The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from June 2004:
LIGHTNING EARN A WIN AND A TIE
Jun 01, 2004; ... CALGARY, Alberta - The Lightning hadn't lost two straight playoffgames this season. They still haven't.Brad Richards scored anearly power-play goal and Nikolai Khabibulin posted his fifth playoffshutout as Tampa Bay edged the Flames, 1-0, last night, evening theStanley Cup finals at ...
SCRAMBLED EGGS
Jun 01, 2004 ... WORKERS CLEANED UP BROKEN CRATES OF EGGS SPILLED BY AN OVERTURNED18-WHEELER ON THE INTERSTATE 610 LOOP AT HIGHWAY 59 ...
LIGHTNING EARN A WIN AND A TIE
Jun 01, 2004; ... CALGARY, Alberta - For their last 11 playoff games, the Tampa BayLightning have seesawed between winning and losing. Since the startof the Eastern Conference finals, they haven't been able to win twoin a row - but they haven't lost two in a row, either.Lastnight, in Game 4 of the ...
STOP FINDING NEW WAYS TO SUE DOCTORSAS
Jun 01, 2004 ... A PHYSICIAN and supporter of same-sex marriage, I was disappointedto read "Lesbian spouse files malpractice lawsuit," (Page A4, May22). The just-married couple is suing physicians for "loss ofconsortium." It is discouraging that among the first legal offshootsof same-sex marriage is a ...
PHOTO MISREPRESENTED GRADUATION
Jun 01, 2004 ... ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE BOSTON COLLEGE COMMUNITY I WANT TOEXPRESS OUR PROFOUND DISAPPOINTMENT OVER THE PHOTO THAT ACCOMPANIEDTHE MAY 25 CITY & REGION ARTICLE ON THE COLLEGE'S COMMENCEMENT. ASTHOSE PRESENT CAN ATTEST, TIM RUSSERT GAVE AN INSPIRING SPEECH THATCELEBRATED CATHOLIC VALUES ...
TALK ABOUT THE STETHOSCOPE
Jun 01, 2004 ... REGARDING "IS LISTENING THROUGH A STETHOSCOPE A DYING ART?"("HEALTH/ SCIENCE," MAY 25): Alas, a once important diagnostic tool,the stethoscope is rapidly going the way of the doctor's black bagand head mirror. Today, wrapped around the physician's neck like a sommelier'stastevin, ...
YOUTHBUILD: A GOOD INVESTMENT
Jun 01, 2004 ... THANK YOU FOR HELPING ALL OF US KEEP A FOCUS ON THE STATE BUDGETTHROUGH YOUR BUDGET FILES EDITORIALS. AN ITEM THAT IS OF GREATCONCERN TO INDIVIDUALS WHO WORK WITH DISENFRANCHISED YOUNG PEOPLE ISTHE YOUTHBUILD PROGRAM. WE ARE ENCOURAGED THAT THE SENATE AND HOUSEOF REPRESENTATIVES ...
CLASSICAL REPERTOIRE IS STAGNANT
Jun 01, 2004 ... FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS I'VE BEEN AN AVID FAN OF THE BOSTON POPSAND POPS ESPLANADE ORCHESTRA. FROM MY FIRST CONCERT IN 1973 I WASHOOKED, AND IT INTRODUCED TO ME THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ORCHESTRALMUSIC. During Arthur Fiedler's tenure, it seems that there wasalways a varied selection of ...
THE RESPONSIBLE WARRIOR
Jun 01, 2004; ... MANY NATIONAL LEADERS UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO RALLYTHE POPULACE AND STIFLE CRITICISM WHILE A WAR IS GOING ON.Aleader has only to emphasize a threat to national security and theneed to "support the troops." Even doubt and searching analysis maybe called unpatriotic ...
KERRY'S MIDEAST POLICY IS MILES FROM BUSH'S
Jun 01, 2004; ... WASHINGTONTHE PROFOUND DIFFERENCES OVER FOREIGN POLICY BETWEENJOHN KERRY AND GEORGE BUSH CAN BE ENCAPSULATED IN TWO WORDS, THEMIDDLE EAST.Kerry's world view is designed to hit one element ofthe region's importance hard: that would be oil. It is designed tohit the other element ...
HOLLYWOOD'S FAKE TAKE ON GLOBAL WARMING
Jun 01, 2004; ... IS THIS WHAT IT HAS FINALLY COME DOWN TO? REBUFFED BY SCIENCE ANDIGNORED BY THE PUBLIC, GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS ARE DESPERATE ENOUGHFOR POLITICAL RELEVANCE TO TRUMPET SECOND-RATE HOLLYWOODSENSATIONALISM AS A "TEACHABLE MOMENT" FOR THE COMPLEX SCIENCE OFCLIMATE CHANGE.Friday's ...
EQUAL TIME FOR THE GOOD DEEDS
Jun 01, 2004; ... BLACK AMERICANS MAKE HEADLINES WHEN THEY ARE ACCUSED OF CRIME,ACHIEVE FAME AND FORTUNE IN SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT, OR WHEN HIGH-ACHIEVERS CRITICIZE LOW-ACHIEVERS, AS COMEDIAN BILL COSBY RECENTLYDID.By those commonly accepted news standards, the Timothy SmithTechnology Center and ...
CASTING LIGHT ON RISKS OF SKIN CANCER
Jun 01, 2004; ... Dear Beth: May was Melanoma Month. There are more cases of this skin cancerdiagnosed annually in the United States than there are cases of HIV/AIDS. It causes more than 8,000 deaths each year and is the fastest-rising cancer in people aged 25 to 29. How do we know this? We ...
STORY OF A FATHER, SON, AND FATE MAKES A LASTING FIRST IMPRESSION
Jun 01, 2004; ... First novels often swagger, as if to declare their authors'confidence, and thereby betray just the opposite. John Bemrose'sdebut, "The Island Walkers," however, avoids this pitfall sounequivocally that it reads more like the work of a seasonednovelist. His prose, with its ...
OEDIPAL COMPLEX
Jun 01, 2004; ... Let's say you have a dog named Spot. And every time someone shouts"Spot," your dog jerks his head in that direction. It was a bit thatway recently for Oedipus at "Oedipus" when the WBCN-FM programdirector took in the Sophocles play as envisioned by Robert Woodruffat the American ...
`HIGH MOUNTAIN' TOUR BLENDS OLD, NEW NICELY
Jun 01, 2004; ... The old music never sounded so young. A FleetBoston Pavilion crowdof nearly 3,800 yesterday savored a wonderfully realized three-hourhomage to old-time music, the Southern folk form from which bluegrassand country music grew. The tour was conceived by T Bone Burnett, whoproduced the ...
A PARTY PLANNER TO POLITICOS; GLICKMAN GETS A TOP RATING
Jun 01, 2004; ... DEMS GOOD PARTIES RAFANELLI EVENTS PRINCIPAL AND DIRECTOR OFMARKETING MARK WALSH HAS BEEN NAMED AS THE DIRECTOR OF EVENT SERVICESFOR THE COMMITTEE ORGANIZING THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.(READ: WALSH'S JOB IS TO MAKE SURE THE OFFICIAL PARTIES AREOFFICIALLY GREAT BASHES.) WALSH HAS ...
THE ENDURING HISTORY OF A WAR GENERATION
Jun 01, 2004; ... As I passed 65 and 70, and now approach 80, time reverses and Igrow closer to those who have left us, sometimes closer than when Icould call them on the telephone. We continue their lives in our memory, as we should, oftennoticing now what we didn't see when they were alive, saying ...
THIS COSBY SHOW IS UNDESERVED COMEDIAN'S COMMENTS ELICIT HARSH CRITICISM
Jun 01, 2004; ... In recent days, Bill Cosby has been called everything from aracist to a race traitor for the disparaging comments he maderecently about low-income African-Americans. Speaking last month at aWashington, D.C., gala commemorating the 50th anniversary of Brown v.Board of Education, the ...
CHANGES TO DEFINITION OF PULITZER FOR MUSIC SPARK DISSONANCE
Jun 01, 2004; ... The Pulitzer Prize board has changed the language describing theprize for music in an effort to broaden the scope of the award whilepreserving its reputation for recognizing distinction. Reaction among former Pulitzer Prize winners in music has beenmixed. Gunther Schuller says, ...
THE DARKNESS IS A BRIGHT SPOT AT RIVER RAVE
Jun 01, 2004; ... MANSFIELD - The darkness had not yet descended when the Darknessstole the show. Britain's flamboyant Darkness was just the rightmedicine for this season's hit-and-miss WBCN River Rave, which failedto live up to past glories but still had some wild moments. They camecourtesy of the ...
THE $4 MILLION MAN A DEMOCRATIC FUND-RAISER MAKES HIS PASSION PAY OFF FOR MANY CAUSES
Jun 01, 2004; ... He might be any other middle-aged businessman in a jacket, tie,and sensible glasses - but for the fact that he is reciting a quirkylittle poem as he stands near an elevator in the nearly desertedFleetCenter: "An ant on the tablecloth/ Ran into a dormant moth/ Ofmany times his size/ He ...
IN VERMONT, TOWN BROWSES FOR A NEW BOOKSTORE
Jun 01, 2004; ... In Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, they're looking for a few goodbooks. Actually they're looking for a good bookstore. In an ever-tougher business environment for independentbooksellers, the town of St. Johnsbury, population 7,571 as of 2000,is offering startup money and a break on ...
WB DRAMA `SUMMERLAND' IS NOT MUCH FUN IN THE SUN THE WB'S `SUMMERLAND' IS PRETTY BUT PREDICTABLE
Jun 01, 2004; ... "Summerland" is an excellent and powerful nighttime soap opera -for those whose two favorite series ever are "Baywatch" and "Party ofFive," that is. This new WB drama, which premieres in a two-hour special tonightat 8 on Channel 56, places Barbie, Skipper, Ken, and a few ...
UPWARDLY MOBILE CASEY A MAINZ MAN
Jun 01, 2004; ... Enough American soccer players have found places with German clubsfor Bruce Arena to set up an intrasquad scrimmage between them andthe Rest of the World last week at Harvard University. Eight membersof his US national team, which will meet Honduras at Gillette Stadiumtomorrow, have ...
NALBANDIAN DROPS IN, MAKES SAFIN DROP OUT
Jun 01, 2004; ... PARIS - Drop shorts or drop shots? Was this the choice of the 15,109 tennis devotees who filled thebig, dirt-floored room at Roland Garros for another Russian dramabeneath a suitably grim, gray sky? Where did their rooting loyaltieslie? No contest. Their hearts - except those ...
LIGHTNING EARN A WIN AND A TIE
Jun 01, 2004; ... CALGARY, Alberta - All even again. The Tampa Bay Lightning have seesawed between winning and losingfor the last 11 playoff games. Since the start of the EasternConference finals, they haven't been able to win two in a row - butthey haven't lost two in a row, either. Last ...
COUNTERPARTS COUNTERPUNCH GOALIES REBOUND WELL AFTER LOSSES
Jun 01, 2004; ... CALGARY, Alberta - Calgary goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff and TampaBay's Nikolai Khabibulin are following remarkably similar paths inthe finals. In the first game, Kiprusoff led the Flames to a 4-1 win.Khabibulin and the Lightning responded with a 4-1 win in Game 2. TheFlames won, ...
RICE, TEAM EXTREMELY SATISFIED
Jun 01, 2004; ... INDIANAPOLIS - When Buddy Rice arrived at the garage in VictoryLane for a makeshift celebration at rain-soaked Indianapolis MotorSpeedway, the 28-year-old driver from Phoenix seemed to be ushered inas the next generation of Indy 500 winner. The American Generation. The Extreme ...
LAKERS CONQUER WEST LA ELIMINATES WOLVES TO ADVANCE TO FINALS
Jun 01, 2004; ... LOS ANGELES - More threats to the old Celtics. The Los Angeles Lakers are going to the NBA Finals again. Lastnight's 96-90 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves clinched theWestern Conference finals, four games to two, and put LA's Hall ofFame ensemble into the championship round ...
CUBS' PRIOR GETS THE OK TO MAKE FIRST START OF YEAR FRIDAY
Jun 01, 2004 ... BASEBALL Mark Prior is ready to pitch. On the disabled listsince spring training, Prior is scheduled to make his season debutFriday for the Chicago Cubs against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Afterbeing sidelined with an inflamed right Achilles' tendon and soreright elbow, Prior was ...
MORA ISN'T PLAGUED BY FOUL TIPS ADVICE HELPS HIM FLOURISH
Jun 01, 2004; ... Major league life over .300 began at age 31 last season forBaltimore third baseman Melvin Mora, who isn't shy about asking theopposition for a few batting tips. Mora, who leads the American League at .384 after yesterday's 3-for-6 performance in the Orioles' 13-4 dismantling of the ...
GARCIAPARRA IS BACK HERE AFTER TWO STEPS FORWARD
Jun 01, 2004; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. - "Believe me," Nomar Garciaparra said yesterday,"I'd rather be going to Anaheim to see my wife and my family." But the usual Nomar cheering section from Bellflower, Calif.(where Garciaparra went to high school), and surrounding environswill have to make do without ...
ANY WAY YOU SPIN IT, IT'S A GLITCH IN ROTATION ANY WAY YOU SPIN IT, IT'S A GLITCH IN THE ROTATION
Jun 01, 2004; ... Clearly, he is frustrated. This has to be eating him up inside. Lowe's pitching line - five innings, eight hits, seven earned runs- was worse than it should have been, because Lenny DiNardo allowedall three runners he inherited from Lowe to score in the sixth inningof yesterday's ...
GOING TO THE MAT METHUEN'S PEDRO HOPES TO FINALLY PIN DOWN ELUSIVE GOLD MEDAL
Jun 01, 2004; ... The five-ringed itch returned two winters ago in Salt Lake City,where Jimmy Pedro watched speedskater Derek Parra win a surprise goldmedal. "It inspired me," says America's best judoka. "Seeing him andthe other athletes perform so well, and feeling as if that was meantto be me . ....
PISTONS EYEING KNOCKOUT HAMILTON, DEFENSE PUT PACERS ON ROPES
Jun 01, 2004; ... AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The numbers never favored Indiana. Not atthe beginning of Game 5 Sunday, not at halftime, not at the end. Forthe second time in the NBA Eastern Conference finals, the Pacers seta franchise playoff low for points (65). After making 6 of its first10 shots from the ...
SMEARED MAKEUP IT'S NOT A PRETTY GAME FOR LOWE AND SOX
Jun 01, 2004; ... Sprinkle some sugar on it. Glaze it. Give it a whirl in the cottoncandy machine. Then forget about it. The sad truth is, there's no sugarcoating the pasting the Red Soxabsorbed yesterday as Derek Lowe's anguished quest to regain hiswinning ways grew ever more ...
HIGHLIGHT: MILLAR ENDS MONSTER DROUGHT
Jun 01, 2004; ... It all seemed new to Kevin Millar. When he ended the longesthomerless drought of his career yesterday by cranking a pitch fromBaltimore's Eddy Rodriguez into the Monster seats, he almost forgothow to begin his home run trot. "I started running to third base," he joked. "I didn't ...
THREE ARE WOUNDED OUTSIDE HOUSE
Jun 01, 2004 ... Two teenagers and a young man were shot and wounded outside aDorchester house early yesterday, Boston police said. Details on whatled to the shootings were not available yesterday, but police saidthey were called to the East Street house shortly after 1 a.m. A 22-year-old man was ...
MAN APPREHENDED IN ROOMMATE'S DEATH
Jun 01, 2004 ... The Marlborough man indicted in the slaying of his roommate lastweek was apprehended yesterday in Lake Placid, N.Y., according to alaw enforcement official. James O'Neill, 38, is expected to bearraigned this week in New York on fugitive from justice chargesbefore eventually being ...
HARVEY BROOKS; TEACHER MELDED WORLDS OF PHYSICS, PUBLIC POLICY
Jun 01, 2004; ... Bedridden with the measles as a child, Harvey Brooks started ajournal. Unlike most adolescents who keep diaries, the precocious boycarefully charted daily weather patterns. Fascinated by his earlyresearch, the 12-year-old decided he wanted to be a physicist. Dr. Brooks, an academic ...
BY HAROLD DONDIS AND PATRICK WOLFF, GLOBE CORRESPONDENTS
Jun 01, 2004; ... Here is another game from the sixth annual Foxwoods tournament,this one a victory by Boylston Club president Paul MacIntyre in thethird round against John MacArthur, who had the ill luck to bematched against two masters in a row, James Rizzitano and thenMacIntyre. In this game, ...
PARENTS TURN FUND-RAISING EFFORTS TOWARD TEACHER HIRING
Jun 01, 2004; ... COHASSET - A group of parents is lobbying residents andbusinesses to donate $105,000 to hire new teachers, even thoughvoters just approved the town's sixth tax hike in as many years. While parents in other school systems are struggling to raisemoney for the necessities for their ...
ADVOCATE FOR POOR LOSING MAJOR BATTLE TERMINALLY ILL WITH CANCER, HE COMES TO TERMS WITH FINAL GOODBYES
Jun 01, 2004; ... Beacon Hill's foremost advocate for the poor, sick, and disabledis confronting his own mortality. Stephen Collins, 51, may die inmonths, weeks or even days, his body ravaged by an aggressive form ofpancreatic cancer that has taken 75 pounds from his once-stoutframe. His hands tremble ...
TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS CONFOUND BOSTON-AREA CUBANS
Jun 01, 2004; ... Many of Greater Boston's Cubans and Cuban-Americans have longstraddled two political worlds, their protest against PresidentFidel Castro often competing with the financial support they send torelatives on the Caribbean island. Starting this month, new restrictions by the Bush ...
STELLA DEGREGORY; WORKED FOR STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Jun 01, 2004; ... Stella DeGregory was almost always the first to arrive for work atthe Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She was at her desk atthe department's Washington Street headquarters with a fresh pot ofcoffee each morning no later than 7:15 and worked straight throughthe day, getting up ...
LAND MINE KILLS N.H. SOLDIER ARMY CAPTAIN WAS WITH SPECIAL FORCES UNIT IN AFGHANISTAN
Jun 01, 2004; ... Army Captain Daniel W. Eggers, 28, came from a long line ofmilitary men. His father was an Army door gunner in Vietnam. His grandfatherhelped lay ocean cable lines from Greenland to Puerto Rico duringWorld War II. And his great-grandfather was a member of the RoughRiders, a ...
FUNDING DERAILS LAPTOP PROGRAM ANDOVER SCHOOLS FIND OTHER EXPENSES PREVAIL
Jun 01, 2004; ... ANDOVER - A lack of funds is forcing school officials here toscrap a program to outfit all fifth-graders with laptop computers, aneffort that drew national attention when it was launched three yearsago. School officials say they need $1 million to expand theexperimental program ...
GROCER ADDS SPICE TO MIX
Jun 01, 2004; ... Pity the poor Massachusetts Democratic establishment. There'sbarely a card-carrying member who doesn't believe that they're aboutto rig the system and keep John F. Kerry's Senate seat in thepartisan family. Their thought process is this basic: The Legislature mandatesspecial ...
WAR DEAD FROM ALL ERAS ARE HONORED
Jun 01, 2004; ... At cemeteries and backyards, in parks in Concord and parades onthe streets of New Bedford and Sandwich, Massachusetts residentspaused yesterday to commemorate the dead from wars long ago and thosewho died recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. With 21-gun salutes, flowers, and, of ...
THREE ARE WOUNDED OUTSIDE HOUSE
Jun 01, 2004 ... Two teenagers and a young man were shot and wounded outside aDorchester house early yesterday, Boston police said. Details on whatled to the shootings were not available yesterday, but police saidthey were called to the East Street house shortly after 1 a.m. A 22-year-old man was ...
CAREY, ANTHONY PATRICK
Jun 01, 2004 ... In Washington, D.C., Friday, at 56. An international ...
BLAZE BREAKS OUT IN HOSPITAL CELL PATIENT STARTED FIRE, STATE OFFICIAL SAYS
Jun 01, 2004; ... A patient at Bridgewater State Hospital assaulted a staff memberyesterday after apparently starting a fire in his cell that sent fivecorrectional officers to hospitals for treatment of smoke inhalation,authorities said. "It appears that the mattress was lit on fire with some type ...
HIS STRAINS OF TAPS SEND SOLDIERS HOME
Jun 01, 2004; ... Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Poulten would get the call at 2 or 3 inthe morning, when the Kuwaiti desert was quiet and still. A Camp Wolfchaplain would meet him in front of the hospital tent. The plane wasleaving in 30 minutes. The ceremony was simple: The guards would stand at ...
STATE POLICE PRAISE SAFETY ON THE ROADS
Jun 01, 2004; ... As of last night, Massachusetts State Police reported no trafficfatalities over the Memorial Day weekend. Haverhill police, however, were investigating an accident in whicha woman apparently drove her car into the Merrimack River shortlyafter 9 last night. The unidentified woman, ...
CICADA IS MORE OF AN ENIGMA THAN A PEST BUGS' CYCLE KEEPS NATURALISTS GUESSING
Jun 01, 2004; ... Consider cicadas the bug-a-doon of insects. They lie dormantunderground for 17 years and then emerge - like the mythical Scottishtown of Brigadoon - in a riot of wings and singing. In a few weeks,they're gone. This year's crop, Brood X, is one of the largest. Trillions ofthese ...
STRESSED CAREGIVERS DON'T FACE HIGHER RISK OF BREAST CANCER
Jun 01, 2004; ... It's long been thought that stress might be a factor in thedevelopment of breast cancer, but a study in the June 1 issue of theAmerican Journal of Epidemiology suggests otherwise. Candyce Kroenkeof Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School presentsevidence that the ...
DOES EATING SOY MAKE YOU HEALTHIER, OR NOT?
Jun 01, 2004; ... Health food advocates have long claimed that soy, the littlelegume found in everything from tofu burgers to smoothies, canprotect against heart disease, ward off cancer, and combat hotflashes. But those claims are coming under scrutiny, now that a soyfood manufacturer, the Solae Co. of ...
RESEARCHERS WATCH THE BRAIN WRESTLE WITH MORAL DILEMMAS
Jun 01, 2004; ... It is wartime. You and your family are hiding in the basement. Youcan hear the enemy soldiers approaching. To your horror, the babybegins to fuss and cry. If you cover her mouth, she will suffocateand die. If you do not, the soldiers will find you and you'll all bekilled. What do you ...
Q: IS "HEADING" THE BALL IN SOCCER DANGEROUS?
Jun 01, 2004; ... N. A. WELLESLEYProbably not, but it depends somewhat on whomyou ask. In 2002, the Institute of Medicine (part of the National Academyof Sciences) sponsored a workshop at which experts discussedpotential injuries to kids' brains from playing soccer. Even thoughpeople usually ...
SHE GOES IN HARM'S WAY TO HELP OTHERS OUT
Jun 01, 2004; ... [PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: June 2, 2004: Correction: Becauseof a reporting error, the Meeting of the Minds profile of Dr. LynnAmowitz in yesterday's Health/Science section misspelled her name.) When Lynn Amovitz was a third-grader in rural North Carolina,there was a boy who ...
SAME-SEX WEDDING GREETINGS NOT YET IN THE CARDS NOTES OF CONGRATULATIONS ARE OFTEN DIFFICULT TO FIND
Jun 01, 2004; ... The cards came pouring in when Susan Shepherd and Marcia Hamsbecame the first lesbian couple at Cambridge City Hall to apply for amarriage license. They got the standard "We wish you happiness." Then there was a"hooray," a "wahoo," a "congratulations," and a "you go" shuffled ...
INVESTORS SCRUTINIZE FUND FIRM'S TURNOVER DEPARTURES COME AT A CRITICAL TIME FOR BANK OF AMERICA UNIT
Jun 01, 2004; ... Several top money managers have left the mutual fund unit of theformer FleetBoston Financial Corp. in recent weeks, adding to thechallenge Bank of America Corp. faces as its tries to reorganize thesprawling investment operations created by the merger. The departures at Columbia ...
COMPANIES READY THEIR CONVENTION BATTLE PLANS EMPLOYERS SEEK TO EASE DNC DISRUPTION
Jun 01, 2004; ... With the Democratic National Convention less than two months away,Boston businesses are honing plans to help employees navigate a weekof traffic gridlock and lengthy delays in mass-transit service. But companies with a substantial downtown workforce are caughtbetween the need to ...
REINVIGORATED HOUGHTON MIFFLIN PRESSES FORWARD NEW CEO MAKES AN INVESTMENT IN GROWTH
Jun 01, 2004; ... Eighteen months ago, when it was purchased by a private equitygroup, Boston educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Co. was startingto resemble a distinguished New England family that had fallen onhard times. It had been sold twice in a two-year period once to aFrench conglomerate better ...