The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from January 2005:
GOING OUT ON TOP CELTICS END YEAR BY GETTING BACK ON WINNING TRACK
Jan 01, 2005; ... You can forget about giving away those Wizards tickets to theletter carrier - unless he or she happens to be a serious hoop fan.This is a new year - actually, a new, new year - and Washington is ateam that looks a lot like the Celtics: fun to watch, not a lot ofdefense, and unpredictable ...
PETERSON WRITING HIS OWN STORY SOONERS RB HAS STARTED NEW CHAPTER
Jan 01, 2005; ... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The story has been told before and will bemany times again until 2007, when Nelson Peterson leaves prison inTexarkana, Texas, and simply becomes the father of Adrian Petersonagain, rather than the father who is serving a 10-year term forlaundering money from the ...
THE COAST ISN'T CLEAR 49ERS WON'T TAKE EASY WAY OUT
Jan 01, 2005; ... FOXBOROUGH - Though the San Francisco 49ers have not won a game inregulation this season, Patriots strong safety Rodney Harrisonexpects them to provide difficult opposition in tomorrow's regular-season finale at Gillette Stadium. "A team from the West Coast wants to come in and ...
SURPRISINGLY, `GLOVE' HAS BEEN PERFECT FIT SURPRISINGLY, `GLOVE' HAS BEEN A PERFECT FIT IN FIRST SEASON
Jan 01, 2005; ... You know who's been great all year? Gary Payton, that's who. I'll give you the full disclosure bit. I didn't want him. Thewhole thing made no sense to me on any level. I didn't think he hadmuch left, and he certainly didn't want to be here. He's a West Coastguy with a family ...
THIS `DYNASTY' ALL GUILT, NO PLEASURE
Jan 01, 2005; ... Some say "Dynasty" hit the skids for good in 1985, when in onecliffhanger characters were fired upon by terrorists during a weddingceremony in Moldavia. Others insist that the soap opera that defined1980s America was officially over when Krystle look-alike Rita madeher appearance in ...
SIX AND THE CITY QINGNI LIN
Jan 01, 2005; ... The nine young artists at the David G. Farragut Elementary Schoolon Mission Hill munch on chips and cookies while adding color,cutouts, and tissue paper "stained glass" to the Christmas treesoutlined on the sheets in front of them. Offering help andencouragement are five students from ...
SIX AND THE CITY ENOCH WOODHOUSE
Jan 01, 2005; ... As a sophomore at Harvard majoring in religion and African-American studies and as a member of the fencing team with anobligation to work out six days a week, Enoch Woodhouse, 19, does nothave a lot of spare time. And yet, when he was asked to mentor a boy from Mission ...
SIX AND THE CITY LAURIE SHERMAN
Jan 01, 2005; ... Domestic violence. AIDS education. Community health initiatives.Communication skills. Each issue has, at one time or another, engagedmayoral aide Laurie Sherman. So it was no surprise that once Shermanhad children of her own, she would transform her small City Halloffice into an ...
SIX AND THE CITY CRISTA MARTINEZ
Jan 01, 2005; ... Crista Martinez wanted to be a doctor. Then came the day when theyoung pre-med student was asked to join her classmates in a study offamilies who had experienced trauma, such as a severe car accident. While the other students stayed within the bounds of clinicaldiagnosis, Martinez ...
SIX AND THE CITY BERNIE BLOOM
Jan 01, 2005; ... A worried-looking woman entered the front door of Brigham andWomen's Hospital with her frail mother and a fistful of papers.Bernie Bloom approached them. "May I help you?" he asked. "My mother has had her breast removed. Can you tell me where weshould go?" Bloom looked over her ...
SIX AND THE CITY CANDELARIA SILVA
Jan 01, 2005; ... Those who live, work, or socialize in Roxbury may have feltCandelaria Silva's hand at some point this year. Toured art studiosin October? That's Silva. Discovered the work of filmmakers of colorin August? Silva. Purchased the neighborhood literary magazine filledwith teen writing in ...
FORD CROSSES OVER LATE, BUT IN STYLE
Jan 01, 2005; ... Want to slip into the parking lot by the soccer field where yourdaughter has just kicked the winning goal and not be identified bythe minivan you are driving? Do I have the car for you. You can step in low, but ride high and spacious, with tons ofheadroom in the new Ford ...
GROWTH STOCKS GAIN A FOLLOWING
Jan 01, 2005; ... It's been five long years since investors could say the G wordwith a straight face. Growth stocks. They're coming back in 2005, investment managerssay, ending the big run-up of cheaper "value" stocks since 2000, whenthe bloated technology bubble burst. "This is the guaranteed ...
ENDING ON AN UP NOTE
Jan 01, 2005 ... Despite sharply higher oil prices, rising interest rates, and aplunging dollar, stocks ended the year with gains. Stocks began torally a little ...
YEAR-END BOOM LIFTS MARKETS
Jan 01, 2005; ... After ringing in the New Year, investors may now want to raise onelast toast to 2004, as the stock market delivered a year-endingperformance worth celebrating. After an awful start, all the major stock indexes finished theyear in profitable country. While the Dow Jones industrial ...
VENTURE FUNDING GAINS 7%
Jan 01, 2005; ... Venture capital financing climbed 7 percent nationally last year,as investors shook off three years worth of jitters and funneledcapital to new technology companies in nontraditional fields and niche markets, according to a projection by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The accounting and ...
FIRST NIGHT DRAWS 1 MILLION
Jan 01, 2005; ... About a million revelers poured into Boston's streets yesterdayfor an unseasonably warm First Night celebration, donning flashingjester hats, lacing up ice skates, blowing horns, and throwingsnowballs as they bid adieu to a year of mixed fortunes. The weather reversal from last ...
THIEF WHO TARGETED MOURNERS SOUGHT
Jan 01, 2005; ... When the call came into Peabody police headquarters Wednesday,officers were more than a little surprised to hear that a crime hadoccurred in a cemetery. Police were told that a thief had broken into two cars and takentwo purses while a family was attending the burial of a relative ...
WHAT'S CLOSED, OPEN ON NEW YEAR'S DAY
Jan 01, 2005 ... Holiday observed: Today. Retail stores: Open at owner's discretion. Liquor stores: Some open. Supermarkets: Open. Convenience stores: Some open. Taverns, bars: Open. Banks: Closed. Stock market: Closed. Municipal, state, federal ...
MOST 2004 SLAYINGS IN 2 NEIGHBORHOODS
Jan 01, 2005; ... (PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Sunday, January 2, 2004: Correction : Because of reporting and editing errors, a story andaccompanying map about homicides in Boston in some editions of theCity & Region section yesterday gave the wrong number of 2004homicides that happened in Roxbury ....
FALL RIVER NUPTIALS GET GRAND RECEPTION
Jan 01, 2005; ... She endured thyroid cancer, the challenges of single motherhood,and losing her grandmother to a drunk driver. He battled a seizuredisorder that will eventually require brain surgery. If anyone neededa fresh start in 2005, it was Holly Carreira and Kristopher Ledoux. They got one ...
`SAFE HAVEN' SIGNS SPARK BATTLE IN LEXINGTON
Jan 01, 2005; ... Not on our front doors. That's the message Lexington's Historic Districts Commission issending as state officials prepare to unveil new signs Monday thatpublicize the state's "safe haven" law, allowing desperate parents toabandon unwanted newborns at hospitals, as well as fire and ...
DWIGHT STRONG, WATCH AND WARD SOCIETY LEADER, DIES
Jan 01, 2005; ... Dwight Spaulding Strong, the last director of the New EnglandWatch and Ward Society, a puritanical organization formed in Bostonin the 19th century to ban books, fight pornography, and "watch andward off evildoers," has died. Mr. Strong, 98, a self-described country boy from ...
REV. PAUL HENDERSON, AT 80: SERVED BOSTON, PUERTO RICO
Jan 01, 2005; ... Whether in church in Mission Hill, a bowling alley in Boston, or achapel in provincial Puerto Rico, the Rev. Paul Henderson served Godin the same down-to-earth manner. Father Henderson, a Redemptorist, died Dec. 17 of kidney failurein St. John Neumann Residence in Saratoga Springs, ...
FAMILY REUNION
Jan 01, 2005 ... Major Marcus Harring of Springfield, N.H., was greeted by hisdaughter, Kelsey, and son, Vince, as troops from the ...
HISTORY-RICH CHICAGO AWAITS MEMORIAL TO ITS IRISH
Jan 01, 2005; ... CHICAGO In a city that dyes its namesake river green on St.Patrick's Day, support for a Chicago Irish Memorial has dried up. Irish-Americans nationwide made plans in the 1990s to memorializethe 150th anniversary of the famine that drove Irish immigration toNorth America. But in ...
FAITHS UNITE IN A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR VICTIMS
Jan 01, 2005; ... Members of New England's Sri Lankan community came together in aBrighton church last night to remember their nation's enormous lossin this week's tsunami disaster, which claimed an estimated 30,000lives in that country alone. Under the vaulted ceilings of St. Columbkille Catholic ...
JEANNE MERCIER, 85; CELLIST AND WWII NURSE
Jan 01, 2005; ... Jeanne E. Mercier, a cellist who gave up music for a nursingcareer, died Dec. 23 of aplastic anemia at Casey House hospice inRockville, Md. She was 85. Miss Mercier was one of the first volunteers with the US CadetNurse Corps, which was organized to train nurses for service ...
TEENS SHOT
Jan 01, 2005 ... Two teenage boys were hospitalized yesterday after they were shotaboard an MBTA bus stopped at Warren and Maywood streets in Roxbury.Officials said ...
HUB SPINS A WINDY FIRST NIGHT
Jan 01, 2005; ... Perhaps it's no wonder in this age of media stardom, of policebarricades restraining teenagers outside MTV studios in Times Square.But for at least a few brief minutes last night, the biggest crowd onBoston Common gathered not outside the giant dragon ice sculpture oreven the Frog Pond ...
READIED FOR TAKEOFF
Jan 01, 2005 ... Workers at the NASA assembly facility in New Orleans moved theredesigned space shuttle fuel tank yesterday to a barge that istransporting it across the Gulf of Mexico to the Kennedy SpaceCenter in Florida - a five-day trek. The fuel ...
HELPING SOLDIERS TO GRIEVE, PRAY, AND HEAL
Jan 01, 2005; ... Four days before Christmas, an explosion at an Army dining hallnear Mosul, Iraq, killed 21 people, including 18 Americans. Two ofthe dead were National Guardsmen with Maine's 133d EngineerBattalion: Specialist Thomas J. Dostie, 20, and Sergeant Lynn R.Poulin Sr., 47. One of the ...
THE EVENING SKY BOASTS GLITTERING WINTER COMET
Jan 01, 2005; ... Amid the sparkling winter stars overhead, a new visitor is dimlyglowing: Comet Machholz, the brightest comet in several years toappear high in the sky as seen from New England. Named for its discoverer, amateur astronomer Don Machholz ofColfax, Calif., it is barely visible to the ...
10 NEW ENGLANDERS ABOARD CARGO PLANE
Jan 01, 2005; ... With 10 New Englanders on board, a giant C-5A Galaxy cargo planeleft Westover Air Reserve Base yesterday to help with the American relief effort in Asian countries devastated by the tsunamis. Theaircraft was scheduled to make a 19-hour, nonstop flight whichincludes being refueled ...
ALL NEW YEAR'S DAYS NOT CREATED EQUAL
Jan 01, 2005; ... PASADENA New Year's Day 3005 may start as much as a second before the ball falls in New York's Times Square because of the"megathrust" earthquake a millennium earlier. The first computermodels of the devastating Asian quake found that it caused the earthto spin ever-so-slightly ...
POLICE MAKE ARREST IN THREE ROBBERIES
Jan 01, 2005 ... A 24-year-old Everett man was arrested Thursday in connection withthree robberies in Everett this week, said police Lieutenant JosephInternicole. John Nugent was charged with three counts of armedrobbery while masked in connection with robberies at a Sunoco stationon Revere Beach ...
EX-CORRECTION OFFICER FACES FRAUD CHARGE
Jan 01, 2005 ... Kevin J. Mello, a former Bristol County correction officer, wasindicted this week on charges of working over a four-year periodwhile he continued to collect nearly $95,000 in workers' compensationbenefits, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly's office said in astatement. Mello, 39, of South ...
THE TORTURE MEMOS
Jan 01, 2005 ... THE PHOTOS released last spring of US soldiers abusing Iraqiprisoners at Abu Ghraib brought that issue to the world's attention.So far just a few low-ranking guards have been punished for what theadministration has tried to pass off as isolated actions. But thereal extent of the abuse at ...
SADDER AND WISER
Jan 01, 2005 ... REMEMBER MILLENNIUM fever? It gets scant attention now, five yearsafter the great Y2K scare culminated in a New Year's Eve that waspretty much like previous New Year's Eves - except that the partieswere more lavish, and many of the guests showed up with flashlights. But cities did ...
IN HARD-HIT PORT, RESIDENTS SEEK TO MEND BROKEN LIVES
Jan 01, 2005; ... HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka For generations, this southern port townhas heralded the year's passing with firecrackers and all-nightcelebrations. But as the sun set yesterday, the air was heavy withdespair: Sri Lanka was mourning its tsunami victims. White and yellow flags of mourning ...
US PROMISES BIG BOOST IN DISASTER RELIEF FUNDS CAUTION IS URGED ON PUBLIC DONATIONS
Jan 01, 2005; ... In an outpouring of generosity with few parallels in US history,Americans are sending millions of dollars to charities that areproviding water, food, shelter, medicine, blankets, and othersupplies to survivors of the colossal tsunami that ravaged broadswaths of Asia. As of ...
A FINAL FAREWELL TO THOSE WHO DEPARTED IN 2004
Jan 01, 2005; ... Their nicknames, The Gipper and The Genius, were strikinglysimilar and carried near-mythic force. As fate would have it, thelives of these two extraordinary Americans ended only days apart inJune, triggering an outpouring of tributes from around the world. Ronald Reagan, the ...
DRUNKEN DRIVING ARRESTS DROP
Jan 01, 2005; ... The number of motorists arrested for drunken driving inMassachusetts has dropped nearly 30 percent since the mid 1990s, asteady decline that police and social workers attribute to a greaterpublic awarenes of the dangers of drunken driving, but also to lessintense law ...
O'TOOLE TO CREATE POLICE REVIEW BOARD CITIZEN PANEL WILL PROBE COMPLAINTS
Jan 01, 2005; ... Police Commissioner Kathleen M. O'Toole, in one of her mostsignificant moves since she took office, plans to establish a citizenreview board to investigate a wide range of civilian complaintsagainst the department. The board might be authorized to look into shootings ...
BUSH PLEDGES $350M; RELIEF EFFORTS CRAWL
Jan 01, 2005; ... MEDAN, Indonesia - President Bush announced a tenfold increase inUS aid to tsunami victims yesterday, pledging $350 million, as reliefsupplies poured into Asia from around the world. But tons of food, medicine, and other aid meant for the coast ofSumatra, one of the most ...
TSUNAMI COVERAGE OFFERED
Jan 01, 2005; ... Comcast Corp. said it has begun offering free access to two Asian-based cable channels on its New England digital cable systems sothat local residents can follow news coverage of tsunami recoveryefforts in their native languages. The International Channel iscurrently on digital ...
WHY AMERICANS WILL BE SAFER IN 2005
Jan 01, 2005; ... AS AMERICANS HEAD INTO THE NEW YEAR STILL CONCERNED ABOUT THETHREAT OF TERRORISM, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REASONS THEY CAN BEOPTIMISTIC THAT AMERICA WILL BE SAFER AND FREER IN 2005. THESEINCLUDE: * National standards for driver's licenses. America'spaper-based system of identification, ...
NEW TRUTHS ABOUT REAL MEN
Jan 01, 2005; ... THE NEWS ABOUT MEN IN THE YEAR JUST PAST WAS DISMAL. A high-profile court case saw a husband (Scott Peterson) convicted ofmurdering his pregnant wife. CEOs at Enron and Worldcom stand accusedof defrauding employees and investors. NBA players waded into acrowd, fists flying. Then, to put ...
WE CAN BE HEARD
Jan 01, 2005 ... THANKS TO JAMES CARROLL FOR THE WISDOM AND CLARITY EXPRESSED INTHE COLUMN "A year of living dangerously" (op ed, Dec. 28). It was abelated Christmas gift. Yes, we can still make a noise, and we ...
OPPOSE BUSH'S SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN
Jan 01, 2005 ... IN RESPONSE TO PETER S. CANELLOS'S COLUMN "PLAN FOR SOCIALSECURITY RELIES ON AN IMMEDIATE, FAMILIAR BUSH STRATEGY," (PAGE A3,DEC. 28), IT IS NOT JUST DEMOCRATS THAT NEED TO OPPOSE PRESIDENTBUSH'S SCHEME TO "PARTIALLY" PRIVATIZE SOCIAL SECURITY. CURRENTLY, ANESTIMATED 10 PERCENT OF HOUSE ...
COUNCILOR SETS A BAD EXAMPLE
Jan 01, 2005 ... THE STORY "ON PARKING MARKERS, SOUTHIE, CITY DIG IN" (PAGE A1,DEC. 30) DETAILS ATROCIOUS BEHAVIOR BY CITY COUNCILOR JAMES KELLY. NOT ONLY IS IT WRONG TO STICK AN ITEM ON A PUBLIC STREET TO RESERVE APARKING SPOT, BUT KELLY'S JUSTIFICATION IS AKIN TO THE JUVENILERESPONSE "WELL, SO-AND-SO ...
FOES OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SHOULD PUT EFFORTS ELSEWHERE
Jan 01, 2005 ... TRADITIONALLY, THE END OF THE YEAR MARKS A TIME TO REFLECT ON THENEWS OF THE PAST YEAR. THIS YEAR SHOULD BE NO EXCEPTION. HOWEVER,SOME TRADITIONS ARE BEST WHEN BROKEN. TRADITIONALLY, MARRIAGE HASBEEN BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN, BUT 2004 MARKED A YEAR THATMASSACHUSETTS SHOULD BE PROUD ...
THE COMEBACK SONG
Jan 01, 2005 ... (Sung to the melody of "The Christmas Song," a.k.a. "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") A-Rod slapping at Arroyo's glove Jeter whiffing, two feet late Georgie Porgie having fits - don't you love The Yankees dropping four games straight? Everybody ...
SUPER RICH CAN HELP IN CRISIS
Jan 01, 2005 ... WHAT ARE OUR MANY MULTIMILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES DOING TO HELPVICTIMS OF THE TSUNAMI? THEY COULD SUPPLY CONTRIBUTIONS THAT, TAKENTOGETHER, WOULD EXCEED THE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OUR GOVERNMENT. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, among others, could part with millionsthey don't need. And ...
HOW TO HELP
Jan 01, 2005 ... THE STAGGERING scale of the disaster in Asia can paralyze peopleof good will. Over 100,000 have died in the pitiless tidal waves thatswamped coastal nations halfway around the world. Perhaps that manymore will die from disease, starvation, or lack of adequate medicalcare in the weeks to ...
MESSAGE CLEAR: BC HAS ARRIVED EAGLES SHOWED THEY CAN PLAY WITH ACC
Jan 01, 2005; ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The final minute began to tick away on BostonCollege's 37-24 win over North Carolina Thursday in the ContinentalTire Bowl. The Eagles' fifth consecutive bowl victory was well inhand when a contingent of some 6,000 BC fans - still vocal despitebeing outnumbered 10 to 1 ...
JANUARY'S SCHEDULE SHOULD BE GODSEND
Jan 01, 2005; ... OK, there's the Pistons in the Palace tomorrow night. That's noday at the beach. But after that, well, it looks like the Celticshave a good chance to make up some ground in the not-so-hot AtlanticDivision and Eastern Conference. That was the take after yesterday's 108-103 victory ...
BERTUZZI REQUESTS HEARING ON BAN
Jan 01, 2005 ... NAMES Todd Bertuzzi has requested a hearing with NHLcommissioner Gary Bettman to determine if the Vancouver forward'sindefinite suspension for his attack on Colorado's Steve Moore shouldbe lifted. Pat Morris, Bertuzzi's agent, said yesterday he is waitingto hear from Bettman. NHL chief ...
FIVE-STAR PERFORMANCE LONGHORNS' BENSON IS RUNNING WITH BEST OF 'EM
Jan 01, 2005; ... PASADENA, Calif. - Texas running back Cedric Benson will walk intothe Rose Bowl today against Michigan just a few steps from makinghistory.If he rushes for 129 yards, which would be well below hisnorm, he will finish his career as the fourth-leading rusher in NCAAhistory. The only ...
CHOW VITAL COG FOR USC
Jan 01, 2005; ... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - He has become something of a celebrity incollegiate circles. His name has been mentioned for various coachingopenings the last several weeks. But Southern California offensivecoordinator Norm Chow has other things on his mind. As much as the players will be ...
`SMALLPOX' OFFERS POTENT DOSE OF FAUX REALITY
Jan 01, 2005; ... There's something dislikable and predatory about the doomsday-mongering of FX's "Smallpox," which premieres tomorrow night at 8.This little movie shamelessly exploits our post-Sept. 11 fears,showing us the extent of the public-health disaster that could ensueif the smallpox virus were ...
BROWSER WOWS
Jan 01, 2005 ... The closing price of Google Inc. shares is displayed on the boardof the Nasdaq Marketsite yesterday. Google ...
BROWN ISN'T CALIFORNIA DREAMING
Jan 01, 2005; ... PASADENA, Calif. - Texas coach Mack Brown didn't show any sense ofvindication after California lost to Texas Tech Thursday in theHoliday Bowl. Texas had jumped ahead of Cal in the final Bowl ChampionshipSeries rankings to earn a spot in today's Rose Bowl, which the Bearsthought ...
SCHLOCK ROCK BURIES THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
Jan 01, 2005; ... Boston was the last stop on Trans-Siberian Orchestra's tour atour that has played to a whopping 600,000 people who have beendrawn, mostly by word of mouth, to a spectacle-driven display of rockopera complete with smoke bombs, pyrotechnics, five lasers, andenough strobe lights to make ...
FAMILY DATEBOOK
Jan 01, 2005; ... 'Tis the week after Christmas and armed with your mouse, you'researching for diets, feeling big as a house. Here's an idea. Hikethrough the Blue Hills Reservation, choosing a one- or two-hourguided trek, or a stroll around Houghton's Pond. Today's First DayHikes in Milton start at 1 ...