The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 2009:
62 years ... and counting
Feb 01, 2009; ... BROCKTON - They met in 1947, at the Kresge's store on MainStreet. Joe Norek managed the restaurant. Dot Whiting waited tables. She's kind of attractive, he remembered thinking. He'd just spent five years as a Navy cook. He was done with warand boats and being alone. They were ...
Hounded by failures, could this be NU's year?
Feb 01, 2009; ... 57TH BEANPOT It's only been a couple of decades since the Huskies have beenBest in Show in this town, but to hungry Northeastern hockey fans,it seems as if it's been three millennia. But now that NU is off toits best start (17-6-2) since 1981-82, the buzz on Huntington Avenueis ...
Ex-congressman's roles raise issues Talk-show host earns profits by selling ad time
Feb 01, 2009; ... Former congressman Peter Blute, who has established a secondcareer as a radio talk-show host, earns profits by sellingadvertising time on his Worcester show, including spots that hesells to political figures who appear as his guests. The arrangement raises questions over the ...
2 abuse cases prompt arrests, questions
Feb 01, 2009; ... Two separate abuse cases - one involving a 4-year-old fosterchild burned with a hair straightener and another that left a 9-year-old hospitalized with a swollen face - resulted in arrests lastweek and unanswered questions about DSS involvement. Prosecutors charged 29-year-old Kelly ...
Rask gives Bruins a victory to savor
Feb 01, 2009; ... Bruins 1 Rangers 0 So smooth. So calm. So poised. So ready? Tuukka Rask, given his first NHL action of 2008-09 yesterday,responded with a 35-save jewel to backstop the Bruins to a 1-0victory over the Rangers before 17,565 at TD Banknorth Garden. Rask's ...
Test for American labor Even with a pal in Obama, workers face uncertain times [Corrected 02/09/09]
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Observer This is the year that the American labor movement flexes what'sleft of its muscles. We've just finished January and things arealready looking up. Last Thursday, President Obama signed his first piece oflegislation - the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which makes ...
Bookings
Feb 01, 2009; ... TODAY: Hallie Ephron reads from "Never Tell a Lie," at 3 p.m., atConcord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord. ... Globe film critic TyBurr discusses "The Best Old Movies for Families," at 2 p.m., atNewtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville. TOMORROW: Ronald C. White discusses "A ....
Bird Sightings
Feb 01, 2009 ... Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts AudubonSociety. The ivory gull was still in Plymouth last week. Seen in Salisbury this week were one snowy owl, four Bohemianwaxwings, 13 Lapland longspurs, and a dickcissel. A report from WestNewbury included seven ...
FOR THE RECORD
Feb 01, 2009 ... - Correction: Because of an editing error, the Point of Viewfeature on yesterday's Page One excerpted a Joan Vennochi columnthat had run on Thursday. - Correction: Because of a reporting error, a Page One story onDec. 28 mischaracterized the tax status of Partners ...
Widow continues journalist's fight for human rights She hopes to shed new light on Turkey's past
Feb 01, 2009; ... ARLINGTON - Days after her husband, the outspoken TurkishArmenian journalist and activist Hrant Dink, was shot dead outsidehis Istanbul office, Rakel Dink urged forgiveness. The killing of her husband, a beloved human rights leader,sparked outrage and protest, and it pushed his ...
Obama seeks assessment on gays in military No rush to repeal `don't ask, don't tell'
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE FIRST 100 DAYS WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is telling the Pentagon andgay-rights advocates that it will have to study the implications fornational security and enlist more support in Congress before tryingto overturn the so-called "don't ask, don't tell" law and allow ...
Tackling brain injuries
Feb 01, 2009 ... FANS WATCHING the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers inthe Super Bowl tonight should know some of the players might well bein the early stages of brain disease, brought on by the blows theyhave been taking since their days in youth football. The condition,chronic traumatic ...
`I am investigating everything and anything I can' THE IZUCHIS OF ROXBURY [Corrected 02/03/09]
Feb 01, 2009; ... The state's jobless rate has hit a 15-year high, and for thepeople behind the statistics, there is a special urgency.Massachusetts, unlike other states, requires nearly everyone to havehealth insurance - even if they have lost their job and, with it,their health coverage. Going without ...
Uncommon knowledge Surprising insights from the social sciences
Feb 01, 2009; ... He's so ... creative Being a nerd has not traditionally been associated with sexappeal. Nevertheless, a team of psychologists in California decidedto see if intelligence is really sexy. Fifteen college men weregiven verbal intelligence tests and then videotaped reading ...
Extreme makeover: White House edition How should we read the new Obama home page?
Feb 01, 2009; ... At noon on Inauguration Day, the website of the Bushadministration disappeared, and screens refreshed a home page with astriking new look. Dynamic lettering announced that "Change Has Cometo America" over blocks of blue shaded from bold to cool; the newpresident gazed in intimate ...
BRAINIAC
Feb 01, 2009; ... Recent highlights from the Ideas blog at boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac Repositioning Alaska, literally Alaska, from the perspective of politicians with nationalaspirations, has an image problem: John McPhee's "Coming into theCountry" is just one of many journalistic ...
Correctiquette - Ready to improve someone's language? Hold on.
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Word The aphorism "It's better to be kind than right" appearseverywhere from T-shirts to wall hangings, but maybe it should beprinted on the first page of English-usage manuals. Nowhere is theurge to be right more powerful, it seems, than when it involvesother people's ...
Echoes of Shakespeare, circuitously assessed
Feb 01, 2009; ... BOOK REVIEW SHAKESPEARE AND MODERN CULTURE By Marjorie Garber Pantheon, 368 pp., illustrated, $30 "Shakespeare makes modern culture," Marjorie Garber writes, "andmodern culture makes Shakespeare." The idea is familiar, even obvious - Avon's swan ...
HEALING, INTERRUPTED State cuts part patients, counselors
Feb 01, 2009; ... They gathered once again in Room C10, a small windowless officewhere they had shared so much - Chris Jepson, the bearded statesocial worker, and Bruce Thiboult, the burly patient with bipolardisorder who had grown to depend on him. They had more than two years of history between ...
From Rome to Jerusalem On the eve of a possible papal visit, Vatican- Israeli relations are challenged again
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE MIDDLE EAST is never quiet, but conditions were relativelycalm when, late last year, the Vatican acknowledged that PopeBenedict XVI was seriously contemplating his first papal visit toIsrael. The trip would be of huge symbolic value -- papal visits arealways a big deal, but in this ...
O'Malley defends pope's decision Criticizes bishop's Holocaust denial
Feb 01, 2009; ... Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston is the first high-levelchurch official in the United States to defend publicly PopeBenedict XVI's decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop, but he also apologized to the Jewish community forthe bishop's "outrageous" ...
Joseph Hyland, 92; athlete, coach triumphed over polio Joseph Hyland, 92; athlete, coach triumphed over polio
Feb 01, 2009; ... Joseph M. Hyland, affectionately called "Uncle Joe" by hiscolleagues and student-athletes in Manchester-by-the-Sea was a hands-on coach and athletic director who could often be found chalking thefoul lines on the baseball field or sweeping out the gymnasium aftera basketball ...
Money for nothing won't grow the economy
Feb 01, 2009; ... Second of two columns COMMENTING on my recent column about the bloated "stimulus"package making its way through Congress, one reader insisted thatwhat matters most right now is getting money into people's hands. "In the face of rapidly rising unemployment and idle ...
Mired in the downturn - THE COMMONWEALTH STRUGGLES
Feb 01, 2009 ... Hold elected officials' feet to the fire IT REALLY irks me that, whenever times get tough and cuts need tobe made, our elected officials always talk about closing publicschools, curtailing library hours, and laying off teachers, police,and firefighters ("Patrick to cut local ...
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION - OR BIGOTRY?
Feb 01, 2009 ... Views about gays spread hate - gay self-hatred IN LAST Sunday's Globe, Barry Cohen conveyed that he believes"the notion of people of the same gender entering into romantic andsexual relationships is not normal," while inferring that those wholabel this viewpoint "bigoted" are ...
THE FEDERAL STIMULUS PLAN
Feb 01, 2009 ... Government must act JEFF JACOBY ("An overoptimistic stimulus plan," Op-ed, Jan. 28)and other commentators seem appalled by the stimulus plan beingproposed in Washington. I'm sure that not all the provisions will beas productive as all would have hoped, but I don't hear ...
Guantanamo detention center under new management
Feb 01, 2009 ... This change has bipartisan backing I'M THE last person to begrudge Republican consultant EricFehrnstrom's right to weigh in on public policy ("Guantanamo: Asymbol of US resolve," Op-ed, Jan. 27). But facts are stubbornthings. It's not just Democrats such as John F. Kerry, ...
Remembering the victims Churches and survivors of sexual abuse debate the wisdom and meaning of memorials
Feb 01, 2009; ... OAKLAND, Calif. - The new lakeside cathedral here commandsattention with its oval shape and glass and steel sheath, but thesmall garden on its lush lawn catches the eye in a quieter way - twocurving rows of privet hedges and mahogany benches embracing a 1,760-pound basalt boulder that ...
Cash on delivery: The movement to give every American a trust fund at birth
Feb 01, 2009; ... TRUST FUNDS, IN the popular imagination, go along with ParkAvenue addresses, weekend jaunts to Paris, and summer as a verb.Like a private SAT tutor or a boarding-school diploma, a trust fundsymbolizes the enormous edge enjoyed by the rich before adulthoodeven starts. But a ...
NEW ENGLAND IN BRIEF
Feb 01, 2009 ... BILLERICA Police investigate risque cellphone photo Authorities have begun an investigation into a nude or seminudephoto of a 14-year-old middle school girl that has been circulatingby cellphone text messages. Billerica police and the Middlesexdistrict attorney's office said ...
TAKING THE PLUNGE
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Sensibility under construction Notes, journals reveal the young Sontag's growth
Feb 01, 2009; ... BOOK REVIEW REBORN: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 By Susan Sontag Edited by David Rieff Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 318 pp., $25 In 1948, at the age of 15, Susan Sontag writes in her journal,"Can I never escape this interminable mourning for ...
First-timers, old friends visit Rose As news of closure spreads, many are drawn to modern art collection
Feb 01, 2009; ... WALTHAM - With "Long Live the Rose!" and "Integrity for Sale"posters plastering the glass wall behind her, artist and educatorRobin Dash marveled at the crowds filtering through the main galleryyesterday at the Rose Art Museum. Where normally a scattered fewmight be admiring the works in ...
It was ugly for a while
Feb 01, 2009; ... TAMPA - Think Clippers in the NBA Finals. That's the Arizona Cardinals, here in Super Bowl XLIII. And, of course, you might know that when the Chicago/St. Louis/Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals finally found their way into the big game,it would be amid competitive controversy. Do it ...
Be my Valentine (with some practice)
Feb 01, 2009; ... BOOK REVIEW / Self-Help WHY HIM? WHY HER?: Finding Real Love by Understanding Your Personality Type By Helen Fisher Holt, 289 pp., $25 GET OVER YOURSELF!: How to Get Real, Get Serious, and Get Ready to Find True Love By Patti Novak and Laura ...
Shelf Life
Feb 01, 2009; ... BOOK REVIEW Stealing home Twelve years ago Susette Kelo, an EMT who raised five sons,bought her first house. She loved her little pink cottage and itsview of the Thames River in New London, Conn. That love was tested the following year when the city offered topay a ...
Short Takes
Feb 01, 2009; ... BOOK REVIEW REPORT ON MYSELF By Gregoire Bouillier Translated, from the French, by Bruce Benderson Mariner, 160 pp., paperback, $13.95 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION By Sara Houghteling Knopf, 256 pp., $24.95 THE PIANO TEACHER By ...
Spills, and chills Real and potential sledding accidents spur safety debate In a car-seat world, sledding's free-for-all spirit stands out-and leads some to seek new safety rules
Feb 01, 2009; ... MELROSE - Half way down the hill, picking up speed, Denis Taylorhit the ramps that other children had sculpted into the snow, lostcontrol of his plastic toboggan, spun around, and went overboard. The 9-year-old boy was fine, all smiles in his winter coat andhat. But another boy was ...
Shopping auto insurers can really pay off
Feb 01, 2009; ... SPENDING SMART / FIRST IN A MONTH LONG SERIES OF ARTICLES TO HELPYOU STRETCH YOUR DOLLAR When Massachusetts last year embraced the idea of allowingcompetition among auto insurers, the assumption was that driverslike Barbara Rippberger, a social worker from Sharon whose familyhas ...
Stop lawsuits, not music
Feb 01, 2009 ... THE RECORDING INDUSTRY helped its image when it ended itsmisguided policy of suing individuals for illegally sharing musicover the Internet. Legal fees cost more than the money gained fromthe suits, the number of people sued (35,000) was too low to inhibita widespread practice, and the ...
Hub man charged following standoff 1 stabbed, 4 held captive, police say
Feb 01, 2009; ... Police arrested a 22-year-old Boston man early yesterday morningafter a standoff of several hours in which he allegedly stabbed oneman before holding a woman and her three children captive insidetheir Dorchester Avenue house, authorities said. Lazelle L. Williams allegedly stabbed ...
New political players shift transit debate
Feb 01, 2009; ... Starts & Stops Anyone who has been trying to follow the debate on the state'sailing system of roads, subways, buses, and trains knows it'sfeatured a hodgepodge of opinions. Tolls, taxes, and bureaucraticchanges each factor into various plans to rescue the system, whichhas come ...
Face lifts - Steelers accept fresh approach of Tomlin
Feb 01, 2009; ... TAMPA - When he was an assistant coach with the Buccaneers in2002 and looking for an escape, Mike Tomlin often headed to the sameplace. There was something about being on the water that soothed him. Maybe it was that no one could find him there, the feeling ofempowerment of ...
Rough magic Among John Updike's many gifts was the ability to transmute the mundane into art
Feb 01, 2009; ... BOOK REVIEW Reviewing a collection of essays by Vladimir Nabokov, John Updikecalled him "the only writer ... whose books, considered as a whole,give the happy impression of an oeuvre, of a continuous task carriedforward variously, of a solid personality, of a plenitude of ...
Whisenhunt now has Cardinals looking good
Feb 01, 2009; ... TAMPA - It shouldn't be surprising that Ken Whisenhunt hasengineered one of the NFL's more remarkable turnarounds by takingthe Arizona Cardinals, a franchise whose identity was tied to itsremarkable lack of success, to Super Bowl XLIII. When the 46-year-old Whisenhunt leads his ...
YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW - Words to live and die by, in advice from the elderly and a primer on the final journey
Feb 01, 2009; ... BOOK REVIEW HOW TO LIVE: A Search for Wisdom From Old People (While They Are Still on ThisEarth) By Henry Alford Twelve, 262 pp., $23.99 JANE BRODY'S GUIDE TO THE GREAT BEYOND: A Practical Primer to Help You and Your Loved Ones PrepareMedically, ...
A betrayal of trust at Brandeis
Feb 01, 2009; ... UNIVERSITIES are impractical places. The common measures ofprofit and loss don't apply, or at least shouldn't define. These aresites where arcane knowledge is preserved, unpopular ideas protectedand even nurtured until someday, perhaps, they enter the mainstreamto bear strange and ...
Casino crowd is betting on the House
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE CASINO crowd didn't even wait for their biggest foe to leavethe stage. At 4:49 p.m. - 11 minutes before House Speaker SalvatoreF. DiMasi's resignation became official - state Representative BrianP. Wallace of South Boston sent an e-mail to House and Senatecolleagues, inviting them to ...
STEEL ENGRAVING?
Feb 01, 2009; ... SCOUTING REPORT When the Cardinals run Arizona's running game averaged an abysmal 73.6 yards during theregular season - last in the NFL. However, wily veteran EdgerrinJames has enjoyed a resurgence in the postseason, rushing with newlife in his old legs. The 6-foot, 220-pound ...
Yale bulldogs way to top Fourth win in row earns tie in ECAC
Feb 01, 2009 ... COLLEGE HOCKEY ROUNDUP Alec Richards made 31 saves in earning his second shutout of the season and surging Yale blanked Quinnipiac, 3-0, last night in New Haven and moved into a tie atop ECAC Hockey. Patrick Brosnihan broke ...
Heft meeting thrift at the auctions
Feb 01, 2009; ... Antiques & Collectibles Sotheby's racked up more than $7.7 million and Christie's morethan $6.3 million, together accounting for more than $14 million insales during Americana Week in New York last month. A hefty sum, especially in this economic climate, and yet it ...
A rough finish to a difficult month
Feb 01, 2009 ... MARKET WEEK Wall Street ended its worst January ever by stumbling over thebanking system and the economy. Investors were rattled by reportsthat plans to help US banks may have hit ...
Public audit of Columbus Center needed
Feb 01, 2009 ... Letters Here are four excellent reasons for elected officials to finallysay "no" to Columbus Center, now in its 14th year of being re-proposed, with its owners begging for yet another $50 million instate and federal funds ("Columbus Center still uncertain," Jan. 9). This ...
Blazers chopped down by LumberJax in OT
Feb 01, 2009; ... LumberJax 9 Blazers 8 Trying to push their winning streak to three games, Boston'snewest professional sports team, the Boston Blazers, stretched andstrained against the Portland LumberJax, but lost, 9-8, in sudden-death overtime before 5,079 at TD Banknorth ...
Yelle draws out kudos from coach
Feb 01, 2009; ... BRUINS NOTEBOOK Claude Julien counts Marc Savard, David Krejci, and PatriceBergeron as his top three centers. But it was telling that the Boston coach tabbed Stephane Yelle,his fourth-line center, to take a critical defensive-zone draw with48.4 seconds remaining in regulation ...
Tiny charges on bank cards could presage bigger problems
Feb 01, 2009; ... Consumer Alert The mystery of a tiny charge on credit and debit cards isheightening to one of anticipation - of when the other shoe is goingto drop. Fraud experts are concerned about these charges - from 21 centsto 48 cents - that have appeared on cardholders' accounts in ...
Eagles tough it out Tip-in keeps BC's win streak alive
Feb 01, 2009; ... BC 67 Va. Tech 66 With Boston College leading Virginia Tech by just 3 points witheight minutes left in a game that was getting closer by the second,Rakim Sanders got the signal that coach Al Skinner wanted him tocome sit down. In the 23 minutes he had played, Sanders ...
Bridging the abyss - if only for a moment
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE HALL was crowded. Everyone had come for the sermon, and mostof us had dressed up to hear it, as if a stylish wardrobe improvedcomprehension. There were different kinds of listeners, of course:fastidious listeners (solid colors), listeners checking theirwatches (stripes); listeners ...
Celtics are set for a dance with 'Wolves
Feb 01, 2009; ... Few were surprised when the Minnesota Timberwolves fired RandyWittman as head coach following a 4-15 start to the season. ButKevin Garnett would not have predicted Kevin McHale taking over forWittman. "It's funny to see Kevin McHale as coach," Garnett said. "Healways said he ...
Crimson are red-hot Harvard women win 4th straight
Feb 01, 2009 ... College hockey roundup Harvard will go into this week's women's Beanpot riding a four-game winning streak following yesterday's 5-4 victory overRensselaer in Troy, N.Y., that pushed the surging Crimson into solepossession of third place in the ECAC. Sarah Vaillancourt ...
COMMUNITY SNAPSHOT
Feb 01, 2009; ... Back Bay Median home price: Condominiums, $745,500 Residential tax rate: $10.97 (citywide) Average tax bill: $3,801 (citywide) Choice location: Trinity Church is a masterpiece of Americanarchitecture designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. Cocktail party ...
Critic's Corner
Feb 01, 2009; ... Super Bowl XLIII 6 p.m., Channel 7 The big game is at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Somewhere inthe middle, Bruce Springsteen will perform. The Office 10:30 p.m., Channel 7 An hourlong episode, after the Super Bowl. It will include guestcameos, including Cloris ...
Bringing `Dirty Dancing' to life Eleanor Bergstein infuses stage version with political punch her film held back
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE WINTER ARTS GUIDE / Theater DIRTY DANCING - THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE At: the Opera House, Saturday through April 12. 617-931-2787,www.broadwayacrossamerica.com/boston NEW YORK - It's hard to imagine that anyone would have ever beenable to put Eleanor Bergstein - ...
Being mavericky, back in the day
Feb 01, 2009; ... DVD RELEASES Did "Being There" (1979) anticipate Sarah Palin? Not quite. Butif the credentials for commanding the public's rapt attention aren'texactly what they used to be, give credit to Peter Sellers, writerJerzy Kosinski, and director Hal Ashby for satirizing dubiouscelebrity ...
It's a good idea to avoid casual chatter in work-related e-mail
Feb 01, 2009; ... Etiquette at Work Q. How does mail forwarding factor into etiquette if I sendsomething to person A, who forwards it to person B, who replies backto me. What I said to person A wasn't necessarily meant for personB. Sometimes I'm e-mailing peers with a more casual writing style,and ...