The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 2007:
Trashy and wicked, `Party' is a lot of fun
May 01, 2007; ... Stage Review The Wild Party Musical by Andrew Lippa, based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March Direction and musical staging: Rick Lombardo. Music direction,Todd C. Gordon. Choreography, Kelli Edwards. Set, Janie E. Howland.Costumes, Frances Nelson McSherry. Lights, ...
Yahoo buys Net ad firm Right Media for $680m
May 01, 2007 ... SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. yesterday added another weapon in itshigh-stakes duel with its richer Internet rival Google Inc. bysnapping up online advertising exchange Right Media Inc. for $680million. Although the cash-and-stock price is well below the $3.1 billionthat Google ...
Much untold in Duke rape case
May 01, 2007 ... CATHY YOUNG'S criticism of me for my public comments on the Dukecase was notable for its lack of sophistication, misinformation, andself-righteous tone ("A rush to injustice in the Duke `rape' case,"Op-ed, April 16). I gave the prosecution's side on many television news programs, ...
Roslindale student comes to aid of famous victim
May 01, 2007; ... Roslindale native Zachary Trayes-Gibson and a friend thought thescreams they heard on a Chicago street Friday night were coming fromthe party they were going to, until they looked over their shoulders. "I saw a man throwing blows and doing physical damage to thiswoman," said ...
A FRESH START FOR DELTA
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Private equity debt bubble [Corrected 05/02/07]
May 01, 2007; ... Boston Capital Kevin Landry was searching for someone with a particularbackground to speak at the annual meeting of sophisticated investorsin the private equity funds managed by TA Associates. He wantedsomeone who made a living in the world's debt markets. "They can't ...
ESSENTIALS - Civil rights albums
May 01, 2007; ... Mavis Staples "We'll Never Turn Back" Mavis Staples's new CD is the latest entry in a long tradition ofalbums inspired by songs of struggle from the civil rights movement.These albums are touchstones of the canon. Odetta "Odetta Sings Dylan" Released in ...
KICKING OFF COFFEE KLATCHES
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FOR THE RECORD
May 01, 2007 ... - Correction: Because of a reporting error, a review of "JosephCornell: Navigating the Imagination" at the Peabody Essex Museum inSunday's Arts & Entertainment section incorrectly stated the artistdid not build his own boxes to house his artworks. Though Cornellinitially used containers ...
Who is in the boardroom?
May 01, 2007; ... WHEN FIDELITY Investments promoted Ellyn A. McColgan to presidentof distribution and operations recently, one of the images thatpopped into my head was "Man Bites Dog." That, of course, is the oldsaw about what makes news. Even in the 21st century, it's headline news when a woman ...
Tufts Health eases policy on weight-loss surgery
May 01, 2007; ... Tufts Health Plan has quietly loosened its restrictions on weight-loss surgery, expanding insurance coverage for the operations andshrinking how much time patients must spend in counseling beforehand. The restrictions had been criticized by the state Department ofPublic Health, ...
Earnings roundup
May 01, 2007 ... Network costs cut Verizon profit YESTERDAY Close $38.18 Change +$0.29 52-WEEK High $38.77 Low $29.00 Verizon Communications Inc., the second-largest US phone company,reported an 8.4 percent drop in first-quarter net income ...
Beyond the Bush veto
May 01, 2007 ... CONGRESS HAS sent its Iraq funding bill to land at the White Housetoday, exactly four years after President Bush landed on an aircraftcarrier flying a "mission accomplished" banner, and hours after theend of a month that saw more than 100 Americans and 1,550 Iraqiskilled in the fighting ...
A compromising of independence [Corrected 05/08/07]
May 01, 2007; ... National Perspective WASHINGTON - The biggest revelation in former CIA director GeorgeTenet's memoir seems to be showing just how far officials like Tenet,who work for the president but are presumed to have independentexpertise, will go to please their bosses. Tenet now says ...
Getting Ethiopia out of Somalia
May 01, 2007; ... THE UNITED Nations' Office for Coordinating Humanitarian Affairsin Somalia reported that the recent clashes between Ethiopian troopsand Somali resistance groups killed more than 1,000 civilians anddisplaced more than 350,000 residents of Mogadishu. The EuropeanUnion has reacted to this ...
Olmert's failure of foresight
May 01, 2007 ... THE UNSPARING criticism of Israel's prime minister, defenseminister, and outgoing army chief of staff in a report releasedyesterday on last summer's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon suggeststhat Israeli democracy is capable of avoiding a repetition ofprevious blunders. It is up ...
Pawns of misfortune
May 01, 2007 ... PAWNBROKERS PLAY a necessary role in the lives of people who havelittle or no connection to mainstream financial institutions. But thestructure of the business - short-term loans secured by collateral inthe form of jewelry, silverware and other goods - is conducive toabuse if state ...
FIRE RAVAGES HISTORIC D.C. MARKET
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Food imports seldom checked Odds favor rogue producers over underfunded, understaffed FDA, critics say
May 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - Rogue exporters have had little trouble shippingsuspect products into the United States because the chances of beingcaught by an underfunded and understaffed Food and DrugAdministration are slim. Critics say the massive pet food recall that has triggered scoresof ...
Plan envisions bustling town centers `MetroFuture' puts focus on suburbs
May 01, 2007; ... Planners mapping the future of Greater Boston want to encouragepeople to live and work in suburban town centers, and cut pollution,water usage, and traffic to improve the quality of life over the nexttwo decades. The "MetroFuture" planning recommendations by the ...
Integrating, tolerating immigrants
May 01, 2007; ... THERE ARE really only two European models for integratingimmigrants, the French and the British. Neither has succeeded andboth are now being questioned. The French insist on assimilation. You are either French or youare not, and all Frenchmen, no matter what their background, ...
THE CONVERSATION STARTER - As a radio and TV reporter, Maria Hinojosa found her voice. Now she's helping other Latinos find theirs.
May 01, 2007; ... Back when she was a student at Barnard College, Maria Hinojosaanchored a radio show called "Nueva Cancion y Demas" ("New Music andMore") that played political Latin music. She enjoyed introducingpolitical music and presenting different personalities from NewYork's Spanish-speaking ...
Grace at the crossroads of dance and technology
May 01, 2007; ... Dance Review Cathy Weis Projects: Electric Haiku: Calm as Custard BostonCyberarts Festival/Ideas in Motion At: Institute of Contemporary Art, Sunday For more than two decades, Cathy Weis's creativity has flourishedat the intersection of dance and technology, and ...
Kissin plays with color and imagination
May 01, 2007; ... Music Review Evgeny Kissin, piano Presented by Bank of America Celebrity Series At: Symphony Hall, Sunday Cough drops are a wonderful invention; cellular technology is moreof a mixed blessing. Too much of the latter and not enough of theformer made Evgeny ...
Suspect in slaying got plea deal Alleged shooter was freed in '06
May 01, 2007; ... The man police believe fired the shot that killed 22-year-oldChiara Levin could have been behind bars on gun and drug charges thenight of her death, but was on the streets because of a pleaagreement he struck with prosecutors in 2005, court records show. Casimiro Barros, 20, of ...
Government veteran Larson will lead Bentley College School hoping to raise its profile
May 01, 2007; ... Gloria C. Larson, one of the state's best-known power brokers whohas held high-ranking posts in the Massachusetts and federalgovernments, will be named today as president of Bentley College. The appointment of Larson, 57, currently cochair of the governmentpractices group at the ...
The damage that bullies do, and cries for zero tolerance
May 01, 2007 ... IT'S NICE of the Globe to do free PR for the city of Newton, butperhaps you should have done more investigative journalism beforepublishing the April 26 editorial "Standing up to bullies." Our sonwas bullied throughout first and second grade in the Newton publicschools. He was routinely ...
Leafing through some tiny treasures
May 01, 2007; ... In 1896, in Padua, Italy, a publisher created a marvel of the bookworld. It was "Galileo a Madama Cristina de Lorena." The content: a1615 letter by the great astronomer that argued passionately for theharmony of science and religion, written to the Swedish PrincessChristina, who was one ...
Welcome to the New England Patriots, Mr. Moss
May 01, 2007 ... BARRING INJURY, the Patriots will win the 2008 Super Bowl. Thesigning of Randy Moss has all but guaranteed this outcome ("Deep moveby Patriots: Moss," Sports, April 30). When my family and I moved from Minneapolis to Boston in 2005, Isaid, only half joking, that part of the reason ...
Stocks slip a 3d day but Dow stays above 13,000
May 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS The market ended its best month since '03 by slipping a thirdstraight day. Target and Home Depot led retailers to their steepestfall in six weeks as a US report cast ...
Gillette parent leads the pack
May 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS / MASS. MOVERS Procter & Gamble Co. turned in a performance as the best Dow JonesIndustrial Average gainer yesterday as the consumer products giant -it's the parent of Boston-based Gillette Co. - ...
Mayor of Gloucester won't seek a 4th term City wrestling fiscal challenges
May 01, 2007; ... Mayor John Bell of Gloucester, in office six years, said yesterdaythat he will not seek reelection to a fourth term as leader of thisport city. Bell, who fought against federal limits on fishermen and struggledto balance the city budget amid declining state aid, said thedecision ...
New director of state cultural council named
May 01, 2007; ... The Massachusetts Cultural Council yesterday announced that AnitaWalker has been named the state agency's new executive director. Walker, 53, comes to the job from the Midwest, where she wasdirector of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs from September2000 to this past January ....
In Pittsfield,a mighty hope for a great tale
May 01, 2007; ... The children in Pittsfield teacher Karen McHugh's social studiesclass have never read "Moby-Dick." The fifth-graders don't know theAmerican classic's first line, "Call me Ishmael," and they haven'thad any deep discussions about the great white whale. But they do know a little bit ...
Man held in pivotal '95 Hub slaying [Corrected 05/02/07] Killing spurred years of violence, mother's activism
May 01, 2007; ... A 28-year-old man sought by police for 12 years was arrestedyesterday in the stabbing death of Robert "Bobby" Mendes, a killingthat triggered a decade of violence in Boston's Cape Verdeancommunity and prompted the emergence of Mendes's mother as one of thecity's most prominent anticrime ...
BRA official asked help from mosque backer Pushed for mayoral visit to Mideast during talks
May 01, 2007; ... A Boston Redevelopment Authority official involved with the city'sdecision to reduce the price of land it sold to the Islamic Societyof Boston for a Roxbury mosque asked a Saudi Arabian supporter of theproject to help plan a trip to the Middle East for Mayor Thomas M.Menino and two of ...
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
May 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS Wrigley, the world's largest maker of chewing gum, said first-quarter profit rose 28 percent, giving the shares their biggestadvance in six months. Sales gains in Europe and Asia pushed ...
Ormat Technologies
May 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS Ormat, which runs geothermal power plants, saw its shares sinkafter the Nevada company forecast a loss due to high maintenancecosts ....
Rockwood Holdings
May 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS Rockwood, a Princeton, N.J., specialty chemicals maker, saidquarterly profit more than tripled, to $145.3 million, following ...
NAMES
May 01, 2007; ... Sticks and stones for Moss Pats partisans are pleased, but Randy Moss is getting a raft ofabuse from fans of the Oakland Raiders. Moss's MySpace page issuddenly full of invective from fans who feel betrayed by thereceiver. Most of the posts are unprintable, but they ...
After job cuts, retailer's profit zooms
May 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS / MARKET MOVERS RadioShack's quarterly profit rose fivefold after the third-largest US electronics chain's CEO, Julian Day, a ...
Ne-Yo's smooth R&B finds its groove on `Because of You'
May 01, 2007; ... CD Review Ne-Yo may have crooned that he was "So Sick" of love songs on hishit 2006 debut, "In My Own Words," but don't believe him. The 24-year-old R&B wunderkind found time in his busy schedule asa songwriter for hire - Beyonce's "Irreplaceable," Rihanna's"Unfaithful" - to ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
May 01, 2007 ... Boston UMass to pull Sudan investments The University of Massachusetts is to withdraw more than $530,000of its funds invested in Sudan, to pressure the government ofAfrica's largest country to end the war in its western region ofDarfur. The four-year war has killed more than ...
BUSINESS NOTEBOOK
May 01, 2007; ... Cleared for takeoff: Boeing Co. chief executive Jim McNerney saidthe aerospace company "turned the corner" in 2006 and is on pace toovertake rival Airbus as the world's largest commercial airplanemaker within a year. Friendly skies: US and European officials signed an ...
Newspapers seek new way to gauge reach Ad revenue slumps as paper readership falls but online rises
May 01, 2007; ... Newspapers in Massachusetts and across the nation are seeking newways to measure readership as the traditional measure, paidcirculation, continues to decline. For the six months ended March 31, average daily paid circulationfell 5.2 percent in Massachusetts from the same period a ...
Pentagon study says oil reliance strains military Urges development of alternative fuels
May 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - A new study ordered by the Pentagon warns that therising cost and dwindling supply of oil - the lifeblood of fighterjets, warships, and tanks - will make the US military's ability torespond to hot spots around the world "unsustainable in the longterm." The study, ...
Bartok, Tchaikovsky, and a well-traveled cockroach
May 01, 2007; ... Music Review Boston Philharmonic Benjamin Zander, conductor At: Sanders Theatre, Sunday afternoon CAMBRIDGE - My friend and colleague Alan Rich attended the BostonSymphony Orchestra's world premiere of Bartok's Concerto forOrchestra in 1944. He was working as a ...
Gathering Moss
May 01, 2007; ... Several questions linger after Sunday's blockbuster deal thatbrought Pro Bowl wide receiver Randy Moss to the New EnglandPatriots: Will Moss, a world-class talent with a history of offensive moveson and off the field, mesh with the low-tolerance-for-asininity Pats? Is he ...
RCN going into Milton, Dorchester Firm plots 1st growth since exiting Chap. 11
May 01, 2007; ... Cable company RCN Corp. plans to bring its "triple play" offeringof television, Internet, and phone to residents in Dorchester andMilton this year, in what would be the company's first expansion intonew local communities since it emerged from bankruptcy protectionthree years ...
Printing firm fired after privacy breach Personal data mailed in error
May 01, 2007; ... The state has fired an Indiana printing company that mailed dozensof taxpayers in Brookline forms with their neighbors' Social Securitynumbers, a privacy breach that alarmed residents and hastened effortsto establish other safeguards to protect confidentiality. The Department of ...
The Millennial vote
May 01, 2007; ... THE RECENT installment of the Harvard University Institute ofPolitics' survey of Politics and Public Service, shows much haschanged since our first national poll of young people was takenduring spring 2000. Seven years ago, we were in the middle of the first dot.comeconomic cycle ...
Man wounded in Roxbury shooting
May 01, 2007; ... Just before 9 last night, Teddy Tambaadis heard gunshots outsidehis Roxbury pizza parlor and dropped to the ground. "We couldn't see anything, but we heard the shots, about four orfive, and knew to get down," said Tambaadis, owner of Papa Reno'spizza, at 258 Dudley St. Police ...
Sentence tracking system is tossed out Errors prompt changes in figuring prison time
May 01, 2007; ... The state Department of Correction, staggered by a string ofdisclosures about its wrongful confinement of at least 14 inmates,said yesterday it is scrapping its system for calculating inmatesentences and is devising new methods to make sure prisoners serveonly their legal ...
US reports 40% rise in terror deaths
May 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - Deaths and injuries from terrorist attacks increasedsharply last year, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, withgovernment officials, police, and security guards coming undergreater attack than ever before, the State Department's annual surveyof global terrorism concluded ...
Raising a family at school Tufts student mothers lobby for on-campus housing to accommodate their children
May 01, 2007; ... Student mothers at Tufts University are asking the school toprovide on-campus apartments where they can live with their children,an unusual arrangement. The group members and the dean of student affairs plan to meetthis week to talk about how feasible it would be for the school ...
Councilor sharpens focus on local issues Turner faces fight to retain his seat
May 01, 2007; ... Councilor Chuck Turner has long been a champion of broad,international concerns, but last night he called a meeting of theadults and children of his neighborhood to launch what he called asweeping measure to combat crime and other "roots of our crisis" inthe district. His "Peace ...
Looking for trust
May 01, 2007; ... The city breathed a sigh of relief over the weekend with the newsthat two men had been arrested in the slaying of Chiara Levin. Reverend Bruce Wall put credit for the break in the case in properperspective yesterday. "If they have the right people, that's great,"he said. "The ...
Amos puts itall together on brilliant `Posse'
May 01, 2007; ... CD REVIEW Some musicians are content to write pleasing songs. Others aspireto deeper meaning. And then there's Tori Amos, who for her ninthalbum has assembled disparate facets of the feminine essence toreclaim power from the ruling patriarchy. Longtime devotees will nod in ...
BUSINESS IN BRIEF
May 01, 2007 ... THE REGION Mass. unemployment rate drops to 4.4% in March The Massachusetts unemployment dropped to 4.4 percent in March,down 0.9 percent, the largest month-to-month drop of any state thatmonth, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is part ofthe US Department of ...
QUICK PICKS
May 01, 2007; ... Books Boston book dealer Anne C. Bromer gives a talk at the BostonPublic Library tonight about pint-size books and why they're cool.She'll share her expertise about these miniature publications, whichhave been around for centuries to keep secrets, for travel, andbecause frankly, ...
Two intriguing views of the West's role in the Civil War
May 01, 2007; ... Book Review The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War By Leonard L. Richards Knopf, 290 pp., illustrated $25 West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After theCivil War By Heather Cox Richardson Yale University Press, 396 ...
FREE LOADING
May 01, 2007; ... "Flathead" The Fratellis Remember the first time you heard the Hives or the White Stripes?Seem like a revelation at the time? It's been a while since ...
SOUND CHECK - NEW ALBUM REVIEWS
May 01, 2007 ... ROCK Dinosaur Jr. Beyond (Fat Possum) They say time heals all wounds. So, apparently, do a stack ofMarshall amplifiers turned up to 11, a highly successful reuniontour, and a bushel of underground anthems that presaged grunge by ahalf-decade. Aside from Dinosaur Jr.'s ...
Wolf's theater of the absurd
May 01, 2007; ... Last month, 23-year-old Patrick Wolf posted a notice of retirementon his website and then rescinded it, explaining that quitting musicwould be like "saying I'm going to commit suicide." The problem washis new album, an ode to a failed relationship whose intimacy heworried he couldn't ...
Critic's corner
May 01, 2007; ... Gilmore Girls 8 p.m. Channel 56 Rory stresses, Lorelai shops, and everyone says lots of cleverthings. Funniest Mom in America 9 p.m. Nickelodeon Imagine your mom performing with the Groundlings. Weird. DIRTY SECRETS The Shield 10 p.m. FX Since the ...