The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from April 2007:
HOUSES DIVIDED
Apr 01, 2007 ... Thank you for saying what I've been thinking for a long time.Whether women are outearning the men in their lives or not ("The JobWithout Benefi ts," March 11), we always seem to be outworking themin the domestic arena, which is shortchanging everyone. I am theprimary breadwinner and an ...
STAR MAKER
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / FIRST PERSON Do famous actors get stage fright? Absolutely. Without question. You've seen it. Oh, absolutely. I mean big-timestage fright. Some throw up. Somehave anxiety attacks. Nicole Kidman calls you a great coach in her introduction ...
A WEDDING DELAYED
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / MISS CONDUCT My fiance and I were planning to have our wedding four months fromnow, but we recently decided to postpone it. As I start to let peopleknow, I am getting bombarded with questions: Who called it off? Areyou breaking up? When will one of you be moving ...
SWEET KISS Egg whites and sugar combine in traditional Easter or Passover Meringue treats that are light as air.
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / COOKING Meringues make any table more festive, and their short ingredientlist - egg whites, sugar, and vanilla - suits both Passover andEaster tables. But the crisp, airy quality that makes meringues soappealing also makes them fussy. They like cool, dry days ...
THE TRIUMPH OF VICTOR VALLEY ALUMS
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / PERSPECTIVE I feel sorry for you, high school seniors. College acceptanceletters are arriving, too many thin, too few thick. The days ofreckoning are upon you, the days that make or break you. Maybe you're one of the lucky few who get into an elite ...
TURNING THE PAGE
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / Dear John Adams: I know I have been unkind enough on several occasions to suggestthat your 15 minutes are pretty much up, and that it's time for younot to be a celebrity anymore. David McCullough's booknotwithstanding, I liked you much better as the singing ...
TIME OUT - Is there such a thing as dating too mucy? Yes, but there's a remedy
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / After asking a date about her vacation, my friend Josh decided heneeded one, too. Halfway through an intimate pad Thai for two, heinquired about the woman's trip to Istanbul and got back a blankstare. That's when Josh realized the brunette sipping chardonnay ...
TAKE IT FROM HIM
Apr 01, 2007 ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / TALES FROM THE CITY Walking one night in Marblehead, my 14-year-old daughter and Iwere talking, apparently loudly, about her commitment, or lackthereof, to playing the piano. She said she enjoyed playing but that"I know I'll never become a great pianist." Out of ...
CLASS ACT- This professor and gynecologist favors a low-key designer look.
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / FASHION PLATES Dr. Roxane Gardner's closet contains a who's who of designerlabels, but she's hardly a slave to fashion. The assistant professorof obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital chooseseach piece carefully, going for class over fl ash. "I ...
MATZO MEALS - Just because it's Passover, doesn't mean you can't go out to eat
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / JUST A TASTE Bread baskets and dessert menus are generally better out of sight,out of mind for those keeping to religious dietary guidelines thatput leavened breads and baked goods off -limits. During Passover,matzo, a crisp flatbread, is a stand-in for other ...
CULTURE SPLASH East Meets West ina bathroom built around an Asian soakig tub.
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / DESIGNING When John Shields began to research the latest and best in bathfittings for a series of high-end villas in China that his Bostonarchitecture firm was developing, the timing couldn't have beenbetter. The architect and his Swiss-born wife, financial ...
TOP OF THE HUB Penthouses that are high-style oases on the urban landscape.
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / ON THE BLOCK $979,000 25 CHANNEL CENTER, PH 201, SEAPORT DISTRICT SQUARE FOOTAGE 1,651 BEDROOMS 2 BATHS 2 full CONDO FEE $1,030 per month 2007 TAXES $9,360 LAST SOLD FOR $1,185,000 in 2004 PROS It's ...
SCARED SILLY Nothing inspires first-time author and Harvard Lampoon alum Simon Rich more than his own insecurities.
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / PROFILE Twenty-two-year-old Simon Rich may have graduated from Harvard inJanuary, but he freely admits he has yet to outgrow the ordeal ofadolescence. Back in Hebrew school, for instance, he was terrified ofa wisecracking classmate named Zach, an aspiring juvenile ...
ALL WHITE
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / KITCHEN AIDE Using fresh eggs for meringues or other recipes that require justthe whites, such as angel food cake, poses a couple of problems: Thecook must separate yolk from white and then is faced with what to dowith the yolks. The food industry has responded ...
THE HARDEST WORD - Since 2005, Ruth Henderson has taught a course about forgiveness. Her pupils are no ordinary students - they are convicts whose heinous crimes will never be forgotton. What they learn - and how they learn it - is a study in hope.
Apr 01, 2007; ... HERE THEY ARE, ALL SITTING IN A CIRCLE: THE KILLERS AND THERAPISTS, THE DRUG DEALERS AND the drug users, the men who stole fromothers and the men who beat their girlfriends. It is December. Thereis tinsel strung up on the walls of the visitors' room at Bay StateCorrectional Center in ...
THWACK!
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / THE FIND Dirty work doesn't have to be ugly. So as you look ahead to springcleaning and summer ...
THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR . . .Jimmie Luke Covington, 60, creates custom footwear in Gardner for urban cowboys and cowgirls
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON UNCOMMON / Are boot wearers making fashion mistakes you'd like to address? The biggest thing is men wearing boots and their pants are tooshort. Most of their pants, when they bought them, they were wearingflat heels. Short guys in high-heeled cowboy boots - do ...
Damon leaves - YOU HATE HIM. Varitek stays, Matsuzaka comes - YOU LOVE HIM. NOBODY PLAYS HARDBALL like this guy. WHY SCOTT BORAS IS THE BEST (AND WORST) THING TO HAPPEN TO BASEBALL
Apr 01, 2007; ... BASEBALL IS ABOUT HISTORY, ITS POETS TELL US. It is aboutcontinuity and about heirloom emotions. It's a golden thread thatbinds the generations together, one after another, in the face of anincreasingly centrifugal and atomized world. So say baseball's poets,and because this is a ...
Missing passage A young scholar pushes the boundaries of history to re-create the life of a slave in Puritan New England
Apr 01, 2007; ... Critical Faculties HISTORIANS OF THE Colonial period give thanks for the remarkableliteracy and record-keeping habits of the first New Englanders, butthe colonists said little about one aspect of their society: slavery.How then can historians re-create the lives of enslaved ...
Public poet If Boston wants a poet laureate, it would do well to look to its own past for a model
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOSTON'S CITY COUNCIL chamber is a far remove from the summit ofMount Parnassus, mythic home of the muses. One of the astonishingeffects of City Hall's Brutalism is to make this fifth-floor roomseem subterranean. But poetry was on the lips of those in attendancelast Tuesday when ...
Climate of fear Michael Crichton isn't the only science fiction writer who's taken catastrophic climatic change as his theme.
Apr 01, 2007; ... "THE PLANET HAS a fever," Al Gore told Republican skeptics inCongress on March 21. "If your baby has a fever, you go to thedoctor. If the doctor says, 'You have to intervene here,' you don'tsay, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that says this isn'timportant.''' Liberal ...
The Word
Apr 01, 2007; ... Professionally peeved IN HIS FRISKY new book, "When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It,"Ben Yagoda sums up language descriptivists as a group "whose motto,borrowed from Alexander Pope, is 'Whatever is, is right.'" (Pope'sline was a vote of confidence in an all-wise Creator, not ...
Q&A with Hermione Lee
Apr 01, 2007; ... A THIRD OF the way through her absorbing new biography of EdithWharton, Hermione Lee pauses to consider her subject's erotic appealto Morton Fullerton, the notorious rogue she'd taken, in midlife, asher lover. "Exposing the concealed, thwarted, passionate self hiddenunder the gloves and ...
HEAD OF THE CLASS
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cc: Red Sox Nation; Subject: Dice-K, etc. John Henry e-mails back on season
Apr 01, 2007; ... Press "send." Wait 2 hours 4 minutes. And there, in the e-mailinbox, sits a response to all 47 questions posed to John Henry, theprincipal owner of the Red Sox. Henry has settled upon e-mail as his preferred means ofcommunication for an interview in which little was off-limits ....
COMMUNITY BRIEFING
Apr 01, 2007 ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 ABINGTON 34TH WALK TO BENEFIT CHILDREN - What started with a simple round-trip walk between Kay Doherty's Abington home and her Hingham churchhas, since 1972, raised more than $2.5 million for underprivilegedchildren. "We started out with 31 walkers," said ...
COMMUNITY BRIEFING
Apr 01, 2007 ... GLOBE SOUTH 2 BRIDGEWATER DRUG FORUM - Police departments in Bridgewater, East Bridgewater,West Bridgewater, and at Bridgewater State College are sponsoring apublic information forum on heroin, OxyContin, and other drugs: howto recognize signs of drug abuse and dependency, ...
To her, naked walls are obscene Natalie Wolf covers them with art that comforts
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 / PEOPLE & PLACES Eighty-six-year-old Natalie Wolf believes there is nothing lessenticing than a bare wall. "Naked walls are obscene," declares a button pinned on her shirt.It's a philosophy that continually inspires her as she goes aboutcollecting thousands of ...
Barbara Buhl, 84,active volunteer
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 / OBITUARIES PLYMOUTH -- Barbara (Viets) Gregory Buhl, a volunteer who helped many organizations in the area, including Jordan Hospital, died March 13 at Bay Path Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Duxbury. She was ...
Turning bog sinto villages Cranberry company envisions development across vast expanse
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 On one of the region's largest undeveloped tracts - a vast expanseof bogs and woods that is bigger than some entire towns - the nextchapter of Southeast Massachusetts' development is beginning to takeshape. The vision? "This is really kind of back to the ...
Milton officials weigh 3 new student assignment plans Aim is to attain racial, gender, and academic balance in elementary schools
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 Milton school officials - in what they say is an effort to achieveracial, gender, and academic balance - are considering three studentassignment plans that would radically change the face of elementaryeducation. The motivation is, in part, to address problems at ...
Milton panel drafts three new student assignment plans Aim is to attain racial, gender, and academic balance in elementary schools
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 2 Milton school officials - in what they say is an effort to achieveracial, gender, and academic balance - are considering three studentassignment plans that would radically change the face of elementaryeducation. The motivation is, in part, to address problems at ...
Teens' effort for GIs makes a connection
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 / NORWELL Norwell resident Gail Bergquist still doesn't have the space topark her car in her garage. The garage, she said, is full of oldcellphones, boxes of them. She can't even walk around her housewithout tripping over them. Bergquist is the mother of ...
NRC asked to consider terrorism risk
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 The state's congressional delegation, along with severallegislators and seven attorneys general from other states, arebacking Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's attempt toinclude the risk of terrorism among the factors considered inextending a nuclear ...
NRC asked to consider risk of terrorism in plant license
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 2 The state's congressional delegation, along with severallegislators and seven attorneys general from other states, arebacking Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's attempt toinclude the risk of terrorism among the factors considered inextending a nuclear ...
Officials take pulse of voters on rail plan
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 2 / RAYNHAM Governor Deval Patrick is expected to announce within the next fewdays whether the state will proceed with a plan to extend commuter-rail service from Stoughton to Taunton, Fall River, and New Bedford -an area that has lacked train service for nearly 50 ...
Reske had to have it all UMass star wouldn't give up basketball while pursuing grueling nursing program
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 / SPORTS Kristen Reske strolled into the gymnasium at Stonehill Collegerecently, wearing a pair of white furry boots. She isn't afraid offashion. When she steps out, she likes to do it with style, even towatch her alma mater Sacred Heart in the Division 4 girls' ...
624-unit development called best option for Sharon
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 SHARON - Fresh from an historic vote allowing an upscalecommercial development off Interstate 95, Sharon is weighing anothercritical land decision. The May 7 annual Town Meeting will consider zoning changes thatwould pave the way for a luxury senior living ...
624-unit development proposal is called best option for Sharon
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 2 SHARON - Fresh from an historic vote allowing an upscalecommercial development off Interstate 95, Sharon is weighing anothercritical land decision. The May 7 annual Town Meeting will consider zoning changes thatwould pave the way for a luxury senior living ...
NOTEBOOK
Apr 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 / SPORTS Sheridan picks up where she left off Kate Sheridan of Hingham is off to a fine start for the ColbyCollege women's lacrosse team. In the second game of the season, a 17-10 victory over Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, the sophomoremidfielder ...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Apr 01, 2007 ... GLOBE ...
GAINING A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
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FOR THE RECORD
Apr 01, 2007 ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 Correction: Because of an editing error, the ''Who taught YOU to drive?'' column in last ...
The case of the missing CharlieCards
Apr 01, 2007; ... Starts & Stops We were showing our identification at the State TransportationBuilding last week when we spied two displays of CharlieCardpamphlets on the security desk, one in English and one in Spanish. "Congratulations! Here's your new CharlieCard," read one pamphlet,which ...
Late TV Listings
Apr 01, 2007 ... This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Topics: US attorneyscontroversy; war funding; healthcare; Iraq war; 2008 presidentialplans; and Cal Ripkin Jr.'s new book. Guests: Senator Dick Durbin,Democrat of Illinois, Judiciary Committee; Dan Bartlett, counselor tothe president; Tommy Thompson, ...
A rocky path back to school Teen's future remains in limbo In city, efforts of former dropout, family, and teachers are marked by frustration, but propelled by hope
Apr 01, 2007; ... Slumped over in his hooded sweatshirt, Sylvester Cooper saidnothing as his grandmother and mentor pelted him with questions,pleas, and admonishments. It was October, just the second month of school, and the teenagerwas already facing his second disciplinary hearing for ...
Getting '05-06 dropouts to return is a challenge
Apr 01, 2007; ... Boston public school officials and the city's Private IndustryCouncil had a gargantuan task: Try to persuade 1,660 students whodropped out in 2005-06 to return to school. Last summer, two outreach workers sent letters, made calls, andvisited homes. They reached 375 students, but ...
Pay-as-you-go taxes are an unpleasant reality for many
Apr 01, 2007; ... Bill Gehan, an independent agent with Gibson Sotheby'sInternational Realty in Boston, faces an April 17 tax deadline. Butit isn't just for his 2006 income tax return. It's also for his firstestimated payment of tax for 2007. While many folks struggle to finalize tax for last year, ...
Coping with sibling rivalry
Apr 01, 2007; ... Ask the Teacher Q. My youngest son is now attending the same high school where hisolder brother did very well as a student and an athlete. Althoughteachers haven't compared the two boys outright, my son, a freshmanwho is struggling a little, feels pressure when hearing all ...
10 THINGS NOT TO MISS - APRIL
Apr 01, 2007; ... For patriots and history buffs, sports fans and poetry lovers,hunters of eggs and the perfect catch, this month is bursting withthe enticements of springtime. 1- NEWPORT MANSIONS Fallen into disrepair, many Newport, R.I.,Gilded Age mansions were slated for destruction in the 1940s, ...
Golfers get poetic over Augusta
Apr 01, 2007; ... To a Tee April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the deadland, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. The Waste Land (1922), T.S. Eliot We are guessing that Thomas Stearns Eliot was not a golfer, elsehe would have harbored a much ...
Tools
Apr 01, 2007 ... This week at bostonworks.com Career events Each week find out about the latest career events and career fairsat bostonworks .com/events. Post your resume Post your resume online on bostonworks.com. Add multiple resumesfor a variety of positions, and applying for ...
Business Class
Apr 01, 2007; ... Google on time Here's a new way to check whether your flight is late: Send a textmessage from your cellphone to Google.com. The search giant launcheda service last week with FlightStats.com. Send a text message withairline name and domestic flight number - like "Delta 1940" - to ...
How to move a lab from one century to the next
Apr 01, 2007; ... WHERE THEY WENT / CAMBODIA WHO: Karen McHugh, 54, of Foxborough WHERE: Cambodia WHEN: 18 days in January WHY: To volunteer at the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap DIVINE INSPIRATION: "It's been a lifelong dream to work in a ThirdWorld country and ...
The write touch Bromfield Pen Shop leaves a lasting imprint
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Observer You are what you write with. Believe it. Your pen is asdistinctive as your watch. The Observer is at sea without a Pilot V Razor Point Extra Fine.It's a cheap pen - under $2 when you buy 10 and get two free at theestimable Bromfield Pen Shop. But then price is ...
Bidder gets a bull's-eye with czar's gun
Apr 01, 2007; ... Antiques & Collectibles The recently rediscovered Parker shotgun, made by Parker Bros. ofMeriden, Conn., for Nicholas II of Russia but never delivered becauseWorld War I intervened, sold last month for $287,000, setting arecord for a US-made shotgun sold at auction. The gun, ...
Bird Sightings
Apr 01, 2007 ... Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts AudubonSociety. Four sandhill cranes were found Friday morning in a cornfield nearthe intersection of West Meadow Road and Route 119 in Townsend, and acackling goose was present in the same fields Thursday. A tundra swan ...
LETTERS
Apr 01, 2007 ... Broadband limits reek of monopoly I am astonished at the sheer arrogance of Comcast in imposing ill-defined broadband download limits ("Not so fast," March 12). Itpunishes a customer who has the nerve to actually use the service hebuys. The company claims this cable-hogging ...
If at first you don't succeed, fight your way back
Apr 01, 2007; ... Book Review Firing Back How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters, Harvard Business School Press, $29.95 Why do some fired executives land on their feet in another corneroffice, while others disappear to lick their wounds? That's the ...
Iraq war unit: `They are a different breed' Two Mass. natives among 5 recipients of the Bronze Star
Apr 01, 2007; ... Their mission was to track insurgents. And so they did. They hidin wells, bombed-out houses, and bushes by the side of roads plaguedby improvised explosive devices. And they waited for 48, sometimes upto 72 hours. Many times, the soldiers of the 173d Infantry Detachment of ...
Street-legal Volvo Experimental version of C30 offers glimpse at a possible `hot-rod' future
Apr 01, 2007; ... STRATTON MOUNTAIN, Vt. - Today we drive a car that gives us atantalizing glimpse of a potential future, even as its predecessor isready to roll. While a new Volvo C30 hatchback will not be given to the press fortesting until this summer, to be followed by its appearance ...
Soak in the quiet at a historic Sturbridge inn
Apr 01, 2007; ... CHECKING IN STURBRIDGE - We love old New England inns with wide floorboards,exposed-beam ceilings, and fireplaces. We are also partial towhirlpool tubs. The Sturbridge Country Inn seems designed to win the hearts oftravelers like us. Every room in this 15-room hostelry dating ...
Memo to managers: Manage! Young workers want flexibility, feedback, and guidance, or they'll just take their skills elsewhere
Apr 01, 2007; ... CLIMB It's called managing Author Bruce Tulgan's tips for leading younger workers. Manage every day, not just on certain occasions, such as when aproject explodes. Solve small problems every day so they don't grow into big ones. Have lots of boring ...
COMMUNITY SNAPSHOT
Apr 01, 2007; ... Sudbury Miles from Boston 20 Population 17,066 (2005) Median house price $845,000 (Jan.-Feb. 2007) Tax rate $13.12 Average single-family property tax $9,221 (State average, $3,799) Transportation Routes 20, 27, 117 MCAS Among 280 systems, ...
Bealeaguered farmers ask for a boost in milk prices
Apr 01, 2007; ... Consumer Beat Massachusetts dairy farmers are asking state officials to declarean "economic emergency" and set prices for milk that would allow themto at least cover their costs. The farmers petitioned the Department of Agricultural Resources todeclare an emergency in late ...