The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from April 2008:
Kraft seeks closure ; Patriots owner hopes Walsh talks
Apr 01, 2008; ... PALM BEACH, Fla. - Patriots chairman and CEO Robert Kraft cameout firing yesterday, questioning why former team employee MattWalsh has not yet revealed the information he has suggested he hasregarding the team's videotaping procedures. "I'm looking forward to him speaking, and ...
UNIVERSITY PROTEST
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Superdelegates buoy Obama in rough month
Apr 01, 2008; ... CAMPAIGN 2008 Throughout the Democratic primary race, Barack Obama has casthimself as an underdog trying to wrest the nomination from the gripof the party establishment, which he contends is partial to rivalHillary Clinton. But it is Obama, a first-term Illinois senator ...
Dr. Charlotte Tan, childhood cancer expert
Apr 01, 2008; ... Dr. Charlotte Tan, a pioneer in treating childhood cancer, diedof pneumonia March 22 at her Brookline home. She was 84. Colleagues said Dr. Tan was one of the country's leadingpediatric oncologists during her more than four decades at theMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in ...
Lottery, Sox to unveil $20 scratch ticket
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Massachusetts Lottery and the Boston Red Sox unveiled a new$20 Red Sox scratch ticket at Fenway Park yesterday, in a move thatlottery officials hope will continue to drive up revenue for citiesand towns. The lottery's first $20 scratch ticket, the "Billion DollarBlockbuster," ...
UMass, China agree on online classes [Corrected 04/04/08]
Apr 01, 2008; ... In a milestone accord, the University of Massachusetts has struckan agreement with Chinese officials to become the first foreignuniversity to offer government-sanctioned online classes in thecommunist country. The agreement announced yesterday gives UMass an exclusive windowto ...
Clinical results boost ; Vertex Biotech's shares up 28% on news about hepatitis C therapy
Apr 01, 2008; ... Investors are becoming upbeat again about Vertex PharmaceuticalsInc. The Cambridge biotechnology company's stock surged 28 percentyesterday after the company reported positive clinical data for itsexperimental hepatitis C drug, called telaprevir, in a smallclinical trial, while ...
Unfurling spring
Apr 01, 2008 ... Spring can be stubborn and oblivious to the calendar, makingApril frigid at Fenway Park and dampening the return of 131-year-old swan boats to the Public Garden in bone-chilling rain. That is why Boston's most reliable harbinger of the season is theIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum's ...
VOX OP / LETTERS
Apr 01, 2008 ... SUPERDELEGATE CAUCUS "The superdelegate caucus idea is one being floated by TennesseeGovernor Phil Bredesen, and would meet DNC Chair entity HowardDean's goal of settling the nomination by July 1st (although, asothers have noticed, this isn't much of a healing idea: it allowsthe ...
A lethal combination
Apr 01, 2008; ... The indictment of two of Liquarry Jefferson's relatives in hisdeath yesterday was no surprise, but it didn't bring muchconsolation, either. The 8-year-old was accidentally shot to death last summer by a 7-year-old cousin, and yesterday a Suffolk grand jury chose to holdhis mother ...
A WALK ALONG THE POND
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OFFERING COMFORT
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Physician accused of sex abuse of children ; At least 7 men say they were victims
Apr 01, 2008; ... A renowned pediatrician and bestselling author who served for 14years as chief of ambulatory pediatrics at Children's HospitalBoston is accused of sexually abusing at least seven boys in hiscare, according to a civil lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Courtyesterday. The lawsuit, ...
Dashing across the violin literature, sunny all the way
Apr 01, 2008; ... Music Review Gil Shaham , violin Akira Eguchi, piano At: Jordan Hall, Sunday afternoon One of the pleasures of the Celebrity Series season is theoccasional chance to hear top-tier soloists in the intimate andacoustically welcoming setting of Jordan Hall ....
It's opening day for auto insurers ; As competition gets under way, more firms show interest
Apr 01, 2008; ... The first automobile insurance policies that take advantage ofthe state's newly deregulated system take effect today, givingmotorists a taste of competitive rate-setting after 30 years ofstrict regulation. The state Division of Insurance, which established the new systemlast ...
BUSINESS IN BRIEF
Apr 01, 2008 ... THE REGION WBZ-TV begins laying off, 10% reduction expected Local CBS station WBZ-TV (Channel 4) began making staff cuts,according to a station spokeswoman. The cuts are expected to beabout 10 percent of the overall workforce of 220. "There have beenstaff reductions ...
Evidence against Vytorin firms found
Apr 01, 2008 ... TRENTON, N.J. - A congressional committee, investigating whetherthe makers of cholesterol drug Vytorin withheld data that would hurtsales, released new evidence supporting such suspicions yesterday. The Senate Finance Committee said even the researcher who led acrucial study of the ...
Private-school team rules chess tourney ; Newton South is knocked out by Commonwealth
Apr 01, 2008; ... A team from Boston's Commonwealth School has won the high schooldivision of the Massachusetts Chess Championship, taking the trophyfrom Newton South High School, winner for the past three years. Seniors Max Ehrman and Gabe Frieden, junior Jake Garbarino, andsophomore Danny Moraff ...
Patrick's moonlighting
Apr 01, 2008 ... GOVERNOR PATRICK has a compelling personal story to tell, and hesays he will be telling it on his own time. But the $1.35-millionmemoir Patrick has contracted to write over the next two or threeyears still presents conflicts with his day job - the job 1.23million Massachusetts voters ...
A hard quarter
Apr 01, 2008; ... Boston Capital So how do you like 2008 so far? The first quarter of the year, which closed yesterday, was hardon almost every kind of investor. The stock market suffered throughits worst quarterly stretch in 5 1/2 years, pulling the Standard &Poor's 500 index down 9.9 ...
Regulation pendulum swinging the other way ; Administration proposal for more market oversight highlights shift in thinking
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Bush administration's proposal to overhaul the financialregulatory system underscores a philosophical shift in Washingtontoward a greater role for government in overseeing markets, analystssaid. The overhaul, detailed yesterday by Treasury Secretary Henry M.Paulson Jr., seeks ...
Zimbabwe says no to Mugabe
Apr 01, 2008 ... VETERAN opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai apparently got themost votes in the first round of presidential balloting in ZimbabweSaturday, a result that reaffirms the potency of the voting booth -even where bribery, intimidation, and flagrantly biased state-runmedia preclude fair ...
SOLDIERS MOURNED
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Citigroup retools struggling division
Apr 01, 2008 ... NEW YORK - Citigroup Inc., reeling from a record fourth-quarterloss, reorganized its flagging consumer division as chief executiveVikram Pandit tries to reverse a profit slide at the bank's biggestrevenue generator. Steven Freiberg, who coheaded the unit, now will run US ...
Cohasset voters reject contribution for restoration project ; Plan wider effort on town flooding
Apr 01, 2008; ... COHASSET - Cohasset voters have decided to spend six monthslooking into a townwide plan addressing local flooding, rather thancontributing $300,000 to a federal salt marsh restoration projectdesigned to stem flooding for a small group of upscale residences onAtlantic Avenue. One ...
Stardom a long time in the making ; Senior chorus gets film breakthrough
Apr 01, 2008; ... In some ways it's a typical golden-years scene: two dozen seniorcitizens gathered at the Florence Community Center, just outside ofNorthampton, singing together. But these old-timers aren't scouring their memories for the wordsto a World War II-era favorite. They're learning Sonic ...
Environmentalists upset at earmark to fund Salem garage
Apr 01, 2008; ... State legislators are quietly advancing a plan to build a parkinggarage in Salem that would deplete most of a $20 million state fundthat was intended to encourage housing and walking paths near Tstations. State environmental and transit advocates are livid thatRepresentative John ...
Commerce Bank & Trust sues to guard Mass. identity
Apr 01, 2008; ... TD Banknorth executives last month wouldn't commit to what namethey will put on the TD Banknorth Garden after they change thebank's name to TD Commerce Bank following a merger. Now, the bankmay not even be able to put its new name on its Massachusettsbranches. Commerce Bank & ...
ARREST IN HOME INVASION
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FOR THE RECORD
Apr 01, 2008 ... - Correction: Because of a reporting error, an interview withStephen Malkmus in Sunday's Arts & Entertainment section listed awrong date for his concert. Malkmus and his band, the Jicks, willperform a sold-out show at the Paradise Rock ...
THE ONES THATGOT AWAY ; State not always a winner in stiff competition for businesses
Apr 01, 2008; ... When Genzyme Corp. started expansion of its plant in Allston inSeptember, the biotech company attracted a crowd of dignitaries,including Governor Deval Patrick. Days later, Patrick turned up inAndover to publicize the promise by biotech firm Wyeth to add 100jobs at its center. And ...
The gallant guides for the foreign press
Apr 01, 2008; ... THE WORLD got to know of Dith Pran, who died of cancer Sunday,through the power of movies, specifically "The Killing Fields," inwhich he was played by Haing Ngor, who won an Oscar for hisperformance. I first got to know Pran - in Cambodia the first name often comeslast - when he ...
Fire dispute smolders on
Apr 01, 2008 ... THE SOLE PURPOSE of the state Joint Labor-Management Committee isresolving labor disputes between public safety unions andmunicipalities, but rapid response is not its strong suit. Thecommittee's leaden pace is crushing any chance to craft a timelycontract between the Menino ...
Letters to the Editor
Apr 01, 2008 ... DROPOUT CRISIS Get behind solutions that have impact AS SOMEONE who works for an organization that builds networksbetween nontraditional schools serving students at risk of droppingout, I join the Globe in calling for a more transparent, and morehonest, measurement of high ...
Letters to the Editor
Apr 01, 2008 ... Not the whiteness of the whale, but the bloody redness of whaling I STRONGLY support Laurie Robertson-Lorant's call for "Moby-Dick" to be Massachusetts' official book, but disagree with some ofher reasoning ("Recognizing Melville's epic tale," Op-ed, March 24). She notes that ...
Peace deal with Sadr calms violence in Iraq ; Maliki viewed as weakened; Iran role seen in truce
Apr 01, 2008; ... BAGHDAD - Rockets fell on the Green Zone and random machine gunfire rang out yesterday in the southern city of Basra as Shi'itecleric Moqtada al-Sadr sought to rein in his militia after a week ofbattles that claimed about 400 lives. The peace deal between Sadr and Iraqi government ...
Forgotten memories on the trail
Apr 01, 2008; ... LANCASTER, Pa. FORGET charisma. Forget experience. Presidential candidates JohnMcCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton need to find theirmemories. Obama and Clinton are running largely on antiwar sentiment. Undernormal circumstances, McCain handed the Democrats a hammer to ...
Mother, teen son indicted in killing ; Child had easy access to gun in dresser, DA says
Apr 01, 2008; ... The mother and teenage half-brother of Liquarry Jefferson left aloaded 9 millimeter handgun in an unlocked dresser drawer in abedroom where the 8-year-old boy often played, making it tragicallyeasy for Liquarry's 7-year-old cousin to take the weapon and fatallyshoot the boy last summer, ...
Dow suffers through worst quarter in 5 1/2 years
Apr 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS Stocks ended higher, helped by a report that showed stronger-than-expected Midwestern business activity and on hopes that aregulatory overhaul ...
Arrhythmia Research shares take beating
Apr 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS / MASS. MOVERS Fitchburg-based Arrhythmia Research Technology Inc. and itssubsidiary Micron Products Inc. on Friday said fourth-quarter profitfell 67 percent, to $186,000 on 23 percent less revenue of $4.6million. For the year, profit dived 41 percent ...
Milligan's Garden roots run deep ; With UMass in NIT semifinals, senior makes a heavyhearted trip home
Apr 01, 2008; ... MARCH MADNESS It wasn't a matter of giving up, Dante Milligan insists. And itwasn't really a matter of letting go - as much as the 24-year-oldUniversity of Massachusetts senior had come to regard that as a kindof maturity. You get to a certain point in life and you realize ...
Starent lands key partnerships ; Wireless carriers Sprint, Vodafone enter new deals
Apr 01, 2008; ... Starent Networks Corp., a Tewksbury technology company that makesequipment for telecommunications companies to enable data serviceson cellphones, this week revealed two new partnerships with wirelesscarriers at CTIA Wireless 2008, a major industry trade show thatkicks off today in Las ...
NAMES
Apr 01, 2008; ... New Kids are back At last, New Kids on the Block are getting back together. Aperson involved in planning the long-rumored reunion told usyesterday that the mega-selling boy band will make their comebackofficial with an announcement Friday on the "Today" show. Accordingto our ...
Buyout offer of $360m drives Bentley
Apr 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS / MARKET MOVERS Bentley Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s shares rose the most since Aug. 8.Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., the ...
Ansoft Corp.
Apr 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS Ansoft Corp.'s shares rose the most since July 2000. Thedeveloper of electronic design automation software agreed to beacquired by Ansys Inc ....
Jos. A. Bank Clothiers
Apr 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc.'s shares fell to their lowest sinceDecember 2004. The maker of men's clothing could trade as low as $16a share as sales ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Apr 01, 2008 ... BOSTON Homecare workers to rally for raises Hundreds of homecare workers from the state's largest healthcareworkers union, Local 1199 SEIU, plan to rally at the State Housetoday to demand better wages and healthcare benefits. The union saysthat about 22,000 personal care ...
Pall Corp.
Apr 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS Pall Corp.'s shares fell the most since July 20. The maker of oilfilters for refineries and drug makers said earnings between 1999and 2003 were lower than ...
McCain highlights his military heritage
Apr 01, 2008 ... CAMPAIGN 2008 / Campaign Notebook MERIDIAN, Miss. - John McCain opened a new chapter yesterday inhis presidential campaign, casting himself as an "imperfect servantof my country," descended from a family of warriors devoted tohonor, courage, and duty. In remarks personal and ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Apr 01, 2008 ... BOSTON Homecare workers to rally for raises Hundreds of homecare workers from the state's largest healthcareworkers union, Local 1199 SEIU, plan to rally at the State Housetoday to demand better wages and healthcare benefits. The union saysthat about 22,000 personal care ...
In brief
Apr 01, 2008 ... Joseph P. Corso Jr. Joseph P. Corso Jr., a longtime employee of the City of Boston,died Friday of a heart attack at Boston Medical Center. He was 57and a Milton resident. Mr. Corso worked for the city for 33 years. He was involved withthe Youth Activities Commission, ...
Ortiz hitson a fewsubjects
Apr 01, 2008; ... On baseball OAKLAND, Calif. - David Ortiz sat at his locker at McAfeeColiseum yesterday, one eye on the TV, intrigued by Tigers thirdbaseman Miguel Cabrera's at-bat. After all, this might be one of the American League's newest andbrightest sluggers, who along with Gary ...
The chosen ones Prognosticators make Sox the chosen ones
Apr 01, 2008; ... OAKLAND, Calif. - If the American League East could be decidedlike the Iowa caucus instead of on the field, there is little doubtwho would win. The chattering class has been heard from, and far and wide, onnewsprint and in cyberspace, on TV and inside magazines, fromveteran hacks ...
Shots hit apartment unit in Randolph ; Police chief says attack targeted
Apr 01, 2008; ... RANDOLPH - Gunfire from a moving car tore through a street-levelunit in an apartment complex near the town's center early yesterday,missing two adults and a 6-year-old child sleeping inside, saidresidents and police. A man who emerged from an apartment next to the one hit ...
Police search home of man wrongly convicted ; Limone won suit vs. government
Apr 01, 2008; ... State Police investigators have searched the Medford home ofPeter Limone, one of the men who won millions last summer in alawsuit over their wrongful murder convictions decades ago, Limone'slawyer said last night. Juliane Balliro, who represents the 73-year-old Limone, said ...
SJC puts limits on affordable housing law ; Rules against state board in Groton case
Apr 01, 2008; ... In a ruling limiting the power of a controversial housing law,the state's highest court said yesterday that a state board couldnot order a town to grant an easement to a developer proposing anaffordable condominium project. In a five-page decision written by Justice John M ....
Here's how the housing slump can work to a first-time home buyer's advantage
Apr 01, 2008; ... Note to young renters: It's a very good time to start thinkingabout buying your first house. Sure, the housing market is in the dumper, and houses are stillexpensive - up almost a third from their prices at the start of thedecade, with some markets considerably higher than that ....
Afghanistan, ; Pakistan, and NATO summit
Apr 01, 2008; ... The NATO summit meeting in Bucharest this week comes at acritical time for the 26-member alliance and its mission inAfghanistan. It also comes at a critical time for the one countrythat can make or break that mission: Pakistan. NATO is collectively holding its breath as the ...
No keeping her down ; UConn'sHunter playsthrough pain
Apr 01, 2008; ... GREENSBORO, N.C. - Brittany Hunter may start tonight's EliteEight matchup for Connecticut. Or not. It depends not on whatRutgers will do, or who is in coach Geno Auriemma's doghouse, but onthe status of Hunter's right knee, which has had more work than theTed Williams ...
ON DEMAND
Apr 01, 2008 ... Deja Vu *** Comcast, Starz on Demand Filmmaker Henry Jaglom goes places - emotional and geographical -he hasn't gone before in this charming genuflection to romanticlove. Taking ...
QUICK PICKS
Apr 01, 2008; ... Discussion "Feminism & Dessert" is a Center for New Words series thatinvites people to chat about a range of issues in the context offeminism while they eat sweets. Ironically, the topic for tonight'sdiscussion is "Fat Is Still a Feminist Issue." We assume there won'tbe any ...
`Community Auditions' can make you a star, again ; The local talent show, which went off the air in 1987, has been revived
Apr 01, 2008; ... Ken Gardiner, a guitarist in Portland, Maine, plans to drive 200miles today to the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut for an auditionof a lifetime. He's trying out for the revived "Community Auditions," the Bostontalent show that featured amateur performers from all over ...
SOUND CHECK - NEW ALBUM REVIEWS
Apr 01, 2008 ... ROCK Van Morrison Keep it Simple (Lost Highway) Van Morrison didn't become a rock `n' soul icon by making thingsmore complicated than necessary. Maybe he drifted pleasantly offinto the mystic or loaded up on strings and horns on occasion, butthe bedrock of his sound, ...
Celtics look for one Tony Allen to emerge
Apr 01, 2008; ... WALTHAM - There have been two Tony Allens for the Celtics thisseason. There is the confident one who throws down highlight-reel dunksand showcases a big smile afterward. Then there is the Allen whoheard some boos at TD Banknorth Garden Sunday after missing a layupagainst ...
A series of improbable events
Apr 01, 2008; ... What if there was one day a year when people all over the worlddecided to behave in a manner worthy of the species? What would theycall that day? Suppose business people decided to cap their annual earnings at$100 million a year? "Enough is enough," Blackstone's SteveSchwarzman ...