The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 2008:
Superdelegates could prove kingmakers ; Candidates court those not obliged to do voters' will
Feb 01, 2008; ... CAMPAIGN 2008 They are known as superdelegates, and the two Democraticpresidential candidates are recruiting them to form an army ofsuperheroes ready to swoop in at the hour of peril. According to the Democratic Party's complex nomination system, ahefty 20 percent of all ...
Supersizing their bets - With each athletic showdown, rival mayors raise civic stakes with a spiraling wager of local goods
Feb 01, 2008; ... If the Patriots lose the Super Bowl to the Giants, Mayor ThomasM. Menino will not send Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York just anyclam chowder. It will be Legal Seafoods chowder. Menino will alsohave to pony up products from Stonyfield Farm, Brigham's, andDunkin' Donuts. Locally ...
Score one for Romney
Feb 01, 2008; ... AFTER JOHN McCain's win in Florida on Tuesday, the Arizonasenator finally has a genuine measure of that most preciouspolitical commodity: momentum. With only a few days left before theFeb. 5 mega-contest, when more than 20 states will hold primaries orcaucuses, that's ...
Super Bowl winners, losers, MVPs, and more ...
Feb 01, 2008 ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII Season No. Site Winner Loser Spread winner MVP How winner fared next season 1966 I Los Angeles Green Bay (NFL) 35 Kansas City (AFL) 10Packers (-14) QB Bart Starr, G.B. Repeated as champion 1967 II Miami Green Bay (NFL) 33 ...
Investment yields return
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - He has tried to soak up everything the secondtime around. The sights. The sounds. The warm weather. The mediaattention. Everything. But his first trip to the Super Bowl? Adalius Thomas felt like anaccidental tourist when ...
Children's Hospital treats star patient to a super event
Feb 01, 2008; ... HUDSON - One day when David Youngerman was 6 years old and on hisway to soccer practice, something went wrong. "My hand felt numb," said David, now 10. "I didn't know what itwas." His mother, Michelle Marengo, stopped at a gas station to getwater for him. David collapsed ...
CRITICS' PICKS - THEATER
Feb 01, 2008 ... "Angels in America" Boston Theatre Works' ambitious staging of Tony Kushner's two-part epic runs through Feb. 10 at the Boston Center for the Arts,with one-day marathons of "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika"this weekend. Seen together, they're simply stunning ....
Home to roost
Feb 01, 2008; ... I wonder if Mitt Romney is having any second thoughts aboutcomparing Massachusetts residents to a bunch of vegetarians. "Being a conservative Republican in Massachusetts," he told aSouth Carolina audience in 2005, when he was testing thepresidential waters, "is like being a cattle ...
PRESSURE SITUATION Giants must be able to get to Brady when Patriots spread out the offense
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII / MATCHUPS PHOENIX - Patriots coach Bill Belichick and veteran players have talked this week about how Super Bowl XLII is the biggest game of their lives. If the team is to make history by winning the title and posting a 19-0 ...
Recognizing progress in Massachusetts health reform
Feb 01, 2008 ... ROBERT KUTTNER'S Jan. 26 op-ed "A health law with holes" wasmisleading. As one of the designers of the Massachusetts law and acurrent member of the Commonwealth Connector board implementing thelaw, I would like to clarify the issue for your readers. Kuttner criticizes the ...
The gospel according to Andrew Lloyd Webber
Feb 01, 2008; ... Stage Review Whistle Down the Wind Musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by JimSteinman, and book by Patricia Knop, Gale Edwards, and Webber Directed by: Bill Kenwright. Choreography, Henry Metcalfe. Setsand costumes, Paul Farnsworth. Lights, Nick Richings ....
Case solved, but memorial goes on
Feb 01, 2008 ... I TAKE exception to the quote in the Jan. 26 article about thehit-and-run of George Azarian ("Woman held in Revere hit-and-rundeath: Trooper's probe leads to an arrest in 2006 fatality," City &Region). While loved ones of Mr. Azarian applaud the efforts of TrooperJoel Balducci, ...
`SAFE' AND SOUND ; Eccentric multi-instrumentalist Baby Dee confronts her past on a new album
Feb 01, 2008; ... Baby Dee's new album starts innocuously enough, with a quietpiano figure in waltz time. She starts to sing, something sweetabout forgotten songs, and pretty soon Dee is chortling andwhispering and soaring into her mezzo-soprano, sometimes in the spanof a phrase, with cello and viola in ...
CD Review
Feb 01, 2008; ... There are moments when pianist Baby Dee's new album, "Safe Insidethe Day" (Drag City), feels like a long-awaited encore performanceof a musical theater classic. That the said show is known only tothe singer herself - or that its book features lyrics such as"'cause you just can't keep a ...
Carolina beats tar out of the Eagles
Feb 01, 2008; ... N. Carolina 91 BC 69 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - By the time the Tar Heels had finishedscoring 21 straight points, spanning 6 minutes 14 seconds of the endof the first half and the beginning of the second, the display trulydramatized the best North Carolina had to offer. And it left ...
Opening of BU biolab to be delayed ; Review may be done in April '09
Feb 01, 2008; ... The opening of a Boston University laboratory designed to studythe world's deadliest germs will be delayed several months orlonger, according to documents filed this week in federal court. BU administrators overseeing the Biosafety Level-4 lab, thecenterpiece of a larger federally ...
BUSINESS IN BRIEF
Feb 01, 2008 ... THE REGION Life sciences firms seen having trouble filling jobs Governor Deval Patrick is scheduled to speak at 12:30 p.m. todayduring a life sciences summit with industry leaders at theUniversity of Massachusetts Boston. In addition, researchers fromthe UMass Donahue ...
`Blackout' has some bright moments
Feb 01, 2008; ... Television Review Blackout Starring: Melvin Van Peebles, Michael B. Jordan, Jeffrey Wright,Zoe Saldana, Saul Rubinek, Jamie Hector, Susan Kelechi Watson On: BET Time: Tonight, 7:30 Sometimes if you throw a bunch of cliched little storiestogether, they ...
Axelsson able to wing it ; With Sturm out, he's a late fill-in
Feb 01, 2008; ... BRUINS NOTEBOOK OTTAWA - P.J. Axelsson only traveled here to participate inyesterday's morning skate. But Axelsson's right foot felt so good that the left wing, whohad missed the seven previous matches, came back a game early lastnight. "Couldn't happen at a better ...
Tighter border threatens to distance US, Canadian towns
Feb 01, 2008; ... HOULTON, Maine - Canadians are among the best customers in thissmall town on the Canadian border, where Interstate 95 links to theTrans Canada Highway. On frequent visits fueled by a strongerCanadian dollar, they fill up their tanks at gas stations near thehighway and pile their shopping ...
Brady has joined the rarefied air of the all-time greats
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII PHOENIX - Even now, after three rings and a season that is onevictory shy of unprecedented perfection, the man shakes his headwhen you put him alongside Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw, and theother immortals in the signal-calling pantheon. "Those ...
Bruins' outburst clearly first-rate ; Three early goals doom Senators
Feb 01, 2008; ... Bruins 4 Senators 1 OTTAWA - The Bruins, who scored three goals in the first periodlast night, clung to their advantage for dear life for the rest ofthe game, fending off a third-period Ottawa rally to claim a 4-1victory over the Senators at Scotiabank Place. Phil ...
Bruins' outburst clearly first-rate ; Three early goals doom Senators
Feb 01, 2008; ... Bruins 4 Senators 1 OTTAWA - They marched into enemy territory and swiped 2 pointsfrom a first-place team. Their netminder allowed only one goal. Theyscored three times in the first 20 minutes when they came into thenight averaging 1.3 first-period goals per game. For ...
Right direction - Celtics (13-0) earn another West win
Feb 01, 2008; ... Celtics 96 Mavericks 90 So far, the Celtics know how the West is won. They defeated the Dallas Mavericks, 96-90, last night at a sold-out TD Banknorth Garden. With Celtics legend Bill Russell sittingcourtside, Boston improved to 13-0 against the Western Conferencethis ...
Super snub - Allen (26) leads Celtics past Dallas
Feb 01, 2008; ... Celtics 96 Mavericks 90 So far, the Celtics know how the West is won. They defeated the Dallas Mavericks, 96-90 last night at a sold-out TD Banknorth Garden. With Celtics legend Bill Russell sittingcourtside, Boston improved 13-0 against the Western Conference ...
CROWDS MOB CHINA RAILS
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Handel's opera `Semele' gets a modern makeover
Feb 01, 2008; ... Classical Notes Day of wedding. Anxious bride-to-be wants to back out, asks forhelp from powerful older (married) man who's showing interest.Wedding postponed, bride-to-be runs off with older man. His wife isfurious. Tragedy ensues. It sounds like a juicy tabloid story. And ...
Handel's `Semele' gets a modern makeover
Feb 01, 2008; ... Classical Notes Day of wedding. Anxious bride-to-be wants to back out, asks forhelp from powerful older (married) man who's showing interest.Wedding postponed, bride-to-be runs off with older man. His wife isfurious. Tragedy ensues. It sounds like a juicy tabloid story. And ...
CLASSICAL PICKS
Feb 01, 2008; ... Tonight, the venerable Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra playsDebussy and Berlioz in Symphony Hall. ... Opera Boston opens its newproduction of Handel's "Semele" at the Cutler Majestic Theatre ...and cellist Matt Haimovitz and violinist Andy Simionescu take on theBrahms Double Concerto with ...
Pierce named All-Star reserve ; Allen among those who were left out
Feb 01, 2008; ... CELTICS NOTEBOOK Just after learning he made his sixth All-Star team, Celticsforward Paul Pierce's first reaction was: "Joe Johnson?" Pierce was surprised that his ex-Celtics teammate, now with theHawks, made the Eastern Conference team at guard over his currentteammate, Ray ...
Northeastern trips Drexel ; Crew sparks first CAA win
Feb 01, 2008 ... College basketball roundup Jasmine Crew scored a team-high 16 points and Northeasternsurvived a late surge from Drexel as the host Huskies defeated theDragons, 59-54, last night for their first Colonial AthleticAssociation victory. Shaleyse Smallwood added 12 points and five ...
Process of improv is in full view
Feb 01, 2008; ... COMEDY NOTES When you see how smoothly a Main Stage show at Improv Asylumusually runs, it would be tempting to think it's effortless. Afterall, this group is used to improvising some of its best work. Intruth, it takes anywhere from eight to 12 weeks of rehearsal tocreate the ...
Concert update
Feb 01, 2008 ... James Taylor returns to Tanglewood for two shows, July 3-4, at 7p.m. Tickets are $24 for lawn seating and $60 and $84 for shedseats. Online tickets sales begin Sunday ...
For the record
Feb 01, 2008 ... - Correction: Because of a reporting error, the Health Answersfeature in Monday's Health/Science section wrongly attributed arecommendation about how to remove ...
It's not easy to knock your socks off
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Does a 19-0 season go down in the books asthe greatest New England sports story of them all? Is this Patriotic path to perfection potentially bigger than thestory of the 2004 Red Sox throwing off 86 years of heartbreak ...
Iraq war returns as prime debate issue ; Democrats are mostly cordial in one-on-one
Feb 01, 2008; ... CAMPAIGN 2008 LOS ANGELES - Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton last nightdefended her 2002 vote to authorize force in Iraq as a "reasoned"decision at the time, while her primary opponent, Senator BarackObama, said Clinton's vote raised questions about whether she hasthe judgment ...
Democrats drive for delegates ; Candidates switch strategies to amass the needed number
Feb 01, 2008; ... CAMPAIGN 2008 WASHINGTON - After watching his wife lose the South Carolinaprimary by a 2-to-1 ratio to Senator Barack Obama last weekend,former President Bill Clinton took the campaign to an improbablelocation: Illinois, where Obama enjoys home-state advantage and isleading ...
DeOssies on special team ; Zak has chance to match father's feat
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII CHANDLER, Ariz. - For 17-year-old Zak DeOssie, the summer of 2001was Fantasy Island. He was a ball boy in training camp for thePatriots, and coach Bill Belichick needed a football. Actually, heneeded someone to throw a football. The ...
What they really said: McCain, Romney on Iraq
Feb 01, 2008; ... CAMPAIGN 2008 In the days preceding Wednesday's Republican debate, Senator JohnMcCain repeatedly equated rival Mitt Romney's Iraq war stance withthe Democrats' proposal to leave Iraq. "Governor Romney wanted toset a date for withdrawal similar to what the Democrats are ...
Boston sampler
Feb 01, 2008; ... Downtown So you are not going to the Super Bowl - again. But for all thoseloyal New England Patriots fans who have grown old sitting on thatlong, long waiting list for season tickets, there is new hope fornext season. The hitch: Are you willing to pay $700 for a ...
Head's-up: Perfect timing for Manning
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII CHANDLER, Ariz. - Never was it about the arm strength. Or theaccuracy. Or the footwork. Or the downfield vision. It wasn't aboutthe decisions he made, either. No, what seemed to get everybody riled up about Eli Manning wasthe way he would ...
A new lesson plan for Boston
Feb 01, 2008 ... THERE IS no arguing with the goals and priorities of Bostonschool superintendent Carol Johnson, which she outlined Wednesday inher first major policy speech since taking control of the schoolsystem in August. Johnson has paid careful attention to many schoolconstituencies. But the public ...
Panda politics in Taiwan
Feb 01, 2008; ... Editorial Notebook TAIPEI, Taiwan THE IMPOSING Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall has just reopenedhere, after being shuttered for more than six months while Taiwan'sgovernment worked to diminish the legacy of the former dictator.When the scaffolding came down, the building's name ...
'LADY' LUCK - SHE HAS WON ACCLAIM AS MARY POPPINS. NOW SHE'S TACKLING ANOTHER ICON, ELIZA DOOLITTLE.
Feb 01, 2008; ... British stage actress Lisa O'Hare was only 11 when she left herhome in a small town in Lancashire. She was a boarding student at the elite Royal Ballet School nearLondon, far from her family, and lonely. The teachers were strict,the students ambitious, and she had to fend for ...
In Ceausescu's Romania, a harrowing tale of choice
Feb 01, 2008; ... Movie Review 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days Written and directed by: Cristian Mungiu Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, AlexandruPotocean At: Kendall Square Running time: 113 minutes Unrated (nudity, language, brief but graphic ...
Politicians, places, and bad policies
Feb 01, 2008; ... WHEN A politician starts talking about a nifty plan to subsidizea sports stadium or a monorail to turn around a troubled city, itpays to be skeptical. Even when attempts at reversing urban declinehave reflected the purest motives, they have usually been expensivefailures. The powerful ...
Hanson prepared for any scenario
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The New York Giants' Jeff Feagles started hisNFL career with the Patriots in 1988 and punted in the league for 20years before advancing to the Super Bowl. Patriots punter ChrisHanson had been with the team fewer than five ...
The split in the Kennedy clan
Feb 01, 2008; ... EARLY IN the week, someone showed her the headline that blared,"Kennedy Endorses Obama." Kathleen Kennedy Townsend responded byasking wryly, "Which Kennedy?" Not that there was really any doubt. On the East Coast, theKennedy A-list - Ted and Caroline - had just dubbed Barack Obama ...
Mass. Guard lacks vital resources ; Panel cites war toll on troops, equipment
Feb 01, 2008; ... WASHINGTON - After years of serving overseas on active-dutycombat tours, the Massachusetts Army National Guard has less thanhalf its allocated combat equipment on hand, and is experiencing aneven more acute shortage of gear, including heavy-duty trucks andmedical equipment, it would need ...
No secret to stopping Moss
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII / SUPER BOWL INSIDER PHOENIX - Randy Moss has two catches in two playoff games, a lackof production that has been a hot topic leading into Super BowlXLII. In the divisional round against the Jaguars, Moss was double-covered almost every ...
Fidelity cuts jobs as units merge - About 100 affected staffers are in Mass.
Feb 01, 2008; ... Fidelity Investments will lay off roughly 250 people, includingabout 100 in Massachusetts, as part of a restructuring of the Bostonmutual fund giant that began last fall, a spokeswoman said. The company, which informed affected employees yesterday, willeliminate technology jobs and ...
Personal service, selection - Retailers respond as women demand more from their bras
Feb 01, 2008; ... Usually, Michelle Hylan walks into a lingerie shop and asks whatbras they have in her size. But at Intimacy, a new undergarmentstore in Copley Place that Hylan visited this week, her shoppingtook an unexpected turn. The Boston resident was led to the back of the small shop, ...
NEW LOOK ON THE WATERFRONT
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State says insurers must list executives' pay
Feb 01, 2008; ... Consumers will soon be able to learn how much their insurancecompanies are paying top executives. Nonnie S. Burnes, the state's commissioner of insurance, is nowrequiring all insurance companies - including those that providehealth, property, and auto insurance - to report how ...
Samuel is money in the bank
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII GLENDALE, Ariz. - Two tables to the left of Patriots cornerbackAsante Samuel, veteran Ty Warren is explaining how precious it is tomake a trip to the Super Bowl. A few tables to the right, runningback Laurence Maroney is telling everyone how much ...
JAZZ PICKS
Feb 01, 2008; ... Tonight: Liquid Life features Jim Warshauer on woodwinds, oudplayer Gregory White, bassist Sven Larson, and percussionist GrantSmith playing fiery, rhythmic, improvised acoustic music at lowvolumes, ranging from funk to jazz to Middle Eastern sounds, atOutpost 186. Tomorrow night: ...
Playing around with nature's soundtrack
Feb 01, 2008; ... Jazz Notes Jazz and the great outdoors aren't commonly associated with eachother, but for bassist and bandleader Jason Davis, they've been thetwin poles of an emerging career that's as much - pardon the pun -about timber as it is about timbre. That's because Davis is not just ...
Honoring their past, for better or worse
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII / PRO PICKS CHANDLER, Ariz. - And should the Patriots finish in a perfectmanner to put an exclamation point on arguably the greatest seasonin American team sports history, just what should be done? Perhaps abit of reflection on those days when ...
Rev. Daniel Kennedy, at 34; new priest served in Winthrop
Feb 01, 2008; ... On the last day of his life, the Rev. Daniel J. Kennedy saidgoodbye to his first church. Father Kennedy told parishioners at St. John the Evangelist inWinthrop on Sunday that his first eight months as a priest wouldalways belong to them. "He said he would never forget us," ...
The imperial presidency rears its head again
Feb 01, 2008 ... TAME AS he sounded in his State of the Union address, PresidentBush is not going to give up promoting his war in Iraq. The signingstatements he made before his speech are dangerous signals that heintends to raise the stakes in Iraq ("Bush asserts authority tobypass defense act," Page A1, ...
Stocks end a very tough month on a high note
Feb 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS Wall Street ended a frenetic January with a big advance asinvestors set aside worries about bond insurers and grew moreoptimistic that interest rate cuts will lift the ...
SPORTS LOG
Feb 01, 2008 ... NBA Guard Stoudamire set to join Spurs Point guard Damon Stoudamire was expected to sign with the SanAntonio Spurs last night, giving the defending champions anotherveteran option while Tony Parker nurses a left heel injury.Stoudamire negotiated a buyout with Memphis earlier ...
Boy's choking death on bus raises questions ; Mourning mother criticizes supervision
Feb 01, 2008; ... Sonja Cobb held the metal paper fastener believed to have chokedher son to death and angrily blamed the city of Marlboroughyesterday for the loss of the 5-year-old boy. "I talked to the mayor; she just left my house," Cobb said as shemourned her son Darnell Cobb. "She's telling me ...
Mass. primary shifts into high gear ; Race is tightening for Obama, Clinton
Feb 01, 2008; ... Forget football. Massachusetts' hottest contest may come on SuperTuesday, when Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama square offhere in the Democratic presidential primary. The tight race between two strong Democratic contenders hasenergized volunteers across the state and set ...
Booth took him along for ride
Feb 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS - GIANTS / SUPER BOWL XLII / SPORTS MEDIA Gino Cappelletti has had one of the best seats in the house asthe Patriots have gone from wannabes to dynasty. Cappelletti, aformer Boston Patriot who was the American Football League's MVP in1964, is the analyst alongside ...