The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from November 2003:
LIGHTNING BOLT PICKS UP THE POWER
Nov 01, 2003; ... Lightning Bolt's outdoor set at the Massachusetts Institute of Artbegan in the group's by-now traditional style - in the rubble, as itwere, of the opening band. As the final chord by the USAISAMONSTER decayed and the group turned to its amps, slump-shouldered andspent, there was a ...
THE ISSUE IS STALKING, THE SCRIPT IS LACKING IN `BOY GETS GIRL'
Nov 01, 2003; ... LOWELL - If "Psycho" made America afraid to take a shower, then"Boy Gets Girl" might make America afraid to go on a blind date.That, no doubt, isn't what Rebecca Gilman had in mind when she wrote"Boy Gets Girl" in 2000. One wonders, though, what the playwright didhave in mind. Getting us ...
OPERA STAR HAD A GOLDEN VOICE, GLAMOROUS PRESENCE
Nov 01, 2003; ... Jan. 27, 1961 was one of the most exciting nights in the historyof the Metropolitan Opera. Two legendary artists made their debut inVerdi's "Il Trovatore": soprano Leontyne Price and tenor FrancoCorelli, who died on Wednesday at the age of 82. The performance wastaped, and on the ...
FAMILY DATEBOOK
Nov 01, 2003; ... You've "borrowed" from the kids' candy bag, cleaned up the shavingcream, and made a grocery run for half-price candy. Might as wellextend Halloween another day; there's still plenty to do. The ancientritual of going door-to-door to request "soul cakes" for the deadevolved into Halloween, ...
BLAKE HAZARD PLAYS AT THE PARADISE LOUNGE TONIGHT.
Nov 01, 2003; ... SOUNDSCROSSOVER SUCCESS We know you'd rather sit home andrefill your liquid soap dispensers than spend a Saturday listening toauthors read sotto voce passages from their favorite books. Butbefore you roll your eyes and skip over to Annie's Mailbox, hear usout. This reading is the ...
MOROCCO'S SAND, SAFETY LURE HOLLYWOOD
Nov 01, 2003; ... MARRAKECH, Morocco - Take a warrior king or a crusading knight.Throw in lots of sandy des ert, some grisly battle scenes, and anarmy of extras. The sword-and-sandals flick is getting a Hollywood revival, thanksto "Gladiator." There's only one problem: Many upcoming movies areset ...
FLYNN RIPS ABC SPECIAL ON JESUS
Nov 01, 2003; ... Former Boston mayor and ambassador to the Vatican Ray Flynnpublicly criticized ABC News yesterday for its upcoming special aboutJesus, called "Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci." The special, to air during "sweeps" on Monday at 8 p.m., explorescontroversial theories about Jesus - including ...
WFXT OKS RATINGS
Nov 01, 2003; ... Nielsen Media Research announced yesterday that WFXT-TV (Channel25) has finally subscribed to its new ratings system, People Meters. Since April 2002, WFXT had chosen to operate without ratingsrather than subscribe to Nielsen's service. It contended thatNielsen's technology lowers ...
THE BARD BECKONS
Nov 01, 2003; ... WGBH-TV (Channel 2) is presenting a weekend filled withShakespeare-themed programming. Included are a New York ShakespeareFestival production of "Much Ado About Nothing," unseen since itsoriginal public-television broadcast 30 years ago (tomorrow at 3p.m.); the "Masterpiece Theatre" ...
EARLEY LEAD LIFTS FITCHBURG
Nov 01, 2003; ... FITCHBURG - History may have been made last night but dominationreigned supreme. Behind an unstoppable running attack, the Fitchburg Red Raiderspunished Gardner, 35-13, in the 100th meeting between the two CentralMassachusetts schools at Crocker Field. The victory is the ...
EX-DMV CLERK JAILED FOR GIVING FAKE LICENSES
Nov 01, 2003; ... NEW YORK - A former clerk in the Washington, D.C., Department ofMotor Vehicles was sentenced yesterday to 57 months in prison forhelping illegal immigrants obtain fraudulent driver's licenses.Gwendolynn Dean, 49, was ...
GROUP SEEKS TO CURTAIL `BLOOD DIAMOND' TRADE
Nov 01, 2003; ... JOHANNESBURG - A global group of diamond-producing countries setnew measures to stem the trade in "blood diamonds" on Thursday, amove cautiously welcomed by pressure groups. Members of the ...
STENT ADVISORY SPARKS PATIENT FEARS HOSPITALS REPORT FLOOD OF INQUIRIES
Nov 01, 2003; ... Patients who have recently undergone surgery to unclog theirarteries were "freaked out" yesterday by news this week that a life-saving device might not be so good after all. Cardiologists in the region said they have been flooded with phonecalls since the US Food and Drug ...
NOT OVER AT BU
Nov 01, 2003 ... THE BOSTON University succession struggle ended yesterday withouta formal showdown, but that should not end the controversy. The BUboard of trustees, as it is now constituted, has to be replaced andthe shadow of John Silber lifted from the campus. Silber has resigned from the ...
AUTOPSY FOR AN OFFICE
Nov 01, 2003 ... FOR YEARS Massachusetts - a medical mecca - has put up with astate medical examiner's office that is an embarrassment to theCommonwealth. The problem has come to the fore with reports that apathologist sent the wrong eyes for testing in a criminal case andthat in two separate cases an ...
YOU CAN TEACH A BOLD DOG NEW PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR
Nov 01, 2003; ... One sunny October day a year ago, Ingrid Nersesian was walking herBernese mountain dog along a meadow in the park at Fresh Pond inCambridge. She had just stopped to talk to another dog owner when twodogs - a Weimaraner and what she thinks was a Labrador retriever -barreled into her full ...
BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE A PATRIARCH LANDS IN PRISON, HIS FAMILY IS A MESS, AND FOX'S `ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT' MAKES IT ALL HILARIOUS
Nov 01, 2003; ... "Arrested Development" arrives with two distinctions. It's thelast of the fall premieres, and it's the best. Of all the family sitcoms on TV right now - and there are about 20of them, if "Yes, Dear" actually counts as a comedy - it is by farthe nuttiest and the most original. It ...
`BEAR' TRIES TOO HARD TO BE CUDDLY
Nov 01, 2003; ... Give one chef eggs, cream, and sugar, and he'll produce cremebrulee. In another kitchen, you'll get plain old vanilla pudding.What we have in "Brother Bear," for all the potentially tastyingredients, is pudding. Not that pudding is the worst thing in the world. It's better ...
SOX SET TO GET STARTED BLACK, HOFFMAN WILL LEAD IT OFF
Nov 01, 2003; ... Taking the first major step in their search for a new manager, theRed Sox yesterday received permission to speak with Dodgers thirdbase coach Glenn Hoffman and Angels pitching coach Bud Black, andbegan scheduling interviews for early next week. The Sox also weretrying to arrange ...
JAMES PUTS AN END TO IT HIS JUMPER BEATS GRIZZLIES
Nov 01, 2003; ... MEMPHIS - The stage was set for the first real drama of theseason. With the game tied and 10.4 seconds remaining, the Celticshad one final chance to win their first road game in regulation. Paul Pierce sat on the bench with six fouls. Eric Williams worestreet clothes after ...
FIRED UP
Nov 01, 2003 ... Anthony McClore and his thankful Burke teammates celebrate a ...
DECISION TIME RAMIREZ CLEARS WAIVERS AS TEAMS REFUSE TO TAKE BAIT
Nov 01, 2003; ... The relationship started magically enough, with Manny Ramirezposing in front of the Green Monster, eating chowder, and declaringNomar Garciaparra his idol after the Red Sox signed him to a stunning$160 million contract amid the joy of the Christmas season in 2000. Sure, Yankee ...
LINING UP WHO WILL BE HERE IN 2004
Nov 01, 2003; ... Even though he went unclaimed on waivers yesterday, Manny Ramirezprobably has about as much chance of being the Red Sox' Opening Dayleft fielder on April 5 as Grady Little has of being manager.Aswe enter the "silly season," John Harrington's label for the monthsof speculation, ...
NO-NAMES NO LONGER WALLS, HERNDON DRAW PRAISE
Nov 01, 2003; ... FOXBOROUGH - So, can you? Name Denver's starting cornerbacks? No?Thought not. Guess he was right. "The two corners, I'm sure a lot of people couldn't even name whothey are," Bill Belichick asserted this week. Full disclosure? We were in that boat. But there were a lot ofother ...
IN END, HE'S NOT WORTH IT
Nov 01, 2003; ... It's really a very simple question. What should you get for $20 million a year? Every player represents a package. The package consists of theplayer's skills and what I will call his extras. Some players aresmarter than others. Some players have leadership qualities ....
A MONEY MAN FOR RICHER, POORER FOR CHU, VENTURE INVESTING AND POLITICS IN LOCKSTEP
Nov 01, 2003; ... BUENOS AIRES - Michael Chu has journeyed to the mountaintop andhere's what he has to report: Greed can be good after all. The 55-year old shocked friends and colleagues alike when, in amidlife epiphany in 1993, he junked a Wall Street career leadingbillion-dollar takeovers to ...
MFS FIRES 2 FUND MANAGERS
Nov 01, 2003; ... MFS Investment Management has replaced two of its mutual fundmanagers following three years of escalating losses in their funds.MFS confirmed it fired Paul McMahon, manager of the MFS GrowthOpportunities fund, and John Lathrop, manager of MFS Large CapGrowth. McMahon joined MFS in 1981; ...
BU WORKERS RATIFY PACT
Nov 01, 2003; ... Boston University union workers have ratified a three-yearcontract that increases wages 9.5 percent, or just over 3 percent peryear. It covers 650 custodians, plumbers, electricians, and otherskilled ...
JET BLUE ADDS LONG BEACH
Nov 01, 2003; ... JetBlue Airways has added Long Beach, Calif., to the destinationsit plans to serve once it starts operating at Logan Airport inJanuary. The airline will offer two daily nonstop, round-trip flightsfrom Logan to Long Beach Municipal Airport, with departures fromLogan at 7:45 a.m. and 5:40 ...
CITIZENS COMPLETES BUY
Nov 01, 2003; ... Citizens Financial Group Inc. completed the acquisition ofCommunity Bancorp Inc., a $116 million deal that gives it 10 newbranches, 12 ATMs, and 20,000 new customers in the suburbs ...
MCI BANKRUPTCY PLAN OK'D
Nov 01, 2003; ... A judge approved MCI's plan to emerge from the biggest bankruptcyin US history, a financial reorganization that will pay back mostcreditors 36 cents on the dollar and erase $35 billion of debt. Theruling yesterday in New York by Bankruptcy Judge Arthur J. Gonzalezcomes 16 months after ...
ETC.
Nov 01, 2003; ... Consumers trimmed spending by 0.3 percent in September after asummertime shopping spree. The largest over-the-month decrease inspending in a year, reported yesterday by the Commerce Department,came after consumer spending shot up by 1 percent in July and 1.1percent in August. . . ....
BEYOND LANDSCAPING: SASAKI ASSOCIATES TURNS 50
Nov 01, 2003; ... Sasaki Associates, a Watertown design and planning firm,celebrates its 50th year next week. Hideo Sasaki, who died in 2000 atage 80, founded the firm the same year he joined the faculty of theDepartment of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate Schoolof Design. From 1958 to 1968 ...
CONTROVERSIAL REDESIGN ADDS UP FOR BMW 530I
Nov 01, 2003; ... What's 7 plus 4, plus 5, plus 6, plus 3? The answer: 1. That is, one redesigned fleet of BMW passenger cars, beginningwith the 7 Series, then the Z4, then the 5 Series, the imminent 6Series, and, likely sometime next year, the 3 Series. BMW is literally putting an edge ...
STATE DEALS BLOW TO UTILITIES IN BID TO HIKE RATES DTE PANEL REJECTS OVER 70% OF INCREASES NSTAR, KEYSPAN ASKED
Nov 01, 2003; ... Massachusetts regulators yesterday rejected more than 70 percentof the rate increases sought by Greater Boston's two dominant gas andelectric companies, in one of the biggest setbacks in years before autility commission often attacked as pro-utility. The state Department of ...
THE EMPTY FEELING OFFICE VACANCIES COULD GET WORSE BEFORE THEY GET BETTER
Nov 01, 2003; ... Despite modest signs of an economic recovery, the office market inGreater Boston continued to suffer in the third quarter of 2003 asunemployment increased and new office space went unused. "We've shed jobs in most sectors of Massachusetts, and that hastranslated into a decreased ...
MIT STOPS THE MUSIC LEGAL PROBLEMS CLOUD FUTURE OF ON-CAMPUS CABLE-BASED NETWORK
Nov 01, 2003; ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shut down a much-heralded campus music network that was supposed to provide a legalalternative to unauthorized file-swapping software. The MIT LAMP (for Library Access to Music Project) network,although not a download service, was to ...
PUTNAM PARENT STEPS INTO FRAY QUESTIONS ARISE ON LASSER'S STATUS
Nov 01, 2003; ... Marsh & McLennan Cos. chief executive Jeffrey W. Greenberg will bein Boston Monday to confront the growing scandal involving the giantbrokerage firm's mutual fund unit, Putnam Investments. To date, Greenberg and Marsh officials have said nothing publiclyabout the case, in which ...
THE PLAZA NOW, AND A PARK LATER
Nov 01, 2003; ... [A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.]It'sbeen a long time coming, but the public plaza of One Brigham Circleis in place. The grand opening is today. The plaza is a major addition to the 190,000-square-foot officeand retail complex between Longwood and Mission ...
FOR DRIVERS, ELECTRONIC OVERLOAD
Nov 01, 2003; ... Stuart Schneiderman of Norton often suffers pangs of nostalgia atthe wheel of his 2-year-old Acura MDX. When he wants to turn on the heater or the air conditioning, hismind conjures up cars past - cars that cost far less than his midsizeSUV, which would still fetch more than ...
INSURGENTS WARN OF NEW ATTACKS IN IRAQ
Nov 01, 2003; ... BAGHDAD - A heavily armed insurgency made up of the remnants ofSaddam Hussein's toppled regime and Islamic militants from across theArab world issued broad warnings yesterday of an imminent wave ofattacks against the American presence in Iraq this weekend, US andIraqi officials ...
KERRY LOOKING FOR HIS CAMPAIGN SPARK AIMS TO SOFTEN IMAGE WITH VOTERS
Nov 01, 2003; ... DETROIT - When the moderator of the Democratic debate Sunday begangrilling the nine presidential contenders about their perceivedflaws, Senator John F. Kerry guessed which question was coming hisway. "The rap on you is that you're kind of a Northeastern liberalelitist and that ...
OPEN HEARING SOUGHT IN YANKEES CASE
Nov 01, 2003; ... The Eagle-Tribune newspaper has filed a court petition to open tothe public a show-cause hearing that will determine whether two NewYork Yankees players will face charges for their roles in a bullpenbrawl at Fenway Park during the American ...
RICO GETS MORE TIME TO MULL EXTRADITION
Nov 01, 2003 ... Retired FBI agent H. Paul Rico, who is charged with setting up amob murder in Oklahoma in the 1980s, has been given two more weeks todecide whether he'll fight extradition to Oklahoma. Court hearings inFlorida have been postponed as Rico undergoes medical tests. Rico'slawyer, ...
STUDENT BURNED IN PRANK IMPROVES
Nov 01, 2003; ... A student whose costume was set afire during an assembly atEllsworth High School was in serious condition yesterday, with burnson his legs, back, and head, and a classmate remained in custodyawaiting a court appearance. Donald Awalt, 14, ...
JUDGE LIFTS SEAL ON '72 SLAYING RECORDS
Nov 01, 2003; ... A judge has ruled that closed court documents pertaining to theunsolved 1972 murder of a Springfield altar boy can be made public.However, the documents remained sealed yesterday, as DistrictAttorney William Bennett appealed the decision by Hampden SuperiorCourt Judge Peter Velis to lift ...
BU REVOKES OFFER TO GOLDIN; SEVERANCE SAID TO BE $1.8M INTERIM CHIEF IS DEAN OF MEDICAL SCHOOL
Nov 01, 2003; ... Boston University's Board of Trustees revoked its job offer toincoming president Daniel S. Goldin yesterday, appointed a newinterim president, and set in motion a plan to review its owngovernance. The trustees paid Goldin $1.8 million to walk away from the job hewas supposed to ...
CONFUSION ON CAMPUS
Nov 01, 2003 ... At Boston University, students reacted to the sudden change inleadership. Ignacio ...
WEEKLONG DRAMA LEAVES STUDENTS FEELING CHAGRINED
Nov 01, 2003; ... After a week of rolling crisis over the presidency of BostonUniversity, students and faculty lashed out yesterday at what theysaw as an embarrassing leadership gap at the school's top level. "We have become sort of a laughingstock university," said StevenRodriguez, 20, a junior in ...
CHOBANIAN SEEN AS SERENE, ABLE LEADER
Nov 01, 2003; ... Aram V. Chobanian, appointed yesterday as Boston University'sinterim president, is the longtime medical school dean and has beendescribed by colleagues and in past news reports as cheerful, quiet,and even peaceful. None of those words would probably be used in the same ...
UNIVERSITY'S SEVERANCE PACKAGE FOR GOLDIN CALLED UNPRECEDENTED
Nov 01, 2003; ... It may have been the richest payout in history when measured inseverance dollars per hours worked. Compensation specialists laughed out loud yesterday, amused andastonished that Boston University's trustees had rescinded theiroffer to make former NASA administrator Daniel S. Goldin ...
MOVE VIEWED AS DETERRENT TO TOP OUTSIDE CANDIDATES
Nov 01, 2003; ... The Boston University trustees' abrupt and expensive reversal oftheir decision to hire Daniel S. Goldin this week will severely limitthe school's ability to attract a strong outside leader for its nextpresident, higher education specialists said yesterday. "It's hard to imagine ...
BLAZE TAKES LIFE OF BELOVED ROXBURY MATRIARCH OFFICIALS PROBING CAUSE OF SMOKY FIRE
Nov 01, 2003; ... David Simmons had just prepared a late-night snack Thursday whenhe smelled smoke in his first-floor apartment. Following the scent,he found flames coming through the kitchen ceiling in the back of thehouse. He ran to the front and, after taking a deep breath, worked hisway ...
LEGISLATORS NEGOTIATING GAY RIGHTS COMPROMISE
Nov 01, 2003; ... A group of leading Democratic House members, working in secret,has launched an effort to devise a bill that would greatly expandlegal rights for gay couples in Massachusetts. Led by House Ways and Means Committee chairman John H. Rogers,long viewed as a foe of gay rights, the group ...
EPISCOPAL PIONEER REFLECTS ON DEBATE
Nov 01, 2003; ... FOXBOROUGH - The death threats. The warnings of schism in theEpiscopal Church. The worries about worsening Catholic-Anglicanrelations. Bishop Barbara C. Harris has seen all this before. Fourteen years ago, Harris herself was in the eye of the storm,the first woman to become a ...
CONTRACTOR CONVICTED ON HEROIN CHARGES
Nov 01, 2003; ... A Danvers contractor faces a mandatory 20-year minimum prisonsentence after a federal jury convicted him on heroin chargesyesterday. The US attorney's office said the jury convicted RicardoCordoba-Ramirez, 37, who ...
ACTOR CHARGED WITH DRUNKEN DRIVING
Nov 01, 2003; ... Aidan Quinn, one of the actors in HBO's "Empire Falls," has beencharged with drunken driving. Quinn, 44, was driving his rental carerratically at 2 a.m. last Saturday when he was stopped on KennedyMemorial ...
TWO-WAY TOLLS TO RESUME FOR WINTER
Nov 01, 2003; ... New Hampshire transportation crews will begin changing tolls atthe Hampton plaza on Interstate 95 tomorrow from one-way back to two-way. In August, the state eliminated southbound tolls on I-95 anddoubled them on the northbound side to ease traffic ...
HOPING TO SCARE UP VOTES
Nov 01, 2003; ... If anything can pull City Council candidate Matt O'Malley out ofhis sixth-place spot, maybe it's the bride of Frankenstein and RonaldReagan. O'Malley and a dozen friends in costume packed the rotary outsideHoly Name Church in West Roxbury yesterday in full Halloween dress towave ...
ARSENIC DISCOVERED IN PLAYGROUND SOIL AT 18 BOSTON SITES
Nov 01, 2003; ... The soil from at least 18 Boston tot lots has been found tocontain arsenic from pressure-treated wood, according to a study byUniversity of Massachusetts and Wellesley College researchers, whodetermined that 10 playgrounds have dangerously high concentrationsof the ...
SCHOOL PRANK MAKES 11 SICK ARLINGTON AUTHORITIES SUSPECT PEPPER SPRAY
Nov 01, 2003; ... ARLINGTON - Police launched a criminal investigation yesterdayinto an apparent Halloween prank at Arlington High School that sent11 students to the hospital with minor injuries after a pungentsubstance - believed to be pepper spray - was released inside theschool. An additional ...
IN LAW AND FAITH, TRUTH FULL OF COMPLEXITIES
Nov 01, 2003; ... Last week, a Cambridge audience was treated to a real-life parableabout the connection between spirituality and work - and the point atwhich the two diverge. The parable came from a judge, and itconcerned a central question in religion and the work of the law:What is ...
MOON'S SHADOWPLAY WITH EARTH SETS THE STAGE FOR A CELESTIAL SHOW
Nov 01, 2003; ... The moon this week is marching eastward across the evening skytoward a rendezvous with Earth's shadow, which will engulf the moonand turn it into a dim orange specter for 25 minutes one week fromtonight. This evening the moon looks entirely normal. It shines in thesouth near its ...
AG'S OFFICE URGED TO INVESTIGATE BOARD'S APPROVAL OF DEALS
Nov 01, 2003; ... Former state attorney general Scott Harshbarger and several BostonUniversity professors called on the attorney general's officeyesterday to investigate the BU board of trustees for approving $30million in business and charitable deals last year that benefitedtrustees' companies and other ...
1ST VERDICT REACHED IN YOUNG CASE
Nov 01, 2003; ... PROVIDENCE - A jury yesterday found one of two white patrolmenviolated the civil rights of police Sergeant Cornel Young Jr. when hewas fatally shot outside a diner nearly four years ago, but the otherofficer did not. The all-white jury deliberated for less than eight ...