The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 2004:
BC IN FOUL MOOD AFTER LOSS TO UCONN
Feb 01, 2004; ... In a season that already has had its share of "almosts" and "ifonlys" against teams such as Pittsburgh, West Virginia, andVillanova, Boston College added sixth-ranked Connecticut to the listyesterday at Conte Forum. The result of the Eagles' efforts was a 63-58 loss that came ...
ONE-UPMANSHIP FROM THE BRUINS RAYCROFT'S SAVES MAKE MURRAY GOAL THE WINNER IN MONTREAL
Feb 01, 2004; ... MONTREAL - In some games, you deserve more than you get. You mightplay well and get only a point or have nothing at all to show for it.Then there are those contests in which you don't play well and youwind up winning anyway. The latter is what happened to the Bruins yesterday. Were ...
TALL ORDER FOR PATRIOTS
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PACERS FEND OFF CELTICS RALLY FROM BIG DEFICIT COMES UP JUST SHORT
Feb 01, 2004; ... INDIANAPOLIS - The Celtics' final possession never reallymaterialized. With 2.7 seconds remaining, Walter McCarty tried to hit a cuttingPaul Pierce with an inbounds pass. Pierce ran toward McCarty, but theway the Pacers guarded the play made it difficult for McCarty tothread the ...
NO STOPPING HIM VOCE STARRING IN A SCORING ROLE FOR EAGLES
Feb 01, 2004; ... His prep school football coach remembers Tony Voce as the tailbackwho ran for more than 300 yards against a Milton Academy defense thatwas primed to stop him. Harvard assistant captain Tyler Kolarik, oncea youth hockey linemate of Voce's, says his boyhood friend "is greatto play with and ...
MILKING THE PRICING SYSTEM DESPITE FLUCTUATIONS IN THE FARM RATE, SUPERMARKETS HOLD ON TO HEFTY PROFITS
Feb 01, 2004; ... The state's largest supermarket chains started charging more formilk when the farm price took a big jump last fall, but now that thefederally regulated farm price has fallen, the retailers don't seemin any hurry to lower their prices. Their reluctance may be understandable. The ...
BYE-BYE, BIG BANK A LOOK AT SAN FRANCISCO WITHOUT BANK OF AMERICA'S HEADQUARTERS SUGGEST BOSTON'S FUTURE WITHOUT FLEETBOSTON ISN'T EASY TO PREDICT
Feb 01, 2004; ... SAN FRANCISCO - The tony corporate boardroom that once hosted someof California's most powerful executives is now up for rent. The 51st-floor power suite of the Bank of America building, ananchor of San Francisco's skyline, stands largely empty, except forthe ghosts of the bank's ...
THE MYTH OF RUNAWAY TAXES
Feb 01, 2004; ... Eric Kriss has a warning for the taxpayers of Massachusetts.Writing in the latest issue of Commonwealth magazine, Governor MittRomney's top budget officer says rising spending on the needy,especially for medical care, poses a threat to our economic well-being. "Is the growth in ...
PLAYING ROLE OF PREACHER, CLARK ADDS TO HIS SERMON
Feb 01, 2004; ... TULSA, Okla. - The microphone was making a strange buzzing noise,interrupting retired Army General Wesley K. Clark's speech every timehe started to get going. Clark didn't miss a beat. "It must be thunder from the good Lord!" he shouted, lifting hishands up, preacher-style, and ...
FOR CONGOLESE TORN BY WAR, MUSIC STILL A BEACON
Feb 01, 2004; ... KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Tshanda Sangwa's gentletenor voice and diminutive stature are charming thousands in thiscity known throughout Africa for its vigorous, energetic music. Notbad for a 7-year-old. Even President Joseph Kabila knows enough of the singer - and ...
DEAN ASSAILS KERRY ON SPECIAL INTERESTS
Feb 01, 2004; ... TUCSON - Howard Dean, bolstered by a Marine Corps general and anewspaper article questioning Senator John F. Kerry's links tospecial interests, yesterday lam basted the Democratic front-runneras a "special-interest clone." "We are not going to beat George Bush by nominating ...
THE SUPER BOWL KICKOFF IS HERE THE PATRIOTS, N.E.'S FEEL-GOOD STORY, PLAY FOR TITLE TONIGHT
Feb 01, 2004; ... HOUSTON - The words - and there have been many - have all beenspoken. After 13 days of nonstop hype and analysis, the New EnglandPatriots, winners of 14 consecutive games, play the Carolina Panthersat Reliant Stadium tonight in Super Bowl XXXVIII. Led by maturing boy wonder ...
EDWARDS ROUTE FINDS NEW GEAR
Feb 01, 2004; ... OKLAHOMA CITY - John Edwards began the day in Albuquerque,pledging to help alleviate Native American poverty. Then he came to aunion hall here to inveigh against free trade. Next it was on to animpromptu rally in Kansas City, Mo., simply to show his face. Although Edwards has ...
`DRAWING THEIR OWN PICTURE' US, UK DISMISSED FACTS THAT DIDN'T FIT, CRITICS CHARGE
Feb 01, 2004; ... WASHINGTON - In the run-up to the war in Iraq, Washington andLondon worked in unison to present with terrifying specificity theintelligence underpinning their case for an invasion. The Bush administration asserted that Iraq had unmanned dronescapable of spreading biological weapons ...
CONVICTS DEPORTED FROM US FIND LITTLE CHANCE FOR NEW START
Feb 01, 2004; ... PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago - For Lyndon Joseph, it has notbeen a happy homecoming. Deported by the United States to his islandhomeland after 18 years in New York, he now lives with hundreds ofothers in an abandoned five-story concrete parking garage in thecapital of this tropical ...
IRAQI TOWN GAINS SENSE OF NORMALCY
Feb 01, 2004; ... HADITHA, Iraq - In November, gunmen burst into the police stationin this town northwest of Baghdad, freeing prisoners and stealingweapons straight from the hands of the officers, who did not resist.Three months later, with a new police chief and a functioningdetective bureau, residents ...
KERRY MAKES INROADS IN MISSOURI, MICHIGAN
Feb 01, 2004; ... KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Democratic front-runner, John F. Kerry,attacked President Bush's treatment of American veterans for thesecond day in a row yesterday, at an unusually large rally in the swing state of Missouri, while also making inroads in another keystate - Michigan - with a new ...
KERRY SEEKS TO DETACH FROM KENNEDY'S COATTAILS
Feb 01, 2004; ... "In the shadow of Ted Kennedy." It's been written so often that ithas become synonymous with the name of John F. Kerry. Now, as the junior senator from Massachusetts emerges as theleading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, no oneis trying to push him out of that ...
AS CAMPAIGN HEATS UP, VETERANS TAKING SIDES
Feb 01, 2004; ... COLUMBIA, S. C. - Johnny James is already envisioning the day as alandmark in American history: On Jan. 20, 2005, the president-elect,John F. Kerry, is the first veteran to serve in Vietnam to take theoath of office, delivering the inaugural address at the US Capitolnear where he once ...
OFFICER INJURED IN FIRE AT HIS HOME
Feb 01, 2004 ... Five people, including an Everett police officer, were displacedfrom their homes yesterday after a two-alarm fire swept through a two-family house at 32 Gladstone St. around 7 a.m ....
MAN ROBS BANK ON PLEASANT STREET
Feb 01, 2004 ... A man claiming to have a weapon robbed the Citizens Bank at 700Pleasant St. in Watertown yesterday afternoon, making off with anundisclosed amount of cash, Watertown police said. Police said theman, dressed in a blue down ski jacket, entered the bank at ...
DUES MAY SOON BECOME DON'TS
Feb 01, 2004 ... THE GOVERNOR'S NEW BUDGET PLAN CALLS FOR FEW CUTS FOR HIGHEREDUCATION, BUT THERE'S ONE NOTABLE OMISSION: MITT ROMNEY WANTS TO AXTHE STATE'S $367,400 DUES PAYMENT TO THE NEW ENGLAND BOARD OF HIGHEREDUCATION, THE REGIONAL COLLEGE LOBBY. DOES IT MATTER? TO SOMESTUDENTS, YES. DROPPING ITS ...
KERRY RIVALS SWITCH FOCUS FOR TUESDAY TARGET SPECIFIC PRIMARY STATES
Feb 01, 2004; ... GREENVILLE, S.C. - Concerned with Senator John F. Kerry's growingmomentum, the other Democratic contenders for president haveabandoned any pretense of running coast-to-coast campaigns. They haveinstead targeted specific states in an unusually selective strategythat feels as much like a ...
THERE'S DISSENSION ON THE RANKS
Feb 01, 2004 ... Right now, before midterm grades are calculated, Shrewsbury HighSchool senior Kristen Koch is ranked number one out of the 287students in her graduating class. But that could change. Classmate Yufei Liu, currently rankedsecond, has a grade-point average just .014 behind Koch's ....
THIS COLD IS FOR THE RECORD BOOKS
Feb 01, 2004; ... It's probably little comfort to those who winced and cursed theirway through January, but last month really was colder than normal. So cold, in fact, that it was on track yesterday to become thesecond-coldest January since record-keeping began, the most brutalsince 1888, according ...
ON UNIONS, A DIVISION SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ISSUE TESTS FAITH, FAIRNESS
Feb 01, 2004; ... AMHERST - As the nation has steadily expanded legal rights for itsgay citizens, Fred Levine has generally looked on with approval. Itdidn't faze him that several of his children's friends have twomothers. To him, legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples madeabundant ...
GUARD SHOOTS, KILLS DRIVER AFTER BEING HIT
Feb 01, 2004; ... A suspected drunken driver was shot to death by a security guardin the South End last night after he allegedly struck two guards withhis car, according to Boston Police. Two Alliance Security guards were on foot patroling an area aroundWest Dedham Street when they approached a ...
TWO KILLED IN PLYMOUTH CRASH TEENAGER INJURED IN ANOTHER ACCIDENT
Feb 01, 2004; ... A 21-year-old Carver man and an unidentified male passenger werekilled in a one-car accident in Plymouth on Friday night after their1998 Dodge Neon struck a telephone pole at high speed, police said. The driver, Daniel Donovan, was transported to Jordan Hospital inPlymouth, where ...
MAN SHOT TO DEATH IN JAMAICA PLAIN
Feb 01, 2004; ... A 43-year-old Jamaica Plain man was shot to death inside hisWashington Street apartment yesterday, allegedly by his daughter'sboyfriend, according to Boston police. Leonardo Perez was allegedly shot once in the upper body byGualberto Borrero Cruz, 38, who fled and was being sought ...
WORST FEARS REALIZED FOR SOLDIER'S FAMILY
Feb 01, 2004; ... She made it through her son's first deployment - a three-monthtour in Iraq last year. But when Erika Mancini learned that her sonwould be deployed to Afghanistan last month, she started losingsleep. "I kept seeing him as a little baby, holding my hand," saidMancini, 64, of ...
THE OUTSIDER STEPS INSIDE
Feb 01, 2004; ... One person's campaign will live on, but the people's movement isdead. Howard Dean killed it. The ouster of Joe Trippi was just the coup de grace. For weeks,Dean has been morphing into the candidate his insurgent campaign wasdesigned to counter. The goal, he promised, was not to use ...
REPORT ON METCO BUS MIX-UP FAULTS `ASSUMPTIONS' ON RACE
Feb 01, 2004; ... A black kindergarten student who lives in Wellesley was mistakenlyput on a Metco bus and dropped off in Boston last fall because of"certain unconscious assumptions about race," according to a reportreleased last week by a committee that investigated the incident. But the committee ...
SURVIVOR OF 1995 SHOOTING IS FOUND DEAD IN DORCHESTER
Feb 01, 2004; ... A 39-year-old Mattapan man, who survived after he was riddled with19 bullets in 1995, was found shot to death Friday afternoon in thecab of his pickup on American Legion Highway in Dorchester. Lenny Isaac was discovered by a family member around 4:30 p.m.Friday at American Legion ...
COLLEGES BRACE FOR ROWDINESS AFTER THE GAME
Feb 01, 2004; ... College officials were girding their campuses last week forirrationally exuberant extracurricular activities (a.k.a. riots)following tonight's Super Bowl. At the University of Massachusetts atAmherst, where students wreaked $200,000 in property damage after theRed Sox lost the American ...
READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL FROM TVS TO TURKEY TO `PATRIOT MARTINIS,' FANS GIRD FOR GAME
Feb 01, 2004; ... As John Hornig and his friends were chatting online about whoamong them would host today's big Super Bowl party, he got a ratherunwelcome e-mail. "Sorry John. Not at your house," it read. "Your TV is too small." So yesterday, Hornig walked into Best Buy in Cambridge and, ...
GEOGHAN'S LAWYERS EXPECT PRISON REPORT TO CAST BLAME
Feb 01, 2004; ... With the report on the murder of John J. Geoghan now complete andturned over to state public safety secretary Edward A. Flynn,Geoghan's lawyers say one crucial question to be revealed in thereport is who - if anyone - is to be held accountable for thetransfer of Geoghan to a ...
FOR TOWNS, SHARING IS NOT SO EASY
Feb 01, 2004; ... HAMILTON - The place may be packed with towering walls of books,wide-eyed children gazing at pictures of dinosaurs, and seniorcitizens devouring tales of fictional serial killers and the sleuthswho stop them. But don't be fooled by this, or by the suburbanmothers and the parking lot ...
TITANIUM IS HOT, EVEN IF IT'S NOT ALWAYS REAL
Feb 01, 2004; ... How hot is titanium, the metal of the moment? So hot you don't even need titanium to sell titanium. A host of"titanium" products - from ski parkas to razors to cologne - includeno trace of the metal, or sometimes just a dusting. Typical is the new "Titanium" pen that Paper Mate ...
TRIALS RISE IN US COURT AS PLEA DEALS ARE SPURNED
Feb 01, 2004; ... The number of criminal trials in federal court in Massachusettshas nearly doubled since Michael Sullivan took over as US attorney in2001, even as the number of trials across the nation has plummeted. Judges, lawyers, and prosecutors have decried the "death of thejury trial" in ...
COMMUTERS RAIL ABOUT T'S FAULTY MESSAGE SYSTEM
Feb 01, 2004; ... There's good news and bad news regarding the MBTA's scrolling LEDsigns at commuter rail stops. The good news is down below. The bad news is that readers did notbelieve T officials last week when they said that, overall, the signswere "working well." They aren't, according to ...
SAVE - OF THE GAME RAYCROFT STOPS ALL 34 SHOTS HE FACES
Feb 01, 2004; ... MONTREAL - When it was suggested to Bruins right wing Glen Murrayyesterday that the team should buy dinner for Andrew Raycroft afterthe goalie stole 2 points for the club in a 1-0 shutout of Montreal,Murray joked that they'd have to think about it. Raycroft, at 23, fits the role of ...
NO AVOIDING THIS RUSH BRADY IN BETTER POSITION TO DEAL WITH CELEBRITY
Feb 01, 2004; ... HOUSTON - The first time, it happened too fast. One day, Tom Bradywas a young quarterback with no pro credentials who tried to meetwomen by telling them, "You know, I play for the Patriots . . ." Itnever worked. They didn't believe him, and neither did the nightclubdoormen, who waved him ...
LOUISIANA LIGHTNING IN FORECAST?
Feb 01, 2004; ... HOUSTON - Call it a coincidence or perhaps "it's something in thewater down there," but Dan Henning said he doesn't pay much attentionto it. All he knows is, he's got another chance to work with aLouisiana-born quarterback and "there have been a bunch of goodones." In fact, when ...
REACHING FOR THE HEIGHTS DRAGILA JUMPS 15-1 FOR VICTORY
Feb 01, 2004; ... With the bar set at 15 feet 5 1/2 inches, Stacy Dragila ran downthe track, planted her pole, and tried to get her body to bendbackward and sail over the bar. Three times she tried. The crowd at the Reggie Lewis Center groaned as they watched herknock down the bar on all ...
DEVERS HURDLES TO MEET RECORD
Feb 01, 2004; ... Three-time Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers doesn't like to waitaround. That is why she was the last athlete to step into the blocksbefore the start of the women's 60-meter hurdles at the Adidas BostonIndoor Games yesterday at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center. "It doesn't ...
HOPKINTON'S RIEL SCORCHES HURDLES
Feb 01, 2004; ... They represent the present and future of girls' high school trackin Massachusetts. When Hopkinton senior Tiana Riel graduates in thespring, she will pass the torch - or baton - to Medford freshmanAranxta King. Both had impressive showings at the MSCTA Girls' InvitationalTrack ...
GEBRSELASSIE GETS A WIN BUT NOT RECORD
Feb 01, 2004; ... Haile Gebrselassie received a hero's welcome at the Reggie LewisTrack & Athletic Center last night. But he failed to challenge theworld record in the 3,000 meters, finishing in 7 minutes 35.27seconds in winning the race at the Adidas Boston Indoor Games. "I could have run faster, ...
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS, CAJUN STYLE DELHOMME EMERGES AS A SEASONED VETERAN
Feb 01, 2004; ... LEADB REAUX BRIDGE, La. - There is the job of running the town'sbusiness, so Mayor Jack Delhomme settles into the chair behind hisdesk to do just that. On the agenda: The phenomenon who'll be afeatured player for Carolina this evening in Super Bowl XXXVIII. Football as town ...
REPORT: NETS' GRIFFIN WILL ENTER REHAB
Feb 01, 2004 ... NAMESNew Jersey Nets forward Eddie Griffin plans to enter theBetty Ford Center next week for six weeks of alcohol abuse treatment,his lawyer told The New York Times. "Eddie feels he needs furtherhelp with his drinking problem," Rusty Hardin said. "He's verydisappointed. But he's ...
CHANGING ON THE FLY MCGINEST'S TRANSFORMATION IS A PERFECT FIT ON DEFENSE
Feb 01, 2004; ... HOUSTON - There was a time when Willie McGinest was criticized bythe same fans who now realize he's a vital part of the Patriots'front seven. There was a time when McGinest was considered an edgepass rusher; before injuries, he was as good as there was. There wasa time when then-coach ...
FOR NU, TO AIR IS HUMAN HUSKIES TAKE OUT FRUSTRATION, UNH
Feb 01, 2004 ... An intrasquad squabble or two rarely hurt and often sparked theNew York Yankees in the 1970s. Yesterday, a heated exchange betweentwo of their top players didn't prevent the Northeastern Huskies fromcompleting a season sweep of New Hampshire. Jose Juan Barea scored 21 points and ...
IRISH HALT LATE BC COMEBACK ND DEFENSE STIFLES EAGLES
Feb 01, 2004 ... Megan Duffy scored 16 points and LeTania Severe added 15 as NotreDame survived a late Boston College rally for a 52-50 victoryyesterday at South Bend, Ind. With the Irish (13-7, 6-2 Big East) ahead, 51-50, and 15 secondsremaining, Amber Jacobs missed an 8-footer that would have ...
DIGGING DEEP IN TRENCHES TEAMS WILL PUT UP DEFENSIVE FRONT H
Feb 01, 2004; ... HOUSTON - Many unexpected things may happen during Super BowlXXXVIII but one thing is sure. Blood will be shed. "I think it's going to be a street fight," Carolina defensivetackle Kris Jenkins said of tonight's rumble with the Patriots. "Onething about New England is they have the ...
AS FOR LEGWORK, HE'S SECOND TO NONE
Feb 01, 2004; ... HOUSTON - A couple of ballyhooed placekicks can do a lot to boosta fella's stock in his home state. When Sports Illustrated published its list of 20th century top 50sporting figures in the history of South Dakota back in 1999, AdamVinatieri was not on the list. But when that same ...
HAPPY 200TH FOR MUZZIOLI
Feb 01, 2004; ... For the last two weeks, Belmont boys' hockey coach Dante Muzziolihas had his 200th career win in sight. His team served up the landmark victory in style yesterday, as thehost Marauders defeated Middlesex League rival and 14th-rankedMelrose, 4-1, to hold on to the top spot in the ...
SEYMOUR A BIG DEAL IN SMALL TOWN HIS STARDOM CAN BE TRACED TO UPBRINGING
Feb 01, 2004; ... GADSDEN, S.C. - Most everyone in this little town about 25 milessoutheast of Columbia shops at Freeman's 3-in-1, a dry goods/gasstation/lottery-ticket outpost of convenience and conversation thatover the decades has given way to the ubiquitous, anonymous big-boxoutfits like Wal-Mart and ...
O'NEIL IS HISTORY AND CLASS, ALL ROLLED INTO ONE
Feb 01, 2004; ... Jackie Robinson would have been 85 years old yesterday, whichstill would have made him seven years younger than John Jordan "Buck"O'Neil, the national treasure who appeared in Fenway Park yesterdayto speak to 350 children invited to celebrate the memory of the manwho broke baseball's ...
TOUGHEST GUYS PAY THE PRICE INCONSISTENT OFFICIATING REWARDS `DIVERS'
Feb 01, 2004; ... WHEN JEREMY ROENICK THREW A WATER BOTTLE IN THE DIRECTION OFREFEREE BLAINE ANGUS DURING A JAN. 13 GAME AFTER HE WAS CUT IN THEFACE BY A HIGH STICK BUT NO PENALTY WAS CALLED, THERE WAS ALL KINDSOF HYPERBOLE. ROENICK, WHO EARNED A ONE-GAME SUSPENSION, LIKENED THENHL TO PRO WRESTLING AND ...
O'BRIEN TOOK A PAGE FROM VAN GUNDY BOOK H E, TOO, HAD HAD ENOUGH. NINETEEN GAMES INTO THE 2001-02 SEASON, WITH HIS TEAM SPORTING A 10-9 RECORD, JEFF VAN GUNDY RESIGNED AS COACH OF THE NEW YORK KNICKS. HE SENSED A LACK OF SUPPORT AT THE TOP AND SIMPLY DECIDED IT WAS TIME, MUCH AS JIM O'BRIEN DECIDED IT WAS TIME LAST TUESDAY.
Feb 01, 2004; ... "Every coach-management [dispute] is based on expectations: win-loss, how you're playing, who you're playing," said Van Gundy, whosat out the rest of the 2001-02 season and all of last season beforeending up in Houston with the Rockets. "It's inevitable,unfortunately. That's how it is ....
CRIME GANGS GET FREE ROAM ON CANADA INDIAN RESERVES
Feb 01, 2004; ... KANESATAKE, Quebec - The crime-scene tape surrounding the charredruins of Grand Chief James Gabriel's home snapped and shredded in thefrigid wind whipping off Lake of Two Mountains. The Jan. 12 arson attack caused the chief and his family to fleefor their lives from this Mohawk ...
THE AT-HOME PATRIOT
Feb 01, 2004 ... [A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.]It'sdifferent this time. Call it Home Alone. Tonight's Super Bowl is simply too important to watch at a party,where field action must compete with kitchen noise, cellphones andNASDAQ analysis. Or a bar, where the ambient ...
STAGE PRESENCE
Feb 01, 2004 ... Tom Brady's life was never the same after he led the Patriots totheir first super Bowl title, turning in a performance against theRams that vaulted the young quarterback into national ...
DISPLAYING THE STUFF OF CHAMPIONS, THE PATRIOTS' DEFENSE FINISHES OFF AN OUTSTANDING GOAL-LINE STAND.
Feb 01, 2004 ... CAPTION ...
IRISH HALT LATE BC COMEBACK ND DEFENSE STIFLES EAGLES
Feb 01, 2004 ... Megan Duffy scored 16 points and LeTania Severe added 15 as NotreDame survived a late Boston College rally for a 52-50 victoryyesterday at South Bend, Ind. With the Irish (13-7, 6-2 Big East)ahead, 51-50, and 15 seconds remaining, Amber Jacobs missed an 8-footer that would have given the ...
DELAY OF GAME SUPER BOWL PARTIES PUT SOME HOME TOURS ON THE SIDELINES
Feb 01, 2004; ... With the Hub in the grip of Super Bowl fever, even real estateagencies are trying to get a game plan together. An ad from ERA KeyRealty Services described one home in Franklin as a "Patriot'sSpecial!" Asked about the place's Pats pedigree, broker SuzanneDomestico replied, "Hey, it's a ...