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by Andrew Kosow CORRESPONDENI

"Without a doubt, the best place to watch the Boston Marathon is at the bottom of the hill in Cleveland Circle," a police officer told Sylvia Heiliger, who came down from British Columbia to see her daugh­ter, Barbara. Heiliger, 45, run the I 06th Boston Marathon this past Monday.

"She is really looking forward to 'the haunted mi le,"' said tieiliger.

"The haunted mile" runs from Lak Street to Cleveland Circle and it is where marathoners' dreams go to die. Famed Boston Marathon two-lime champion John Kelley (the Elder) coined the phrase after losing his lead six times on the stretch of road that runs along Ever­green Cemetery in Brighton.

Mork Hamilton, a WBCN-FM disc jockey who claims to know mor about the Boston Marathon's history in Brighton than anyone, was E1t the Ground Round in Cleve­land Circle, hosting a radio talk show on the day of the race.

uslenel ofKenyai das~s through Cleveland Circle during Monday's 1.-06th running of the Boston Marathon. Buslenei flhlshed 13th overall In the 26.2-mlle race,

"Sammy Melor was leading by a mile in 1903 until he started walk­ing on the haunted mi1e and he couldn't start up again and lost. Sam • thing happened to Qly~c

Sho er and wider Waterw rks proposal calls for less height

Area reside ts rejoiced about a re­cent decrea<;e n height regarding the proposed dev lopment at the Chest­nut Hill Wat rworks pipeyard site. However, ma y people believe that this is a token move and much more needs to be ddressed to mai11tain their quality f life and the tranquil

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Cardinal Law sits during a recent Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. With most Catholics wishing he would resign, the Cardinal is on the hot seat.

On the hot seat Cardinal Law is not getting any break

from protesters niarching outside his home By Audit! Guha

STAFF WRITER

Pope John Paul II wants embattled Cardinal Bernard Law to stay in his post, but that opinion i not hared by mo t people in Boston these days. Law said he offered his resignation. but wa1, told by the Pope to stay on the job. That new on Friday drew more protesters outside the

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N t stop in the synagogue de ate is the zoning board

Many Br kline and Brighton res­ident<; are . ti II up in arms over the Sephardic ornmunity of Greater Boston's p posal to tear down the existing syn gogue on Corey Road to build anoth rover twice its size. And more have ently joined their ilk. .

The Ru an community that lives in the area i also busy collecting sig­natures op sing the project. Long­time re.<>ide ts, many living in senior housing ap ents on Washington Street in B ·ghton, mirror the con­cerns of oth r Corey Road residents.

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Residents of the area also wc5rry that the city is not concerned about what happens in these neighbor­hoods.

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Two zoning board hearings regard­ing the development have been de­ferred and the third is tentatively scheduled for I p.m. next Tuesday at City Hall. In view of the Landmark Commission's recent go-ahead on demolition, residents are hoping that the zoning board will support their demands for a smaller facil ity.

"I want the City of Boston to exer­cise their power and keep control of

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Allston-Brig ton Free Radio, 1670 AM and webcast at ttpJtwww.abfreeradio.org is now broad sting LPFM News every weekday m ming from 7-9 a.m .. This pro­gram featur s alternative indy news and stories pert ining to low power FM radio and the mi oradio movement. The pro­gram origi tes from http://www.party­town.com/ dio/

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11 a.m.-2 p.m.: (random rolatloo)

2-3 p.m.: "Children's Health Connection

3-4 p.m.: "Boston's Senior- Count" news and music for senior c~ zens. hosted by the Massachusetts Commiss100 on Affairs of the Elderly.

This program is also aired on WJIB-A.M. 740 on Sundays at 9 p.m ..

4-6 p.m.: "Jazz on Vinyl tlh S.G

6-7 p.m.: "Allston Curmuclgeon-· Prpgres­sive newsmakers with S G PfOVlZer

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7-8 p.m.: "Radical Youth:" Politics for a new generation with Matt Andrews

8-9 p.rn.: "Sports wRAP" with Bill Vaughn

9-10:30 p.m.: "The Spiral Dance:" Celebrating Earth-based

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10:30 p.m.-midnight: "My World and Wel­come to It" - Hip-hop, drum and bass, rock, etc. with Jim.

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3-6 p.m.: "BlueShadows" with Patois

6-7 p.m.: "Arts, Open-Ended" - unfamiliar music and performance explored, with Gi­anetta.

7-9 p.m.: "Allston Rock City" with B & C

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sts Drug rafficking arrest

1, A ording' to a police report, tw Brighton residents were

arrested n charges of drug traffick­ing on esday, April 16, according to :a poli e report.

At a ut 10:30 a.m. District 14 of­ficers r ponded to a call at 270 Bab­cock St. to assist detectives with an assault i vestigation

Recei ing information concerning th¢ well- ing of an 8-year-old child, officers ntered the apartment I 8B and beg n a protective sweep of the place. ·

While talking to resident and sus­peb Fid I Miranda, 38, police say th¢y noti ed him reach into his pock­et :as he at in a chair. Fearing safety, officers topped him and on further investig ion, found three plastk bags of white powder believed to be coc ne, one plastic bag of a brown p wder believed to be heroin an):! a d liar bill fold of som more w~ite po der believed to be cocaine.

Miran a was -placed under an·est on charg s of possessing drug .

Office s found . several used sy­ringes , und the apartment and the ends of plastic bag sticking out of an open pocket book on a bed that turned o t to be a bag of I 0 wax bags containi g a powder believed to be heroin. plastic bowl of white 1ice, elastic b nds and plastic bag knots were als found, in addition to a large plastic b g believed to contain co­caine an a shopping bag with a cof­fee g1in er, a portable scale, two strainers, a box of wax bags, tooth­brushes nd batteries. All the items were sei ed as evidence.

Durio booking, officers also seized a . silver colored phone and $998.

Fidel as charged with drug traf­ficking i addition to the wan·ant charge 1i r giving a false name and for being a fugitive from justice.

Anoth r suspect and resident, Melissa morin, 27, wa-; also placed under ru est on charges of six out­standing arrants issued from sever­al comts as well as narcotics viola­tion, ace rding to the police report.

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Stolen property arre

2 Ac ording to a police report, fou Brighton residents were

, arrested on charges of receiving stolen pr perty on Monday, April 15.

While n foot patrol in Cleveland Circle, o 1cers heard someone talk­ing; into a microphone from 12 Sutherla d Rd., amplifying into the neighbor ood at about 12:30 p.m.

<Dffice .- anived at the front door, I

wh~ch th y say was completely open, · and wen to Apartment I to speak to

the occu ants. They were allowed in by~ ma who said he lived there. ·

As o cers entered the apartment, ther saw in plain view a USA Today newspa r dispenser and nine assort­ed City f Boston traffic signs that were alle edly stolen from the Cleve­lanCI Cir e area.

Amon the stolen signs were those for, Ayr Road, Strathmore Road, Orkney oad, Chiswick Road, South Str~et an Sutherland Road. ~U 1i ur residents - Michael

Tra,,eger, I ; Mark Krans, 20; Mark Notman, 21 and William Berg, 21, wete pla ed under arrest on charges o( ~eepi g a disorderly houi,e and ra::~ivin stolen property. They wete ta en to the police station

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for booking. The newspaper box contained a

Feb I paper, indic<iting that it ma) have been stolen around that time. Officers found the number of the USA Today Boston office to return it.

Suspects were asked if they owned the box and Berg allegedl~ !>aid." o. we took it from Cleveland Circle.''

All items were seized and entered as evidence, according to the police report.

Public drinking arrest

3 On Monday, April I -. a u peel was an·ested on charge of pub­

lic d1inking, accortlmg to a police report.

At about 3 :05 p.m .. officers on foot patrol in Cleveland Circle obser\ed suspect Paul Connors, '.'!I. of 18 Myers Lane, Milton drinking beer from a 12-ounce bottle of Bud Lite in front of 1930 Beacon St.. Brighton.

Connors was placed under arrest on charges of drinking alcohol on a public way and wa..\ taken to the po­lice station, according to the report.

Public drinking arrest

4 On Monday, April 15. a u peel was arrested on charges of pub­

lic drinking, according to a police report.

At about 3 p.m .. officers on foot patrol in Cleveland Circle obserYed suspect Lyndsay Porell. 21. of 26 High St., Winchester. drinking beer from a red plastic cup at 1932 Bea­con St., Brighton.

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She was placed under arrest on charge of drinking alcohol on a pub­lic way and .,.. a5 taken to the police station. according to the report.

Incidents Anned robbery and assault

5 Unk.nown U!>pects tabbed a Brighton resident on

Wedne. da) April 17. according to a police report.

At I a.m .. officers re ponded to a radio call for a tabbing' ictim at St. Elizabeth'. Hospital.

On anival. officers poke to the victim' girlfriend. who said that she ditln 't know what happened other than that her boyfriend was stabbed.

The victim was walking home after parking at Gordon Street and Cambridge Street when he was ap­proached by two men who a ked him for money. They started to fight with him and stabbed him. The vic­tim's girlfriend drove him to the hoi,pital

An attending doctor said that the victim was stabbed several times in the ba k and a kidney was punc­tured. but it was not life threatening.

The incident is to be investigated by district 14 detectives, according to the report.

Anned robbery

6 According lo a police report, a man wa robbed by two

unkn wn men canying a knife on Wed sday, April 17.

At about I :08 a.m., officers re­spon ed to Allston Street at Com­mon ealth Avenue for a report of an ar ed robbery and spoke to the victi . a 20-year-old Brighton res­ident

He told them that he was grab ed from behind by two men, one f whom put a knife to his neck nd took his wallet. Both sus­pects fled down Allston Street.

Th suspects were described as bein approximately 17-year-old and ·earing dark clothes and ban­danas according to the report.

man was robbed by two nknown men carrying a knife

nesday, April 17, according lice report. bout 12: l 0 a.m., officers re­

to a call at a Kelton Street ap ent for a report of an armed robbe and spoke to the 23-year-old victi .

He old them that as he was walk­ing o Allston Street at Long Avenue, he w grabbed from behind by two men, about 6 feet tall and J 50 poun s, weruing light blue bandanas and pproximately in their early twen es.

On of the suspects put a knife to his oat and said, "Give me your mone ."

Th y allegedly took his wallet con­tainin $2000 and they fled down Long Avenue towards Common­weal Avenue, according to the re­port.

N ruinations wanted for Pizzazz ! A ' I ~s a m ans to increase local awareness and sup-

pori for cellence in the design and maintenance o( public paces, the Allston-Brighton Community Deyelop ent Corp. developed a program called the:Piz z!Awardsinl 996 . .

4-co ittee of local resident and business own-er!; ~elect d the finalist. Award recipients were cho­sen; bas on the input, uniqueness and local sup­pOJl: of eir_ efforts toward improving the public spa,tes o llston Brighton. The project recognized a W,ide ge of activities, which the ABCDC felt cq11tribut to a well-designed community includ­ing; but t limited to: private-public maintenance paqners ps, public ar.t, facade improvements and des~gn a ocacy.

'J;'he pr gram seeks to promote a public aware-• ' •

ness for the importance of excellence in the design and care of public paces by both individual and corporate citizens; acknowledge the achievements of communil) members who improve the quality of the public spaces of All ton Brighton and in­creasing community awarene of their work; and encourage property O\\' ners in the community to consider the quality of de ign in development or rehabilitation proposal .

Nomination for recipients of the 2002 Pizzazz! Award hould meet the above goal . In addjtion, nominations bould be made for individuals. busi- · nesses or organizations, which had a po itive im­pact upon the quality of the public paces of All­ston Brighton. Thi impact can include, but is not limited to: creation of public art, facade improve-

ments, signage i provements, design/historic preservation advoc cy, care/maintenance of public open spaces, quali design for new or rehabilita­tion construction d park/green space advocacy.

Final selection o award recipients will be made and approved by e board of directors of the All­ston Brighton Co munity Developm·ent Corp. Awards will be pr nted Wednesday, May 22, at the Allston Bright n CDC annual meeting, at the Veronica Smith S nior Center, 20 Chestnut Hill Ave., Allston.

Nominations ar due Tuesday, April 30 at the ABCDC office. Fo more information, call Roger Erickson at Allston1Brighton CDC, 617-787-3874 or fax 617-787-04 .

Iµ s get a safe ride with BuckleUp Ch ckUps .

Respo ding to recent studies reporting that many chi dren are at risk because they aren't prop­erly restr ·ned in car seats, Executive Auto Glass in Allston as teamed up with the Greater Boston Safe Ki s Coalition to launch the BuckJeUp, CheckU program. Free car seat safety check­poi~ts w· be offered from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m, on Thyrsda April 25 at the Executive Auto Glass seryice c nter, 450 Cambridge St., Allston.

i;iie B ckleUp inspections will be performed by fertifi technicians, who will adjust car seats or replac them for free, based on safety guide­lin~s set y the National Highway Traffic Safety Adjninis ation.

The SA reports that as many as four out of

five car seats are in talled improperly or used in­correct!}. while proper installation and use can re­duce the ri k of death by as much as 71 percent for infants. According to NHTSA safety guide­lines, \\'hich are frequently violated, include the following: Infants until at least l year old and at least 20 pounds hould be in rear-facing car seats, and children who weigh more than 40 pounds, but who are} ounger than 5 )'.ears old, should ride in booster eats.

"We are ponsoring BuckJeUp, CheckUps so parentc, can ensure that their children will be se­cure with properly-in tailed car seats," said Ed Beatrice. president of Executive Auto Glass. 'We are pleased to expand our ongoing safety cam-

paign with Safe · s, and we are rolling out this program at all of o r Boston-area service centers this spring."

For reservations and more information about the Allston check int, call 617-254-5555 in ad­vance.

Founded in 19 8, Executive Auto Glass is based in Stoneha and has service centers in Greater Boston.

The Greater Bo on Safe Kids Coalition is the local chapter of e National Safe Kids Cam­paign. For more in onnation, call Roxanne Fuller at 781-438-8855, og onto www.safekids.org or call the NHTSA uto Safety Hotline at 1-800-424-9393.

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rn Every Communify Has At Least One n Realtor Like Norman O'Grady J'Ri Bre:Ycing records is nothing new to Norman: He's been a

__ R .. 1..,,M_E best seller and a pa~esetter. Here in Allston/Brighton for Rmrv G11ouP the past 10 years. How does he do it? By Working Hard,

48G Washington Street By Working Smarr, By Working Full Time. Norman (Beside old YMCA) also has a wealth of real estate experience to draw on Brighton, MA 02135 ·and a lot of contacts in che real estate industry. Tel: 617-254-2525 Fax: 617_254_9525 Committed to serving vm: 617-746-0848 the Real Estate needs of

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16th ann al Art Expo opens cal for artists

' The 16 annual Allston/ · 'Brighton Exposition will take

place June I, at the Allston Branch of the Bosto Public Library, 300 'North Harv d St., Allston. · All artists living or working in

the Allston righton community are invited t participate in the ex­position, w ich includes juried awards fort works exhibited.

Each artist will be allowed to ex­hibit three pi ces. Space will be al­located as ap lications are received until aJI avai able spaces are filled. Each artist . ust submit an applica­tion to parti ipate in the event. To help in plan ing, exhibition plan­ners would Ii e to have information on each piec artists will be submit­ting: title, if any; dimensions; and price.

Artwork i II stay up for the month of J ne. Drop off art be­tween May 2 and May 30. Slides cannot be cepted. Works m st not be too rge to fit on display panels.

A progra listing all exhibit rs will be avai able to the public on the day of he exposition. There will be a rec ption at I p.m. A flyer will be avail bleat a later date.

For more nformation, call Bev­erly Crease at 617 -254-4482 or Madeline morosi at 617-787-6313.

Have co with Men no on May 29

Mayor T omas M. Menino -will once again ost a series of informa­tional coffe hours for local moth­ers and care ivers in neighborhood parks fro Roslindale to East Boston. Thi is the fourth year that Menino h hosted the coffee hours.

The goal f the series is to open a candid dial g with mothers and caregivers f school-age children regarding eir open space and recreational needs and what the city of Bost n can do to meet those needs. The offee hours are open to all, and the first 50 guests at each will receiv a spring planter from Menino.

Locally, offee hour takes place at 9 a.m. o May 29 at the Ho art Street Play round in Brighton.

For mor information or loca­tions, call t e Parks Department at 617-635-45 5, ext. 6403.

The All ton/Brighton/Kenmore Communit Partnership Cluster will spons r the fourth annual All­stpn/Brigh n Children's Festival from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, at McKinney Park on Fa­neuil Stree in Brighton.

Emma L ugheed and Brid Mar­tin of Pin Village Preschool and Olive She han of Over The Rain­bow Fa y Childcare want to offer the ildren and families of Allston/Br ghton a day filled with music, dan e, crafts, games and ac­tivities offi red by local performers, clowns an some of New Eng­land's fam us attractions. Some of the main ttractions are the New England quarium Tide Pool Ex­hibit, Bos n Children's Museum, the Bagb ys Band, clowns, face painters, arousel, moon bounce, children's ames and more.

The eve t also offers an opportu­nity for th se families not enrolled in child c re in the community to see all th child care options and family ser ices available in Allston and Brigh n.

There ill be a cross-section of Allston/B ighton's child care op­tions repr sented, including center­based, fa ·1y, Head Start, pre­school, a er- school and summer camps, a well as several family services rganizations such as WIC, Y CA, ABCAN, Early In­tervention and West End House.

This e ent is free and handi­capped ac essible.

Plant le starts May 3 at St. A hony's

A plant sale will take place Fri­day, May through Sunday, May 5, at St. Ant ony's School, 57 Holton St., Allst n. Sale items include an­nuals, p rennials and hanging plants. F r information, call 617-273-3760

St. Ant ony's clothing drive is coming soon

St. An hony's School Clothing Drive tak s place from Friday, May 3 throug Sunday, May 12. Un­wanted c othing, shoes, drapes and blankets, in any condition, will be accepted at the school, 57 Holton St., Alls n. For information, call 617-273- 760 ..

COMMUN ITY NOTES

PHOTO BY CARLA OSBERG

Grasshopper Is just one of the dozens of restaurants to be featured at the fifth annual T te of Allston VIiiage from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aprll 30 at t he DoubleTree Guest Suites.

Get a big taste of llston Village The fifth annual ·'A Taste of All ton Vil­

lage" takes place trom 6 to 8 p.m. on Tue day, April 30, at the Double Tree Gue t Suite , 400 Soldiers Field Ro;itl, All ton.

Tickets are $25 per person. nior , stu- Savings Bank, PrintWix, Rainbow Visions, RCN, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Store 24 Companies, WBZ, Wolfer's Lighting, 7 A's Locksmiths, Able Rug Company, Basics Car­pet & Furniture., Body Mechanics Spa, BV Development, Congressman Michael E. Ca­puano, E. Shan Tang Herbs, Gay's Flowers & Gifts, State Rep. Brian Golden, City Coun­cilor Brian Honan, State Rep. Kevin Honan, Houghton Chemical Corporation, Jackson­Mann Community Center, Marty's Liquors, Mercantile Bank and Trust Company, Metro Boston Group, The Pet Shop, Photo Speed, Resource Capital Group, Sam-Son Realty, Ticket City, State Sen. Steven Tolman, Judi BurtenNal Pak; .Liberty Real Estate and Star Market.

dents and AVMS members recei e a $5 dis­count. Tickets for children youn er than 12 are 15. Tickets are available by hone using credit card, at 617-787-2370; on-line at www.all tonvillage.com/events; nd at the door.

The DoubleTree is handicappe Parking is available for $5.

The event will feature ample from many of Allston Village's re taurant., repre enting the cuisines of Vietnam. China. Korea. Brazil. Italy, Ireland, Colombia. India and the United States. Among the participant are Bagel Ri -ing, Big City, Cafe Belo. Cafe Habibi. Carlo' Cucina Italiana, El Corrientazo. Gras hopper. Herrell's Renaissance Cafe, The Kells. Larsen Catering, Mandarin. Moscow International Food Store, Olive Oyl\ Cantina. Rangoli. Redneck's Roast Beef & Barbeque/Red Hots Taqueria, Scullc~ Jazz Club/Boathou ·e Grille, Seoul Bake!). Star Market. Sun et Grill & Tap, V Maje tic. White Horse Tavern and Wonderbar. Complementing the sampling wi II be a cash bar.

Major pon ors of the event i elude: New Balance Athletic Shoe and Improper Bo tonian. Additional spon ors i elude: Citi­zen Bank, The All ton Brighton l\B, United Liquors. All ton Board ofTrade, Star, Green Line Publishing, G&G Auto Par , Genzyme Corporation, The Hamilton Co pany, Hori­zon Beverage Company, Legal Sea Foods, Sovereign Bank, WGBH, White Hor e Tav­ern, Allston Brighton Communi Develop­ment Corporation, Asian Ameri an Bank & Tru l Company, Blanchard's Liq ors, Boston College eighborhood Center, Bo ton Volvo

All leftover food will be donated to the Greater Boston Food Bank's Setond Helping Program.

The event will be ho ted by WEEI radio personality Jon \1eterparel. Entertainment will be provided b) The Lil Lannon Band. A silent auction at the e\ ent -will feature good-; and services from area bu. ine ·e .

illage, Cit} Convenience. E:urb~ide. Econo­m) Hardware, Harvard Uni mity. The Mo ko Family, Mr. Mu ic. Peo le's Federal

All proceeds will benefit Allston Village Main Streets, a community-based public/pri­vate partnership working to revitalize the All­ton commercial district. For more infonna­

tion. call 617-254-7564.

Volunteers ready for river spring cleaning

More than 1,000 volunteers from communities, univer itie and bu i­nesses along the Charle River are set to participate in the third annual Charles River Earth Da, Cleanup, struting at 9 a.m. on Saturcla). April 20. Seeking to connect communi­ties along the Charles. the cleanup will focus on more than 20 ite along 67 river miles from Bo ton to Bellingham. Event organizers in­clude MassachusetL'i Community Water Watch, Charle~ River\: ater­shed Association, Clean Charle Coalition, state Sen. Steve Toi­man 's office, Charles River Stream Teams and the Metropolitan Di -trict Commission.

According to Pattie Weikert. one of the event organizer;. "Cleanup events play an important role in raising awareness about \\oater qual­ity issues and gathering together all those interested in making a differ­ence for their local waterway . We are looking forward to building on the success of our pa.'>t cleanup · and hope to have even more volunteers involved this year."

Anna Eleria, from CRWA. said, "The Charles River is an invaluable resource to Boston area communi­ties and this event is an excellent opportunity to sho"' your upport for a cleaner Charle .. "

Individuals from 15 area college and universities, boathou e group , neighborhood association . Scout troops, company employee . alum­nae associations and ci\'ic activi ts

are among tho e participating in the cleanup thi · year.

All volunteers will receive T­shirts de igned by a Massachusetts College of Art tudent. Snacks for volunteers will be provided during the cleanup and at a po t-cleanup party at Herter Park in Brighton. The MDC and Home Depot will provide tra h bag and other up­plie.

Organizers are till seeking vol­unteers to participate in the cleanup. Group!!> or individual interested in volunteenng in their area hould call Weikert at 617-879-7735 ore­mail cleanup02 @hotmail.com.

Cleveland Circle is topic of May 1 meeting

The Aberdeen & Re ervoir Civic A ociation is pon oring the fourth in a erie' of public meetings from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wedne day, May 1, to receive final comment on the propo ed Streetscape Plan for Cleveland Circle. The Cecil Group, Inc., Urban De igners and Land­·cape Architects will lead the pre­entation The purpo e of the meeting is to

present revi ions to the Preferred De ign Alternative as the re ult of previou public meeting comments. Mo t notably, the revi ions include changes to traffic and parking de-ign, pede trian afety concerns and

vi ual improvements. Recommen­dation will also be made for an Early Con truction Element that can be implemented in the coming

;·;JACK SON-MANN COMMUNITY t ;'CENTER HAPPENINGS

Here's what's happening at the Jackson-Mann Community Cen­ter. All events are free and open to the public, and take place at the Jackson/Mann Complex at 500 Cambridge St. All ton. MA 02134. Since space is limited. RS P for any event you wi h to attend by calling Sharona Shu ter, Com­munity Learning Center coordi­nator, at 617-635-5153.

Adult Ed:

for Tran ition from ESL to ABE, Pre-GED, and GED.

To apply. fill out an application at the Jack on-Mann Community Center office. The program is free, and pace i available.

For more infonnation, call Dorris at the center.

Center infonnation

month . All ar a residents are encouraged

to join i this final public meeting to plan t e future of Cleveland Cir­cle. Th Meeting will be held at Temple 'nai Moshe, 1845 Com­monwe th Avenue, Brighton. For more i formation, call 617-739-0578 o log onto <http://brighton 02135. pod.com/area/>

Learn bout cheese at B d & Circus

Brea & Circus at 15 Washington St. in righton, is holding two chee e lasses with store Cheese­monger Edward Humble.

On hursday, May 9, learn through a class called Great Ameri­can C ses. When it comes to cheese, ere's no place like home. From C ifomia to Vennont, cheese product on has become an art in the United States. The selection is dauntin , but Humble will fearless­ly gui e us through the maze. Demon tration and tasting.

about goat cheeses on Thursd y, May 23. Follow Humble down t e goat trail for an evening of sam ling some of the world's finest oat cheeses. There will be shining examples from France, Spain, ngland, and the U.S. You will le to match these cheeses with o er foods and drinks for spe­cial oc asions.

Clas es .are $5 each, payable at Bread Circus' customer service depart ent. For further infonna­tion, c 1617-738-8187.

The internationally acclaimed Hawth me String Quartet, which

med the Boston College Quartet-in-Residence in .

1998, ill perform at 8 p.m. on Mond y, April 22, in Gasson Hall, Room I 00 at 140 Commonwealth Ave. Boston College' Chestnut Hill c pus. The concert is open to the pu lie, free of charge.

Boston College. Ludwig will give a pre-concert talk about the com­posers featured in this program.

The program.for the evening in­cludes: Franz Josef Haydn, String Quartet Op. 76 No. 3 "Kaiser"; Vik­tor Ullmann, String Quartet #3, Op. 46 (Terezin 19.43); Vitezslava Kapralova String Quartet ( 1935-6); and Erwin Schulhoff, Five Pieces for String Quartet.

For further infonnation, call the Music Department at Boston Col­lege at 6 l 7~552-4843.

Hawthorne String Quartet, formed in 1986, includes Boston Symphony Orchestra violinists Ronan Lefkowitz and Haldan Mar­tinson; BSO violist Mark Ludwig; and BSO cellist Sato Knudsen. The quartet has perfonned extensively in Europe, South America, Japan and the United States, including major festivals such as Tangle­wood, Ravinia and Aspen. In addi­tion, the quartet has made solo ap-pearances with the Boston , Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsch Kammerphilhannonie.

Youth Council travels to Washington, D.C.

Members of Mayor Thomas Menino's Youth Council traveled to Washington, D.C., recently to meet with elected and federal ad­ministration officials to discuss Boston's environmental issues. The council met with Sen. Edward Kennedy, U.S. Rep. Jim McGov­ern, and staff from the President's Council on Environment Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the In­terior, and aides to Sen. John Kerry and U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano.

Video Race Night The Brighton Emblem Club will

present Video Race Night on Fri­day, April 26, at 7 p.m., at the Brighton Lodge of'Elks, 326 Wash-

. ington St. Admission rs free with free parking behind the lodge off Winship Street. 11

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Neighborhood meeting will be April 23 ',

The Allston-Brighton Communf­ty Development Corp. a nonprofit, neighborhood-based organizatioil, next meets at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, at the Jackson Mann School cafeteria, 500 Cambrid~ St., Allston. The topic of discussion is .the progress being made in creat­ing two housing developments ih the Hano Street neighborhood. "'

For more information, call Johh Woods at 617-787-3874, ext. r6. Spanish translation will be provid­ed.

St. John's College presents 'The Deal'

St. John's Seminary College stu­dents present "The Deal," a drama by Matthew Witten, Friday anp Saturday, April 19 and 20, at ~ p.m., at St. John's Seminary Cot­lege Auditorium, 127 Lake sf!, Brighton. ·

The play is about an FBI under­cover investigation of greed in urban politics. Admission is $5. The location is handicapped acce~ sible. ,.

For information, call 617-254-2610.

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'Manners for Beginners' class for dogs

Dog training classes, sponsored by the New England Humane As­sociation, will take place at the Jackson Mann Community Center, 500 Cambridge St., Allston. Class.­es take place outside. A new ses­sion will start Saturday, May 4. "Good Manners for Beginners," ;t level I class, will begin at I 0 a.m. Class cost is $90 for a five-week session. ~J

For more information on other classes or to register, call 617-789-3647.

School holding golf tourney on May 13

Our Lady of the Presentation School in Brighton will have its an­nual golf tournament Monday, May 13, at Newton Commonwealth Golf Course. The tournament will kick off with a 9 a.m. shotgun start. The entry fee of $85 includes co -fee and doughnuts, greens fee , golf cart, dinner and prizes. To reg­ister, call Patricia McGuirk at 617 782- 1545. -'I

Corporate sponsorship opportu­nities ranging from $100 to $500 are available. All sponsors will f>e recognized in tournament publicity and listed in the program. For spoh­sorship information, call McGuirko1

All golfers must be registered b~ May I. ,,

There's a home-buying 101 class in Spanish

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,., The Allston-Brighton Commurtj)

ty Development Corp. will begin:~ four-session course in Spanisp, starting on Saturday, April 20. The class, which is co-sponsored by Peoples Federal Savings Bank, wiJI cover all aspects of buying a home. It will meet four consecutive Sat~ days through May 11 from 9:Jl:1 a.m. to noon in Allstcm. Income-ei.. igible graduates will receive $500 to $1,000 ·off closing costs wheJl they purchase a home in Boston1 and will be considered for Fanni~

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Mae programs and MHFA low-m" terest rate loans in the state. The!-' will be access to low down-paf ment financing options for buyers of all incomes. The registration fee is $25 per person. Registration i's required.

For more information or to regis! ter, caJI Elizabeth or Ashley at 617-787-3874, ext. 35. i,J ,

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The Jackson-Mann Communi­ty Center's Adult Basic Educa­tion Program is accepting appli­cations for the GED Program and

Please RSVP to any event you plan to attend (as space is limit­ed) by calling Sharona Shuster, CLC Coordinator, at 617-635-5153. All event take place at the Jackson/Mann Complex located at 500 Cambridge St., Allston, MA02 34.

The quartet will perform the Bosto premieres of string quartets by Vit zslava Kapralova and Erwin Sch off, two victims of the Holo­caust. ark Ludwig, director of the Terezi Chamber Music Founda- · tion d member of the Hawthorne String Quartet, is committed· to the rese h and recovery of works by the e omposers. He is teaching a cours titled "Classical Music in the Third Reich and the Holocaust" at Mayor's Youth Councll Director Patty McMahon is with Brighton

representative Calllse Pollina at the U.S. Capitol.

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ve~ant Hou e answers call £ r senior hous~ng By Judy Wasserman

CORRESPONDENT

r!~ · Luis Mi an came to America from Cuba

1, many ye ago," and he knows firsthand how <fifficult it c be to find affordable housing in a city like Bo ton.

For MiU , who is resident association presi­dent, and sc res of other immigrants and senior citizens, th Covenant House in Brighton has _\fen the swer to their housing dilemma. It ~eemed ti ng that dozens of residents had ~ont row s ts Ja<;t week when ground was bro­J<en for con truction of 42 additional units there. ri,'. Covenan House is a U.S. Housing & Urban J)evelopme t:financed nonprofit housing com­,Q}unity, Joe ly sponsored by B'nai B'rith Senior -~itizens H using Cotp. The existing 200-unit 1~ovenant use, located on Washington Street, is fully occ ied and has a long waiting list. TI1e

1fiew units ill be affordable and 18 will be set )ISide for ho eless elderly. -•: Financin for the new $5.5.million project is

provided by the cit) of Boston and its Neighbor­hood Hou~tng Trust the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and HUD. .

Calling th<.· groundl:X"eaking "a day of celebra­tion," Mayor Thomas Menino praised the part­nership of B'nai B'nth, and city,. tate and feder­al agencies to make the new units possible. WLth the crnrent tight ll<>w.ing market and soaring rents, he said. projec~ like thi are important, and "every Jl<?\\ unit hel~ anotherpeoon."

He pledged Lo build more affordable housing units even in th!se tough economic times

In fact, thL' need for more affordable housing in Allston-Bnghton is a major finding of the All­ston-Brighton Health) Boston Coalition' re­cently relea-al ·-comm ity Needs & Assets Assessment Report... Researchers found that "the cost of hou. ing i a major issue affecting the Allston-Brighton communil). Ri ing hou ing costs are th1eatening tbe neighborhood flavor and causing families. immigrants and older citi­zens to mov\: else\\ here."

The report's authors also wrote that "many people interviewed (for the ssment) indicat-ed that the commllility to increase the amount ofhou ing that is su

At last week's groundb · g, Andrew Cha-ban, co-<:hairman ofB'nai B rith's New Project Committee, introduced Ci Councilor Brian Honan of Brighton as so ne "who stood up for this project to make it a ity." · Honan described Covenan House as "a won­

derful home for seniors," and raised Menino for "streamlining the Neighbom Housing Trust proce.ss," which "brought re money to the city for projects like this."

NHT Chainnan Clayton mbull said NHT trives "to fill the gap for

$750,00) for Covenant Ho 's additional 42 units helps fulfill that goal. In addition to the NHT money, the project rece ved $3.8 million in HUD funds, just under $I mi lion from the State Housing Tru t, and $25,oo:J m Developer Eq­uity.

Covenant House was conceived more than 25 · . years ago when members of the B'nai B'rith New England Realty Unit, concerned about the growing shortage of affordable housing, created the senior housing corporation to develop afford­able rental housing for senior citizens. The first 150 units were completed in 1982, and 50 addi­tional units were completed in 1993. Covenant House provides not only housing, but also social, recreational, health and other supportive services for its residents. ~

Serving with Chaban as co-chairman of the new project is &I ward Zuker. The committee in­cludes Bjorn Anderson, Larry DiCara, Joel Fein­berg, Antonio Giordano Jr., Steven Gladstone, Robert Golden, Hindell Gro9Sman, Cas Kolaski, Steven Kaye, Kenneth Krozy, David Lesky, Cathie Morat, Linda Neshamkin, Ric Phillips, Daniel Sullivan, Marvin Siflinger, and Deanne Stone. Donna Golden was chairwoman of the groundbreaking ceremonies.

Vi ar suggests church sells non-f ai h-based holdings By Robin Washingto

BOSTON HERALD

~; The p hial vicar of the Cathedral of the ~oly Cross has posted a "Plan fot the New Mil­lynnium" o the church's Web site, advocating tpe archdi se sell schools arid other properties 'if they fail o deliver the trne teachings of the J;iith. r·; Add.ressi g the priest child sex abuse scandal directly, th Rev. Robert J. Carr of Lhe Mother -Church int e South End said critics calling for the church t behave like other corporations fail 10 recogni its real mission is to spread the gospel of J sus Christ.

"Ultimat ly, the issue ... is whether we are a

community of faith or a corporation. It is time to make the choice."' he wrote.

"Ask mo't parent! "'h) the) .· nd th ir chil­dren to a Catholic school and the) will tell you because of the discipline and the education. Our mission, ho"-e'er. is not to di~ipline children

. and prepare them for college. Our mi · ion i ... to preach Chn t crucified and re. urrected."

In that light. Carr \\rote. ..Such !'-Chool should be clo..ed and the assets -.old anti given to the poor, unle it i needed to provide for a [sex abuse] settlement."

He sugge,ted the same for other church char­itable activiue-..

Explaining ht ideas are hi own and not the

official po ition of the chu h, Carr addressed caU for Bernard Cardinal w's resignation, saying, 'The cardinal must ·tay in place. This problem is not sol".ed until e] is able to com­municate to us his unde tanding of [the Catholic] vision that he a d church leaders' policies violated."

Carr al o prop<) ed sell ng the cardinal's Commonwealth Avenue ma sion, though con­ceded not all of the church' social service ac­tivitie would fetch a buyer.

"No, but we'd have to ook at all of our branches to see if they are !filling their mis­sion," he said Monday.

The Rev. Robert Bu I lock, as tor of Our Lady

of Sorrows in Sharon and organizer of the Boston Priests' Forum, said he welcomed Carr's suggestions.

"I think in a crisis like this, we need lots of opinions," he said.

But he said he would refrain from drawing a line in the sand and delivering services only to those who attend Mass.

"I'm not so sure we should measure Catholi­cism so st1ictly by whether or not they go to church or how often. Jesus would never resttict his ministry and his compassion only to those who toe a strict ecclesiastical line." Robin Washi11gto11 may be reached at rwash­i11gto11@bostq11herald.cont

REAL ESTATE FACTS

GO SHOPPING! Ever noticed how you feel good browsing

through a full-service department store'? Mannequins are impeccably dressed with the layered look. Belt buckles are polished brass, and pants are a perfect, tailored fi t. Colors are coordinated, and everyone in the "group" has a smile as they sit motionless in a casual set­ting. The price is usually full relail.

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Selling a home parallels that department More situation. You can Jake Jhc discount tore approach, offering your home "as-is., at below market prices, or "merchandise" ii properly, and allract a "fall retail" purchaser.

Merchandising begins wilh a "walk­lhrough" of your home l o uncover needed repairs and other improvements. Your agcnl, rlaying the role of interested buyer, makes a list of items in need of altcntion, then asks you Jo complete them before showing fhc home lo prospects. Merchandising involves more than repairs. It sets the stage for buyers, making them feel at home. From fresh !lowers to the dining table set for a king's banquet, every room in the house is "staged" for maxi1m1m buyer appeal.

Your agent will explain details such as prop­er lighJing, furniture arrangement, and the absence of pets. Complete information aboul the home should be displayed along with a property profile huyers can take with 1hem.

Why not merchandise your home when you sell? It can bring ready buyers. cager to pay for the image you creale.

Hant more illjormation? t'lrdenlantlin~ reul e.\ltlfL' h; Ill\' huJiness. a1rd /'II lwppi~r ~hare my kmmkdgl' 1rifh

you. Conrau me direcl at (617) 746-5221 or/617) 787-2121.

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April 2 ; May I , 8, 15, 22 and 29. from I 30 to 11 : 15 a.m. No registra­tion req ired.

m Russo ~A. Russo & Sons, Inc. ,,. "Readin and Writing Poetry." a

.fuonthly w rkshop beginning Satur­ltlay, April 0, at 2 p.m., presents All­·Ston poet d teacher Susan Roberts. ·She will so offer a workshop for children t e same day at I p.m. 'Please call he library to register. -·

1 General iction Book Discus~ion , April 24 a 6:30 p.m. Book for dis­cussion is "Waiting." by Ha Jin. Moderator: Sarah Markell, adult-;' li­brarian.

Saturday Film Series. "Modem 'limes." A ·1 20 at 2 p.m. -'I ESOL nversation Group, April 24 at 6:30 .m. Join other students of ~n~lish pr cticing everyday conver­~at1on. "'

'J Chess I struction and Play. with Don Lubin April 23 at 3:30 p.m. Pre­registratio is required. u

our Favorite Poem." Neighborh and community lead­eis will re d and talk briefly about their favo te poems. Bring your fa­vorite poe to read, Saturday, April 27,at3p.

New n group wil meet for the first time Wednesda , May 8 at 6:30 p.m. Copies of he book to be disc ssed eyast F Nation" are now avail­able at the irculation desk. ::ir The Al/J on Branch Library ts lo-

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$pring I swim signup ow underway Gi The Oa Square Family YMCA Will accep swim lesson registrations lllis begun or the spring Il aquatic pro-··t grams. C ·ses run from May 6 !Hrough J ne 30 and are offered for ages 6 onths to 12 years in Want/par t, preschool, youth and aault grou ings, Sunday through Sat­Ufday. "' Other c ses include Adult Swim J_.essons; Dolphin's Swim Team; Masters S im Team; Water Polo; In­troouction o Com~titive Swimming; Water Ae1 bics; Arthritis Foundation ){quatic xercise; SCUBA Diving Ed SnorJ<, ling; and Lifeguard Train­r1g. I. Nationa certified inslructors teach

~I classes and financial assistance is

vailable rough th~ YMCA AC-ESS pro . For m information, call Rick enoit, V: lerie Johnson or Kyra Pit-

felli at 61 -787-8662 or register at the bf cA, 615 Washington St., ~ghton. ·

Square Family Y\1CA quatic partment is hosting a 24-ur m thon charity swim, begin­

ning at 6 .m. on Friday, April 26, and ending at a.m. on Saturday, April 27.

In a joi t effort, the event is spon-

Brighton Branch

Music Ragtime Riches \.\ ith Piani .·1

Andy Schmidt, April 25 at 7 p.m. Ragtime music of Scott Joplin. James Scott, Euday L. Bo\.\ man and much more.

Adults Help for the beginner Internet u..er.

Help is available on a one-on-one basis Tuesday, April 2.1. from 11 a.m. to noon, at the Brighton Branch Li­brary. The program i'> taught by adult services libraiian Ian Babner. Everyone is welcome.

ESOL Conversati n Group, Thursday, April 25 and Monday, April 22, at 6 p.m., Fri<la). April 19, Tuesday, Apri l 23 and Wednesda), April 24 at I 0 a.m.

Children Bilingual Storyhour. April 2-t at

10:15 a.m. After-school drop in. during li­

brary hours. Stories. video and homework help.

Films and Storie.\, April 23 at 10:30a.m.

The Brighton Branch Library is located at 40 Academ~· Hill Road, Brighton. For more i11fonnutio11 011

these programs, call 617-782-6032.

"Bo.,ton: A to Z" presented by Thomas H. O'Connor. Tuesday, April 23, at 7 p.m Dr. O'Connor, professor of hi tory emeritu , pre­!.ents a personal. informal and totally eclectic ta.JI., about his recent book, which in lude essay · about Bo ton people, place and events. Admi · ion free. For infonnation call 617-782-670-.

Adults OL Conversation Group , April

20 and 25 at 10:30 am., and all Thursday and Saturday . Engli h conversation and practice for adults.

Book Discu. ion, Tuesday, May 7, at 6:30 p.m. Book for discu sion is '1he Lost Legends of New Jersey." by Frederick Reiken. The book is avai lable at the library. All are wel­come to join.

Children SPECIAL EVENT - School va­

cation week. Animal Adventures: An &lucationaJ Experience Friday, April I 9, from 3 to 4 p.m. Join us for an en­tertaining, exciting and educational animal presentation. Participants will be able to learn about and handle dif­ferent creatures ru well as discover the role of each in our delicate ecosystem. Toddler torytime for children 2 and 3 accompanied b) an adult, Monday, April 22, 29: May 6, 13, and 20., from I0:30to 1:15am. Preschool Storytime for kids 3 to 5 ac­companied by an adult, Wednesdays,

OAK ~QUARE YMCA HAPPENINGS

sored by the Oak Square y· Mas­ters, Water Polo and Youth competi­tive swim teams for the benefit of Reach Out, the YMCA". scholarship fund. Open to all swimmer.,, partici­pant'> will. swim 25-)ard la~ in 30-minute shifts raising mone) through a minimum $5 sponsor pledge. faent organizers hope to raise at least $2,000.

The YMCA's Reach Out program is an annual fund-rai,mg campaign to solicit money for schol~hips and fi­nancial aid, which sub idiz.e program participation and membership fee:. for individuals without an ability to pa). This year's fund-rai.,ing goal i. $50,000.

For more infonnati non participat­ing in the Marathon Charil) wim for Reach Out, phone senior aquartc di­rector Rick Benoit at 617-787-8662 or stop by the YMCA to pick up a pledge sheet.

Dolphins swim team offers spring program

Sign-ups for the Dolphms Spring Swim Team, the Oak Square Family YMCA's competitive ·\.\imrning pro­gram is now underway. The program. which is underway, runs through June.

This is for swimmers. ages - to 18 with an ability to pt..~onn freestyle, backstroke, breastSUlike and butterfl) strokes. The Dolphin'.'> compete in the Eastern Massachu~lts YMCA Swim League.

Swim team members compete in age grou!Jl> of 8 and younger, 9 to 10, 11 to 12. 13 to 14, 15 to 16, and 17 to 18 and practice according to ability Sunda) through Saturday . All coaches are YMCA-certified.

Financial assistance is available for all classe through the YMCA's AC­CESS Program.

For more infonnation, call Senior quatics Director Rick Benoit or as­

sociate Head Coach Robb Evans at 617-7 7-8662 or register at the Oak Square Family YMCA. 615 Wash­ington St., Brighton.

YMCA offers water exercise for seniors

The Oak Square Family YMCA offers ongoing regi tration for its \\ater exercise programs pecifically tailored for participants older than 50, retiree and seniors.

Offered to participants of all abili­ties, classes include water aerobics, water e'<ercise for arthritis, senior recreational swim and masters swim­ming. The Y also offers a swim and urf program featuring water exer­

cise followed by a computer work­hop. A senior drop-in social pro­

gram is currently in the planning tage . Taught by instructor Tom

Ford. the Swim & Surf program of­fers seniors an introduction to com­puters. Pre-registration i required. Class ize i limited to 10.

Senior water aerobic and water

School reak, Tuesday, April 23 at 3 p.m. Joi the group for stories and art projects appropriate for school-aged childre No registration required.

The IK Club. The "Only Kids" Club i new book discussion group. Childre grades 3 and up are welcome to join for great conversation and a nack. The group will discuss "West­

ing Garpe" by Ellen Ra<>kin on May 14, fro .t to 4:45 p.m. Preregistration is requ · . Books are available.

Sprin Fling, Tuesday. April 30, 6:30 to p.m. A unique program fea­

wis Martiniello, pianist and ·st Casey Carle's "Bubble­

Mania.' combines high-energy enter­tainme , big band swing music, and

· ve bubble forms. Admission

NOTE: The Friends of the Faneuil Branch ibrary are seeking donations for the 14th annual Funky Auction, Tuesda , June 4, at 6:30 p.m., to raise funds fi r the branch. Sugge.<>ted dona­tions in Jude: flea market items; a spe­cial se ice (house cleaning, baby sit­ting, c king, etc.); unused birthday, shower or wedding gifts; season tick­ets or you can't use; a weekend at your acation cottage; games, toys; and ing special you are not

onated items need to be re-o later than May 17.

aneuil Brmzch library is lo­mted I 419 Faneuil St., Brighton. Form re i11fomurtio11 on these pro­grams, a/1617-782-6705.

exerci for arthritis are take place back-t back Mondays, Tuesdays and Ftys, 8:45 to 10 a.m. Senior water erobics, followed by a com­puter orkshop, takes place Tues­days d Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. to I p.m. S nior recreational swim is of­fered ondays, Wednesdays, and Friday from I to 2 p.m. Master

ing is offered Tuesdays and ys from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., rdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

·or drop-in social program takes lace Mondays through Fri­days, I :30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Adv ce registration and fees are req for some programs. Howev­er, the YMCA, through its Access pro , offers financial assistance to th who qualify.

For ore information, call Senior Aquati Director Rick Benoit at 617-787-8 2, or register at the Oak Squ Family YMCA, 615 Wash-

t., Brighton.

Wat r Polo is held on Sun ay through May 5

Oak Square YMCA Club Water Polo, fun, instructional and compet-1ttve oed club, meets Sundays throug May 5 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Mem rs pay $25; non-members, $50. I participants must be compe­tent s immers.

For ore information, call Aquatic Direct r Rick Benoit at 61.7-787-8662 r Water Polo Coordinator Tim McM us at 617-243-0060.

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Watching the Marathon fr m Cleveland Circl~ is its own event MARATHON, from page 1

champ Albin Stenroos in 1926. Brighton has cl.urned man) \'ictim over the year~ · he aid.

Cleveland C ire le \\a~ al. o the site of many Brighton re~ident having a great time on Monda) a:. thousands turned out to \\ itne . more than 16,000 runners endure the I 06th. running of the Boston Marathon.

Seen and heard lOa.m.

The only peopl m Cleveland Circle at , this time are r<i .e organizers, an army of people handinc out free Orbit gum the police and peor e picking up kegs for marathon part11•s

"It's just a reason to start dnnkmg beer early," says Brighton resident Adam Karp as he wheels a keg home from Reseivoir Wine & Spint ·rm not eyen gonna watch the race."

11:30 a.m. Cityside Bar and Gnll opens its doors af\d a crowd th t stretches around the corner eagerly c ·omHflto the bar area.

''Some people told me they were out there at 8 a.m. 1nder blankets manager Juan Salm.eron ~.ays ·1ith pnde.

In front of Dunk ' Donuts the OrbH gum people art olmg out to everyone who walks by h ndfuls of free sticks of gum.

"Cool," ooe gu quipped. ' Now the cops won't know l'v• been dnnking ft

12:30 p.m. A loud party st 1rts m the apartments above Cityside Bar and G ~II and two signs exhorting a runner named "Mar­cus" are unfurltd They also stick a rub­ber sex doll m a ~ tndo holding an American flag hose crazy' kids.

12:55 p.m. The first wheelr1a1r athletes descend into Cleveland C rcle w!11ch prompts the first cheering al ·he day. A gaggle of on­lookers immed ately whip out cell phones to call friends at e finish hne m Copley Square to tell them the race was indeed getting close to the end

At one Beacon Street crossing pomt. one Boston police officer could oe heard lamenting that ~ ery year people don t do what they are supposea to, a!Ways tiying to cros stiouldn t as she watches a ·amity cross out even looking to see 1f any athlttes are commg

PHOTO BY KATE FlCJCI\

Spectators watch the Boston Marathon fr m apartment windows above Cleveland Circle. Over 16,000 runners took part in Monday's 106th running of the annual marathon. Cleveland Circle has lo been a favorite place for people to watch the race.

1:15 p.m. • One apparently uninformed race afi­cionado says on his cell phone "Yeah. come down. dude. It's gonna be a great batt e between the Mexicans and the Ken1ans. Mexicans? The Kenyans were ma league by themselves on Monday.

1:35 p.m T~10 unsuspecting female students from Boston College are engaged by a dirty homeless man at the tum onto Beacon Street. He gives them a quick history of the race and confides confidently ··you watch. the first guy will be a Kenyan." he slurs.

A man wflks by and hands him a plate of macaroni and a roll-up 5dnd ~1ch. The d ie homeless guy 1rnmed1ate y .Jffers a 1te to anyone. There are no tak­ers.

A homeless guy is prescient as the lead runners are indeed all Kenyans. They turn onto Chestnut Hill Avenue as people begin streaming out of the bars and restaurants to catch a glimpse of the runners.

Boston College student Jacob Slivka and his friends set up a small couch at the bend and start spraying water guns.

"We're so wasted, man .... wait, don't print that. dude," one says.

p.m. The women's division leaders come through and one poor male runner des­perately tries not to get run over by the media trucks and motorcycle police that precede them.

Then comes the phrase derided in a· famous "Seinfeld" episode that takes place while they watch the New York City Marathon:

"You're all winners," a woman gleefully shouts near the T stop on Beacon Street.

2:30 p.m. By now the trickle of runners has be­come a torrent of pained expressions. Many runners wrote their names on their arms and the crowd revels in cheering them on by name. A couple runs by, he in a tuxedo cut up like a T-shirt, with a sign on her back that says "just married."

The biggest cheers are reserved for any Boston College runners, with many slowing down to high-five friends.

3:20 p.m. One Japanese runner stops by two girls holding a sign in Japanese. He takes the

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sign and poses for a picture before con­tinuing the race.

A runner falls on Beacon Street and gets a huge roar of approval when he dusts himself off and keeps on going. Many runners go by carrying huge American flags.

4p.m. . The crowd starts to disperse as the run­

ners dwindle and within an hour, the barriers will come down. The general consensus is that this has been a tame Boston Marathon with few incidents. One police officer, who would not give his name, says, "So far so good, it's been calm compared to others."

"It's been good," says Cityside manager Salmeron. Not like three years ago when it seemed like everyone was drunk at 11 :30 a.m."

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COME TO iHtt 20TH ANNIV RUN OF THE CHARL£S CANOE

The C arles River Watershed Association invi~es you to the 20th anniversar/ R1 fl Of th Ctwl Cano & Kayak Race, returning to the historic Charles Riv ·on Sunday, April 28, 2002.

Join t ousands of spectators who come out along the sceni, river from Dedham to Boston to cheer on over 1800 competitors an celebrate the improvements .in the Charles River.

• The C arles River Watershed Association (CRWA> organiz1• the Run of llm I 11ft in support of its mission to protect and enha ce the health, beauty and enjoyment of the Chari s River and its tributaries. The Ufl of tile C/1t1rlestakes the word "run' seriously, gett1 g paddlers out of their boats and onto their feet. Competitors in the onger races face 6 portages, including the 112 ile, boat-shouldering, traffic-halting sprint along Routt' 16 In Wellesley. The other portages around the many dams on the C arles range from 200 yards to 1/3 mile.

are open to paddlers age 12 and up. Whether you jo1ri them or watch them, you're guaranteed a memorable day.

Where to Watch the Ru 1 of the Charles Listed below are descriptions o viewing locations and approximate times that the first boats (profession I racers) will pass. You can either stay in the same location and catch th action in different races as they pass, or hop along the course to follow our favorite competitors.

Note: Many sections of the M C walkway along the riverbank between Moody St., Waltham and Watertown Square are cellent for race-watching.

2. Kendrick St. Bridge, Needham/Newton, and Nahanton Park, Newton. 10:55 am. 3 Central Ave. Bridge, Needham/Newton and Hemlock Gorge Reservation at Echo Bridge, ewton. 11:05 am.

'. Norumbega Duck Feeding Area, Weston/Newton. 12:00 noon. I J Waltham's Pro~pect St. Bridge, Moody St. Bridge or the MDC river walkway 12:30 pm.

(). Bridge St., Newton/Watertown. 12:45 om. This is a good spot to view a little hitewater paddling below Bemis Dam.

' Footbridge upstream of Watertown Dam, Newton/Watertown. 12:55

THE FINISH LINE FESTIVAL AT MDC HERTER ARTESANI PARK, ALLSTON. 12:00 noon. All races conclude at the day-long, a mission-free, fun-for-the-whole­family Finish Line Festival of music, food, raffles displays and award ceremonies.

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One of the country's first watershed organizations, Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA> was

. formed in 1965 in response to public concern about the declining condition of the Charles. Since its founding, ORWA has played a prominent role in cleaning up the river and protecting its watershed, working with gbvernment officials and citizen groups from 35 towns from Hopkinton to Boston. Init iatives over the last three decades have dramatically improved \he quality of water in the watershed and approaches to water resource

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CRWA Works Jo Protect and enhance the health, beauty and enjoyment of the Charles River.

llOW CRWA MAl<£S I~ O!rFERENf.l

Promotes River Access & Expansion of River Parklands • CRWA led a coalition effort to stop BU from building a new sailing pavilion on prime Esplanade property. The new approved site near Charlesgate will have fewer environme·ntal impacts and provide the greatest potential for public benefits ..

Identifies Pollution Sources and Advocates Correction· CRWA conducts year-round water quality monitoring at 37 sites along the ri~er, helping to pinpoint problem areas.

Sustainable Watershed Management· CRWA advises towns and businesses on accommodating growth while managing fresh water supplies and wastewater treatment. '

Research and Technical Assistance· CRWA's five-year study on interactions in the watershed and in-house lab1 computer modeling and'mappihg capabilities provides valuable data and resources for decision-makers and other groups.

Education - CRWA sponsors forums, publishes a newsletter, the Streamer, and hosts the informative webslte charlesrlver.org.

Water-Quality Flags - CRWA posts flags in the Lower Basrn to signal water quality conditions for boaters.

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Visit www.charlesriver.org or call 617-965·5975 I Joining CRWA means adding your voice to more than 5000 members who support the organization's efforts to clean up the Charles and protect water resources in its watershed. Members rece·\le hree issues a year of the St~eamer With news a·bout what's happening on the river, a window decal and notices of special events. More Importantly, members can feel good knowing that their dues fuel the work of restot'ing a treasured natural asset. So, join C RWA and help protect the Charles River.

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Parki g is also a universal con-cem.

"The daily prayer services and meetin s of the congregation and study i the kollel, for instance, gen­erate c nsiderable traffic and park­ing pre ure and have in the Ice t few m ths caused two head-on car acciden s," maintains Allan Haven, local r sident, architect and co­chainn of the task force.

The ephardic community say that mo t of the congregation walks to serv ces and for larger events, the] wi I lease parking lots nearby. But ac ording to neighbors, those parking lots already have cars to ac­commo ate. They say an area where parking is already a problem cannot deal wi the additional cars the pro­posed 2 0-capacity hall will bring.

"ft v. uld triple traffic in the area. The lot. are far and difficult to find. There ea maximum of 23 parking spot.~ a ailablc for them in the pro­posed I t so they will still end up parking heir cars all over the streets. lf you e coming for a function, will yo go looking for a hidden lot? You wil take whatever you can find and tha will be Brookline streets. Why sh uld Brookline be a parkjng lot for the Sephardic community who liv in Brighton?" asks Rosine Green. member of the task force and hor e owner for 25 years on Willisto Road.

In ad ition, the Jewish group has recently submitted a new proposal to the oston Redevelopment Au­thority howing only one parking pace in place of the previous seven

on site, omething the task force and neighlx> hood groups were not in­formed bout.

The Sephardic community has to see that. There are enough prop.. also been busy gathering signatures lems in the world as it is," sata of consent from the congregation, Green. ' w but most of them argue area resi- The exjsting building cove,fl> dents do not even live in this neigh- 12,433 square feet and the proposed borhood. The task force has collect- building would be 21,500 squ~ ed 354 signatures and marked out feet and in violation of seven zon­houses in the area according to resi- ing codes, but nothing has been pr 1 dents who are for or against the de- sented in public meetings so far t~ft velopment, and not just regarding wairant these variances. " · the size. Ideally residents would like to s~v

Problems of garbage and even rats condominiums on that lot to ma~c)}. on the property have not been dealt the homes around the area, but ~ with despite continued complaints, willing to have the temple there as,,~ say residents of this otherwise beau- local place of worship. What thf~ tiful neighborhood. object to are the huge hall and kol­

"They have a cobple of dump- !ell that will draw in cars and sters which get filled and overflow crowds. The top floor of the exisll all over the ground," said Corey ing building is currently rented ou1 Road resident Suzanne Naudin. to two families and there are rt6 "This causes a problem especially clues about where they will ~ in summer. If we keep our windows though architect Andrew Fine stat' open we can smell it and there are ed that the new building will nbt bugs too. Then it brings in raccoons house apartments. and other small animals." The Jewish group has been ac-

"There are five other temples and cused of being completely unr~: synagogues within a half mjJe from sponsive to community concerns here. We are being overly saturat- and has not bothered to show area ed," said Betty Latner, a 22-year . residents the leases for parking or resident living across the street traffic studies. The congregatiOO, from the synagogue. the attorney and the architect ha~

Moreover, residents are upset refused to discuss these issues· ot about how the community has been reconcile differences with the abud conducting business. over this de- ters and residents of the area. velopment. Rabbi Hamaoui would not cotru

"My husband and I are Jewish ment except to say that there will bd and we had very good feelings for a hearing soon. u the rabbi and. thought they would "I think things are going to b6 take the neighborhood into consid- straightened out by then," he s'}iid~l eration, but they just don't care. Meanwhile, residents are busy [The Sephardic community] does petitioning, writing letters to tl)i; not care for us the . way we were city , and hoping that the zoniog willing to welcome them. There are board gives them a break from un; many Jews in the area and they are ruly development and preserv~~ pitting Jews against Jews and I hate their quality of life. · 1.1

St te cars taken to be auctioned , ~ By Elisabeth J. Beardsley

BOSTON HERALD

A flee of tax.payer-owned trucks and SUVs is headed for the. a ction block to pay for Clean Elections - anger­ing som state officials who say the vehicles are vital and expensi to replace. Of the 25 state-owned vehicles being targeted, the State Lottery Commission owns I 0 - or 7 .8 percent f the far-flung agency's fleet.

'This s a very unwieldy way to pay for Clean Elec­tion ," 'd Treasurer Shannon O'B1ien, who oversees the Lottery. This will be difficult for us."

Fresh om a series of court victories over the voter-ap­proved paign finance law, Clean Elections advocates identifi the cars Tuesday, culling them from a full list of the state s 9 ,000 vehicles. Criminal background checks have al ady been administered to a constable and a mover, a d the keys were expected to be seized before the end of i · week. said Mass. Voters for Clean Elections Director David Donnelly.

The v hicles - mostly high-end Ford Expeditions, Fl 50 pi kup trucks and brand-new Taurus wagons -will -be uctioned off at a Lynn warehouse, as early as Sunday, o raise money for political campaigns. The state is under rders from the state Supreme Judicial Court to cough u $250,000 - and growing - for gubernatorial candidat Warren Tolman and several legislative candi­dates w quatify for the public financing. .

Amon the Lottery cars, eight are Taurus wagons, with six assi,, ed to field representatives who shuttle around to the 7. 00 Lottery agents statewide. One of the remain­ing Tau s wagons is assigned to Worcester regional Lot­tery dire tor Jack Kelly. The other is a "pool" car. The Lottery', telecommunication technicians are behirid the wheels the agency's two 2001 Ford Expeditions. With each use logging alx>ut 15,000 miles per year, the cars mu t be eplaced, or hefty reimbursement paid to work­ers. O'B ·en said.

"Both of those options will cost cities and towns po­tential I t earnings," said O'Brien, a gubernatorial can· didate. ·

Donn lly didn't have a lot of sympathy for the Lottery. 'May they're driving around,.looking for the missing .

tickets,'' I said. Clean lections supporters say they avoided agencies

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with only a few cars - like the departments ofEducati0d and Social Services - instead targeting agencies with huge fleets. r,

Clean Elections supporters gravitated toward the newer cars on the state's roster, aiming for the higher re~ sale value, Donnelly said. . ~.

They've also found a 1963 Ford Galaxy, owned by tBt! Department of Pvblic Health, th.at could fetch up to $25,000 as a collector's item, Donnelly said. ' I

In addition to the Lottery cars, the auctioneer's harird mer is poised over nine of the Massachusetts Highway Department's vehicles - a small fraction of the agency:~ 2,295-strong fleet. Highway Commissioner John Cogliano was not available, and spokesman StevtR Young would only confirm that the agency owns tile cars. ' )

Young refused to provide details about which state erh~ ployees are driving the cars at the moment, how often tfiq cars are used, or whether the agency's operations will b6 affected by the cars' loss. State-issued vehicles - espt>, cially the flashy, pricey SUVs - are a highly coveted perk often awarded to the politically connected. The highway department has long been known as a patrona~ haven. The last six cars on the seizure list are split, twA apiece, among the departments of Environmental Ma agement, Fisheries and Wildlife, and Environmental Pr tection.

Meanwhile, the Clean Elections stalemate continued the State House, where lawmakers have refused to fu or repeal the law, despite the high court's insistence th have a constitutional duty to do so.

Clean Elections plaintiffs were slated to forcibly e tract testimony this week from House Speaker Thom M. Finneran and two of his top lieutenants, on the iss of seizing their office furniture. But the plaintiffs back off after SJC Justice Martha Sosman chastised them ti turning the court battle into a "publicity stunt."

Sosman said her ruling two weeks ago allowing sale of state property was "not meant to signal so needlessly disruptive, attention-getting approach."

Sosman scheduled arguments on the meri~ of seizi lawmakers' furniture for April 29.

As for the prospect of losing his desk, Finneran sa1 'I'll work standing up. I usually do anyway."

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Pr testers want Cardinal Law to g 1PROTES ' from page 1 Archdio ese headquarters in lBrighton , Protes outside Law's Brighton ;home h e become commonplace (in recent times due to the growing ;priest se abuse scandal and further revelatio s about Law's efforts to irude the edophiles. · • While he protesters were peace­\fuJ on riday, their ·picket signs :shouted logans like "Jesus Wept­iTake ba Our Church"; "It's Time [- No or~ Lies, Betrayal, Arro­gance, laming the Media"; "Jus-1ice and Mercy for Victim "; "If \People ave a Voice, Abuse Will

ever H ppen Again." Perha s the most popular was the

'Honk £ r Law to Resign" sign and ight o of I 0 cars did as they rove d wn Commonwealth Av­ue. While e majority thought it was

· Ple for w to go and were aghast

1at the P pe's decision to leave him · n Bost , there was one protester •who sto d in favor of the cardinal.

"I thi these people are well-in­tentione and wrong," said Denise McDon Id of .Braintree, .who ·be­lieves th t the protesters are hinder­ing the ealing process and are not helping n any way. Most of the al­legation of clergy sexual abuse are baseless she said, and cannot be proved.

She s ted that attending a recent Tiews c nference, she saw victim 'Greg F rd laughing with two men in suits, nd believes that many peo­j:ile are exposing and exploiting 1 andal for money, publicity or persona gain. -, r She a o believes that the cardinal Is· doing his job well, which is more ttlan sh can say for the state. Too

· much · being said where pe­'(!Ophile are concerned and she is Worried that the world press and Cfistrict ttorneys are using graphic Tanguag and graphic testimonies to further is. l 1 ''This state d0es not do as good a JOb as t e cardinal does. This erodes p,ublic ·st and antagonizes people ,who h e faced sex-abuse in the p'ast an children who have got over if; Sod Jy this is a b.otissue, but we Me goi g to heal in spite of all this," she sai . _, A pr cticing Catholic,. MacDon­ald up Ids her faith and says that ,we ca ot let mass hysteria take pyer w en there are so ma.ny other proble s in the world. She alleges J]lat the e are many elderly religious looders who have died in the past weeks ue to the stress this scandal has cau ed in the church.

Othe protestors at the Archdio­cese g tes remained skeptical and believe that as a spiritual leader and a man of the church, the cardinal has fai ed to do his part and de­serves o go. v, "For me it's a kind of oxymoron addres ing the question of whether he sho Id resign. The cardinal has aided nd abetted criminals, paid hush oney and hindered the pub­lic pr ess," said Cathy Co tello of ·West oxbury, who said she knew the Fo d family for years and has watch in horror as the cold and coded etters about the scandal from Liaw w re exposed. r,1 ''Thi man can no longer stand and cl im to be a moral leader. He has lo all credibility. He is a crim­igal arrogant and egocentric. Anyth ng he says and does now will ~f! a Ii e too late," she said. .c11Ros mary Boutreau of Newton, whose grandson is a victim of cler­gy sex al abuse, said, "I am here in ~ppo of all the victims and am hopin the cardinal will resign." r"'I £ el to be silent and not do ~0me ing is to be like the church that h s covered up crimes," said Gina ealy of Reading. "I am ac­tive .i my church and I want to be proud of it. As a practicing ~tho ic, I cannot stand here and watch without doing something." [,•Stu ents frnm Regis College

!so staging a protest. Some at this has shak.en their faith ey have new doubts about

BOSTON HERALD PHOTO BY MARK GARFlNKEL

Cardlnal Law's spokesperson Donna Morrissey answers questions from the press on Fr day afternoon outside the Archdiocese headquarters in Brighton after reading a statement from her boss saying will not resign his post. At the left, Cathy Mooney holds a sign expressing the feelings of lots of people these day .

their religion. Chris Szpila from We too parad­

ed a sign that read "Li ten to the Faithful, Resign No\\. Please Leave the Church so I Can Return."

"My faith has been rocked and l have had trouble going to 1as . l can't see myself belonging to an in­stitution that has lied." Szpila ·aid.

Her colleague, Henri kGill. added, "I went to Catholic school and this goes again t everything I was taught. It's time the church be­comes accountable for what' hap­pening."

Other protestor-. al o feel their faith in the church is no more.

"My faith in the church L ... for­get it," said Marie Collam re. 70 of Reading, herself a nctim of abuse from the age of 3. She had to go into therapy again after 15 years and feels that the da01age goe on for years. But her belief in her faith re­mains unshaken.

"I believe in Mas and the sacra­ments and I will not lea\ e it," he said. "I will not let the lie and be­trayal chase me out. I won ·1 be silent, either."

Others, like her. believe that by intimidating victim. and forcing them to keep quiet. Law and hi bishops have allowed abu e to hap­pen to more children when the priests could have gone to jail years ago. They said that the cardinal is a very political man and if he re ign", many others will have to follow suit. They feel there· nothing he can do here as a cardinal any more.

"Law protected pedophile , but God is protecting the church by al­lowing this to happen and to make a change. In my opinion. thii. i the best thing that bas happened to the church in the last thou and }ears," added Collamore.

''There needs to be refonn in the church. This isn' t about Catholic faith, it is about a hierarchical in ti­tution. The way they are behaving i not consistent with the faith." agreed Joe Healy, a local Euchan t minister from Reading, who said he cannot be part of uch an organiza­tion and not do something to mobi­lize others if he can.

He has a threefold reason in being a part of the prote t.

"Children have been abu ed by priests, and the cardinal' tate­ments that he feel a sen e of re­sponsibility are in contradiction with his behavior. re i ting every step of the way to giYe any infonna­tion," he said.

"Secondly, the hierarchical etup of the church make it behave like corporations to perpetuate it power and ex istence. We need to make the church the people again. Third!}, the refonn must lead to change in the people of the church and reflect who they are. Thi will not change from the top down, bul only if peo-

pie of ,he church make their voices heard."

De. pite their di appointment in the church and the way it has han­dles the recent . candal, many be­lieve that their faith i: their own and cannot be tarnished. They see the church being about men. power and money and not about the di­vine that is in every human being. And man} b~lieve that it i an or­ganized religion believing it elf to be the be t. making itself a S\\Ord against other religions and making war.

Bet y Conway. a nun from St. Ignatius m ewton. said. '·Faith is so many things. but this i · not a fai th ue. This is a leadership i · ue and that's what is making us raise our voices.''

"Thi. 1 not about faith. This is about men and power." said Boutreau. "This i. an opportunity for u to refonn and rebuild the

chur h and to "make a difference. The oly Spirit is working within

·tello agrees. She walked from the church when she was isheartened by the creed, the

hier ·chy. the anger and hatred. "I believe spirituality is within

ours uls and do not believe in insti­tutio al religion," she said. "We are all ivine and coming from the sam god source. Religion has mad a mockery of the message that cam from God." ~

.. e are here because this needs tom veto another level." said Con­way. "We need change for healing to h ppen. 1t's been way too long. The church needs us for so many othe things and so much energy has en poured into this. People are ot supposed to be hurt by the chur ·h. They are supposed to be heal db} it."

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oston schools v ady to combat

· violence. Mayo Thoma<; M. Menino and

'. SuNrint ndent Thomas · W. : Payzant cently joined school of­. ficials, p nts, students and rcpre­: sentntiv s from NSTAR and the :Police thletic League in uoveil­

initiatives working in .Boston ublic Schools th]s year to improve school climate. The initia­

: tives we e developed after a school climate ask force. School climate

: refers to the -learning environment in the s hool created by students, staff an teachers.

BPS is working to' improve school c irnate through student be­havior t enhance classroom learn­

: ing. Ac lm, engaged stu<leht body · promot · a stronger academic per­formanc by the individual and the

. school n a whole. These school

.climate nitiatives target improving , and un rstinding student behav-' ior. . : The i itiatives also remove dis­' 111ptive tudents from the schools : and pro ide them with strong~r al-temativ s. The efforts are showing

·positive effects already with the ,expulsi n rate showing one half :the nun r of expulsions this year : compar d to this time last year. The init atives that staited thi~ year

;under l e school climate initiative ;include: : Coo rative Discipline Train· :mg: : Coo rative discipline wo1 ks as : a model to understand reason, why ~c;tuden misbehave whether it be for atte 1tion, power, revenge or fear th y will fail lo successful comple assigned work. Adults are the able to provide inte1ven­tions fi · students to con-ect their behavi

The eroise of Cooperative Dis­cipline elieves that when students are fee ing capable in cl.assroom work, nnected to the adults and other s udents in the classroom, those s dents will behave well and learn ore. Already, more than 200 tea hers have received the Co­opemti e Discipline training. 1 Seco d Step Curriculum: 1 Bost n Public Health Commis­\;ion h provided a grant for the "Secon Step" . curriculum in 'grades · ndergarten through eight to teac empathy, ·impulse control and an er-management skills for au stud ·nts. Staff at 14 elementary school has been trained in the cw'-

riculum this year. rraining hlb been given Lo 98 middle ...chool staff members .. There 1s a correla­tion between developing these skills and effective 'tudenl learn­ing.

Changes to Code of Discipline: Changes recently apprO\ ed b}

the Boston School Committee nO\\ require principals to expel tudenr: for the following ot len"Cs rather than giving the principal the option of expulsion:

• Possession of a \\ eapun \\ hich is used in a threatening manner:

• Assault and battrry on -.chool staff where physical l'lJury re ult :

•Sexual assault. These expulsions hall not be

longer than the tei;m of one calen­dar year. The change~ ''ill take ef­fect in September 200::! after \\rit­ten notice to parents anJ studenl'>.

Smart Program and more al­ternative education:

Saturday Morning ltemati\e Reach Out and Teach pro' id~ an alternative to expulsion for ..enom offenses by non-chwni.: offenders. Students are taught ,kill-, to under­stand consequences of beha\ ior. stronger character eJucation. MCAS help, counseling and com­munity-based service.: . for grade" one through 12. Spcm ort!d b) a grant from NSTAR • nd the Police Athletic League. Twenty~five stud1.:nt ha\e al­

ready completed the eight con-.o.:­utive four-hour ses<,1Pn. on aiur­days. The parentinj.' adult mu.-.t agree I 00 percent attenJance for the' child and attend tme "<! 100

with the ·child. Pro1:ram ul. 11 in­

cludes 16 hours of cnmmumt. ser­vice over the couf" of !he eight Saturday sessions.

When students or parent: fail to comply with terms of program. the result is a three stage prog:re:-.. he discipline including:

Student parent mediation: Home visit to parents; return to school for expulsion hearing (or refer to CIC for elementary school).

BPS has increased the number of alternative education seat: for students creating di..,ruptioir in the traditional classroom settim!. The number of seats has increased from 340 in 2000 to 562 m 2CXJ2. BPS offers more than 12 different alter­native education program city­wide for disruptive student! .

;L ts of opportunities vailable for youth ollowing is a list of events urces to help Boston youth with summer and yeru·­

round ppo1tunities. Many of these progra s have additional informa­tion av ilable online.

For hose who do not have ac­cess t the Internet, visit a Boston Public Library to use the comput­ers th t are available there. For youth resources, resi·dents may also c II the Mayor's YOUTH­UNE t 617-635-2240, from noon to 8 p. . weekdays.

"BP Live Homework Help" - The Bost n Public Library has expanded its after school homework help at each local branch libraries through the avail­abir of high school homework men­tors, Harvard University tutors, on-line tutor , BPS textbooks from grades 3 thro gh 12 and librarians. For more in­form tion call a local branch, 617-536-540 , or on line at www.bpl.org click on 'Kid' Page". • ·

"Su mer Stuff" - BPS Early Edrtion for iddle and Hig~ School Students. This pecial "early bird" edition of Sum­mer Stuff lists summer jobs and pro­gra s with early deadlines (and a few spri g programs, too). Check them o,Ut, and pply now-especially if requesting fina cial aid. The regular, 16-page Sum­mer tuft 2002 will be ready in April, alon with Summer Stuff Jr. packed with ideas for elementary school stu­den . The Early Edition of Summer

1 Stu is available now online at .boston.k1 2.ma.us/summerstuff .ht

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Bos on Community Centers- BCC is a ne ork of 43 facilities that provide

child care, adult and youth education, youth services, special needs program­ming, after school-programs, camps. and recreation and enrichment activities to more than 65,000 Boston residents annually. For more infornation call 617-635-4920 or visit www.cifyofboston.gov/communitycen­ters/.

"Harbor Discoveries Camp" - One Week Sessions July 8 ttirough Aug. 23 for grades 4 through 7 This camp pro­vides exciting outdoor ac1ivities explor­ing aquatic environments The camp in­cludes activities at the New England Aquarium, excursions to ttie Boston Harbor islands, daily field trips. and an overnight camping tnp. City of Boston children entering grades 4 ttirough 7 in the fall of 2002 can app"J for a limited number of one week scholarships by submitting an application and an essay. Brochures are available at all branches of the BPL, Community Centers, and in City Hall at the Office of Consumer Af­fairs (room 817) or Environment De­partment (room 805). The scholarship deadline is March 11 If an applicant wants to go to more than ooe session, at their own expense. ttiey should call the New England Aquanum at 617-973· 0250. For information on the Mayor's scholarship program call Patricia. Mal­one at 617-635-4165.

HOPELINE - The Boston Youth Fund Summer job line for Boston teens ages 14 to 17. Call the Mayor's Youthline 617-635-2240, noon to 8 p.m. week­days in April for the dates and hours for the HOPELINE telephone and web site sign up.

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BC's art fe ..... ival is a weekend aWay :: . •n

The anival of pring heralds an annual even al Bo ton College, when the univer.,ity celebrates e tmdition of the arts on campus during its Arts Fe ti­val.

celebration, which will include music, dance and visual arts.

ages - noon to 4 p.m., O'Neill Plaza. , Children's Story Hour: "Once Upon a Time in

the Animal Kingdom," animal stories for kids of' all ages. Snacks provided - I :30 to 2:30 p.m.ff Gasson Hall, room 100. . •T Arti b.\\ithadi,er.;erangeoftalenL~andinte ts

will highlight performing. \ i ual and literary p -grams during the fourth annual festival on April 5, 26and 27.

Some 800 Boston College students, faculty and administrators will lend their talents to this year's festival. They include BC musicians, actors, dai1cers, singers, sculptors, painters, photogra­phers, writers, curators, filmmakers, authors and

Cookie A1t: Decorate your own cookie whilt),,. supplies last - noon to 2 p.m., O'Neill Plaza.

others. . The t6tival is open to the public and events

include \'arious artistic media such as painti g, drawing and ceramics.

In addition. the festival will highlight prominent alumni artists. including WCRB-FM morning pro­gram host Laura Carlo, '80. Carlo, who is also a member of the Alumni Honorary Committee for BC's 2002 Art Festival, will speak from 2 to 3 p.m. on Friday. April 26, in the Gasson Hall Honors Li­brary on BC's Chestnut Hill campus. Her topic \ ·ill be "Cla-.. ical 1usic from A-Z: Everything You Alway Wanted to Know About Clas ... ical Music, But Were Afraid to Ask."

Atts events and demonstrations will include scene painting, figure drawing, ceramics and culi-~ nary art demonstrations by BC faculty and staff 1,

Audience members are invited to participate in the creation of a sidewalk mural and a collaborativel sculpture the fourth in a series resulting from the'' Arts Festivals.

"We are plea.'ied to once again welcome the lar er community to share our re ources and join us as e celebr.ite the arts at Bo~ton College." says Unive . i­t} rt-. Council chamnan Rev. J. Robert Barth, J. .. Ian) a.::adem1c Jepartm nt at Boston Coll includin~ Fme AA'>, Music. Theater, English others. hJVe played a major role in the succes thi' annual e\'ent."

The festi\al includes a full late of pe1fom1 ng and' i ual arb eYents. lectures and film screeni gs, literary. culinaJ) and liturgical arts events. The gram include concert . theater performances, etry reading .. dances and art exhibitions.

On Saturday, Ap1il 27, will be a vruiety of pro­gramming and events for children and families fea­turing children's theater, arts and crafts, story hour and other activities from noon to 4 p.m.

The Boston College Arts Festival i · organiledj b) the University' Arts Council and sponsored with the offic~ of the President. Academic Vice President and Community Affairs. This year, thel festival has received suppo11 from Borders. •1

The festival event center is O'Neill Plaza. The A11s Festival will be held, rain or shine. The"' ' O'Neill Plaza is heated. Indoor rain locations will

The family events include: be posted on the festival Web site. I• r

A 1a ·s for the Arts will be celebrated on O' eill Plaza by Fr. Barth at 4 p.m. on Satur ay, April 27. People of all faiths are welcome at e

Children Theater: Three plays appropriate for children of all ages, but most interesting for 5 to 7-year-olds - 2:45 to 3:45 p.m., O'Neill Plaza.

Arts ' n' Crafts: Multicultural craft designs for all

For more information, call project director Cathi: 1 lanno Fournier at 617-552-4935. For infonnation, event locations and updates, visit www.bc.edu/arts' ' orcall 617-552-2787. 1·;

Catholic Memorial announces honor roll

Principal Richard Chisholm has announced that the following students from Brighton have been named to the Catholic Memorial honor roll for the third marl<.ing period:

Jeffre) Aucoin. second honors, grade seven: Anthony Ferguson, sec­ond honors. grade seven: Jonathan

g, second honors. grade seven: John C. Lynch. first honors. grade eight;

1ichael P. Waite, second honors, gmde nine: Michael M. Bany. second honors, grade 10; Chri topher J. Cut­ler. <;eeond honors. grade I 0: Chri tian \\. DeChellis. second honors. grade 10: Stephen Hill, first honors, grade 10: Gordon K. Lescinskis, first hon­or.:;. grade I 0: icholas S. Lescinskis, . econd honors. grade 10; Carlo E. Pesce, second honors, grade I 0; William T. Salmon. second honors, grade 11: and Bhuwan K. Chawla. econd honors, grade 12. To earn first honors, a student must

have a grade point average of 89.5 to 9-1..4 with no grade below 80; and sec­ond honors, 84.5 to 89.4 with no grade belO\\ 75.

Local students make Matignon's honor roll

Ga!)' Lefave. principal of Matignon High School in Cam­bridge, has announced the honor roll list for the quarter. The following stu­dents from Brighton were named to the honor roll: seniors Andrew LeRo} and Nicole Surrette; and sophomore Stephanie Finneran.

Brighton students qualify for dean's list

Johnson & Wales University has announced the names of its students \\ho have been named to the dean's Ii t for the winter term ending in March. To receive dean 's list com­mendation, tudents must earn a cu­mulati \ e grade point average of 3.40 or above.

Brig ton residents Grace Lee, a comp ers/business application major, and Michael Rickard, baking and p try arts major, earned their spots the list.

fe played hoops mingham State O'Keefe played basketball

t winter for Framingham State Colle . The Brighton resident is a gradu te of Brimmer and May. He was 0 e of the best shooters on the team. e was a solid player on both ends o the floor and is looking to step into even bigger role next season.

F · gham posted its highest win total i 11 years en route to making it to the mals of the Massachusetts State Colle e Athletic Conference finals for only e second time in history.

Stu ents may join inte nship program

Su olk County Register of Pro­bate 'chard Iannella invites college stude ts from Boston and Suffolk Coun to apply for participation in a s er internship program at the Proba e and Family Court Registry. Whil in the program, participants will ain first-hand experience and know edge of the state's court system, partic larly the administrative func­tions f the Probate and Family Com1.

·1e participating in the program, stude t interns will learn about the re­spo bilities of the registry, including the ministration and tracking of court ases, review and acceptance of legal aperwork, programs designed to ist those who come to court with ta lawyer, docketing, trial pro­cedu and other registry activities.

Al ough financial compensation is no available, schedules are flexi­

and lannella will provide s reports or other verification

ools requiring such informa­tion. tudents applying for consider-ation must currently be enrolled in good standing in an accredited col­lege r university.

Those students wishing to apply for participation in the program should send a cover letter and resume to Register Richard lannella, Suffolk County Probate and Family Court Registry, 24 New Chardon St., Boston, MA 02114.

'Summer Stuff Jr.' ready for families

Each April, middle and high school students in the city look foiward to getting "Summer Stuff," the all-in­one guide to jobs, programs, camps and other activities produced by the Boston Public Schools. Now there's an edition for elementary school stu­dents, "Summer Stuff Jr.," with dozens of listings, including info1ma­tion on BPS summer school for grades 2, 3 and5.

The programs are diverse - from making a video to canoeing on the Charles River or camping in New Hampshire. Many are free or low cost, and most offer financial aid or scholar­ships. "Summer Stuff Jr." includes ideas for reading, writing and math ac­tivities for families, too.

The bright orange-and-blue newsletter is published by the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Boston Public Schools,· with support from AeetBoston Financial.

Both "Summer Stuff' and "Sum­mer Stuff Jr." are free to pick up in all public schools; branch libraries and community 'centers, as well as in many community agencies that serve families. For a copy of "Summer Stuff Jr." for elementary school stu­dents, call the Boston Plan for Excel­lence at 617-227-8055, ext. 340. For a copy of "Summer Stuff' for middle and high school students, call the

, Boston Public Schools at 617-635-9265. Community agencies, faith­based organizations, and other groups that· work with families and children are ·encouraged to call for copies for their clients, too.

Both publications are also on the Web at www.bpe.org/publications.

,, I asp or www.bostonpublicschools.org{ I

Registration now open at St. Anthony's School ~ '

St. Anthony's School is accepting 1

open registration for pre-kinder­garten through grade eight for the 1

2002-03 school year. }ll The faculty of St. Anthony's

School consists of lay and religious" teachers dedicated to fulfilling thfl mission of the school - to provide 1

an outstanding education with stroJ1° . Catholic and academic values. The school offers programs in computer education, art, music, library skill .I and physical education. There ar~'.} Before-School and After-School Pro­grams as well as a hot lunch program.

For more information, call the school office at 617-782-7170.

Art campaign at BC addresses health issue

Boston College is hosting an edu­cation and awareness campaign on eating disorders, including an exhibi­tion at the university's McMulle Museum of Art spotlighting the artists who created the campaign.

The exhibition, "Eating Disorder, in a Disordered Culture," will ru through April 28. It features the works of Kathryn Sylva, an assistant professor of design at the University of California at Davis, and Robin Lasser, an associate professor who coordinates the photography pro­gram at San Jose State University.

Sylva and Lasser use print and audio narratives along with visual imagery and sculpture to explore the personal, cultural and historical di­mensions of eating disorders. 'Through visual and audio display,, this award-winning, multifaceted ex­hibit illuminates the hidden contours and private dimensions of this mo&t significant public health issue," said BC organizers.

For more infon"Mation, call the Boston College Office of Public Af­fairs at 617-552-3350.

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promise needed ridge budget gap.

o between competing goals, the best cour!'te often in­vo ves simply splitting the difference. That elementary le son may point the way for the state's political leaders

they wre tle with an oversized budget deficit. Right no , the politicians on Beacon Hill are still waxing

r etorical. cting Gov. Jane Swift still pledges fealty to her no-w-taxes oal, at least in her public pronouncements. The De­

mocratic le ders, holding fast to their goal of keeping program ahd se~ice intact, actlike the only thing they want to talk about is ne taxes. !But the r etoric must soon give way to the reality. The budget

£ r the curr nt year is $500 million out of balance. The fiscal y ar begi · g July 1 promises a $2 billion gap between pro-j ted reve ues and projected spending.

State age cies and municipalities have learned by experience t to wait n the Legislature to make its budgeting decision .

. ey must ake assumptions to fill in the revenue side of their ledgers, an most are assuming significant drops in state pend­mg.

At Frami gham State College, for instance, the assumption i that betwe n reduced state spending and contracted c rnmit­ments, the 's a $2.8 million gap in next year's budget. After what FSC fficials say is careful deliberation, their current plan looks a lot ike splitting the difference: $1.4 million will be cut, mostly by ot filling open positions, and $1.4 million will come from new venue, mostly by raising student fees by $400 a year.

A split-t -difference plan has now been proposed at the tate level. Four major business organizations have endorsed a broad outline for ext year's budget that includes $700 million in spending c ts and $700 milli n in new revenue, supplemented by $500 Ilion from the state's "rainy day" reserves.

The org · zations - Associated Ifldustries of Mass .. the -GreatetB Ston ehamber of Commerce, the Mass: Bu ine s Rpundtabl and the Mass. Taxpayers Foundation -offer ever­al options n the revenue side. The most politically significant of these is· th ir willingness to freeze the income tax reduction scheduled o kick in Jan. 1.

!<ather t an an open-ended freeze that would be seen as break­ing a com ·tment to the voters who enacted the rollback, they recornmen an automatic trigger. As soon as state revenue re­cover, the ax rate would drop to the 5 percent endorsed by vot­ers in 2

The bu iness lobbies' green light may be what is needed to allow sw· to open the door to new revenues- and there are hopeful re orts she is already softening her opposition. Flexibili-ty on her may encourage Democrats in the Legi!o,lature to look for re ,Spending cuts. Once everyone concede. that bal-ancing the budget will require both spending cuts and increased revenue, t e rest is a matter of setting priorities and crunching nµmbers.

. Once t ere is an agreement on targets, it becomes easier to negotiate e path toward reaching them. Swift and other tax op­ponents s uld have a large say in identifying new taxe that ~ill be lea t threatening to the state's economic recovery. De­mocrats s ould have a strong voice in identifying spending cuts, in hopes ey'll find cuts least painful to the state's needie t citi­zens, who gained so little ground in the boom years. '; That p ess starts by throwing out the false choice of no new

taxes vs. cuts in services. We can begin by splitting the differ-ence, whi h is, after all, another way of saying balance the pain.

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mission - can truly imag­ine and e aluate the size of this pro-jelj._it lationship e .nearb~ _

Tell us what you think! : ~V..'e-want-ttrhear from yoU. ·1.:.ettefs-'Of guest- ~ ....; columns should be typewritten and signed; a day- :

Currently efforts are under way to rezone open pace at the Chestnut HilJ Wate1work site to allow 275.900 SF of de\elopment, includ­ing as man) as 200 apartments, a va­riet) of commerciaJ/retail uses, and parking for 350 to 500 cars. This ex­Ce5Sive proposal. if implemented, will bring an irreversible change to this unique and treasured location. It will have a negative impact on those who u e and cheri h the Reservoir and the adjacent Cassidy Park, on traffic in the already congested Cleveland Circle, and on the quality of life for nearby residents.

buildings. and impact on view corri­dors and e abutting prope1ties. The time to produce a development model is w, not when development wiU be al owed as of right after the site is rez ned.

time phone number is required for verificatiOJi. 'I Or call our reader call-in liIJe at (781) 433~8329. · ,

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Additio ally, an extremely short public co ument period - only I 0 working ys from the day the zon­ing amen ment was officially pre­sented - h been offered to the com­munity. ·sis in no way conducive to having productive dialogue.

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Eva Webster Chestnut Hill Reservoir Coalition

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The team promoting the Water­work development is asking the Boston Zoning Board to prus an ex­ten ive amendment to the Allston­Brighton Zoning Code. Thi move is being contemplated without any en­vironmental and traffic tudies, and without a three-dimensional cale model of the maximum build-up that would be allowed under the new zon­ing.

Zoning in Boston is not to be used exclusive y as a tool to facilitate de­velopme t - its role is also to protect neighbor oods and environmentally sensitive ites from being exploited by overly ambitious, and needlessly burdenso e development propos­als.

. Parks will hopefully be improved someday To the editor:·

Your article on the condition of the parks in our area was very good in the Ap1il 12 Allston-Brighton TAB.

monument. It looks much better, and a-; Mr. McLaughlin said, the bushes arc now gone because of age (1938) and will have to be replaced. Of' course it only took from June 2001 to Ap1il 2002 to be cut. David Bertino , was very helpful to me with all the wonderful pictures I was able to send to all the departments concerned in this problem.

Blian McLaughlin has said that there are problems with Chandler's Pond in it5 periphery and some of the problems will be addressed. That is music to my ears. I have said that there are many problems with the pond since it wa<; dredged two years ago. I have said that the job was not done ' conectly.

We ne everyone's support if the neighbor ood's, not just developers' , perspecti e is to prevail. It's urgent. The dead ine for public comments is Wednesd y, April 24. Please write to:

There are a few pieces of infonna­tion I should like to clear up. The Alice E. Gallagher Park is a passive one used by people walking dogs and el­derly people walking around Chan­dler's Pond and is not used by the Lit­de League as I was quoted a5 saying. Since I talked to the repo1ter, the Parks Department came to Gallagher Park and cut down all the bushes at the

\\'ithout seeing such a model, none of u · - and that includes the Boston Zoning Board and the Boston Land-

Donald Wiest Land Use Counsel

Bosto Redevelopment Authority ne City Hall Square Boston, MA 02201

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WasWarric Street for 'problem' priests? I grew up in a Catholic parish that turned e

tremely liberal in my late teens and early 20 . St. Philip's Pari h was a very poor commun

ty. Once. when lri hand Italian families domina ed the neighborhood that stretched along and o Harri on Avenue in lower Roxbury, it was a thri -

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ing pari h, but by the mid-to-late '60s, those f -ilies had le~ leaving behind fewer Catholic . Sunda) Masses at St. Philip's were sometim s lucky to get 20 churchgoers on a bright Sund morning. If it was rainy, much fewer than ev thaL

1y family left the neighborhood in Janu 1967, but my brother and I tried to keep connect to our boyhood parish. When St. Philip's Chur actual!) closed is hard to pinpoint. It was dying o lowly. death ju t snuck in one day unnoticed . However. in the final year or months of th t

pari h church, numerous younger priests start d showing up at the rectory which is now the m n entrance to Rosie's Place. By that time, the old r pastor had gone, as had the parochial vicar w o had been &taying there, leaving Father Jerry ass -nior prie t. He was ordained, if memory is co t, in either 196-i or 1965. He probably was abo t onl} lO years my senior.

It was a difficult time in pari h life. He w doing the best he could while unknown to me, a

parently questioning his life's vocation. Eventual­ly, around 1969 or 1970, St. Philip's Rectory had up to seven or eight young priests staying there at one time or another. Eventually, the rectory and church closed its doors and everything was relo­cated over at the Warrick House on Warrick Street. Many of the young radical priests, which is what most of them seemed, either left the area or apparently relocated to the Warrick Street site.

Today, after the long scandalous story of Father Paul Shanley's career unfolds in the news media, I now find out he, too, was at St. Philip's/Warrick House. I never knew him from St. Philip's, but I did know him asa student at Boston State College where the Archdiocese named him campus chap­lain. Shanley was about as radical as any of those radical Roxbury priests I had come to know.

Today, with 20-20 hindsight, I am very curious about what the Chancery was up to at my .Rox­bury parish. Paul Shanley was assigned there, as was Father John White, who was also in the news­papers last week as reportedly the co-owner along with Shanley in a California gay·bed-and-break­fast. Am I surprised? Of course not!

Now I wonder. why Cardinal Humberto Medeiros and Cardinal Richard Cushing took such an interest in St. Philip's Parish. It was either Medeiros or Cushing who purchased the three­story townhouse on Warrick Street, pai,d to have it gutted and re-built into the Warrick House. Why?

As I said, before the Warrick House opened, the old rectory on Harrison Avenue was looking like a home for young radical priests. Was it? Worse though, Shanley was reportedly assigned there

unknowing to me until just last week. Most of those young priests seemed good guys.

Oh, radical to ay the least. One of them gained national attention as a member of the Milwaukee 9. Father Tony opposed the Vietnam War and got himself arrested at an anti-war protest. Another priest, Father Jerry, ended up leaving the priest­hood after falling in love with a woman from the parish. Last I heard, he was still happily married somewhere up north of Boston. He left the priest- , hood before the Warrick House opened.

However, Shanley was also assigned there and I remember John White and his outrageous Masses. I wonder who were the other handful of priests as­signed there and why were they there?

I'm beginning to think these might have been young priests the Chancery might have consid­ered troublemakers or problems. I had no prob­lems with Father Jerry or the Milwaukee 9 priest. ' I, however, thought Father White seemingly looked like a goalie on a baseball team. Off-the­wall theology and all. However, hearing that Shanley was there troubles me greatly.

Perhaps it is time for the news media to dig deep into the Archdiocese of Boston's old records on ' St. Philip's/Warrick House back during the late '60s and early '70s. I've always been curious why the Archdiocese spent such big bucks back then ori an obvious dying parish.

The media should find out more about who • lived at the Harrison Avenue rec1ory and at the , Warrick House back those many years ago. Maybe everything was all innocent over there, but after last week's news, isn't anything possible?

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Sil need from hame: a univer ity's lackltister respoitse R ecent y, allegations have

been brought against the Cath lie Church regarding

issues of sexu abuse and pedophil­ia. The issue as shattered and de­moralized th Catholic Church in America and as made various peo­ple question ir beliefs, not only re­garding the po ·tics of the church, b t of their faith well.

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Various ins "tutions have respond­ed different! to the accusations. Many Joe.alp ·shes have prayed for the sanctity o the church, while the news media ve taken the opportu­nity to report n every issue that aris­es.

There is, h wever, one institution, in particular, at has taken little ac­tion regardin the rece_nt scandal. Boston Colle e, pemaps one of the largest Cathol c schools in New Eng­land, situated irectly across the street from Cardin Bernard Law's resi­dence, has re ained virtually silent, unspoken an incredibly neutral.

Pemaps thi silence is necessary to run a Catholi institution or perhaps it is unequiv ally strange that the school has n t made a formal state­ment, at least o most people's knowl­edge. Six ni mbers of the Boston College co unity - three students and three s ff and administration members - have agreed to speak about their ~ lings on th_e Catholic Church. The r insight ranges from personal rea · ons to the crisis on a whole to opi ions on how the univer­sity has hand ed the issue thus far.

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and the changes that tlie Catholic Church should undergo, the issue, at least to members of the Boston Col­lege community, is to understand the reaction, or lack thereof, from admin­istration.

Kate Leavey, campus minister for the Liturgical Arts, is surprised by the lack of student discussion, but be­lieves that the university should post a formal statement on the front page of its web site. She continuously re­peated that, "We [as a religious insti­tution] need to.help lead the way for reform ... but the students do not yet realize how much power they hold to begin this reform."

Leavey associates the silence from Boston College as being parallel to the silence from Rome. Her main fear, however, lies in this lack of com­munication resulting in yet another "veil of secrecy" under which the Church will again hide.

Professor Michael Malec of the Sociology Department recently ex­pressed his angst .about Boston Col­lege's response in the March 19 issue of The Heights.

He said, "I also hear reports of fac­ulty-initiated panels that may soon be announced, but I wonder why Boston

· College, which is usually so quick to respond to crises by convening "town meetings" . . . has remained for too long silent in the current crisis ... Is it because institutional secrecy and hi­erarchical control are BC's problems, too?"

Malec's concern does not go unno­ticed, especially from Carolyn Gor­don, student director of the Liturgy Arts Group of Boston College. She views Boston College as such a large institution with the abili ty to cause re­form.

'What some people don't realize is that we are across the street from the Cardinal ... there should be no more silence," she said.

the function of the university to re- ' fleet the Church. He spoke about the: open forum that took place on the .... can1pus on March 20, in which about '', 40 members of the Boston College ~ · community shared their feelings on r. ·

the issue at hand . " sentially," he said, "there were i

· two main concerns: The acts them- - -selves focusing on the terrible misuse ' t ' ' of trust and the way in which the Church has handled the situation to dat ." • ..

Not all members of Boston Col- ',,, leg share the view that the Boston •" College administration needs to ' · speak up. Poluzzi said that it does not· · ' matter how the university handles the ', : issue. He feels as if the issue resides ' within the Church itself rather than 1

within an institution such as Boston ' "• College. ' . .,

Defusco also believes that Boston ' or I

College need not represent the issue , ., in u public forum. She feels that col-leg students are not necessarily at an ~' ag where they are affected by mo- ·' lestation and child abuse. She does, ''' however, feel that University Coun- ., seling Services should be adequately ,. ' prepared to aid anyone who seeks '' 1

help, especially if any members of "' Boston College have been among· '• those affected by this tragedy. '''

Regardless of how Boston College '· should take action as a university, all six members feel that the Catholic ,. Church needs to undergo major re-form within the near future. Perhaps, '.:. church leaders need to reexamine '~ celibacy of male prj~ts or the inte- · ' ·, gration of women into the priesthood. Leavey and Defusco, however, espe­cially doubt the pace of this reform, noting that under Cilrrent leadership, . change could be virtually impossible.

There are other options to reform ., ' the Catholic Church, however, but n

they do not involve writing letters • and signing petitions. Cahill, in her ,• editorial to the New York limes on • March 6, calls for severe measures to ,. bring about reform. She said reform ~ could be brought about if "all 1•

Catholics withhold funds from dioce- '' ! san and Vatican collections ... [for] • change requires this kind of jolt."

The most influential issue rever­berated by the members of the Boston Colle e community is the no­tion of rede ming and reexamining the issue of c libacy. Father Jim Erps, director of Campus Ministry at Boston Coll e, notes, however, that allowing pri ts to marry may, in fact, be a solutio , but it is not, by any means, a "m gic solution." Celibacy is an issue th t has come under fire in the Catholic Church ever since the Church und ent major reform dur­ing Vatican and probably will con­tinue to for y ars to come.

llOSlllf< HD.W> PHOlO BY ... rr STONE

Since Malec's column appeared in The Heights, Boston College has sponsored a forum to discuss the events of the crisis currently unfold­ing in the Church, w,hich was most definitely long overdue. The discus­sion was hosted by four various lead­ers in the fields of religion, social work, pastoral mmistry, an_d psychi­aaic nursing.

The molestation of children and teenagers and the shifting of blame from one person to the next are un­doubtedly sinful acts. But, is the re­sponse, or lack thereof, automatically ·. sinful as well? Perhaps it is time for ' Boston College to end its silence and speak. on an issue affected by a great number of tile population worldwide.

Andrea Fusco, assistant dean in Cardinal Law protester Joseph Miller-Gamble, 12, holds a sign In front of the Cathedral oft e Holy Cross during Friday's demonstration.

According to the April 9 is ue of The Heights, each person spoke about their personal feelings regard­ing the issue at which time the floor was opened up for questions by Monan Professor of Theology Pro­fessor Lisa Sowle Cahill. Still, how­ever, the administration remains silent.

the College f Arts and Sciences for Boston Coll ge, recognizes that mar­ried priests ould be beneficial to the

· Church as whole. She said, 'The Church [at is point in time] should be acceptin of any person who will be dedicat to ministry."

hauls. Regardless, the 1s.,ue till exist as to this idea of change and hov. an institution as large as the Church \\ill eventually recognize the necess1t) for modifications.

age, but that if a person is going to mole ta child. he or she i. going to do o regardle of sexual orientation or

relatioru.hip tatu .

more im rtant now than ever be­fore.

He sai , "If one doesn't change with the "des of the world, they are going to end up being blind to so much."

Or as Leavey puts it into a religious • ' context, "Christ was a revolutionary and didn't care about politics."

At the e time, however, DeFus-at as long as John Paul the Papacy, the Church

Some see the issue of celibac} as being unrelated to the matter at hand. Adam Poluzzi, a junior EnglL h major at Boston College, recognize that allowing priests to milfl) v. ill solve the problem of the prie t short-

The number of allegations that have urtaced over recent months urprises Andrew O'Kane, a junior

Film Studie major at Boston College who has attended Catholic school ince the fourth grade. The need for

change. nonetheless. becomes even

Refo task at h bers of

, of any kind, is now the d for administrative mem­Church.

While e issue at hand remains the n of young boys by clergy

Erps feels that as a Catholic univer­sity, Boston College has the people who reflect the Church and the role of authority within the ·institution. It is

So why should we? David Cotter is a junior Communi­

cations major at Boston College, liv­ing in Brighton.

Th Arab-Israeli conflict: The t• e to co-exist is long overdue j !

I am an ucator of Islamic Studies and Christi n/Muslim relations and a third­genera on Arab-American. People

often ask e about the suicide bombing. They say at if it would stop, then there might be a hance for peace. Of course, such

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a gruesome · ng must stop. Certainly there is no humane ·ustification for such an act. Still, I can't help but wonder about its genesis and what it wo Id take to stop it.

I recogni e that there has been a conflict in Palestine si ce the birth of the state of Israel in 1947. S e faction of the Palestinian peo­ple has al ys resisted the idea of their land being take away or shared and hence, a Jew-

ish state. The I rael i ha' e . ucce. full} c n­trolled resistanee. But the increase of uicide bombing could be an indication that there is an escalation in the re~isrance or that the abil­ity of the Israeli to control the re istance i slipping. It could al o be the consequence of there being no Pale-,tinian army and few actu­al weapons.

People ask me if Uam encourage the ui­cide bombers b~ promi ing that martyrdom wi ll be rewarded. First of all. martyrdom i something that happen. to a person. not something he doe to himself. Secondly. no one who belie\~ m God would say it was right to kill a person or to commit suicide. This is a sin in al I religion . But we have been witnessing a v.ar in the Middle East for decades now. People are defending them­selves. That's my understanding of an Israeli Defense Force. And \\.hen there i a war, all people die, innocent people included. The

battleground in I rael i in th buse because this i their ho they have chosen to live in. The line in this war.

This raises the que tion of w pons again. ln a war, if I had to choose whi h weapon I would prefer, I would certainly c oose a tank or a machine gun in tead of s icide. But I know that the Pale tinians don't ave tanks or helicopters. With so much fighti "and killing on both side , there is room in my heart to · break for the innocent people w o have died and for anyone who is willing t use himself as a weapon of destruction.

As an American, I think the position that can be justified in don't support one side over the ther because l think both the Palestinians an the Israelis have a right to exist and to liv in ecurity without fear. I don't always a rove of the way my tax dollars are being s nt, but I pay

my taxes. I don't write checks to support any "state" because there are too many poor peo­ple in the world who need my charity. A5 an American, I have been raised to believe in justice for all. I would march in a rally, write letters to my congressmen, and starid up for the values and ideals of my country. And I don't hesitate to influence public opinion to demand that our government broker a lasting peace in the Middle East.

For decades, like so many others, I have formed permanent negative images associat­ed with the state of Israel's slogan, 'The Right to Exist," reduced now by history and conflict to a misnomer. For example, the last photograph that came through my e-mail was of a 7- or I 0-year-old Palestinian boy stand­ing in the center of a semi-circle surrounded by Israeli soldiers, each one with his hand on the boy to restrain him. The boy is looking up at them with a face full of fear. He was terri-

'. fied and you could see clearly when you ,1,, looked at hi~ legs that he had wet his pants. I ., thought what a strange caption might fit on this picture, 'The Right to Exist." If I had just , , arrived on this planet, it would be difficult to

•• know whose right to exist was in question, an , ·' unarmed boy or a group of soldiers.

I think it is time to move on. Ttme for a ,~ 1

'I new slogan that would commit everyone to , " the concept, 'The Right to Co-Exist." Under

this banner, with both sides working towards "' a two-state solution where each state is free, ·;' functional and secure, I conjure up an image ·' that best suits my American sense of democ-racy and equality. Perhaps this new slogan , would inspire justice and peace instead of 1

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suicide bombers. Mary L.ahaj of Boxborough is a member of

the Adjunct Humanities Faculty, Middlesex • I

Commu111ty College and of the Acton- ~ Boxborough lnteifaith Laity. •

Sa aam Shalom: Please, let's ha e peace in the Middle East I plead for Peace in the Middle East. I

plead for peace because it will bring with i a new focus for all the world.

If the le ers abandon the bomb, the crater, the rocket, we can have jobs, housing, free­dom of m vement, ·schools for the young-

food and ealth care - this is the agenda for the Middl East peace conferenc where all are welcome if they leave gun and hate outside.

All my fe the practical men with their feet firmly on e ground, their heads held high pride in e swing of their stride brave and practical en our leaders have led us into war, revo ution and death. "Peace through strength ey say. War and Terror to biing peace. An death to the disbeliever."

It is n just one religious sect. There was death on oston common home of the free to Mary Dy - Quaker by our Pilgrim patriots. War to b · g peace and death to the disbeliever.

In every generation, Jew and countle million other soul have died in \'iolence caused by leader.. of Europe. Asia, frica, America and - the Middle East. They all died in the name of protecting the pea e or these­curity of the belief of the attacker.

The navigator said there \\as nothing per­sonal intended when the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. And the general said this "saved the lives of 100.CXXr' \\-ho would have urely died in other combat.

That is the alternative imposed upon us al­ways. There v. as nothing personal when a human being dro\e hi truck to . udden death in the Israeli street.

No one has written \\hat the truck driver was thinking about. Was he indeed a murder­er as they say? Or as he a loving hu band, fa­ther, brother. son? Was he a son of me grieving mother? Or did he too aspire for peace?

There was nothing personal when the tank commander crashed hi tanks through the Arab streeti,. The object was peace through terror, freedom through fear.

Ask rather 1i:. e' el) soldier mad? Stati ti­cally, one must urel} recognize the probabil-

ity. the portent of death and sel -annihilation in every battle, whenever a b ve group of men and women fight to death · n defense or claim of a po tage stamp of I d. Are they brave? Or are they mad? Wash really evil -the truck driver in Jerusalem. Or the tank commander in Gaza?

Are any soldier, any general, y army, and any military force that w destruction upon other souls, evil, mad, h roic or just a playact or in a drama of death And did not our leaders and theirs; our gen rals and their say there are things worse than eath itself?

Pemaps the problem is inde the insanity of earth people? The basic gen tic flaw is the schizophrenia of human s ·es. Violence and force i plunging havoc pon another human in the name of human a piration.

So return to the Middle Eas with me and let u set an agenda for the t real peace conference of Jews and Arabs d Christians and workers and leaders an soldiers and other people in search of peac , the only re­quirement being an oath that o e loves all hu­manity, that one respects the "ght of all to live in dignity, to enjoy a plac in the sun or rest in the hade. Equality un er law food,

housing and work. compensation for those who cannot. Human Rights for all.

So we now put together the agenda, which my dear friends call insane because there is no place, they say, my neighbors. My reli­gious and political friends and leaders say there is no place in diplomatic circles in real government circles in the place on high that must make decisions. There is no place for idealism they say. Wake up, Jack, you are dreaming. .

However I must exclaim I must cry out so that all can hear I must exhort you all to listen.

Peace can be a reality in the real peace agenda: First comes the word Salaam or shalom, for peace will become a reality when you begin and end with shalom or Salaam. This means peace, the unity of mankind. It means our basic concept must be to make contribution to all mankind.

King Fatal in the name of the Arab king­doms in 1919 and Chaim Weitzman acting on behalf of a Jewish homeland said Salaam and Shalom means peace and we reaffirm their trust. The waters of the Nile the Jordan and the Red Sea of the Mediterranean can be har­nessed to make the Middle East a jewel, the

,, focal point of world peace. ·r"

New lines, new boundaries are not enough , 1

and if there is to be peace, in a generation, ., t

lines and boundaries shall be irrelevant to the •<,, people who will travel freely throughout the . 11 '

lands in peace. , ,1 In a joint undertaking, there shall be an ., 1

Arab Israel development corporation to de- ., i

velop the Sinai, harness the Jordan and reju- , , i venate the barren areas or all the peoples of , , : the Middle East and the world, jobs, housing, 111 food, medical care for all in dignity. .:•

This is our agenda. A desalination project, 1 ~ an irrigation project a joint energy undertak- ~·· ing world solar energy research, vast land reclamation new hospitals, a medical re­search center linked to every village, and every person - anthropological research, a joint intellectual history which recognizes, first, human dignity, a new university, new • --. schools and nurseries and the building of new ,.. cities and we shall call the first, Salaam ·~ Shalom. Peace in the Middle East can be a re­ality in our time- this is our agenda.

Jack Backman is a form~ state senator " i and for111er chainnan of the Senate Commit- • 1 '

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Joe Turco ~as the frontline against pro wrestling ever having main tream re pectabili­ty. His shoulder-length black hair was maned and he had a goatee before they were fashion­able (though nothing would ever look fashion­able on him). J doubt that he had ever seen the inside of a we1;ht room and appearl.'d to fie a guy you mighl 'l~ chain-"mokm~ .ii a Cause­way Street ba1 \\ hich he probabl) \\a.-. after the match. But he ,ould work a crowd like a candi­date, and mad · a career as a profe sional athlete and of stardom. loosel) defined. seem w.thin

gone. Being in front of the tele ision on Satur­day morning in an empty den as more a vigil for their return than a demons tion of my in­terest in wrestling.

One day my father offered t take me to the Garden for the next card. The matches we at-

if we could get it past the photo$fapher. One fiiend made it in the published yearbook as Killer Kowalski.

I remember nothing of the mate.hes Lattended with him, just that we spent the day together. On Saturday mominn 1• i> drt1• • •nt ' 1" ' ::-

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its posted sch ule and I could bank on aniving on time at my top, which was downstairs from my office in nt of a lamp store that never had customers an that my colleagues suspected was being us by the KGB to eavesdrop on our conversat ons. Professional wrestling was · as punctual i my youth. A Bosto -area UHF television stat on broadcast matches every Sat­urday at 11 a. ., a time slot stalwat that resist­ed changing t tes and Nielsen ratings.

any young boy s gr.bp. ' When the program ended. I knew that it was

noon, 'because I \\ ould hear the fire station horn blow, and time for lunch. ,

I learned ahout prob ional wrestling lrom my older brother-;. \\ho faithfull:r attended the matches in Bo..,ton. I read the glo"s) one-page. tri-folded program the) received monthl) in the mail, hoping 'ome da) to o;ee it in pef'\on. Abe Ford, wrestlin)! · promoter in Boston. u d to call our house to il!-k them if the) wanted tickets for upcoming matches. ·uch wm, the tale cf at­tendance.

brothers. As the hour struck. an emcee in a blacl-. tuxedo climbed through the ropes hold­ing a microphone. The nation anthem echoed to the rafters, then the bell ran and two jour­neymen wrestlers were introd ced. They took the bout to the regulation 20 ·nutes and per­fonned the role that clowns d between circus acts, keeping the audience en aged with their antics while programs and c ncessions were hawked.

We at in the loges near t e goaltender's crease. The main event featu d Waldo Von Erich. a reputed German who anied a riding crop and had unfairly won his previous match b) u ing the ropes for levera e during a pin. The program provided the e•i ence. a photo­graph of his boot on the rope. I ppreciated that m) father had taken me. but alfwa) through the card I began to feel bad for him because he was ·itting wordless through t the matches. wearing a fedora, catatonical bored or ap­pal led at the pectacle before h m and trying to ftJ I the void of my brothers· ab nee.

The bright orange neon "Boston Garden" at the top of North Station beckoned us as we ap­proached from the elevated expressway. The traffic was bumper to bumper. alld at one point my brother had to slam our station wagon's brakes. His right arm shot out at the same mo­ment he stomped on the brake pedal and caught my chest as I jerked fotward. .My face was inches from the dashboard. He was about to drop out of my life, though I don't believe even he knew that then. and I would not see him until after I finished college. But that evening he was everything I could have wanted in a brother.

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The broadc sts were black and white, usual­ly from a sm II Pittsburgh arena, and featured mismatches tween stars such as Professor Turo Tanaka and a sacrificial stiff like Joe Turco, who fa ed a charisma and weight deficit of 80 pounds.

In the beginning, I believed it all. A man could jump up from the mat after a -tOO-pound pancake from Gorilla Monsoon. Professor Tanaka knew a -.ecret pot to lap to re\ iYe a de­feated opponent from his dreaded o;leeper hokl. I recall arguing with schoolmate-. about whether Bmno's champion hip belt wa.s \\Orth $10,000.

My brother" enli. ted in the 1aiines \\hen they finished high school. one volunteering for Vietnam. They took \\ith them. I wa..., '>Ure, my remaining hope of ~ing wre:.tling in person because I was 100 young to go with friend and my father had les. imere"l in wre tling than he did in cooking. <Hi idea of cool-.ing was to drive to a restaurant.I I till tuned in the broad­ca<>ts, though rt wasn't the same with them

The year after those mate es, my brother came home on leave and I go what I had al­wa) s wanted. to attend them che<, with him, though by then I wm; joking a ut the sport at school. Knowing about wre tling wa' like being part of an exclusive ...c ool club. albeit one few wanted to join. kind o like people that thought Joe Besser was the nniest Stooge. During high school. I recall sli ing into under­clas yearbook photos with iy friends and signing wrestlers' names to the ·lipboard. to see

The last time l visited Massachusetts, I checked the Bo<.,ton Globe listings to see if pro wrestling still aired on UHF at 11 a.m. on Sat­urday. It didn't. I wasn't planning to watch be­cause it was years since I had; I simply wanted to know if it was still there, like a tree in the backyard. I began following wrestlitig as a boy because it was something I could share wrth my brothers. Atter they tnO\'ed away. each broad­cast I viewed 1-;epl alive the memory of how things used to be and the hope that when they returned it would be the same ~unrn. It was a fanta'>y I held onto long after I stopped believ­ing in Bmno.

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the stench w, tenible. I believe Alex Wajsfelner w · misquoted when he said the slime as taken care of within a few days. neighbors and myself counted over o months after count­less calls to all the correct departments and all our el ted officials. The only time we got 31 y relief was when ''The Platters" had concert at the park and the Parks De artment brought in two backhoes and ent into the water near the culvert an removed a lot of this sHme. I'm sur e Charles RiVer W -tershed Grou was pleased to have all that slime e tying into the Charles River all last

Three y ago I worked with Brian Honan and I contacted eve1y city councilo to approve an amount of $130,000 o the Mayor's Capital Improvement budget to be used for Gallagher P , to put in a new walk­way, benches and a fence to protect the boundaiy of the pai·k from en­croachment om the Town Estates and Chandle Pond Apartments. TI1e walkway goe from Lake Shore Road to Kendiick -eet and has never been replaced in 5 years. That is the first money we h ve ever received from the city for G llagher Park in 50 yeai-s, with the exc ption of $56,000 that Steven Cost llo got in the 1980s which wa~ t en away from us.

The $130, was also taken away from us to fi sh paying for the dredg­ing of the nd. I complained very loudly to the wers that be and have been promi, an equal amount from the mayor's udget. We have been

- promised a ew street this fall and after five y .- of promises, it will be done and th park work should be done at the e time. lf it isn't done, there will be lot of angry people on this street. I is so discouraging to

- break your b k to get this money and have it taken way.

We had s me wonderful people volunteering to cut down the purple loose strife ound the edges of the pond. They a weed that could take over the who e pond. Alex Wajsfelner has been doi g a good job trying to keep ahead o that problem.

The pictu you took of Roger's Pai"k certain! show the decay and ne­glect of the ark. It is a shame when that park is nstantly in use with the Little Leagu and other teams playing

- there. David ertino has done a good job trying to et improvements made there. The ba ks of trees he is referring to are at the ite of the building going on at the ol YMCA. The property abuts the p and should not have been touch without apprcwal. What a disgrace. I ope the gentleman who made the su estion that every one of the residentl who live near a park should have a special assessment on their prope to take care of the work that has to be one. I hope he is putting money whe his mouth is.

Genevieve R. Ferullo Brighton

Catholic omen speak up abou church crisis Totheedito

On April the Executive Commit­tee of the L dership Conference of Women Re · gious (LCWR), which comprises ore than 1,000 elected

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leaders of their religiou congrega­tions representing 75.CXX> U.S. Catholic Sisters, issued a public tate­ment concerning the "cri-;is of allega­tions of clerical abuse." On April 9 and 10, approximately 50 leadero; of women's congregations in . ew Eng­land met at Mont Marie in Hol:roke. Massachusetts. In our deliberation~. we addressed this crisis <ts it affects u~ here in New England.

As women commitced to the Gospel, we find ourselv~ deepl)' 'iad­dened by the clerical abuse of mmors. We deplore the abuse of power of those who concealed crimes and avoided taking respon~ibiiil) . Both

· forms of abuse betray the command­ments of love and the call to ju lice inherent in the life pf Jesu~ Christ.

We affinn the national LC\\ R pub­lic statement that calls for thoughtful change: "Acknowledging the wrong that has been done, aware of the bun and the scandal, we ask ho\\ can we use this moment to addn.: . the causes that permitted the current crisis. This calls for openness, radical hone ty. and transparency. We believe that. in this crisis, there is an opportunil) for us to be self-critical rather than defen­sive, thereby creating together a more whole and healthy Church."

We acknowledge that we belong to this broken Church and world and are in need of conversion. We pra} for all victims of this scandal. We are grate­ful to the people of Go<l whose faith and hope inspire us. We ask for a holistic understanding of human <>ex­uality in Church teaching. We envi­sion and call for Church processe and structures that are inclusive and just. As women religious. we commit ourselves to full participation in creat­ing a renewed Church.

Maureen Broughan. SSJ Chairperson

Region I, LC\VR

Joan Duft\r, C J ~dent

Sisters of St. Joseph or Boston

The Vatican is way out of touch with the people To the editor:

Well, isn't that reassunng! The Vati­can, a world away, know what" best for the people in the Boston area. They want Cardinal Law to sta) the coun.e. even though over 60 percent of his own people here feel that he .4lould re­sign. One only has to understand that the Vatican mindset is similar to a self­perpetuating board of tJUStees. They feel answerable or accountable only to

them...elv~. This i!> why the Common­\\ ealth has to lake charge.

Cardinal Law has alway upheld the old chun:h and state relationship. He demonstr,ue<l thi.., when he first op­JJO'>l!<l Margaret Mar.hall\ appoint­ment to Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. So it is altogether fit­ting that the tale hould tep in now and do \~hat ha!> to be done. Why lea\e it up to a click of peer-protecting priN-;?

Perpetuating pedophilia is a crime. plain and simple. An accomplice is as bad as the ai.'Cu..00. An aJTe5t is most certainly in order. ot for a minute would Law s actions be accepted in an) other -;ector of societ).

fa el) da)' bnn~ another revelation. another reason for heart-wrenching outcl). No one will go un~athed: the innocent viLtims. the enraged parent'>. and the betra)e<l public. I know that in m) own how;ehold r ve had to expand the parental control on the TV. How do you explain mole talion to a nine­) ear-old, even though youngsters this age \\ere it~ victim<;? What a horrible picture to flash through anyone's mind.

I can't imagine what Law's trne ra­tionale i for raying on. Redemption is not even a realit) at thi point His plight onl) become.., more pathetic. He looks tired now-. His countenance has changed from slight arrogance to ullen acquiescence. It seems like such

a hame; after a long career, Cardinal Lav .. will bt remembered most a5 the old man w:ho rayed too long at the fair.

Jerry L. Pierce Natick

Felker wants to help the poor and middle class To the editor: ~t week was tax time again, and

like most people. I don't mind paying my fair share of taxes. We need taxes to pay for quality schools, teachers, de­cent roads. police. firefighters and a<;­sistance for the old, disabled and the poor.

However. reading over the proposed 16 new tax increases that state law­makers intend to levy on the backs of the middle class and poor. I have be­come a bit woniecL

I am a candidate for state representa­tive in All ·ton-Brighton and Brookline and r have .lfl important job - protect­ing the rights and well-being of the people I rcprerent. The kind of tax hikes and budget cuts the state Legi la­ture is currently proposing would make my job 'ery difficult.

These proposed tax increases are

simpl) un · ·r. Hard-working middle cla<>s famil es and the poor cannot af­ford an) >re budget cuts, layoff\ or higher tax s. In fact. one reason our state now has a $2 billion revenue shortfall i · that our politicians have been direc ing tax hikes and budget cut' at the niddle class and poor. The generous t· x cul'> given to the Enron­'>!) le corpo ations are part of the prob­lem. Th . cut-, did not create "Ii\ ing wage"' job.. the !)pc of johs that actu­ally incrc ~ consumer purcha.-,ing power ano me {he economy.

The poc etbook.<, of the middle cla.-;s and poor rovide both the customer base of big usinessand the tax base of the govern ent. Tax hikes and budget cuts thats · nk the pocketbooks of the middle cl s and the poor are regres­

e\ eryone. We need to grow the onomy, not sh1ink it.

Furthen re. a progressive tax poli­cy that pr ect'I the purcha'ling power of the mid le class and poor is one of the best I ng-tenn safeguards of the profiL<; of g business. I have no prob­lem with b g businesses as long as they pay theirs are of taxes and pay a liv­ing wage o their employees. This is my stmte,, of ''trickle-up" economics - where e ·eryone wins a'> the size of the econo ic pie grows.

As a ca didate for state representa­tive. my p atfonn is to cut the cost of prescriptio dmgs. increase funding for local 'hools and improve our roads and tilities. I am a solid Demo­crat who as always spoken up for labor. univ rsal health care and afford­able, ace ible housing. All these are pos.sible i we grow the economy. lf elected, I ill use tax incentives and low-intere t loans to allow small busi­nesses to pand and create jobs.

Jf we w the economy, the tax base will w as well, and we will be better abl to maintain the financial stability o the commonwealth. If we continue t shrink the economy, I am afraid tha we will only be left with ·1ough ch ices" that hurt everyone.

As a d icated community leader

and your state representative, I will work foll-Lime 10 make sure that the fi­nancial future of Lhe wnlmonwealth is a bright one.

Paul Felker Candidate for state representative, Allston-Urighton and Brookline

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ure. Michelle Kwan has won a boatload of medals and she's considered, by many, the greatest of all Ame1ican figure skaters. And, ye • Sarah Hughes came out of nowhere to win the Olympic gold medal

in Salt Lake City in February. But if I could choose to watch just one figure skater

By Alexander Stevens perform, I'd pick Sasha Cohe . ST Aff W'11TER

She's the most exciting sk ter on the ice the e day , an explosive, 4-foot-9-inch, 17-yqrr-old fire­cracker who combine athletic jumps with spins that are pure ballet. And although she didn't take home any medal at th Olympics (she's probably be t known as the athlete who hooked up r Mom with Presi-dent Bush on a cell phone), he came excruciatingly lose to winning it all. She battled a bad case of nerves and delivered a typi ally dynamic perfor­mance that was certainly worthy of gold-medal cons deration until she fell on the back end of a triple-Lutz/triple-toe-loop combin tion.

"I was really proud of myself that I handled my ne es going into the long COHEN, page 20

Four of the women figure skaters who competed at the Olymp s in February are featured in "Champions on Ice~ at the AeetCenter: (clockwi from top left) Sasha Cohen (also pictured center), Sarah Hughes, Irina Sluts aya and Michelle Kwan •

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The Rock (aka Dwayne Johnson) takes aim at• movie career.

T here was a time when all World Wrestling Federation uperstar The Rock had to do to incite the adoration of 20,000 scream­

ing fans was climb into the ring. Now it's even eas­ier. If he ju t appears on a video screen at the Fleet­Center or Madison Square Garden or any of the myriad arena~ where wre tling takes place, the crowd goes nuts.

But The Rock (real name: Dwayne Johnson, a third-generaJion pro wre tler) wants more. For as long as he can remember. he' wanted a movie ca­reer. That dream tarting 'to come true a year ago '"hen he made a IO-minute appearance in the blockbuster 'The Mummy Returns." But even be­fore filming was finished, studio executives thought they saw something special. They immediately or­dered up a script for a film telling the back story of The Rock's character the Scorpion King.

And before he knew what hit him, The Rock was ROCK, page 20

STAFF PHOTO BY WINSLOW MARTIN

Baron Baptiste teaches another packed (and hot) class at his Cambridge studio.

Red (hot) Baron Unconventional yogi turns up the heat

By Josh B. Wardrop STAFF WRITER

H ot. Steamy. Sweltering. That's the first thing you notice when

you enter the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Institute studios on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge.

The second? There's no place to sit. The Power Vmyasa style of yoga - developed

and taught by San Francisco-born yogi Baron ·

Baptiste - differ significantly from traditional yoga in its environmental conditions. Whereas som~ studios are so peaceful, cool and serene that even Vishnu himself might be shushed for breath­ing too loudly, th BPVI is a bit more ... intense. Temperatures are kept at 90 degrees or higher,

' and classes are big - real big. Baptiste sets his 'class sizes at 88 people- and they're always full

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CLASS ICAL B TON CONSERVATORY. Boston Conservatory Th acer, 31 Hemenway St., Bos. 4/19-4/21: Original ch reography by Boston Conservatory students. Call: 61 -912-9142. ,. E MANUEL MUSIC. Em1w nuel Church, 15 New­bu St., Bos. 4/21, 10 a.m. Weekly Bach Cantata: Ca tata BWV 104. Call: 617-536-3356. H DEL & HAYDN SOCIETY. Symphony Hall, 301 M sachusetts Ave., Bos. 4/19 and 4/21: Handel' s op ra "Ariodante.'' $26-$70. Call: 617-482-6661. Kl G'S CHAPEL. King' s Chapel Concert Series, Sc ool & Tremont Sts., Bos. 4/23, 12: 15 p.m. Sung He Lee plays the C.B Fisk Organ. $2. C II: 617-227-2155.

LO GY SCHOOL OF MUSIC. Edward M. Pi man Concert Hall, Cam. 4121, 3 p.1 . The New England String En cmble pre.~ents "Voyages of Di. covery and Reminiscence. ' Ca 178 1-224-11 17. $20-$25. Fr . Call: 617-354-6910. M SIC IN THE CATHE· D AL. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont St., Bo . 4/24, 12: I 5 p.m. Liber un sualis. $2. Call: 617-48 -4826 ext. 1103. N ENGLAND CON-S RVATORY. Jordan Ha I, 290 Huntington A' ., Bos. 4121, 8 p.m. N C Faculty Recital , wt uests The Borromeo

. St ng Quartet. 4/22, 8 p.1 . Pianist Eduardo M nteiro. 4/23, 8 p.m. N C Jazz Orchestra. 41 , 8 p.m. NEC Wind En ·emble & NEC Jor­da W nds. 4/ 5, 8 p.11. NEC H nors Jaa En­se ble. Call: 61 -536-241 2. N ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OPERA THE· A ER. Northeastern Univers ity' s Black.man Auditori­u , 360 Huntington Ave., Bos. 4/18-4/21: "Hans~ and G tel." $8-$14. Call : 617-536-241 2. N W PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA. Sorenson C ter for the Arts, Babson College, Wei. 4/21, 2 p.m. F nily Discovery Concert showcasing the flute. $5-$1 . Call: 617-527-9717.

0 THE R B RKLEE PERFORMANCE CENTER. I 36 Mass. A e., Bos. 4122, 8: 1'5 p.'m. The Concert Choir feat. pi­an st Akiko Fujimoto. $5. 4/23, 8: 15 p.m. The Berk lee R inbow Band. $5. 4124, 8:15 p.m. The Back Bay B ss Jazz Orchestra. $5. Call: 61 7-747-2261. F ETCENTER. Causeway St., Bos. 4/19, 7:30 p.m. P 11 McCartney. $50-$250. Call: 617-931-2000. N RTH SHORE MUSIC THEATRE. Beverly. 4/20, I I a.m. "Franklin & the Magic Fiddle." $1 2-$ 15. 4/24, 8 .m. B.B. King: $45-$55. 15. Call: 978-922-8500. 0 PHEUM THEATRE. The Orpheum Theatre, Hamil-10 Place, Bos. 4120, 7:30 p.m. Alison Krauss and U ion Station. $29.50-$40. CaU: 61 7-679-0810. S MERVILLE THEATRE. :;5 Davis Square, Som. 4/ 9, 8 p.m. Paul Zaloom performs the Boston pre-m ere of"Velvetville.'' Call 617-876-4275. $20. 4/20, 8 .m. Keller Williams. $20. 4/21 , 7 p.m. The Fiddlers F ur. Call 61 7-876-4275. $20-$25. 4/24: Emil Zrihan

rforms Jewish music of Morocco. Call: 6 7-876-4275. $25-$30. S • JOHN'S METHODIST CHURCH. 80 Mt. Auburn S , Wat. 4/19, 8 p.m. The Kcnnedys. $8-$ 10. Call: 6 7-924-3795.

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B STON UNIVERSITY. Sargent Dance/Studio The­a e, Bos. 4/19-4/20:"Vision~ 2002." works by BU' s D nee Theatre Group. $5-$7. Call: 6 i7-353-1597. G MELAN GALAK TIKA. MIT's Kresge Little The­a! r, 70 Mass. Ave. Cam. 4/19, 8 p.m. Gamelan Galak T ka (Balinese music/dance ensemble) perform new w rks. $3-$7. Call: 617-253-2530. J SE MATEO'S BALLET THEATRE. 400 Harvard S ., Cam. 4/19-4/2l:"From Worlds Within." $20-$25. C II: 617-354-7467. T E WANG THEATRE. Wang Theatre, Bos. 4/19-4 1 :Alvin Ailey American Dance The.ater. $20-$60. C 11 : 61 7-447-7400.

G APPLE CIRCUS. Fan Pier, Adjacent to the New gland Federal Courthouse, Bos. 4118-4/22:_The Big

pple Circus, feat. "Big Top Doo-Wop." $13-$50. II: 800-922-3772.

LACKMAN THEATRE. Northea~tern University, 3 0 Huntington Ave., Bos.4/25, 8 p.m. The Acting

mpany performs "Taming of the Shrew." $20. Call : 6 7-373-4472.

LACKSMITH HOUSE. 56 Braille St .. Cam. 4/20-. 4 21: "Music in You - A Richard Rodgers Cabaret," by

enjamin Sears & Bradford Conner. Call 617-254-11 25. $!0-$15. OSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Copley Sq .. Bos. Ongo­

i g: Art & Architecture tours of the BPL. 4/18-4/28: oto exhibit: "Haunted by the Faded Beauty of Cuba," Richard Wood. 4/20-4/21: Poetry Marathon, feat. 56

ajor and emerging poets. Call: 61 7-536-5400. AMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION.

5 Brattle St. , Cam. 4/22, 8 15 p.m. Blacksmith House try Series: Rachel Dew skin, Jacquelyn Pope &

hristina Pugh. $3. Call: 617-547-6789. AMBRIDGE MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER. I Second St., Cam. 4/18-4/19: .. A View from the ridge: Sculptures, Drawings & Paintings." all : 617-577-1400. OOUDGE CORNER THEATRE. Coolidge Corner heater, 290.Harvard St., Brk. 4/20, I 0:30 a.m. Story­

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FOREST HIU.S CEMETERY. IJ5 fore-t Hill' A\C.. J.P. 4/21. 3 p.m. \\ 1 Id mu,ic oncen ··Gri»l Ballad,. Celli H.irp anJ Cuban 'ue\ a Trm a:· , Call: 6 17 ~2-1012 FRENCH LIBRARY. 5~ ~larlborou~h St., 13o,_ 4/18-4/22: Tiie e\\ York Fe\\.- an\\ori. b) La\uen-.e Day. J\1 i..lwel Tire 6. fake B1al . Call 617-260-4351. KING ARTHUR FESTIVAL Hamm nd Ca-tie tu,e­um. KO 11c P•~1ll \<!',GI ,e ter . .Ul9...V21: Kmg Arthur f-1:,ti\al - meJre\al tair feat ''n•rdp a). hre­catin!' mu ic. tooJ anJ more 5- ill Call: 978 21n-~o o NEWTON FREE LIBRARY. 330 Homer St., e\\ 4/18-4/29: J\ _ oc ~rial Table:iu ... artM•rldl\ l\larlene Hou• ncr l~29: Phot ~raphrc h m feat ~Ofl, b)

·.xi Cumera Oub 4/21. 2 p rr ohni't aru I l e 4 ':?1.1~4pm

An!I< \ 1 . Da} C I 61 -,::! 714-TAITE OF BEACON HILL R tz-Carltc n Hotel. wa,hm~t "B !room. B . 4118. 6 111-'l:~O p.m Foo<l samphn~ Imm dozen ot top H awn Hill eaten '· $55 .,, Call 617-57-1-~lm

WEIT NEWTON CINEMA. 1296 \\ a,hm£ton . t. \ New 4/ljµ '?:?: "The e\\ .\merican , · plK>tograph) by M. 1 Ca1alina Ca"-') Call : 617-96-l-6060.

MUSEUM S ALPHA GAu.ERY. 1-1 t\'e\\buiy St .. Bo,. 4/18--1/22: Ne\\- >rl. b. Hrn ) ol.o~. Call:tJl7-~36-4465. ARTHUR M. SACK.LEH MUSEUM. H"J"lar<l Lm\CJ'\i­ty, 32 Quine} , Cam. 4/18-619: - Tradition and )n­the'i' . iaet.xnth J.l1d T\\enueth Ccntul"I \\ori.' Imm Ea<.t A'la ~ 4118-<Vl6: ··:-.Jd Bochner Ph JI grJph . 1966-IW .. 4118-7/21 : ~Glory anJ Pnc,penl) Metal\\ork of th l,Jam1c \\ orlJ. · ;. 5. Call. 617-195-9-llKl. BERENBERG GALLERY. 4 Claren<lor St.. Bo' 4/18-4/22: ·PJau I Remember:· feat.\\ )rk\ h} knnifor Harn . . Roh.:n Ktr>hner. Lance R11er'. Carmella Sahuc'C 6: Patock\ aknte. Call: 617-~ 16-0, lXl BETH URDANG GALLERY. 1-l t'w b tr> St.. 1,. 4/l!l-4n 2: R~, t p;untmll' b} CClhn Bra:nt & lan<l­scap.: n -.:p1a and nJ. i.. \ '11\ Schu l~r Clari."10-Call· 61"' 2-1 S# . BOSTON SCULPTORS AT CHAPEL GALLERY. 60 llighla·J St \\. '<e 4/18-4J21: "HoJt. wori. b) Juli;r hepk 4124: ·Reluge " < 'b) T CrT) .\)­

bright. Call. t 1 "'-~-l4--l031J. BOSTON UNIVERSITY MUGAR LIBRARY. lu2ar Libral). 77 l ( •mm»nwealth A\e .. Bo'. 4/18-4122: "Th~ FJrrbank' LefaC) The AI\:hi1e' nt Dough•' Fair­bank Jr:· 41184'22: "Tempe l To '~·The Lite ot Sterlin~ H .. ,Jen: .\uth< r .\<l\ enlurer, Actor." Call: 617 _,f~- n· 9 BRICKBOTTOM GALLERY. I Frt..:hburg St.. Somcl"I lk .U18-4.:?2: \ i-ual rt.··\\ h•t Remam': ln­vis1hk Citic' Group 19'4-2001 ··Call: 61'-~76-3-HO BROMAELD ART GALLERY. I I Th.\cr St.. Bl". 4/18-4122: I. ,.1 t~l 1mage' on p<lper h) 'achiko Beck. 4/l!l-4122: "There Bad, There .. ne\\ work b} Linda Klc111 Call: fl"-Cl -3605 BUSCH-REISING£R MUSEUM. Harnrd Unher,it). Cam 4.18-5/12: ~Goethe Grc1c Quo11J1aP Object- .. Free Call: 617-495-9400 DAVIS MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER • Welle y College. \\el. Ongoinl!": Thi: \.luluple. fea­tu ri n ~ tilt! "' ri., of Marcel Duchamp .. \ nd} \\ arhol. other . ' rt nf the .\nc1ent America.,:· 4118-619: "Sur-

roundinc lntenol'\: Vie\\~ I \ide 1he Car ... Free. Call: 1x 1-28J-::!U51. FOGG ART MUSEUM. 32 uincy St., Cam. 4/18· 7/21 : "Three 'Women: Earl} Portrait'> by llenri de TouJo,e-L.u1trec." Call: 617 95-9400. FORT POINT ARTS COM UNITY GALLERY. 300 Summer St.. Bo,. 4/18-4/22 "Sculpture Exhibition 2002." feat \ariou' ani,t'>. all: 617-123-4299. GALLERY SEVENTY-NIN • 79 Ne\\bury St.. Boston. 4/18-4/22: Landcape'>. 'till fe, and contemporar) pamung' b} Jame' Ra}en. nd Deni-.e & Brian Ferran. Call: 617-262-5918. HAMILL GALLERY OF A ICAN ART. 2164 Wa;h­in!!ton St., Bos. 4/18-4/22: · African Metalworks ... Call 6J7-+i2-820-t HARVARD MUSEUM OF ATURAL HISTORY. 26 O\ford St Ca,•1. Onl!oing: "~foddin<- "laiure," "B1nh,tone,_ Th< m.i-,um "' • I• i- r~r m;iHent c ;.In bnion' in rt' gallerie,. -1/18 22: "Dodo'. Trilobite' and letconte,. Trea,ure' o ature and Sc1em:e al Hmard.· Call· 617-195-INSTITUTE OF CONTEM ORARY ART. 955 Boyl­'t"n St.. Bo,. 4118-5/5: "C c Click': Creativit\ and Commerce in Contemporar fa,hion Photograph)." Call: 617-266-5152. INTERNATIONAL POSTE GALLERY. 205 New­bul) St.. Bo,. 4/18-.U22:.. ring to Life!" an exhibi­tion of ne\\ acqua"tion'. C: I: 617-375-<XJ76. !SABELLA STEWART ONER MUSEUM. 2 Palace Rd .. Bo' Ongoing: he museum off el'\ a num­ber of cla"e'. lecture' and amily eYent' in addition to ih an. 4/18-5/12: "Cosme ura: Painting ru1d De'ign m Rena1' ance Ferrara." C I: 617-566-1-tOI. MASSACHUSETTS CO GE OF ART. Bakalar Gallm. 621 Huntington A e .. Ba-. 4119, 5:30 p.m. 13th aiinual Benefit \uctio . Call 617-879-7025. $75. MUSEUM OF RNE ART 465 Huntington Ave .. Bt". Ongoing: Eg) ptian F nerary An' and Ancient '\ear 1::.a,t Gallerie,. 4/18-7 21: "Draped in Dragon': Chme e Court Co,mme,:· 18: Bo,ton A'>ian-Ameri­can Film & Video fe,tirnl. 4/18-6/9: "lmpre"ioni't Still Life .. 4/18-4/29: "ho Pari' to Prm inceto\\ n: Blanche La11dl aml the CL or \\oo<kut." 4/24-10/27: "Recent Acqul\1lion' from he Department of Contem­por.tl) An." Call: 617-369 770. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE. cience Park. Bos. Ongo­ing: "K" EXploration hh bit." ··Galileo·, Ody''<!).'' "A c\\ T. rex for the 1u' um of Science." "Po\\ el'\ of , ature.'' .. atural \1)'terie ." "Cahnel'\ Computer­Pla~e." ''The\ inual Fish T nk ... "\\ ww.>irtuaJfi,h­wnk.com." ''The Li!!.ht Hou e: Beaming. Bouncing an<l Bending Light.'" "l\.lc"age " "Human Bn<l) Connec­tion.'' "Science in the Park' 4118-4/30: "The Changing Face ol Women·, Health ... /20: 15th annual A'>trono­m' Da,. Call: 617-72.>-rn . TTY. 589-0417. NEW ART CENTER. 61 \! a'himtton Park. New\•rlle. 4/ 18-4/22: "La)ered Form a)ered Images." Call : 617-964-3424. NEW ENGLAND SCHOO OF PHOTOGRAPHY. 537 Comm Aw., Bo,_ 4/1 -4/19: Photograph' by Dana Smith. 4122: "Barny rd.'' photographs b) Janet WooJcock. Call: 617-137- 868. PEABODY MUSEUM. I I Divinit) A\c .. Cam. 4/18-811: "Embedded Nature: T pa Cloth' from the Pacific J,JanJ,."Call: 617-196-10 7. PEPPER GALLERY. 38 ewbury St., 4th floor. Bo~. · 4118-4/22: "Kahn/Sebnic : Citv of Salt.'" Call: 617-236-1497. -PHOTOGRAPHIC RESO RCE CENTER. 621 Com­monwealth A' e .. Bo,. 4/1 -4/22: "6 Month,. A

Forest Hills is a ive ... W ith the -.ou,1<.b of music -

all kmds of mu~ic. actual­• • • I). ~ the Fore.'>t Hill. F.du­cational Tru. t ho t!> a pecial world music program thi · Sunday. bcgmning at 3 p.m. The Forsyth Chapel at Forest Hill Ceme­

tery will echo with ound~ from the far

corners of th globe. \\hen African percus­

ionist Balla Tounkara, Cuban guitrui t/poet Patino Vazquez and Irish harpist Kath­leen Guilda) unite to entertain and ed­

ucate mu~ic lovers } oung and old.

Tounkara i a \inuo player of the kora (a:! I-stringed in'-OUment resembling a harp) and a Griot (a master toryteller well-\'ersed in the oral tradition of the people of Mali. \.\'e:-.t Africa). Tounkara - whose grandfather taught him to pla) and \\ho perfonned for presiden~ uch as JFK and Jimrn) Carter -perfo~ both centurie-.-old African folk-

song and his own o ·ginal compositions. Vazquez mixes ro-Cuban street music

with a style of poe /music mix known as nueva trova. With ongs that explore the deeper human issu s of love, life and poli­tics, Vazquez's · 'ng and playing res­onates deep within ople of all ages.

Finally, there is uilday - an all-Ireland harp champion wh has perfonned for the Clintons and the P me Minister of Ireland. She perfonns Celt dance tune and bal­lad! on her instru ent which has been a staple of Iri h mus cal expression for cen­turie .

Memorial." Call: 6 I 7-353-0700. PUCKER GALLERY. 171 Newbury St.. Bos. 4/18-4/22: "The Love of Life," landscape paintings by Jef­frey Hc>sing. Call : 617-267-9473. ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY. 38 Newbury St., Bos. 4/18-4/22: "Fiat Lux," works by various anists. Call: 617-267-7997. ROSE ART MUSEUM. Brandeis University, Waltham. 4118-7/17: Refining Expre~> ionism. Call: 617-736-3434. SACRAMENTO ST. GALLERY. Aga siqCommunity Center, 20 Sacmmento St., Cam. 4/18-4/19: "A Chair with a View." photographs by Mary Violette. Call : 617-349-6287. SHERMAN GALLERY. 755 Commonwealth Ave, Bo,1on. 4/18-4/21: "Time and Motion'." paintings by Caren Canicr. Call: 6 I 7-358-0295. SOCIETY OF ARTS AND CRAFTS. 175 Newbury St., B"'· 4/18-.U22: "h•1 l(e' on CJ,1\ "Call: 617-266-1810. SOMERVILLE MUSEUM. I \\ N wooJ Rd, Som. 4118-4/20: "Pmona." Call: 6 17-666-9810. STEBBINS GALLERY. Zero Church St.. Cam. 4/18-4/22: Ne11 works by Sheila Rice. Call: 617-576-0 13 1. THE COPLEY SOCIETY OF BOSTON. 158 Newbury St., Bo<.. 4/ 18-5/11: Spring Members Show. Call: 617-536-50-19.

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COMEDY COMEDY CONNECTION. 245 Quincy Market Place, Bo,_ 4/ l9-4/20:Richard Jeni. 4/20-4/21:~arthquake . 4/25:Caroline Rhea. Call: 617-248-9700. COMEDY STUDIO. 1236 Ma.ss Ave .. Cam. 4/19:"Pis­ton Honda" >ketch comedy, w/Joe Oink.in, Sandy Asai, Eric Ri ley Moore, Anhur Januario & Ross Garmil. 4/20:Rick Jenkins Ali\on Block.- Ben Joplin, Mike Dor­val. Tom Casswell, Eric Riley Moore. A11hur Januario, Ro>S Garmil. 4/21:The Sam Wailers Show w/Suzanne Arbin!!. AJi,on Block, David Bennen. Laura Kol ling, Ben Murray. Jan David~on, Steve Schnaps & Larry Murphy. 4/24:The Tony V Experiment; The lnconti­nentals, Al Klemick. Max Pelkey & Shane Kinney. 4/25:The Tim Mcintire Show, w/Dave Walsh, Lois McCormack. Pat O'Shea, Paul Shea, Benari Poullen & Anwar Floyd-Pruitt. Call: 617-661-6507. NICK'S COME'DY STOP. 100 Warrenton St., Bos. 4/19-4/20:Jim McCue, Jim Coliton, Ira Proclor. 4/25: Kevin Knox. Patty Ross, Danny Kelley. $8-$ I 2. Call: 617-423-~900.

JAZZ & BLUES HOUSE OF BLUES. 96 Winthrop St., Cam. 4/l9:She­mekia Copeland. 4/20:Mappari w/Three Day Thresh­old. 4/21:Lake Trout w/Cancer Conspiracy. 4/22:Rain­bow Trout. 4/23:House of Payne w/Palio Kings. 4/24:Cast Iron Filter. Call: 617-497-2229. LES ZYGOMATES. 129 South St .. Bos. 4/19:Silas Hubbard. 4/20:Skip Smith. 4/20:Eula Lawrence. 4/23:The Alvin Terry Trio. 4/24:Chuck Langford. 4/25:Steve Langone Trio. Call: 617-542:5108. LIMBO. 49 Temple Place Bos. 4/ 19:Evan Goodrow. 4/20:Valerie Stephens. 4/2l :Ron Murphy Quanet. 4/22:Mark Donovan. 4/23:Jacques Chenier Trio. 4/24:Athene Wilson. 4/2S:Wannetla Jackson. Call: 617-338-0280.

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Together, the trio will attempt to broad­en the musical horiions of a multi-genera­tional audience at Forest Hills. So, why not pay a visit -and experience a literal world of music without ever leaving Boston!

''Griot Ballads, Celtic Harp and Nueva Troya" takes place April 21, at 3 p.m., at the Forsyth Chapel, Forest Hills Avenue i11 Boston. Admission is "$8; for i'riforma­tion or directions to Forest Hills, call 6}7-524-0128, Ext. 22, or visit www.foresthillstrust.org.

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POP 608. 608 Somerville.Ave., Somervi lle. 4/24:Dolly ,l:;i Varden w/Jay Bennett and Edward Burch. Call : ; ~ ,1 61 7-59 1-166 1. . AER. 25 In Ki ngston St., Bos. 4/19:"Breathe" w/De-1 ~'1) ' haies & gue>ls. 4/23-4/24:"Acrylic." Retro ·70, and ,f"!;J '80s w/ James and special guests. 4/24:"Rockin' :· con-,.,. lemporary and classic rock from U.S. & Europe, '' ·' w/Bradley Jay. 4/25:"Change," w/Eli, Fernando & : 1l'J

Mike. Call: 617-292-3309. JI'] AXIS. 7 Lansdowne St.. Bos. 4/20:"The Adrenaline '., Tour," feat. The X-ecutioners, The Coup, Kenny JI 11 Muhammed and The Adrenaline Theater Film Festivah/ Call: 617-262-2437. •ii,; CANTAB LOUNGE. 738 Mass. Ave .. Cam. 4/19-4/20:Shirley Lewis & New Day. 4/21 :Candy's Blues 11 I Jam. 4/22:Singer-Songwriter Open Mike. 4/22:Phil -\ Pemberton & Friends. 4/23:True Life Bluegrass. 4/23:Bluegrass Pick.in' Party. Call: 617-354-2685. \ i>; CLUB PASSIM. 47 Palmer St., Cam. 4/19:Howard <111 Armstrong. 4/20:Ball in the House. 4/21:Mary Gaut)i\;{) er. 4/22:Jem Static. 4/23:0pen Mic. 4/24:Cris •. Will iamson. 4/25:John Stcwan. Call: 617-492-7679. i I COMMON GROUND. 85 Harvard Ave., All. ,;··1 4/19:Two To1i Shoe. 4/20:J.T. and the Dirty Truth. 11 4/22:"Worsl Evening Ever" Simpsons Trivia Night. " , 4/24:What a Way to-Go-Go (Mod Night with DJVin)1' " 4/25: Love Night w/DJ Brian - '80s metal, all vinyl. , 'i 1

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HIBERNIA. 25 Kingston St., Bos. 4/20: Resident ' ' DJ Steve Poner. Call: 617-292-2333. · _,,,, JOHNNY D'S. 17 Holland St., Somerville. 4/20:Milo z. 4/21:Blues Jam and Salsa Dancing w/Rumba NaMa. 4/23:Michael Jerling w/Rosenne Raneri. 4/24:Pat Bur-tis CD release w/Sam Hooper. 4/25:Slaid Cleves • w/Karen Poston. Call: 617-776-2004. KENDALL CAFE. 233 Cardinal Medeiros Ave .. Cam. 4/23:Ms. La Nive. Call: 617-629-9188. MIDDLE EAST. 472-480 Mas~achuseus Ave., Cam. 4/19-4/22:''Performance Ponraits." by Eric Antoniou. Call: 6 17-864-3278. PARADISE CLUB. Comm. Ave., Bos. 4/22:The Pun­ters & Rasa. Call: 6 I 7-562-8804. SKY BAR. 518 Somerville Ave .. Somerville. 4/20:The Pasties w/Oh Jimmy, Major Major & Calendar Girl. Call: 617-623-5223. T.T. THE BEAR'S. I 0 Brookline St., Cam. 4/ l9:The Red El vises, Cave Call Sammy, The Nebulas. 4/20:Bound 4 Venus, The Shelley Winters Project CD release, The Jupiter Project, The Modelcs. 4/22: Kevin Griffin, Mark Donovan, Todd Giles. 4/23:ldiot Toast­er, Bird Gets the Smile, Polaris Mine, Tristan da Cunha. 4/24:The Losing Kind. Cold Memory. Orbiting Riley'. Mancie. 4/2-S:The Richmond Slut<., The ·, Otf,, La't Stand. C II. 617-492 2 21 TOAD. 19 12 Ma,s. Ave., Cam. 4/19-4/22:\\ ednesday residency w/Edith. Call: 617-497--1950.

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~~~~~~~~r:l~E$JE$ j~E~~~~~ ~~;~2:g9J· r Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall , Wei. 4/18-4/19: '·Under­My Heart," directed bY. Nora Hussey. $5-$12. Call: 781-283-2000. WHEELOCK FAMILY THEATRE. 200 The River1~a .Ji"' Bos. 4/5-5/5: ''The Trumpet of the Swan." $ 10-$17 . ...:; Call: 61 7-734-4760.

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A conversatiot1al Engli h cla s wi ll take plaae 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Jo eph M. Smith Community He.11th Center, 287 Western Ave., Alhton. The class is free of charge and i · pon ored by the Boston College eighborhood Center.

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Atara istro and Wine Bar, wil l teach b ginner and advanced cooks alike h w to plan a dinner party from eginning to end. George Hark f om Gimbel's Liquors will also be n hand to recommend bev­erages that wi ll compliment the meal.

Each Monday features a different theme:

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Ca · s Hospice spon rs open house

s Good Samaritan Hos­pice, ith offices in Brighton and Norwo d, holds an open house on the fir t Monday of each month in its Bri hton office, 310 Allston St. The m eting will take place from noon t I :30 p.m. The open house is an o portunity for patients, fami­lies, fr. nds, health care profession­als or t ose seeking a volunteer ac-

For more information, call 617-783-0500, ext. 246.

Boston B'nai b'rith starts Covenant House addition

The B'nai B'rllh Senior Citizens Housing Corporal ion broke ground, April 9 for its ,ccond addition to the Irving Matro:.~ Covenant Hou. e in Brighton.

The apartmenh were built in April 1982 and contained I.SO units. Fifty unih were added in May 1993. The late t addition will contain 42 apartment .

Andrew Chaban and Edward Zuker, members of B'nai B"rith' New England Rcalt)' nit. are the co-chairmen of the Semor Citizens Housing Corpor.1tion ·s ew Pro­jects Committee .

Neshamkin f'rench Architects designed the new facilit}. The con­tractor is CWC Con truction. Barkan Management will continue as property manager. Brown, Rud­nick, Freed & Gc:imer are the attor­neys. Development con ultants are Consultants A wciate and Lawrence DiCara of ixon Peabody LLP.

The B'nai B'rith Senior Citizens Housing Cor ration broke ground recently for its second addition to the Irving Matross ovenant House in Brighton. Helping at the groundbreaking ceremony are from left, Edward Zuker, Housing Corporation; Management Committ e chairman Robert Golden; and

many as 2.000 new units to the Boston area ·s stock of affordable housing for seniors.

Financing for the addition is being provided by the City of Bo ton, the Commonwealth of Massachusett and the federal gov­ernment through the U.S. Depart­ment of Housing & Urban Devel­opment.

Public invited to Kallah

Sp ngfield Communi ty Music Sch ol and was honored by the Co ference of Christians and Jews for is work in bringing together peo le of all ethnic persuasions thr gh music.

was a member of the first gra uating class of the Cantors In­stil te of the JTSA in 1955, and he ear ed a bachelor of arts degree in voi e and a master's degree in mu­sic logy from Boston University. In 99-l, he received an honorary

Temple Erneth Rabbi Alan doc orate in sacred music from the Turetz and Cantor Elias Rosemberg Je ·sh Theological Seminary.

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im ite the public to the 26th annual ntors who will perform in­Kallah in memory of Frances and clu e: Aryeh Finklestein, Mishkan Nathan Silverstein. The event will Te la, Chestnut Hill: Morton take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sh nes, Temple Beth El, Spring­April 27, at Temple Emeth, I 000 fiel : Robert Scherr, Temple Israel, West Roxbury Parkway. Chestnut Nat ck: and Steven Dress. Temple

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For more information, call Gail Camp ell or Judy Diamond in the Bright n office at 617-566-6242.

Covenant Hou..,e is the fruit borne of those c;trl) effort .

With the approach of the millen­nium a few year ago. Realt} Unit. in cooperation with the Hou ing Cot-poration, announced Challenge 2000. The short term goal of this initiative was to -;ecure funding for the addition. _

Chaban, chief executive officer of Princeton Propertie .... and Zuker. president of Che tout Hill Reali) . were appointed co-chairmen of the New Project Committee. The group's long term goal 1 · to add a5

Hill. lsr I. Sharon. Cancor Morton Shame wi ll host efreshments will be served.

a lecture and perfonnance of sacred Re rvations should be made by and secular music. Ap ii 21. Proceeds benefit the New

Sh<1111es lectures on the ubject of En land Region Cantor's Assem­acrcd and ecular music .. He i'> bly and Temple Emeth ~pecial mu­ought after a.-, a concert artist and 'iic I P!oorams

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C ameron Diaz must be the biggest sport of all our A-shelf movie-land goddesses in thi era of big screen and small-skill

dh as. She was the most watchable and also most fearsome element in "Vanilla Sky" and she gave new meaning to life-like hair in her hilarious mas­

ter- troke in "There's Some­thing About Mary." Thi is one devil-may-care perfonner. Long may he look good. Think hard: Have you ever totally loathed a movie with Cameron Diaz tailing in it?

Diaz play Christina. a mildly ucce sful and totally adorable

San Franciscan living with her Film Critic be t buddy. Courtney (Christi-

na Applegate), and their pal Jane (Selma Blair), who is not plain, as in Plain Jane. but has been dumped and i resentful. In this trio's world. the girls dump the boys, and the lads serve as boy toys for the ladie ' amusement. To buck up Jane and make it plain that he's not pretty in vain and till has much to gain fro!Jl the flirting game. Christina and Courtney drag their weepy amiga out for a night on the town. There, in the clas-ic meet-cute tradition, Christina encounters a

hunky blond. Peter (Thomas Jane), whom later she fantasiz.e about and till later decides, prodded by Courtney, to go find, venturing north to the wed­ding. the} think, of Peter's brother (a chunky Jason Bateman). The bride is played by the inescapable Parker Posey, and credit where due, for once he's not also in ufferable.

The road trip has many yucky and a few yuk­yuk bits, plu one of those intenninable change­clothing-to-f ast-rnu ic montages that can drive one nuts. But the return to their apartment features the scene that people will for years be comparing to the major joke hot in ··something About Mary." Here we· 11 euphernize. An act of amorous geniality cannot easily be ended owing to the intru ion of object not by Nature intended to be in the routine (Whe11:)

What works i the girl ' heer gung-ho what-the heck vitalit} in doing these ab urd things, in publi ) et, and nice-guy Peter' intention always to be gentleman. come what may. What fizzles are sever al of the nastier vignette that might better appear i a kmd ofX-rated Harvard Lampoon drag. how an that seem here not onl) ..ophornoric but at times so, porific. What arouses or revolts you are beyond analysi and enter into the realm of personalit quirk.

A much-appreciated touch is a running time o 84 minutes. which reflects a generosity of spirit i an age of overlong films confusing elaboratio with in ight and passivity cum stasis with solemni ty and depth. You've read it here before, but etern

truths bear repeating: Short movies starring pretty people beat long movies starring trolls any time, if, that is, movie-going for you is an occasion for a pleasant time on the town rather than an exercise in self-flagellation. Comedy is the toughest of the performance arts and, deservedly, the best loved.

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main in your memory box for ages, it is, I think, an absolute first in a movie, but I fear that it may noti be unknown in reality. "One" may be the loneliest sound, as a well-used song insists, but "ouch" is the' sound for that vignette. ir

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cou11· to seize control of a huge trust fund, Doyl)l is also off to court to plead with a judge that his. estranged wife not take herself and their sons oij, to Oregon. Both are late, having crashed into eactr other, and while Doyle plays by-the-rule book o.f1 exchanging insurance data, Gavin has mastered the art of the brush-off.; he's in a rush, he whip out a check, signed but blank, telling Doyle t take care of the damage. Doyle's car is imrnobil but Gavin speeds away, with a flip "Better luc next time."

Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson have a "dis ussion" over a road mishap.

C hanging Lanes (B-)

N ot only cliche but truism groun to mu h, the one-little- econd-in-ti e­can-alter-all-life shtick is visible a ·1e

away, at least in movies. Setting us up for this un­avoidable thing is the juxtaposition of arche pal events in the lives of two men, one a comely, ot­the-whole-world-in-hi hands Master of the verse attorney on Wall Street, Gavin Banek the other a homely hop-worn refonning alcoh lie, Doyle Gip on. Gavin has it all: a sleekly m em

office, with a huge mural, in David Hockneyish style, of languid people luxuriating at the beach; the perfect suit, the flawless features. Doyle is an insurance agent, nervous, aware that his world is about to crumble around him if he can't get a mortgage for a run-do~n house he thinks he must buy. .

Gavin we meet showering the be1,1eficence of a dead man's money on young perfonners, of the rainbow coalition variety Hollywood's addicted to; Doyle we encounter spouting metaphoric inanities at an AA meeting. Gavin is heading to

Ah, luck. As luck would have it, Gavin acciden tally leaves a crucial file with Doyle but doesn't know how to find him. Without the file, he i screwed and perhaps faces jail. Movie-ish coinci• dence puts the two men in touch, and things spiral downward horribly. Gavin's boss and father-in. law (a splendid Sydney Pollack) must get his wa or there'll be hell to pay, so Gavin employs a scum­my hacker (Dylan Baker) to put the screws on Doyle, and Doyle goes so far in due course as o put Gavin'$ life in mortal danger. These are tw angry dudes, each facing ruination, each desperate each driven on to the brink of lunacy. Do you see jolt corning on?

Ben Affleck's handsomeness cannot mask his blandness, and his attempts at looking conscience· stricken are unpersuasive .. Samuel L. Jackson, on the contrary, who can be so terrifying one shudderS ("Pulp Fiction" is the most amazing but not th only example), can also modulate that ferocity an encompass it in a superficially mild but subsurface rage and does so here. Kim Staunton as Doyle' wife, Toni Collette as Gavin's fom1er mistress and now buddy, Amanda Peet as Gavin's astoundingly beautiful and totally realistic wife, and Walter Ar­nell as Gavin's other boss are all good adjuncts t the little dance nearly to the death of the two leads Salvatore Totino's photography is masterful, unob­trusive but thoroughly unmemorable, even with the kind of close-ups that can only in fairness be in­flicted on people without pores.

The lesson here is manifest early on: Su,cces often requires compromises with virtue. This is no1" a new thought. Telling the lesson in a new way is a, rare thing and here it barely asc~nds beyond trite­ness. When the nail is pounded in so we get it get ii GET IT, the music nauseatingly swells up just in case we might miss it miss it MISS IT. This is not a bad picture, it's just a picture that chickens out qi its logical conclusion and ambles away from its logical trajectory, It saddles us with sap instead of sobering us up with savvy. •

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to conti ue a squabble begun long ago. s kid brot er adores him and a traveling rnival act ess enchants him. Murder and

onor, calc latfon and impetuosity converge L to a tragi resolution merging sadness with ~ope (D.B B ~ANGIN LANES (R) A Wall Street master

the univ rse (Ben Affleck) combats a lone­desper e man about to lose his cl1ildren

Samuel L Jackson) alter they meet owing to inor t ffic accident. The lawyer jeverishly

eks a d cument accidentally in the other ~an's ha ds, going so far as to try to ruin • ~ fina ially. An attempted murder and , her seri us ingredients play into this melo­

The bad guys get ready to take on the good gals In "Panic Room."

ama a ut values in a value-neutral world. D.S.) B- . RUSH ) An American headmistress at a

~sh En lish school (Andie MacDowell), who pieekly ti pies and bemoans her fate with two inher se ually frustrated women, falls for a

exy lo er student (Kenny Doughty), who ms t be the quintessential forbidden fling

put is q ite a bit more substantial. Comedy, ~erious houghts about inter-generational toman , and a raw climax are followed by a

~noue ent that suggests wiser but sadder mplic . (D.S.) B-E ST WALTZ (PG) Martfn Scorsese's

~ 978 f m about the final (1976) concert of ~e B d features interminable inlerviews

'th R bbie Robertson and the others, darkly hte concert footage, insider jokes that

~ve I st their spark with time; and cameos til' Dy n, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Muddy ~ate , others. It doesn't hold up well in re­elea . (D.B.) B-'~c BREAK (PG-13) A charming guy in eriso (Jame~ Nesbitt) figures out how to esca e by playing to the warden's 1chri topher Plummer) love of musicals and tbrd Nelson. With Timothy Spall and Bill

gh among the skilled British character Cto s, it marches right along exuding suffi­

fien verve to mask Its.ultimate silliness. The ilfre tor of "Full Monty" tries again. (D.B.) B­~U E SKINNER BLUES (Unrated) If the fun rican Dream is one of making it in show Oiz, en this documentary is fJll of dream­~rs. all of whom live in a Florida trailer park. No e of them are spring chickens, and most of em have goals that surpass their "ta~ en ,"from filmmaking to songwriting to ot r areas of the arts. But we're with them au he way. Totally entertaining, a little heart­hr aking, very offbeat, with a great closing nu ber. (E.S.) B+ M ADER BY NUMBERS (R) In a Leopold-L b-like murder to see if they can get away w· h It and outsmart the cops, two well-h eled high schoolers (BMOC Ryan Gosling a d techno-ner'd Michael Pitt) kill a stranger. A obsessed cop with emotional baggage up I e whazoo (Sandra Bullock) takes hold like a pt-bull on Its prey, and firev1orks ensue in a s hematic but not ineptly done melodrama I riller of detection and covertness. (D.B.) B

E OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN (PG) A clean-! collegian (Christopher Gorham) does his uired missionary tour of duty in far-off

nga, quickly learning the language, becom­. a local hero, converting the natives,

dressing and looking spiffy desprte a typhoon that destroys everything. and spreading the Mormon message. The natM!S are frolic­some and winsome and colorful and other "National Geographic"-h e things. A good, holy time is had by all. (D.B.) C THE SCORPION KING (PG-13) WWF- star The Rock gets his first maior role as an assassm hired to take out a sorcerer who's aiding an evil wartord in this llashy. lunny,action­packed prequel to "The MUrnnrf Returns.' Lots of violence (all done off screen). many cleverly covered scantily clad women. and a great variety of fights wrth sharp objects. Wisely, the effects are ept to a minimum, and real people doing stunts are up front The Rock rules. (E.S.) B THE SWEETEST THING A) Three on-the-go San Francisco 20-someth111gs enioy life and the kick of toying with men. Ccrneron Diaz also falls for a guy (Thomas Jane) whom she learns is about to be married. her pals (Christina Applegate and Selma Blair) have their adventures too. and some of the gross· est (and occasionally fumiest) brts in recent movies enliven what is. at bottom. just a TV sitcom for the HBO set (DB.) C+ Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN (Unrated) Mexican buddies, one rich (Diego Luna). one lower­middle class (Gael Garcia Beinal, so impres­sive in "Amores Perros1. vie with each other for everything and hugely enjcrj their sex lives with girls. The sad wife (Marlie! Verou) of the rich boy's cousin goes oo a weekend with our horny teens and spreads jcrj Comedy ribaldry and erotJaSm are punctured at the end by a morose conclusion. Unrated but highly, explicitly sexual. (D.B.) B+

ONGOING FILMS BIG TROUBLE (PG-13) Dave Barry's first novel works intermittently as a mamc come­dy of criminals, teens playlng Siiiy games Russian merchants of eapons of mass destruction, a toad with psychedelic juice rt can spray, and assorted other delights. nm Allen stars as a newspaper columnist turned ad man, with Janeane Garofalo as an unflap­pable cop, Stanley Turo as a high level thief with a foot fetish. and mynad energetic per­formers. (D.B.) B-BLADE 2 (R) A laughably muddled sequel to a mediocre fright mOVJe slamng Wesley Snipes as the hatt-humari-half-vampire now allied with vampires to combat more evil cre.atures. Kris Kristotrerson rags along as

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our hero's mentor. The fiends, augmented by special effects, spill much blood, the sound­track oppresses, the dialogue provides unin­tended mirth. (D.B.) D CLOC STOPPERS (PG)-Arl ingratiating high school kid (Jesse Bradford) comes into pos­session of a watch that can alter time, and he and his new girffriend (Paula Garces), his buddy (Garikayt Mutambirwa), and eventually a genius (French Stewart) struggle to save the IOO's dad and foil the bad guy (Michael Biehn). II makes no sense, the music is soporific and loud, the special effects amuse and then grow tedious, and good triumphs over evil. (D.B.) C DEATH TO SMOOCHY (R) A spoof of TV kid shows that goes grievously wrong, with an overdose of violence and a paucity of humor. Robin Williams and Danny DeVrto play the baddies. Edward Norton the innocent hero, and an unattractive New Yori< and assorted unappealing performers fill in the rest A hopeful idea and a long-awaited villain role by Williams, renowned for sweetie-pie roles, shmooshed up into a disappointing mess. (D.B.) C-HIGH CRIMES (PG-13) A thriller about a seemingly nice guy (Jim Caviezel), discov­ered to have led a second and more danger­ous life, and his lawyer w~e (Ashley Judd) who defends him in milttary court, along with a former milttary attorney (Morgan Freeman) who is still sharp on the up-take. Many reverses, twists of fate and plot contrivances test our will lo suspend disbelief, but the film's rescued by its lead performances and a snap111, alert tone. (D.B.) B· HUMAN NATURE (R) A man who thinks he's an ape (Rliys lfans) is mentored in human­ness by a scientist (Tim Robbins) and loved, ultimately, by a hairy woman (Patricia Arquette) who has undergone innumerable depilatory procedures. The whimsical approach, intertwined with supposed lessons about the baseness of humans and the arti­fice of cMlized life. works against the film. It does have occasional outbursts of madcap vivacity, but like apes and humans, It is what It is. (D.B.) C+ ICE AGE (PG) Sprightly if not quite path­breaking animation pits a mastodon (voice of Ray Romano) and his unwanted companion, a sloth (John Leguizamo), against a wily tiger (Denis Leary) who in due course ... well, why spoil the fun? Aided by the vocalizations of Goran Visnjic and Jack Black, and though giving absolutely no sense of history to kids,

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LAS ORDERS (Unrated) Four pals (Tom Gou enay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins and ay Winstone) take the ashes of their Irie (Michael Caine) to the sea for disper-sal, Ith flashbacks to their intertwining rela­tion hips and that of his wife (Helen Mirren).

"Th stalwarts of the British cinema are nea faultless in their acting, managing to er le a believabillty even within the tightly a · icial structure that encompasses them. (D . . ) B+ M NSOON WEDDING (R) An upper-middle fa ily in Delhi prepares for the wedding of th ir beaufilul daughter to an Indian living in H uston. She has a local lover, her cousin has a eep secrei her father's finances are deplet­in rapidly, the lower-class wedding planner is v lgar and yearns for a servant girt, and e eryone has an opinion. Mira Nair's explo-

. n of the juncture of modernity and tradi­ti n is an ensemble tour de force. (D.B.) B+

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e but to scam his way through school. Ith his absurdly flamboyant token black

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NEW BEST FRIEND (R) An idiotic who-tried­to-kill-her mediocrity set at a fancy college in a snazzy town whose acting sheriff is played, unconvincingly, by Taye Diggs. Pretty Meredith Monroe, Dominique SWain and Rachel True, plus handsome Scott Bairstow and other A&F-ish "collegicllS," all play "stu­dents" who look guilty of the bad things inflicted on the poor gir1 (Mia Kirshner) whom the rich gir1s admit into their cherished circle. The acting's as slack as the plot (D.S.) D+ PANIC ROOM (R) A mother (Jodie Foster), just separat~d from her husband, moves with her daughter (Kristen Stewart) to a glorious old house. During their first night, they are invaded by criminals (Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto) seeking a for­tune supposedly hidden in a "panic room," in which the woman and her daughter hide. Horror a-plenty,'wilh·a tough, fine screenplay bolstering the performances. (D.B.) B THE ROOKIE (G) Based.on the true story of a high school baseball coach, Jim Morris, who in middle age gets a shot at playing major league ball; he is an amazing pitcher. His family (Rachel Griffiths is the obliging w~e) support him, his high school jocks egg him on to glory, and we cheer wildly for him. Dennis Quaid invests his character with believabillty, and even people who aren't baseball fans will enjoy the story, the acting and th.e games. (D.S.) B SHOWTIME (PG-13) The sassy, pushy cop (Eddie Murphy) and the reclusive no-non­sense cop (Robert De Niro) must team up, on orders from On High, in a "reallty" TV show about, big surprise, policemen. The usual awkward "diversity" pairing, now nearly mandated by law, offers few surprises, but the two performers provide sufficient laughs and the sly goof on the standard unhappy buddy flick genre is rarely strictly by the book. (D.S.) C+ SON OF THE BRIDE (R) A 42-year-old Argentine restaurateur (Ricardo Darin) is stressing out, juggling squeezed finances, parenthood and strained relations with his ex­w~e ~nd current mistress. Meanwhile, his

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A . ght at the opera the dt:ntist. I'm playing the dentist, and I've been looking for some den­tist's tools to use. But, with this being an Alice Cooper song, I don't want to have anything too tame ... . so I've bee11 building something at home. It should do the trick." 'Aqua ung 'vs. 'Billion Dollar Babies'

I n one co er, an aging shock­rocker wi a love of onstage be­headings, and a proclivity for

~earing more black eyeliner than Tammy Faye akkcr, snake-fondling aect - perhap most disturbing of all (golf.

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' . · In the other comer, a classic rock

bpnd with the ost fluid membership t~is side ofFl twood Mac - led by a_ Gandalf-li e, flute-toting Bnt \'{ho's spent igh on four decades sfanding stor -like onstage telling t~les of grubb men on park benches.

Alas, a phy cal tete-a-tete between Alice Cooper and Jethro Tull' Ian Anderson will probably only be lived opt in our fev red imaginations. But tlie Boston R k Opera plans to gi' e audiences the ext best lhing this Sat­urday at The iddle East Downstair~. There, someo Boston's most talented rock singers d players will petfonn Cooper's 197 album "Billion Dollar Babies" and the J 971 Tull classic "Aqualung,'' n lheir entirety, as pa1t of a soit of"B ttleofthcAlbums."

"This is pu ely for fun,'' says BRO Attistic Dir 'tor Eleanor Ramsay.

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"Unlike past projects in \\ hich we pick the material, and th1'n ca: I J:­cordingly, we thought wt.·d ;c ~ our regular actors to pick son .ething that they pa1ticularly wanted to -.tage.''

Boston music impresario T ~ta\ - publisher of local mu,1c mag The Noise and a longtime ll llaborator with the BRO - wm; .1long \\ ilh Ramsay, a driving fom. behind the project. According to h11n. "We \·e done some scaled-do\ n perfor­mances before - con1· 'rt-.. rnlher than full-blown rock 01 ·ra - ;.md this was another way ol doing lhat. We thought that doublin!.! up. doing two albums, would make it -a full evening for people, and II \\a: from there that spmng the idea< fa compe­tition between the album ·

"Diehard rock fans Im e to do lhat whole 'my band's betll'r than ~our band' thing,'' says Rams '

''Aqualung" was a rn brainer :-e­lection for the project. once T ~ta.\ and Ramsay heard v1 ali t J hn Surette perfonn selectior from the album during a BRO OO\\L1l a yeru· ago. "He did these 1 •rig-,:· 'ill) T Max, "and they were 1rcmemk•1.hl) well-received. John mcntion1.:d that he'd always wanted to do the "hole album live, and I wa., rmrnediatd) excited. I said, 'Let's do 1l right now~-··

he laughs. "But we didn't get around to it until this project."

"Billion Dollar Babie"... on the other hand. is on the bill at the person­al mwng of another BRO -.tal\\art, gu1tari. t Bill) Bracken. 'When we tarted discu1.,sing the project. Bill)

immediately . taning talking about ·eabi s, · .. a) s T Ma\. "He . aid to me. '[10\ethi. recorl.l.'Bill) hru;done o much for LS ... he s been our slave.

reall):· T ,\fax laughs ... He learns so uch music ,md - mo. t importantly

- al\\ a)" i1., able to capture the feel­ing l 1f '' hatever he pla) s. This album \\ ~ 'umelhing he really wanted to do. o 1 -;aid let\ ju. t go for it.''

'either "Billion Dollar Babies" (an alhum that featured political satire. ongs about the dark side of love and

a health) do,e of the bombastic ex­ce"" 3l which Cooper excelled) or Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" (\\hich tea­tured song-. ahout lust. faith, class and madne s through the e)es of lhe epon) mous centr..tl character - a homeb drifter who may or may not 11,o be a famou. rock star) qualif) as "rock ope~:· per se. But T Max and Ramsa) both felt lhat the albums were strong enough. thematically and theauicall). to pre-.ent live.

'The '7(h were a great time for concept album,. <md these \\ere t\\O

U nlil the show, the biggest task for T Max and Ramsay might be to sim­ply keep the two camps from trash­ing each others' instruments.

John Powhi a, Linda Viens and Gary Cherone get ready to rumble.

"There's definitely a real competi­tive element to the Boston Rock Opera," laughs T Max. "A few weeks back, I had a party and John Surette was there, joking around and trashing some of the personalities over on the 'Babies' side - you know, saying stuff like how Gary had broken up Van Halen. Hey, it was funny stuff-1 I was'rolling on the floor. ,-; • , trong exa pies," says T Max. ''Wilh

'Aqualung· you already have that trong uni ying concept that mns

through th whole album. 'Babie ' was a littl bit more abstract, and so we need to create a visual show from what was there. But the songs - pieces ike ·sick Things' and 'I Love the ad' - are wonderfully theatrical.'

With the material selected. the next step'' a<; to ring in the right personnel to present · To that end, Ramsay and T Max bro ght in Pat McGraLh to host the event, d rounded up two sepa­rate bands f veteran BRO singers and musicians ike Surette. Bracken, gui­tarist/\oc ist Chris Ma<;eara and for­mer Extre11eNan Halen vocalist Gary Cherone t perfonn.

"When lea.nor and T Max come up with th ir brainl>torrrn;, I'm simply

a pawn in their q~rky game," "But; then I put some of tho~ Cherone laughs. ''I knew it would be . jokes, and some of my own about tl}.<t1 fun right from the start." 'Aqualung' group, in an issue of 'Tl)e

For Cherone, it wasn't a difficult Noise' ... and it felt like the biggest choice to figure out which album he misLake I ever made. I, figured that wanted to work on. "A no-brainer, ab- these guys krtew I loved them, but, solutely-I'm an Alice Coopernut," people seemed to really take it pe1'71 he says. ''Doing Alice is petfect for a sonally, so I apologized," says li bunch of rock star/actor/hams like us. Max. "Now, 1' m afraid that when we We may not have the guilloLines up onstage, but I'm sure that we'll have a couple of quality props to work with."

In fact, artist Wayne Viens has al­ready designed a number of props specifically for the "Billion Dollar Babies" performance. However, that hasn't stopped at least one performer from working on a surpiise or two of his own.

"I get to be onstage for one song -"Unfinished Sweet," says T Max. "It's a song about a really bad day at

get to the show, some of the perform': ers might be out to get me!" 1

"No More Mister Nice Guy," in~ deed. 11'

Tlte Boston Rock Opera presents complete peiformances oj "Aqualung" and "Billion Dollar Ba· hies" Satt~rday, April 20, beginning. at 9 p.m. Tickets are $15, and the sho1V is 18+. For tickets, call TickeJ­Master at 508-931-2000, and for in-_ formation about the show, visit w1vw. rockopera.com.

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le pnncesses \\ilhout que ... tion the premiere e ·ent at lhe Winter 01) mpic . . About . .J-9 mi Iii m viewers tuned in to the women\ finals (top-rated "ER" only get-. about half that " ewership). Such gaud) numbers are sure!)' lhe reason \\h) promoters thought it would be a good idea to pack up these talented tee1 s. and take their sho\\ on the road.

traveling with your enemies. Well, "enemies" may be too strong a word, but Kwan, Hughes and Irina Slutskaya, all. of whom are on this tour, are lhe skaters trying to nudge Cohen off the podium at every competition.

r . help of her coaches, the "most amazing pro­grams," she says. "We want sdmething that:S really interpreted to the music, something that stands out, something that people will have to watch.''

page 15 busy, but I'll get Mound ro it"). but her mem­ories of the di11 mg t\\O ''eek~ arc -.till 'i\ id. cause I was so amazingly ner­

ohen, a~ she prepares to perfotm f other Olympic skaters (includ­

ing tivals K an and Hughes) in "Champions oo Ice,'' al th FleetCenter, on April 20. "I wish I landed tha combo Uump], because I had been hitting very single one in practice. But my landing asn 't good enough to hold on. So tl1at was un 1tunate .. But· at the -;ame time, I'm, like, 'Yi u skated welL You have nothing to be really pset ahout. You tlied your best.' But if I ha landed thaL, I could have been Olympic ch· mpion. So that makes it hru·d.''

"It was a whl k ru h of e\citement, and on such a grand ale." sa_ Cohen. \\ho \\ l n silver medal~ at lhc 2000 and 2002 U.S . • 'a­tionals. "Ever) nn..: kne\v \\ho ) nu "ere and what you wcr• doing. C) watched )OU every night. It\ different. becau..;e in skating, you usually ju l ha\e !.;ating fan-. watching the National a 1d World [Champion-.hip ). But this was tie entire \\llrld \\atching )OU

every night. 1 lte ptrit ':.L'> o energ~tic. It was totally unique."

It\ a prelt) brutal schedule. Th "Champi­om:· tour is 95 shows (Cohen i-. c tracted for +t . and 1t\ usuall)' only one <lat per venue. Cohen sa) s once they land in a cit) the '>katers are often pacli.ed into a bus to trn\ I to neigh­OOing 'enue.-.. before fl)'ing off to other city.

"Now it's more of a friend relationship," say Cohen. "But a~ soon ac; we get home, we're all going to be training hard to be on top next year."

The level of skating at an exhibition like "Champions on Ice" rarely matches Olympic quality, but Cohen skates a program with a fair amount of difficulty. She does four triple-jumps in her three-and-half-minute program (she's also in the opening and closing group numbers).

Winning a gold medal probably takes ac;' much courage as skill, and Cohen showed her mettle when she put President Bush on the phone with her Mom. It was a bra<>sy, ye endearing, gesture for the teen, a moment that' was captured on international television. ,.

"I asked I the President] to say hi to her," she1 remembers. "He was really great. He wa<; en,1 thusia<>tic. He asked her where she was from. , And he told her that I was behaving myself.'' ·

"Champions on Ice" arrives at the Fleet•· Center in Bosto11 on April 20, with shows a/, 2 and 8 p.111. Tickets are $35-$70. Call 617-931-2000.

Cohen sa s she hasn't yet watched a tape of the Oly1 ic pe1formances (''I've been so

Indeed. lhe glare ufth potlight mu-,1 ha\c been harsh. The Ol)m ic dra" huge T\' audiences, and figure kn.ting i

·You haYe to get used to Ion bus rides, going lo bed late. lots of packing · nd unpack­ing:· -.he ays. "But ifs also a gre t chance to improve your skating and show anship, and be able to learn to do these jum s no matter \\hJt the conditions arc like.''

The other thing ) ou Im e to g t used to 1s

Cohen says she already has an eye 09 Italy in 2006. site of the next Winter Olympics. She'll be 21, and perhaps in the prime of her career. In the meantime, when the "Champi­ons" tour is over, she'll reium to California, where she's detennined to develop. with the

"Champions Oil Ice" also stops at the. Worcester Cent rum, at 7 p.111., oil April 23.

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working fi days a week on the pre­quel in the alifornia desert (he spent the other o days a week being flown aro d to different wrestling rings). Just a<; filming wrapped late last summ r, his wife gave birth to their first c ild, Simone.

"And I c change diapers with the best of the 1," says TI1e Rock. "Poop diapers, pe diapers, whatever.''

Then th 6"3" guy, who's quite soft-spoke and thoughtful - 180 degrees a ay from the wild-eyed. hot-tempe ed character he play-; in lhe ring an in the movie- gets seri­ous about this new direction in his life.

"It's a onderful thing being a fa­ther," he ys. "You become selfless in a way , d you start to think ahout how your decisions will affect your

·baby. For xample, like the next film rln doin . I'm reading the script, rrlaking s re the fundamental ele-±nts responsible, that it\ not

methin that I'll be embamL~sed ut six ears from now when "he's

a~le tow tch the movie."

JBut th 's also the time involved it his du careers. Although filming ob the co temporary action comedy. c~rrently titled "HelJ'dorndo," won't oo startin for a while, he's still on the Jrestling circuit traveling grind

"I'm ing to be a responsibk par­e t and eep the balance, and now I' tryin lo balance twd' careers, as

II a~ ing a good daddy," he says. ifficult, but i: ve got some p, good family suppott,

g pie around me to help me dhelp ny life mn easier." His lo g-term plan is to make an pact i film and Jessen his role -

b t not I ve it- in wrestling. The q estion of course, is whether or not h can ak:e the crossover. Acting· in

stlin is one thing - lots f im­visa n between the choreo­phed fights. But acting in movies

is very uch, another. In wrestling h 's on of the. biggest stars in the b sines . In '11le Mummy Retums" h only had a few lines of dialogue,

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and they were in Egyptian. The Rock addre~se-. hi' role in

wrestling first, referrinµ to the recent Wrestlemru1ia pay-per \ ie\\ in which he pinned Hulk Hogan

"It was the best thing thai' e\ er happened in my wrest! mg career:· he says. 'Tve won the WWF champi­onship more times than aJl)bod •• and I've done this and done that Bui fi­nally to be involved i1 .1 mat h "ith Hulk Hogan, who wa ... the icon of the wrestling industry, and to a ICll of people still is - and for him tQ pa'

the torch by letting me beat him. wa: a great thing. It's like J, 1rdan tepping aside for Kobe.

''But,'' he adds, "in \\~tling. \\e get one take. That\ 1t. nd in the movie business, you ha\e the IU\UJ) of doing take after cake and tining different choices. So 11 hen it' .i in the moming and you· re on )Our I 5lh take with flaming swonk it ga ... dif­ficult getting in the mood gain. When I worked on The !\lummy Returns,' everything \\il\ bmnd ne\~. So the director helped me a lot '

But in '111e Scorpr•>n King,'' The Rock has a lot of dialogue. no ju t a few lines.

"I hired an acting coach. l..1in} Moss," he says. "He helpCi.J me tremendously throui,:h lhe rp and scenes and putting me in tl mo­ments where at time,, there \\l: a lit­tle bit of poignanc) imohed. So I had a lot of help.''

In the film he pla)" ~1atha)u . an assassin who's hired to ktll off the powe1ful sorcerer .,.. ho\ ,liding an evil desert warrior. Matha) u i~ nei­ther a good guy nor a bad gu). but most viewers will b. .:m hi ii.le.

'11le vulnerabilit) f the character attracted me," says I he Rock. "It was just like what's helped me in

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wrestling. 1\1\\a) bemg \'Ulnemble. bemg fl~med. and bemg in jeopardy \\<t the same thing I contributed to lhe chardt"ter. Mathayu-. had flaws and "a.' \lllncrable. even in all the fight '>Cene!>.''

Conce1Tu.'l.i parents will want to hl1o\\ that the film is very 'iolent. But almo!>t all of the real mayhem is done ju t off -.creen. There are sword ;.md a\ fig.ht: . but no one is seen getting cut or chopped. And there is nobkn.l.

"l think the film i! veiy llifiiendly,'' 'kl)' The Rock. "It's not gratuitous at all There are some vel) beautiful \\Omen· imolved in it. but they're \CD emptmering \\Omen. And my charncter ha<; a great and funny rela­tion hip with a little boy."

The Rock can ~nse that the next que tion ' ill be about paren~ · con­cern.., witt the violence in wrestling. even befote it's~ ked, and he launch­es nght imo un answer.

"A..s far wrestling. that wiU be an on­gomg concern f~ver." he explains. ··lliere \ no wa) to em<licate that at all. The bN thing I can do as a per­fotmer is to ti) and be as responsible a.., I can be. an<l kt fan~ hl1o\\ that the actmn and the \ iolencc that you see in \\ WF pmgrnmming is \Cl) slapstick, ve!) Three Stooges. that kind of thing.

':And now that rm a parent. I hl11 1\\ that the ~pon ibiLity falls on m) shoulder. loo. You have to sa). · y, u' re not gonna watch this and you are going to watch this. It's vel) easy. It\ a remote control. and you change th channel. O\\ I'm not hl1ocking the:)C other ho\\ ' oo 1V. but you can \\atch a Jot worse lhan WWF tele'vi-ion and me:·

"The Scorpion King" opens 1wtimwll.\ 011 April 19.

ed (hot) Baron YOGJ, from page 15

when he's teaching. "I ink lhere's an amazing power

creat ti when a group of people come toge er and lhey're focll';ed on bet­terin themselves." says Baptiste, 37. "Wh n they're serious about wanting that an1azing workout, there's a grou dynamic that fonns there. Whe you have 80 or 90 people in a

it's amazing how lhe energy cata Its people well beyond what they an usually do."

lt'. that kind of radical thinking lhat a'> led many traditional practi­tion : of the ancient meditative art of y ga to characterize Baptiste a<; a · sort f amped-up. hipster yogi for the M generation. The antilhesis of the s ereotypically solemn and serene Hin u mystic swaddled in robes and bu g incense, Baptiste is regarded by 1 ' iy as a pitchman - a self-pro­mo ng. multi-media mainstream fig­ure ith celebrity Hollywood clients like elen Hunt and Elisabelh Shue,

workout videos on the market and ven hi very own television spe­cial set to debut on WGBH Channel 2 th s month.

y this animosity from the yoga co munity?

" mrnm... the biggest gripe is, pro ably. that I'm so popular. And the 're not." says Baptiste, laughing.

en. more seriously, he adds, "I th' · though, the reason that I'm as po ular as I am is become I'm touch­ing a nerve with Americans. I'm tea hing a kind of yoga that doesn't rel on the Hinduism and the mysti­cis and the trappings of yoga. What I' doing speaks to people's heart

bodies- it makes sense to them, feels right to them." aptiste knows about traditional

yo a. As a young boy in San Fran­cis o, Baptiste wa<> learning Down­w Facing Dog and Child's Pose be ore most kids got tl1eir first base­ba I glove. Baptiste's parents were bo yoga instructors in lhe 1950s, an are widely believed to have o ned one of the first yoga centers in merica.

'My parents were great innova­to :,''says Baptiste, sipping coffee in th Living room of his Cambridge h me. ''They had a massive yoga c mplex -the size ofone city block

and they branched out early on in o things Like a health food restau­

t and import boutique ... My par-

ents would take me to India, and yoga gurus from over there would come to teach in the studio and stay in our home pretty tegulru·ly. So, I was introduced to many different styles and lineages and traditions.''

As Baptiste grew older, he realized that a lot of the religiot1s and mystical parts of yoga didn't quite make sense to him, but "the training of body and mind that yoga offered ... they made a world of sense.''

So, when Baptiste decided to drop out of UCLA and teach yoga full­time, it was clear to him that he was­n't going to be your grand-shaman's yogi. "What I wanted to do was get at the pure essence of yoga - creating optimal heallh, Living a balanced life and developing an individual spititu­al perspective on life. I've tried to strip away a lot of the excess~'

His philosophy is reflected in his classes, where, he says, the crowded room makes perfect sense.

"lf you think about it, in real life, you're bombarded by people all the time," he sa7s. "On the T, driving in traffic, in your workplace... and if you've learned to anchor yourself, be calm and stay connected to yourself while you're on your mat surrounded by 80 other people -you' II find that it totally carries over into daily life. As I put it, you learn how to be 'alone together' in the world."

While many of the building blocks of t1<1ditional yoga remain, Baptiste says his goal is "to foster a functional way of moving. We're not trying to bend people into a pretzel - we're talking about movements that allow you to calm your mind, cleanse you of mental and emotional stress, and ·provide real physical benefits. I've had students whose lower back prob­lems have disappeared ... whose di­gestion and posture have noticeably improved. .

"And, the emotional value comes from the things you discover about yourself," Baptiste adds. ''While you're -doing yoga, you might find yourself wondering, 'Why am I so frustrated tight now?' and you realize it's because you're a perfectionist,

' and you want to be able to do every position and movement perfectly. Hopefully, ~oga helps you let go of some of that competitiveness, and you're abl.e to realize that doing yoga is all about being present in a mo­ment - sculpting your body, train-

ing your muscles and detoxing your' system. 1 think yoga is about <level~ oping a new psychology, and a new altitude of attitude."

Baptiste's style of yoga has obvi-; ously caught on with a segment of the population looking for something• new. Besidel> his Cambridge studio (which caters to ai1 estimated 1,500-students a week), Baptiste ha<> twoi studios in lhe Philadelphia area, a couple in California and has just opened his newest. in Boston's Back Bay. In addition, he conducts what he­calls "yoga boot camps" eight times a year__:_ weeklong seminars in scenili' spots like Maui and lhe Yucatano Peninsula during which studen s practice yoga up to six hours a day. It's one of these boot camps that will be featured in his upcoming PB special ''Transfo1m Your Life: Yoga; with Baron Baptiste."

'There was a PBS executiy~:, named Lany D'Onofrio, who had S\ pretty advanced case of cancer whenr, he came to my studio," recalls Bap-(1 tiste. "He was searching for a way to live his last days to the fullest, ands~ · he ended up at one of my bo6t''. camps. ·~,

"He told me, 'This is so perfect for~ PBS audiences. To take what you're!~ doing with I 00 people and bring it t(l;' a wider audience would be so power" , ful,' " says Baptiste. "So, he pretty( much took it on as his own personal: , purpose - to get a special made fo~t­PBS. lt became one of the last things, he really wanted to see through in his '. life." '

Although Baptiste hasn't seen the finished special in its entirety, he feels that if it captures even half of what he saw during that particular boot camp, the message about Power Vinyasa,. Yoga will be brought across. "People: really go through some amazing transfonnations at these boot camps," he says. "At that camp I saw people having really cathartic experiences­revelations and realizations about• their lives. I saw people realize they,. were so much stronger than they~ thought they were. It's really amazing• when you connect to yourself -when you put ev~rything ... your fam- , ily, your job ... on hold for a week­to find out how much insight you can gain into your life. That, to me, is the real power of yoga."

"Tra11sfonn Your Life: Yoga with Baron Baptiste" airs on WGBH-TV, 2 on Saturda); April 20, at 7 p.m., and Sunda)\ April 21 at 4 p.m. For more information on Baptiste Power Vinyasa •Yoga, visit www.baronbaptiste.com.

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acondo offers spicy treats

J azzi g up vanilla ice cream

' . By Mat Schaffer BOSTON HERALD

hen a banana plantation at-. tracts the outside world to Ma­condo, the magical town in

Gabriel G cia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of S litude," Ursula, the matriarch of the Buendi family, finds her dimng room as Msy as a arketplace. "We have to prepare some me and fish," she instructs her

braised pork, lif't lo\\'-cooked, then fried and served on urullito (polenta), black beans, saute ·J chard, pureed calabaw. pumpkin and 'PiC) tomato sauce. For $16, you can't beat the price - but there' way too much going on, on the plate. Think Ar­gentine steak !rite~ \\hen yo~ order grilled skirt steak ( I ) with cilantro-garlic chimichurri sauce, frie and mu hroom ce-

four cooks "We have to p1'epare e erything be­cause we never know what the e strangers l'A<.e to eat. ' ~ At Mac ndo, a new Sbuth A rican restau­rant in niori Square, Somervill there's a little bit f eve1ything _... inclu ing bananas ..!:... on th menu. And newcome . won't feel like stran ers for long.

Macon o is a per­sonal un e1taking for

Macondo iO Union Square, Somerville

617-616-1411; www.macondogrill.com

Hours: Tue.-Thu., 5:30-10:30 p.m · Fri. & Sat., 5:30-11.p.m.

Bar: Full Credit: All

Accessibility: Accessible Parking: Free lot behind the restaurant, on street

viche. The savory chimichurri makes a great foil for the teak

and the lime-soaked · hrooms. If only the frie weren't cold.

.. Chilies [here] tend to be used for flavor, not . hoci..:· say our

amiable - and kno\\' 1-edgeal)le- waiter. It' a

philosophy exempli­fied by the understated bite of conch al pil-pil ( 16), pounded, bread­

ed, pan-fried and . trewn with livered chilies and garlic. ''Very outhem med chicken"

is an apt, if tongue-in-cheek. description of polio tituleno ( 16). Marvelously mm 4 these fried chicken thigh , presemed on pea tendrils, are wonderful with charred black bean tacos you slather with salsa and pick­led onions.

chef/own r Paul Suss- _____ ..,.wifli'_..-...._.,....,...J 1tlan, nee addy-O's in Cambrid e; his mother is Chilean. Sussman will reac uaint diners with the mainstays of the Lati larder: cumin, com, assorted chiles, c· antro and citrus. He'll feed you delicacie · inspired by the cuisines of Chile, ,\rgentin , Peru and Colombia. 1 Like a ticucho ($6)," a Peruvian snack of

g1illed c icken hearts and livers. Sussman brushes ese meaty nuggets with balsamic vinegar nd pairs them with trisee dri.zzled with C ilean "golf' dressing, a feisty, brandy-I . mato vinaigrette. "Pat's clams go hatin" $10) - half dozen Wellfleets steamed in jalapeno-intense, . moked toma­to' brot , sprinkled with cubed polenta, lemon z st and avocado - is as hot, hot, hot as the ckground music. Shrimp. shrimp cha-cha cha ($9.50) layers fli ·h-fried. pep­pery, pi ·-piri-soaked shrimp atop chunky shrimp guacamole atop surullito, a c1isp comme I patty. It's as delish as it is colorful.

Spea ing of color, causa a7Ulada ($5) is a wedge f vinegary blue (yes, blue!) potato tart stu ed with a vegan picadillo of grilled com, o ions, smoked tomatoes and black olives. l's scrumptious. There's surprising robust ss to sopa de ajo Nuevo ($6), "spring garlic soup" with its harvest of sliced ew potatoes. Sussman 's mom would surely pplaud his Chilean beef empanada ($5), aky-crusted, with cumin-scented groun beef, green olives and hard-boiled egg, th t you dip into smoky. blood-orange­red aji 'auce. I'd wager it's her recipe.

1As i typical of South American eateries, platos piincipales (entrees) overflow with food. like the tastes and textures of crispy

The Iberi<tn/South American/New Eng­land wine Ji,t is mart and savv). The red­meat-compkrnentary depth of a 199 Graf­fingna syrah/cabemet from Argentina belies its $22 price tag. A Chilean '00 Cou ina Macul Riesling ( 201 has the pizazz to hold its own again t the conch and chicken. Ma­condo's hip bar mi e mean. high-test liba­tions ($6) from exotic equatorial ·pirits.

Pastry chd Jacl.. Fulton' very good, \el)' focused de ... -.erb ($6) continue the theme. There's banan~ mm ted with rum and brown sugar and thick rice pudding. cinna­mon-snipp) and tudded with ultana.s. Sweetened condensed milk. milk and cream are the three not- o-~t ingredient · in spongy, ch< ieolate tre leche cake layered between chocolale meringues. I don't u. ual­ly cotton to ffa\·ored cu tard · but I devoured the orange--.tar anise flan. tickety- plit.

The basement \\.arren of 'Whitewashed rooms that once hoill>ed Elephant Walk and Rauxa is so spnm ling that on slow nights it seems deserted. "We·ve been to dives that were more crowded than this;· ruefully ob­serves m) friend usan. 'Thi place de­serves more bu ine :·

Indeed, 1t doe . In a city where bi tro have become as ubiquitou as baked beans, Macondo 1. a welcome breath of fre h South American air.

A lthough I am the a thor of 'The Dessert Bible," I o n opt for a dead-simple dessert, especially if I

am senring an impromptu dinn r to neighbors. The easiest of these desserts quick sauces served over store-bought v Ila ice cream.

THE KITCHEN DETECTIVE CHRISTOPHER

KIMBALL

Sound plain? Sure, but a home de raspberry, caramel, or chocolate sauce i just enough to dress up an otherwise ordin offering.

If am really pressed for ti e, a splash of good after-dinner liquor over double scoop of Edie's Dreamery (not ie's Grand) vanilla ice cream (the Cook' Illustrated first place winner) does the tric . I wondered, though, which liquor would best? Sherry, port, and Armagnac were I winners. But would they taste better if si mered first into a syrupy con istency? I tes this approach, even adding sugar, cinn bark, allspice berries, cloves, pepperco , etc. but the liquor had lost both its bite d identity. The result? A splash of sherry, or Armagnac over vanilla ice cream wor just fine on its own.

Raspbeny Sauce Next, I investigated a si

opted for frozen rather than aiming for an all-season and strawberries were disa inting - they were either watery or fiat-tas · g. Raspberries, on the other hand, hold their avor and looked great to boot. Using a 12-ou bag of frozen raspberries, I found that 213 up of sugar and a tablespoon of lemon juice were ju t right. They required cooking for t flavor and con­sistency and a skillet coo ed faster than a saucepan. A potato masher d a strainer fin­i hed the sauce and a touc of Cointreau or similar liqueur finished it o nicely.

RASPBERRY SAU E

Only add a small amount of the liqueur at first and then taste the sa ce before adding more.

12 owicesfrrx:..en raspber es 213 cup sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 to 2 tablespoons orange vored liqueur such as Cointreau or liqu ur of your choice (optional)

Place the berries, sugar d lemon juice in a heavy-duty non-reactiv skillet over medi­um heat. Bring the mixtu to a boil and re­duce heat to maintain an energetic simmer. Cook for about 5 minut or until the mix-

ture is thickened slightly, stining occasional­ly. Half way through the cooking process press on the mixture with a potato masher to help break down the berries. Transfer the mixture to a mesh strainer (fine enough to capture the seeds) set over a bowl. Using a rubber spatula work the juice and pulp through the strainer until only a sticky mass of seeds remains. Discard the seeds. Stir the sauce to even out the consistency. Add the optiont liquor. Serve at room temperature or chilled. Keeps in the refiigeratpr for sev­eral days.

Makes one cup.

Caramel Sauce Caramel sauce is made from caramelized

sugar with the addition of cream and/or but­ter. The trickiest part of the sauce is caramelizing the sugar so I decided to begin there. Sugar can be caramelized by either the wet or dry method. I have found that the wet method - water is added to the sugar at the outset of the process - is more foolproof and easier. I also found that the addition of lemon juice helps to avoid crystallization. My next concern was that once the sugar starts to color it goes from gold to burnt in a very short amount of time. I found I could lower the heat at the point where the sugar starts to color and the transformation from blond to dark amber is more controlled. (I also take the pan entirely off the heat as it be­gins to color, swirling the syrup as it cooks.) The time it takes to caramelize sugar will vary dramatically (from 8 to 15 minutes) de­pending on the type of saucepan you are using.

As for other ingredients, cream and butter made for the smoothest and most balanced sauce. After several batches I preferred 3/4 cup heavy cream and 2 tablespoons of un­salted butter to I 1/2 cups sugar. A healthy pinch of salt was also welcome. The cream needs to be added carefully in small addi­tions. (It can be heated to mini'mize the bub­bling but the extra s~ep and pan aren't really worth the effort.) While the caramel sauce is thick, intensely · flavored, and delicious a couple tablespoons of rum or bourbon are a great addition. For a chocolate variation, try adding a few ounces of chopped bittersweet chocolate to the caramel sauce (whisked in while the sauce was still hot). The sauce keeps well in the refrigerator and may be re­heated over low heat.

CARAMEL SAUCE

The type and size of saucepan will dramati­cally impact the cooking time. For a choco­late variation, add four ounces finely chopped semisweet or bittersweet chocolate to the finished sauce and stir until melted and well blended.

1 112. cups granulated sugar 112. cup water

late pate hope so. (M.S.)

114 teaspoon lemon juice 314 cups heavy cream 2 tablespoons unsalted butter Pinch of salt 2 tablespoons dark rum or bourbon (optional)

Place the sugar, water and lemon juice in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir to combine. Bring to a boil and cook until the mixture just begins to color, six to 12 min­utes depending on your pan and cook top. Reduce heat to low and cook until dark amber, about two minutes longer, swirling the pan off the heat if the caramel colors un­evenly. Remove from the heat. Very carefu r­ly add the heavy cream a little at a time since it will bubble vigorously, stirring after each addition. Add the butter and salt and stir until the butter is melted and the sauce uniform. Add the optional rum and stir to combine. Serve warm. May be kept covered in the re­frigerator for several days and reheated over low heat until warm.

Makes about I 114 cup

Chocolate Sauce For a chocolate sauce, I tested hot fudge sauce, ganache, a chocolate glaze, and a cocoa based sauce. I felt the ganache was the grandest of them all: thick and rich. For the working recipe I started with one-cup heavy cream and I 0 ounces of bittersweet or semi­sweet chocolate. ln such sauces the addition of com syrup, granulated sugar, butter, and vanilla is common. However, by adding sugar instead of corn syrup the sauce was thicker. Two tablespoo~s of butter added shine and body and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla of­fered balance. In terms of technique, I bor­rowed a technique from Marcel Desaulniers' "Death by Chocolate" and added the chopped chocolate to the hot cream. l liked his method since there is no chance the chocolate can overcook.

CHOCOLATE SAUCE

Use the best chocolate you can fi nd. Calle­baut is my first choice, but Ghirardelli is also very good.

I cup heavy cream 2 tah/espoons granulated sugar 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 12 ounces bittersweet or semisweet choco­late, finely chopped 112. teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Place the cream, sugar and butter in a small saucepan over medium low heat. Bring to a simmer. Extinguish heat, add the chocolate and cover the pan. Let sit for 5 minutes. Add the vanilla and whisk mixture until smooth and shiny. It -.yi ll look curdled until it comes tog ther. Serve warm. May be refrigerated for several days and reheated over low heat until warm.

Makes about 2 cups.

FAVA, 1027 Great Plain Ave., Needham; 781 -4 5-8668- Portions are big and mayb the best dish is the grilled striped bass, omplete with char marks. But it woul be nice to see the restaurant aim h(ghe . Right now Fava appears to be a Need am neighborhood restaurant If Jeff K;we' aim is to carry on with that, he's fine. I he wants to expand and make his resta rant a destination for the well-

KOUZINA, 1649 Beacon St., Newton; 617-558-7677 -When word gets about this little gem in Waban, patrons may be lined up outside the door. Prn is a great choice here, whether as a stand-alone main course, or a shared first course. The roast chicken ($15) was delicious, and the ravioli stuffed ·wrth a forcemeat of duck and cheese ($18) was tasty, but rt just needed to be cooked longer. Wrth good food in a warm restaurant, Kouzma 1s a mce addition to Newton's expanding dining experiences. (A.S.)

and the bill can quickly add up. (M.S.) METRO, 1815 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge; 617-354-3727 - This new brasserie from Amanda Lydon (named a Top Ten New Chef by Food & Wine maga­zine last year) offers bistro fare - authen­tic, plentiful and reasonably priced; dishes like chicken liver terrine, pot a feu, roast chicken and monkfish. The cuisine is, for the most part, technically correci tt mad­deningly inconsistent. Lydon's going to need to pump things up a notch tt Metro is going to succeed after the inrtial buzz wears off. (M.S.)

($1 .95) cooked until crispy is delightful. Sai on offers a sweet and quaint taste of Vie amese cooking. (A.S.)

PE DIX, 597 Centre Street, Jamaica Pia n, 617-524-5995 -An unpret.entious an good, down-home honest, neighbor­h d haunt wrth just 20 seats. Chef-owner n Partridge's American bistro menu of ing edient-driven dishes has patrons lining up Try the roast lamb, the club steak, the m nkfisti wrth curried carrot sauce and an of the luscious rustic desserts. If you liv in JP, you'd be a regular. (M.S.)

MANTRA, 52 Temple Place, Boston; 617-542-8111 - Sophisticated (and delectable) French-Indian cuisine from Chef Thomas John, who hails from the Spice Coast of India via Le Meridien hotel in Pune. Expensive but exquisite dishes like ginger marinated tandoori monkfish and honey glazed duck bre~st in green corian­der curry. Archrtect Nader Tehrani's dra­matic sci-ti decor makes a chic setting for the food and the happening bar scene. Mantra is worth the big bucks. (M.S.)

Mediterranean sun. Pret a manger (ready to eat) hors d'oeuvres, such as the gingery carrot puree ($3), arrive at the table wrthin minutes.Pastas ($7/$14) can be eaten as erther mid or main course. Delectable grilled lamb steak ($19) comes with a divine moussaka of ground lamb, toma­toes, eggplant and fava bean puree. The bittersweet chocolate icebox cake ($7) is an orgy of syrup, mousse and cake. (M.S.)

CAFE ST. PETERSBURG, 236 Washington St. , Brookline; 617-277-7100 - Lively 40-seat restaurant with a full liquor license and an impressive wine lost. You'll proba­bly hear Russian being spoken at the tables, and that's got to be a good sign. Good food (nice varenki) in a restaurant with an Old World feel. (A.S.)

heele who fill the adjacent towns, he shDu dn't be afraid to put his stamp on Fava. Since Kaye has a solid foundation on' w ich to build, it would be interesting tow tch how his restaurant evolved.

BONFIRE, 64 Arlington St., Boston; 617-262-3473 - Th s new Laun-influ­enced steak house is a temple of over­indulgence. The prevailing philosophy 1s "more is more." (Is there any.vhere else in Boston that makes a $60 margarita with 150-year-old Grand Mamier?) "Classic cut" wood-grilled and rotJsserie meats are at the heart of the menu. One menu choice is to accessorize a la carte meats with a potpourri of sauces. The portions are huge (A.S.

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SAIGON, 431 Cambridge St., Allston, 617-254-3373 -While lacking the cache and hip scene of the Pho Pasteur empire, this family owned restaurant rewards din­ers wrth some inventive Vietnamese dish­es at amazingly reasonable prices. The terrific Chili Chicken ($6.50) has some nice heat. The tofu lemongrass ($6.50) is even better than the chicken lemongrass ($6.50). The fried whole red snapper

LI BO, 49 Temple Place, Boston; 61 -338-0280 -A multi-floor jazz club­re urant-bar with live music nightly. Can th nuanced cuisine of chef Charles Draghi

who eschews fats and cream in favor of c ncentrated vegetable essences and herb­in used vinegars - find a congenial h me? Fans of Draghi's lobster risotto, I on linguini with cockles, short ribs b ised with cotechino sausage and choco-

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afraid of the impact c;m traffic in al- vice pumping station into a museum ready-congested Cleveland Circle. and tear down the newer low-servic~

Albert Rex, chairman of the Chest- one to provide community housing1'a nut Hill Advisory Committee, an- thought that appalls others. nounced a decrease in height from 90 "I am glad that the height has bee feet to 75 feet or 7.5 stories. The de- lowered to prevent anything really Q~ crease is in response to community noxious there," said Mark D. Tracl}t; concerns at a public meeting on the enberg, a Bnghton resident who wru1tS RFP draft zoning amendment on to make sure the buildings allow {~ Wednesday, April I 0. views of the reservoir. -· "We have explored ways to shift Jonathan Fine, who lives near the density to come up with a lower site and attended his first Waterwork's height and are now proposing meeting last week, said, "We are co~··'~ 156,600 squ~. feet of new develop- cemed about the possible size of ment with a maximum building development and the traffic impacts 11 height of 75 feet and the minimum the area." ·0

parking at 1.75 s)5'aces per unit," said · Resident5 once again raised ill~ Rex. issue of lease versus deed where sel~

But first, rezoning is required for ing the property is concerned. • ~ any development to take place and Melissa Robin, project manager"~ this will encompass the entire 7.9 D-CAM., said, '1t's being offered rot acres, not just the one acre site. Con- sale and lea~ in the RFP and we shall cems about rezoning a site currently see what happens. It's a little too efil~ zoned open space bothers residents to say right now." · -1 •

who feel that this will lead to future lt has been a long wait, but the development in the area. scope of new development, including

The zoning amendment will deter- as many as 200 apartments and certain mine how much development will commercial use, is going io be decid­happen on the site. Even though re- ed within the next few weeks. And zoning is the most impo1tant part of residents are waiting with bated this process, the zoning amendment breath. was officially given at the lac;;t public But proponents of the project are meeting in a presentation that many satisfied with the current proposals people - particularly abutters who and can't wait for th~ project to ij attended a special meeting just two ahead. days earlier - could not attend. But Julie Raymore, who was project what has bothered people the most is manager for the 1999 Charrette, saiN that the zoning board hearing is "Economic uses will drive the proje2~ scheduled for Wednesday, April 24 at What has to go up there has to coih­City Hall. With that date only a week plement what's already there. Let's away, some residents feel they have ma!Ce this a plaat to walk by that it is very little time to send in official pub- not now. I would love people to loo~t lie comments. it from what we don't want to what w1

Rex stressed that addressing the want." zoning issue will bring in greater de- Beacon Street resident and Frien~ veloper response and therefore, more of the Waterworks president Pat Otif competition to the request for pro- said, "We should address concerns posal (RFP) that is scheduled to be is- that help us go forward from here." sued in June. Brighton resident Richard Mulligan

"Zoning is just the envelope within added that the community should trr which things can happen. It does not to make this a landmark developmen,l tell us what the buildings will look as weU and said that height is not !i6 like. It sets the parameters for th much a concern as the design. cbmmunity and the developers," he Local architect Anatole Zukennru+ said. believes that's asking a lot for new ctet:

Lowering the height has increased velopment. j. the floor area ratio by an additional ''The existing buildings became o\il 600 feet, something some residents pride and joy because of good arcfil-! are uncomfortable about. A 0.8 floor tects. There is nothing as good as a area ratio (F. R) i'> con idered exce~- good developer and nothing wo&

1 • I ·n the mrr than a,b;.d one:- he said nity e~peciall) when it was 0.75 111 Residents ru.ked the Advisory Com-the late March version. mittee to present a cardboard model tci

As early as three weeks ago, the re- give them a better idea of the pro~ zoning draft with the BRA (Boston development. They also a<;ked Redevelopment Authority) showed DCAM to provide examples of sirlii-18 units per acre, that would result in Jar projects they have done, and 143 apartmentg (more thim the 1999 though Charlestown Navy Yard wU Charrette recommendation of 133 cited, residents felt that it does flOf units) and the resulting need for 250 cany the same features as this site. j ;

parking spaces. But the new zoning "I would say that there are fact~; amendment calls for 25 units per here which are unique, but we do haye acre, adding up ·to 198 units, again similar projects in the state - they are considered exce~ive by local resi- all under community process as t · denl'>. one," said Robin.

Steve Foster, the consultant hired Meanwhile, a Waterworks Com by the state agency Division of Capi- munity Task Force has been fonn tal Asset Management, said the new by concerned Brighton, Brookline an buildings might account for only Newton residents to provide a plat 156,600 square feet of the 275,900 fonn from which to effectively voic square-foot total development. This neighborhood concerns pertaining t is because a5 much as 11 9,300 'the Waterworks development · square feet might be created in } he · Brighton, something they feel that th existing histolic structures. advisory group is failing to do.

"We kept it towards the lower end The Task Force met on April 17 to help preserve space around the his- and intends to stay in effect for as Ion toric district," he said. as it is necessary to ensure communi

Previously, however, he had said input in the Waterworks developmen the historic buildings could provide a process. maximum of 75,500 square feet. He "Organizing ourselves is an impor is now including 20,000 square feet tant step which will increase our abili of basement space that "might be de- ty of being heard," said Lorrain veloped" though basement space can Bossi, one of the Task Force mem always be added later by applying for bers. ''The community wiU make a zoning variance to exceed the FAR. effort to reach a consensus amon

The total footprint of the three his- themselves, and will be able to s toric buµdings is 43,500 square feet to the BRA and other Boston an (22,000+ 3,500+ 18,000). Community Brookline officials in one voice." groups worry that realistically, if the Marien Evans, another membe developer finds adding new floor said, ' 'The Task Force includes experi space within those buildings less cost enced neighbomood activists, abut effective than new construction in the ters, as well other concerned residents pipe yard, the new structure may end Our goal is to have a productive dialo up being as huge as 232,400 square with the City ofBoston and the Water feet - a far cry from the 156,600 works Adyisory Committee to h square-foot building proposed. find neighbomood-friendly solutions

''The proverbial train has left the to the problems associated with e station, and it<; intended destination is Waterworks development." a source of major frustration and di - Michael DePierro, a Brighton resi­appointment to many of us. It is not dent also serving on the Task Force, my isolated oyinion that 'railroading' stated that his objective is to minimize and 'steam-rolling' best describe what negative impacts of development on has been happening since this devel- open space. opment initiative went into high gear In addition to individual residents last fall," said activist and local resi- and abutters, the Task Force has repre­dent Eva Webster. "However, we still sentatives from the Brighton Allston have avenues open to us to make the Improvement Association, Chestnut negative impacts of this development Hill Reservoir Coalition, Aberdeen­less severe by demanding a much Blighton Residents Association, smaller, more ·reasonable 'zoning en- Washington Heights Association and velope' ." Brighton-Allston Historical Society,

While there are those who can get as weU as members from neighbor­around the numerous figures and the · hood groups in Brookline, and wel­zoning amendment complications lo come other community groups to send draw conclusions, others are unsure representatives. They may be contact­about what this project might mean or ed at 617-232-0995. do not express the same concerns. Public comments on the draft can

''The~ are still two years before be sent to Donald Wiest, Land Use. anything 'Can be done and I am not Counsel, Bo~ton Redevelopment Au-• sure which way to go," said Clinton thority, One City Hall Square,: Road resident George Oshry, who Boston, MA <t2201. Email: Don-• proposes that they tum the high-ser- ald.Wiest.BRA@ci.boston.ma.us.

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OBITUA"RIES

Mildred Close onnerly of Brighton, born in Canada

>i.~1" . L. (LeBlanc) Close of Dedham died Friday A.pril 12, at Caritas Norwood Hospital. She was 83. b • Close was born in Canada, the daughter of the talc Evee LeBlanc and Rose LeBlanc. She was fonnerly of ~vg on, and lived in Dedham for 42 years. _ 1 f h was a fonner member of the Philomatheia Club of

Qles utHill. "'J;h was the wife of the late William J. Close and the late de T. Walsh. "Sh leaves her children, Joanne (Walsh) Close Keefe of

S9u Weymouth and Richard G. Walsi} of Dover; her step­~)'l. 1lliapl Close Jr. of Dunnellon, Aa; her grandchil­dkn, heryl McGanty of Plymouth, Christina M. Close CJf f{]oo line, William Oose III ofRoslindale and Evan Walsh ~f ver; and sisters, Anna and Agnes Murphy of Wedgc­PQrt. ova Scotia, Canada. l, Th funeral was held Thursday, April 18, from the ueor e F. Doherty and Sons Wilson-Cannon Funer.il Born , Dedham, followed by a funeral Mass in St. Denis C!iu h, Westwood. · j~B ·al was in Brookdale Cemetery, Dedham. ;j

1 nations may be made to the Siilvation Anny, 147

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Louise Holland Fonner longtime Brighton resident

uise H. (Tretter) Holland of Newton died Wednes-9;f.Y. pril lO, 2002. She was 95.

1;B m in Boston, she graduated from Brighton High ~h I. She lived Newton for 40 years after residing in .13'ria ton for 55 years.

1) was employed as a switchboard operator for 25 ~ in the Newton and Waltham offices of New England teie hone and was employed for 15 years at Sherman p~ in Newton.

. Holland was a member of Corpus Christi Guild m

Newton. She was also an avid bowler and knitter. Wife of the late Stephen J. Holland Sr., she leaves her

children, Thomas P. Holland of North Easton; nine grand­children: and two great-grandchildren.

She was the mother of the late Marjorie L. Holland, Sabi­na M. Gannon and Stephen J. Holland Jr.

A funeral was held Saturday, April 13, from the Black­ington, Conroy & Hayes Funeral Home, West Newton, fol­lowed by a funeral Mass at St. Bernard's Church, Newton.

Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Waltham. 1emorial donations may be made to CareGroup Home

Care, 44 Trapelo Road, Belmont MA 02478.

M~Roach Sis.fer of Brighton resident

1ary C. (Ciccolo) Roach of Canton died Saturday. April ll 2002 t Caritas Nmwood Ho pital. She was 77.

Born and raised in Bo ton, he attended Jeremiah Burke High School. She worked as a bookkeeper for Mc-1eil Shoe Co. in Bo ton and later for Stop & Shop in Quin­

C} for many years. retiring m 1987. Mrs. Roach was a member of the DAV Auxiliary,Amer­

icdll Legion Auxiliary and the VFW Au.'\ciliary: She lived in Canton for the la5t 40 yean. and previously lived in Dorch­e_...ier.

She leav~ her husband, Franci~ B. Roach; her children, Paulette Kolba of Caijfomia Pamela Ahem of Braintree, Kathleen L. Roach of Dorchester and Francis G. Rider of Arizona: two i. ters, Grace D'Ambro. io of Brighton and Jo!>t!phine Russo of Camon; a brother, Joseph Ciccolo of W~t Bridgewater, and 12 grandchildren.

She .... as the motherof the late Stephen A. Roach, and the 1ster of the Phillip Ciccolo, unzio Ciccolo and Joanne

Fitzgerald. A funeral Ma-;s wa'> celebrated Tuesday, April 16, at St.

Gerard Majella Church. Canton. Burial was in St. Mary' Cemetery. Canton. Donation ma} be made to the American Cancer Society,

1115 Wet Chestnut St.. Brockton, MA 0240 I . Arrangements were made by Dockra} and Thomas Fu­

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eighborhood alliance is holding . o more town meetings this spring

r., e Alliance of Boston Neighborhoods invites res1-qen to attend a series of "town meetings" at the Boston V,Ub ic Library in Copley Square (enter on Boylston S,tre t). The meetings are free and open to everyone. '· R VP by sending an e-mail to shirley.kressel@veri­ton et or by phoning Bob Terrell at 617-445-1999. The m ings are Sp0nsored by the Environmental Protectton Ag ncy's Urban Environmental Initiative 1,, -moderators are Bob TetTell of Roxbury and Shirle} ~e ·sel of the Back Bay. , ese town meetings will bring residents across the

city together to discuss urgent issues related to Boston's dev lopment. Led by neighborhood people, the meeting. wjl be about problems that affect our quality of life. The gqa is to come up with specific solutions and share infor­W9- on about effective strategies. Bring ideas, facts and V;;i res to support those opinions. -:. ere's the list of remaining meetings: j .

Th re goes the neighborhood! Wi nesday, May 15, 6-9 p.m. Ge trification, affordable housing, middle-class hous· iftg or none at.all? -:, oston housing is among the most expensive in the _,

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country. The city ha'> gained little new housing in recent years, but manyi jobs. Some people think the result is good - neighborhood reviLalization. ··bringing back the mid­dle class" and higher property values. Some see problems - ''gentrification:· displacement of longtime residents and less population diversity. How much new housing do we want in Bo ton, \I.here and for whom? How do we get it built? What make a neighborhood? Do our city poli­cies upport neighborhood life?

Boom for whom? Thursday, June 6, 6-9 p.m. Does urban mitaliz.ation re\it.alize all of us?

BOl>ton 's revitalizat10n trategy has not changed in 40 }ears: u e tax money. public land and zoning relief to tirnulate large- calc real estate investment. Some

think. it's the onl) way to ·ucceed; others think long­range planning could create more widely shared eco­nomic ... itality. What did we build with thi decade of opportunity? Who benefited. and who paid? Will large- cale development spin off support for sustain­able community pro-;perit)'. or could public resources be used in a v.ay that' · more equitable. and would bet­ter pre erve the li vability of our cit)'?

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Sam Resnick stands outside his new esnick Real Estate Group office at 214 Harvard Ave. in Allston after a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday. Among those attending were state Rep. Kevin Honan, Allston Main Streets Executive Director Jennifer R se, and Joe Mulligan, who was representing state Rep. Brian Golden.

West End kids get a trip to Fenway Park

Dun!Jn' Donuts and omar Garcia­parra ho ted children from the West End Boy and Girl Oub at the Bo ton Red Sox game on April 4 against the Toronto Blue Jays. The children re­cm e<l ticket in the "Dunkin' Dugout" located in the Fenway Park bleachers.

Dedicated to local youth and chari­table organizations, the "Dunkin' Dugout" u a special seating section in \\hich Dunkin' Donuts and omar Garciaprum ho t approximately 20 chtl<lren at every Boston Red Sox home game.

The ·'Dunk.in' Dugout ' i , a part of a compreheru.i\e community relations partner;hip bet\\ et!n Garciaparra and Dunkin' Donut". The multi-year cam­paign is de igned to promote volun­tttrism and community seivice across 'e\\ England. Dunkin· Donuts' ponsorship of the

··Dunkin· Dugout" ticket program is part of a broader community outreach initiative through which the company ho t youth and charitable organiza­t1 n: Jt I ·al potting e\ents and fami-1) hows. The mis ion of this program i. to provide ticket acces. ibilil) to chil­dren\\ ho might otheJWise not have the ability to attend these events.

Charitable organiL.atiol1!l supported b:r the company include the Special Olympics, Easter Seals and Project Bread. An ardent ·upporter of the Jimm) Fund, an organization also backed by the Boston Red Sox, Dunk.in· Donuts ha<; recently pledged more than 2.5 million.

BC announces faculty promotions of residents

Bo ton College President William P. Leahy. SJ. has announced the promo­tion. of Engli h Department faculty nll!mber Robert Stanton from assis'tant profe · r to associate professor with tenure. and L:r nch School of &iucation faculty member Lill ie AJbert from ru -i. lant profes..w to a'\..'iOCiate professor

wtth tenure. Both Stanton and AJbert reside in Brighton.

Stanton, a nari\·e of ewmarket., On­truio,joined the Boston College faculty in 1995. His research inte~ts include

1edieval literature. Engli h literary hi tory and Old English language.

He is tJ1e author of a recentJy-pub­li hed book, 'The Culture of Transla­tion in Anglo-Saxon England .. and is co-author of the Dictionary for Old Engli~h: Abbreviations for Latin Sources and Bibliography of &iitions,

est End Boys and Girls Club members who attended the April 4 Red Sox g, hle i eluded: back row, left to right: Steven Scott, Ahmed Abdillahl and Jesse

emandez, all of Brighton, and Jennaine Prew of Roxbury; middle row, left to ght: Adrienne Andry, Atla Hassell-Sowers, Lexa Plaza, Cedric Williams, Shawn ierre and Lonnell Wright, all of Brighton. Front row: Stefanie Wong of Brighton.

hich was published in 1992. He has written numerous professional

mal and newspaper articles and k reviews on Medieval literature.

Stanton is a graduate of the Universi­of Toronto and holds both a masters gree and dOL'l.oraie degree from the

niversity's Centre for Medieval Stud­e~.

AJbert joined Boston College in

1996. Her areas of research include pedagogical implicatibns of writing to learn; application of Vygotskian psy­chology to teaching and learning in the area of mathematical problem solving; and social ju tice education.

t Boston College, he teache gr.ld­uate and undergraduate courses in de­mentary and secondruy mathematics education, and is a faculty member in

Meeting Paul Pierce

Three Brighton residents recently received awards in recognition ot their years of service to patients and colleagues at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston. They include:

Michelle Filippone, fiscal adminis­tration, 10 years' service; Elaine A. Thomas, mail room/print shop, 15 years' service; and Marie Anne Mee han, patient financial se1vices, 5• years' service.

St. Elirabeth's Medical Center of Boston i. an academic medical center affiliated wil.h Tufts Universit) School of Medicine. St. Elizabeth's is a mem­ber of Cru·itas Ouisti Health Care.

Children from the Brighton Marine Health Center are with Boston Celtics co-captain Paul Pierce on the parquet floor of the ReetCenter. They were guests in "Pierce's Playground" for the Feb. 3 game vs. the Los Angeles Clippers. Pierce, in conjunction with Nike, launched the "Pierce's Playground" community section last season, where he hosts 34 kids at every home game. Each group has the opportunity to meet Pierce. and watch pre. game warm-ups courtside. Each participating child also receives a T·shirt, hot dog and soda.

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Galluc io kicks off * state nate campaign

}.i fro · of a crowd of 450 friends ana SU porters, fifth-term Cam­bridge ity Councilor and former !1ayor thony Galluccio recently ~eked ff his campaign for state srinate. e event, at the Hyatt Re-g1fcy allroom in Cambridge, ratsed ore than $40,000. The e~ening as highlighted by a per­formanc from the · Cambridge Rindge nd Latin vocal ensemble, followe by an array of speakers who pra se}i_ Galluccio's commit­ment to mproving public schools, ilfreasi g quality health-care ser­v~es, s porting affordable hous­i g, and tanding up for senior citi­z sand children.

orme State Rep. and Cam-b dge ity Councilor Saundra

aham icked off the program by s ting t at Galluccio, in the like­n s of ambridge native and for­

r Sp aker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, is ·always willing and a ailabl to listen to the people he

During his tent• as mayor and chairman of the chool Commit­tee, Galluccio, a product of the Cambridge Publi~ School y tern, made the improwment of public education a top priority.

Galluccio spoke about hi com­mitment to serving the people of this district.

"As state senator, as I did as chair of the Cambridge School Committee, I will work tirele ly to make sure that our public schools are recon,tructed, that out after-school prog1am and youth centers are funded and that public education is improved for all chit­dren, regardless of income. race, and linguistic or •ducational chal­lenges," he said.

Galluccio, who ;IS cit) councilor voted to create the ·ambridge Health Alliance, which S1.;-rves Cambridge, Somerville, Everett and Revere and includes Cambndge Hospital. Somerville Hospittll and Whidden Hospital, continued ··1 want to ensure that senior citizen, don't have to worry about getting ,id. because they

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cannot afford prescription drug co ts and that they don't have to worry about the affordability of assi ted liv­ing ~d nursing home ."

Another cause that Galluccio has championed and that he continually speak proudly of is working with youth. "As mayor, I made ure that every young person in the city had a summer job available to them and al­most 600 jobs were provided. I want to en ure that every community.in the di trict has the same opportunity for its young people.'·

Having been raised in a single-par­ent household by hi mother, Galluc­cio poke of how hard she worked to buy the apartment they grew up in after hi father died.

"No one will work harder to ensure that state government will do more to help low-income and working farni­lie look toward owning their own homes. o they don't have to worry about ri ·ing rents," said Galluccio. As mayor. Galluccio helped create the city of Cambridge's first-time home­buyer program.

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date i this race at different levels of ment," he said. uccio, who worked as a leg­aide in the state Senate while

atten g Suffolk Law School at night, added, "I am the only person to serve mayor and to chair a school co ·ttee. I am the only person to have orked as an aide in the state Senat . For nearly a decade I have co itted myself to making the ci~ of C bridge a better place for all of its res dents. I will bring the same en­ergy d devotion to Beacon Hill to fight for all of the communities repre ented in this district."

Con ey supports trua cy prevention

t

olk County District Attorney F. Conley recently urged the

Executive Office of Public to renew funding for a second

year f the Middle School Truancy Preve tion Project in Boston.

Th program seeks to intervene in the Ii es of children who have a his­tory truancy and provide counsel-

ing for them to determine why they Rep Jarrett Barrios, making it easier are missing school and how the for certified Red Cross workers to problem can be remedied. · serve their communities and to

The distJict · attorney's office, stop them being penalized for their , youth service providers, Boston po- volunteerism, was signed into law lice and the Boston School Depart- by Acting Governor Jane Switft ; ment have formed a partnership to this week. ·

. combat truancy, Conley said. Barrios, who wrote the legisla- • "This grant will assure that the tion, is running for the State Senate ;

collaborative work will continue to in the Middlesex, Suffolk and ; the benefit of Boston's children, Essex district. , schools and communities,',. Conley As a result of this new law, : wrote. American Red Cross certified state ;

Conley said that truancy is one of workers, who are called by the Red , the most pressing issues discussed at Cross to help respond to disasters, Community Based Juvenile Justice will no longer be penalized for Roundtables in Boston schools. their volunteerism as they previ­These roundtables, for which the ously had to use their own vacation Suffolk County District Attorney's or sick time. The "Disaster Leave , Office serves as the lead agency, Volunteer Act" will now strength­meet regularly in schools throughout en the state's disaster relief net­the county to identify at-risk youths work by providing employees of and intervene by providing them the Commonwealth of Massachu­with the social services they need. setts with a maximum of 15 calen-

Disaster Leave Act signed into law

A new initiative created by state

dar days of paid leave each year to serve on American Red Cross dis­aster relief operations. Currently, 45 states have disaster leave provi­sions for state employees.

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Entries pou • g in for Run of the Charles Entrie5 continue to pour in during the final

weeks leading up to the 2(}1' Anniversary Run o che Charle Canoe & Kayak on Sunday, April 28.

utive victories in Michigan's 120 Mile, 14-hour . ~here they can climb on a Boston Duck Tours AuSable River Canoe Marathon. boat, and enjoy booths and displays from the

Challenging Corbin and Kolk.a in the professional · Charles River Watershed Association, MDC, marathon will he other paddlers from Quebec, from Patagonia, Conct:pt 2, Nantucket Nectars, Eastern ' all six New England states, from New York, Michi- Mountain Spo1ts, Confections, Magic Bus Ice ~ gan, Minnesota, and as far away as Saskatchewan, Cream, Parrot Iiead Club of Eastern Massachu-

The Run of the Charles, organized by the Charle River Watershed Association (CRWA) to highlight the many improvements in the Charles River since CRWA' founding in 1%5, draws ove I 00 paddlers and thousands of spectators to enjoy a day-long nver celebration along the banks of the river.

Canada. setts, Sportsgraphics, and more. The other races, including the 24-mile Relay The Run of tht: Charles is sponsored by Boston . '"'

Both expert and novice paddlers are registering to compete in the ix different races that travel the Charles River from Dedham to Bo ton. While most ,participants come from throughout ew England, man) of the competitors for the $16,650 Profession­al Flatwater Marathon, sponsored by Bo ton Duck Tours. will be traveling great distances even before

' the) hit the water.

Race, 19-mile, 9-mile, and 6-mile races, plus a 7- Duck Tours, Community Newspaper Company, • mile outrigger canoe race, begin at various points Outback Kayak, Nantucket Nectars, Patagonia, S.R. · ' along the Charles River, and travel through Need- Weiner/WS Development, Polynesian Racing Craft : ham, Dedham, Newton, Wellesley, Waltham, and Inc., Natick Outdoor Store, the Charles River Boat · 1' Watertown. These races draw corporate teams and Company, Eastern Mountain Sports, and others. ' ' recreational paddlers ages 12 and up. The Charles River Watershed Association i.,

Thedayofracingculminatesinthefreefinishline (CRWA) seeks lo protect and enhance the health, ·J.

festival at MOC Herter/Artesani Park across ·sot- beauty and enjoyment of the Charles River and its ' ' diers Field Rd. from tie WBZ TV-4 studios, where tributaries. Sine its founding in 1%5, CRWA has .' ' teams and spectators hold post-race picnics. The fas- played a promin nt role in cleaning up the river and _

Serge Coibin. \\-ho has won the Run of the1 Charles Pro Marathbn each of its six years, will be returning to the Charles from hi hometown of St. Boniface, Quebec, Canada. Coibin will again team up \\-1th Michigan's Jeff Kolka, hoping to repeat the

tival, which features music, refreshments, exhibits, protecting its wat~rshed. ,, . and award ceremonies, begins at 12:00. All the races For more info1mation on the 2002 Run of the finish at the finish line festival, while the 6-mile Charles Canoe & Kayak Race, please call '' races, including the new 7-mile outrigger canoe (508) 698-6810, e-mail rotc@charlesriver.org •!

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Follow the path to the job fair on April 26

Pathway-. to Employment at Ac­tion for Bo.,ton Community Devel­opment Inc. is holding a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, April 26, at 19 Temple Place, fifth floor. down­to\\-n Boston.

Hiring companie uch as Double­tree Hoteb. Harvard Vanguard Med­ical Associate , FleetBo ton Finan­cial Services. First Notice, MASCO, Jewish Family and Children's Ser­\ ices. Bo Lon Medical Center and other.. will be on hand seeking to fill opening for admini trative assi -tants. cu tomer service representa­tive . clerical/data entry, home health care. recept1omsts, finance, retail as­sociates and more.

For more infont1ation, call 617-3 -uJ.XXJ, ext. 7571 or 7581. To get to 19 Temple Place via the MBTA, take the Red Line to Park Street Or­ange Line to Downto\\-n Crossing or the -l9 Bus Line to Temple Place, \\-hi ch i. located off of Tremont Street, between Winter and West Lreets.

Using art to fight bigotry in society

The Bo ton premiere of "Escape or Die: True Stories of Young People Who Survived the Holocau t . ., a film b} author and toryteller Ina R. Friedman, takes place Thursday,

April 25, om 7 p.m. to 8:45 p.m., in the Rabb uditorium at the Boston Public Li , adjacent to the Green Line Stop in Copley Square. Admis­sion is fre .

The pu lie is invited to join in a discussio of "Holocaust and Film: Using Art to Fight Bigotry" follow­ing the s eening. Panelists Sharon Rivo, ex utive director, National Center for ewish Film; John Michal­czyk, chai an of Fine Arts and co­director o Film at Boston College; and Robe Leikind, executive direc­

famation League will discu s c tive ways to use art to counterac hatred.

Openin music will be by Cantor Sheila Cli e.

The eve tis sponsored by the Anti­Defamati n League, Brookline Booksmi , the Governor's Task Force on Hate Crimes, the Jewish Communi Relations Council, the Massachu tts Interfaith Alliance and the ational Center for Jewish Film.

For ~ infont1ation, call 617-277-5812.

It's roll r hockey toume time

Regis tion for the eighth annual Mayor's up Youth Roller Hockey Tourname t is now open.

The 2 2 tournament is sponsored by the B ton Parks and Recreation Departme t and the Bill Stewart Foundatio . The series features three divisions or boys and girls in age groups 6 8, 9 to 11 , and 12 to 14. Eliminati n rounds will be held from 9 a.m. to p.m. on Saturday, May 4, at Ross Fi Id in Hyde Park; Saturday, May 11, t Garvey Playground in Dorchest ; Saturday, May 18, at Ryan Pia ground in Charlestown; and finals n Saturday, June 2, at Fal­lon Field i Roslindale.

Pre-reg tration is required. To reg­ister a tea , contact the Boston Parks and Recr ation Department at 617-635-4505 ext.6200.

Russia Community Cha · Ball is April 21

Community Relations Council, will ' be honored for his ongoing advocacy on behalf of the Russian community. Olga Faybushevich will be honored for her volunteer work with teens.

For the past 30 years, this program has helped thousands of immigrants from the font1er Soviet Union start a new life in the United States. It re­mains the community's major re­source of support for Russian Jews by providing unique, comprehensive services that look out not only for the physical well being of each individ­ual, but their emotional state ofmind as weH.

For more information and tickets for the Russian Community Charity Spring Ball call 617-558-1267.

Learn what chimps have to teach people

Join the best-selling author of "Next of Kin," Dr. Roger Fouts; Deborah Fouts, co-founder of the Chimpanzee and Human Communi­cation Institute; and Rachel Fouts­Carrico, developer of l'Next of Kin -A Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Science Curriculum" and learn more about man and his closest relatives. The program, "Next of Kin - What Chimpanzees Can Teach Us," takes place Saturday, April 20, l :30 to 4:30 p.m., at the Omni Parker House, 60 School St., Boston. The location is handicapped accessible.

The free program is presented as a public service by the New England Anti-Vivisection Society. There is a suggested donation of $10 general; $5 students and seniors.

For information and reservations, call 617-523-6020.

WalkAmerica strides through Boston April 28

More than 3,500 Greater Boston residents are expected to walk along the Charles River April 28 as part of March of Dimes WalkAmerica. The walk begins and ends at the Hatch Shell, Charles River Esplanade, and kicks off at noon. Following the walk, participants will enjoy enter­tainment and refreshments. Greater Boston WalkAmerica is one of 24 taking place across Massachusetts in April and May.

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Brimmer and May hosting a hoop camp

The Brimmer and May School in , Chestnut Hill is holding it's third an­nunl Basketball Camp for boys and girls entering grades 5 through I 0 1. ,

this :summer. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on August 19-23. ..

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own clinics in which they will prac­tice skills and play games.

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The Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers honors Jose , Figueiredo, principal of the Harring- ... ton School in Cambridge, as Person of the Year at the health and social . service agency's ninth annual Com­munity Awards Banquet Saturday, . May 4, at 6:30 p.m., at the Holy Gh st Society in Lowell.

This year's Manuel N. Coutinho , , Outstanding Volunteer Award will be

· pr sented to Gunga Tavares, cultural _ attnche at the consulate of Cape Verde in Boston. Tavares has volun­teered many hours to assist the Cape Verdean immigrant population in- ... eluding organizing the annual Com­mon Threads conference about com­munity issues.

Lowell Mayor Rita Mercier wiIJ receive the Mary & Manuel Rogers Lifetime Community Service Award for her efforts to help Portuguese speakers· and other immigrants in Lowell.

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Negri! Gardens $519 $789 $1000 Point Village $5291 $799 $1160 Sunset Beach $539 $799 $760 Starfish Trelawny $579 $899 $1460 Riu Tropical Bay $579 $859 $1740 Jamaica Grande $589 $899 $1280

i<:ids Stay, Play & EJ Free at these Resorts. 'Reduced Rates f-0r Kids at Other Resorts. ... .••.....•. .. . .. . .... ············

F ILY DEALS Gardenview Oceanview Oceanfront

A half-mile white sand beru:h, two swimming pools, four restaurants, six bars, electronic casino.

fun activities for the whole family. Kids Stay, Play & Eat Free under 12

Prices slightly higher during July & August at most hotels listed above.

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When you travef wllh AIR JAMAICA VACATIONS',

you are assured the finast vacation service in the

world. In addition to providing the best values to

the Caribbean, we are committed to an

unequalled level of knowledge, expertise and

customer core. From the moment . your

reseNation is confirmed, every detail is arranged

with meticulous care. Once you've landed, you

will experience first hand unparalleled personal

service. our dedicated on-island Smile Team will

• greet you at the airport and help you plan your

island adventures. Still more, they are availabre to

assist our customers 24 hours a day, 365 days a

ye_or. You will also enjoy our exclusive love Bonuses with volupblec discounts and special

offers at shops, restaurants and attractions across

the island. And, our beau11ful new AIR JAMAICA

VACAnONS terminal at the Montego Say airport

makes your departure the perfect ending to a

~Met vacatJon; So, don't ~ttte for teu than the

finest vacatton s•Nlce. Asl< your tr~I agent tor

AIR JAMAtCA VACAnONS •

LOVE BONUS DISCOUNTS WORTH $"1500 IN JAMAICA

24-HOUR ON-ISLAND CUSTOMER SERVICE

For bro~hur.es or informa.tion call: ~-800 LOVEBIRD

or: visit us at: www.atr;amaica acatlOns.cchn