The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from August 2006:
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NEW CELLPHONE GIVES TEXT-MESSAGERS A BREAK
Aug 01, 2006; KIM-MAI CUTLER ... Avid text-messagers can say "Never again!" to the annoying numberof keystrokes needed to type the letter "S" on a cellphone. DigitWireless Inc. of Lexington has squished the entire alphabet onto aregular cellphone's traditional 12-button keypad in a technologydubbed Fastap. Digit fit the ...
AMR FALLS ON TIGHTER PENSION FUND RULES
Aug 01, 2006 ... AMR Corp. fell 5.4 percent after the House approved a plan toforce American Airlines' parent to assume a 6 percent investmentreturn when ...
HEAT COOKS VERIZON VOICE MAIL FOR 220,000
Aug 01, 2006; Bruce Mohl, Globe Staff ... More than 220,000 Verizon business and residential customers northand west of Boston lost their voice-mail service over the weekend,and perhaps longer, when equipment at two phone company facilitiesoverheated. A Verizon spokesman, Philip G. Santoro, said chilling units thatkeep ...
ARREST MADE IN S. BOSTON SLAYING
Aug 01, 2006; David Abel and Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff ... A 21-year-old Allston man was arrested yesterday on charges thathe shot to death Alberto Duarte on July 27 in South Boston, thecommunity's first homicide this year, police said. Chanly Kan was arrested yesterday afternoon in the area of 300Western Ave. in Allston on unrelated ...
VIDEO `MASH-UPS' OPEN NEW FRONT IN THE WAR OVER DIGITAL COPYRIGHT
Aug 01, 2006; Kim-Mai Cutler, Globe Correspondent ... Take a Hollywood classic, add a video editor, and stir. It's arecipe for controversy in a room full of computer graphicsspecialists and movie executives. Fake trailers appear every day on YouTube and other video sites,turning the car-racing film "The Fast and the Furious" into a ...
A DEFEAT FOR BOLTON COULD UNDERCUT US POLICY
Aug 01, 2006; Thomas M. Boyd ... HE'S BACK! A year ago John R. Bolton sat before the Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee as it considered his nomination to be ambassador to theUnited Nations. At the time, he was undersecretary of state for armscontrol and international security. During the administration ofGeorge ...
THE FRESH AIR OF AN URBAN CHILD
Aug 01, 2006; SCOT LEHIGH ... CYNTHIA COMES from New York City, and like many New Yorkers Iknow, she has some particular views about things. A Bronx girl, she sees a downside to city parks. That's wherepeople go to drink and party and make noise all night, she says. She's wary of drinking, period. Start ...
STANDING UP TO PREJUDICE
Aug 01, 2006; H.D.S. Greenway ... LEWISTON, Maine - AFTER HIS ARREST, Brent Matthews, a 33-year-oldtroublemaker, said that rolling a pig's head into a mosque full ofworshipers here last month was meant as a joke. However, this oldmill town's 2,000 Somali Muslims out of a total population of 36,000did not see the humor in ...
SING PRAISES OF SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALTHOUGH JOHN Kerry correctly acknowledges that the tinkering onhealthcare must end ("Getting moving on healthcare," op-ed, July 31),he appears unwilling to mention the boldest solution on the table:universal single-payer healthcare. In one breath he claims that the ...
DON'T BREAK THE GREENWAY PROMISE
Aug 01, 2006 ... GOVERNOR ROMNEY'S veto of $31 million for the Rose KennedyGreenway (Page A1, July 30), which the Legislature overrodeyesterday, showed good intentions. But in an effort to redirect fundstoward tunnel repair, Romney missed the original point of the BigDig. The safety of our citizens is ...
'CHICKEN HAWK' PERSPECTIVES
Aug 01, 2006 ... I AM a veteran, but I served in the US Army before the VietnamWar, which I opposed from the beginning. I also opposed Bush'sdisastrous war in Iraq, although I reluctantly supported the invasionof Afghanistan, fearing it would lead to very little good (it hasn't,in my opinion). I ...
OUTER BREWSTER PRECIOUS FROM AFAR
Aug 01, 2006 ... IN THE July 29 editorial "Closer to Outer Brewster," you appear tosuggest that to know Outer Brewster Island is to love it. True, ifmore people could experience firsthand the wonder and beauty of oneof our most spectacular ocean wilderness areas, then more may beinclined to protect it ....
FRIEND'S DRINKING IS OUT OF BOUNDS
Aug 01, 2006 ... Dear Beth: My "friend" is constantly inviting herself over "to visit." Whatshe does though, is eat all the food in the house, drink some beer,and then pass out on the floor. If anyone bothers her, she goes intoa blind rage and beats us. Since my parents both work and she's goneby ...
VIRTUOSO VIOLINISTS AIM HIGH BUT FALL SHORT
Aug 01, 2006; Richard Dyer, Globe Staff ... LENOX Two star violinists, Gil Shaham and Midori, joined theBoston Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Hans Graf over theweekend at Tanglewood. Born eight months apart in 1971, obviously a good year forviolinists, Shaham and Midori could not be more different inpersonality and ...
EXECUTION CASE PUTS SLAVE TRADE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Aug 01, 2006; Chuck Leddy, Globe Correspondent ... In "Hanging Captain Gordon," a history of the 1862 execution of aship captain engaged in the slave trade, Ron Soodalter estimates thata full cargo of 800 slaves could be purchased in Africa for $32,000in 1850 and then later sold for 30 times that amount. Despite an 1820US law that made ...
TEN DOLLAR TUESDAY
Aug 01, 2006; JOAN ANDERMAN ... Between the hours of 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. today tickets to someconcerts at the Tweeter Center and Bank of America Pavilion will beavailable for $10 at venue box offices as well as Ticketmasterlocations and the Ticketmaster website. The bargain ticket price isbeing offered for 16 summer ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
Aug 01, 2006; MATTHEW GILBERT ... Rescue Me 10 p.m., FX At some point during the hour, Tommy has sex, I'm sure. Work Out 9 p.m., Bravo Jackie's Mormon mom comes to town. It's called a lesbian migraine. Private Screenings 8 p.m., TCM A brilliant career, I write. Angela Lansbury answers ...
POLLOCK, HUMPHRIES EXHIBITS MAKE SPLASH BY STRESSING PAINT
Aug 01, 2006; Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent ... WILLIAMSTOWN In 1952, Williams College and Bennington Collegestaged "A Retrospective Show of the Paintings of Jackson Pollock." Itwas early for a retrospective; Pollock turned 40 that year. But hisbreakout style of dripping and flinging paint onto unstretchedcanvases laid on the floor ...
KEEPING SCORE IN THE WORLD CUP OF WAR RECALLS NUMBING PAST LOSSES
Aug 01, 2006; Donald M. Murray, Globe Correspondent ... What's the score this morning? Who has killed the most? The Marines, Special Forces, NationalGuard, the Seals, the Army Reserve, the faceless CorporateMercenaries? Who is playing in the big game today? The Shites, the Sunis, theIsraelies, the Lebanese, Hezbollah? Are ...
CALL AND RESPONSE
Aug 01, 2006; MARK FEENEY ... Last week, Blue Note Records announced it would begin sellingringtones. This makes perfect sense. Blue Note long ago establisheditself as the jazz label by which all others are measured. Moreimportant, its catalog is the holy of holies for hard bop. No otherjazz idiom so abounds in ...
OZZFEST OR WARPED TOUR? EITHER WAY, BRING YOUR EARPLUGS
Aug 01, 2006; Sarah Rodman, Globe Staff ... Two of the longest running summer music festivals come to theBoston area this week. The carnival of carnage known as Ozzfest hitsthe Tweeter Center today at the unholy hour of 9 a.m., and the DIYpunks of the Warped Tour hit the Fitchburg Municipal Airport tomorrowat 11 a.m. While there's ...
IS A WELL-CRAFTED MOVIE TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR?
Aug 01, 2006; Ty Burr, Globe Staff ... When a movie critic has the effrontery to take a contrarianposition on matters pop cultural say, by panning a pirate moviestarring a beloved leading man the immediate reaction of some readersis to shoot the messenger. In practical terms, this translates to e-mail pouring into my in-box ...
THIS HIT-MAKER IS OFF THE CHARTS
Aug 01, 2006; DAN SHAUGHNESSY ... David Ortiz has elevated the fan experience to a new level. He hastaken New England sports fans to a place where no others have been.He has put them in a state of mind where they expect a game-winninghome run. And he has delivered. Does anyone know how hard this is? A home run, ...
INDIANS HAVE BEEN LOST CAUSE
Aug 01, 2006; Julian Benbow, Globe Correspondent ... The first few weeks of this season looked like a continuation forthe Cleveland Indians. They immediately went about trying to wash away the sour taste oflast year's miracle-season-ending losses to the White Sox by going toChicago and smacking the world champions around in front of ...
REPORT: SYNTHETIC HORMONE IN LANDIS
Aug 01, 2006 ... Cycling Tests show that some of the testosterone in Floyd Landis 's systemat the Tour de France was synthetic and not naturally produced by hisbody as he claimed, according to report on the New York Time'swebsite last night, which cited a person at the International CyclingUnion ...
ON FAST TRACK TO NOWHERE
Aug 01, 2006; JOHN POWERS ... Justin Gatlin is facing long odds in his fight to avoid a lifetimeban from track and field after his second positive drug test, thisone for a testosterone precursor after an April relay race in Kansas.The Sergeant Schultz defense ("I know nothing") doesn't cut it withthe US Anti-Doping ...
BRADY MISSES PRACTICE AGAIN
Aug 01, 2006; Mike Reiss, Globe Staff ... FOXBOROUGH Quarterback Tom Brady has said that practice is one ofhis favorite parts of the job, because he believes that's when a teamtruly improves. But if the Patriots have made any positive strides over their pastthree practices, Brady hasn't been there to witness ...
PENA HOME RUN LEAVES QUITE AN IMPRESSION
Aug 01, 2006; Julian Benbow, Globe Correspondent ... The bad news is that Wily Mo Pena's fourth-inning bomb off PaulByrd cleared the light tower above the Green Monster, screamed overLansdowne Street, and popped the headlight of David Dore's 1997Volkswagen Golf. The good news is that Dore can still save a ton of money byswitching ...
PATRIOTS WON'T BE SOFT IN THE MIDDLE
Aug 01, 2006; Mike Reiss, GLOBE STAFF ... FOXBOROUGH Middle managers can make or break a business. Afootball team, too. The Patriots had a whirlwind year in the middle-management ranksin 2005, as their personnel at the heart of the 3-4 defense theinside linebacker spots underwent significant change. Tedy Bruschi was ...
JIHAD - A GLOBAL FAD
Aug 01, 2006; Jessica Stern ... THE IMAGES coming out of Qana, Lebanon where dozens of women andchildren were crushed in an Israeli raid during the weekend are heart-shattering. Exposed to those images, many of us have difficultygetting back to our workaday lives. We look at our own children withnew awe and realize how ...
ISLAND PARTY FUNDS FIGHT AGAINST AUTISM
Aug 01, 2006; CAROL BEGGY & MARK SHANAHAN ... Nantucket nabobs feted NBC Universal bigshot Bob Wright and hiswife, Suzanne , at the American Ireland Fund's cocktail party overthe weekend. The power couple were commended for their "AutismSpeaks" initiative, a campaign they founded to find a cure for theundeclared epidemic. (The ...
THE COLLAR OF MONEY
Aug 01, 2006; Bella English, Globe Staff ... T.J. lives at the Ritz-Carlton, Henrietta comes from Beacon Hill,and William calls the South End home, though he is on the Cape forthe summer. But several times a week these preppies meet at school,where there are ice cream breaks, art projects, movies, and, in hotweather, wading pools ...
NIXON IS EXPECTED TO MISS THREE WEEKS
Aug 01, 2006; Gordon Edes, Globe Staff ... Right fielder Trot Nixon will miss at least three weeks, accordingto general manager Theo Epstein's "very rough timetable," after anMRI showed a Grade 2 strain of the right biceps tendon. "Grade 2, from what I understand, is moderate," manager TerryFrancona said. "It's not ...
AMATEUR TEAM PLAYS `BEAT THE PRO' IN CUP
Aug 01, 2006; FRANK DELL'apa ... Fantasy football leagues started becoming popular in the 1970s,partly as a response to the growing popularity of sport in the US andalso a function of the inaccessibility of professional football tothe average person. Soccer, though, has long had its own version of fantasy ...
A MILESTONE OUTING FOR SNYDER
Aug 01, 2006; Kelsie Smith, Globe Correspondent ... Standing outside the Red Sox clubhouse, his shoulder and elbowwrapped tightly in ice, Kyle Snyder greeted his family. He hugged hismother, Sandy, and sister, Kate, who have traveled from Sarasota,Fla., to each of Snyder's three outings at Fenway. A David Ortiz three-run walkoff ...
INSURANCE COULD EASE BIG DIG COSTS
Aug 01, 2006; Raja Mishra, Globe Staff ... The Big Dig has at least $800 million in insurance coverage thatwould pay for much of the repair bills, inspection costs, andlawsuits stemming from the deadly Interstate 90 connector tunnelceiling collapse, according to a memo that circulated yesterday amongstate lawmakers. The ...
LINCOLN SON'S MANSE DEEPENS APPRECIATION FOR HIS FATHER'S LEGACY
Aug 01, 2006; Peter S. Canellos ... MANCHESTER, Vt. A log cabin was the symbol of Abraham Lincoln'slife and career: The man who redefined American democracy aspresident during the Civil War sprang from the American heartland,and the cabin he grew up in reflected the Western spirit of upwardmobility. Hildene, the ...
NEARLY HALF GIVEN CONSTABLE BADGE IN BOSTON HAVE BEEN ARRESTED
Aug 01, 2006; Walter V. Robinson ... When Randolph Police pulled over Byrain Winbush on March 25, 2003,they found he was driving an unregistered, uninsured car, and had awarrant outstanding for his arrest. But Winbush was no ordinarytraffic scofflaw. "He identified himself as a Boston police officer," PatrolmanJason ...
`SHAKESPEARE'S ACTRESSES' ENLIGHTENS, ENTERTAINS
Aug 01, 2006; Louise Kennedy, Globe Staff ... WELLFLEET Claire Danes pouts. Mary Pickford winks. Sarah Bernhardtpreens. And Eva Le Gallienne shows them all how it should be done. These actresses and more, from Ellen Terry to Elizabeth Taylor,strut and fret upon the stage in one Shakespearean monologue afteranother, all ...
DEADLINE PASSES, AS DO SOX
Aug 01, 2006; NICK CAFARDO ... There was tremendous excitement around Yawkey Way for at least 24hours, because it appeared that after days of poring through scoutingreports and statistical, financial, and medical data, after a coupleof deals fell through, after the Yankees had made their big splashwith Bobby Abreu, ...
PLAYERS STAY BUT THEIR ANXIETY GOES
Aug 01, 2006; Kelsie Smith, Globe Correspondent ... Four o'clock passed quietly at Fenway Park yesterday, with the RedSox clubhouse remaining intact. Perhaps a sigh of relief was exhaledby a few players whose names had been circulating as the tradedeadline approached. There was Mark Loretta, who sat out Sunday night's game in ...
PLAN TO START NET BANK FOR BLACKS STALLS
Aug 01, 2006; Sasha Talcott, Globe Staff ... The effort to create a Boston-based online bank targeting African-Americans has stalled after the bank's backers missed the regulatorydeadline to raise enough money for the project. Executives at the bank, which was to have been known asBankBlackwell, had been working to raise the ...
VETERAN GLOBE EXECUTIVE WILL LEAVE COMPANY
Aug 01, 2006; GLOBE STAFF ... Richard J. Daniels, who over 23 years has held a variety of keyjobs at The Boston Globe, including president, will leave the companyAug. 18, publisher Richard H. Gilman said yesterday in a memo to thepaper's staff. Daniels's most recent assignment was president of the ...
BILL NEARING OK COULD IMPERIL BAYSIDE EXPO
Aug 01, 2006; Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff ... You may be able to see auto and boat shows in the spacious newconvention center under a measure nearing approval in theLegislature, while a South Boston charity would reap tens ofthousands of dollars for dealing with the added traffic. Last night, the Massachusetts House of ...
QUESTIONS OF SUCCESSION AT FIDELITY
Aug 01, 2006; STEVEN SYRE ... Boston isn't especially rich when it comes to matters of corporateintrigue, now that most of the city's biggest companies have beenturned into field offices and subsidiaries. But there's no doubt whatquestion still prompts impassioned downtown debate: Who will runFidelity ...
DESPITE DEBT, CHAIN SEEKS MORE PAPERS
Aug 01, 2006; Christopher Rowland, Globe Staff ... The company that recently paid $410 million for a massive lineupof suburban newspapers ringing Boston is shopping for morepublications around the country while also trying to pay down thelarge debt it amassed to do the deal. GateHouse Media Inc. which two weeks ago filed plans for ...
NARROWER LOSS PRODUCES A GAIN FOR IROBOT
Aug 01, 2006 ... Shares of iRobot Corp. jumped 4.8 percent after the Burlingtontechnology company reported a narrower second-quarter loss thananalysts had expected of 8 cents a share on revenue that increased 34percent. Analysts, on average, expected a loss of 20 cents a share.Yesterday, iRobot said it ...
HUMANA INC.
Aug 01, 2006 ... Humana, a health insurer, gained 8.5 percent after it said second-quarter profit was 53 cents a share, up from 49 cents a year earlier.Analysts had expected 35 ...
WALK AND ROLL ORTIZ TROTS OUT OLDIE BUT GOODIE: GAME-ENDING HR
Aug 01, 2006; Gordon Edes, Globe Staff ... John W. Henry thought he'd said everything he wanted to say aboutDavid Ortiz once before, under similarly inspiring circumstances.But on second thought . . . "So," Henry said on a Fenway Parkelevator that could not muffle the chants of "MVP! MVP!" cascadingthrough every nook and ...
AVON PRODUCTS INC.
Aug 01, 2006 ... Avon said second-quarter profit dropped 54 percent, mostly becauseof charges from a restructuring designed to revive lackluster sales.That sent shares down 12 ...
M-SYSTEMS FLASH DISK
Aug 01, 2006 ... M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. jumped 13 percent after SanDiskCorp., the world's largest maker of memory cards used in consumerelectronics, ...
TPC NORTON A DESTINATION SPOT
Aug 01, 2006; Jim McCabe, Globe Staff ... NORTON Even after all these years, there is a sensation that isrekindled every time he returns to his first love, baseball. "When you come out of the chute, walking into a game, and you seethe field and all that green, it just puts you in a good mood," saidSeth Waugh. "I get that ...
DURING HARBOR LOBSTER HAUL, POLICE SURVEILLANCE SET A TRAP
Aug 01, 2006; Emma G. Fitzsimmons, Globe Correspondent ... Two Massachusetts Environmental Police officers watched thelobster boat Linda come in to Quarterdeck Marina in East BostonSaturday night, after a long day in the harbor. During two weeks of surveillance, some of it from shore and someon boats, they suspected the boat's owner, ...
BPL, HARVARD RENEW MAP QUEST
Aug 01, 2006; Jenna Russell, Globe Staff ... The Boston Public Library and Harvard University's HoughtonLibrary are among a group of institutions raising new concerns aboutantique maps still missing from their collections, weeks after aMartha's Vineyard man pleaded guilty to stealing dozens of their rareantique maps. Map ...
GUARD UNIT DEPARTS FOR MEXICAN BORDER
Aug 01, 2006 ... About 40 members of the Rhode Island National Guard headed to NewMexico yesterday to bolster the nation's border patrol efforts, partof President Bush's plan to station 6,000 guardsmen along the ...
BILL BARS LNG TANKERS FROM VICINITY OF BRIDGES
Aug 01, 2006; Naila Moreira, Globe Correspondent ... In yet another attempt to derail a proposed liquefied natural gasterminal in Fall River, state lawmakers yesterday approved a billblocking tankers from passing under bridges to reach the terminal. The bill would require a 185-foot vertical and 250-foot horizontalclearance around ...
ARNOLD W. GOULD
Aug 01, 2006 ... Arnold William Gould was a welder who loved to tinker and wasdevoted to his family. He was "a person who could fix anything in thewhole entire world," said his daughter, Nancy Cerulo. Mr. Gould, 85,died Thursday in Natick following a period of declining health. Born in New Bedford, ...
LAURENCE CARPENTER, 83; WAS MDC POLICE SUPERINTENDENT
Aug 01, 2006; Stephanie Peters, Globe Correspondent ... Laurence J. Carpenter, a retired superintendent of the formerMetropolitan District Commission Police who helped mold the forcefrom a parkway patrol into a major law enforcement agency, died athis Woburn home Sunday of congestive heart failure. He was 83. Born in Woburn, Mr ....
INTO MINDS, VIA STOMACHS
Aug 01, 2006; Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff ... Brittany Cox watched her cooking teacher chop a head of cabbagebefore she gave it a try, her small hands quaking with each slice. "Forward and back," the teacher instructed, as the 16-year-oldsawed the cabbage into thick wedges. Along with eggplant, spinach,tomato paste, and a lot ...
FOR THE RECORD
Aug 01, 2006 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, a New England in Briefitem in Friday's City & Region section ...
AMID CHRONIC UNCERTAINTIES, PROFIT-TAKING RULES
Aug 01, 2006 ... Stocks suffered modest losses in a spate of profit-taking asinvestors locked in last week's gains. But the markets head intoAugust with chronic uncertainties about oil prices, ...
A MIDEAST OASIS
Aug 01, 2006 ... Nathan Hachenberger, 4, of LaSalle, Ill., stretched for a drink ofwater yesterday as temperatures reached well into the 90s. The heatwave gripping the Upper ...
HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS, UN PROTEST ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES SOME SAY NATION HAS VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAWS
Aug 01, 2006; Michael M. Grynbaum and Farah Stockman, Globe Staff ... WASHINGTON - Human rights groups and United Nations SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan yesterday accused Israel of violatinginternational human-rights laws with Sunday's bombing raid on thevillage of Qana, Lebanon, which killed 56 civilians, includingdozens of women and children. But legal ...
62 YEARS LATER, SOLDIER IS HOME
Aug 01, 2006 ... Pam Jensen and her daughter, Emily, 6, attended a funeral forPam's great uncle, US Army Corporal George Cunningham, inFarmingdale, N.Y. Killed aboard a C-47 cargo flight on Dec. 10,1944, in New Guinea, ...
EX-LIGHTBRIDGE CHIEF TO LEAD WIFI PUSH
Aug 01, 2006; Robert Weisman, Globe Staff ... Boston's plan to create a citywide wireless Internet networkentered a new phase yesterday as Mayor Thomas M. Menino named formerhigh-tech executive Pamela Reeve to lead the search for a nonprofitcorporation to build the network. Reeve, a member of the mayor's Wireless Task Force ...
