The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from October 2008:
With eyes on Washington, investors reclaim ground
Oct 01, 2008; ... The stock market rebounded from one of its worst beatings indecades yesterday, surging higher across the board on hopes Congresswill return to work and agree on a bailout plan for the nation'sfinancial system soon. Stocks gained back more than half the ground they lost inMonday's ...
Phantom owners block path from blight ; Officials stymied in efforts to buy foreclosed homes
Oct 01, 2008; ... Despite a failure so far to pass a bailout of the financialsector, the US government is moving ahead with numerous steps to fixthe housing market, including aid for communities combating blightcaused by a flood of foreclosures. Last week, federal housing officials said ...
In time of harvest, farm sows its future ; With outpouring of support, owner to rebuild after fire
Oct 01, 2008; ... CONCORD - Standing in his leather hat and dirt-stained jacket,farmer Stephen Verrill doesn't look like he has even the most remoteconnection to diners at Boston's Rialto or the Beacon Hill Hotel &Bistro. Yet the Sept. 20 fire that destroyed Verrill's farm stand andoffice ...
From the Maniacal One ...
Oct 01, 2008 ... ALDS Obscure but telling facts from the 2008 Red Sox season fromstatistician Chuck Waseleski of Millers Falls: 0 Number of batters who hit 30 home runs for the Red Sox, theirfirst season without one since 1999. 1 Inning this season in which Jason Varitek ...
Protection sought for a sea brute ; Others see no threat to mighty wolffish
Oct 01, 2008; ... The fiercely ugly Atlantic wolffish, whose powerful jaw canreputedly break a broom handle, looks more like an underwater thugthan a fish in distress - but scientists say this "Tasmanian devilwith fins" is in rough shape. Today, the environmental advocacy group Conservation ...
Youkilis always reached for the stars
Oct 01, 2008; ... ALDS For the first two years, Enza Sambataro waited upstairs and lether boyfriend stew alone. She knew that would be best. KevinYoukilis took his work seriously, and he was hard on himself. Toohard, she often worried. "He used to constantly come home in a badmood," Sambataro ...
A new year, an old agony
Oct 01, 2008; ... NORWOOD - Even though Israel Arbeiter has done this hundreds oftimes, his eyes are red and brimming. Speaking in a thick Polish accent, the 83-year-old retired tailoris reliving the gut-wrenching separations, the horrific murders, themiraculous escapes. He is layering sickening ...
Toddler struck and killed by school bus in Amherst
Oct 01, 2008; ... A 2-year-old boy waiting at a bus stop with his mother and oldersister was struck and killed by a school bus in Amherst yesterdaymorning, local police and school officials said. Abraham Espinoza was killed at about 8 a.m. near Summer Street,said Elizabeth Dunphy Farris, an ...
A good year for apples, any way you slice it ; Conditions from summer through early fall ensure bumper crops at area orchards
Oct 01, 2008; ... Autumn is defined by fresh apples, heavy with juice and stillbearing a misty bloom, picked from the branch, filling your mouthwith the flavor of the season. Local orchardists are unanimous thatthis year's crop is not to be missed. One says the fruit is"bursting with juice." An ...
Pick and choose: a list of area apple orchards and farms
Oct 01, 2008 ... Before you leave for picking, call the farm. Some have websitesso you can check apple varieties and other activities. You can alsocall the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture (877-627-7476) or go to www.mass.gov/agr/massgrown/apple_pyo.htm. Amesbury: Cider Hill Farm, ...
Congress leaders toil to revive the bailout ; Pledge to overcome divide; Senate expects vote tonight
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE FINANCIAL CRISIS WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders, alarmed by record losses inUS financial markets and instability worldwide, worked publicly andbehind the scenes yesterday to resurrect President Bush's $700billion bailout plan, pledging to set aside political ...
Bailout: Not all Mass. hands on deck
Oct 01, 2008 ... Sure, it's galling that Congress has to rescue plutocrats whoserash decisions have put the whole economy at risk. But there's nochoice but to step in, as seven members of the state's all-Democratic US House delegation recognized Monday when they voted fora bailout bill. Not so ...
Education: 'Needs improvement' needs improvement
Oct 01, 2008 ... Just scraping by on the MCAS isn't good enough. High-schoolstudents need to be proficient in their skills. That's why the stateBoard of Education requires individual education plans for studentswho pass but only score in the "needs improvement" range. To beclear: Those students aren't ...
BUSINESS IN BRIEF
Oct 01, 2008 ... THE REGION Raytheon wins $679m radar upgrade contract Raytheon Co. won an order from the Defense Department and theFederal Aviation Administration worth up to $679 million to upgraderadar systems at military and civilian airfields worldwide. TheWaltham-based defense ...
Biden gaffes leave Democrats with mixed emotions ; Some worry about missteps in Palin debate
Oct 01, 2008; ... CAMPAIGN 2008 WASHINGTON - Joe Biden began his remarks to the National JewishDemocratic Council last week with a joke about how Jews like toargue. The Yeshiva crew team, he said, sent a spy to Cambridge find outwhy the Harvard rowers always beat them. The informant called ...
Debates: Stuck in the second tier
Oct 01, 2008 ... This year's campaign will result in either America's first blackpresident or the first female vice president, and yet the debatesare an old-boy embarrassment. The Commission on Presidential Debateschose three white male seniors - Tom Brokaw, Bob Schieffer, and JimLehrer - to moderate the ...
Ryder returns to old haunts
Oct 01, 2008; ... BRUINS NOTEBOOK WATERBURY, Vt. - Today, for the first time in his pro career,Michael Ryder will enter the Bell Centre in Montreal without theCanadiens as his employer. Following practice yesterday at the Ice Center, Ryder wasn't surehe'd be in the lineup against his old club ....
Town scrambles as 70 inmates register to vote ; Civilly committed act on court ruling
Oct 01, 2008; ... BRIDGEWATER - More than 70 sex offenders and substance abusersfrom the local correctional facility have registered to vote herenext month, following a recent court ruling that civilly committedprisoners are eligible to participate in elections. The decision, which affects inmates ...
Punch is missing ; Frustrated Lucic out to regain his touch
Oct 01, 2008; ... WATERBURY, Vt. - During Bruins practice yesterday at the IceCenter, Milan Lucic was matched against rookie defenseman JeffPenner in a one-on-one down-low drill. Lucic tried a few moves toget around Penner and drive to the net. But Penner stopped him eachtime, preventing the wing from ...
BU head calls for a hiring freeze ; Cites uncertainty of US economy
Oct 01, 2008; ... Boston University president Robert A. Brown last night called foran immediate hiring freeze and a moratorium on all constructionprojects that are not already underway, in response to the nation'sfinancial crisis. "I feel it is important to act preemptively to manage thepotential ...
Patrick prepares to cut budget as financial crisis unfolds
Oct 01, 2008; ... Governor Deval Patrick, facing the biggest fiscal challenge ofhis term, is confronting difficult decisions about which prioritieshe can pursue and which he may have to abandon as state leadersassess how severely the national financial crisis will slamMassachusetts. While seeking ...
For the record
Oct 01, 2008 ... - Correction: Because of a photographer's error, a caption thatran with a photograph of a voter registration drive at BostonUniversity on the cover of the City & Region section Sundaymisstated when the drive took place. The drive occurred Sept. 19. - Correction: Because of an ...
Celtics pull into new port
Oct 01, 2008; ... NEWPORT, R.I. - To most NBA players, a gym is a gym, even ifbuilt by one of the country's foremost architects. And a mansion is,well, a mansion. "I was going to do the mansion tour," Celtics coach Doc Riverssaid yesterday, "until I started thinking some of our players'mansions ...
His angle: inspiration ; Dyer has been cast as `American hero'
Oct 01, 2008; ... First in an occasional series on courageous athletes. DETROIT - Clay Dyer is a professional angler by trade and aprofile in courage in heart. Dyer was born with no limbs except a partial right arm. He castshis fishing line by placing his rod under his neck - like IsaacStern ...
Angels in playoff haunt
Oct 01, 2008; ... ALDS LOS ANGELES - Nine in a row. This series is about mind games asmuch as it is about baseball games. The Angels of Southern California play the Red Sox tonight in thefirst game of their best-of-five American League Division Series.Like the Red Sox of 2004 and the Cubs of ...
What about austerity?
Oct 01, 2008; ... WITHIN THE billions of sentences about the financial bailoutthere is one word notably absent, austerity. All talk is ofpayments, supports, subsidies, incurring more debt, stimuluspackages. The thesis seems to be: If only we spend more the partycan go on. True, only if the financial ...
Wasilla made rape victims pay
Oct 01, 2008 ... ONE QUESTION that Sarah Palin should answer during tomorrow'sdebate is why, during her tenure as mayor of Wasilla, the townstarted charging rape victims or their insurers for hospitalemergency-room rape kits and examinations. The policy so outraged the Alaska Legislature that in ...
Offshore oil drilling is favored ; In poll, Mass. residents cite cost, dependence
Oct 01, 2008; ... Feeling the crush of high gasoline and heating oil prices,Massachusetts residents overwhelmingly support expanded oil drillingin the United States, including off the state's coastline, accordingto a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll. The poll, conducted last week, found 63 ...
Prepare ahead for the end of the fast
Oct 01, 2008 ... It's hard to cook when your belly's growling, but when it's timeto break the Yom Kippur fast Oct. 9, this is a dilemma. You can'teat while you cook and you can't cook before the last shofar blows.The solution to this stomach-rumbling sequence is to complete thebulk of the break-the-fast ...
Obama, McCain in accord on FDIC limit of $250,000
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE FINANCIAL CRISIC In rare agreement, presidential candidates Barack Obama and JohnMcCain yesterday endorsed an increase in bank deposit insurancelimits, but legal and academic specialists said the idea may dolittle to solve the fast-moving financial crisis and could cause ...
Frank taking rare heat back in the district
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE FINANCIAL CRISIS Hema Fonseka, like many people in Barney Frank's hometown ofNewton, has been a staunch supporter of the 14-term congressman. Butlately the Newton resident has found himself uneasy with what hesees from his representative. "I hate to say bad things about ...
For Sox owner Henry, the joy comes daily
Oct 01, 2008; ... He gets a lot of work done during the post-midnight hours whenphones don't ring and he can be alone at his computer. BillionaireRed Sox owner John Henry never goes to bed before 2 a.m. and mostmornings he sleeps in ... because he can. He'll get moving at 9:30,maybe meet with an architect ...
WIDE LOAD
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Tight series is assured ; Hunter and Ortiz the best of friends
Oct 01, 2008; ... ALDS ANAHEIM, Calif. - David Ortiz's house has a unique feature. When asked about it, Los Angeles Angels center fielder ToriiHunter knew immediately what the reporter was talking about. "Yeah, the barber chair in the garage!" Hunter laughed. "I said`Man, what is this?' ...
The media's role in healthcare
Oct 01, 2008; ... WHILE THE pharmaceutical industry plays a vital role in thehealthcare system, company profit motives can corrupt medicaldecision-making. In particular, company-funded research may bebiased in favor of products made by the sponsors, making itdifficult for doctors to accurately interpret ...
Nationally home prices fall but Boston edges up
Oct 01, 2008 ... As house prices around the country slumped again in July, Bostonprices went in the opposite direction and nudged up 0.2 percent,according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price indexreleased yesterday. In contrast, prices declined between 1 and 3 percent between Juneand ...
October's their time of year Sox are no longer content just to be in contention each season; they now position themselves to be perennial playoff participants
Oct 01, 2008 ... ALDS SIDEBAR: AL Division ...
Mass. gets $10.6b for healthcare insurance
Oct 01, 2008; ... At a time when many states are facing substantial cuts in federalfinancing, Massachusetts will be able to expand its first-in-the-nation healthcare law because of a federal promise of $10.6 billionover the next three years, Governor Deval Patrick said yesterday. The deal, struck ...
Closer is better late than ever
Oct 01, 2008; ... ALDS ANAHEIM, Calif. - At 2 months old, Francisco Rodriguez was passedoff to his grandparents to raise him. At 16, he signed his first professional contract and received a$900,000 bonus from the Angels. At 18, he became a father for the first time. Rodriguez, ...
A US welcome mat for Ahmadinejad
Oct 01, 2008; ... MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD'S visit to the United States last week waseverything he could have hoped for. At the United Nations, the Iranian president delivered a speechlaced with undiluted anti-Semitism, denouncing "people calledZionists" who dominate the world's "financial and monetary ...
Dr. Shukri Khuri; surgeon helped improve care at nation's VA hospitals ; Dr. Shukri Khuri; surgeon helped improve care at nation's VA hospitals
Oct 01, 2008; ... When Boston heart surgeon Shukri F. Khuri led the VeteransAdministration's efforts to improve surgical care nationwide 20years ago, he asked for help from a previously overlooked source -nurses. "A lot of surgeons can have a God complex, but he was such ahumble person," said ...
The uphill battle to get a bailout
Oct 01, 2008; ... YOU CAN'T beat politics for entertaining alibis and excuses. One of my all time favorites is 18th century Britishparliamentarian Charles James Fox's explanation of why he couldn'thave been involved in a 1784 mob attack on the carriage of arch-rival William Pitt the younger: He had ...
Great situation ; Make no mistake, the Red Sox think Lester will come up aces
Oct 01, 2008; ... ALDS ANAHEIM, Calif. - In the great reconstruction of the Red Sox,during the transition from self-fulfilling doubt to prevailingoptimism, Jon Lester stands out like an oldest child. The blossominglefthander was the first seed planted by these Red Sox, the veryfirst draft pick in ...
THE MATCHUPS Both teams will be on the move, but injuries may run the Sox down
Oct 01, 2008; ... ALDS SIDEBAR: LINEUPS STARTING ...
They're resting Game 1 hopes on Lackey
Oct 01, 2008; ... ALDS ANGELS NOTEBOOK ANAHEIM, Calif. - When Mike Scioscia put together his postseasonpitching rotation, the Angels manager expressed little doubt aboutmaking John Lackey his starter in tonight's American League DivisionSeries opener against the Red Sox. Lackey (12-5, 3.75 ...
SPORTS LOG [Corrected 10/02/08]
Oct 01, 2008 ... NHL Penguins' Gonchar out most of season Penguins defenseman Sergei Gonchar will have arthroscopic surgeryon his dislocated left shoulder tomorrow and will miss 4-6 months.Gonchar, a former Bruin who is one of the NHL's top offensivedefensemen, has cartilage and ligament ...
Nurse practitioners recognized as part of the cure
Oct 01, 2008 ... THE CRISIS in primary care and the challenges faced by patientsin Massachusetts were highlighted in Liz Kowalczyk's article "AcrossMass., wait to see doctors grows" (Page A1, Sept. 22). What was notnoted, however, is that the role and services of nurse practitionersin Massachusetts are a ...
ANGER AND ANXIETY
Oct 01, 2008 ... Get to `yes' I WANTED to share my concern that while some members of Congressmay have wanted to send a message by voting no on the bailout billMonday, we will need to live in their basements when, if ever, weare able to retire, and we will need them to open wide thefloodgates of ...
In Hub, a towering symbol of inequity
Oct 01, 2008 ... In Hub, a towering symbol of inequity I'M SO happy for the new residents of the luxury MandarinOriental, Boston, residential complex ("Back Bay's tower of wealth,"Page A1, Sept. 29). While the rest of the region is reeling underthe new reality of financial insecurity and ...
Wall Street bets rescue plan will come through
Oct 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS The Street snapped back after its biggest sell-off in years onbets that Congress will salvage the $700 billion rescue plan. Butmuch of the buying was predictable - ...
Nonunion T workers file suit over raises
Oct 01, 2008; ... A group of executive transit workers who had their 9 percent payraises rescinded last month filed suit against the MBTA Monday andannounced they are attempting to unionize. "They hadn't had a raise since 2005," said Warren H. Pyle, alawyer who filed the suit as a class action on ...
SNAPPY NEW DIGS
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After the big sell-off, State Street rebounds
Oct 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS / MASS. MOVERS State Street Corp. staged a big recovery. Until Monday, stocks ofbig financial custodians like Boston-based State Street had held upbetter than the broader financials. The Standard & Poor'sSupercomposite Asset Management and Custody Bank Index fell ...
Police kill wandering moose in Worcester
Oct 01, 2008; ... A 900-pound adolescent bull moose in the throes of its firstmating season was shot and killed yesterday morning near downtownWorcester. Probably in search of a mate, the 2-year-old animal had wanderedonto an industrial street, meandered dangerously close to two majorroads and an ...
Amazon.com Inc.
Oct 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS The online retailer's shares rose after Goldman Sachs analystJames Mitchell said the stock didn't deserve the beating it took onMonday, when it ...
Expedia Inc.
Oct 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS Shares of the online travel company rose as the overall marketclimbed, bolstered by an analyst's view that Expedia has a "decentnear-term outlook." Thomas Weisel Partners' Jake Fuller said theBellevue, Wash., company also ...
Cooper Tire & Rubber
Oct 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS The second-largest US tire maker fell the most in five monthsafter analyst Anthony Cristello, of BB&T Capital Markets, cut hisrating on the shares to "hold" from "buy." Hurricane ...
Bottler boosts forecast, despite slower sales
Oct 01, 2008 ... MONEY & MARKETS / MARKET MOVERS Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. had better-than-expected third-quarterprofit and boosted its full-year forecast after higher prices offsetdeclining sales. Net income dropped 11 percent ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Oct 01, 2008 ... CAMBRIDGE Ex-official indicted on larceny charges The former probate register for Middlesex County has beenindicted for allegedly stealing money from copy and cash machines atthe Registry of Deeds in Cambridge. A grand jury indicted JohnBuonomo yesterday on 12 counts of ...
Follow the money on bailout votes
Oct 01, 2008 ... CAMPAIGN 2008 / CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK Theories abound about why the $700 billion financial bailoutpackage crashed and burned in Congress. Conservative Republicans opposed it on ideological grounds as big-government intervention starting the slippery slope to socialism.Liberal ...
NAMES
Oct 01, 2008; ... `Biggest Loser' indicted Boston's "Biggest Loser" David Fioravanti appears to be a bigphony. So says a Suffolk County grand jury, which yesterday indictedFioravanti on five counts of motor vehicle insurance fraud, twocounts of insurance fraud, larceny over $250, attempted larceny ...
NEW ENGLALND IN BRIEF
Oct 01, 2008 ... METHUEN Sheriff's officer held on heroin charges A 15-year veteran of the Essex County Sheriff's Department isfacing a heroin possession charge. John Bachta of Methuen wasarrested during the weekend in Tewksbury and was charged with asingle count of possession of heroin. He ...
MUSEUM QUALITY ; TOWN BOASTS MASS MOCA AND A COUNTRYSIDE OF PRISTINE BEAUTY CLOSE-UP ON NORTH ADAMS
Oct 01, 2008; ... TRAVEL NORTH ADAMS DISTANCE FROM BOSTON: 140 miles POPULATION: 13,842 WEBSITES: www.northadams-ma.gov, www.berkshirechamber.com ODD FACT: The turn-of-the-last-century Kimball Building on MainStreet was built on steel pilings atop a quicksand ...
In Brief
Oct 01, 2008 ... William F. Herlihy William F. Herlihy, a retired pharmaceutical salesman and WorldWar II veteran, died Sept. 19 of a stroke at the New Bedford JewishConvalescent Home. He was 91. Mr. Herlihy was born in Newton and graduated from Newton HighSchool. He graduated from the ...
Rise in fall ; Focused on thriving when the leaves turn, Sox leave no stone unturned
Oct 01, 2008; ... Jason Bay, who'd spent the previous five seasons in Pittsburgh,where baseball essentially ends in June, had never seen this oddSeptember ritual. Yards of plastic sheeting covering the clubhousecubicles. Exuberant teammates giving each other champagne shampoos.The manager standing at his ...