The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from July 2006:
WHEN THE LAW IS THE OBSTACLE FOR REFUGEES
Jul 01, 2006 ... KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia AT FIRST SIGHT, Kuala Lumpur is the Geneva of Southeast Asia, withits elegant Petronas Twin Towers, impeccable lawns, malls, and fast-food chains. It has a touch of zaniness, too. The day I arrived, thenewspaper headlines read: "Robbery foiled, but cop loses ...
HOPE SOARS AGAIN FROM A DEAD TREE
Jul 01, 2006 ... ERROL, N.H. THE DEAD TREE is alive again. Three bald eaglets recently jostledin a nest many stories high atop the skeletal white pine at the LakeUmbagog National Wildlife Refuge. The parents came back and forth,sometimes with a fish in their talons. The eaglets are about twoweeks ...
A SLENDER VICTORY FOR DEMOCRACY
Jul 01, 2006 ... THOSE WHO CARE about the Constitution and the fate of Americandemocracy should go easy on the champagne. Yes, it was immensely reassuring that the Supreme Court, voting 5to 3, held that President Bush lacked the authority to createmilitary trial commissions by executive fiat, ...
CELLPHONE USE IN THE TUNNELS? THEY'RE IN THE DARK
Jul 01, 2006 ... I WAS astonished to read "Cellphone bill seeks to open Big Digtunnel connections" (Page A1, June 22). I suggest that a ban oncellphone use while driving would be a better bill to sponsor for thecollective good. I recently endured an all-day marathon of driving to doctorsduring ...
TEACHING TO THE DEFENSE CONTRACTORS
Jul 01, 2006 ... IT SEEMS, based on the article, "Colleges craft studies to fitdefense firms" (Business, June 27), that we can confidently add"academic" to the familiar "military-industrial complex."Institutions such as Boston University and Northeastern Universityare clamoring to "revise their ...
2004 ELECTION, REOBSERVED
Jul 01, 2006 ... JOEL BLEIFUSS and Steven F. Freeman ("A call to investigate the2004 election," op-ed, June 26) do not have a monopoly on hypothesesabout why the exit polls were not consistent with the results. Maybe the left-leaning media published misleading polls todiscourage conservatives from ...
WOULD IT BE UNGRATEFUL TO ASK FOR OVERSIGHT OF GATES CHARITY?
Jul 01, 2006 ... THE SINCERE outpouring of gratitude to Bill Gates and WarrenBuffett for their admirable charitable gifts in recent weeks isrichly deserved. One caveat, however, should be noted. The Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation is estimated to hold up to $70 billion,which is more than the gross ...
ALL GREEK TO HIM
Jul 01, 2006 ... I WOULD applaud Bill Dal Cerro's pride in his heritage ("BellaItalia: `classical,' not `old,' " letter, June 25). However, I wouldadmonish him for taking pride in contributions made by the ancientGreeks. The "birthplace" of Western Civilization, more accurately referredto as the ...
DON'T CONFUSE AVERSIVE, SHOCK THERAPY
Jul 01, 2006 ... SENATOR BRIAN Joyce, in his June 19 op-ed, refers to "One Flewover the Cuckoo's Nest" and the use of "shock therapy," which isdepicted in the film as aversive therapy. There is a vast differencebetween electroconvulsive or "shock" therapy and the aversive"therapy" Senator Joyce reports ...
A PLEA FOR DAILY STOCKS
Jul 01, 2006 ... IN TAKING away the daily stock market report, you have removed oneof my most needed sources of information (I do not have access to acomputer). Your other news (or some of it) is of interest but notneeded on a ...
ISSUES BEHIND CAMBRIDGE ARTS FIGHT
Jul 01, 2006 ... WE ARE part of a group of neighbors who were subject to aninaccurate attack by Steve Bailey for allegedly opposing the openingof a children's arts program ("Sue Thy Neighbor, 2," Business, June23). In fact, we support children's arts education and have agreed towelcome a large children's ...
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS EXTENSION FOR SEXUAL ABUSE CASES IS URGED
Jul 01, 2006; ... BOSTON A key State House committee is recommending the stateextend the statute of limitations for victims of child sexual abuseby 10 years. The limit is now 15 years. The Judiciary Committee yesterdayrecommended extending that to 25 years. Advocates for victims of child ...
FREEDOM FOR BARAN
Jul 01, 2006 ... Bernard Baran, convicted in 1985 of raping five children at aPittsfield day care center, was freed from prison yesterday pendinga new trial after he posted $50,000 bail and was fitted withelectronic ...
SECOND DAY OF DIGGING FOR BODY IN 1996 MURDER IS UNSUCCESSFUL
Jul 01, 2006; ... PEABODY Authorities stopped digging in a football field-sized areabehind an elementary school last night after failing to find the bodyof Aislin Silva , a 19-year-old woman who was murdered in a 1996 mobhit. With five family members looking on, crews excavated a 200-by-60-foot ...
FOR THE RECORD
Jul 01, 2006 ... Note to readers: In observance of Independence Day, the BostonGlobe will follow weekend/holiday schedules on Tuesday with deliveryin most areas by 8 a.m ....
MARIA ANGELICA FANGHAENEL, AT 54; NURSE WAS DEVOTED TO HEALING HER PATIENTS' LIVES
Jul 01, 2006; ... Some of her medical colleagues compared Maria Angelica Fanghaenelto Mother Teresa. Others described her as Florence Nightingale with aBrazilian accent. Patients thought of her as their guardian angel. A loving, dedicated nurse, Mrs. Fanghaenel, called by everyone"Mangeca," devoted ...
FLOOD WATERS RECEDE
Jul 01, 2006 ... John Swick tried to clean up his father's home yesterday, whichsits along the Delaware River in Harmony Township in Warren County,N.J. The muddy flood waters swirling through riverside towns ...
ROMNEY HELPS PUSH FOR S.C. GAY MARRIAGE BAN
Jul 01, 2006; ... Governor Mitt Romney, a leading campaigner to outlaw gay marriagein Massachusetts, is now involving himself in a like-minded effort inSouth Carolina, where voters will decide this fall whether to add asimilar ban to their state constitution. Romney's political action committee, the ...
OVER-THE-COUNTER NEEDLES BILL VETOED
Jul 01, 2006; ... Governor Mitt Romney vetoed a bill yesterday that would legalizeover-the-counter sales of hypodermic needles, but the Legislature isexpected to override him and make it law. Romney, whose veto was widely anticipated, rejected the sponsors'argument that Massachusetts should join 47 ...
PANEL BACKS BILL TARGETING CHILD ABUSE
Jul 01, 2006; ... A key State House committee is recommending the state extend thestatute of limitations for victims of child sexual abuse by 10 years.The limit is now 15 years, and the Judiciary Committee recommendedFriday extending that to 25 ...
HAMAS: ISRAEL TARGETING GOVERNMENT
Jul 01, 2006; ... GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyehaccused Israel yesterday of trying to topple the Hamas-ledgovernment, declaring that the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Stripand the arrests of more than two dozen Hamas officials was designedto undo the militant group's ...
BOSTON TO SEND EXTRA POLICE, ON OVERTIME, TO EACH DISTRICT
Jul 01, 2006; ... Boston police will pay for four officers to work daily overtimeshifts in every district across the city for the next 2 1/2 weeks,police officials said yesterday. The overtime shifts, which run during the city's highest crimehours from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m., will cost the department ...
A MAN IS SHOT IN THE SOUTH END
Jul 01, 2006; ... A man was shot last night in Boston's South End, the thirdshooting in the last week in the diverse neighborhood. The unidentified male was shot at about 9:50 p.m. and rushed toBoston Medical Center with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. No arrests were ...
PREPARED TO LAUNCH
Jul 01, 2006 ... A turkey vulture sat on a light pole near the Space ShuttleDiscovery as the National Aeronautics and Space Administrationprepared yesterday for today's launch ...
LEARNING THROUGH SERVICE TO OTHERS
Jul 01, 2006; ... Summer's arrival means students have brought home the lunch boxes,pencils, and other mementos of the departed academic year. EmilySchuster has another token, her friendship with 4-year-old LeanneAmbros. The Asian-American tot, her cherubic face beneath a bowl of blackhair, ...
JUPITER GIVES BIRTH TO RED JUNIOR
Jul 01, 2006; ... It's amazing, when you think about it. You can look up at nightand see, right before your eyes, alien planets and mysterious shiningbodies light-years away, when you can't even see what's happeningaround the block. It helps to know what you're viewing, however. Otherwise one ...
SEARCH FOR NEW SCHOOL CHIEF APPEARS STALLED
Jul 01, 2006; ... The search for the next Boston public school superintendentappears to be in limbo, with one of the top contenders who appearedto be a favorite backing out of the running. Yesterday, Manuel J. Rivera, the Rochester, N.Y., schoolsuperintendent and the 2006 national superintendent of ...
WESTERNERS PROTEST BEIJING-TIBET RAIL
Jul 01, 2006; ... BEIJING -- In a rare protest by foreigners here, three Westernactivists who oppose China's new rail link to Tibet clambered up thefacade of the central train station yesterday and unfurled a bannerthat read "China's Tibet Railway: Designed to Destroy." Within minutes, security ...
FOR THE RECORD
Jul 01, 2006 ... Correction: Because of an editing error, a headline and story inyesterday's City & Region section on a search in ...
2004 ELECTION, REOBSERVED
Jul 01, 2006 ... I CANNOT overstate my support for investigating the 2004 election.The Globe deserves a nod for running Freeman and Bleifuss's op-ed. The rest of the media has been disgustingly silent on this. Thegeneral lack of coverage has made me despondent of ever seeingrestored the ...
CELLPHONE USE IN THE TUNNELS? THEY'RE IN THE DARK
Jul 01, 2006 ... THE LAST thing the Big Dig needs is underground cellphone accesswhen they're pumping more than a million gallons of water a monthfrom the tunnels. People have no business ...
ALERT ISSUED ON FISH CAUGHT FROM RIVER
Jul 01, 2006 ... State officials have issued a public health alert, warning thatsome people should not eat fish caught from parts of the IpswichRiver because they are tainted with mercury. The Department of PublicHealth advises ...
ILLEGAL ENTRY PROBED AT DISTRIGAS PLANT [SEE ATTACHED CORRECTION]\
Jul 01, 2006 ... [PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Monday, July 3, 2006: Correction:Because of a reporting error, a headline in a New England in Briefitem in Saturday's City & Region section misidentified the plant inEverett where illegal immigrants entered without showingidentification. The plant was an ...
MAN FOUND GUILTY OF 1996 RAPE SENTENCED
Jul 01, 2006 ... A Dorchester man was sentenced to up to 11 years in state prisonyesterday after being convicted of a 1996 rape that went unsolveduntil a DNA match led to his arrest. A Suffolk Superior Court juryfound Ronald McCoy, 45, guilty of rape, kidnapping, and assault andbattery for the Feb. 27, ...
LIONS CLUBS MEMBERS TO MARCH IN PARADE
Jul 01, 2006 ... Lions Clubs International, which is holding its annual conventionin Boston, will have a parade today, starting at 9:30 a.m. atBoylston and Exeter streets and continuing along Boylston to CharlesStreet on Boston Common, police said. About 10,000 club members from110 countries are ...
TEENAGER STRUCK BY CAR WHILE RIDING BICYCLE
Jul 01, 2006 ... A 14-year-old Danvers youth is in critical condition after beinghit by a car while riding his bicycle, police said. The accidenthappened shortly after 11 a.m. yesterday on Hobart Street. CameronMercier was transported with severe head ...
POLICE ID GUARDSMEN KILLED, HURT IN CRASH
Jul 01, 2006 ... Authorities said yesterday that Jeffrey D. Samson, 33, ofSpringfield was the Massachusetts National Guard soldier killed in awreck in New York on Thursday. Private Miguel A ....
CHELMSFORD OFFICIAL PICKED AS CITY MANAGER
Jul 01, 2006 ... Bernard Lynch, the longtime town manager of Chelmsford, was chosenas city manager of Lowell yesterday. City councilors voted 7 to 2for Lynch, who is expected to take office on July 31, when John Coxsteps down ....
EXPLOSION IS BLAMED ON FLAMMABLE VAPORS
Jul 01, 2006 ... Flammable vapors that entered through drains in a little-usedbasement bathroom caused the house explosion on Craig AvenueWednesday night, the state fire marshal's office said yesterday.City officials were awaiting lab results to determine the type andsource of the chemicals that ...
EPA GRANT TO AID WATER TESTING AT BEACHES
Jul 01, 2006 ... The US Environmental Protection Agency presented the stateDepartment of Public Health with a $254,440 grant yesterday thatwill help improve and expand testing for water quality at beaches inthe state. The grant will go toward a project that will begin DNA-based testing for a bacteria ...
NO ONE HURT IN SMALL CHEMICAL EXPLOSION
Jul 01, 2006 ... A Lexington teenager startled his neighbors yesterday by causingan explosion his backyard on Adams Street, authorities said. Theyouth was mixing ...
US TROOPS PROBED IN RAPE, 4 KILLINGS
Jul 01, 2006; ... WASHINGTON Military officials said yesterday they areinvestigating whether Army soldiers raped a young Iraq woman in herhome south of Baghdad in March and then killed her and three membersof her family. The soldiers are from the same platoon in the 502d InfantryRegiment of the ...
SHE'S SUFFERING BECAUSE OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Jul 01, 2006 ... Dear Beth: I desperately am in need of help. I'm a tall, thin girl of 14 witha very large chest. You would think I had everything going for me,but a large bra size isn't that great. My problem is bringing medown. I am so confused. Girls tease me, boys drool over me, and I ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
Jul 01, 2006; ... Bridezillas Tomorrow at 10 p.m., WE Blights in white satin. Supergroup Tomorrow at 10 p.m., VH1 The finale. And let's hope the series (left) won't be Bach. Lonesome Dove Tomorrow at 4 p.m., Hallmark Eight hours of Duvall. Not a bad day at the ...
IN ANY STYLE, JOE JACKSON STILL LOOKS SHARP
Jul 01, 2006; ... SOMERVILLE Joe Jackson never restricts himself to one era onrecord. So it wasn't surprising Wednesday night when the veteranpiano man took the Somerville Theatre audience on a stroll throughhistory, his own and others'. In a well-played 90-minute performance, Jackson and his ...
BOSTON LYRIC CONDUCTOR TO LEAVE IN 2008
Jul 01, 2006; ... Stephen Lord, music director and principal conductor of the BostonLyric Opera since 1991, has decided not to renew his contract andwill leave his position after the 2007-08 season. Lord's career has been on the rise in recent years, and he is inincreasing demand as a guest ...
ANCHOR MAY MAKES MOVE FROM WHDH TO CBS4
Jul 01, 2006; ... Local news anchor Chris May, whose contract with WHDH-TV (Channel7) was not renewed this spring, will join CBS4 and WSBK-TV (Channel38) as an anchor next month, station officials announced yesterday. May will join Sara Underwood as coanchor of the 4 p.m. broadcaston CBS4 and the ...
PIANIST SHOWS SOPHISTICATION AND POLISH IN BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Jul 01, 2006; ... LENOX When Garrick Ohlsson played his first complete cycle of theBeethoven piano sonatas at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland lastsummer, he had to take some good-natured ribbing because the only oneof the 32 he didn't play from memory was Op. 49, No. 2, the easiestpiece in the series ...
COURT AND SPARK
Jul 01, 2006; ... Forget the Laker girls, with names like GiGi and Nikki andBritten. This fall, for the first time, the Boston Celtics willintroduce a crew of dancers. Choreographer Marina Ortega has beenleading tryouts all month to try to find the 20 ladies who, with afew hippy, hippy shakes, can inspire ...
WALKMEN PLEASE WITH PERSONALITY
Jul 01, 2006; ... Hamilton Leithauser, the frontman of the Walkmen, is 28. He is oldenough to have recorded, in his herky-jerk yowl, three albums ofjarring rock. And he is young enough to be experiencing the firstmajor success of his career. It's been a very good year for all the Walkmen, by any ...
POTENTIAL UNLOCKED, ITALY PROVIDES GOOD NEWS
Jul 01, 2006; ... HAMBURG The news from home has been bad and getting worse. TheItalian match-fixing scandal could be the ugliest in the sport'shistory. Four of the country's most-storied teams are facing demotionto a lower league. Gianluca Pessotto, Juventus's team manager, islying in a Turin hospital, ...
ANOTHER WEAK CLOSING ARGUMENT
Jul 01, 2006; ... LONDON "The Fifth-Set Blues." If anybody ever writes that mournful song it should be dedicatedto James Blake. A lyric would run like this: "At the end why do I always lose? Guess I've got the fifth-setblues." You had to feel for Blake, wearing a dazed look on his face, ...
MORE JUICY DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Jul 01, 2006; ... Jose Canseco, whose best-selling book "Juiced" detailed rampantsteroid use in major league baseball, says before all is said anddone, "General managers, managers, trainers, owners, and agents willall be exposed for their coverup." Canseco, speaking from his Encino, Calif., home, ...
CELTICS MAKE ROOM, WAIVE GREENE
Jul 01, 2006 ... BASKETBALL The Celtics waived guard Orien Greene yesterday, two days afteracquiring guards Sebastian Telfair and Rajon Rondo in trades at theNBA draft. Greene, the Celtics' second-round pick out of Louisiana-Lafayette in 2005, averaged 3.2 points, 1.8 rebounds, and 1.6 assistsin ...
JOHN A MAN OF THE WORLD FOR REVOLUTION
Jul 01, 2006; ... FOXBOROUGH Revolution defender Avery John didn't have much time tocatch his breath this week. A member of the Trinidad and Tobagonational team, John flew to his native Trinidad from Germany lastweekend after his team was eliminated from the World Cup. He arrivedin Boston Tuesday night, ...
SCHILLING HOPING FOR AN ALL-STAR FAMILY AFFAIR
Jul 01, 2006; ... MIAMI Curt Schilling is a six-time All-Star, but he has a newreason to hope that he will be one of the names called tomorrow nightwhen Major League Baseball announces the participants in the 2006 All-Star Game July 11 in Pittsburgh. "This is the first year my oldest son, Gehrig , ...
FLORIDA ACE BRUSHES OFF RED SOX, TRADE RUMORS
Jul 01, 2006; ... MIAMI Had he not overheard a snippet on television before lastnight's game, Dontrelle Willis would not have known the buzz saw intowhich he was inserting his renowned left arm. He didn't know the RedSox were riding a 12-game winning streak, during which the team wasscoring 7.6 runs per ...
N.Y. COMPANY PURCHASES 225 FRIEND ST. IN BOSTON
Jul 01, 2006; ... Everest Partners LLC of New York has purchased 225 Friend St., a60,000-square-foot office building in the developing BulfinchTriangle of Boston, from Essex River Ventures Inc. of Boston. Theprice for the building, along with three properties north and westof Boston totaling 270,000 ...
OPTIONS NEAR INFINITY
Jul 01, 2006; ... The new series of Infiniti M cars all five models may representone of the most subtle lineups of combined power, luxury, andhandling on the market. Today's test car, the 2006 Infiniti M35X, can help New Englanderswho want a roomy sedan address two problems at once: snowy ...
25% HIKE IN CAPE INSURANCE REJECTED
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Massachusetts insurance commissioner yesterday rejected arequest from the state's home insurer of last resort for a 25 percentprice increase on Cape Cod, but she indicated a slightly modifiedproposal could gain quick approval. Opponents of the Massachusetts Fair Plan's rate ...
SELL-OFF TRIMS BIGGEST WEEKLY GAIN SINCE JANUARY
Jul 01, 2006 ... Stocks ended a turbulent second quarter with a decline yesterdayas investors locked in gains from Thursday's rally, depressing thebiggest weekly advance since January. News of ...
EMC'S $2.1B OFFER FOR RSA TOO PRICEY?
Jul 01, 2006 ... Hopkinton's EMC Corp. saw its shares fall 2.5 percent afterseveral analysts questioned its $2.1 billion offer for Bedford's RSASecurity Inc. EMC intends to add RSA to the security business itstarted this year after thefts have sparked demand for networkprotection products. Analysts ...
CHARLOTTE RUSSE
Jul 01, 2006 ... Charlotte Russe Holding Inc. shares rallied one day after thegirls' clothing retailer said it would sell 44 of its Rampage storesto Forever 21 for $14 million. San Diego-based ...
COMPUTER SCIENCES
Jul 01, 2006 ... A canceled sale of the company and a Securities and ExchangeCommission inquiry about stock option grants throttled ComputerSciences Corp., which manages computers for the Defense Department.Shares ...
MICHAELS STORES INC.
Jul 01, 2006 ... Michaels, the arts-and-crafts chain that put itself up for sale,received rival offers from two buyout groups, people with knowledgeof the auction said. Boston firms Bain Capital and ...