The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 2005:
BISHOP SAYS GAP IS CLOSING OVER GAYS IN ANGLICAN CHURCH
Mar 01, 2005; ... The danger of a schism in the global Anglican Communion appears tobe lessening, Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, leader of the EpiscopalDiocese of Massachusetts, said yesterday.Shaw, responding tolast week's gathering in Northern Ireland of worldwide leaders ofthe Christian denomination, ...
BOOK VALUE
Mar 01, 2005 ... IN 1998, Nancy Pearl and Chris Higashi at the Washington Centerfor the Book in the Seattle Public Library looked at each other andasked this intriguing question: What if all of Seattle read the samebook? Good thing they asked, for the question became a magnet thatpulled a ...
OUT WITH A CLANG AGAINST PITT, BC ABSORBS ITS FIRST HOME LOSS OF SEASON - IN THE FINAL GAME
Mar 01, 2005; ... This was supposed to be a home-court coronation. A rousingsendoff. It was supposed to be the night the fifth-ranked BostonCollege men's basketball team clinched the No. 1 seed in next week'sBig East tournament, in an ESPN "Big Monday" contest against No. 24Pittsburgh. Problem ...
LUCCHINO PLEADS IGNORANCE HE SAYS HE DIDN'T SUSPECT CAMINITI WAS USING STEROIDS
Mar 01, 2005; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - In the wake of a published admission by SanDiego Padres general manager Kevin Towers that he "felt like I knew"star player Ken Caminiti was using steroids while with the Padres,Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino, who was CEO of the team during Caminiti'sstint there, said he ...
DELCARMEN'S GETTING BACK INTO FAST LANE
Mar 01, 2005; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - He gets the big ice bag on his elbow, he getsthe humongous ice bag on his shoulder, and that's probably the wayit's always going to be. You want the reality of throwing a baseballfor a living? Manny Delcarmen is only 23. His aging process was accelerated ...
COUNT ON THE US AS MEDAL COLLECTORS
Mar 01, 2005; ... Last time, their rivals shrugged it off as a home cookin' fluke, acombination of Utah altitude, thousands of flag-waving U-S-A-chanting supporters, and the advantage of knowing where the bathroomswere. The Americans had never won more than 13 medals at a WinterOlympics. How could they ...
SOUTHIE'S FAME: WHO'S TO BLAME?
Mar 01, 2005; ... Martin Scorsese's next movie, which will soon begin shooting inToronto, will be set in South Boston. Cable channel Showtime hascommissioned a series originally titled "Southie," now "Brotherhood" loosely based on the irresistible Cain and Abel story of former stateSenate president ...
KINGS OF LEON ARE READY TO OPEN FOR ROCK ROYALTY
Mar 01, 2005; ... This question is making the rounds of the music industry: "Do youthink Kings of Leon are really worthy of being the opening act on thecoming U2 tour?" The answer after Sunday's electrifying set at the Paradise isyes. We won't know for sure until the Kings line up in front of U2 ...
J.LO'S `REBIRTH' IS JUST REPACKAGING
Mar 01, 2005; ... Considering the series of unfortunate events that have keptJennifer Lopez in the public eye in recent years among themBennifer, "Gigli," and her third marriage in eight years who canblame the struggling starlet for naming her new album "Rebirth," orfor wanting to dream up a whole new ...
'SOMETHING HAPPENED TO JEFF' JEFF LUCEY RETURNED FORM IRAQ A CHANGED MAN. THEN HE KILLED HIMSELF
Mar 01, 2005; ... BELCHERTOWN Less than three weeks before he committed suicide,Jeffrey Lucey, lance corporal in the Marine Reserves, veteran ofOperation Iraqi Freedom, totaled his parents' Nissan Altima. He wasn't drunk when he ran the car off the road and landedbetween two trees, which was ...
MASUR LEADS FRENCH ORCHESTRA IN LIVELY CONCERT
Mar 01, 2005; ... Kurt Masur made a tumultuous exit from the New York Philharmonicin 2002 after some well-publicized friction with the Philharmonic'sboard. Anyone who thought that would signal his withdrawal from themusic scene was mistaken: The 77-year-old German maestro now directsboth the Orchestre ...
FAITHFUL FOLLOWING AFTER SIX MONTHS, PARISHIONERS ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR ST. ALBERT'S
Mar 01, 2005; ... WEYMOUTH - Last August they took to the pews wearing T-shirtsand sandals, thankful for the church's air conditioning system.Sunday night they wore parkas and boots, thankful for the church'sheating system. It has been six months since parishioners at St. Albert the Greattook ...
ROCK GIVES OSCARS A BOUNCE
Mar 01, 2005; ... Oscar fought off the awards-show blues. Sunday night's broadcast of the 77th annual Academy Awards on ABCattracted an average of 41.5 million viewers, just 2 million fewerviewers than last year when "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of theKing" dominated the stage. The ...
MANIC INVESTING
Mar 01, 2005; ... Biogen Idec Inc. stock fell so hard yesterday it could have left acrater. The nearly 43 percent plunge in Biogen shares only lookedattractive to investors who owned the stock of Elan Corp., which lost70 percent of its value during the day. Cambridge-based Biogen andElan, partners ...
AMID SMALLER RATE HIKES, HEALTH INSURER PROFITS FALL
Mar 01, 2005; ... The state's largest health insurers said profits fell last yearbecause they levied smaller premium increases on employers and theirworkers. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state's largesthealth insurer, said operating profit fell nearly 7 percent lastyear, to ...
TIME FOR A MAKEOVER MALLS COULD GET NEW STORES OR EVEN HOUSING
Mar 01, 2005; ... The face of the mall is changing. Federated Department Stores Inc.'s deal to buy May DepartmentStores Co. for $11 billion will almost certainly lead to departmentstore closings in Greater Boston, and the holes could be filled in alot of different ways. The changes could be ...
VERIZON TO INCREASE CHARGE FOR 411 CALLS
Mar 01, 2005; ... Dialing 411 will be nearly four times as expensive for Verizon'slandline customers in Massachusetts next month. Starting April 1, Verizon Communications Inc. plans to increaseits charge for directory assistance to $1.25, from 34 cents.Customers will still get 10 free calls per ...
DEMOCRATS PUSH FOR PROTECTIONS IN BANKRUPTCY BILL
Mar 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON Democrats prepared yesterday to stymie a proposal totighten federal bankruptcy laws, contending that the first overhaulin over a decade would unduly penalize Americans who go broke frommedical bills and harm some military personnel impoverished afterextended periods on duty ...
WOULD-BE SKI BUM TO PRODIGIOUS INVENTOR
Mar 01, 2005; ... David Berry seems like a regular guy. As a teenager, he wanted tobe a ski bum. On his daily commute, he reads Sports Illustrated andBusiness Week. He hopes that hockey season isn't over forever. And hegets his moments of inspiration in ordinary places on the T, in theshower, in his ...
HEALTH CENTER PINPOINTS AN ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT
Mar 01, 2005; ... The woman lounging tranquilly on the padded chair with needlesbristling from her hands, feet, and ears is getting the kind oftreatment that for years has been a staple of the rich and hip and ofdevotees of Eastern medicine. But this is no Newbury Street spa. It is the basement of a ...
BIOGEN CALLS HALT TO ITS MS DRUG
Mar 01, 2005; ... Biogen Idec Inc. of Cambridge yesterday abruptly told doctors tostop using its new multiple sclerosis treatment, Tysabri, and haltedshipments and clinical trials involving the drug after one patientwho had taken the drug in trials died from a rare brain virus. Another unidentified ...
CALENDAR: MARCH 1-7
Mar 01, 2005 ... Thursday, March 3 HOW EVERYTHING WORKS So, um, how does physics explain the universe, exactly? Is it arigorous system based on logic and math, or a set of rules derivedfrom the way nature seems to behave at any given time? Britishmathematical physicist Roger Penrose whose ...
FILMMAKERS LACK DEPTH IN PORNOGRAPHY STUDY
Mar 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON Signs of a cinematic backlash against the Bushadministration and the red state-blue state division are visible inthe art houses of America. Not surprisingly, the movies presentromanticized images of a liberation movement of the second half ofthe 20th century, juxtaposed ...
BENJAMIN CLAY, LONGTIME LEATHER EXECUTIVE
Mar 01, 2005; ... Benjamin William Clay Jr. began selling magazines at the age ofeight. The industrious Middleton man, whose tremendous work ethic inthe leather industry had been the subject of articles in nationalpublications, died Feb. 18 at 84. He never officially retired. "He really had this ...
FOR THE RECORD
Mar 01, 2005 ... Correction: A Page One story about Chile's privatized pensions anda story on the Nation pages about proposals to change SocialSecurity, both in yesterday's editions, inaccurately describedPresident Bush's plan ...
HOW ONE DOCTOR LEARNED TO ACCEPT PARENTS IN THE ER
Mar 01, 2005; ... Over the past decade, hospitals have begun allowing a patient'srelatives to watch resuscitations and other invasive procedures. Insurveys, most families want to be given the choice to watch and oncepermitted, many accept. Yet many doctors like me have been suspiciousof the practice, ...
DOCTORS SEE NEED FOR PREVENTION IN MENTAL ILLNESS
Mar 01, 2005; ... Cancer treatment is more effective when the disease is caughtearly. Ditto for heart disease that's treated before a stroke orheart attack. But, in mental health, most patients suffer for monthsor years before doctors intervene. A growing number of psychologists and psychiatrists ...
ON THE RISE, SCHOOL FEES WORRY MANY
Mar 01, 2005; ... ANDOVER - Every year for the last three, the school system hasincreased the amount students must pay for a burgeoning menu ofactivities, and parents have paid up. But tonight, when the SchoolCommittee debates the latest increases, the school superintendentexpects a protest over a ...
FIRE CHIEF SCOLDED OVER REMARKS BREWSTER OFFICIAL SAYS FACTS WRONG
Mar 01, 2005; ... BREWSTER - Roy Jones has been putting out fires in Brewster for40 years, but now he seems to have started one. The fire chief in this fast-growing Cape Cod town spoke out in aGlobe report on fire department response times, in effect accusingthe town's leaders of undermining ...
HIGHER GENERAL TO PROBE ALLEGED ABUSE
Mar 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON Military authorities yesterday replaced the juniorgeneral investigating allegations of prisoner abuse at the US Navybase in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with a higher-ranking general so topofficers in charge of the terrorist prison camp can be questionedabout their roles at the time ...
GOVERNORS BLAST BUSH MEDICAID CUTS, PRAISE CALL FOR OVERHAUL
Mar 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON The nation's governors met with President Bush at theWhite House yesterday and criticized the administration's proposedcutbacks in Medi caid, but backed the president's call for anoverhaul of the program, which provides healthcare to 50 million poorAmericans. Bush, in ...
HOCKEY FATHER ARRAIGNED IN ASSAULT JUDGE CALLS HIM 'OUT OF CONTROL'
Mar 01, 2005; ... Calling him "out of control" and a "danger" to the community, aWaltham judge yesterday revoked the bail of a hockey father fromSouth Boston who authorities say headbutted another parent whoturned out to be an off-duty Waltham police officer after a youthgame this past ...
WHOSE IDEA WAS IT? DISPUTE OVER NOBEL-WINNING THEORY SHOWS HOW HARD IT IS TO TRACE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
Mar 01, 2005; ... ITHACA, N.Y. - Roald Hoffmann was fixing his bicycle in thegarage on the morning of Oct. 19, 1981, when he heard on the radiothat he had won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. He ran into the houseto call his mother. "I was lucky," he said. "I got to the phonebefore it started ...
FEDERATED TO TURN MOST MAY STORES INTO MACY'S
Mar 01, 2005; ... Federated Department Stores Inc. said yesterday it will convertmost of May Department Stores Co.'s regional stores, which includeFilene's, into Macy's stores as part of its proposed $11 billionmerger to create a formidable national retailer. The deal between Federated and May also ...
KENNEDY SAYS BANKRUPTCY LAW WOULD HURT VETERANS HITS PROPOSAL TO TIGHTEN RULES
Mar 01, 2005; ... Bankruptcy legislation pending before Congress could push militarypersonnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan into financial crisis,US Senator Edward M. Kennedy told a group of veterans and theiradvocates yesterday. Kennedy said he will oppose the legislation, designed to make ...
SOME LOCAL LEBANESE JUBILANT, BUT WARY
Mar 01, 2005; ... Loai Naamani sat in his dorm room at 3 a.m. yesterday with eyesglued to his computer monitor. It was 10 a.m. in his native Lebanon,and the parliament there was convening to question Prime MinisterOmar Karami about the Feb. 14 assassination of former prime ministerRafik ...
CHANGE FACTORY
Mar 01, 2005; ... Yesterday's announcement of the Federated- May department storesmerger had a consequence that not even the shrewdest executives andmost insightful analysts could have foreseen. It made me realize,quite unequivocally, that I'm old. More important, so are you. You're old if you think ...
NCAA CRACKING DOWN ON ACADEMICS UMASS. NU, UCONN TEAMS RISK SANCTIONS
Mar 01, 2005; ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced yesterdaythat half of Division I institutions have at least one team that isnot meeting new standards for athletes' academic performance. Iftheir teams' academic records do not improve, those schools face theloss of athletic ...
WARD BOSS OR `SIMPLE MAN,' HE GETS OUT THE VOTE
Mar 01, 2005; ... In recent elections, something peculiar has happened in Ward 21,Precinct 13. In that little Brighton neighborhood, voters have turnedout in the hundreds, when their neighbors in most nearby precinctshave shown up in much smaller numbers. The heart of that miniature electoral ...
Q: WHY DO SOME PEOPLE FEEL COLD ALL THE TIME?
Mar 01, 2005; ... The Japanese have a name for the syndrome of feeling cold a lot:It's hi-e-sho. Nobody really knows why it happens, although the Armyhas been trying to figure it out for years to help meet the needs ofthe troops, said exercise physiologist John Castellani of the ArmyResearch Institute of ...
JEF RASKIN, 61; CONCEIVED IDEA FOR MACINTOSH COMPUTER
Mar 01, 2005; ... LOS ANGELES - Jef Raskin, the software developer and renaissanceman behind Apple Computer Inc.'s pioneering Macintosh personalcomputer, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer in his home in Pacifica,Calif. He was 61. In 1978, Mr. Raskin joined the fledging Apple - employee No. 31 ...
US SOUNDS ALARM ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Mar 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON The State Department's annual report on human rightswarned yesterday of an alarming deterioration of conditions inRussia, Belarus, Burma, Sudan, and Bangladesh, and portrayed supportfor human rights as the cornerstone of US foreign policy in PresidentBush's second ...
RODNEY ROACH; `GENTLE GIANT' BECAME CHAMPION BANJO PLAYER
Mar 01, 2005; ... Rodney William Roach started playing the ukelele and the guitar asa boy, but once he heard bluegrass legends Flatt and Scruggs play thefive-string banjo, his mind was made up. The banjo would be his passion for the next four decades. Self-taught, he twice became New England ...
WEBSITE TO GIVE ROAD PROJECT UPDATES MOTORISTS CAN MONITOR STATUS
Mar 01, 2005; ... For decades, Massachusetts motorists and residents have tried,with faith and frustration, to figure out when a local roadconstruction project is going to start or finish. Officials say a new transportation website being unveiled todaywill lessen the mystery. The state ...
BISHOP SAYS GAP IS CLOSING OVER GAYS IN ANGLICAN CHURCH
Mar 01, 2005; ... The danger of a schism in the global Anglican Communion appears tobe lessening, Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, leader of the Episcopal Dioceseof Massachusetts, said yesterday. Shaw, responding to last week's gathering in Northern Ireland ofworldwide leaders of the Christian denomination, ...
MASS. WOMAN KILLED IN WYOMING VETERINARIAN, 29, STRUCK ON SKI SLOPE
Mar 01, 2005; ... A 29-year-old veterinarian from Shrewsbury died last week after asnowboarder slammed into her as she waited for her husband at anagreed-upon meeting spot on the slopes of Jackson Hole MountainResort in Wyoming. The snowboarder, a 16-year-old whose name was not released ...
EAST BOSTON STUDENTS MOURN `GREAT TEACHER'
Mar 01, 2005; ... Andrea Harvey, an East Boston High School math teacher foundstrangled in her Cambridge home last week, was a dedicated teacherwho often expressed concern for her sister, who is serving in Iraq,her students said yesterday. "Ms. Harvey was a very high-quality person and always ...
CHUNKS OF MATERIAL FALL FROM CENTRAL ARTERY TUNNEL CEILING
Mar 01, 2005; ... Adding a new headache to the trouble- plagued Big Dig, chunks of"spray-on fireproofing" dislodged last night and fell from a steelgirder on the ceiling of the Central Artery's southbound tunnel intoa breakdown lane near the Government Center exit, officials said. The debris, which ...
BARBIE GETS REAL AT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
Mar 01, 2005; ... There can't be many people who think Barbie looks like a realperson, but a life-size version of the ever-perky doll makes clearhow bizarre her body is shaped, boasting a 39-inch bust to go alongwith a truly wasp-like 18-inch waist. On Sunday, an eating disordersgroup unveiled its ...
SHERIFF LIMITS JAIL VISITS IN RESPONSE TO SMUGGLING
Mar 01, 2005; ... Saying inmates and their visitors smuggled in the drugs thatkilled a 38-year-old prisoner from Fitchburg over the weekend,Worcester Sheriff Guy W. Glodis ended all contact visits at the WestBoylston jail and prison effective immediately. A cellmate found John Yovino's lifeless body ...
LESLIE CHENEY, 100
Mar 01, 2005 ... Leslie W. Cheney, a longtime employee of Swank Inc. in Attleboroand a dedicated Mason, died Feb. 22 in the Daggett-Crandall-NewcombRetirement Home in Norton. He was 100. Mr. Cheney lived most of hislife in North Attleborough. He worked for more than 40 years as atool and die maker for ...
DEFILIPPO MOVED BY EXPERIENCE
Mar 01, 2005; ... Boston College's game against Pittsburgh last night was not onlythe final home court appearance for senior center Nate Doornekamp andsenior guard Jermaine Watson, it was also the Eagles' last home gameas a Big East team. The next time BC takes the court at Conte Forum, it will be ...
WILL GUARD GET ANOTHER SHOT? CELTICS CONSIDER A PAYTON RETURN
Mar 01, 2005; ... Before Antoine Walker. After Antoine Walker. Of all the ways to break down the Celtics' recent road trip, thebest would be to consider the team before the arrival of Walker in atrading-deadline deal and after the prodigal player returned. On thecourt and in the locker room, the ...
GOING IN ON TOP IS LIKELY FOR AMHERST
Mar 01, 2005; ... When Amherst held off Bates, 65-57, to win its third New EnglandSmall College Athletic Conference title in five seasons, the LordJeffs (25-1) not only extended their school-record winning streak to18 games and received a sixth straight NCAA Division 3 Tournamentinvitation, they most ...
BROWNS RELEASE GRIFFITH AS PART OF CRENNEL'S OVERHAUL
Mar 01, 2005 ... NAMESSafety Robert Griffith was released by the ClevelandBrowns yesterday, as new coach Romeo Crennel continued his overhaulof the team. Griffith, due a roster bonus tomorrow, spent threeseasons in Cleveland, which signed him as a free agent in 2002 aftereight years with the Vikings ....
HOCKEY HELP ISN'T HARD TO FIND
Mar 01, 2005; ... It appears somebody will benefit from the cancellation of the NHLseason - the US men's hockey team, which should have a better anddeeper pool to choose from for the world championships in Vienna inMay. "Basically, everyone's available," said Jim Johannson, USAHockey's senior ...
PHIFER IS LATEST VETERAN TO BE RELEASED
Mar 01, 2005; ... At one point this past season, Roman Phifer was asked how muchlonger he wanted to play for the Patriots. To paraphrase hisresponse, he said he'd show up for work until they told him not to. Yesterday, they told him not to. The 36-year-old inside linebacker, who started 46 of ...
ANDOVER TAKEN DOWN A NOTCH BRIGHTON SEED DROPS WARRIORS
Mar 01, 2005; ... The MIAA's decision to slot Brighton, which was previouslyconsidered to be a Division 2 competitor, into the Division 1 boys'basketball tournament bracket has sent ripples through the postseasonlandscape - most notably north to Andover and the Merrimack Valley. Andover's 13-7 mark ...
MIRANDA'S 54 POINTS LIFT AVON
Mar 01, 2005; ... Three weeks ago, Kevin Miranda showed no mercy in breaking theAvon record for points with 55 against South Shore Voke. The sophmoredid not let up in his first tournament game, pouring in 54 points,including 6 in the final 50 seconds, as Avon defeated Maimonides, 78-72, last night to ...
HEALTHY OPTIMISM ON MUELLER THIRD BASEMAN AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
Mar 01, 2005; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - Bill Mueller is scheduled to make his springtraining debut in a "B" game against the Twins March 10, suggestinghe will be plenty healthy by the time the season opens April 3. "He's way ahead of schedule," manager Terry Francona said. "He'sahead of his own ...
COLLEGE BALL HAS PROS FOR DAVIES HE'LL TAKE ON WORLD THEN RETURN TO BC
Mar 01, 2005; ... Boston College freshman Charlie Davies has resisted professionalcontract offers, but the temptation could increase this summer.Davies, contending for a starting striker position on the US teamthat will compete in the FIFA World Youth Championship June 10-July 2in the Netherlands, is ...
DEFILIPPO MOVED BY EXPERIENCE
Mar 01, 2005; ... Boston College's game against Pittsburgh last night was not onlythe final home court appearance for senior center Nate Doornekampand senior guard Jermaine Watson, it was also the Eagles' last homegame as a Big East team.The next time BC takes the court at ConteForum, it will be as ...
THE GRIP OF WAR
Mar 01, 2005; ... WAS IT Heraclitus who said war is humanity's natural state? Arethose who imagine peace as the ground of a new condition guilty of anirresponsible wishful thinking? I just wrote two hopeful columns from Jerusalem, a city trying towrench itself from the grip of war, and though I ...
A FAILURE AT FERNALD
Mar 01, 2005 ... IF GERALD Morrissey, commissioner of the state Department ofMental Retardation, could promise the severely handicapped residentsof Fernald Developmental Center and their families that closing mostof the center's beds would result in residents moving, just once, toan equal or better state ...
YOUNG OUGHT TO QUESTION BUSH'S PLAN
Mar 01, 2005 ... WHILE I AM PLEASED that the Massachusetts congressional delegationhas taken a strong stand against President Bush's attempt toprivatize Social Security, I dislike the implication that youngpeople are strongly insupport of Bush's plan ("Lawmaker finds ageneration gulf on Social Security," ...