The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 2008:
Watch slow celestial drama as winter turns to spring
Mar 01, 2008; ... STAR WATCH Glance up to the eastern sky these evenings, and you'll notice apair of rather bright points of light. If you've been paying them abit of attention, maybe you've seen that they're drawing closertogether week by week. This slow celestial drama high above our busylittle ...
RALLYING FOR A FIREFIGHTER IN IRAQ
Mar 01, 2008 ... STORY ...
Tilda Swinton's improbable Oscar journey
Mar 01, 2008; ... Regardless of whether Sunday's Oscars broadcast was your firstlook at surprise winner Tilda Swinton, her much-discussed shinyblack frock showed what you need to know about her: She doesn'tscare easily. Steeliness and inhibition are her stocks in trade. Swinton, the best supporting ...
Cambridge biotech firms departing city for suburbs; Available space, affordability prove incentives
Mar 01, 2008; ... As the epicenter of biotechnology in Massachusetts, Cambridge ishome to top university researchers and scores of companies,including Genzyme Corp., Biogen Idec Inc., and VertexPharmaceuticals Inc. But as lab space in the city becomesincreasingly scarce and expensive, several biotech ...
ON DEMAND
Mar 01, 2008; ... Spider-Man 3 *** Comast An intricately plotted saga that takes Peter Parker/Spidey fromadolescence to adulthood. After six years, the franchise may befamiliar, and lucrative, yet it hasn't curdled into a burdensomeseries of ones, zeroes, and dollar signs. Spider-Man has ...
Lots of outrageousness, not enough laughs
Mar 01, 2008; ... Television Review / Unhitched Starring: Rashida Jones, Johnny Sneed, Craig Bierko, ShaunMajumder On: Fox, Channel 25 Time: Tomorrow night, 9:30-10 "Unhitched" really, really, really wants to shock you. Theopening scene of this new Fox sitcom has an orangutan ...
THE iPOD SHUFFLE; Put someone's music on random, and you never know what might pop up
Mar 01, 2008; ... Jay Atkinson, English professor at Salem State College. His mostrecent book, about Lawrence, is the historical novel "City inAmber." Devil's Arcade Bruce Springsteen Come Away With Me Norah Jones My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) Neil Young Folsom Prison Blues ...
Wellesley flu roster found in Boston
Mar 01, 2008; ... A missing roster containing Social Security numbers and otherpersonal information of about 480 seniors who received flu shotsfrom the Wellesley Health Department was found yesterday morning ata postal distribution center in Boston, town officials said. Bill Brooks, deputy chief of ...
READYING THE RENAISSANCE
Mar 01, 2008 ... STORY ...
Backyards of BC's neighbors
Mar 01, 2008 ... I WAS surprised to read, in the article "City tells BC to reviseits plan" (City & Region, Feb. 22), that Boston College spokesmanJack Dunn accuses the Brighton neighbors of so-called NIMBY-ism foropposing BC's plan to build dorms on the Brighton campus. NIMBY isan acronym for "not in my ...
On hearsay
Mar 01, 2008 ... THE FEB. 20 letter "Clemens and the Rosenbergs: a comparison,"while thoughtful and pertinent, does contain one crucial error: TheRosenbergs were never charged with, let alone convicted of,espionage. The charge was conspiracy to commit espionage, thedifference being ...
The debate on education
Mar 01, 2008; ... IN THIS presidential primary season, the issue of education hasbeen like Sherlock Holmes's dog that didn't bark. Education is sofar off the radar screen that, in an Associated Press-Yahoo poll, itdidn't even make the 18-item list when voters were asked, "Howimportant is each of the ...
Here's the catch: the pitch; Drug makers learning that celebrity ads can distract from message
Mar 01, 2008; ... The dizzying array of celebrities pushing various drugs ontelevision and elsewhere over the years has been enough to makepeople think they're hallucinating. Figure skater Dorothy Hamill promoted Merck & Co.'s infamousVioxx. Folksinger Shawn Colvin spread the news in public talks ...
The buzz around theater
Mar 01, 2008; ... IT WAS ONLY five years ago that Nicholas Martin and RobertWoodruff came to Boston with more New York swagger than GeorgeSteinbrenner and Rudy Giuliani. Martin was taking over theHuntington Theatre Company and Woodruff the American RepertoryTheatre in Cambridge, and they were coming to a ...
Hope is on the rise in Pakistan
Mar 01, 2008; ... AFTER THE recent elections in Pakistan that were marked by theirrelative peace and the return of the two leading parties thatdominated the scene before General Pervez Musharraf's coup in 1999,some commentators in the United States fear that a civiliangovernment and a more assertive ...
Akamai wins ruling on patent infringement
Mar 01, 2008; ... Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, the leading Internetcontent delivery company, has won a patent-infringement lawsuitagainst its chief rival, Limelight Networks Inc. of Tempe, Ariz. A jury in US District Court in Boston yesterday found thatLimelight violated a key Akamai ...
Surfing his own musical wave
Mar 01, 2008; ... Music Review / Nik Bartsch's Ronin At: Regattabar, Thursday night CAMBRIDGE - Tracing the lineage of Nik Bartsch's jazz back toSatchmo and Jelly Roll Morton would be an exercise in futility. Themusic that Bartsch, a young Swiss pianist, brought to the RegattabarThursday night ...
Providence starts cooking; Friars catch icy BC with an early flurry
Mar 01, 2008; ... PROVIDENCE 3 BC 2 If you're a Boston College hockey fan, you might want to refrainfrom booking travel arrangements for next month's Frozen Four inDenver. The way the Eagles are playing, a third straight trip to theNCAA title game appears highly unlikely. At Conte Forum last ...
For widows, there's life beyond Sept. 11
Mar 01, 2008; ... Movie Review / Beyond Belief Directed by: Beth Murphy At: Museum of Fine Arts Running time: 92 minutes In English, and Pashto with subtitles Unrated Susan Retik and Patti Quigley met a few months after 9/11. Eachwoman's husband was on a doomed ...
Eagles back on their heels; BC must step up to salvage season
Mar 01, 2008; ... You look for the signs, indications that what is happening on thecourt is starting to wear on the players off the court. "It's the little things really," said Tim O'Shea, who has studiedthe mood of basketball locker rooms since he was a player at BostonCollege 24 years ago. "You ...
Big Dig firm, manager charged with conspiracy; McCourt Co. to plead guilty to overbilling
Mar 01, 2008; ... Federal prosecutors charged a major Big Dig contractor and one ofits managers yesterday with scheming to overcharge the governmentmore than $300,000 for work done on the Interstate 93 tunnel. Shortly afterward, prosecutors and a spokesman for the Boston-based contractor, McCourt ...
Blue Cross chief earned $3.6m in '07
Mar 01, 2008; ... Cleve L. Killingsworth, the chief executive of Blue Cross andBlue Shield of Massachusetts, earned $3.6 million in 2007, an 18.6percent increase over his compensation in 2006. Killingsworth'sbonus accounted for most of the additional money. It grew to $1.87million last year, up from $1.36 ...
The suspenseful hunt for a serial killer in Boston
Mar 01, 2008; ... BOOK REVIEW The criminal exploits of Boston's most notorious psychopath,fugitive gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, have been well chronicled.Now, in a new book, Needham attorney-turned-author Timothy M. Burkeexposes another sadistic figure who prowled Boston's streets ...
They want to join in; Fernandez and Bergeron eager
Mar 01, 2008; ... WILMINGTON - There were a couple of frustrated players in thelocker room at Ristuccia Arena after yesterday's optional practice. The Bruins have rattled off a five-game winning streak, a seven-game unbeaten stretch, and are 7-2-1 in their last 10, climbing intoa tie for sixth place ...
A solid, if uninspiring, compact SUV; Despite welcome upgrades, Escape still trails competitors
Mar 01, 2008; ... For its eighth model year, the 2008 Escape has received somewelcome upgrades, including more aggressive styling and treatmentsto reduce cabin noise. With its drivetrain and some other featuresunchanged, however, it falls behind some competitors - and not juston paper. Still, it does ...
Lawmakers undecided on casinos; Survey sees no consensus in the House
Mar 01, 2008; ... A large number of House lawmakers who responded to an informalsurvey last week remain undecided on whether to support GovernorDeval Patrick's proposal to license resort casinos in Massachusetts,setting up a potential battle royale over the fence-sitters. Of 107 state ...
NAMES
Mar 01, 2008; ... PR biggie back The legendary Lois Smith celebrates her 80th birthday today, butdon't think for a minute that the Plum Island resident is resting onher laurels. Smith, who was Hollywood's preeminent publicist whenKen Sunshine was still wearing short pants, is going back to work.No ...
Celtics hold off pesky Bobcats
Mar 01, 2008; ... CELTICS 108 BOBCATS 100 While several players talked openly about the likely addition ofveteran point guard Sam Cassell, Celtics coach Doc Rivers had a moreimmediate issue on his mind. "I'm not worried about it," he said. "I'm worried about[Charlotte]." Considering ...
Chess Notes
Mar 01, 2008; ... We were interested to see that the massive Moscow Open (274players in the male section alone) was attended by a number ofAmericans. Gregory Kaidanov was there as well as Samford winnersDavid Pruess and Josh Friedel. Friedel said that things were notgoing too well for his compatriots ....
Clinton employs famous Mondale ad strategy; Spot suggests Obama not ready to lead
Mar 01, 2008; ... CAMPAIGN 2008 It worked for Walter Mondale. Can it work for Hillary Clinton? Trying to alter the dynamics of a primary race she is losing,Clinton ripped a page out of Mondale's 1984 campaign playbookyesterday by airing a new TV ad in Texas that suggests her younger,less ...
Cassell: Clear to here?
Mar 01, 2008; ... CELTICS NOTEBOOK Don't be surprised if Carmelo Anthony tries to call his fellowBaltimore native, Sam Cassell, about coming to the Nuggets. Or ifSteve Nash gets in touch with ex-teammate Cassell about coming tothe Suns. Or if Jason Kidd tries to persuade ex-Maverick Cassell tojoin ...
BU rolls past reeling UMass
Mar 01, 2008 ... COLLEGE ROUNDUP Boston University is playing its best hockey of the season.Massachusetts is playing its worst. The trends continued last night at Agganis Arena, with the 16th-ranked Terriers further jeopardizing the Minutemen's postseasonhopes, getting two goals from freshman ...
BU rolls past reeling UMass
Mar 01, 2008 ... COLLEGE ROUNDUP Boston University is playing its best hockey of the season.Massachusetts is playing its worst. The trends continued last night at Agganis Arena as the 16th-ranked Terriers further jeopardized the Minutemen's postseasonhopes, getting two goals from freshman ...
Turnpike gets a guarantee on deck plan; Developers promise Columbus Center work will be done
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board has secured a $270million guarantee from the developers of the Columbus Center projectthat they will see the expensive four-block deck over the highway tocompletion. The guarantee clears another hurdle for the project, which hasbeen 11 ...
For the record
Mar 01, 2008 ... Correction: Because of a graphic artist's error, a chart with aPage One story yesterday on Boston Celtics season ticket holdersgave incorrect attendance figures for Celtics home games thisseason. The correct average attendance is 18,624 per home game. Correction: Because of a ...
Critic's corner
Mar 01, 2008; ... CASEY AT BAT Saturday Night Live 11:30 p.m., Channel 7 If you watched last week's episode, you may have noticed a newface, most obviously mimicking Rachael Ray. Her name is CaseyWilson, she is from LA's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and she is sitting in for ...
The `magic' of compounding is what makes retirement savings grow so much
Mar 01, 2008; ... THE SAVINGS GAME I feel good that, by saving regularly and staying clear of creditcard debt, my wife, Georgina, and I could quit full-time work in our50s and enjoy a fun-filled semiretirement. And even though our combined incomes never put us beyond themiddle income-tax ...
Empire has a new voice
Mar 01, 2008; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - Camp Tranquility is a fine place when you aredefending champions with a glut of talent and a dearth of questionsand controversy. But there's been something missing in Red Sox Nation ... nothreat from the Bronx. Entitled Sox fans have virtually forgotten ...
Clarification
Mar 01, 2008 ... Clarification: A Short Fuse item yesterday stated that HouseSpeaker Salvatore DiMasi accepted a free round of golf from JoeO'Donnell, a top shareholder at Suffolk Downs, which is ...
A suspect by many other names waits in jail; Drug case defendant mutilated fingerprints
Mar 01, 2008; ... He has been sitting in a cell in the Suffolk County House ofCorrection at South Bay for nearly a month after being charged inconnection with a Revere drug ring. And while the alleged crimemight be all too ordinary, the inmate isn't, for one reason: Nobodyknows who he is. His name ...
For the Legislature
Mar 01, 2008 ... NATIONWIDE, THE big election news Tuesday will come frompresidential primary voters in Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, andTexas. But a small fraction of voters in Massachusetts havedecisions to make as well. Because of turnover on Beacon Hill, thereare legislative races on the ballot in ...
Auto plan rates a closer look
Mar 01, 2008 ... A SOBERING report this week raises concerns that the Patrickadministration's "managed competition" auto insurance plan couldturn out to be a junker for perfectly good drivers considered poorrisks in the eyes of insurers because they are young, unmarried orrenters. The report casts a ...
The Iranian nuclear challenge
Mar 01, 2008 ... THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency reported this week thatIran has failed to answer questions about suspicious work on thedesign and testing of nuclear warheads, uranium conversion, anddevelopment of high-explosive detonators needed for a nuclearweapon. The IAEA is highly credible on ...
Susan Gilmore-Gallagher, 52; cofounded East-West Mortgage
Mar 01, 2008; ... Susan J. Gilmore-Gallagher, a prominent businesswoman andresident of Manchester-by-the-Sea, died at home Thursday of stomachcancer. She was 52. Along with her husband, John, Mrs. Gilmore-Gallagher founded East-West Mortgage Co. of Peabody, which grew to become one of NewEngland's ...
Their soap smooch made history. Fans ask: Will it happen again?
Mar 01, 2008; ... Once upon a time, in the melodramatic environs of CBS's "As theWorld Turns," there was a boy named Luke and another boy named Noah,and they fell in love. They shared in self-discovery, made itthrough a trying time when Luke was paralyzed from the waist down,celebrated his miraculous ...
Our national nightmare
Mar 01, 2008 ... I ENJOYED H.D.S. Greenway's Feb. 26 op-ed, "The nightmare fromthe daydream believers," about the lessons of the Bushadministration. But I was amused when I read a paragraph toward theend, where Greenway writes, "Elections don't automatically bringdemocracy, as Bush found out when he went ...
Rocking beats from Kinky keep the crowd moving
Mar 01, 2008; ... Music Review / Kinky With the Campaign for Real-Time At: Middle East Downstairs, Thursday night CAMBRIDGE - A funny thing happened at the back of the Middle EastDownstairs Thursday night. In the heat of a crowd pogoing in synch,a young couple started to ... salsa dance, ...
Taking the leap
Mar 01, 2008; ... Dwello "Dewey" DePippo wore something special yesterday tocelebrate his 24th birthday: A sleek new three-button suit. "It'sgray," he said with a wistful laugh, "just like my hair." Born on Leap Day in 1912, DePippo is actually 96. Likepresidential elections and the summer Olympics, ...
SPORTS LOG
Mar 01, 2008 ... Hockey As hoped, Hossa to miss about a week There were sighs of relief in Pittsburgh yesterday with thePenguins learned that five-time All-Star Marian Hossa suffered onlya first-degree sprain of the medial collateral ligament in his rightknee and will miss only about a week ....
Another chance at freedom
Mar 01, 2008 ... ARNOLD KING is asking for a second chance, and the MassachusettsParole Board unanimously supports him. This should sicken anyonewith a shred of understanding of the difference between right andwrong ("Commutation plea carries a political risk for Patrick," PageA1, Feb. 27). King ...
Lexington and Concord
Mar 01, 2008 ... AS THE chief historical tour guide of Lexington, I couldn't helpbut throw my two cents in to the discussion of where the AmericanRevolution began. Richard Smith of Acton summed things up well inhis Feb. 18 letter, but we still need to add one piece ofinformation to the ...
Schools' success is decidedly mixed
Mar 01, 2008 ... IN HIS Feb. 26 letter "Public schools need boost, not bad rap,"Sid Smith, superintendent of Malden Public Schools, pats himself onthe back when he writes, "The greatest success comes when you turnaround unmotivated, failing students, not when you sustain studentswho are already motivated ...
A ghost story with real ghosts
Mar 01, 2008 ... IN "THE ghost story" (Op-ed, Feb. 25), James Carroll asserts thatAmericans go to war not out of a true sense of duty, love ofcountry, or belief in protecting the values this country represents,but out of a cultish response to the "dogmas, rituals, highpriesthood, saints, cults of ...
Ex-boyfriend charged in woman's slaying; Victim took out restraining order against suspect
Mar 01, 2008; ... A 48-year-old Everett man is facing a first-degree murder chargein the death of a hairdresser who left her Malden shop in mid-February to get a cup of coffee and never returned, prosecutorssaid. Lesly Cheremond will be arraigned Monday in Malden District Courtin the death of ...
Ex-boyfriend charged in woman's slaying; Victim took out restraining order against suspect
Mar 01, 2008; ... The estranged boyfriend of a hairdresser who left her Malden shopon Feb. 13 and never returned is facing charges that he killed her. Lesly Cheremond, 48, of Everett was charged with first-degreemurder yesterday in the death of Norma Dorce Gilles, MiddlesexDistrict Attorney Gerard ...
Maynard bestows dream house on a family it has supported; Car accident left father of three unable to walk
Mar 01, 2008; ... MAYNARD - The tiny town of Maynard has supported the Giuntafamily for nearly two years, ever since a car accident left PaulGiunta, a father of three, unable to walk and unable even to live inhis own house, due to his bulky wheelchair. Town residents raised money for the Giuntas, ...
McCain adviser may pull lucky hat from ring
Mar 01, 2008; ... LOCKHART, Tex. - In John McCain's remarkably superstitiouscampaign, where at crucial moments coins and weather and sides ofthe bed are all accounted for, there may be nothing that carries thetalismanic power of media adviser Mark McKinnon's hat. The black felt cowboy hat began as ...
DEN OF LIES; In 1997, Jane Daniel published a sensational memoir about a young girl fleeing the Nazis and living with wolves. Ever since, she's been trying to prove it's a fraud. [Corrected 03/04/ 08]
Mar 01, 2008; ... GLOUCESTER - Seldom has a publisher set out to prove that her ownbook is a hoax. But that is what happened with the memoir of MishaDefonseca, a heartwarming Holocaust-era tale that has turned out tobe a fake. The publisher, Jane Daniel, said she disregarded warningsabout the book in its ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Mar 01, 2008 ... WORCESTER No tuition increases at state colleges Tuition at state colleges and universities is holding steady. Thestate Board of Higher Education voted yesterday not to increasetuition at publicly funded colleges for the 10th consecutive year.Tuition for state residents ...
Texas state party warns Clinton against filing legal challenge on rules
Mar 01, 2008 ... CAMPAIGN 2008 / CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK LAREDO, Texas - Hillary Clinton's campaign has raised thepossibility of a challenge to Texas's primary and caucus rules justdays before the contest, drawing a warning against legal action fromthe state's Democratic Party. Top strategists for ...
Gymnast endures the trials of waiting
Mar 01, 2008; ... NEW YORK - The Olympic trials are still nearly four months off,but Shawn Johnson already is feeling the gym walls closing in. "It'sstarting to get really nerve-racking," the planet's best femalegymnast was saying yesterday afternoon, surrounded by cameras andmicrophones and tape ...
Phantom party thwarts independent voters; Registry forms may cause public confusion
Mar 01, 2008; ... When Valerie Schechter showed up to vote in the presidentialprimary on Feb. 5, she expected to take a Democratic ballot and votefor Hillary Clinton. But a poll worker noticed that she wasregistered as a member of the Interdependent Third Party. "I'd never even heard of it," she ...
Oprah reality show turns giving into a sport
Mar 01, 2008; ... Television Review / Oprah's Big Give On: ABC, Channel 5 Time: Tomorrow night, 9-10 Do you ever encounter those people who always let you knowthey're bringing more good into the world than you are? They're theclassic holier-than-thou set, donating money to more ...
Samuel leaves Patriots for Eagles
Mar 01, 2008; ... Asante Samuel has a tattoo that reads "Get Rich To This," andthat's exactly what the free agent cornerback did yesterday, leavingthe Patriots to sign a six-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles. Samuel, the NFL leader in interceptions over the last two seasonswith 16, proved he's ...
Team, Moss not close to deal
Mar 01, 2008; ... PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK Yesterday wasn't quite Black Friday for the Patriots, but it alsowasn't an ideal start to free agency. First, the team lostcornerback Asante Samuel to the Eagles, and now it could be poisedto lose record-setting wide receiver Randy Moss. The Patriots and ...