The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 2007:
Rescinding the Bush Doctrine
Mar 01, 2007; ... RATHER THAN vainly sniping at President Bush over his managementof the Iraq war, the Democratic-controlled Congress ought to focus onaverting any recurrence of this misadventure. Decrying the so-called"surge" or curbing the president's authority to conduct ongoingoperations will ...
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Trial against Lowell man in 2 deaths begins
Mar 01, 2007; ... CAMBRIDGE - Twelve-year-old Alyssa Presti fought for her lifeagainst the man she had just witnessed brutalize her mother, but theattacker overpowered her and slashed her neck, leaving the barefootfifth-grader bleeding to death in her bedroom, a prosecutor saidyesterday during opening ...
Patrick picks his fights
Mar 01, 2007 ... AT LEAST TWICE yesterday as he unveiled his unorthodox $26.7billion budget, Governor Patrick made an appeal to reason. "I thinkwe have got to stop worrying about the emotional arguments andconcentrate on the facts," he said. Perhaps. But the facts are sobering, and emotions cannot ...
Why not insure every child?
Mar 01, 2007 ... THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION should be helping Massachusetts and otherstates with innovative expansions of health insurance, as it did lastyear, instead of applying a chokehold to a successful federal programthat covers low-income children. Congress needs to provide money tomaintain the ...
Pakistan, the limited partner
Mar 01, 2007 ... BOTH PRESIDENT BUSH and Pakistan's president, General PervezMusharraf, have spoken of the strategic partnership between their twocountries. Since Musharraf took power in a military coup and presidesover a regime that may be described as, at best, a severelycompromised democracy, the ...
The Clintons: the `never again' factor
Mar 01, 2007 ... RE: "THE Elephant in the Clintons' room" (Scot Lehigh, Op-ed, Feb.23): What David Geffen said to Maureen Dowd about Bill Clinton may havebeen a secret somewhere, but not out here where many of us Democratslive and breathe. From the moment Hillary Clinton's name came up as a ...
Prison a wasteland for mentally ill
Mar 01, 2007; ... ON THANKSGIVING 2004, a notoriously mad inmate named Richard A.Street hanged himself in a segregation unit at the 800-inmate,maximum-security state prison in Walpole. His death marked the startof a rash of 12 suicides in Massachusetts prisons in 26 months,compared with five in the nearly ...
Globe is honored by APSE
Mar 01, 2007 ... The Globe earned eight awards in the Associated Press SportsEditors' annual contest held this week in Long Beach, Calif. In judging completed yesterday, the Globe received top-10 honorsin the Sunday and special section categories, with an honorablemention in the daily ...
AP pulls off super stunner
Mar 01, 2007; ... Austin Prep 2 St. John's Prep 1 BILLERICA - Seventh-seeded Austin Prep came from behind to upendsecond-seeded St. John's Prep, 2-1, last night in the opening roundof the Super 8 tournament. David MacDonald netted the winner for the Cougars at the 5:15 markof the third ...
Local and looking good
Mar 01, 2007; ... Revlon and Cover Girl were once the only game in town; now, beautyproducts are exploding onto the marketplace faster than you can say"Sephora." Local companies selling their own homegrown beautyproducts, many made with regional ingredients, are a big part of thistrend. Why are artisanal ...
$6m more OK'd for Big Dig repairs Overall price tag hits $31 million
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority yesterday approved anadditional $6 million to pay for Big Dig repairs, increasing theprice tag from last summer's fatal tunnel ceiling collapse to $31million - with more potentially to come. "I sitting here today can't guarantee to the board ...
With software glitch, it was `Sorry, Charlie'
Mar 01, 2007; ... Hundreds of passengers who passed through the Red Line's Charles/MGH station had their monthly passes rejected over the past two daysdue to a software glitch at the station's new fare collection gates,T officials said yesterday. Officials said the problem was fixed before rush hour ...
Turning old movies into new family fun
Mar 01, 2007; ... BOOK REVIEW THE BEST OLD MOVIES FOR FAMILIES; A GUIDE TO WATCHING TOGETHER BY TY BURR ANCHOR, 375 pp., $16.95 In this practical, insightful, and often quite funny guide towatching old movies in a family setting, Globe film critic Ty Burrchampions classic films ...
High court hears case of faith-based funding - Atheists argue for the right to sue government
Mar 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON -- An atheist group that alleges President Bush's faith-based initiative is unconstitutional asked the Supreme Courtyesterday to allow taxpayers to sue the administration for givingfederal money to religious groups, but the White House argued thattaxpayers shouldn't be allowed ...
Bruins unfurl welcome mat Ward, Wideman practice with team
Mar 01, 2007; ... WILMINGTON - All that's left for the Bruins is the present. The tension of the NHL's trade deadline is past, broken Tuesdaywhen Boston acquired defensemen Aaron Ward from the Rangers andDennis Wideman from the Blues. Both players were at Ristuccia Arenafor yesterday's practice and ...
Budget relies on one-time fixes Patrick looks to tap tobacco, rainy-day funds
Mar 01, 2007; ... The $950 million in "savings and efficiencies" that Governor DevalPatrick touted in his budget address this week is actually acompilation of corporate tax increases, hoped-for improvements in taxcollection and fraud detection, lower spending increases thanoriginally anticipated to keep ...
American deaths
Mar 01, 2007 ... The Pentagon has released the names of the following US servicemembers killed recently in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to thePentagon, 3,158 US personnel have been killed and 23,677 woundedsince the Iraq war began in March 2003. In and around Afghanistan,307 US personnel have died and ...
Celtics let lead slip away, but not game
Mar 01, 2007; ... Celtics 102 Knicks 94 Winning streak. The last time the Celtics (15-42) uttered thosewords, it was mid-December. Not coincidentally, it was days beforePaul Pierce went down with a stress reaction in his left foot and theteam took a precipitous turn for the worst, the bottom ...
Father forgets toddler in cart and drives away Providence man charged
Mar 01, 2007; ... ATTLEBORO - After shopping with his sister at a Burlington CoatFactory store Tuesday evening, 34-year-old Olwagbeminiyi Abiodununloaded several items from his shopping cart and drove off. But he left something behind. His 1-year-old son was sitting inthe child seat of the ...
Rural Chinese glad to earn cash for blood Loosely regulated collection centers threaten supply
Mar 01, 2007; ... TONG BUJI, China - Every few weeks, farmer Long Zhu Xiang walksabout 30 minutes down the rubble-strewn path that connects her remoteimpoverished village in Guizhou Province to a county road and thentakes a bus ride into the nearest county town to sell the oneprecious commodity she has - ...
Overpowering start for CM Knights put on display in Super 8 opener
Mar 01, 2007; ... CM 10 Central Cath. 1 BILLERICA - They wanted an ordainment, but they got a historylesson. Central Catholic, in its Super 8 debut, bowed to top-seed andperennial favorite Catholic Memorial, 10-1, last night at ChelmsfordForum. "You never get a break," Central ...
CM puts on a display Knights shift to overdrive, run over Central Catholic
Mar 01, 2007; ... CM 10 Central Cath. 1 BILLERICA - They wanted an ordainment, but they got a historylesson. Central Catholic, in its Super 8 debut, bowed to top seed andperennial favorite Catholic Memorial, 10-1, last night at ChelmsfordForum. "You never get a break," Central ...
Ankle surgery to shelve Szczerbiak for season
Mar 01, 2007; ... CELTICS NOTEBOOK Wally Szczerbiak will undergo season-ending surgery on his leftankle March 8 at New England Baptist Hospital. After seeking secondopinions in Los Angeles and Boston, Szczerbiak decided surgery torepair structural weakness in the ankle was the best course ...
Goin' places with Coen First-year coach has Northeastern on the rise
Mar 01, 2007; ... The lunchtime crowd at Uno's on Huntington Avenue is raising thenoise level a notch, but it doesn't bother Billy Coen. He's used toit. A city guy, talking about a city game at a city school,Northeastern, which made Coen its men's basketball coach last April11. Nearly eleven ...
Looking past the candidates Conservatives shift focus to Congress
Mar 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - Conservative activists are shifting their 2008 focusto recapturing the House and Senate, hoping that GOP control of atleast one chamber of Congress would thwart liberal policies thatcould come either from a Democratic or moderate Republican WhiteHouse. Conservative ...
For the record
Mar 01, 2007 ... - Correction: Because of a graphic artist's error, a chart on PageOne yesterday accompanying a story on the stock market incorrectlylabeled the initial drop in the Dow Jones industrial average as apercent, implying that subsequent drops were also percentages. Thefigures were actual ...
Firms prodded to try smarter credit cards Chip technology new antifraud tool
Mar 01, 2007; ... Faced with increasing threats of theft of consumer data, credit-card companies are rolling out higher security plastic. European and Asian banks in recent years have spent billions ofdollars to make the switch to credit and debit cards containing atiny microprocessor chip that ...
Lawyer wounded in courtroom attack ready to return
Mar 01, 2007; ... A Malden lawyer whose client reportedly slashed him in the faceand chest Tuesday with a makeshift knife in a Dedham courtroom plansto return to court today, the lawyer's wife said yesterday. John J. Courtney, 60, was released Tuesday night from Beth IsraelDeaconess Medical Center, ...
REGAL AMBASSADOR
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City police plan an influx of detectives [Corrected 03/05/07] Deployment called key to crime fight
Mar 01, 2007; ... Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis plans to bolster thedepartment's thinned detective ranks in the next several months,saying he believes the department's declining success in solvingserious crimes is largely tied to a shortage of investigators. The department's "clearance ...
New positions boost DSS medical expertise [Corrected 03/03/07] High-profile cases prompt hirings
Mar 01, 2007; ... Social workers at the Department of Social Services will soon havethe equivalent of 12 additional full-time physicians, childpsychiatrists, and other medical personnel to advise them on complexcases, new hires that follow two high-profile child abuse cases thatexposed the agency's ...
Marijuana as wonder drug
Mar 01, 2007; ... A NEW STUDY in the journal Neurology is being hailed asunassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sadcommentary on the state of modern medicine - and US drug policy -that we still need "proof" of something that medicine has known for5,000 years. The study, ...
It might be time to retire washer that walks
Mar 01, 2007; ... HANDYMAN ON CALL One more bit of promotion. It is not too late to get to the NewEngland Home Show, now taking place through Sunday at the World TradeCenter in Boston where the Handyman will be answering questions atthe Handyman's Corner. Come say hello. Q. I have a very old ...
Harvard art gallery project put on hold Residents want more say on plans
Mar 01, 2007; ... Harvard and Boston Redevelopment Authority officials said lastnight that they would hold off on plans to build an art gallery inAllston, after local residents and politicians spoke against theproposal and expressed concern that they have been left out of thedecision-making ...
Focus checked by HC Crusaders romp into Patriot semis
Mar 01, 2007; ... Holy Cross 83 Lafayette 53 WORCESTER - Ralph Willard made it clear to his players that hewanted them to enter the Patriot League tournament with a very narrowvision. Forget that the Crusaders were the top seed in the tournament thatbegan last night at the Hart Center ....
HANDS-ON HELP
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Papelbon OK with proving self
Mar 01, 2007; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - Mike Timlin made sure that Jonathan Papelbonwas assigned a new nickname to go along with his new job: StarterBoy. With that moniker comes the knowledge that no matter what happenedlast night in the Red Sox' inaugural spring training game against theTwins, ...
ANCHORS, AH, WEIGH A LOT
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A CULTURAL CONNECTION `Scourge' blends hip-hop, dance, words to tell Haiti, US story
Mar 01, 2007; ... SAN FRANCISCO - Standing at the center of the stage, his bodycoiled with tension, Marc Bamuthi Joseph invokes the primal power ofwords. "Language is our family's Garden of Eden," he declares. In his extraordinary new multimedia production "Scourge," rapcolloquies give way to ...
A gay kiss spurred violent ouster from bar, lawsuit says
Mar 01, 2007; ... A Boston man is accusing Jeremiah Foley, a member of the familythat runs the well-known J.J. Foley's pubs in Boston, of assaultinghim and physically throwing him out of the chain's bar in the LeatherDistrict because he was kissing another man. Martin T. Keenan says in a civil ...
CHRISTIAN LACROIX - ACT 2
Mar 01, 2007; ... PARIS - It was at a function in New York's Royalton Hotel in theearly 1990s that Christian Lacroix first saw his followers stray.Lacroix had sailed through the 1980s as couture's savior, the princeof the pouf skirt, and a champion of color and embroidered detail.But his American ...
A word or two for the vice president
Mar 01, 2007 ... IS VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney for real? He says he questions HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi's judgment concerning the war in Iraq ("Cheneyresolute on rebuke of Pelosi's policy on Iraq," Page A6, Feb. 24).That's a laugh. It's been almost two years since Cheney proclaimed the ...
Moral decay on display in `Departed'
Mar 01, 2007 ... YOUR FEB. 27 editorial "`The Departed': Is it Boston?" stated thatthe relationship between gangster and politician was never mentionedin the film. There are words, and then there is visual language, a medium inwhich Martin Scorsese excels. The final scene takes place in the ...
Let market rule on school loans
Mar 01, 2007 ... IN HIS Feb. 22 letter, Sallie Mae CEO Tim Fitzpatrick decriesSenator Edward M. Kennedy's criticisms of the private sector studentloan companies. We must not overlook the core issue the senatorraised in his Feb. 15 op-ed: The fee paid to private banks tooriginate and service student loans ...
Manny being Manny, Globe being Globe
Mar 01, 2007 ... AS A REGULAR and usually satisfied reader of your newspaper, I wasdismayed to see on the front page of the Feb. 27 edition a picture ofa highly paid professional athlete ("Day one for Ramirez") whocasually shows up for "work" and seems to shrug off accountability tohis team and ...
SPORTS LOG
Mar 01, 2007 ... COLLEGES Lack of black football coaches blasted The dearth of black head coaches in college football was lamentedin powerful language by NCAA president Myles Brand before the HouseSubcommittee on Commerce. "Sadly, if the pace of progress remains thesame, it will be ...
Judge hits politics in choice of marshals A rare rebuke from US bench
Mar 01, 2007; ... A federal judge in Boston has blasted the US Marshals Service as a"second rate" agency because it is headed by a patronage appointee,and called on Congress to "professionalize" the law enforcementagency. Judge William G. Young, in an unusual addendum to a ruling in anemployment ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Mar 01, 2007 ... Massachusetts State to get $4m in disaster planning aid Massachusetts will receive $4 million next fiscal year in federaldisaster-planning grants from the Department of Homeland Security.The aid is an increase in roughly $34,000 from the grants the statereceived last year ....
Branding goes fundamental Bank buys naming rights to youth soccer complex
Mar 01, 2007; ... LANCASTER - For years, corporations have paid millions of dollarsto stamp their names on professional sports stadiums and arenas. But buying the naming rights for a youth soccer field? Targeting parents, coaches, and youngsters, Citizens Bank haspurchased the naming rights of ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Mar 01, 2007 ... BOSTON Background checks on bouncers OK'd The City Council approved a proposal yesterday that would requirebackground checks on bouncers and other security staff members atbars and clubs. The plan, introduced by Councilor Michael F.Flaherty, is aimed at reducing ...
Outbreak of intestinal illness lingers
Mar 01, 2007; ... Miserable with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea? You have plenty ofcompany. Boston continues to be mired in an outbreak of gastrointestinalillness, with the latest figures from a disease-tracking systemshowing that emergency room visits reached peak levels in February. About ...
Outbreak of intestinal illness lingers in city
Mar 01, 2007; ... Miserable with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea? You have plenty ofcompany. Boston continues to be mired in an outbreak of gastrointestinalillness, with the latest figures from a disease-tracking systemshowing that emergency room visits reached peak levels in February. About ...
Huskies close on high note Terriers suffer another defeat
Mar 01, 2007; ... NU 4 BU 2 Prior to last night, the last time Northeastern faced BostonUniversity was when the Huskies were throttled in the opening roundof the Beanpot Feb. 5. Since then, NU had struggled with a 2-3-1record, while BU had gone 4-1-1, including a victory for the ...
Patriots must decide whether to be players Team has needs, but is free agency the way to fill them?
Mar 01, 2007; ... Although they have not made big splashes in the veteran free agentmarket in recent years, the Patriots have flirted with thepossibility. Their aggressive courting in 2005 of wide receiverDerrick Mason, who ultimately signed a lucrative contract with theRavens, is a prime ...
Cleaning up the clutter
Mar 01, 2007; ... This is the sloppiest time of year, when front halls and mudroomsare covered with slush and sand, when even serious neatniks areorganizationally challenged. It's also a busy time of year forprofessional organizers like Pam Krueger, who runs Girl Friday LifeManagement Assistance in ...
Charges dropped against MIT trio School's prank tradition cited
Mar 01, 2007; ... CAMBRIDGE - With the backing of MIT, Middlesex County prosecutorsyesterday dropped criminal charges against three university studentswho sneaked into the MIT Faculty Club as part of the school'stradition of pranks. Students Kristina Brown, 19, David Nawi, 29, and Matthew ...
Schilling in fine form for Sox in opener
Mar 01, 2007; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Stopper." That's the tune citizens of Red Sox Nation could have been hummingafter Curt Schilling's two innings in the inaugural game of the 2007spring training season last night. Miffed that his contract extension request was rejected ...
Sosa's quick work aids Gr. Lawrence
Mar 01, 2007; ... SCHOOL ROUNDUP Victor Sosa of Greater Lawrence hadn't wrestled in five weeks,since he sustained a concussion in a match at the end of the regularseason. Last night at Andover, he only got to wrestle for a minute. Sosa charged at North Andover's Kyle Dolan from the start ...
Dartmouth aims for a home run
Mar 01, 2007; ... SNOW SPORTS / On skiing It's not exactly deja vu after all these decades, but seeing theDartmouth ski team back as reigning Eastern champions, poised perhapsto win its first NCAA title in 49 years, only returns skiing to itsearliest days in this country. When the sport was ...
Letting everyone get up to speed Downhill rush to be found at Syrovatka race
Mar 01, 2007; ... SNOW SPORTS JAY, Vt. - Everyone who skis must have found themselves at sometime poised at the start of a race course looking down at the gates,trying to size up a strategy, and finally settling for just gettingit over with. Despite the tension at the start, those are the easy ...
Day of festivities at Mt. Cranmore Meister Cup race honors Schneider
Mar 01, 2007; ... SNOW SPORTS / SKIING NOTEBOOK The annual Hannes Schneider Meister Cup race returns to MountCranmore March 9-10, which includes a festive day of skiing nostalgiato honor one of the fathers of modern skiing. Founder of the Cranmore Ski School, Schneider and his son ...
Lester has waited long enough Return to game action is Monday
Mar 01, 2007; ... RED SOX NOTEBOOK FORT MYERS, Fla. - Lefthander Jon Lester will make his 2007 springtraining debut in a B game against minor leaguers Monday at 10 a.m. "Obviously, it's a day to look forward to," Lester said yesterday."But I feel like I've been facing hitters in live batting ...
Cambridge police seek suspect in stabbings outside mall
Mar 01, 2007; ... Police were searching last night for suspects in the stabbing ofthree males outside the CambridgeSide Galleria in Cambridge. The victims, whom police did not identify, were stabbed on FirstStreet, which borders the mall. Police received emergency calls froma store inside the mall ...
Economists credit solid US profits, aided by foreign investment, for slight rebound
Mar 01, 2007; ... US stock markets halted Tuesday's sharp declines and ended the dayslightly up, showing a resilience that economists attributed to solidcorporate earnings and greater international connections that haveboosted demand for many goods and services. "The economy can certainly withstand ...