTER ON THE DIRECTOR'S CUT

Aug 01, 2003; ... It's a little disconcerting to realize that the print of SergioLeone's "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" playing at the Brattletoday through Sunday is better in every way than the one I saw at theold Pi Alley back in 1968. It's longer: 20 minutes of originalspaghetti, cut before the ...

HEART AND SOUL LOCAL ARTIST JAVIER'S DEBUT DISC REFLECTS HIS WIDE-RANGING INFLUENCES AND AVOIDS STUDIO GLOSS OF MAINSTREAM R&B

Aug 01, 2003; ... Big, soulful voices, the ones that conjure quiet-storm memories ofStevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway, usually aren't seasoned with folk-pop songs performed in college coffeehouses. Nor do their resumesinclude a stint as lead singer of a jam-happy band whose repertoirebounces from jazz to ...

JAZZ PICKS

Aug 01, 2003; ... The Regattabar is closed this weekend while crews repair damagecaused by a broken pipe in the Charles Hotel. . . . The IsabellaStewart Gardner Museum plays host to an all-star "Tango Meets Jazz"concert tonight and Jimmy Scott and the Jazz Expressions tomorrow. .. . French hornist Mark ...

FRENCH-BORN PIANIST'S ARRIVAL IS BETTER LATE THAN NEVER FOR FANS OF MUSIC

Aug 01, 2003; ... When he was 20, Pierre Hurel left his home in Paris and came toBoston to study piano for a summer at the Berklee College of Music. "I was going to go back to Paris after that," he says, "but afterone summer, I realized there were many, many things to study and thatone summer was ...

`LUCIA' IS STRONG ON FEELING, WEAK ON PLOT

Aug 01, 2003; ... The title character in "Lucia, Lucia" is a woman filled with somuch emotion the movie's English title has to say her name twice -like "Arthur! Arthur!," or more precisely "Jamon, Jamon," thatSpanish soap farce from 1992. It's as though Lucia were double thewoman - or a zippy, unstable ...

INCOHERENCE REIGNS IN DYLAN'S `MASKED' PLOT

Aug 01, 2003; ... "Masked and Anonymous" is the exact cinematic equivalent of aclassic Bob Dylan song. It's also proof that what is towering geniusin one medium can go insanely wrong in another. The film is a train wreck, and an overbearing train wreck at that,but it's not without its bizarro ...

KERRY TO PUSH PEDALERS; KELLER MAKES HEADLINES AT TIMES

Aug 01, 2003; ... A CHALLENGE OF MASS PROPORTIONS When Senator John Kerry addressesthe nearly 4,000 participants of this year's Pan-MassachusettsChallenge, which raises money for the Jimmy Fund, tonight at theSturbridge Host Hotel, it won't be a hollow pep talk. Kerry, whounderwent surgery for prostate ...

HEAD GAMES

Aug 01, 2003 ... The Jack Kerouac bobblehead is getting all the attention, but it'snot the first doll the Lowell Spinners have given away this season.The Red Sox Class A affiliate has handed out three other bobbleheadshonoring players ...

SOPRANO GOES BACK TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

Aug 01, 2003; ... The last time Sondra Radvanovsky sang at Tanglewood, she was inthe soprano section of the chorus for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.That was a dozen years ago. Now she is returning to the Berkshires as an international operastar; tonight she sings the soprano solo in the Verdi Requiem ...

FROM `MMMBOP' TO MATURE POP

Aug 01, 2003; ... They came. They sang. They conquered. And then Hanson - threephotogenic teenagers from Tulsa, Okla., who harmonized their way intothe hearts of America with a giddy tune called "MMMBop" -disappeared. After their debut album, 1997's "Middle of Nowhere,"went many times platinum, the ...

ROCK PICKS

Aug 01, 2003; ... Tonight, the roads to Foxborough will be clogged because of thesold-out Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band show, but there arestill plenty of concert alternatives elsewhere. Buckwheat Zydeco willget the party started on a House of Blues cruise leaving from theWorld Trade Center at 8 ....

ALL-AGES ARBOR STANDS TALL WITH ITS MENU AND SERVICE

Aug 01, 2003; ... When it comes to dining out, there's kid-friendly - you know: Theplace lets them in, lets them eat, maybe lets them partake of Mommy'smilk when the menu isn't to their liking - and then there's whathappened to us at Arbor, the excellent Franco-Mediterraneanrestaurant that just opened on ...

CANADIAN ACTRESS LONGS FOR THEATER WITHOUT BORDERS

Aug 01, 2003; ... You may have seen her manipulative Evelyn in Neil LaBute's "TheShape of Things." Or her Southern waitress or her scatological clerkin Shel Silverstein's "Shel's Shorts." You may have seen her in any of the 12 shows she's been in at theWellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, the Coyote ...

`THE TRIP' GETS LOST ALONG THE WAY

Aug 01, 2003; ... [A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.] Let'smake something clear about "The Trip." It's not the story of a moviedirector who drops some acid to find himself. No, that was RogerCorman in 1967. This "Trip" begins in 1973 and is less Corman andmore Sherwood Schwartz, the ...

BEING TOP DOGS OK WITH BROWN NU COACH RELISHES ROLE AS 1-10 NO. 1

Aug 01, 2003; ... PHILADELPHIA - Northeastern football coach Don Brown smiledbroadly when asked to recall his first trip to Atlantic 10 Media Day."I was pretty lonely," said Brown, who is starting his fourth seasonat the helm. "I remember that." Yesterday, though, Brown found himself surrounded by ...

BREAKERS' GOAL: SHUT DOWN POWER

Aug 01, 2003; ... Riding a seven-game unbeaten streak and needing a win to clinch aspot in the WUSA playoffs, Boston Breakers coach Pia Sundhage refusesto look forward or backward, opting instead to focus on the task athand. That task is a critical road game tonight at the New York Power,who are ...

BRUINS SIGN RAYCROFT TO ONE-YEAR CONTRACT

Aug 01, 2003; ... If the Bruins decide the price is too steep to bring a proven No.1 netminder, a la Sean Burke or Curtis Joseph, to town, they'll atleast have their top goaltending prospect in the fold. Yesterday, the club signed Andrew Raycroft to a one-year contractand also agreed to terms with ...

FOR THE RECORD

Aug 01, 2003 ... * CORRECTION: BECAUSE OF INCORRECT INFORMATION PROVIDED TO THEGLOBE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, A TRANSACTION INVOLVING THE ...