The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from October 2005:
POLICE PUT ON A GAME FACE
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HUGHES'S MAKEOVER MISSION
Oct 01, 2005 ... PRESIDENT BUSH had good reason to send Karen Hughes, his longtimefriend and communications chief, to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkeythis week on a mission of public diplomacy. Public opinion surveys inthose lands indicate a drastic decline in favorable views of theUnited States during ...
GUNMEN NO MORE
Oct 01, 2005 ... `TAKING THE gun out of Irish politics" a longstanding hope inNorthern Ireland almost certainly was achieved this week. The IrishRepublican Army's political party, Sinn Fein, and its adversaries inthe unionist movement need to take steps specified in the Good Fridayagreement to ...
SUMMER'S FALL
Oct 01, 2005 ... THE SUMMER is slow to go, and that's fine. The official transitionto fall was barely felt last week in the lingering warmth of a nearlyperfect New England September. Not even the ghost of Hurricane Ritalast week could rattle the equanimity of people enjoying a longseasonal ...
GAME 1 KNOCKOUT: RED SOX 5, YANKEES 3 BOSTON TAKES SERIES OPENER, MOVES INTO TIE ATOP DIVISION
Oct 01, 2005; ... It is bigger than any Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, or Celtics-Lakersrevival. Tickets are fetching four figures and the series has lureda media throng not seen in the Hub since the Democratic NationalConvention. Come to think of it, Red Sox-Yankees inspires passionand anger on a par with ...
LOOKING GOOD
Oct 01, 2005 ... A 3-month-old male giant panda cub at the Smithsonian's NationalZoo in Washington received his second vaccination against the ...
POLICE SAY GAME SECURITY ADEQUATE
Oct 01, 2005; ... Police officials yesterday expressed confidence in the extensiveplanning the department has done to prepare for this weekend'scrucial Red Sox series with the New York Yankees.At a City Hallpress conference with Mayor Thomas M. Menino at her side, PoliceCommissioner Kathleen M ....
GAME 1 KNOCKOUT: BOSTON 5, YANKEES 3 IT'S A TIE FOR FIRST AS RED SOX NATION CHEERS OPENER OF EPIC DUEL
Oct 01, 2005; ... It is bigger than any Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, or Celtics-Lakersrevival. Tickets are fetching four figures and the series has lured amedia throng not seen in the Hub since the Democratic NationalConvention. Come to think of it, Red Sox-Yankees inspires passion andanger on a par with Red ...
ROXBURY MAN INDICTED ON MURDER CHARGES
Oct 01, 2005 ... A 37-year-old Roxbury man has been indicted on murder charges inthe shooting deaths of two elderly men in July. A Suffolk SuperiorCourt grand jury yesterday indicted Terry Gray on two charges offirst-degree murder, one count of assault and battery, and twocounts each of possessing a ...
SQUARE ONE SOX GET EVEN BY TAKING OPENER AGAINST YANKEES
Oct 01, 2005; ... October dawns today, and it all becomes so elemental. Injuries,call-ups, disabled-list visits, slumps, fatigue, all issues anddiscussions now tabled. Now, just baseball. Two games to go, alltied, the Red Sox and Yankees, in an epochal but simple conclusionto a season that Johnny Damon ...
POLICE SAY GAME SECURITY ADEQUATE
Oct 01, 2005; ... Police officials yesterday expressed confidence in the extensiveplanning the department has done to prepare for this weekend'scrucial Red Sox series with the New York Yankees. At a City Hall press conference with Mayor Thomas M. Menino at herside, Police Commissioner Kathleen M ....
MAN STRUCK BY RED LINE TRAIN HOSPITALIZED
Oct 01, 2005 ... A 27-year-old homeless man was hospitalized yesterday after beingstruck by an outbound Red Line train at the Park Street Station atabout 7:50 a.m. yesterday, authorities said. The man, whose identitywas not released, was transported to Boston Medical ...
MOTORIST HITS WOMAN, 74, IN WHEELCHAIR
Oct 01, 2005 ... A 74-year-old Jamaica Plain woman was struck and pinned against aparked vehicle yesterday as she rode in her motorized wheelchair onthe north side of Centre Street, Boston police said. Mary Kennedy, whose has diabetes and severe arthritis, was listed in faircondition at Brigham and ...
WGBH TO REBROADCAST MAYORAL DEBATE
Oct 01, 2005 ... WGBH officials yesterday said they will rebroadcast the debatebetween Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Councilor at Large Maura Henniganand said Comcast reneged on its agreement to have the show availablefor four weeks to viewers with the On Demand feature ....
4 INJURED, 1 SERIOUSLY, IN ROUTE 6 ACCIDENT
Oct 01, 2005 ... A two-car accident last night on Route 6 west in Bourne left onewoman seriously injured, State Police said. Just before 7, aMercedes-Benz driven by Priscilla Berberian, 74, of Red Bank, N.J.,struck a Chevy Tahoe as the two vehicles were trying to merge intotraffic, State Police said ....
MAN CONVICTED OF TRYING TO ENTICE CHILD
Oct 01, 2005 ... A 45-year-old Ipswich man was found guilty yesterday in LawrenceSuperior Court of trying to entice a child younger than 16. RichardDisler, formerly of North Andover, was sentenced to three years'probation and ordered not to have unsupervised contact with childrenyounger than 16. He ...
INDIANS FALL HARD IN EXTRAS
Oct 01, 2005; ... CLEVELAND -- Time and mathematics conspired to end the ClevelandIndians' quixotic quest for the Central Division title. Offensiveineptitude may doom their wild-card chances.Ross Gload's twoout, two-run double in the 13th inning snapped a 1-1 tie and gavethe Central Division ...
KEEPING TEENS SAFE BEHIND THE WHEEL
Oct 01, 2005; ... CAMBRIDGE Peter Mitchell is a marketing guy, so as he stoodbefore a gathering of specialists in medicine, engineering, publicsafety, and automobiles, he said his offering would be "a little bitdifferent." He had come to the recent gathering here of the Association forthe ...
WORKER INJURED ON BIG DIG GETS $8M SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT IS THOUGHT TO BE LARGEST SINCE PROJECT STARTED
Oct 01, 2005; ... In what is being called the largest liability settlement involvinga Big Dig worker since the project began, a New Bedford laborer willreceive at least $8 million and potentially nearly twice that forinjuries suffered when an 8-foot long piece of steel fell from acrane and impaled his ...
GOP SEEKS CUTS TO EASE COST OF CLEANUP PLANS TARGET MEDICAID, OTHER SOCIAL PROGRAMS
Oct 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON Under pressure from conservatives, House and SenateRepublican leaders are preparing a package of spending cuts toMedicaid and other social programs to defray some of the costs fromthe cleanup of Hurricane Katrina. House leaders say they want to shave as much as $40 ...
CONFLICT IS FEARED ON DRUNK DRIVER BILL 5 OF 6 ON PANEL DEFENDED SUSPECTS
Oct 01, 2005; ... Five of the six legislators who will negotiate the final versionof an anti-drunken-driving measure in the coming weeks are themselveslawyers who have defended clients in drunken driving cases, a Globereview has found. Their background set off concern among some proponents of ...
BOY, 4, FACES A `LIFELONG STRUGGLE' IN FIGHT TO BEAT RARE ENCEPHALITIS AT REHAB CENTER HE SLOWLY LEARNS TO SPEAK, EAT, WALK
Oct 01, 2005; ... Christopher "C.J." Burke wears a diaper. His mother says he can'twalk, talk, move his hands, or sit up without help. Two months ago, the 4-year-old from Goffstown, N.H., was runningaround his backyard with his 11 brothers and sisters, playing soccerand riding his bicycle, his ...
FOR SPARE-CHANGE CHALLENGED, A METER MADE IN HEAVEN IN CAMBRIDGE, PLYMOUTH, SOME LOTS NOW TAKE CREDIT
Oct 01, 2005; ... CAMBRIDGE Need a parking space but short on change? StartingMonday, that will no longer be a problem for drivers at somemunicipal lots in Cambridge and Plymouth. The cities are debuting high-tech digital meters that take creditcards, among the first of their kind in Eastern ...
EX-PRIEST PLEADS GUILTY TO RAPING BOYS HE IS SENTENCED TO EIGHT TO 11 YEARS
Oct 01, 2005; ... In quavering voices and anguished tones, they described how thepriest had betrayed them and destroyed their lives, how the sexualabuse he committed when they were boys led to heroin addiction,suicide attempts, fear of intimacy, and loss of faith. Moments after former Catholic ...
TAX AGENCY REVISES VIEW ON BREAK FOR FIRM RETRACTS VIEW ON CREDIT FOR FIRM OF HEALEY SPOUSE
Oct 01, 2005; ... The state Department of Revenue has backed off its sharplycritical report on an economic development program for blightedproperties that had awarded a $1-million tax credit to a wealthyBeverly-based company headed by Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey'shusband. In its new report ...
RNC DONATION RAISES QUESTIONS ON FEDERAL MONITORING
Oct 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON At the same time that House majority leader Tom DeLayallegedly conspired to send $190,000 in corporate money through theRepublican National Committee to candidates for the TexasLegislature, one of DeLay's former aides was making an even largerdonation to the Republican Party ....
ROBOTIC SURGERY GETS NEW PUSH LONG-TERM PROSTATE BENEFITS UNCLEAR
Oct 01, 2005; ... Pioneering surgeons long have believed that the precision ofremote-controlled surgical "robots" might improve results, but thetechnology has been slow to catch on. Now, hospitals are snapping upa new $1.2 million robot and heavily marketing robotic surgery to menwith prostate cancer, a ...
SOARING SUCCESS
Oct 01, 2005; ... ERROL, N.H. MYSTERIES OF LIFE abounded on the dead tree. A bald eagle perchedon the precipice of the longest top limb, gazing high above LakeUmbagog and its surrounding islands, marshes, and rivers of thisnational wildlife refuge. A huge nest was wedged in between the topsof the ...
BLITZ ON MARRIAGE; FOR SHAME!
Oct 01, 2005 ... IS THERE no limit to the arrogance and hypocrisy of the RomanCatholic hierarchy? I am mortified and saddened to discover that thechurch of my youth, in which I served as a religious brother for 25years, has aligned itself with the rabid right in a mean-spiritedpetition to be distributed ...
DON'T WORRY, EARTH WILL SURVIVE GLOBAL WARMING
Oct 01, 2005 ... FOR MANY millions of years the planet Earth has experiencedtransition from boiling cauldrons of molten rock to frigid cold withmile-thick ice. Thousands of living species have evolved anddisappeared. Continents have migrated thousands of miles to form newconfigurations. The age of the ...
BELOVED PASTOR ASKED TO RESIGN
Oct 01, 2005 ... YOUR SEPT. 25 City & Region article on the resignation of the Rev.Walter Cuenin, pastor of Our Lady Help of Christians in Newton, hasthe headline: "Church critic resigns pastorate." I am among those whoare distressed at Cuenin's forced resignation, but I am also angry atthe choice of ...
THE GREATEST HERESY OF ALL
Oct 01, 2005 ... IN HIS Editorial Journal yesterday ("A Priest's Leadership"),Thomas Gagen, in describing the Rev. Walter Cuenin, says he "neverheard a word of heresy from Cuenin." When Cuenin proposes, or creates the impression, that there arealternative positions on the subjects of homosexuality, ...
A REVIEW OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Oct 01, 2005 ... WITH EACH new development in the Roman Catholic Church, I thinkthe leaders can't possibly make the situation worse, and then theydo. Let's review: (1) A corrupt leader who sheltered pedophiles and lied about it isspirited off to a new and privileged post in Rome (Cardinal ...
CHARITY WILL GET DIOCESE HELP
Oct 01, 2005 ... IT IS necessary to address a statement in Brian McGrory's Sept. 27column ("Smear tactics"). As president of Catholic Charities, I simply want to state that noone from the Archdiocese of Boston has told Catholic Charities not toexpect financial ...
HE WAS OPPONENT OF DEATH PENALTY
Oct 01, 2005 ... FOR THE last four years, the Rev. Walter Cuenin has been a forcein the Massachusetts Anti-Death Penalty Coalition. He has been ateacher at frigid winter vigils and eloquently expressed Catholicthought in the heat of summer before Massachusetts legislators. Our Lady Help of ...
SOCIALISM IS NOT THE WAY TO GO
Oct 01, 2005 ... THIS COUNTRY was not founded on social welfare for the middleclass and poor. I am myself a middle-class person who has worked hard to get whatI have. It is not up to society to buy people homes, healthinsurance, and college educations. This is up to the individual. I amso ...
HOW TO PREVENT YOUTH SEX
Oct 01, 2005; ... I AM NOT a parent. I have never had children of my own, dependenton me for their well-being 24 hours of every day. I do not know thestruggles of balancing work and family, money issues and homemaintenance. What I do know about are the effects on children of being raisedwith both ...
THE POST-KATRINA LEADERSHIP GAP
Oct 01, 2005; ... THE AFTERMATH of Hurricane Katrina raises urgent policychallenges, for both the immediate future and the long term.Tragically, there is no sign that the administration is rising toeither of them. It is now painfully clear that both prevention and relief in thecase of disasters ...
BSO STARTS SEASON WITH POWER AND PASSION
Oct 01, 2005; ... Swashbuckling music and daredevil playing opened the BostonSymphony Orchestra's 125th season last night when music directorJames Levine led Berlioz's blazing overture, "Le Corsaire." Theexcitement was tremendous, and the conductor even rose from his chairat the end. This conflagration ...
CHESS NOTES
Oct 01, 2005; ... Today's game, Evgeny Vorobiov vs. Vladislav Tkachiev, is aminiature from an arcane Scotch Opening played in the semifinals ofthe Russian championship. In this game, Black plays an unusual lineagainst the Scotch, taking an aggressive position with his Queen, andhis King's Bishop. White in ...
DIRECTOR, CAST INTENSIFY THE CRUELTY OF `CLOSER'
Oct 01, 2005; ... Devanaughn Theatre's third season is off to a strong start with"Closer." Director Dani Duggan shapes this modern-day immorality playwith laserlike focus, greatly assisted by strong performances from afour-person ensemble. "Closer" is Patrick Marber's 1997 play about the initially ...
BATTING AROUND WITH MICHELLE MANGAN
Oct 01, 2005; ... In this Red Sox-rabid town, even the wives of the players arecelebrities. And no one has been in the media glare more this yearthan Johnny Damon's wife, Michelle Mangan. Nothing seems off-limitsas far as she is concerned: the size of her yellow diamond (8carats), her alleged spat with ...
STARS ARE OUT AT FENWAY
Oct 01, 2005; ... With the Yankees in town for a three-game, season-ending series,the guest list at Fenway Park just keeps growing. Recently minted"Today" show and "Access Hollywood" correspondent Maria Menounos returns to town today to conduct interviews at the ballpark. TheMedford native and Emerson ...
PENGUINS' POPULARITY MARCHES ON
Oct 01, 2005; ... No sooner do I hop into the penguin pool than Goodhope swims upand gives my backside a peck. Gliding a few feet away, he banks leftlike a commuter jet circling Logan Airport and zooms in for anothernip, this time on my right elbow. "He's just saying hello," Paul Leonard, a New ...
REMINISCING WITH RICK
Oct 01, 2005; ... Rick Springfield confessed that he had the hots for his bestfriend's girl nearly a quarter of a century ago, and in the processhe revolutionized the relationship between soap operas and pop music.While starring as the dreamiest doctor in Port Charles on the daytimesudser "General ...
FOR LIVE CLASSICAL SHOW, COMPOSED TEENS ARE KEY
Oct 01, 2005; ... If Tim Banker has learned anything in the past seven years, it'show to put young musicians at ease. Banker, co-producer of thelocally based Public Radio International program "From the Top," hasbeen working with young performers since the inception of the show,which airs Sundays at 6 ...
WANT THE BEST SEATS? IT'S GOING TO COST YOU.
Oct 01, 2005; ... Sticker shock has long been a staple in the sports world, withpeople paying thousands of dollars for a seat to see a crucial RedSox game. Now sticker shock may be hitting ticket buyers for BillyCrystal's "700 Sundays," which opens Oct. 18 for a 12-performancerun. To see this Tony ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
Oct 01, 2005; ... Saturday Night Live 11:30 p.m., Ch. 7 Steve Carell hosts. Kanye West sings. Jesus walks. Curb Your Enthusiasm Sunday at 10 p.m., HBO The lesbian community packs up its U-Haul and moves out on Larry. My Name Is Earl 8 and 8:30 p.m., Ch. 7 NBC gives ...
EAGLES LOOK TO PREVENT TRAP DOOR FROM OPENING
Oct 01, 2005; ... After recording its first Atlantic Coast Conference triumph lastSaturday, 16-13, in overtime at Clemson, Boston College's footballteam will attempt to avoid a letdown when the No. 21 Eagles (3-1)host winless Ball State of the Mid-American Conference at 1 p.m.today at Alumni ...
COAST ISN'T CLEAR JUST YET
Oct 01, 2005; ... Twenty-four players remain with the Bruins, but general managerMike O'Connell said yesterday four more could be sent to Providencebefore Wednesday's season opener against Montreal. "We're not going to the West Coast," O'Connell said of the Octoberroad swing. "We're here. The road ...
NO BUDGE IN BRUINS, BOYNTON
Oct 01, 2005; ... It has been 15 days since the Bruins signed No. 1 goalie AndrewRaycroft to a contract. That day, defenseman Nick Boynton said he wasoptimistic a deal for him was right around the corner. Instead,opening night is right around the corner Wednesday against theMontreal Canadiens at the TD ...
'BAMA COULD TURN TIDE
Oct 01, 2005; ... Midterm exam time for Urban Meyer. The new Florida coach aced hisopening quiz when he guided the Gators past Tennessee in one of thethree must-win games Georgia and Florida State are the others onthe schedule. The Gators, with quarterback Chris Leak (zerointerceptions) running a ...
LIBERTY ENSURES ITS PRESENCE WILL BE FELT
Oct 01, 2005; ... Boston-based Liberty Mutual wants to make sure the public knowsit's not involved only in insurance. To that end, the company hasbrought six members of the Liberty Seguros team that rode in thisyear's Tour de France for a weekend of activities. Some of the riders spent yesterday at ...
FOR DRAMA, THIS RIVALRY IS UNRIVALED
Oct 01, 2005; ... It is bigger than any Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, or Celtics-Lakersrevival. Tickets are fetching four figures and the series has lured amedia throng not seen in the Hub since the Democratic NationalConvention. Come to think of it, Red Sox-Yankees inspires passion andanger on a par with Red ...
KOLBE'S SUSPENION LENGTHENED TO YEAR
Oct 01, 2005; ... A harness driver at Plainridge Racecourse who bet against hisheavily favored horse in a race at the Plainville track Aug. 30 hasreceived a harsher sentence than a panel of judges initiallyrecommended, according to Jack Magee, acting chairman of theMassachusetts Racing Commission. The ...
WILD DREAMS STILL IN CARDS
Oct 01, 2005; ... CLEVELAND - This destiny thing can be as comfy as a pricklypear. The Cleveland Indians looked lame for eight innings last nightwhen they could least afford it. But a late rally extended the gameto extra innings and gave the wild-card chasing hosts new life. With the wild card in ...
WELLS DOESN'T FAIL TO RISE TO OCCASION
Oct 01, 2005; ... This is precisely what they brought him here to do. When the Red Sox signed David Wells as a free agent last Dec. 14,he was 41 years old, with a personal odometer that easily surpassed200,000 miles. He was plagued with enough questions that one of hisbiggest admirers, Yankees owner ...
CELTICS COMPLETE DEAL FOR DICKAU
Oct 01, 2005 ... Basketball The Celtics made a long-awaited trade official yesterday,acquiring point guard Dan Dickau from the New Orleans Hornets inexchange for a second-round choice in 2006. Dickau, who averaged 12.5points playing for both Dallas and New Orleans last season, wasacquired for the ...
HAWKS GET BY MALDEN
Oct 01, 2005; ... MALDEN - It's a Greater Boston League rivalry that repeatedlyhas left Malden just short of victory. Waltham remained on top last night as the Hawks edged the GoldenTornadoes, 9-7. An evenly matched first quarter left the scoreboard blank, thoughWaltham (2-2) controlled the ...
MADISON PARK GETS PAYOFF
Oct 01, 2005; ... WEST ROXBURY - One team has to lose. In a game that pitted two undefeated teams fighting as thoughdinner was on the line, Madison Park outplayed West Roxbury, 24-14,in Boston North League action yesterday. "Playing Leo [Sybertz], it's always going to be [a matter] ofwho's ...
RALLIES NOT RARE WITH CRIMSON
Oct 01, 2005; ... Call them the comeback Crimson. Coach Tim Murphy does not have David Ortiz in the backfield or TomBrady under center, but his Harvard football team keeps producingexciting victories. Whether it is overcoming a 21-20 fourth-quarter deficit againstHoly Cross before winning, ...
DESIGNATING HIM HER MVP
Oct 01, 2005; ... I've changed my mind. The heck with Alex Rodriguez and his 47 home runs and his superbinfield play. He's a wonderful baseball talent, in all likelihood thebest player in the American League. But David Ortiz is the Most Valuable Player. Big Papi has won me over in spite ...
NATICK FINDS A HOLE TO BEAT NEWTON NORTH
Oct 01, 2005; ... NATICK - The Tigers bit hook, line and sinker for Natickquarterback Nick Leverone's play fake to featured back David Taylor.As the Newton North defense swarmed the left side of the line,Levorone carried the ball outside the right tackle untouched, leadingthe Redmen over Newton North, ...
RELIEF ARRIVES JUST IN TIME
Oct 01, 2005; ... Twenty-one relievers have appeared in relief for the Red Sox thisseason, performing for a bullpen that began the night ranked deadlast in the American League with an ERA of 5.24. Only two Soxrelievers who were introduced in Yankee Stadium on Opening Day on thethird day of April were in ...
ORTIZ DESIGNATED ONE PERSON'S MVP
Oct 01, 2005; ... I've changed my mind. The heck with Alex Rodriguez and his 47 home runs and his superbinfield play. He's a wonderful baseball talent, in all likelihood thebest player in the American League. But David Ortiz is the Most Valuable Player. Big Papi has won me over in spite ...