The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from June 2008:
`Three-day period' doesn't apply to new cars
Jun 01, 2008 ... Consumer Alert Q. I purchased a new car and picked it up yesterday. Are thereany laws in Massachusetts that allow me to return it, e.g. the muchtalked about "three-day period?" Anonymous A. The three-day cancellation rule, which sets out a cooling-offperiod following ...
American art hits some high marks
Jun 01, 2008; ... Antiques & Collectibles Edward Hicks's painting "The Peaceable Kingdom with the Leopardof Serenity" sold at Sotheby's last month for $9,673,000, thehighest price ever paid at auction for a work of American folk art.The presale estimate was $6 million-$8 million. The painting ...
Hope and humor, in unusual places
Jun 01, 2008; ... On Audio The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow Hyperion Audiobooks, unabridged nonfiction, four CDs, four hoursand 30 minutes, $21.95, read by Erik Singer; also available as adownload from audible.com, $10.46 Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science ...
Daughter combines Red, green ; In LA, Auerbach pulling for Boston
Jun 01, 2008; ... Just about a 20-minute drive from the Staples Center in LosAngeles, the daughter of the late Red Auerbach had the Celtics'Eastern Conference finals clincher on four televisions at her homeFriday night. She wore a series of good-luck charms - a gray long-sleeveCeltics workout ...
Bringing up babies at work
Jun 01, 2008; ... Balancing Acts Could that be a gurgle or - whoa - a stinky diaper in the nextcubicle? Yes, "baby on board" is the latest - and the most controversial -trend in corporate day care for a small but growing number of braveemployers. The twist is parents do the care, toting ...
Strategies for finding a unique niche
Jun 01, 2008; ... BOOK REVIEW Outsmart! How to Do What Your Competitors Can't, by Jim champy, 196 pp.,Perason Educaiton Inc. 2008 How to Do What Your Competitors Can't, by Jim Champy, 196 pp.,Pearson Education Inc. 2008 Today, business is far more complex and demanding than ever, ...
Bookings
Jun 01, 2008; ... TODAY: George Daughan discusses "If by Sea," at 3 p.m., atConcord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord. ... Peter Clenott reads from"Hunting the King," at 1 p.m., and Linda Melvern discusses"Conspiracy to Murder," at 6 p.m., at the Harvard Square Coop,Cambridge. TOMORROW: Margot ...
Globalization, its discontents, and its upside
Jun 01, 2008; ... BOOK REVIEW The Post-American World By Fareed Zakaria Norton, 292 pp., $25.95 The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage By Alexandra Harney Penguin, 336 pp., $25.95 With the war in Iraq more than five years old, ...
Closing the gulf with our allies
Jun 01, 2008; ... PRESIDENT BUSH travels to Europe this month to participate in theUS-European Union Summit and to visit key partners, includingFrance, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. These summits arelikely to produce joint declarations of "bon amie" and officialstatements that the drift in the ...
Smallest BMW packs potent punch
Jun 01, 2008; ... 2008 BMW 135i Base list prices $34,900-$39,100 EPA fuel economy 17-18 mpg city; 25-26 mpg highway Engine 300-hp, 3.0-liter I-6 Available transmissions 6-speed automatic w/OD; auto-manual6-speed manual w/OD New or notable Coupe or ...
Sweating it out from Florida
Jun 01, 2008; ... CELTICS NOTEBOOK In Orlando, Fla., to attend the annual predraft camp, Celticsgeneral manager Danny Ainge spent much of Friday with his collegescouts, "just getting better acquainted with the possible draftpicks." But Ainge's day might have been better spent riding the "Tower ...
COMMUNITY SNAPSHOT
Jun 01, 2008; ... West Roxbury Median home prices Single-family home, $367,500 Residential tax rate $10.97 (citywide) Average tax bill $3,091 (citywide) Choice location Theodore Parker Church. Named for theabolitionist and social reformer, the handsome stone building has ...
Red Wings assume command ; Hudler, Detroit a win from Cup
Jun 01, 2008; ... Red Wings 2 Penguins 1 PITTSBURGH - Four games into the Stanley Cup finals, thePittsburgh Penguins have scored a total of four goals. That doesn'tmake the Red Wings the new millennium's version of the trap-happyNew Jersey Devils, but it does spell out one thing for certain: ...
4 UNDER $300,000 ; A down market gives lots of opportunities to get into the game now and trade up later
Jun 01, 2008; ... A slow real estate market can bring out the bargain hunter inanyone. But while prices may be lower, what you get for your moneyvaries a great deal from city to suburb and, in many cases,neighborhood to neighborhood. We did some shopping around to finddecent properties you can get these ...
Gill relishes having big chance
Jun 01, 2008; ... STANLEY CUP NOTEBOOK PITTSBURGH - Hal Gill's playoff beard has never been this long. "That's for sure," said the towering Penguins defenseman, itchingthe deep scruff around his chin and cheeks after a late-morningpractice yesterday at Mellon Arena. "It feels a little strange ....
Gill relishes having this big opportunity
Jun 01, 2008; ... STANLEY CUP NOTEBOOK PITTSBURGH - Hal Gill's playoff beard has never been this long. "That's for sure," said the towering Penguins defenseman, itchingthe deep scruff around his chin and cheeks after a late-morningpractice yesterday at Mellon Arena. "It feels a little strange ....
Accord, furor over Mich., Fla. delegates ; DNC plan leaves Clinton irate
Jun 01, 2008; ... CAMPAIGN 2008 WASHINGTON -In the dramatic conclusion to a contentious and oftenangry meeting, a key Democratic Party committee yesterday reinstatedhalf of the delegations from Michigan and Florida and apportionedthem between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, a move that in ...
A first for Nathan, Pembroke
Jun 01, 2008; ... Division 4 track championship SEEKONK - Building a championship program from scratch is a long,arduous process that can take decades. Unless you're from Pembroke. The Pembroke girls' track team cruised to a first-place finish inyesterday's Division 4 championship with ...
Record day for Latham ; Sophomore star powers Triton
Jun 01, 2008; ... Division 3 track championship MILTON - Normally, a sixth-place finish in an event is adisappointment. Hard to believe the Triton girls' team cared at all. There was no shame in the Vikings' last-place finish in the 4x100relay at the Division 3 championship yesterday. Especially ...
The wanderers ; At a Florida strip club, three troubled characters are drawn toward disaster on the eve of 9/11
Jun 01, 2008; ... BOOK REVIEW The Garden of Last Days By Andre Dubus III Norton, 537 pp., $24.95 April's doing all right for herself. She's a single mom, making$10,000 a month dancing and otherwise entertaining customers at thePuma Club for Men in Sarasota, Fla. She's got a cozy ...
A hero without the paperwork
Jun 01, 2008; ... IT WAS A day of minor miseries. There was a new eight-page formthat replaced an old one-page form. Two pharmacies called aboutpatients whose medications had run out but could not be renewedwithout prior authorization. An SSI application required moredocumentation. We live in a mad land ...
Justice by the numbers
Jun 01, 2008 ... IN A new report, the American Civil Liberties Union raises a redflag about the high rates of minority youth who are being detainedbefore trial in Massachusetts. And while state officials are intenton tackling the issue, they lack important data. The Legislatureshould ensure that they ...
A poor nation's costliest export
Jun 01, 2008; ... Editorial Notebook KAMPALA, UGANDA LAST MONTH, medical students at Makerere University hereorganized a series of workshops on the brain drain of Uganda'sprofessionals to the West. The focus was on finding ways to slowthis hemorrhaging, but it quickly became evident to me that ...
Chatty clients have foreign worker in bind
Jun 01, 2008; ... Etiquette at Work Peter Post is the great-grandson of manners guru Emily Post andis the director of the Emily Post Institute in Burlington, Vt. Q. I am a foreign national and work at a law firm. When we haveclients who speak the same language, they often talk to me in it ...
Losing sleep over mysterious sound
Jun 01, 2008; ... HANDYMAN ON CALL Q. I have a humming sound that sounds like a small motor in mybedroom and it is driving me bananas. I have had four electricianscome and check, the phone company, the cable company - withoutsuccess. It is fairly steady, and usually starts up about 7 p.m. Ihave ...
Hagee was, and wasn't, wrong on ; Holocaust
Jun 01, 2008; ... IN THERESIENSTADT, a Nazi ghetto and labor camp near Prague fromwhich tens of thousands of Jews were deported to their deaths duringWorld War II, a tiny storeroom, unbeknownst to the Gestapo, wastransformed into a synagogue. There Jewish inmates would gather insecret, a few at a time, to ...
New recipe for success ; With the guidance of a new chief executive officer, Concord-based Welch's tries to regain its status in the US beverage industry by lifting strategies from rivals -and by asking modern-day moms what they want to feed their families
Jun 01, 2008; ... CONCORD - These days, tasting good is not good enough at Welch's. After cruising along for more than a century, the Concordcooperative known for its lip-smacking grape juice fell off a cliffin 2006 with its worst year ever, paying just $47 million to 1,200growers across the country ...
`The Catch' won't haunt Harrison
Jun 01, 2008; ... The remarkable on-the-helmet, falling-down catch has beenreplayed over and over since Super Bowl XLII, but not in the mind ofthe player closest to defending it. It's not that Patriots safety Rodney Harrison is in denial oranything of the sort. He hasn't forgotten David Tyree's ...
ATF investigates site of James Hook blaze
Jun 01, 2008; ... Federal investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,Firearms, and Explosives joined city investigators yesterday in thesearch for clues as to what sparked the early-morning blaze thatdestroyed James Hook & Co. lobster. Stephen MacDonald, Boston Fire Department spokesman, said ...
Somerville home offers a tasty mix
Jun 01, 2008; ... HOME OF THE WEEK 19 Putnam St. Somerville Price $499,000 Style Victorian Built 1890s Square feet 1,698 Rooms 7 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 2 Sewer Public More than a decade ago, a renowned Boston chef lived across ...
Power coming into its own ; State incentives helped pave path for Evergreen Solar's plant at Devens
Jun 01, 2008 ... Evergreen Solar Inc. of Marlborough, one of the state's leadingalternative energy firms, opens its first wholly owned large-scalefactory at the former Fort Devens in Ayer this month and already hasan expansion underway. Chief executive Richard M. Feldt, 56,recently spoke with Globe ...
In a city that plays it safe, incubator has a tough job
Jun 01, 2008; ... Innovation Economy Azuki Systems Inc. and Tsumobi Inc. are two start-ups with bigplans to extend your cellphone's capabilities. But the differencesbetween the two companies, based in Acton and Cambridge,respectively, highlight a serious glitch in the way Boston'sinnovation ...
Politics, faith, and the occasional corpse
Jun 01, 2008; ... The Interview Donna Leon is best known for her subtle and enduring CommissarioGuido Brunetti detective series, set in Venice. The latestinstallment in that series, "The Girl of His Dreams" (AtlanticMonthly, $24), is Leon's 17th Brunetti outing and one of her finest;a cunning ...
BRAINIAC
Jun 01, 2008; ... Indiana Jones, crypto-communist THE LATEST INDIANA Jones movie, in which Harrison Ford'sswashbuckling archeologist battles Cate Blanchett's sinister KGBagent for control of a crystal skull that may or may not hail fromanother dimension, has ticked off a Communist Party chief in ...
Let's office! Learning to live with strange new verbs
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE WORD CONFRONTED WITH THE business coinage "to office," Kathy Schenck,who blogs about language at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, did nothesitate: "This word should not be a verb," she declared. Schenck conceded that it's mostly the novelty of such verbs thatmakes them ...
Surprising insights from the social sciences Aiding the enemy, aggressive news, and blondes raise more money
Jun 01, 2008; ... UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE BLONDES MAY OR may not have more fun, but it does look like theyraise more money. An economist analyzed data from an experiment thatrecruited 23 women to knock on the doors of 955 households to raisemoney for a "Center for Natural Hazards Mitigation Research." ...
Yale's varsity eight reaches grand final
Jun 01, 2008; ... NCAA women's rowing championships GOLD RIVER, Calif. - Despite its status as defending NCAADivision 1 champion, the Yale women's varsity eight boat has been awork in progress this season. But the inconsistent Bulldogs cruisedto victory in 6 minutes 35.16 seconds yesterday at the ...
What's that name? You know the feeling that something is on the tip of your tongue? It offers deep insights into the nature of the mind.
Jun 01, 2008; ... LATE IN 1988, a 41-year-old Italian hardware clerk arrived in hisdoctor's office with a bizarre complaint. Although he couldrecognize people, and remember all sorts of information about them,he had no idea what to call them. He'd lost the ability to rememberany personal name, even the ...
The answer Fifteen years into education reform, we are still failing to fix the most troubled schools. Now there's no excuse.
Jun 01, 2008; ... SCHOOL LEADERS IN Holyoke are no strangers to finger-waggingstate reports on student achievement at the Lynch Middle School. Itwas eight years ago this month that the state education departmentfirst declared the Holyoke school, which has a student-poverty rateof 84 percent, ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Jun 01, 2008 ... Peabody Some displaced by fire returning home Some of the approximately 700 people displaced by a massive blazeat a Peabody apartment complex this week are returning to theirhomes. Sean Fitzgerald, a mayor's aide, says residents of nine ofthe 18 buildings at the Highlands at ...
New & Recommended
Jun 01, 2008 ... Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout A unified series of finely observed tales about the residents ofa small town in Maine (Random House, $25). Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson By Tricia Tunstall The rewards of teaching and ...
WHO WOULD GET CLINTON'S VOTES?
Jun 01, 2008 ... May the best one win support AS A 13-year-old girl interested in the presidential race, I wasupset to read "A lesson for our daughters" (Joan Vennochi, Op-ed,May 25). Her 14-year-old daughter said she'd vote for McCain now thatpundits were counting Hillary Clinton ...
POLICE DETAILS
Jun 01, 2008 ... What if we made the work voluntary? NOTHING GETS my blood boiling as much as the topic of policedetails ("Officials punt on police details," Page A1, May 25),mostly because the police union continually passes this off as asafety issue, and not a money issue. Are they saying ...
A child who inspired many a doctor
Jun 01, 2008 ... I READ the article about Quinnace Arthur with incredible emotionand amazement ("`Miracle young man'," City & Region, May 25). Twenty-two years ago, as a Boston University medical student rotatingthrough the pediatric service at what was then the Boston CityHospital, I saw the struggles ...
A Bonding experience
Jun 01, 2008; ... A Reading Life Ian Fleming would have been 100 years old last Wednesday if hehadn't died at age 56 thanks to a surfeit of the good things inlife, namely alcohol, tobacco, and bearnaise sauce. But then, as BenMacintyre notes in his marvelous tribute, "For Your Eyes Only: ...
Huge sigh of relief after a big fly
Jun 01, 2008; ... On baseball BALTIMORE - Five hundred times now he's stood briefly - andsometimes not so briefly - in the batter's box to admire his work,circled the bases, pointed up to the heavens, and jumped on homeplate. One never knows what goes through the mind of this hittingsavant, ...
A whirled series of events for Drew
Jun 01, 2008; ... On baseball BALTIMORE - "What's the matter, J.D.?" asked Manny Ramirez. "I've been dizzy," said J.D. Drew. "Let him breathe," said Ramirez to a group of reporters, some ofwhom he took by the hand to escort away. "Please, come on, get away,let him room to ...
THE WRONG WAY TO DEAL WITH LEAD
Jun 01, 2008 ... FROM THE BLOGS Not to get too political, but I do not think that "Don't ask,don't tell" is a good policy. It does not work in the military; itdoes not work in home buying. The place where home buyers get hit with "Don't ask, don't tell"is in regard to lead paint. Lead paint ...
Ramirez reaches 500-HR mark
Jun 01, 2008; ... Red Sox 6 Orioles 3 BALTIMORE - He posed at home plate long enough for Gilbert Stuartto sketch the outline of his portrait. Long enough for ArmandLaMontagne to carve the first rough lines of his sculpture. Longenough for Annie Leibovitz to frame her photograph just ...
Region revs up for an East-West rivalry reborn `Beat LA' chant reverberates as Celtics seek title
Jun 01, 2008; ... Expect Jack Nicholson to be flying into Logan Airport whileCeltics fans from Chatham to Chicopee to Charlestown revive their"Beat LA!" chants. Television executives are salivating over amatchup that has not played out in more than two decades. In today'seditions, a headline in the Sun ...
Region revs up for an East-West rivalry reborn `Beat LA' chant reverberates as Celtics seek title
Jun 01, 2008; ... Expect Jack Nicholson to be flying into Logan Airport whileCeltics fans from Chatham to Chicopee to Charlestown revive their"Beat LA!" chants. Television executives are salivating over amatchup that has not played out in more than two decades. In today'seditions, a headline in the Sun ...
Franklin makes amends
Jun 01, 2008; ... Roundup Franklin coach Dave Niro said the mantra at his school is,"Franklin athletics never quit." If that ever rang true, it wasyesterday in its first-round Division 1 South win at CatholicMemorial. After blowing a 6-3 lead, the Panthers rallied to tie the game at7 in the ...
Franklin makes amends
Jun 01, 2008; ... Roundup Franklin baseball coach Dave Niro said the mantra at his schoolis, "Franklin athletics never quit." If that ever rang true, it wasyesterday in its first-round Division 1 South win at CatholicMemorial. After blowing a 6-3 lead, the Panthers rallied to tie the game ...
Bombs in bad company
Jun 01, 2008 ... THE BUSH administration's refusal to join a landmarkinternational treaty banning the production, stockpiling, transfer,and use of cluster bombs is inexcusable. This is not a time whenmilitary necessity overrides humanitarian imperatives. The cluster munitions that 110 nations ...
Shelf Life
Jun 01, 2008; ... The glory of Gorey Just inside the house of the late Edward Gorey, a doll's feet aresticking out from under a rug. The scene duplicates one from Gorey's"Gashlycrumb Tinies," a rhyming abecedarian that relates the fatesof 26 doomed children. In this case, "G is for George, ...
Short Takes
Jun 01, 2008; ... Lamentations of the Father: Essays By Ian Frazier Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 194 pp., $22 Ian Frazier is an antidote for the blues, whether riffingironically on a news item that would dump the rest of us into a funkor pricking what is left of our suburban pieties. A prime ...
About-face for a better future
Jun 01, 2008; ... Self-Help Self-help is definitely an eyes-front kind of reading - you wantto look where you're going rather than keep your focus on whereyou've been. But this month, there are some intriguing new booksthat prove that the past can actually be the prologue to a moresatisfying and ...
ETC.
Jun 01, 2008; ... FOOTBALL NOTES The Bear facts Beware of the nine-year deal. That seems to be the underlyingmessage in the contract disagreement between linebacker BrianUrlacher and the Bears. In 2003, Urlacher signed a nine-yearcontract worth up to $57 million, but as player salaries ...
A Giant challenge awaits ; Can they script sequel to `fairy-tale' ending?
Jun 01, 2008; ... FOOTBALL NOTES Maybe it was the road they traveled to win Super Bowl XLII - howthey caught fire at just the right time after an up-and-down regularseason - that has contributed to the feeling that the New YorkGiants aren't likely to repeat in 2008. Giants players seem to have ...
Same old winning attitude
Jun 01, 2008; ... FOOTBALL NOTES When the Colts gathered for a recent minicamp, Tony Dungy didwhat most head coaches do this time of year: He took a pulse of hisclub's mind-set. Based on where the Colts are in their team-building mode, with most key veterans returning and only some minorroster ...
This game of tag has turned into hide and seek
Jun 01, 2008; ... FOOTBALL NOTES If Nnamdi Asomugha played for a 14-win team instead of a four-win Raiders squad, his situation would surely be garnering moreattention. Perhaps one of the top cornerbacks in the NFL, Asomugha and theRaiders have reached a contract impasse that has kept him away ...
Two approaches, same result ; Pierce took better path than Bryant
Jun 01, 2008 ... BASKETBALL NOTES Just over a year ago, two of the NBA's top stars wondered whetherthey were going to be back in the only uniform they had ever known.Both were vocal in yearning for a better supporting cast. But wherethe difference arose between Celtics forward Paul Pierce and ...
No thorny issues for Rose
Jun 01, 2008 ... BASKETBALL NOTES Excerpts from a media session at the recent Orlando predraft campwith Memphis freshman guard Derrick Rose, who is projected to betaken either by Chicago with the top pick or Miami with the secondpick: How has your preparation for the draft been? DR: ...
Jackson wants to be next TV analyst to get coaching call
Jun 01, 2008 ... BASKETBALL NOTES Mark Jackson hopes to go from the microphone to the sideline,just as Doc Rivers did. Rivers took over as the Celtics coach in 2004 after spending ayear working at ABC as an NBA analyst. Jackson is currently ananalyst for ABC and has interviewed for head ...
ETC.
Jun 01, 2008 ... BASKETBALL NOTES A new word from the sponsor "You got Rondo'd!" Reebok hopes this new catchphrase in referenceto Rajon Rondo will become a familiar one in New England during theNBA Finals. Reebok filmed three commercials in Canton over theweekend with former Celtics Jo Jo ...