The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from October 2006:
EDITOR'S NOTE
Oct 01, 2006; ... [PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Sunday, October 1, 2006: Correction:Because of a reporting error, the editor's note in today's Globemagazine incorrectly says that Red Sox General Manager Theo Epsteinbriefly left the team after the 2004 season. It was after the 2005season.) We ...
ENGLISH NAMES CATCH ON AMONG CHINESE
Oct 01, 2006; ... BEIJING Di, Chao, Xu, and Wentao now answer to Eddy, Super,Promise, and Wendy. For the ever-pragmatic Chinese, adopting English names has alwaysrepresented a way for them to bridge the linguistic and cultural gap.Now, as China widens its reach abroad and as the number ...
FOR THE RECORD
Oct 01, 2006 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, the editor's note intoday's Globe magazine incorrectly says that ...
FLAMBOYANT LEADER'S CHESS GAMBIT PUTS KALMYKIA ON MAP
Oct 01, 2006; ... ELISTA, Russia Life is not all smooth sailing for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the flamboyant leader of the remote Russian republic ofKalmykia. For starters, his Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit II needs constantrepairs because of the rutted roads of his impoverished fiefdom. Andthen, he says, ...
FOR THE RECORD
Oct 01, 2006 ... Clarification: A story published on Page One Aug. 27 aboutallegations of abuses by mortgage brokers described a complaint froma Lawrence woman who said a broker from Burlington-based AmericanHome Loan Mortgage helped her obtain two loans that she could notafford. The woman, ...
ALL SMALL FROM BURGERS TO BLINI, MINIATURES ARE BIG HITS.
Oct 01, 2006; ... Miniature hamburgers began as bar food, morsels to accompanycocktails. In fact, three minis make a terrific chaser to today'sgenerous pours. When tiny burgers caught on, some restaurants beganforming the patties with prized Kobe beef; buns might be rich, eggybrioche baked by the pastry ...
BOOKED SOLID
Oct 01, 2006; ... When Lexington architect Lynn Hopkins first viewed the living roomin John Thomas's Cambridge town house, the 12-foot-high ceilingdwarfed an odd assortment of upholstered furniture, and shelvingconsisted of little more than planks on cinder blocks. And then therewere the books: boxes and ...
BIG DIG BLAME
Oct 01, 2006 ... Tom Keane certainly gave me a new perspective regardingengineering failures ("Perspective," September 10). I just neverthought there could be such a simple answer as to why a ...
CAST AWAY
Oct 01, 2006; ... Dear New Hampshire: We like you. We really like you. People say we don't, just becauseyou all occasionally get cranky and start comparing us down here tothe godless Communist Russians whose empire got canceled back in '91,thereby depriving spy movies and international hockey of all ...
CONTINUOUS PLAY
Oct 01, 2006; ... Did you run today, Louise? [It's 4 p.m. on a Thursday when wetalk.] Not yet. I'm running tonight, in Somerville. A 4.13-miler thatgoes up Winter Hill. How long will that take you? An hour and 10 minutes. I'll be running by myself tonight. How many days a week ...
DAY SCHOOL DRAMA
Oct 01, 2006; ... Evelyn Berman is not quite sure what to do with herself. For thepast 17 years, early fall was consumed by the start of the schoolyear: Stocking up on supplies at Staples, putting together welcomekits for the kids, complete with erasers, Hershey's Kisses, andstickers ("so we can stick ...
DIRECTIONS WIZARD
Oct 01, 2006 ... I was standing outside the Park Street T stop waiting for a friendwhen I was approached by two European tourists. They said, "This isour first time in Boston, and we'd really like to see the BostonCommon and the North End and Faneuil Hall and the Bunker HillMonument. Can you tell us ...
EASY-ON-THE-EYES RIDER
Oct 01, 2006; ... It's not every guy who'll admit he has a weakness for fl oral-print blazers, especially if that guy works with motorcycles. ButKeith Hanson - who custom-paints high-end bikes and whosecollaboration with bike builder Dave Perewitz won the DiscoveryChannel's most recent Biker Build-Off - ...
FAUX JEWELRY BUT GENUINE COMPLIMENTS
Oct 01, 2006; ... I'm pregnant and my jewelry has become too tight. As a result, Irecently had to switch from my regular engagement ring to a fauxthree-stone ring that I bought at a department store. The ring reallysparkles, and I get lots of comments on it. Should I disclose topeople that it isn't real ...
IN SICKNESS
Oct 01, 2006; ... When my husband came to me groaning with a full-body poison ivyattack, he had to take a number for sympathy. Our teething andfeverish 15-month-old daughter was clinging to my leg at the time,screaming because she was hungry and it was taking me forever to fixher mac and cheese. Jason ...
JUMPER CROP
Oct 01, 2006; ... WHAT'S IN To any gal who spent her formative years in schooluniforms, the thought of wearing a jumper is about as welcome as atrip to the orthodontist. But let a little time pass, and both canput a smile on your face. So forget childhood geek, because the newjumpers are all grown-up ...
ROOM TO ROAM
Oct 01, 2006; ... $849,900 5 MAGNOLIA WAY, CANTON SQUARE FOOTAGE 2,800 LOT SIZE .24 acres (10,661 square feet)BEDROOMS 4 BATHS 3 full, 1 half 2006 TAXES $7,150 (estimated) PROS Placing the garage under the house created a five-leveldesign, which gives interior spaces a sense of privacy ....
IS THIS LEGAL?
Oct 01, 2006; ... A Legal's for the lobster crowd. Another for burger lovers. Yetanother for the in-between types. That's the vision of RogerBerkowitz, president of Legal Sea Foods, who, for a mere $200,000plus, bought the liquor license of the now-shuttered Jimmy's and nextspring plans to open Legal ...
JUNK FOOD HEAVEN
Oct 01, 2006; ... Chefs tend to scorn artificial colors and flavors in favor offresh ingredients. But that doesn't mean they're above borrowing someof our favorite junk-food concepts - chips 'n'dip, nachos, caramelpopcorn. The Chinatown nachos at Pho Republique in the South End comewith a mountain of ...
SANDWICH A DAY
Oct 01, 2006; ... In New England, autumn leaves and crisp, fresh-picked apples gohand in hand. Before our forefathers planted the first "domesticated"apple trees in the late 1600s, all North America had to offer werenative crab apples. European apples, and eventually hybrid varieties,have pushed the ...
ROW, ROW, ROW THE BOAT
Oct 01, 2006; ... Out here, on the Charles River at dawn, you can hear the citybreathing. Sirens wail in the distance. Rush-hour traffic picks upand begins to hum. Cars and trucks rumble and roar. But John Yasaitishears none of it. On his one-man scull, oars in hand, the 59-year-old rower hears only the ...
SOUL SEARCHING
Oct 01, 2006; ... There is a plywood-and-metal contraption, roughly the size of aMini Cooper, sitting in James Taylor's barn in Lenox. A largecylinder rests in the center of a colossal wooden cube that sproutsan array of pegs, arms, and platforms. It looks like a Rube Goldbergcreation or a wacky final ...
VELVET UNDERGROUND GLORIOUS BULBS ARE HITTING SHELVES NOW, SO SPRING ON THEM.
Oct 01, 2006; ... There's a fresh crop of bulbs in town - new tulip shapes, pink-centered daffodils, deeply colored hyacinth. And despite prettypictures showing what the flowers will look like after a longwinter's nap, it can be hard to choose from among a bin of glossybrown bulbs. So ...
WILL THEY EAT IT? THE MAYOR WANTS CITY RESTAURANTS TO ADD HEALTHIER MEALS. SOME HAVE, AND NOW WEL'LL SEE IF DINERS BITE.
Oct 01, 2006; ... In August, Mayor Tom Menino announced the start of an ambitiousprogram, Boston BestBites, part of the city's attempt to help folkswho are overweight or, worse, obese. It's a noble cause, as at leasthalf of our city and state residents carry too many pounds. Thecampaign encourages ...
OENOPHILE'S AUCTION TO BENEFIT COLLEGE
Oct 01, 2006; ... Some 14,000 bottles of wine from the Park B. Smith Collection willbe auctioned by Sotheby's and Aulden Cellars next month in New York,with the proceeds to benefit the College of the Holy Cross inWorcester, Smith's alma mater. The Nov. 18 auction, which focuses on Bordeaux, Rhone, ...
DRESS UP, PARTY DOWN, LEND AN EAR
Oct 01, 2006; ... The World's Largest Disco BUFFALO Nov. 25 Could there be anything more thrilling than dressing up in bell-bottoms and big pink afro wigs, and then spending an evening inBuffalo dancing to Abba, Gloria Gaynor, and Disco Tex & the Sex-o-Lettes? Before you answer, did we ...
GHOULS, GOBLINS, GOODIES OF THE MONTH
Oct 01, 2006; ... If you enjoy screaming, screeching, shivering, shaking, and so on,then your special month is about to begin. October brings Halloween,which nowadays is celebrated all month. So put on your skeletoncostume, reach for a handful of trick-or-treat candy, and have a lookat these ghastly ...
WHEN BATTERY WILTS, PORTABLE PACK A GOOD CALL
Oct 01, 2006; ... If only hotels provided cellphone chargers, those of us who forgetto pack ours wouldn't be left with a dying battery while waiting foran important call. It's even worse overseas, where you might need anelectrical adapter, or while you're in transit and there's no poweroutlet to be found ....
TRAIL MIX A CIRCUIT OF FALLS AT MAINE'S SCENIC GULF HAGAS GORGE
Oct 01, 2006; ... BROWNVILLE JUNCTION, Maine - Mainers are some of the mostunderstated people in the country. So when I heard that they refer toGulf Hagas as the "Grand Canyon of the East," I had to laugh at theirzealous pride. Gulf Hagas is a long, rambling gorge, not a mile-long pit in ...
ROBINSON OUT AS NATIONALS MANAGER
Oct 01, 2006 ... Baseball Frank Robinson will not return as the WashingtonNationals' manager in 2007, the team announced yesterday, a daybefore its season will end with a third consecutive last-placefinish. The Hall of Famer was told during the week he wouldn't beback, and made that clear to ...
ADULTS SHARE IN THE FUN OF THIS COSTUME PARADE
Oct 01, 2006; ... LAHAINA, Hawaii - This was quite the party town when 19th-centurywhaling ships used to drop anchor on the western lobe of the islandof Maui, and land-starved mariners would come ashore looking for alittle fun. But those lonely sailors had nothing on the 20,000-30,000 revelerswho ...
A PASSION FOR THE SOX IN KYOTO'S FENWAY PARK
Oct 01, 2006; ... KYOTO, Japan - They call it Red Sox Nation, but it's really a RedSox world, despite the team's recent slide out of playoff contention. Wherever you travel across the country, you run into Red Sox fans.You see Red Sox shirts and hats in museums, in airports, in bars.When traveling ...
TAKE THE PERFECT PHOTO, AND SIMPLIFY THE JOURNEY TO GET IT
Oct 01, 2006; ... You see them everywhere: tourists holding cameras and snappingphotos of anything in their path. You may travel with a camerayourself. It sometimes seems that photography has become a filter forliving; you don't have to experience the Grand Canyon or the EiffelTower, you can take a ...
TACKLING NEW HEIGHTS IN SLOVENIA HONEYMOONERS ATTEMPT 9,396-FOOT MOUNT TRIGLAV
Oct 01, 2006; ... STARA FUZINA, Slovenia - You are going to Slovenia on yourhoneymoon. You have agreed to this because it is your wife's idea andpeople smarter than you have informed you that you should listen toyour wife. It is, after all, your honeymoon. But it is also Slovenia. Slovenia, a ...
A RUGGED TRAIL, THROUGH FOREST, ROCKS, AND SCREE
Oct 01, 2006 ... COUGAR, Wash. - If you were offered a ticket to peer into thecenter of the earth, would you take it? The US Forest Service announced in July that it would offerpermits 100 a day through October to climb Monitor Ridge on the southface of Mount St. Helens, an active volcano in ...
'EYES ON THE PRIZE'
Oct 01, 2006; ... To open its new season, "American Experience" will rebroadcast oneof PBS' most celebrated miniseries, "Eyes on the Prize." The 1987documentary traces the civil rights movement from the Montgomery busboycott to the Voting Rights Act. The story is told ...
TRAIL MIX WORKOUTS AND PANORAMAS AT VERMONT'S FIRE TOWERS
Oct 01, 2006; ... ELMORE, Vt. From their offices in Elmore State Park, Katie McKayand Beth Turcotte can look up at the fire tower atop Mount Elmore. One rainy morning, the two park employees had already done a 4-mile round-trip fitness hike to the tower before clocking in. "Wehave patrons who go up ...
LEAVING ONLY FOOTPRINTS WHERE NIGHT STAYS LIGHT
Oct 01, 2006; ... WHO: Heather and Steve DePaola, 44 and 42, respectively, of Dover WHERE: Alaska WHEN: 18 days in June WHY: "It had a huge wild factor," said Heather about the hikingtrip in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which was organized bythe Boston chapter of the ...
UNSUBTLE `AUGUSTA' NEEDS TIDYING UP
Oct 01, 2006; ... LOWELL - Richard Dresser's "Augusta," now receiving its NewEngland premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, has a thought-provoking premise, a social conscience, and a lot of funny lines.What it doesn't have is a persuasive story, believable characters, oremotional truth. In ...
LANDSCAPE ENDURES; TECHNIQUES CHANGE
Oct 01, 2006; ... CAMBRIDGE - "What a Glorious Land!," a contemporary ink paintingby Li Junyi, takes its title from a 1936 poem by Mao Zedong. Thepiece is in "The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions," anexhibit at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Knowing how artistsand other intelligentsia ...
MATT, MEET MARTY 'THE DEPARTED' GAVE DAMON A CHANCE TO LEARN FROM SCORSESE
Oct 01, 2006; ... NEW YORK - When Matt Damon first met Martin Scorsese eight yearsago, he hardly expected he'd be starring in one of the director'sfilms less than a decade later. The year was 1998 and the "Good WillHunting" star and co-scribe was mere days away from picking up thebest screenplay Oscar and ...
LIFE GOES ON IN A CITY CHANGED FOREVER
Oct 01, 2006; ... The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are never mentioned in " The GreatNew Wonderful ," but they're the eggshells on which the film'scharacters walk every waking moment. A quiet, mysteriously richcomedy-drama, Danny Leiner's film takes place in September 2002, whenthe lives of its unconnected ...
DVD REPORT
Oct 01, 2006; ... ALSO THIS WEEK "EDMOND" (2006) There is actorly commitment, then there is what William H. Macy(above) does in this David Mamet-penned social drama. Playing adissatisfied businessman on a rampage, Macy is called upon to saysome extremely unprintable things about women and ...
A SPIRITUAL PORTRAIT OF 1960S PAKISTAN
Oct 01, 2006; ... Early on in the pellucid Bengali film "The Clay Bird" (2004), twoboys at an Islamic seminary are allowed a rare moment of play. Toysare forbidden, but with casual ingenuity they decide to toss aroundan invisible ball, and soon they're laughing as if it really existed.Like water in a ...
ECKHART, LOWE LIGHT UP `THANK YOU FOR SMOKING'
Oct 01, 2006; ... Did you hear about the new remake of "Broadcast News"? It's called"Thank You For Smoking" (2006), and one guesses that there's everychance lead actor Aaron Eckhart ("The Black Dahlia") could getWilliam Hurt-type attention come awards season fittingly, sincethey're playing variations on ...
IN GENERAL, HE RULES FOREST WHITAKER'S WELL-KNOWN ATTENTION TO DETAIL SERVED HIM WELL IN PLAYING THE INFAMOUS IDI AMIN
Oct 01, 2006 ... NEW YORK - Never let it be said that Forest Whitaker is a slackerwhen it comes to researching his film roles. To capture the aura ofjazzman Charlie Parker in 1988's "Bird," the actor sequesteredhimself in a Los Angeles loft with only a bed, couch, and saxophone.For director Jim ...
FOX NEWS AT 10: LOVE IT, HATE IT, BUT CAN'T IGNORE IT
Oct 01, 2006; ... Few moments in Fox News Channel history seem to sum up thenetwork's dilemma or its singular claim to entertainment value morethan last weekend's Bill Clinton episode. The site was "Fox News Sunday," the public-affairs show hosted byChris Wallace, the ABC News veteran who decamped ...
THE LONG AND SHORT OF KIESLOWSKI
Oct 01, 2006; ... There are two major series for movie fans to dig into over thenext two months: a retrospective of the works of Krzysztof Kieslowskithat opens on Thursday and continues through Oct. 29 at the Museum ofFine Arts, and a two-month series of new German cinema that startedlast week and runs ...
CROWNING HELEN MIRREN THE ACTRESS FOUND IT SURPRISINGLY EASY TO DISAPPEAR INTO HER ROLE IN 'THE QUEEN'
Oct 01, 2006; ... LOS ANGELES - Helen Mirren, regal in her own right, has never beena staunch monarchist. In fact she's been anything but. Her parents,after all, were ardent socialists. She grew up hearing Britain'sclass system berated over supper and to this day believes thatBuckingham Palace and its ...
AFTER TWO DECADES, THE CHILI PEPPERS ARE STILL ROCK STARS - THEY'RE JUST NOT LIVING LIKE THEM ANYMORE
Oct 01, 2006; ... VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Anthony Kiedis, the frontman for theRed Hot Chili Peppers, is sitting on a velvet sofa in his dressingroom at the General Motors Arena. A beautiful blond woman is crouchedbeside him, tightening a tourniquet on his arm. She fills a syringeand slips a needle ...
SEPTEMBER'S TOP RELEASES WEREN'T ALL TOP 40
Oct 01, 2006 ... With blockbuster new albums by Justin Timberlake, Ludacris, andFergie, you may have overlooked some of September's other bigreleases. From Lionel Richie's update on his classic R&B sound to thereturn of the Lemonheads, there's a lot more to listen to than whatgets played on pop ...
SANS SISTER, SHE'S BACK IN `THE GAME'
Oct 01, 2006; ... PASADENA, Calif. - Tia Mowry is finally ready to play a televisioncharacter who doesn't have a twin sister. For 14 years, the actress has thrived on the fact that she has anidentical twin, Tamera. Together the duo starred in the long-runningsitcom "Sister, Sister" in the '90s and ...
GLASPER GLAD TO BE BACK
Oct 01, 2006; ... The first thing senior safety Ryan Glasper did when he enteredAlumni Stadium yesterday was look back at the stands behind the northend zone and point to where his injured "Bash Brother," junior safetyJamie Silva , was seated. "Jamie was in the stands, where I spent the last four ...
BRUINS ARE TAKEN TO SCHOOL BY RANGERS
Oct 01, 2006; ... At this stage of the year, everything can be used as a lesson. For instance, how the Bruins respond to being without defensemenZdeno Chara (sore hamstring) and Milan Jurcina (elbow contusion) andtop-line wing Marco Sturm (chest cold). How the Bruins play at home for the first ...
ST. JOHN'S PREP EDGES BROCKTON ASKEW'S VERSATILITY KEEPS BOXERS CLOSE
Oct 01, 2006; ... BROCKTON - Brockton's triple-threat signal-caller Vaughn Askewgave the St. John's Prep Eagles fits all day long. His elusiveness was made clear in the early going when, seeingpressure from the front side, he spun out of a tackle, looped arounddown the left sideline, and hit ...
LEAVITT'S TDS GIVE MIDDIES A SINKING FEELING
Oct 01, 2006; ... DRACUT - Mike Leavitt made certain Dracut's drought againstCentral Catholic reached 18 years. Leavitt's tiebreaking 75-yard touchdown run with 1:09 remaining inthe third quarter yesterday lifted the Red Raiders to a 28-21 victoryand kept the Middies winless since 1988 in the ...
A SPIN AROUND THE CITY
Oct 01, 2006; ... Steve Miller is confident that, regardless of the weather today,hundreds, maybe thousands, of cyclists will hop on their two-wheelers and take a spin around Boston for the second annual Hub onWheels event. Riders can pick a course of 10, 20, 30, or 40 milesthat starts and ends at City ...
CRIMSON STORM BACK FOR WIN
Oct 01, 2006; ... BETHLEHEM, Pa. - If they did not necessarily play better football,it was enough for the Harvard Crimson to play longer yesterday,spotting Lehigh a 24-7 lead midway through the second quarter beforestorming back with four straight touchdowns, then hanging on for a 35-33 win. It ...
TITANS QB YOUNG TO START VS. COWBOYS
Oct 01, 2006 ... FOOTBALL Rookie quarterback Vince Young will make his first NFL start forthe Tennessee Titans today against the Dallas Cowboys. The firstquarterback taken in this year's draft at No. 3 overall, Young hadspot duty in the 0-3 Titans' first two games. The Titans said theychose Young ...
IT'S SIBLING REVELRY AS MANSFIELD ROLLS IN HOCKOMOCK SHOWDOWN
Oct 01, 2006; ... MANSFIELD - A 40-yard touchdown pass? No big deal, really. It'sjust like playing a pickup game in the backyard for the Gilsonbrothers of Mansfield High School. "We've been playing catch all of our lives," said senior widereceiver Tom Gilson, whose 40-yard touchdown reception from ...
TRINITY HALTED BY WILLIAMS
Oct 01, 2006 ... Williams quarterback Pat Lucey knew what the stakes were whenTrinity brought its 31-game winning streak to Williamstown yesterday. "For us, it was only a game," he said, after throwing for 238yards and three touchdowns in the Ephs' 41-16 streak-ending win."They had a streak to ...
A POTENTIAL SNAG IN THE NET THOMAS, TOIVONEN SHORT ON EXPERIENCE
Oct 01, 2006; ... Only the quintessential Black-and-Gold optimist would look at thetwo goalies the Bruins have pinned their hopes on for 2006-07 andnot feel, shall we say, some level of concern. Tim Thomas andHannu Toivonen, both of whom played well here last season, have acombined NHL dossier of ...
PEDRO'S SURGERY CUTS BOTH WAYS
Oct 01, 2006; ... For all the lamentations and vitriol over losing Pedro Martinez,and all the back-and-forth over who was right and who was wrong inallowing one of the greatest pitchers in Red Sox history to leave,in the end, the Sox were right. Sox doctors knew what the Metsdoctors knew: ...
WIN DOESN'T ANSWER MANY QUESTIONS
Oct 01, 2006; ... A month should be enough time to figure out the character of afootball team, to pick up the direction of a season that is nowalmost half-over. But for Boston College, the head-scratching hasn't stopped sincethe Eagles began their year with a 31-24 victory over CentralMichigan, ...
DOGGED EFFORT WILL BE NEEDED
Oct 01, 2006; ... FOXBOROUGH - Rodney Harrison kept his patience as the questionscame at him in rapid-fire succession last week. How do youdefend against such big receivers? What makes the Bengals' receiversso good? What type of tactics can a smaller defensive back use to be competitive? The ...