The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from September 2009:
The art of agitprop ; ALEX BEAM
Sep 01, 2009 ... Last month, Patrick Courrielche, a Los Angeles-based artsconsultant, was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts tojoin a 75-person conference call "to help lay a new foundation forgrowth, focusing on core areas of the recovery agenda - healthcare, energy and environment, safety ...
This day in history
Sep 01, 2009 ... Today is Tuesday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2009. There are 121days left in the year. Today's birthdays: Journalist and author Liz Carpenter is 89.Former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird is 87. Actor George Maharisis 81. Conductor Seiji Ozawa is 74. Attorney and law professor ...
Bonding with stepchild takes time
Sep 01, 2009; ... Q. I am the wicked stepmother. I am a lying, thieving, money-hungry tramp who finds no greater joy than that which comes fromdestroying another couple's loving, stable marriage. Or so the childhas been convinced by her mother. She is 8 years old and loathes me.Her weekends with us are ...
Reflection for the day [194 153 ]
Sep 01, 2009 ... The seasons form a great circle in their changing, ...
Film captures dying auto industry
Sep 01, 2009; ... DAYTON, Ohio - Hundreds of autoworkers who lost their jobs whenGeneral Motors closed an Ohio sport utility vehicle plant cheeredand cried at a screening of a documentary film that profiled theirlives during the plant's final days. Some of the workers lingered outside the Schuster ...
Cr i ti c' s c o rn er ; BY MATTHEW GILBERT
Sep 01, 2009 ... Surviving Disaster 10 p.m., Spike No, this is not a hair-care show. Made especially for theparanoia-inclined, the new series is a guide on how to make itthrough really, really bad 9/11-like situations. Tonight's episodedetails what to do, and what not to do, when your plane is ...
Back with `Black' ; G FORCE | JERRY CANTRELL
Sep 01, 2009; ... When Layne Staley, lead singer of the acclaimed Seattle rock bandAlice in Chains, passed away in 2002, his singing and songwritingpartner, guitarist, and friend Jerry Cantrell wasn't sure the bandwould continue. In 2005, Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez, and drummerSean Kinney regrouped for a ...
Daily guide
Sep 01, 2009 ... ON CHRONICLE Chronicle Goes Retro: British Virgin Islands 7:30 p.m. WCVB-TV(Channel 5) Mary Richardson travels to the British Virgin Islandsand, aboard a 72-foot yacht, she visits Tortola and learns about thesailing life of the Caribbean. RADIO HIGHLIGHTS FolkScene 5 ...
Larsson's `Girl' is back but not prominently enough
Sep 01, 2009; ... Lisbeth Salander on a good day is madder than hell. Get thissocial misfit upset and the best you can hope for is she'll nevertalk to you again or hack into your computer. More likely, she'llkick you in the head, shoot you in the foot, or tazer you in thegroin. But we love ...
What's not inside Warhol `time capsules'?
Sep 01, 2009; ... PITTSBURGH - A cardboard lid is lifted and four archivists peerinside. A postal box from Paris. Who sent it? Another box: $17,000in cash. Yet another: An autographed picture of a naked JacquelineKennedy Onassis. These are some of the many items workers have uncovered as theysift ...
Rewriting history
Sep 01, 2009; ... Amir Aczel is a mathematician, scientist, historian, and authorwhose interests are rather . . . broad, shall we say. Aczel (above) is a research fellow at Boston University who haswritten 16 books melding those fields, and their diversity isstunning. There's the best-selling ...
The offer's on ice ; TODAY
Sep 01, 2009; ... While its name may suggest otherwise, Simmer restaurant is thenewest member of the raw diet craze. Every Monday and Tuesday,Simmer offers $1 Raw Bar Relief, where uncooked delicacies likeoysters and littlenecks are served for just four quarters (10 dimes,20 nickels) apiece ....
He's got game ; TONIGHT
Sep 01, 2009; ... Gandalf's got nothing on Ethan Gilsdorf, except for maybe themonster white beard. In his new book, "Fantasy Freaks and GamingGeeks," Gilsdorf, a teacher at Emerson College and writer whose workalso appears occasionally in the Globe, offers an epic quest forreality within a realm of ...
Grounded in music ; TONIGHT
Sep 01, 2009; ... Honor the earth and the arts tonight at Boston LandmarkOrchestra's "Green Masterpiece," an eco-friendly, carbon-neutralconcert featuring nature-inspired music by composers includingMendelssohn, Handel, and Mozart. There will also be a performance ofThomas Oboe Lee's composition "The ...
The good wood ; TOMORROW
Sep 01, 2009; ... Worcester artist James Tellin takes inspiration from such sourcesas rock outcroppings along the highways and formal woodblock printsin his in-depth exhibit "James Tellin: Drawn from Nature / Work Fromthe 1990s to the Present." Tellin attended the Art Institute ofChicago before joining ...
Feast times five ; TONIGHT
Sep 01, 2009; ... Indulge your indecisiveness tonight with five courses from fiverestaurants at the Park Square Dine Around progressive dinner.Participants include Legal Sea Foods, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse, DaVinci Ristorante, Via Matta, and Davio's. Guests are given a map ...
Opening credits ; The best pilots held promise, even if a series didn't fly
Sep 01, 2009; ... With the fall TV season beginning next week, prepare to bedeluged with pilot episodes. Those are the new-series premieresdesigned to entice us, to give us a sense of potential, to bring usback for more. The creation of a strong pilot is an art form initself - it's the art of opening a ...
Requiem for a thug
Sep 01, 2009 ... Some have chosen to remember Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo as a"Sopranos" character come to life, an Uncle Junior type who sangduring breaks in his trial and loved to poke fun at the FBI. Moreseriously, some have cast Angiulo's death, at 90, as the passing ofan era when colorful ethnic ...
Pour cold water on Framingham plan
Sep 01, 2009 ... On the face of it, Framingham's proposal to use federal stimulusmoney to develop new wells and a treatment facility for drinkingwater looks sensible enough. After all, there is a crying need fornew infrastructure in this country, and much of Uncle Sam's $780billion in stimulus money is ...
GPS alone won't protect us
Sep 01, 2009; ... The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled recently that sexoffenders convicted prior to 2006 cannot automatically be requiredto wear GPS devices to monitor their location. The decision set offa hue and cry regarding questions of public safety, with somecritics even suggesting that ...
Cheney's dark side - and ours ; Derrick Z. Jackson
Sep 01, 2009 ... The more Dick Cheney defends torture, the more we Americans mustend our tortured ambivalence. Either we are above using the sameinterrogation practices that police states use, or we are are not. This past weekend, the former vice president said he knew aboutwaterboarding and other ...
Protestant churches shift slowly toward gay equality
Sep 01, 2009; ... American religious organizations have rarely been leaders innational movements for gay rights. With few exceptions, they havebeen opposed or uninvolved. Yet some are slowly changing their viewsas they grapple with questions about homosexuality in light ofpublic debates about same-sex ...
Inspectors find major flaw at Genzyme plant
Sep 01, 2009; ... Genzyme Corp. said inspectors working on behalf of Europeanregulators have identified one major deficiency and several lesserones at the company's Allston Landing manufacturing plant. The Cambridge-based biotech company said it would respond to theinspectors within 15 days with a ...
Marvel to join Disney family
Sep 01, 2009; ... LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney Co. is buying Marvel EntertainmentInc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing such characters asIron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E. Under the deal, expected to close by year's end, Disney willacquire rights to 5,000 ...
$295m in sanctions levied on US
Sep 01, 2009; ... GENEVA - American goods will face about $295 million in annualsanctions as a result of the United States' failure to eliminateillegal subsidies to US cotton growers, the World Trade Organizationruled yesterday. The result disappointed Brazil, which has won rulings against ...
Six-month T-bill rates at a record low
Sep 01, 2009; ... WASHINGTON - Interest rates on six-month Treasury bills fellyesterday to the lowest point on records that go back more than 50years. The Treasury Department auctioned $29 billion in six-month billsat a discount rate of 0.240 percent. That's down from 0.255 percentlast week, and ...
Flu shots start early at drugstores
Sep 01, 2009; ... NEW YORK - Drugstore operators are beginning their seasonal flushot campaigns three or four weeks early this year, saying theyexpect greater demand in a year when the swine flu strain hasdominated the news. Some shots will be offered free to the unemployed and uninsured. CVS ...
Charities may face Madoff liabilities
Sep 01, 2009; ... NEW YORK - Irving Picard, the liquidator for Bernard Madoff'sinvestment business, said charities that lost money in the fraudaren't automatically off the hook when it comes to recovering theirfake profit. Picard by law must file so-called clawback suits againstinvestors who ...
Oil prices fall as Chinese stocks slip
Sep 01, 2009; ... NEW YORK - Oil prices fell nearly 4 percent to below $70 abarrel yesterday as a steep drop in China's stock market raiseddoubts about the strength of the global economic recovery. Benchmarkcrude for October delivery lost $2.78 to settle at $69.96 in NewYork, the first time oil has ended ...
Pair allegedly ran $4m card theft ring
Sep 01, 2009; ... NEW YORK - Two men from the Czech Republic have been extraditedto New York City on charges of running an international,multimillion dollar, Internet-based credit card theft ring. Manhattan prosecutors said the men were to be arraignedyesterday. They said the ring is ...
Executive leaving N.E. Media Group
Sep 01, 2009 ... Susan Hunt Stevens is leaving New England Media Group, where sheoversees digital business operations, including those forBoston.com, Boston Globe publisher P. Steven Ainsley said yesterdayin a memo to staff. A unit of The New York Times Co., New England Media Groupincludes the ...
State plans wind turbines in Gardner
Sep 01, 2009; ... The state wants to build as many as four 1.65 megawatt windturbines at North Central Correctional Institution and at MountWachusett Community College, both in Gardner. Two turbines - each capable of powering about 430 homes - wouldbe built at the jail, and one or two at the ...
Lips show is a feast for the senses
Sep 01, 2009; ... If he's not careful, a reviewer tasked with discussing a FlamingLips concert could exhaust his allotted word count simply mentioningthings like the giant bubble encapsulating frontman Wayne Coyne atthe start of the concert; the inflatable butterfly-with-a-crown ...
Walmart.com to expand, offer products from other retailers
Sep 01, 2009; ... LITTLE ROCK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has expanded its onlinesite to include outside retailers selling nearly 1 million newitems, a move that could help the world's largest retailer catch upin the online world. The Walmart Marketplace at Walmart.com offers such categories ashome, ...
JetBlue, Lufthansa in ticket deal
Sep 01, 2009 ... PARIS - Lufthansa was expected to receive approval yesterdayfrom American regulators to form a ticketing partnership withJetBlue Airways, the US low-fare airline in which the German carrierholds a minority stake, people with knowledge of the agreement said. While deepening ...
New direction for Cardinal Health
Sep 01, 2009; ... WASHINGTON - Drug and medical supplies distributor CardinalHealth will spin off its medical device division this week,streamlining operations after more than a decade of diversifiedgrowth, a strategy that analysts say never quite panned out. Beginning today, Cardinal's medical ...
Insurer settles for $17m ; State says firm denied claims, misled customers
Sep 01, 2009; ... An insurer that allegedly misled people into buying low-costhealth insurance policies and then denied coverage after they becameill will pay $17 million in what the state says may be the largestconsumer protection settlement against a health plan inMassachusetts ...
Stocks slip; some fear they're riding too high
Sep 01, 2009 ... After the big gains of August, investors worried about theeconomy and backtracked the final day of the month. A 6.7% plunge inChina's main stock market triggered a wave of ...
Disney-Marvel news boosts DreamWorks ; MARKET MOVERS CHARTS ARE SCALED SO PERCENTAGE CHANGE IS COMPARABLE
Sep 01, 2009 ... Investors may be dreaming more about DreamWorks Animation SKG'spotential, now that Walt Disney is acquiring Marvel Entertainment.DreamWorks rose 6.5 percent following the news. What's more, ...
Favorable study lifts Boston Scientific ; MASS. MOVERS
Sep 01, 2009 ... A two-in-one heart device to fix irregular beats and contractionpatterns cut patients' chances of developing heart failure by 41percent, new research funded by Boston Scientific Corp. says. Thestudy compared patients who got a defibrillator to correct abnormalheart rhythms with patients ...
Kforce Inc.
Sep 01, 2009 ... The staffing company will take a $3.6 million charge foraccelerated vesting of 591,340 performance-related shares for someexecutives ...
Discover Financial
Sep 01, 2009 ... Discover Financial Services fell the most since July 7. Thecredit card company, which took $1.2 billion from the Treasury'sbank-rescue fund, was downgraded to ...
What an IRA conversion will mean to the account holder - now and later ; The Savings Game | Humberto Cruz
Sep 01, 2009 ... My recent column about Roth IRA conversions unleashed a flood of reader e-mails illustrating widespread confusion. I'll try clearing them up. Traditional and Roth IRAs are types of individual retirementaccounts. Contributions to traditional IRAs may be tax deductible,but ...
Study could boost heart devices ; Combining two methods may aid Boston Scientific
Sep 01, 2009; ... Researchers today are set to release the results of a clinicalstudy, funded by Boston Scientific Corp., that could lead to asignificant expansion of the market for implantable heart devices. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine andpresented to the European ...
Egan's vision
Sep 01, 2009; ... Thirty years ago, any debate about the hottest technologybusinesses in Massachusetts was really a conversation aboutcompanies that made minicomputers. Of course, the minicomputer is long gone. And there isn't anyreal debate about which company is the state's leading ...
Body + soul is leaving Watertown for New York
Sep 01, 2009; ... Body + soul, the health publication owned by Martha StewartLiving Omnimedia, will close its Watertown offices to move to NewYork City, and in the process, lose one of its top editors. Officials told the magazine's 15 editorial employees yesterdaythat by November, the publication ...
Comcast, Verizon duke it out ; Ad blitz gets personal as firms spar for cable customers
Sep 01, 2009; ... It's hard to escape the cable wars in Boston. In an effort to gain market share, Verizon, which delivers cableTV through its fiber-optic network, and Comcast have been runningdueling ads in the Boston region. The spots sometimes air back-to-back in a televised tit for tat: Some ...
Hammer markets his brand ; Former rapper hails use of social media platforms
Sep 01, 2009; ... There was nothing nostalgic about MC Hammer's appearanceyesterday before 100 entrepreneurs and marketing professionals whogathered at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge for the GravitySummit conference on social media marketing. For many in the audience, Hammer, the energetic ...
Apple to host `rock and roll' event Sept. 9
Sep 01, 2009; ... Apple Inc., maker of the iPod media player, will host a "rock androll" event on Sept. 9, possibly the first opportunity for chiefexecutive Steve Jobs to make a public appearance after his livertransplant. The company sent out invitations yesterday to an event in SanFrancisco ...
Cigarette makers sue over law ; They say it violates freedom of speech
Sep 01, 2009; ... RICHMOND, Va. - Two of the three largest US tobacco companiesfiled suit yesterday to block marketing restrictions in a law thatgives the Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco,claiming the provisions violate their right to free speech. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., ...
Union warns lawmakers on health care overhaul
Sep 01, 2009; ... The man expected to become the AFL-CIO's next president saidyesterday that lawmakers would pay a political price if they abandona government-run option in any health care overhaul. "We need to be a labor movement that stands by our friends,punishes its enemies and challenges those ...
Ousted Ill. governor paints benign picture of events in his new book ; Blagojevich says arrest disrupted Senate seat plan
Sep 01, 2009; ... CHICAGO - Rod Blagojevich, the ousted governor of Illinois,asserts in a new book that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuelwanted his help in arranging to leave the Obama administration aftertwo years to reclaim his seat in Congress. Blagojevich writes in "The Governor" that ...
Fiscal challenges loom for Japan's new prime minister ; Hatoyama win for new party raises concerns
Sep 01, 2009; ... TOKYO - Japan's next prime minister began forming a governmentyesterday as investors worried that the untested Democratic Partywould overspend in a bid to revive the economy or would ruffle tieswith Tokyo's closest ally, Washington. Sunday's historic election win by Yukio ...
Blue blood Hatoyama truly opposite of typical politician
Sep 01, 2009; ... TOKYO - Stiff, shy, and very rich, Yukio Hatoyama cuts a curiousfigure for an opposition leader whose party laid waste Sunday to themost formidable political machine in the history of modern Japan. Hatoyama, 62, who soon will become prime minister, has perhapsthe bluest political ...
Turkey, Armenia set reconciliation talks ; Diplomatic ties, not massacre, on the agenda
Sep 01, 2009; ... YEREVAN, Armenia - Armenia and Turkey, bitter foes for acentury, took a step toward reconciliation yesterday by revealingthat they would launch final talks aimed at establishing diplomaticties. They won't, however, discuss the deepest source of theirenmity: the World War I-era massacres ...
Security fears kept Afghan women from polls ; Observers also blame apathy for poor turnout
Sep 01, 2009; ... KABUL, Afghanistan - Five years ago, with the country at peace,traditional taboos easing, and Western donors pushing for women toparticipate in democracy, millions of Afghan women eagerlyregistered and then voted for a presidential candidate. In a fewdistricts, female turnout was even ...
Developing nations need better climate data, Annan says ; Group discusses ways to improve communication
Sep 01, 2009; ... GENEVA - The world needs more innovative projects - such asputting weather stations on cellular phone towers across Africa -to help it better predict the increased hurricanes, tsunamis,droughts, and floods that climate change will bring, Kofi Annan saidyesterday. The former UN ...
Oil lobby shows that it hasn't given up on the climate-change fight ; Green activists' progress is slow
Sep 01, 2009; ... ATHENS, Ohio - The oil lobby was sponsoring rallies with freelunches, free concerts, and speeches warning that a climate-changebill could ravage the US economy. Professional "campaigners" hired by the coal industry were givingaway T-shirts praising coal-fired power. But when ...
Virginia seeks to privatize rest areas
Sep 01, 2009; ... WASHINGTON - Which will it be: fewer places to stop on thehighway to catch 40 winks, or fast-food galore at rest areas? That'sthe choice facing Congress as it considers whether to relax adecades-old ban on businesses along the nation's interstatehighways. The restriction was ...
Senator left war chest of $4.55 million
Sep 01, 2009; ... WASHINGTON - When he died of brain cancer last week, SenatorEdward M. Kennedy left behind a war chest many politicians wouldenvy: $4.55 million in cash and practically no campaign debt, thebenefits of a 47-year incumbency and no serious political threats athome. Now, the late ...
New Englandin brief
Sep 01, 2009 ... LEXINGTON 2 children riding in wagon struck by car A 3-year-old boy and his 14-month-old sister were struck andinjured by a car in Lexington yesterday after the wagon they wereriding in rolled downhill into traffic, Lexington police said. Thepolice and fire departments ...
Attleboro city worker dies after being hit by minivan
Sep 01, 2009; ... An Attleboro city worker repairing a water main died after hewas hit by a minivan early yesterday, authorities said. Captain Keith Jackson of the Attleboro Fire Department said thatJeffrey Burgess, 35, of Attleboro and another worker from the waterdepartment were repairing a water ...
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Gloucester cleanup measures underway ; Water tanks to get chlorine scrubbing
Sep 01, 2009; ... GLOUCESTER - Trying to pinpoint the source of coliform bacteriathat has forced city residents to boil their tap water for about twoweeks, officials announced yesterday that new measures are underwayto decontaminate the three massive tanks that feed the city'scontaminated ...
Proposal to let law-firm hires help state courts is dropped ; Cost-saving plan had conflict issues
Sep 01, 2009; ... The state judiciary has abandoned a controversial proposal tofill coveted law clerk jobs at no cost to the government with newlyhired private lawyers whose firms have pushed back their start datesbecause of the recession. Robert A. Mulligan, chief justice for administration ...