The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from June 2007:
CRITICS' PICKS
Jun 01, 2007; ... "No Man's Land" David Wheeler directs Harold Pinter's drama of two writers caughtin the "no man's land" of later life with wisdom, humor, and a deeprespect for the playwright's signature ambiguity. Through June 10 onthe American Repertory Theatre's Loeb stage, Cambridge ....
Debate on fares and fairness intensifies Bills seek relief for Pike drivers
Jun 01, 2007; ... Metrowest lawmakers demanded lower Massachusetts Turnpike tollsyesterday, arguing that commuters from western suburbs have for yearsshouldered an unfair share of Big Dig costs. At a combative hearing on Beacon Hill, lawmakers from districtswest of Boston stood to confront a panel ...
Confusion creeps in over plan for UMass E-mail from Wilson hints of 2d thoughts
Jun 01, 2007; ... A simmering controversy over the future of the University ofMassachusetts took a turn toward the bizarre yesterday when an e-mail authored by UMass president Jack M. Wilson surfaced, indicatingthat his sweeping reorganization plan "should be deferredindefinitely." The note, sent ...
Public reeducation
Jun 01, 2007; ... Jack Wilson, the president of the University of Massachusetts, hasprobably had better months. The faculty at the system's flagship, UMass-Amherst, has voted "noconfidence" in his leadership. Their colleagues at UMass-Boston mightsoon follow suit. The fury has been sparked by ...
Bush urges global emissions plan Wants 15 nations to develop targets
Jun 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush for the first time yesterday calledfor a concerted international response to reduce the risks fromglobal warming, saying the United States and 14 other countries thatproduce large amounts of greenhouse gases should set a "long-termglobal goal" as well as ...
Hard time to be a Yanks fan in Hub Series at Fenway brings foreboding
Jun 01, 2007; ... SHARON _ For more than four decades, Ron Czik has proudly worn thelabel of Yankees fan. Czik, 47, is not about to turn his back on his beloved team now,even as the once-mighty pinstripers stumble into Boston tonight morethan 13 games behind the Red Sox. But ask him his reaction to ...
In makeover, accent is on `extreme'
Jun 01, 2007 ... THE NATICK Collection (formerly Natick Mall), with its pretentiousname and Vegas-style facade, got the big-spread treatment in theGlobe ("Extreme makeover: Mall edition!" Style & Arts, May 24), as itprepares its playground for the well to do. It is obviouslyattempting to target the ...
FOR THE RECORD
Jun 01, 2007 ... Correction: Based on incomplete information on a congressionalwebsite, a graphic with a Page One story about a plaque commemoratingthe origins of gerrymandering wrongly said Massachusetts GovernorElbridge Gerry and state Senator Israel Thorndike attempted to keeptheir Republican friends ...
Canton biotech to get state incentives, plans to expand $18m package kept Organogenesis in Mass., Patrick says
Jun 01, 2007; ... Organogenesis Inc., a once-troubled Canton biotechnology companythat makes living artificial skin, plans to build a new headquartersand factory in Massachusetts and add 300 jobs over the next fiveyears after the state offered it an incentive package worth up to $18million, the company ...
The speech grads should hear
Jun 01, 2007; ... FOUR YEARS AGO, you were all gathered before me on this quad aseager freshmen; today we are gathered here again, to send you offinto what MTV has dubbed "the real world." [pause for laugh, looksurprised and flattered when it comes] Back then I urged you to embark upon a liberal ...
AFOOT AMID PATRIOTS' RESTING PLACE
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BUSINESS IN BRIEF
Jun 01, 2007 ... THE REGION Raytheon wins US satellite communications award Raytheon Co., the world's largest missile maker, won a US Navyaward valued at up to $959.9 million to provide ship- and land-basedterminals for receiving secure satellite communications. The awardhas an initial value ...
Patrick fires longtime rehabilitation chief - Bartels praised for aiding disabled [Corrected 06/07/07]
Jun 01, 2007; ... Governor Deval Patrick, who has been replacing agency headsthroughout state government, has fired Elmer Bartels, the Democratwho has led the state's Rehabilitation Commission since the firstDukakis administration. Bartels, 68, is believed to be the state's ...
From his TV show to radio pitches, Fred Thompson gets prime airtime
Jun 01, 2007; ... Campaign Notebook With his role on NBC's "Law & Order," a stint on Paul Harvey'sradio show, and the buzz from his newly announced presidentialaspirations, former senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee is getting alot of airtime these days. But just when you thought he had ...
Sunken treasure could be a costly find Cannon discovery won't bring riches
Jun 01, 2007; ... Finding sunken treasure was a lifelong dream for Harry Noyes, alobsterman and former commercial diver who was raised near the waterin Marblehead. Two decades ago, he even bought an underwater metaldetector and went out diving 10 or 20 times, but located only spikesused to hold planks to ...
Ensemble gets down to Earth with Mahler
Jun 01, 2007; ... Classical Notes Rialto Arts is the brainchild of mezzo-soprano Miranda Loud, whofounded the organization two years ago to fuse her dual passions formusic and the environment. For the final concert of Rialto's seasontonight, she's crafted an intriguing presentation of Gustav ...
CLASSICAL PICKS
Jun 01, 2007; ... Mary Beekman leads Musica Sacra in a program of Renaissancemadrigals tomorrow night at First Church Congregational in Cambridge .... Chorus pro Musica performs "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "IPagliacci" on Sunday in Jordan Hall. ... Rialto Arts presentsMahler's ...
Lansdowne Street clubs to become concert hall City backs bid, which owner sees as part of larger vision for area
Jun 01, 2007; ... Nightclub owner Patrick Lyons won city approval yesterday to builda $14 million, 2,500-seat concert hall on Lansdowne Street acrossfrom Fenway Park. The board of the Boston Redevelopment Authority unanimouslyendorsed Lyons's proposal to combine his two existing LansdowneStreet ...
Brookline OKs trans fat ban
Jun 01, 2007; ... BROOKLINE -- The heart-clogging fats widely used in doughnuts andother processed treats are verboten in Brookline. Town Meeting members last night voted 194 to 11 last night to bantrans fats from the town's restaurants and schools, making Brooklinethe state's first municipality to ...
Yesterday's commencements
Jun 01, 2007 ... Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield Graduates: 842. Degrees: Associate's, certificates. Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley Graduates: ...
A passport to higher ed
Jun 01, 2007; ... THIS MORNING, 1,800 undergraduates at the University ofMassachusetts at Boston will receive their diplomas and join theranks of the 85 percent of UMass grads who stay in the state,providing much of the critical workforce for the Commonwealth'sfuture. Thousands more students will ...
STILL LIVES - AT THE ICA, DICORCIA'S CINEMATIC IMAGES REVEAL THE OTHERWORLDLY IN THE MUNDANE
Jun 01, 2007; ... Photography Review Philip-Lorca diCorcia At: the Institute of Contemporary Art, through Sept. 3. 617-478-3100, icaboston.org In Don DeLillo's novel "Libra," a CIA operative assigned to writean agency history of the Kennedy assassination comes to realize that"his ...
Family to meet with Murdoch on Dow Jones bid Bancrofts to look at other options
Jun 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES - Dow Jones & Co.'s controlling Bancroft familyreversed course and said it plans to meet with Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp. to discuss his $5 billion bid for the publisher of The WallStreet Journal. "The family has reached consensus that the mission of Dow Jonesmay be ...
Sell the lottery?
Jun 01, 2007; ... Downtown Massachusetts Treasurer Tim Cahill created a buzz last week whenhe proposed that the state get into the casino business before theMashpee Wampanoags beat us to the slots. Lost in the headlines washis analysis of the future of the state's cash cow of a statelottery, which ...
Time to map out the Dunkin's Chain hopes to cement customer ties with website that will help travelers find shops, offer games and prizes
Jun 01, 2007; ... Need directions? Take a left at the Dunkin'. As part of the Canton coffee chain's first major foray into thedigital world, Dunkin' Donuts is launching a website Monday,MyIcedCoffee.com, that allows travelers to plan road trips and mapits stores along the way in all 33 states where ...
Bush's legacy on AIDS
Jun 01, 2007 ... HISTORIANS ARE not likely to be kind in judging the chaosPresident Bush has created in Iraq, or the damage he has done tointernational agreements like the Geneva Conventions and to civilliberties at home. But he will deserve high marks for his leadershipin mobilizing US aid to fight AIDS ...
E. Boston waterfront project stalls Massport, companies dispute reasons for setback at Pier One
Jun 01, 2007; ... Builders of a $275 million residential and retail complex on EastBoston's waterfront unexpectedly delayed construction last month, asetback to a project critical to the neighborhood's economic future. Roseland Property Co. and Lennar Corp. stopped work on Portside atPier One ...
Sanctuary in name only
Jun 01, 2007 ... SLAPPING THE title of "national marine sanctuary" on the 842-square-mile stretch of ocean known as Stellwagen Bank back in 1992did little to protect whales from being hit by ships, or to preventtrawlers from degrading seafloor habitats that sustain dozens ofspecies of fish. A favorable ...
State seeks right to close Fernald
Jun 01, 2007; ... Governor Deval Patrick's administration argued yesterday that afederal judge, whose prior oversight forced dramatic improvements atstate institutions for the profoundly mentally retarded, has noauthority to order the state to keep the Fernald Development Centeropen. In a 61-page ...
BLAZE IGNITES IN SOUTH BOSTON
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Think global, grow local
Jun 01, 2007; ... CASCO BAY, Maine I DO NOT agree with Samuel Johnson that remarriage is the triumphof hope over experience. That dubious triumph belongs to thegardener, not the bride and groom. By the time the seed catalog comes through my urban door slot inmidwinter, I have forgotten last ...
Patrick seeks free two-year state colleges - Goal is key in 'cradle to career' plan
Jun 01, 2007; ... Governor Deval Patrick plans to unveil a proposal today to makeMassachusetts' community colleges, among the priciest in the nation,free to all high school graduates in the state by the year 2015,according to documents obtained by the Globe. The proposal is the centerpiece of ...
Parents decry sentence in teen's death Driver left scene after striking bicyclist on Cape
Jun 01, 2007; ... BARNSTABLE - Keith W. MacArthur looked straight ahead in courtyesterday while Lawrence Brown and his wife, Lorraine, peered intothe past and described a horrific night in an emergency room, wherethey saw the broken body of their 14-year-old son lying on a gurneywith his lifeless eyes ...
FOR YOUNG SINGERS, A HOT TICKET
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In `Knocked Up,' family values get a twist
Jun 01, 2007; ... Movie Review Knocked Up Written and directed by: Judd Apatow Starring: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs Running time: 129 minutes Rated: R (Sexual content, drug use, ...
PRESIDENTIAL TRIBUTES TO GRAHAM
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Cape snarl
Jun 01, 2007 ... THE NEW Sagamore Bridge flyover may have had the unintendedconsequence of increasing auto traffic to Cape Cod, resulting inworse traffic jams on the return trip ("Dream ride to Cape, but anightmare driving home," Page A1, May 30). Perhaps the money for thisproject should have been spent ...
Assessing impact at the DSS
Jun 01, 2007 ... RE GEORGE Bachrach's May 25 op-ed, "Against odds, Spencetransformed lives": I take issue with Bachrach's implication thatcaseload problems at the Department of Social Services are entirely afunction of underbudgeting. In my 25 years as a lawyer representing children and ...
Hired gun, will tattle
Jun 01, 2007; ... SHRUMMY, THIS is crummy. I'm talking about "No Excuses: Concessions of a SerialCampaigner," Democratic consultant Robert Shrum's new book about hislife in politics. I first became aware of Shrum in 1976, when, as a 30-somethingspeechwriter, he quit Jimmy Carter's campaign, ...
Politics intrude on history notes
Jun 01, 2007 ... IN THE May 25 Sidekick section, "This Day in History" recountsevents such as Babe Ruth's final home run in 1935, PresidentKennedy's address to Congress in 1961 where he called for putting aman on the moon by the end of the 1960s, the "Hands Across America"showing of 1986, and Jay Leno's ...
Town and gown can get you down
Jun 01, 2007 ... I READ with interest the Globe's stories about the acquisition byBoston College of archdiocesan lands in Brighton. The pattern isfamiliar. Students argue that the current neighbors took up residencedecades after the college was established. Locals argue that thestudents are bad ...
Shirley MacIver; her dedication to medicine was lifelong; at 85
Jun 01, 2007; ... A sense of where she fit in the history of medicine informed Dr.Shirley R. MacIver's approach to being a physician, from the days shetagged along as a girl for her mother's nursing duties to her serviceon a state board in retirement. "She was smitten by being a link in a chain that ...
Merger fever fades a bit, and stocks finish flat
Jun 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS Stocks finished largely flat - the Dow down slightly, the Nasdaqup a bit - after a weak reading of US gross domestic product mutedWall Street's ...
Will A.B.C. spell takeover at day-care firm?
Jun 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS / MASS. MOVERS Shares of Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. surged following areport in The Age newspaper of Australia that speculated theWatertown child-care provider may be a takeover target of A.B.C.Learning Centres ...
En route, cooling fans for T stations Passengers glad, but say trains need help, too
Jun 01, 2007; ... The MBTA will finally offer some relief for commuters swelteringin subway and bus stations during the summer. Starting this month, special cooling fans will be installed inmost downtown underground stations to lower the air temperature, insome cases by 15 to 25 degrees, and to ...
Fewer high-quality Army recruits - As war needs rise, exam scores drop
Jun 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON -- The percentage of high-quality recruits entering theArmy is the lowest in 10 years, an indication that the force isstruggling to attract top-grade enlistees -- and a troubling sign forthe Pentagon, which is waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and plansto add 90,000 ground ...
Jo-Ann Stores Inc.
Jun 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS More takeover fever: Shares of Jo-Ann Stores jumped to a recordafter TheDeal.com said the largest US fabric retailer is seeking ...
Big Lots Inc.
Jun 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS The largest US seller of discontinued goods, Big Lots, sufferedits biggest share drop in almost two years after a lower-than-expected increase in its ...
Novell Inc.
Jun 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS Novell, which sells networking software and computer consultingservices, exceeded expectations by a factor of five: The ...
NAMES
Jun 01, 2007; ... Affleck's got a lot to catch up on We could be seeing a whole lot of Ben Affleck around town thisweekend, and what with the Sox trying to extend their lead over theYanks, how could he stay away? The Cambridge homeboy will be atSunday's groundbreaking for the Greater Boston Food ...
Note to readers
Jun 01, 2007 ... Because of a change in the Living/Arts section's productiondeadlines, the Names column and other celebrity news are moving.Starting ...
Ship salvagers sail into some choppy water
Jun 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS / MARKET MOVERS Odyssey Marine Exploration, which has recovered 17 tons of silvercoins and hundreds of gold coins, faced a challenge by ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Jun 01, 2007 ... BOSTON 6 hospitals to get anticrime grants Six hospitals that treat the bulk of shooting and stabbing victimsin Massachusetts will receive $600,000 in grants for trauma trainingand to hire violence-intervention advocates to work with victims, thestate Department of Public ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Jun 01, 2007 ... MALDEN State to review teacher test disparities The state Department of Education said yesterday it willinvestigate why members of minority groups performed significantlyworse than whites in the teacher license exams. According to resultsof the 2005-06 Massachusetts Tests for ...
OIL SPILL IN CHILE
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Dizzying `Paprika' a sight to behold
Jun 01, 2007; ... Movie Review Paprika Directed by: Satoshi Kon Written by: Satoshi Kon and Seishi Minakami, based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui Starring: the voices of Megumi Hayashibara, Akio Ohtsuka, Toru Furuya At: Kendall Square Running time: 90 ...
Police union and city set tentative contract Details withheld until members meet tomorrow
Jun 01, 2007; ... The city and the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association say theyhave hammered out an agreement for a four-year contract after amarathon bargaining session that kept negotiators at the table until2:30 yesterday morning. City and union officials would not disclose terms of the ...
Personal best
Jun 01, 2007; ... We knew Keith Olbermann was a fan of lists. And since the popularnighttime MSNBC anchor - a former ESPN host and WCVB sportscaster -was going to be in Boston last night to speak at an American CivilLiberties Union of Massachusetts banquet, we asked him to give usfive quick ...
Rice says Russia acts in Cold War terms Calls US puzzled by missile dispute
Jun 01, 2007; ... POTSDAM, Germany - Russian attitudes are locked in the past,Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday, adding that theUnited States is perplexed by the current fracas with Russia over aplanned US missile system in Europe. "We want a 21st century partnership with Russia, ...
Critics press Romney on immigration view Behind his barbs, few specifics seen
Jun 01, 2007; ... A blunt cliche best captures John McCain's rebuttal to persistentattacks from Mitt Romney over his immigration plan: Put up or shutup. In his appeals to conservative voters, Romney has made the Arizonasenator's work on immigration one of his favorite targets. WhenMcCain and other ...
Russian links British, poison Suspect sought in ex-spy's death
Jun 01, 2007; ... MOSCOW -The former KGB agent accused by British prosecutors withpoisoning another former agent in London last November held a pressconference yesterday to say MI6, the British foreign intelligenceservice, was a likely suspect in the killing. Andrey Lugovoy, whose extradition from ...
Fast food served by perky people
Jun 01, 2007; ... Sauce On a warm night at Faneuil Hall, a fellow wearing flashing red andblue lights on his head does yo-yo tricks for tourists in brand-newSox caps. A violinist wraps up a version of "Hello Dolly," thenlaunches into the plangent opening notes of the theme to "Titanic."And then a ...
Mesmerizing `String' explores the ties that bind
Jun 01, 2007; ... Dance Review Snappy Dance Theater At: Virginia Wimberly Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts,Wednesday night (through June 10). 617-876-4275, crasharts.org,bostontheatrescene.com Snappy Dance Theater's "String Beings" takes disparate elements -edgy and acrobatic ...
Pembroke soldier injured in Iraq dies Community mourns his loss
Jun 01, 2007; ... A Pembroke soldier shot in Iraq while searching for three fellowservicemen died early yesterday morning after being taken off lifesupport at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.,community leaders and neighbors said yesterday. Army Private First Class Matthew Bean, 22, ...
William Sonzski, writer at Boston papers, BC William Sonzski, reporter, writer at Boston papers, BC
Jun 01, 2007; ... William Sonzski was a journalistic jack-of-all-trades - author,reporter, freelance writer, and public relations executive - and hehandled it all with panache. "He had an inner exuberance that filled up a room when heentered," said Ben Birnbaum, editor of the Boston College ...