The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 2005:
CELTICS READY TO MOVE ON RIVERS CALLS WALKER'S SUSPENSION 'A LESSON'
May 01, 2005; ... INDIANAPOLIS - Antoine Walker was nowhere to be seen last night,serving out his Game 4 suspension at the team hotel.Coach DocRivers told Walker to skip the Celtics' morning shootaround and getsome rest, which kept the punished power forward from commenting tothe media. League ...
VOLUNTEERS SPOT UPTICK IN RIVER ALEWIFE
May 01, 2005; ... After at least three years of decline, spawning alewives appear tobe making a return to local rivers, according to recent counts. "It's very exciting for me," said Tim Purinton, outreachcoordinator for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, who coordinatesthe fish count at the ...
CONTRACT FOR POLICE
May 01, 2005; ... CHELSEA After two years without an agreement, the city and the PoliceDepartment union reached a three-year contract agreement, which wasadopted last Monday, said City Councilor at Large Paul R. Nowicki.Due to the delay, the council's Subcommittee on Conferences had toapprove a ...
STUDENTS GIVE CANCER PATIENTS LIFT
May 01, 2005; ... Ipswich High School teacher Doug Holman has fielded calls frompotential bone marrow donors as far away as North Andover and Woburn.High school senior Jennifer Ashley and her student governmentclassmates have put up posters and spread the word around town andbeyond. The youth ...
SAUGUS SELECTMEN'S VOTE WILL AID RIVER
May 01, 2005 ... The Saugus Board of Selectmen's recent vote to enter into anadministrative consent order with the state to solve the decade-oldproblem of direct sewage discharges to the Saugus River is a sign ofhope for the watershed. Solving this major environmental problem willreduce public health ...
BATTLE BREWS OVER BONUSES FOR TEACHERS
May 01, 2005; ... Peabody teachers agreed to a contract last year that included anew incentive: a three-year salary bonus of several thousand dollarsfor longtime employees. While the benefit could be taken at different times during theirtenure, most teachers planned to tap into it during their last ...
LIBRARY ISSUE SEEN SIGN OF AMESBURY RIFT
May 01, 2005; ... To Mayor David T. Hildt of Amesbury, Tuesday's referendum is aboutmore than the proposed library expansion project. Hildt believes the vote threatens Amesbury's form of government,which nine years ago switched from a town, where decisions are madeby citizens at Town Meeting, to a ...
LATE GLOUCESTER SHELLFISH WARDEN TO BE HONORED
May 01, 2005; ... Tomorrow, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration willposthumously award its Environmental Hero Award to Robert "Stubby"Knowles, 33-year shellfish warden for the city of Gloucester who diedin November 2004 at age 71. Knowles's daughter, Donna, will acceptthe award as part of ...
TRYING TO SOLVE A DIVINE MYSTERY IN ROCKPORT
May 01, 2005; ... Who's buying St. Joachim's rectory and parish center in Rockport? The Archdiocese of Boston identified the buyer as Stanley Poole ,a Rockport builder, when it announced on April 22 the pending sale ofSt. Joachim and three other closed church properties, including St.Joseph in ...
RISING TIDE IN HOUSING SINKS SOME LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS SQUEEZED AS PRICES RISE
May 01, 2005; ... Chelsea is going though a renaissance, rising from statereceivership to growing recognition as an attractive destination forhousing and commercial development as Boston's costs continue torise. But as property values soar, some low- to moderate-incomeresidents who helped Chelsea ...
THIS IS YOUR LAWN THIS IS YOUR LAWN ON DRUGS ANY QUESTIONS? (YES. CAN A LAWN GROW WITHOUT DRUGS?)
May 01, 2005; ... Grass-roots campaigns to squeeze out pesticides and go organic aregaining ground along Boston's North Shore, joining a big-bucks battleover the greening of America's lawns. Local leaders from Newburyport and Newbury recently teamed up tooffer a workshop on chemical-free lawn care ....
DINING OUT
May 01, 2005; ... A few years ago, I visited Finz "oh-so-hip seafood" in Salem,mainly because I was skeptical of any restaurant that advertised itshipness on the side of its own building. Are you hip if you need to say you're hip? The place seemed fairlyhip, but something about the "oh-so-hip" ...
ESSEX SELECTMAN FOLSOM, 66
May 01, 2005; ... David L. Folsom, 66, of Essex, a retired captain in the CoastGuard and nine-year Essex selectman, died Tuesday at MassachusettsGeneral Hospital following a long battle with cancer. "He served the town very well," said Selectman Jeff Jones. "Hedefinitely will be ...
BROTHERS, FRIENDS, AND TEAMMATES SCALISES STICK UP FOR EACH OTHER AT PHILLIPS EXETER
May 01, 2005; ... EXETER, N.H. Mark Scalise just couldn't resist. After listeningto his older brother, Mike, the leading scorer on the Phillips Exeter(N.H.) Academy boys' lacrosse team, rave about him, Mark (not so)innocently asked if they had scored the same amount of points thisseason. "No, I ...
US PROGRAM PAYS OFF IN GOLD FOR LAWRENCE
May 01, 2005; ... Jason Lawrence made sure his final memories of playing for theUSA Hockey National Team Development Program were golden ones. TheSaugus native scored two goals as the United States topped Canada, 5-1, last Sunday in the gold medal game of the International Ice HockeyFederation World ...
GARDINER MORGAN, 76; CHORAL SINGER, WWII VET
May 01, 2005 ... Gardiner Ames Morgan of Beverly, who exhibited his love for musicas a barbershop singer, died April 24 at Youville Hospital inCambridge after a short illness. He was 76. Mr. Morgan was a member of the Garden City Chorus in Beverly formore than 40 years and sang in a quartet called ...
THE WINNING EDGE
May 01, 2005; ... They have been everywhere lately, plugging their new book,"Winning," and now Jack and Suzy Welch are visiting Salem StateCollege. The couple appears at the O'Keefe Sports Center Thursday for "AConversation with Jack and Suzy," moderated by journalist Anne Driscoll of ...
SALEM TO APPEAL AUDIT ON EXPENSES
May 01, 2005; ... SALEM The debate over how much the state should pay the city fortwo schools renovated in the 1990s took another turn last week whenSalem officials announced they were appealing a state audit thatrejected just over $1 million in expenses, including paperweights andplaques. The ...
PAXTON PERFORMS
May 01, 2005; ... One of the legends of folk music, Tom Paxton , appears at theme&thee coffeehouse in Marblehead on Friday. A singer-songwriter for 40 years, Paxton has recorded more than 30albums. His songs have been performed by Willie Nelson , PlacidoDomingo , Joan Baez , and the Irish rock band, ...
ANOTHER STEP FOR STATUE
May 01, 2005; ... SALEM - A "Bewitched" statue planned for Lappin Park in downtownSalem gained ground last week. The city's Design Review Board approved minor changes to the park,including removal of a brick wall and new lighting, to accommodatethe 9-foot tall bronze statue of Samantha Stephens, the ...
WEB SPIT FIGHTS? NOT THESE VOICES
May 01, 2005; ... Some people use their weblogs to discuss almost everything underthe sun. Not Jonah Feld of Roslindale. His Burrito Blog exists solelyto chronicle his consumption of burritos across the Boston area. The"Lead Burrito Analyst" (he often goes on his quests with friends andco-workers) has ...
AT BREAKFAST AT GERARD'S, THEY TAKE THEIR ARTISTIC VISION SWEET
May 01, 2005; ... A moment's confusion about two orders of English muffins onetoasted, one grilled did little to slow conversation about the stateof the arts in Dorchester. Around pushed-together tables at Gerard'srestaurant on a recent Friday morning, a couple dozen local artistsdiscussed the ...
THEY TAKE THE BUGS OUT, ON THE ROAD
May 01, 2005; ... The two women, looking soccer-mom snappy in their matching whiteOxford cloth shirts and khakis, had only begun to unload the portableplastic terraria housing their critter stars when gawkers began togather around the display table on the second floor of the BostonChildren's Museum ....
ON FLIGHT, A REDEFINITION OF CELLPHONE ABUSE
May 01, 2005; ... It's a Friday morning and I'm sitting on Delta Shuttle going fromLogan to LaGuardia. As I get comfortable in seat 13C, the gentleman seated behind meanswers the cellphone. He is about 39 years old with thinning brownhair and a thickening waist. He sports Ivy League glasses ...
A MOTHER'S DAY RITE SEEKS TO HONOR THE DEAD, SAVE THE LIVING
May 01, 2005; ... Clementina Chery lost her son, Louis Brown, in 1993 when the 15-year-old was caught in a crossfire of gang bullets. Chery, now 44,took up a mission to honor Louis's memory. "I didn't want my child tobe the forgotten child." On Mother's Day, Chery will lead the 9th Annual Mothers ...
BUFFING UP BOSTON, HILL AND DALE
May 01, 2005; ... Some plan to paint courts and improve fields. Others, includingabout 200 Boston College High School students zeroing in on theschool's Dorchester base, will dig into community gardens. In Roxbury's Dudley Square, where neighbors are known for theirintense cleanup work, residents ...
FYI
May 01, 2005; ... Q. Who was Oliver Ditson? His name is stretched in large, faded,scrambled letters across the tops of at least two sides of adeteriorating building along the Southwest Corridor stretch ofColumbus Avenue that I use every day on my way to and from work. A. Oliver Ditson was a ...
U2 TOO WHERE THE BAND'S A NO-NAME: A LOCAL GROUP CAPTURES THE VIBE AS 'REAL' IDOLS HEAD TO TOWN TO FILL THE FLEETCENTER
May 01, 2005; ... A ringing, staccato guitar riff pierces the air, joined by apulsing bass and insistent drums. A front man in a black shirt andsunglasses lets loose a yearning wail. The music, anthemic yetpersonal, is unmistakable, and the crowd roars its approval. Thesound and spirit of legendary rock ...
TEACHERS' PERKS COSTS RISE FOR LITTLE-KNOWN BENEFIT
May 01, 2005; ... Imagine being able to give yourself a raise. For three years running. And then have it count toward your pension plan. Just because you could. That's what some long-serving teachers and administrators inBrookline and Somerville are doing under a little-known, but ...
RECALLING SMALLPOX, PIG ON THE HILL
May 01, 2005; ... Most Bostonians have heard of Boylston Street. But how many knowwhat Dr. Zabdiel Boylston did to get a street named in his honor? Orthe role a pig played in establishing the state's two-chamberLegislature? A troupe of Umana/Barnes Middle School students have learned theanswers ...
FROM CHAOS GAMES AND TELOMERES, SUCCESS
May 01, 2005; ... When Jason Hu of Brighton was a schoolboy in Guangzhou, China, heheard news reports about the International Science and EngineeringFair in the United States for high school students. Even then, hethought maybe one day he would go. Next week Hu, 19, a senior at Boston Latin Academy, ...
BC STUDENT BEATS THE LAW OF AVERAGES
May 01, 2005; ... Don't try telling Chiquesha Robinson that because your familydidn't have much money, or you grew up with only one parent at home,you're not cut out for college or law school. The third-year Boston College law student won't buy it. "People dismiss stuff because they feel they ...
FOR A CLEANER CLEAN, IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL
May 01, 2005; ... When it comes to the trash-strewn state of Boston's streets, thegrit is hitting the fan. The mounds of sand left over from the city'sefforts to deal with a snowy winter are getting lots of attention,but they are only the icing on the problem of a trash-caked city, astate of filthy ...
WHERE THEY LEARN THEIR WORD CRAFT
May 01, 2005; ... If there's one thing we Bostonians treasure as much as our sportsteams, it's our history. One piece of literary history, a poetryworkshop almost half a century old, resides in an ornate building at5 Commonwealth Ave., home of the Boston Center for Adult Education. The workshop, ...
UNDERGROUND WIRING? SURE, BUT IT'LL COST THEM
May 01, 2005; ... In the early 1990s, utility wires were taken down from poles andmoved underground on the streets around Monument Square, except forone block of Lexington Street in Charlestown. Tipster Wayne Howe, a Lexington Street resident, said he and hisneighbors were promised that the wires on ...
VISIT FRIENDS, PICK UP A BARGAIN DURING ASHMONT HILL YARD SALE
May 01, 2005; ... If you see furniture, sofas, chairs, and tables filling the yardsof Ashmont Hill this Saturday, don't worry. It's not a massive exodusfrom Dorchester. It's the annual Ashmont Hill Yard Sale, when about 50 homeownersput stuff up for sale. The sale, which runs from 9 a.m. to 2 ...
SEVEN DAYS
May 01, 2005; ... Sunday 5/1 MayFair in the Square. Come on down to Harvard Square for the 22dAnnual MayFair. MayFair takes place from noon-6 p.m. in Cambridge'sHarvard Square. The event features six stages of live entertainment,with musical and dance performances. There will also be a "Dare to ...
SPEAKING OF AND FROM THE PAST
May 01, 2005; ... "Outposts," by Simon Winchester, is a wonderful listen and not avery good audiobook. Nowhere, not in the introduction and not printed on the package,does it state that this material was originally published in 1985. Ittook a trip to the Internet to discover this. It would have ...
FIRE OF THE SUN TWO NEW VIEWS OF THE MAKING OF THE BOMB AND OF ITS 'FATHER', THE ENIGMATIC J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
May 01, 2005; ... More than 60 years after the laboratory that would build the firstweapon of mass destruction was founded on a remote New Mexican mesa,named for nearby cottonwood trees, Los Alamos continues to fascinateauthors and readers. No fewer than six books will be out this year onthe making of the ...
ANTIQUES FOR RIDING, MERRYMAKING
May 01, 2005; ... [PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: May 10, 2005: Correction: Becauseof a reporting error, a story in the May 1 Travel section listedincorrect admission fees for Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich.Adults are $12, seniors $10, ages 6-16 $6, under age 6 free.] Fifty years ago, finding a ...
FINE DINING AND A COMFORTABLE STAY AT A FAMILY-RUN INN
May 01, 2005; ... BREWSTER We were drawn to the Bramble Inn & Restaurant by itsculinary reputation (it earned a top Zagat rating among Cape Codrestaurants last year), and we found comfortable lodging as well. TheCivil War period farmhouse is on the National Register of HistoricPlaces and has operated as ...
SAGA OF TWO SISTERS
May 01, 2005; ... After their father dies, a New York City fashion photographertries to impose her will on her developmentally challenged sister.But the latter is determined to continue spending her days ridingpublic buses, a hobby that is a lot more stimulating than the grouphome she once lived in ....
STAMPING OUT CRIME
May 01, 2005; ... OVER-EDUCATED AND underemployed? You may be in luck: Later thismonth, Stamps.com will launch a test product called PhotoStamps -personalized stamps that are valid US postage-and is hiringspecialists in world culture and history. Why? In an interview lastweek on NPR's "All Things ...
BRAIN CANDY WRITER STEVEN JOHNSON ARGUES THAT TV AND VIDEO GAMES CAN STIMULATE INTELLECTUAL SKILLS
May 01, 2005; ... Many video games, television shows, and other forms of popularentertainment may reek of sex and violence, but what about theirbenefits in developing American brains? The brain-developing benefits of pop culture? That the very question seems preposterous is the backdrop ...
A NEW HEROINE, A FAMILIAR JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
May 01, 2005; ... Sue Monk Kidd's first novel, "The Secret Life of Bees," catapultedher to bestseller lists and the top of book-club agendas because ofits rich South Carolina landscape and the story of a woman's searchfor a secret about her mother. Kidd's new novel, "The Mermaid Chair,"visits similar ...
PUNCTURING PRETENSIONS WITH A SHARP PEN
May 01, 2005; ... It would be impossible to live happily or even sanely at all ifone didn't accept appearance as reality most of the time. No one hasexpressed this truth as memorably as the grandiloquent narrator ofJonathan Swift's "Tale of a Tub," specifically: "Last week I saw awoman flayed, and you ...
A '70S BIBLE AND ITS ONGOING EVOLUTION
May 01, 2005; ... In 1969, the year that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a dozenwomen attending a conference in Boston sat down and began one of themost significant earthbound discoveries of the 20th century theimportance of teaching women about their bodies. By the followingyear, the group put out a ...
A STRING OF SMALL EPIPHANIES
May 01, 2005; ... Roxana Robinson is a welcome practitioner of old-fashioned irony,the sort that prevailed until postmodern nihilism got ahold of theterm and turned it into something weary and chic. By irony I meanwhat Jane Austen meant and what Robinson delivers: a centralincongruity between the ...
SHORT TAKES
May 01, 2005; ... Uncensored: Views and (Re)views By Joyce Carol Oates Ecco, 370 pp., $24.95 In this brilliant collection of essays, Joyce Carol Oatesdemonstrates her sympathetic appreciation for the older, realisticnovelists Eudora Welty, Ernest Hemingway as well as the ...
FROM LAKESIDES TO THE 18TH GREEN, HEROES OF ALL STRIPES
May 01, 2005; ... As the title suggests, "Sowbelly: The Obsessive Quest for theWorld Record Largemouth Bass" chronicles the adventures of a numberof men who've devoted a preposterous amount of time, energy, andmoney to catching a big fish. Author Monte Burke regards thesepilgrims as "a collection of very ...
A THREAT TO AFRICA'S SUCCESS STORY
May 01, 2005; ... FOR THE PAST decade, Uganda has been one of Africa's successstories. It has been held up as an African poster child for economicreform, improved human rights, and a champion in the struggle againstthe HIV/AIDS pandemic. The man responsible for its success has beenPresident Yoweri ...
SMART GROWTH NEEDS CLEANUP FUNDS
May 01, 2005; ... WE ALL know that providing housing and good jobs are the mostpressing concerns facing the Commonwealth today. Unfortunately,cities and towns across the state are about to lose their ability totransform thousands of vacant, underused lots into homes, shops, andoffices. One of the few ...
CONNECTICUT COMPROMISE
May 01, 2005 ... CONNECTICUT'S NEW law establishing civil unions for same-sexcouples was passed by a wide margin and enthusiastically signed bythe state's Republican governor. It is good news that an electedlegislature moved to expand civil rights for gay families withoutbeing prompted by a court order ....
ABORTION AND THE AGE OF REASON
May 01, 2005; ... I WON my merit badge in Raising a Teenager. I still wear thissmall and rather tattered patch on my maternal sleeve. So I get it. I understand the fear that your 15-year-old is introuble and you're out of the loop. I understand the anger thatsomeone else is with your 17-year-old in ...
BILLIONS WASTED ON N-ARMS
May 01, 2005; ... WHEN I served as an assistant secretary of defense for PresidentRonald Reagan, the logic of focusing Pentagon resources on nuclearweapons made sense. The priority of the Cold War was avoiding nuclearwar through nuclear deterrence. We wanted to leave absolutely no doubt in the minds ...
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, BUT NOT THE OPPONENTS' FAITH
May 01, 2005 ... JAMES DOBSON of Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins of the FamilyResearch Council, Prison Fellowship's Chuck Colson, and SouthernBaptist leader Albert Mohler hosted Justice Sunday, a telecast lastweekend from a megachurch in Louisville, Ky. Their message is thatthose who don't support ...
THE INEVITABLE RISE AND FALL OF RELIGIOUS RIGHT
May 01, 2005 ... KUDOS TO columnist Robert Kuttner for speaking out about theattack on our democracy led by our own brand of religious zealots("Whose nation under God?" op ed, April 27). But the real culpritsare the elected officials who entertain the anachronistic fantasiesof these groups. What ...
US HAS TURNED A BLIND EYE TO CHINA'S CRIMES AGAINST TIBET
May 01, 2005 ... ONCE AGAIN, the April 25 Globe reported on the dispute betweenChina and Japan regarding Japan's wartime history in Asia "Disputecontinues between Asian powers," Page A7). Without a doubt, thathistory is brutal. It should be noted that there is outrageous hypocrisy on the partof ...
ASSUMING RESPONSIBILITY FOR HORRORS OF WAR
May 01, 2005 ... WHEN VISITING Manila years ago I was the house guest of an aginggentleman and his family. Over dinner one evening, I asked my hostwhether he could ever forgive the Japanese. His responded, "yes, whenthey give me a new father." Sensing an invitation to further inquiry,I asked if he would ...
PUT THE FEAR OF GOD INTO THE DEBATE
May 01, 2005 ... THE INEVITABLE passage of legislation authorizing stem cellresearch is deeply disturbing ("Way cleared for stem cell researchbill, Page A1, April 26). Clearly the ethical dilemma hearkens back to the debate of whenhuman life begins. When does the spirit of man enter into a ...
CONTINUE SUPPORT OF DISABLED PARENTS
May 01, 2005 ... THE APRIL 29 City & Region story, "For some, fear over welfarechanges," highlights the complex needs of parents with disabilitieswho would lose subsistence benefits for their children if they areunable to work up to 40 hours per week, as the governor has proposed. Subjecting these ...
'ZEALOTS' ARE THE ENLIGHTENED AMONG US
May 01, 2005 ... ROBERT KUTTNER'S column on Wednesday is almost laughable in itshistorical revisionism. Indeed, it is ironic that he uses many of thesame arguments that the "religious zealots" he complains about havebeen using for years. Regarding the attack on the Enlightenment, virtually all of ...
THE BATTLE TO DEFEAT CHECKS AND BALANCES
May 01, 2005 ... PRESIDENT BUSH is breaking his word to stay out of the fight overSenate rules ("Cheney backs ending judicial filibusters," Page A5,April 23). Now both the administration and Senate majority leader Bill Fristare waging a battle to shatter the checks and balances in ourgovernment ...
PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE SAUDI PRINCE
May 01, 2005 ... PRESIDENT BUSH has been getting a lot of criticism for beingphotographed holding the hand of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah when hetoured his Crawford, Texas ranch. What surprised me about the April26 front-page picture of the two men was the obvious level of comfortand familiarity that ...
EMBRACE THE WORLD'S DIVERSITY
May 01, 2005 ... DAVID PARKER, who recently moved to Lexington, was arrested at hisson's elementary school for protesting a children's book showing afamily with two moms or two dads ("Arrested father had point to make;disputed school's lesson on diversity," City & Region, April 29).Parker objects to this ...