The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from July 2005:
A CHANGING CHURCH
Jul 01, 2005 ... WELL-ADVISED actions by the Archdiocese of Boston in recent weeksoffer hope for a period of calm in the ongoing process of parishclosings and sales. The church has taken some good steps to minimizethe separation pain for parishioners and to lessen the threat ofneighborhood ...
BIG STEP FOR THE STATE
Jul 01, 2005 ... CREATED LAST year by the Legislature, the state's Department ofEarly Education and Care officially opens today, and this afternoonthe department's new commissioner, Ann Reale, will be at the Boys andGirls Club in Dorchester to discuss the future. Reale steps into a funny, ...
THE BATTLE AT BUNKER HILL
Jul 01, 2005 ... THE 1,100-unit Bunker Hill housing development in Charlestown thelargest public housing project in New England is home to roughly2,400 of the city's poorest residents, and it ranks at the top ofpolice reporting areas for violent crimes. Yet it is policed as if itwere a cozy hamlet, not ...
DARING PAINTER'S DIVERSE WORK HAS BROAD APPEAL BY CATE MCQUAID GLOBE
Jul 01, 2005; ... Exuberant and dark, Cristi Rinklin's paintings at Green StreetGallery send the viewer somersaulting between worlds from digitalimagery to Baroque; from black-and-white to Technicolor; from deepmurk to eye-popping crispness. Rinklin is a voracious painter, withreferences and stylizations ...
SENATE MOVES TOWARD APPROVAL OF CAFTA HOUSE SHOWDOWN LOOMS ON TRADE PACT
Jul 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday headed toward approval of acontroversial free trade agreement with five Central Americancountries and the Dominican Republic, setting up a showdown in theHouse over the most fought-over trade deal in a decade. The Bush administration and ...
MEDICAL OFFICE, DOCTOR SETTLE FRAUD CASE
Jul 01, 2005 ... A Fall River medical office and its owner yesterday agreed to pay$400,000 to settle federal and state fraud charges that the officewas systematically overbilling the Medicaid program by filingfraudulent physical therapy claims. The Fall River Walk-In Emergency Medical Center and ...
SURGEON INDICTED ON DRUG CHARGES
Jul 01, 2005 ... A Middlesex grand jury indicted a Wakefield orthopedic surgeonyesterday on charges of distributing OxyContin to a patient andundercover police officer. Douglas Howard, 57, was charged withpossession of illegal substances, ...
OIL DEALER TO PAY $780,000 IN HARASS CASE
Jul 01, 2005 ... An oil dealer will pay $780,000 to settle claims that for at leasta decade he sexually harassed four female employees and tried to geta fifth woman to lie for him. The Equal Opportunity EmploymentCommission, which called Frederick J. Fuller "a serial sexualharasser," announced the ...
BLAME THE MANIPULATED
Jul 01, 2005 ... SO WHEN the president is down in the polls, he invokes 9/11,although the administration has fully acknowledged that there is noconnection between Iraq and that sad day (Page A1, June 29). Bush isa pitchman, and he ...
TREASURES TO BEHOLD
Jul 01, 2005 ... FILMThe Boston Jewish Film Festival continues its "Encores andMore" series with this weekend's four-film tribute to Israeli actress/director Ronit Elkabetz. In today's 4:45 screening of Keren Yedaya'spoignant "Or (My Treasure) " (above), Elkabetz plays a woman whose17-year-old ...
CAMERAMAN FILES REPORT AGAINST ROGERS
Jul 01, 2005 ... BASEBALL Kenny Rogers's tirade against two televisioncameramen Wednesday sent one of them to the hospital, prompted apolice investigation and could result in a suspension for the TexasRangers' ace. Rogers first shoved Fox Sports Net Southwestphotographer David Mammeli, telling ...
MLB TO DOLE OUT ROGERS'S PUNISHMENT
Jul 01, 2005 ... BASEBALL Kenny Rogers's immediate future will be decided byMajor League Baseball, following the outburst by the Texas Rangersace that sent a television cameraman to the hospital and prompted apolice investigation. Rogers shoved two cameramen before theRangers' game against the ...
SIZZLING NATIONALS ARE UNSTOPPABLE AT HOME
Jul 01, 2005 ... Vinny Castilla and Brian Schneider homered as the WashingtonNationals won again at RFK Stadium, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates,7-5, yesterday for a three-game sweep.Chad Cordero wiggled outof a second-and-third, no-out jam in the ninth inning for his 25thstraight save and 28th ...
CAMERAMAN FILES REPORT AGAINST ROGERS
Jul 01, 2005 ... BASEBALL Kenny Rogers's tirade against two television cameramen Wednesdaysent one of them to the hospital, prompted a police investigation andcould result in a suspension for the Texas Rangers' ace. Rogers firstshoved Fox Sports Net Southwest photographer Da vid Mammeli , ...
ROOKIE FRANCIS PITCHES ROCKIES TO RARE ROAD WIN
Jul 01, 2005 ... Rookie Jeff Francis pitched three-hit ball for six innings andGarrett Atkins and Danny Ardoin homered last night to lead theColorado Rockies over the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-0, for only theirsixth road win of the season.Francis (7-5) contributed two hitsand scored twice for the ...
REVOLUTION GET WELL-EARNED REST
Jul 01, 2005; ... FOXBOROUGH - Coach Steve Nicol wanted his players to rechargetheir batteries. The Revolution (9-1-4) are off to their best startever, but appeared tired after playing three games in a week, soNicol gave the team two days off before resuming practice yesterdaymorning in preparation for ...
NASCAR TO SEEK TOP DOLLAR FOR RIGHTS
Jul 01, 2005; ... If we were talking horse racing, this would be a big-moneyclaiming race. You put your heart and soul into sculpting a winner,only to have someone buy it for top dollar. That's the position Fox and NBC find themselves in with NASCAR. Five years ago, the auto racing folks opted ...
FUNERAL FOR N.J. BOYS
Jul 01, 2005 ... Nancy Ramos held her son Francisco, 9, near Anibal Cruz's casketat Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, N.J., yesterday during services forCruz, ...
IF ONLY BUSH AHD BEEN 'PATIENT'
Jul 01, 2005 ... HOW IRONIC to hear President Bush's urgent call for patience onthe part of the American people (Page A1, June 29). Where was hisown willingness to demonstrate some patience instead of plunging theUnited States into a senseless and unnecessary war that has resultedin the deaths of ...
SAFETY TALK
Jul 01, 2005 ... Police officers, reflected in a motorcycle's mirror, listened toMayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday in Dorchester as he announced aplan to keep residents safe during the summer. He also said his B-SMART Program, ...
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL NAMES LIGHT ACTING DEAN
Jul 01, 2005; ... Harvard Business School professor Jay O. Light will serve as theschool's acting dean, starting Aug. 1, as Harvard searches for apermanent dean, the university said. Current dean Kim B. Clark lastmonth said he will step down at the end of July to become presidentof Brigham Young ...
ROUND TWO
Jul 01, 2005; ... Robin and Francois. In the world they dominated for so longwith style, charm, and wit, there was no need for last names. RobinBrown at the Four Seasons and Francois Nivaud at the Boston HarborHotel were Boston's preeminent hosts, hoteliers who for more than adecade in the midst of ...
POPS' COMMERCIAL INDEPENDENCE COMES AT A PRICE
Jul 01, 2005; ... Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops hope to make a splash withtheir new self-produced patriotic album, "America." The CD is alreadyin stores, and copies will be on sale at the annual Fourth of Julyextravaganza on the Esplanade. Last year's "Sleigh Ride," the first album the Pops ...
A CITY BEWITCHED INTO KITSCH
Jul 01, 2005; ... SALEM I HAVE ALWAYS liked this old seaport town from which Yankeetraders sailed to the far reaches of the world when the republic wasyoung. Citizens of faraway places from Amoy to Zanzibar got theirfirst glimpse of the American flag, and America's exports, from Salemships. Today ...
DEJA VU IN IRAQ
Jul 01, 2005; ... AT FORT BRAGG, in front of soldiers and their generals, thepresident of the United States said, "Terrorists can strike and cankill without warning before the forces of order can throw them back.And now he has struck again. At this very hour, a second wave ofterrorists is striking the ...
CARING, NOT KILLING
Jul 01, 2005 ... RECENTLY, National Public Radio did a piece about militaryrecruiters. What a horror, people going around saying, "Come, join usand we can teach you better how to kill." How depraved can ...
AUTISM, MERCURY, AND POLITICS
Jul 01, 2005; ... MOUNTING EVIDENCE suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-basedpreservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for theexponential growth of autism, attention deficit disorder, speechdelays, and other childhood neurological disorders now epidemic inthe United States. Prior to ...
CONFUSING TYRANNY WITH TRADE
Jul 01, 2005 ... TIM WERNER equates government seizures of private property withfree trade (letter, June 28). It's true that when consumers shifttheir spending to firm A from firm B, workers at firm B might be"displaced." But the similarity ends there. Free trade is voluntary;government seizures are ...
WHAT COURT'S DECISION COULD MEAN
Jul 01, 2005 ... SELDOM DO I agree with Jeff Jacoby (op ed, June 26), and even moreseldom do I disagree with the liberal wing of the Supreme Court.However, to define "public purpose" as including the transfer ofproperty from one private entity to another is not only illiberal; itis reprehensible ("High ...
A RECORD OF DECEPTION
Jul 01, 2005; ... HERE'S THE question President Bush's Tuesday address to the nationraises. Having framed the Iraq war in a dishonest way, can the presidentreally expect the informed public to believe his presentation abouthow the stabilization effort is going? Certainly Bush's speech started ...
HEALTH INSURANCE SURTAX NEEDED
Jul 01, 2005 ... GOVERNOR ROMNEY'S healthcare plan commendably offers low-costhealth insurance to the 204,000 uninsured Bay Staters in familieswith incomes greater than three times the poverty level ($58,000).Indeed, 125,000 have family incomes more than four times the level($75,000). An additional step ...
LITTLE BARRIE DELIVERS SOUL, NOT SLICKNESS
Jul 01, 2005; ... If Little Barrie is rarely mentioned among the current wave ofBrit bands such as Bloc Party and Kaiser Chiefs, that's likelybecause it sounds nothing like that parade of jangly, post-punkrevivalists. On its debut, "We Are Little Barrie," released thisweek, this London trio crafts its ...
ONE FUNKY HOEDOWN THREE GENRE-BENDING COUNTRY ACTS WILL JOIN THE POPS ON THE FOURTH
Jul 01, 2005; ... Just a few years ago, the duo Big & Rich were strugglingsongwriters playing at a tiny pub in Nashville. Short on money butnot on attitude, the two men struck on a provocative idea: They'dcombine their country-pop sensibilities with some rock and, heck,maybe a little rap. Soon, other ...
BUYING HEALTHCARE WITH PRETAX DOLLARS
Jul 01, 2005 ... CHANGES COULD be made to the tax code to help those who must buynongroup health insurance. Those who receive employer-supplied healthcoverage pay no income or payroll taxes on that coverage, but thosewho buy coverage on their own have to buy it with post-tax dollars. While those ...
LEELA JAMES A CHANGE IS GONNA COME WARNER BROS.
Jul 01, 2005; ... This Los Angeles singer's debut has brushes of hip-hop but is verymuch an R&B album, and a very good one at that. Leela James has arich, compelling voice, and her CD is propelled more by pure talentthan studio wizardry. (She also co-wrote most of the tracks.)Inevitably, there are some ...
BRAZILIAN GIRLS GET INTO THE GROOVE
Jul 01, 2005; ... It turns out the previous Brazilian Girls show in Boston wasmerely a rehearsal. Back in March, the jazzy rock band sold out theParadise Lounge, and as thrilling as that show was, it was crampedand hard to dance. On Monday night the New York band returned to another sold-outvenue, ...
LONGWAVE THERE'S A FIRE RCA RECORDS
Jul 01, 2005; ... With back-to-back releases by Coldplay and Oasis this summer,music fans are already celebrating the merits of carefully craftedBrit pop. And while Longwave is not British, nor as famous, the NewYork City-based quintet has a new release that's just as tender-yet-tough and equally enamored ...
CLASSICAL PICKS
Jul 01, 2005; ... Aston Magna , America's oldest early-music summer festival, nowunder the direction of violinist Daniel Stepner, presents the Spanishzarzuela (operetta) "Salir el amor del mundo" by Sebastian Durontomorrow at 5 p.m. in the festival's new venue, the Daniel ArtsCenter at Simon's Rock ...
STARS & STRIPES & HEAVY MACHINERY HIS AMERICAN FLAG MAKES A GIGANTIC STATEMENT
Jul 01, 2005; ... PROVIDENCE - If Betsy Ross and John Deere had a love child, itwould be artist Dave Cole. This weekend, Cole and a team of assistants will be out in thecourtyard of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in NorthAdams, using heavy machinery two excavators to knit a ...
`PIRATE LIVES' IS A TREASURE-TROVE OF IMPROVISATION
Jul 01, 2005; ... Nothing goes better together than pirates and Noel Coward, atleast according to ImprovBoston's David Marino. The main conceit of"Pirate Lives," which opens tonight at the troupe's Inman SquareTheatre in Cambridge, is that a pirate captain, desperate for newrecruits, has shanghaied four ...
LACHAPELLE DISCOVERS HIS RHYTHM AS A DIRECTOR
Jul 01, 2005; ... The man best known for photographing Britney Spears as a sultryhot dog vendor and designing the stage show for Elton John's new LasVegas gig at Caesar's Palace seems like an unlikely candidate todirect a heartfelt documentary about a new anti-bling hip-hop dancemovement in South Central ...
EELS SLIP INTO A STRIPPED-DOWN SOUND
Jul 01, 2005; ... "Are you ready to not rock?" eels frontman E asked midway throughthe band's Wednesday performance at the Somerville Theatre. Both thequestion and the answer it received an enthusiastic "yes" wereemblematic of the career of Mark Oliver Everett. Since 1992's "A ManCalled (E)," Everett ...
STARGAZING
Jul 01, 2005; ... Michael Jackson (above) is vacationing in Bahrain, his first tripabroad since he was acquitted of child molestation charges. Jacksonarrived alone Wednesday night. "We are proud and honored to welcomehim," the king's son, Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa , said. Angelina Jolie 's ...
MOONLIGHTING SUITS THIS SINGER JUST FINE
Jul 01, 2005; ... Vocalist Wendee Glick took the slow road when it came to puttingout her CDs, 2002's "Baby, I'm Fine" and the forthcoming "TrueColors," due later this summer. Both those discs feature clarinet whiz Ken Peplowski and othersimilarly established pros. But Glick, 46, didn't start ...
IN THE WRIGHT DIRECTION
Jul 01, 2005; ... NEW YORK - Vocalist Lizz Wright stands center stage at Joe's Pubin New York City with a sliver of red spotlight shading the left sideof her face. She breaks into her one and only encore, "Dreaming WideAwake," the sublime title track from her sophomore record. It's alovely ballad, ...
WORLDWIDE LIVE 8 COVERAGE SET FOR AIRWAVES, ONLINE
Jul 01, 2005; ... Television, radio, and the Internet will provide ready access toLive 8 concerts throughout the day tomorrow. MTV, VH1, and MTV's college network mtvU will run a shared feedfrom noon to 8 p.m., a first-time effort for the networks. Theircoverage will include highlights of various ...
`ME AND YOU' CONNECTS WITH ITS QUIRKY OPTIMISM
Jul 01, 2005; ... In one of her early experimental monologues, the wispy-voicedperformance artist Miranda July asked the audience, "Do you love me?Even though I'm a little bit irritating?" On the evidence of "Me andYou and Everyone We Know," her first feature film, the answers are"Yes" and "I know what ...
AN UPLIFTING ACCOUNT OF MATCHES MADE . . . ON ICE
Jul 01, 2005; ... "March of the Penguins." It sounds like the title of an unwrittenepisode in George Lucas's intergalactic mega franchise, but thistouching and brisk National Geographic-produced documentary actuallyis about penguins, with whom we have far more in common than any ofthe digitized creations ...
THIS TIME THE BEN AND JEN STORY IS TRUE
Jul 01, 2005 ... It's official: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are married andare expecting their first child in November. Their publicists, KenSunshine and Nicole King , confirmed the wedding to The AssociatedPress yesterday. The confirmation came after Us Weekly reported thatAffleck and Garner were ...
KIDS TAKE CHARGE OF OTHERWISE DULL `REBOUND'
Jul 01, 2005; ... In "Rebound," Martin Lawrence plays Roy McCormick, a conceitedbasketball coach who deigns to train a team of middle schoolpipsqueaks after a freak tantrum during a game results in hisexpulsion from college sports. The kids are grossly unskilled, thoughnot for long. The movie, meanwhile, ...
HOPE IS DANCING IN LA'S INNER CITY
Jul 01, 2005; ... "Rize" desperately needs to be seen by those convinced they knowwhat goes on in inner-city neighborhoods based only on the eveningnews and tabloid headlines. If that describes many of the readers ofthis newspaper, so be it, but trust me you'll come out of this moviewith your eyes pinned ...
FOR ADAMS, ON TOUR WITH DEF LEPPARD, TWO BANDS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
Jul 01, 2005; ... One of last summer's musical highlights was Bob Dylan and WillieNelson at the 12,000-capacity Campanelli Stadium in Brockton. Thisyear, it could be an '80s rock pairing of Bryan Adams and Def Leppardat the same laid-back outdoor venue. "If it's good enough for Dylan, it's good ...
AT OLIVES, NEW MENU OFFERS TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
Jul 01, 2005; ... A few years ago, when Olives finally started taking reservations,there were whispers that Todd English's triumphant shrine to muscularMediterranean fare had come down in the restaurant world. By then, the boldface names were more likely to be found in thephalanx of new restaurants ...
CRITIC'S PICKS
Jul 01, 2005; ... "AMERIKA or THE DISAPPEARANCE" The American Repertory Theatre andTheatre de la Jeune Lune do a good job of putting Franz Kafkaonstage, though it's never certain that he wants to be there. ThroughJuly 10 on the Loeb Stage. 617-547-8300; ...
IN HIGH-POWERED WELLFLEET PRODUCTIONS, LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD
Jul 01, 2005; ... WELLFLEET - You wouldn't come away from the two productionscurrently at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater saying, "Make love, notwar." In the world of Harold Pinter there's a lot of war involved inthe game of love. And the Marines of Adriano Shaplin's "PugilistSpecialist" are forever ...
NOONE TRAVELS FROM BOSTON TO OFF-BROADWAY
Jul 01, 2005; ... Local playwright making good Ronan Noone will make hisprofessional New York debut this September, when "The Blowin' " opensfor an eight-week, off-Broadway run at New York's Irish Arts Center. The play is a slightly revised version of Noone's "The Blowin' ofBaile Gall" that debuted ...
IT'S SUCH A MESS, JUST SAY NO TO `YES'
Jul 01, 2005; ... "Yes" is a movie I watched with delighted derision, if such aresponse is possible. I enjoyed my dislike of it. Though I laughed until I cried (the movie is not a comedy), Iwouldn't recommend the experience to anyone else certainly not toanyone looking for a sensible love story or ...
CELTICS' AINGE FREE TO GO SHOPPING FOR PLAYERS
Jul 01, 2005; ... For the record, Celtics executive director of basketballoperations Danny Ainge discussed the impending start of free agentnegotiations as he traveled around the Boston area yesterday. He wasnot headed for Logan Airport for a late flight to some undisclosedlocation to woo an available ...
HER TIME ISN'T OVER JUST YET WILLIAMS'S UPSET WIN A REMARKABLE COMEBACK
Jul 01, 2005; ... LONDON - Written off. Disregarded. In decline. She'd had herday, right? Wrong. Her day was yesterday, as Venus Williams turned Wimbledonupside down. And it may be tomorrow, too, shooting for her firstmajor championship in four years. It was the last day of the month of her ...
GRAHAM TROUPE EXPLORES ITS ROOTS
Jul 01, 2005; ... BECKET -- What's happened to Martha Graham's legacy since herdeath in 1991 is as dramatic as any of the blood-soaked, mythology-based dances the great choreographer devised. There have been yearsof horrific legal battles over the rights to her works, and justthis month her company was ...
CANNONS HIT WITH FIRST LOSS OF SEASON
Jul 01, 2005; ... Airborne and twisting, a season full of frustration resting on hisstick, Mike Springer rifled a ball into the narrowest of margins,just between Boston Cannons goalie Chris Garrity's right leg and theiron post. And to hear him tell it, that was the easy part. In a rematch of ...
IT'S OFFICIAL: BC ROUNDS OUT ACC DOZEN
Jul 01, 2005; ... Perhaps nothing speaks more clearly about Boston College's move tothe Atlantic Coast Conference than the buffet spread at yesterday'spress conference at the school's Yawkey Athletic Center. Lobster and clam chowder served alongside barbecue chicken, cornon the cob, and baked ...
A KRAFTY MANEUVER BY PUTIN
Jul 01, 2005; ... Picked-up pieces while waiting for my Super Bowl ring . . . Truly, this is the most hilarious story of our time. First therewas Ronald Reagan saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Nowit's Bob Kraft wearing the blue shirt with the white collar saying,"Mr. Putin, give back ...
ANGLING CONTINUES TO BE HOT
Jul 01, 2005; ... With cooler-than-normal water for this time of year, the fishinghas remained spring hot over most of the coast, with the usual mix ofground fish and migrant game species. But if there were one tip toalmost immediately improve your catches in July, it is to fish nightand dawn. Bass ...
LONGSJO FIELD GETS STARTED
Jul 01, 2005; ... FITCHBURG - Before the start of yesterday's Fitchburg LongsjoClassic bicycle race, Frank McCormack, a two-time winner here, andnow manager of the Colavita Olive Oil/Sutter Home team, said he had aphilosophy on how to approach the four-day stage race. "You don't have to win today, ...