The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from August 2007:
Letter points to a broader spying program - Bush official cites other activities
Aug 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's chief intelligence officialsaid yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secretintelligence activities under a single executive order in late 2001,making clear that a controversial National Security Agencysurveillance effort was part of ...
`Respect' will take you there
Aug 01, 2007; ... TELEVISION REVIEW Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story On: WGBH (Channel 2) Time: Tonight at 9 Soul music is generally better heard - and felt and danced to-than dissected. The freedom you feel when shaking a tailfeather to Otis Redding's"Try ...
Bill may stall Bullfinch Triangle project
Aug 01, 2007; ... Having overcome many delays and hurdles, the $140 million Avenirresidential project in the Bulfinch Triangle in Boston appeared to bemoving forward to an August groundbreaking under new owner ArchstoneSmith. But now it may have hit another roadblock. Massachusetts lawmakers ...
FDA panel backs Tysabri for Crohn's Europeans refused to allow such use for Biogen MS drug
Aug 01, 2007; ... A panel advising the Food and Drug Administration yesterday saidthe multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri, sold by Biogen Idec Inc. ofCambridge and Elan Corp. of Ireland, should be approved to treatCrohn's disease. The recommendation came just six weeks after the EuropeanMedicines ...
Rupert Murdoch's big win
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE BANCROFT family members who held out against the sale of DowJones fought the good fight, but the outcome of the morality playthat ends with Rupert Murdoch's ownership of the Wall Street Journalwas fairly well established from the beginning. The money won. In this corner, ...
IT'S A NATURAL RURAL TOWN THRIVES WITH VIBRANT ARTS SCENE AND AN ORGANIC LIFESTYLE CLOSE-UP ON WAITSFIELD, VT.
Aug 01, 2007; ... CLOSE-UP ON WAITSFIELD, VT. WAITSFIELD, VT. - POPULATION 1,659 - WEBSITES madrivervalley.com, waitsfieldvt.us - DISTANCE FROM BOSTON 190 miles - ODD FACT The local phone company, Waitsfield and ChamplainValley Telecom, has been in operation since 1904 and ...
Analysis says war could cost $1 trillion - Budget office sees effect on taxpayers for decade
Aug 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - The war in Iraq could ultimately cost well over atrillion dollars - at least double what has already been spent -including the long-term costs of replacing damaged equipment, caringfor wounded troops, and aiding the Iraqi government, according to anew government ...
Antibias effort stirs anger in Watertown - Debate focuses on genocide
Aug 01, 2007; ... WATERTOWN - As far as town proclamations go, the one that declaredWatertown a No Place for Hate community in July 2005 seemed like apretty innocuous one. The goal was to celebrate diversity andchallenge bigotry. And the program, in place in 67 Massachusettscommunities and hundreds of ...
Cape $pin
Aug 01, 2007 ... NO ONE should be surprised to learn that wind-generatedelectricity is more expensive than conventional sources of power, butmany people on Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard probablywill be surprised. The developer of the proposed Cape Wind projecthas spent six years telling ...
Old-fashioned way is best, when itcomes to condiments
Aug 01, 2007; ... TAMWORTH, N.H. - Ketchup and mustard have been around forcenturies, so no one remembers a time when they weren't part of theAmerican tradition. Heinz, French's, and other manufacturers havemade sure that these condiments go from the grocery store to yourshelf at home. Historically, ...
Top of the pops
Aug 01, 2007; ... SHORT ORDERS How to improve on a classic summertime treat? Turn them intostars, of course. Tovolo's Shooting Star Pop Molds ($9.99) come withsix star-shaped popsicle forms on a sturdy, starry base, withoversize "drip guards" to keep your hands clean. Each plastic moldsnaps ...
Grooming the shakers
Aug 01, 2007; ... Gather all of this state's elected and appointed officials atFenway Park, and it wouldn't look that different from the crowd at aRed Sox game. As a decidedly white Mayor Thomas M. Menino put it mostsuccinctly Monday night, "They all look like me." He was speaking at a graduation ...
Michelangelo Antonioni; known for his cool cinematic style
Aug 01, 2007; ... Michelangelo Antonioni, cinema's poet of postwar alienation, diedMonday at his home in Rome. He was 94. Mr. Antonioni had been indeclining health since suffering a stroke in 1985. In a remarkable generational passing, another giant of filmhistory, as well as Mr. Antonioni's ...
`There's a lot of talent in this valley'
Aug 01, 2007; ... WAITSFIELD, Vt. - This small community of about 1,700 has one ofthe state's liveliest visual, cultural, and performing arts scenesand, at least unofficially, its highest concentration of artists. "Not a lot of people watch television here, and it's a much morevibrant community ...
FCC rules crack open door for wireless competition But airwaves sale falls short of Google's plan
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Federal Communications Commission yesterday set the stage fora significant airwaves auction, approving rules that commissionerssaid would encourage competition and innovation in the wirelessindustry but fell short of measures pushed by consumer advocates andInternet search giant ...
Bats stalking the nightas new allies in mosquito fight
Aug 01, 2007; ... EAST BRIDGEWATER - Health officials in this town of wetlands andwoods are recruiting a new ally in their fight against mosquito-borne diseases - an army of bats to scout the night skies and devourthe insects. Armed with research showing that bats eat 3,000 mosquito-sizeinsects a ...
B careful what u wish 4
Aug 01, 2007; ... If u cn rd this yr prbly 11 yrs old and spnd lts of time txtng.But frnkly, most of us think its jibrish. Yet this is what some spelling reform schemes would like to dowith the finicky - should that be "finiky"? I don't knough - Englishlanguage. Hope beats eternal in the breast of ...
BUSINESS IN BRIEF
Aug 01, 2007 ... THE REGION Treasurer: State should ask for casino proposals soon Massachusetts Treasurer Timothy Cahill said the Legislature andGovernor Deval Patrick should put out a request for proposals as soonas this fall for two or three resort casino developments, so stateofficials can ...
They share their love of pastry and prose
Aug 01, 2007; ... PORTLAND, Maine - Every time someone walks through the front doorof Rabelais Books, the buff-colored terrier mutt, Raleigh, boundsover. "He thinks it's UPS," says Don Lindgren, the shop's co-owner. A dog who anticipates the day's delivery of cookbooks? That's mykind of ...
June Bratton, 80, mother of ex-Hub commissioner
Aug 01, 2007; ... In a top bureau drawer, June Bratton measured her family'sfinances in a series of envelopes and set aside money for bills andcreditors -- a dollar for the egg man, a little more for the dressshop. Each week she also slipped $2 in an envelope that grew thickthrough the winter and ...
OVERPASS COLLAPSES
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Chatham residents reject shore study Vote shuts down plan to fill breach
Aug 01, 2007; ... Chatham residents voted overwhelmingly last night not to challengethe power of Mother Nature. In a voice vote at a special Town Meeting that some say was boththe most heavily attended and shortest in recent history, residentsrefused to spend $4 million to close a breach in the ...
Adding new pieces won't be luxurious
Aug 01, 2007; ... As executive director of basketball operations/general managerDanny Ainge beamed next to Kevin Garnett last night during a newsconference announcing the Celtics' acquisition of the 10-time All-Star, it was easy to imagine a slightly altered version of a ...
Citi Center chairman defends chief's bonus
Aug 01, 2007; ... Responding to a Globe report Monday on a $1.3 million bonus paidto the Citi Performing Arts Center's president and chief executive,the organization's board chairman posted a four-paragraph defense onits Internet home page yesterday. The statement from John William Poduska Sr. said ...
Dental firm's profits have investors smiling
Aug 01, 2007; ... MONEY & MARKETS / MASS. MOVERS Soaring revenue gave American Dental Partners Inc. a big lift on Wall Street. The Wakefield company's secondquarter net income rose 42 percent to ...
For the record
Aug 01, 2007 ... - Correction: Because of an editing error, a photo caption onyesterday's Nation page accompanying Peter S. Canellos's NationalPerspective column about videos on Democratic presidential candidateJohn Edwards incorrectly implied that Edwards made the "I FeelPretty" video on YouTube. The ...
City's crime numbers dive - But not all residents feel safer in neighborhoods, despite statistics
Aug 01, 2007; ... Some of Boston's most crime-plagued neighborhoods have experienceddouble-digit percentage drops in shootings this year, according tonew police statistics. But it could take more than numbers to ease the fears of manyresidents in Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury who have ...
City's crime numbers dive - But not all residents feel safer in neighborhoods, despite statistics
Aug 01, 2007; ... Some of Boston's most crime-plagued neighborhoods have experienceddouble-digit percentage drops in shootings this year, according tonew police statistics. But it could take more than numbers to ease the fears of manyresidents in Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury who have ...
Hard workers aren't above the law
Aug 01, 2007 ... KEVIN CULLEN'S column "A blight on reason" (City & Region, PageB1, July 26) is the real blight on reason. Cullen recounts that whenPaul and Jenny Ladd came to the United States from Ireland, the firstthing they did was to find jobs. It was only after that did they tryto legalize their ...
TRADE WINS - Blockbusters have Boston going full speed ahead
Aug 01, 2007; ... Christmas Day. Graduation Day. Wedding Day. The day you got yourfirst good job. The day you moved into your dream house. The day yourfirst child was born. And then there's July 31, 2007. The day Boston sports fans wererewarded with a stunning shower of gifts. OK, there were ...
Deceit by Chapter 40B developers
Aug 01, 2007 ... "FUDGING OF the books" - this is how the July 27 editorial "Noquarter for snob zoning" refers to the practice of cheating thecities and towns out of tens of millions. I have another word for it:"fraud." Developers posing as limited dividend organizations have for yearsbeen ...
Making meals fit for a queen - and a princess
Aug 01, 2007; ... If you haven't heard enough about Princess Di, her cook has justcome out with his memoirs. Darren McGrady, 45, began cooking for theBritish royal family in 1982, shortly after the wedding of PrinceCharles and Diana Spencer. As junior chef, and then senior pastrychef at Buckingham Palace, ...
Member of House has flair in the kitchen
Aug 01, 2007; ... One Cook's Best Dish ARLINGTON - State Representative Jim Marzilli (D-Arlington/WestMedford), who is in his eighth term in the Massachusetts House ofRepresentatives, is known for many things: his stand on theenvironment and climate change, his fight to increase the minimumwage, ...
Risk makes a comeback
Aug 01, 2007; ... Downtown Jeffrey Larson was a star of the Boston hedge fund world who made$17.3 million in a year managing money for Harvard not long ago. Kimand Stephen Martinelli were like the rest of us, just trying to paytheir bills. Master of the universe or struggling ...
For the Record
Aug 01, 2007 ... Correction: An editorial in Sunday's Globe ...
No fade to black
Aug 01, 2007 ... THE DEATH of both Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni on thesame day this week seems like the kind of bleak joke that would comeright out of their films. In their own distinct ways, the two directors had a profoundimpact on the film world, changing the language in which ...
A tempting revenue surprise
Aug 01, 2007 ... REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT DeLeo of Winthrop, chairman of the HouseWays and Means Committee, had some good news for the Legislature lastweek: revenues for the fiscal year that ended June 30 came in about$440 million higher than expected. Before the legislators find usesfor all this money, ...
On the spot for children's health
Aug 01, 2007 ... THE US SENATE is debating expansion of the federal/state healthinsurance program for children, but there is no doubt it will passeasily this week. The only question is whether it will gain enoughRepublican votes to override a veto promised by President Bush. Thefour Republican senators ...
FACING THE FLAMES
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GAGNE - Red Sox land top reliever, set title course
Aug 01, 2007; ... Less than 24 hours after Yankees closer Mariano Riverauncharacteristically went on the radio and appealed to his employersto get him some bullpen help, the Red Sox substantially upgradedtheir pen by acquiring closer Eric Gagne from the Texas Rangers,offering him sufficient financial ...
7 indicted in sports gambling DA says ringleader was Malden man
Aug 01, 2007; ... A Middlesex County grand jury indicted seven men yesterday oncharges of running a large illegal sports gambling business, whichtook thousands of dollars in bets per week on college andprofessional football games. "The State Police investigation uncovered what we allege to be ...
GARNETT - Celtics believe their ship has come in
Aug 01, 2007; ... It may be hard to remember a recent Celtic scene with more sheeroptimism. Kevin Garnett, fresh in from the Twin Cities (and not froma cruise) in the middle of the table, a broad smile, flanked by abeaming Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. No, they're not the new Big Threeyet; Danny Ainge made ...
Dog racing foes to seek ban at polls
Aug 01, 2007; ... Opponents of greyhound racing plan to gather this morning at theState House and march to the attorney general's office to file aballot initiative calling for banning the sport. The Somerville-based Committee to Protect Dogs, which believes thepractice is cruel to the animals, wants ...
Locally owned Gulf Oil will put name on Pike stations
Aug 01, 2007; ... Gulf Oil LP will begin switching 11 gas stations it operates alongthe Massachusetts Turnpike from Exxon to its own Gulf brand thismonth, one of its biggest moves yet to promote New England's onlymajor locally based gas brand. The move will require shutting down stations between ...
N.C. man with gun arrested at Logan Weapon was in carry-on luggage
Aug 01, 2007; ... A businessman from North Carolina was arrested by State Policeyesterday morning in Terminal E at Logan International Airport afterscreeners discovered a loaded .38-caliber handgun in his carry-onluggage. "He simply, completely forgot that it was there" in his briefcase,Sanford ...
Simmering discord in the tribal badlands
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE ALARMING growth of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the Pashtuntribal region of northwest Pakistan and southern Afghanistan isusually attributed to the popularity of their messianic brand ofIslam and to covert help from Pakistani intelligence agencies. Butanother, more ominous reason also ...
Loose storm grates create alarm Covers have caused 5 accidents in 5 days
Aug 01, 2007; ... State officials vastly expanded inspections of state highwaysyesterday after acknowledging that work crews had removed, cleaned,and replaced a series of manhole covers on Interstate 93 in Miltonjust hours before one of the 200-pound cast-iron covers came looseand caused two accidents ...
Preying on outrageous behavior
Aug 01, 2007; ... STAGE REVIEW Hunter Gatherers Play by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Directed by: Gip Hoppe. Set, Rob Bissenger. Lights, Kevin Hardy.Sound, J Hagenbuckle. Costumes, Carol Sherry. At: Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Julie Harris Stage, Wellfleet, through ...
The $63 billion sham
Aug 01, 2007; ... SECRETARY OF STATE Condoleezza Rice said the United States wantsto send $63 billion in military aid and weapons to the Middle East to"bolster forces of moderation and support a broader strategy tocounter the negative influences of Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syria, andIran." Talk about ...
As Murdoch prevails, news industry waits for fallout - Deal for Journal to have wide impact
Aug 01, 2007; ... Rupert Murdoch's tenacious three-month battle for the company thatowns The Wall Street Journal is over. But the industry changespropelling Murdoch's successful bid, and the ripples it has sentthrough the increasingly jittery news business, are just beginning. Dow Jones & Co.'s ...
Lawrence avoids citywide shutdown
Aug 01, 2007; ... LAWRENCE - Avoiding what one city official said would have beentotal disaster, Lawrence city councilors approved a 30-day budgetlast night, dodging a city-wide shutdown that might have put hundredsof city employees out of work. By a vote of 6 to 1, councilors sent Mayor Michael J ....
China's buyers
Aug 01, 2007 ... RE: THE JULY 30 op-ed "The crash that could come." I am surprisedthat an economic analyst as astute as Robert Kuttner accepts theillusion of "3 billion new consumers in Asia." The majority of the 3billion are 1) peasants barely surviving on very small farms, 2)people working on other ...
For youth, math is the great equalizer
Aug 01, 2007 ... RICH BARLOW'S column of July 28 ("Group sees glimpses of divinityin math," City & Region, Page B2) develops an intriguing theme. Forthe believer, the study of math is an unfolding of the structure ofreality established by the Creator. But there is another related value-dimension ...
One cousin catches, the other cooks Fisherman Mark Sewall and restaurateur Jeremy Sewall know their Maine lobsters
Aug 01, 2007; ... YORK, Maine - On a blazing hot afternoon, fisherman Mark Sewall issteering Kelpa, his 38-foot lobster boat, out of York Harbor to haula string of traps for his cousin Jeremy Sewall. When they reach thefirst trap, Mark slows the boat, pulls on his orange Grundensoveralls and work gloves, ...
SPORTS LOG
Aug 01, 2007 ... Football Raiders don't pass up Culpepper Free agent quarterback Daunte Culpepper signed a one-year contractwith the Raiders yesterday, giving Oakland a backup plan for unsignedtop draft pick JaMarcus Russell. Culpepper worked out in theafternoon before a gathering of Raiders ...
SPORTS LOG
Aug 01, 2007 ... Football Raiders don't pass up Culpepper Free agent quarterback Daunte Culpepper signed a one-year contractwith the Raiders yesterday, giving Oakland a backup plan for unsignedtop draft pick JaMarcus Russell. Culpepper worked out in theafternoon before a gathering of Raiders ...
Mortgage woes torpedo a would-be market rally
Aug 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS Stocks fell hard as fresh concern about soured home loans blewaway what had looked like a solid rally. The Dow slid 146 asinvestors seeking safety moved into bonds ....
ART MEDITATION
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Bun chao tom
Aug 01, 2007; ... ON THE MENU Restaurant owner and Randolph resident Nhung Doan, 35, opened PhoThien Thien in Chinatown 18 months ago. She says business has pickedup steadily as students and workers at Tufts-New England MedicalCenter and neighboring offices have passed on the word. During arecent ...
Bill to expand car seat rule passes Senate
Aug 01, 2007; ... Children in Massachusetts would be required to continue usingautomobile booster seats until age 8 under a bill unanimouslyapproved by the state Senate yesterday. The bill, which still needs approval by the House, brought mixedreaction from parents, with some saying that it is ...
Mother felt like 'a zombie' - Neighbor recalls her desperation
Aug 01, 2007; ... The Roslindale mother found wounded along with the bodies of hertwo children tried to commit suicide in the past and was takingmedication for depression and migraines and was feeling like a"zombie," a neighbor said yesterday. The neighbor, Michelle Jenkins, said that since March ...
Car mileage solution? Not so fast
Aug 01, 2007 ... KUDOS FOR spotlighting the important automobile mileage debate("New rules weighed for auto efficiency," Page 1, July 30), butalthough the events and opportunities of 30 years ago are interestinghistorically, one important thing that hasn't changed is the physicsof weight vs. energy. This ...
Avon Products Inc.
Aug 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS The world's largest door-to-door cosmetics seller said profit slidmore than analysts anticipated on higher advertising costs. Avonforecast ...
Fresh Del Monte
Aug 01, 2007 ... MONEY & MARKETS Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., of Coral Gables, Fla., swung to asecond-quarter profit of $63.9 million, or $1.10 per share, ...