The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 2005:
HOMELESS FUNDING NEEDED
Feb 01, 2005 ... HOMELESS PEOPLE will be helped by $1.4 billion in newly announcedfederal grants, including more than $60 million for Massachusetts.The Department of Housing and Urban Development touts this as the"largest single commitment of federal funds designed to provideshelter and care for those ...
BC HITS NEW HEIGHTS AT NO. 5 IN THE POLLS
Feb 01, 2005; ... Picked to finish fifth in the Big East coaches' preseason poll,the Boston College men's basketball team yesterday earned a rankingas the fifth-best team in the nation. The Eagles soared to the highest ranking in school history, movingup three spots in the Associated Press and ESPN/ ...
CELTICS ARE JUST A LITTLE BIT AMISS
Feb 01, 2005; ... Ricky Davis relegated Paul Pierce to a supporting role and forcedTracy McGrady into service as a defensive stopper in the fourthquarter. He was that hot. Davis knocked down his first seven shots inthe period, abusing Houston guard David Wesley, who served as hismentor when the two played ...
BENTLEY ABLE TO AVOID POTHOLE 18TH STRAIGHT WIN NO SMOOTH DRIVE
Feb 01, 2005; ... Boston College isn't the only team in the area riding an 18-gamewinning streak. Bentley College - the other BC - recorded its 18thconsecutive win in a thrilling 97-96 overtime victory over Northeast-10 foe Saint Rose Saturday afternoon at the Dana Center in Waltham. Matching the ...
HOME STRETCH IF YOU COME, YOU'LL BE A REAL NOWHERE FAN
Feb 01, 2005; ... JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Four words of advice if you plan on coming toSuper Bowl XXXIX. Buy the plasma instead. You might want to rethink things if you're still plotting thatonce-in-a-lifetime trip south, especially if you haven't alreadyscored tickets. Your money might be better ...
BONDS WILL MISS SOME SPRING TRAINING
Feb 01, 2005 ... NAMES Barry Bonds is expected to miss much of spring trainingfollowing arthroscopic surgery yesterday on his right knee, but theSan Francisco Giants slugger should recover in time for the regularseason. The seven-time National League MVP had a "minor arthritiscleanup," the Giants said ...
ROCKETS HAVE A RETRO FEEL SOME BOOST LEFT IN OLD-TIMERS
Feb 01, 2005; ... They're a strange bunch. You look at their roster and see imagesof rotary telephones. You remember almost all of them in short pantsand a lot of them playing in the NBA before there ever was such athing as a Toronto Raptor or Vancouver Grizzly. "They're going to have to put me in a ...
THE BOOK ON EAGLES COACH: PRETTY GOOD REID
Feb 01, 2005; ... JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The "other" coach isn't bad, either. The Patriots have the cerebral, focused quasi-genius on theirside. With four Super Bowl rings in his collection - two as anassistant with the Giants and two as the boss in New England - BillBelichick has become the Coach of ...
NEW OWNERS BRING MORE MUSIC TO THE ABBEY LOUNGE
Feb 01, 2005; ... The Abbey Lounge is under new ownership. The Somerville rock club,which added a wine bar in October, is now being run by threeemployees who will keep the focus on rock but also plan to add liveacoustic music in the pub next to the main performance area. It willbe called the Abbey Lounge ...
TALKIN' UP THE BIG GAME
Feb 01, 2005; ... My sports colleagues tell me that the epithet The Game is reservedfor the annual Harvard-Yale football tilt. Fine. But for some of us,The Game will take place Thursday evening, when Hartford's TrinityCollege squash team invades Harvard's Barnaby courts to try to extendits astonishing ...
HOPE CAN COME IN MANY FORMS
Feb 01, 2005 ... Dear Readers: Hope has been on my mind a great deal lately. Hope the feelingand belief that what is desired is possible is essential to youngpeople, propelling them to explore their own strengths and resources.Where do we find hope; how do we hold onto it? A friend, Sarah ...
LITTLE-KNOWN ENGLISH HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN CORNWELL'S `KINGDOM'
Feb 01, 2005; ... The year is 867, and Uhtred is almost 11 when, as the Anglo-Saxonprotagonist of "The Last Kingdom" recalls in later years, "it was thefirst time I ever went to war. And I have never ceased." In historic period and emotional complexity, this is arguably amore broadly imagined world ...
CONCERT UPDATE
Feb 01, 2005; ... Maroon 5 at the Agganis Arena on April 2. Tickets, $35, on saleSaturday at 10 a.m. Opening act is the Donnas. U2 sold out its May 24 and 26 shows at the FleetCenter, then addeda third show May 28, which also sold out when tickets went on saleSaturday. No further Fleet dates are ...
`THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DESTROY MY LIFE' BERNADETTE FERNANDES SHOULDERS LOSS AND GRIEF WITHOUT BITTERNESS
Feb 01, 2005; ... The day before she was killed, 10-year-old Trina Persad had takenthe entrance exam for parochial school. "That was so easy," she toldher mother. With her good grades and her talent in the arts, Trinawas certain to go to college and maybe head for Broadway, or evenmedical school. Anything ...
CASTING A GLANCE DOWNWARD
Feb 01, 2005 ... Let us now praise "shoegazer" bands. First, a definition: The term"shoegazer" came to be applied to certain bands, mostly British, thatexisted during the 1980s and 1990s. My Bloody Valentine, Ride,Swervedriver, Spaceman 3, and Swell were called shoegazers because,well, lots of times ...
`HARD CANDY' LEAVES SUNDANCE BITTERLY DIVIDED
Feb 01, 2005; ... PARK CITY, Utah - While the Sundance Film Festival prides itselfon showcasing cutting-edge independent cinema, the truth is you cancount the films that actually draw blood that make peopleuncomfortable and angry on the fingers of one hand. This year you could count them on one ...
YOUTH IS SERVED IN THIS `ROOM'
Feb 01, 2005; ... The younger generation. What are we to do with them, with their"whatever" attitude, their irony, and their 24/7 access to sex,drugs, rock 'n' roll, and the Internet? The older generation. What are we to do with them, with theirmoral smugness, their hypocrisy, and their ...
REMEMBERING JACKIE ROBINSON; NETTING THE LOBSTERS
Feb 01, 2005; ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY Had he been elected president, John Kerry probably would not have been able to attend yesterday's event atFenway Park celebrating the life of Jackie Robinson. But he wasn't,so he did. The senator was joined in the .406 Club by Robinson'sgranddaughter Sonya Pankey , as ...
RECALLING THE DAYS OF FOUR-PARTY PHONES AND FROZEN LONG JOHNS
Feb 01, 2005; ... My children, my grandchildren, my young friends are pleased that Ihave all the necessities in my condo, but what they call essentials Icall luxuries. Growing up, we had no central air. No thermostat on the wall. Wehad a furnace fired by shovelfuls and shovelfuls of coal that ...
ORPHEUS ARTISTS ARE IN TUNE WITH ONE ANOTHER
Feb 01, 2005; ... New York's Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a distinctively Americanphenomenon, a democratically run ensemble that rehearses and playswithout a conductor. Over the last 32 years it has also become aninternational institution, thanks to extensive touring and adiscography of more than 70 CDs ....
JACKSON TRIAL: SEND IN THE CLOWNS
Feb 01, 2005; ... At iPodLounge.com, a website by and for fans of the wildly popularApple digital audio player, users can discuss, among a myriad oftopics, the latest must-have accessories, compatibility andinstallation problems and whether they will keep Michael Jackson'smusic on their ...
`BUSTER' EPISODE TO AIR TOMORROW
Feb 01, 2005; ... Tomorrow WGBH-TV (Channel 2) plans to broadcast the controversialepisode of the children's program "Postcards From Buster" that USSecretary of Education Margaret Spellings condemned last week becauseit features two lesbian couples and their children. The show isscheduled to air at 5:30 ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
Feb 01, 2005; ... A musician collapses at a recording session on "House," at 9 p.m.on Channel 25. Ashlee Simpson must be back in the studio. "Michael Jackson's Mind" is at 8 p.m. on Court TV. No, I'm notbeing clever. "Lost" isn't until Wednesday and it's on ABC. Paula, Randy, and Simon mud ...
`VEIL' CONCEALS PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE
Feb 01, 2005; ... Kirsten Greenidge's "103 Within the Veil" occupies an awkwardspace somewhere between a drama and a drag. Presented as biopic-meets-collage, "103 Within the Veil" introduces audiences to HubertCollins, an AfricanAmerican who worked in Boston as a photographer inrelative obscurity and as a ...
ATMOSPHERE AT ZORN TRIBUTE IS DECIDEDLY COOL
Feb 01, 2005; ... New York avant-gardist John Zorn sat down for his portrait Sundayafternoon in the Gardner Museum, but no 90-minute period ofconversation and music could display the many facets of this proteanmusical personality who has documented his work on more than 250 CDs.Composer, jazz saxophonist, ...
TOO MUCH TO HANDLE
Feb 01, 2005; ... BlackRock Inc., a pure investment company, officially closedyesterday on the $375 million acquisition of Boston money managerState Street Research from its former owner, life insurance giantMetLife Inc. Coincidentally, MetLife was involved in a second, much larger dealyesterday, ...
MERGERS CAN HELP CONSUMERS, ANALYSTS SAY
Feb 01, 2005; ... AT&T Corp. gets taken over by its former Baby Bell spinoff, SBCCommunications Inc. Gillette Co. is devoured by consumer productsgiant Procter & Gamble Co. Both megadeal proposals come just weeks after an $80 billionconsolidation wave rips through the cellphone industry, taking ...
JETBLUE TO GAIN GATES AS IT BEEFS UP SERVICE FROM LOGAN
Feb 01, 2005; ... JetBlue Airways is expected to outline plans tomorrow for a majorexpansion at Logan International Airport that will involve moving toanother terminal where it will have more gates as it prepares forservice increases. JetBlue, which currently has just two gates in Terminal E, ...
MARSH & MCLENNAN TO PAY $850M FRAUD SETTLEMENT WITH N.Y. REMOVES CLOUD OVER PUTNAM
Feb 01, 2005; ... The $850 million settlement Marsh & McLennan Cos. reached with NewYork Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday will have a small butpositive effect on its mutual-fund subsidiary, Putnam Investments,but is unlikely to resolve whether the Boston firm should split fromits corporate parent, ...
FOR GOD AND COMPANY MORE EMPLOYEES ARE BRINGING FAITH TO WORK, BUT NOT WITHOUT RULES
Feb 01, 2005; ... When hundreds of Christian churches hold their national congressat the Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center Thursday, DrewCrandall plans to be there, advising attendees on how to practicetheir faith at work and giving out religious items for the officecubicle and ...
FANS FORCED TO TACKLE BIG MARKUP PATRIOTS' OFFICIAL TOUR OPERATOR QUADRUPLES ENTRY PRICE OF GAME
Feb 01, 2005; ... The New England Patriots are funneling a portion of their SuperBowl ticket allotment to a tour operator that is effectively chargingfour times face value for tickets included in trip packages toJacksonville, Fla. PrimeSport International, identified on the Patriots website asthe ...
FEMALE ASTRONOMERS CONNECTED THE DOTS
Feb 01, 2005; ... When Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers suggested that theremight be "innate" differences between women and men that affect theirsuccess in the sciences, it brought to mind an extraordinary storyconcerning women scientists at Harvard at the start of the 20thcentury. In 1877, ...
CALENDAR: FEB. 1-7
Feb 01, 2005 ... [PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE:Thursday, February 3, 2005: Correction: Because of a reporting error, the calendar in Tuesday'sHealth/Science section gave the wrong day for a visit by "AntiquesRoadshow" expert Paul Royka to the Museum of Science. Royka willappraise scientific antiques on ...
EVEN IN WAL-MART WORLD, LOCAL IDENTITY RUNS DEEP
Feb 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON The announcement last week of Procter & Gamble'sagreement to take over Gillette provoked a rush of disappointment inBoston over the loss of another emblem of local identity. But it alsohighlighted one of the most intriguing paradoxes of recent decades:At a time when ...
PFIZER REVEALS STUDY LINKING CELEBREX TO HEART RISKS
Feb 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - Pfizer Inc. has revealed it completed a study fouryears ago that links its painkiller Celebrex to a "statisticallysignificant" increase in heart problems, bolstering demands forspeedier dissemination of negative trial results. The recent disclosure, on an ...
CHESS NOTES
Feb 01, 2005; ... Here is a remarkable game, Shirov-Korchnoi, that is an example ofthe attacking ability of Alexei Shirov. Now living in Spain, Shirov,the man who refuses to shake hands with Gary Kasparov when they play,has been for many years the enfant terrible of offensive play. Hespecializes in ...
ROMNEY PLAN WOULD GREATLY BOOST CHARTER SCHOOLS
Feb 01, 2005; ... Thousands more children in the worst school systems could attendcharter schools under a plan Governor Mitt Romney wants to pushthrough the Legislature this year to give students a way out offailing schools. Romney's proposal goes further than even charter school ...
TECHNOLOGY NOW USED ON TOLL ROADS AND IN STORES IS MOVING INTO HOSPITALS
Feb 01, 2005; ... There are only five ventilators spread throughout the football-field-sized emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess MedicalCenter so sometimes the breathing machines are hard to find. "But, in a crash situation, with a trauma patient, I really needto find that piece of ...
CORD-BLOOD BANKING ONLY MAKES SENSE IF IT'S A SHARED EFFORT
Feb 01, 2005; ... How much would you pay to guard your newborn against the futurerisk of fatal cancer, heart disease, immune problems, and many otherserious diseases? Companies such as Cord Blood Registry, Boston-based Viacord, andabout 20 others are betting that anxiety about these illnesses ...
FOR THE RECORD
Feb 01, 2005 ... Correction: Because of a graphic artist's error, a Page One chartin early editions yesterday accompanying a story on the Romneyadministration's effort ...
CREDIT UNION'S EX-CFO ADMITS EMBEZZLING SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS MONEY PAID FOR GAMBLING HABIT, CIVIL LAWYER SAYS
Feb 01, 2005; ... The former chief financial officer of a Chelsea credit unionpleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to embezzling more than$90,000 from a scholarship fund to aid children of employees who workin the Boston taxi industry, prosecutors said. George J. Gracie, 59, of Woburn, who was ...
DEBATE BUILDS OVER CREATING EXIT PLAN
Feb 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON Sunday's election in Iraq has prompted a sharp debatein Washington about a US exit strategy, with some arguing that it istime to announce a timetable or at least conditions for a USwithdrawal, and others insisting that such moves would be ...
PANEL AIMS TO BOLSTER LAWS ON GANG VIOLENCE
Feb 01, 2005; ... The Legislature's Public Safety Committee will call today for astrengthened campaign to combat gang violence, which is blamed inpart for last year's dramatic rise in homicides in Boston, and whichofficials fear will lead to a surge in crime across the state. The panel says that ...
JUDGE RULES DETAINEES HAVE RIGHT TO LAWYERS
Feb 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - A federal judge ruled yesterday that Guantanamo Baydetainees must be allowed to challenge their imprisonment in courtwith a defense lawyer, delivering a major blow to the Bushadministration's bid to hold suspected fighters in the war onterrorism without judicial ...
ALBERT L. GOLDMAN, 86, NOTED LABOR LAWYER
Feb 01, 2005; ... Albert Leonard Goldman of Lexington, a lawyer known nationally andlocally as an advocate for the labor movement during his 56-yearcareer, died Dec. 29 at Massachusetts General Hospital of heartdisease. He was 86. "Al was a very thorough and brilliant lawyer and cross-examinerwho ...
JUDGE DENIES HERALD QUOTES MURPHY, DAUGHTER TESTIFY THAT STORIES ALTERED HIS LIFE
Feb 01, 2005; ... In emotional testimony yesterday in his libel suit against theBoston Herald, Judge Ernest B. Murphy disputed two explosivequotations the paper attributed to him and said he was shocked andangered by the coverage. In yesterday's tensest moment, Murphy's lawyer, Howard Cooper,asked ...
STATE LOOKS TO SPEND MORE FOR HOMELESS STABLE HOUSING, SERVICES SOUGHT
Feb 01, 2005; ... The Romney administration wants more money for permanent housingfor the chronically homeless, fueling a broader effort to end the useof hotel and motel rooms as emergency shelters and winning praisefrom advocates for the indigent. The administration is asking lawmakers for $2.5 ...
HUBBLE TROUBLE'S SPACE TELESCOPE'S FUTURE IN DOUBT AGAIN
Feb 01, 2005; ... The telescope that once needed eyeglasses but then gave scientistsrevolutionary insights into the cosmos is in trouble again. On Monday, NASA is expected to present a budget to Congress thatdoes not include any money to fix the aging Hubble space telescope.Unless Congress sets ...
URGENT TASKS LOOM AFTER IRAQ POLLING OFFICIALS LOOK TO TAMING ATTACKS, CREATING UNITY
Feb 01, 2005; ... BAGHDAD - With Iraq still counting millions of ballots fromSunday's historic national elections, US and Iraqi officials lookedahead yesterday to their most pressing challenges, from taming aninsurgency that mounted a record 250 attacks on election day tocoaxing the many Sunni Muslims ...
2 TEENS ARRAIGNED IN MAN'S SLAYING PAIR SAID TO BRAG OF BEATING DEATH
Feb 01, 2005; ... Two suspects were arraigned yesterday in the murder of a 24-year-old Medford man who was beaten Friday night in a Malden parkinggarage. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Dudley, a mover, pleaded not guilty inMalden District Court on charges of first-degree murder and wasordered held ...
LOSING THE NAME GAME
Feb 01, 2005; ... NEWBURY - The trustees of the venerable Governor Dummer Academymay really be on to something in this decision to change their schoolname. You can't call a school Dummer, right? I mean, how totally stupid.People snicker. They make snide jokes. Worst of all, prospectivestudents ...
KAREN ANTONIO-MUENZINGER, CLASSICAL TRUMPETER; AT 40
Feb 01, 2005; ... Karen Antonio-Muenzinger was a versatile classical trumpeter whoperformed with the Portland Symphony in Maine, the New Hampshire-based Apple Hill Chamber Players, and Boston-area mariachi bands. "She did not see a cultural barrier that she did not test," KarlMuenzinger of ...
MAN SHOT, KILLED ON DORCHESTER STREET
Feb 01, 2005; ... Michael Young went home on Saturday. Though he had moved to Dedham three years ago, he frequentlyvisited the Norfolk Street area in Dorchester where he had grown upand where many of his relatives still live, family members saidyesterday. Young, 21, was shot in the back ...
Q: WHY DOES SHOVELING TRIGGER HEART ATTACKS?
Feb 01, 2005; ... How can I avoid becoming a victim? Shoveling snow is an especially nasty heart attack trigger,especially for out-of-shape people, said Dr. Richard Nesto, chairmanof the department of cardiovascular medicine at the Lahey Clinic inBurlington, where at least four people were treated ...
PROSECUTORS REST CASE VS. SHANLEY 1 OF 3 CHILD RAPE CHARGES DROPPED
Feb 01, 2005; ... CAMBRIDGE - The former Sunday School classmates agree on thismuch: Their class was rowdy, the teachers were overwhelmed, and thethree most raucous boys sometimes left the classroom, including onewho accuses defrocked priest Paul R. Shanley of raping him duringthose hours. But ...
PAC BACKING ROMNEY PUMPS CASH IN KEY STATES
Feb 01, 2005; ... Friends and supporters of Governor Mitt Romney have established apolitical action committee that has lavished more than $250,000 onRepublican candidates and county GOP organizations across the nationsince July, apparently laying the groundwork for a potentialpresidential run for the ...
ANTIRIOT PLAN EYES COLLEGES, LIQUOR SALES MAYOR URGES IMMEDIATE EXPULSIONS
Feb 01, 2005; ... Mayor Thomas M. Menino asked Boston liquor stores and barsyesterday to limit alcohol sales to students on Super Bowl weekend,and he is urging universities to immediately expel students who takepart in game- related riots. After a meeting at the Parkman House with representatives of ...
RAPE TRIAL ENDS WITH DEADLOCKED JURY AGAIN JURORS FEARED DNA COULD BE FROM TWIN
Feb 01, 2005; ... For the second time in seven months, a jury decided yesterday thatit could not convict a Dorchester man of a 2001 rape because DNArecovered at the scene could have come from his identical twin. In a case illustrating a rare shortcoming of DNA evidence, theSuffolk Superior Court ...
A PLATELET DONOR'S FALSE ALARM
Feb 01, 2005; ... Twenty-three blood donors have gotten a jolt in the mail from theRed Cross over the last few months a letter warning them that theirplatelet donation had to be tossed because initial tests showed theirblood was contaminated with bacteria. Almost all the results werefalse alarms, but ...
LEADERS VOICE CAUTIOUS APPROVAL FOR NATIONAL VOTE
Feb 01, 2005; ... LONDON The day after Iraqis defied the threat of violence andvoted by the millions, world leaders from Europe to the Middle East,many of whom had opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, said yesterdaythe national election was a step forward. But in some foreign capitals, there was ...
FOR THE RECORD
Feb 01, 2005 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, an incorrect date wasgiven in the Go! Monday column in yesterday's Living/Arts ...
FOR THE RECORD
Feb 01, 2005 ... Correction: Because of reporting errors, an article on theSundance Film Festival in yesterday's Living/Arts section incorrectlyreported which studio ...
US ADDS $5.6M FOR HEATING ASSISTANCE
Feb 01, 2005 ... Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announcedyesterday that an additional $5,637,425 in emergency funds will beprovided to Massachusetts from the Low Income Home Energy AssistanceProgram to help low-income ...
SMARTLINK RADIO RAISES $15M IN VC
Feb 01, 2005; ... SmartLink Radio Networks Inc., a Billerica start-up that makesequipment for consolidating multiple public safety and businesswalkie-talkie systems, has closed a $15 million second round ofventure capital funding. The deal brings its total capital raised tomore than $27 million. SmartLink ...
THE TEST IS YET TO COME OWENS JOINS PRACTICE ON A LIMITED BASIS
Feb 01, 2005; ... JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Word flying around the NFL is that the Eagleswill have to put the wood to Terrell Owens at some point this weekbefore a decision is made on whether he will take the field Sunday. All season, Owens has been the heart of the Eagles' offense.Quarterback Donovan ...