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1990 New England Patriots season

The day after the Patriots' only victory of the season, tight end Zeke Mowatt, running back Robert Perryman and wide receiver Michael Timpson stood in front of Boston Globe reporter Lisa Olson semi-naked and sexually harassed her in the Patriots’ locker room at Foxboro Stadium.

Americans for Peace and Tolerance

In October 2013, APT took out newspaper ads in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Newton TAB, Boston Metro, and Jewish Advocate alleging the presence of anti-Israeli materials being incorporated into the Newton Public Schools curriculum.

Bob Lobel

During a 2003 edition of Sports Final, Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan said that the wife of New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd needed someone to "smack" her for taking his young children to NBA playoff games where they could be taunted.

Carlos Lopez-Barillas

His work appears regularly in publications like The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News.

Comanche language

In a 2013 Boston Globe article, linguist Todd McDaniels of Comanche Nation College commented on Johnny Depp's attempts to speak the Comanche language in the film "The Lone Ranger", saying “The words were there, the pronunciation was shaky but adequate.

Concert Companion

Feature articles about the Concert Companion appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Boston Globe, The Times, Toronto Star and other national and international publications; feature segments aired on National Public Radio (All Things Considered), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).

Curial response to Catholic sex abuse cases

John F. Allen Jr., Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, has commented that many American Catholics saw the Vatican’s initial silence on the Boston Globe stories as showing a lack of concern or awareness about the issue.

Esther Heideman

The Boston Globe reported that Heideman possesses a "drop dead gorgeous voice." The Washington Post wrote that Heideman sings in "sweet tones, like an angel." The Star Tribune called her a "silvery-voiced" singer.

Frederick Pratson

He also wrote articles for the Boston Globe's travel section and for trade journals and wrote speeches for business executives.

Gerry Owens

Owens wrote, arranged, recorded and co-produced the Skindive album and gained considerable exposure and success worldwide with the band, including rave reviews in publications such as Rolling Stone Magazine, Boston Globe and Rock Sound and the music being featured on the Grammy Awards 2002, MTV Movie Awards 2002 and MTV Road Rules.

Herb Chambers Companies

In 2005, a Boston Globe report noted that four officials from the Herb Chambers Companies contributed to Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly's campaign efforts when attempting to run for Governor of Massachusetts.

Howard Frazin

Frazin's oratorio, The Voice of Isaac, commissioned by PALS Children's Chorus, was premiered at Boston's Jordan Hall in March 2003 and praised by the Boston Globe as "...clear in design and Brittenesque in texture...ingeniously scored...(having an) almost unbearable poignancy."

IvyGate

A small controversy arose in December 2006 involving Beam's father, prominent Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam.

James M. Kilts

He had been the subject of intense criticism from the Boston press, namely the Boston Globe and Boston Herald daily newspapers, for his role in the merger with Procter & Gamble.

Kolbe Cathedral High School

In October 2005, Kolbe was briefly in the media spotlight when the Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, and other newspapers reported on the removal of teacher Stephen Kobasa.

Lawrence Buell

Both the Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson have regularly requested commentary from Buell for published articles concerning his views on undergraduate life.

Leipzig Declaration

Jeff Jacoby, a columnist with the Boston Globe, describes the signers of the Leipzig Declaration as "climate scientists" that "include prominent scholars." Think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, The Heartland Institute, and Australia's Institute for Public Affairs calls them "noted scientists."

Marshmallow creme

According to a 2006 Boston Globe article, Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett Barrios proposed a restriction on the number of weekly servings of Marshmallow Fluff (Fluffernutter) sandwiches in the form of an amendment to a bill that will limit junk food in schools.

Mimi Pond

Following her book Shoes Never Lie, the Boston Globe described her as "perhaps the leading authority on the spiritual, emotional and visceral connection between women and shoes" (for a story on the shoe collection of Imelda Marcos).

Nansook Hong

In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family is a 1998, non-fiction work by Hong and Boston Globe reporter Eileen McNamara, published by Little, Brown and Company (then owned by Time Warner).

Patricia Lynne Duffy

She has taught English at New York University, the City University of New York, and the UN Language Programme and has written articles for numerous publications including New York Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle (All the Colors of the Rainbow), the Boston Globe, and the Village Voice.

Patriot Reign

Patriot Reign is a best-selling book by Boston Globe/New York Times sports writer Michael Holley resulting from two years he was given unprecedented access to the inner sanctums of the world champion New England Patriots football operations, as they worked to turn a season of good luck into a legitimate contender of a team.

Robert Kapilow

It has since achieved great popularity in the children's theater world, prompting Boston Globe music critic Richard Dyer to name it "the most popular children's piece since Peter and the Wolf".

Salvatore DiMasi

According to the Boston Globe "DiMasi and three of his close friends and associates are the subjects of the Ethics Commission probe and other investigations relating to large payments the associates received from Cognos ULC..." an IBM owned company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with a United States headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Steve Kornacki

(born August 1979) is an American political writer and television host, known as for his work as the senior political writer at Salon.com, his hosting duties of programs on MSNBC, and for the articles he has written for the New York Observer, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the Boston Globe, and the Daily Beast.

Strauss–Howe generational theory

In his review for the Boston Globe, Historian David Kaiser called The Fourth Turning "a provocative and immensely entertaining outline of American history." "Strauss and Howe have taken a gamble," argued Kaiser.

The Kominas

The Kominas' debut album, Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay was released in March 2008, and was cited among the top ten CD's of 2008 by Boston Globe reviewer Siddhartha Mitter.

The Miami News

Notable former employees include Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Don Wright, Boston Globe columnist Adrian Walker, columnist John Keasler and best-selling author Dary Matera, who served as a general assignment reporter from 1977 until 1982.

WBZ-FM

Chris Gasper of the Boston Globe, Paul Perillo of Patriots Football Weekly, and former New England Patriots tight end Jermaine Wiggins make weekly appearances as a third co-host.


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Bunny McBride

Her articles appeared in various US newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, International Wildlife, Travel & Leisure, Sierra, Yankee Magazine, Downeast, and Reader's Digest. From 1981 onwards, she was also actively involved in oral history and community development projects with Micmac Indians in Maine.

Grossfeld

Stan Grossfeld, photographer, writer and editor at The Boston Globe

Jamal Watson

While at The Boston Globe in 2001, Watson reported that Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree, and attorney Johnnie Cochran were planning a lawsuit on behalf of the descendants of African slaves.

Jonathan Olley

In 1994, he traveled to Bosnia to live under siege in Sarajevo, taking news photographs for the Boston Globe, Paris Match, L’Express and The Guardian newspaper.

Larry Whiteside

Whiteside developed Parkinson's disease early in the 21st century, which led to the end of his career with The Boston Globe in 2004.

Laura Joyce Bell

Bell made her first notable appearance in New York in the spring of 1872 at Niblo's Garden performing in the “spectacle pantomime” Azeal, possibly based on the earlier musical by Daniel Auber, and afterward made a hit in the title role of the Edward E. Rice and J. Cheever Goodwin extravaganza, Evangeline, first played at the old Boston Globe Theatre on June 7, 1875 and reprised the following season at the Boston Museum.

Nina Easton

While working for The Boston Globe, Easton co-authored John F. Kerry: A Complete Biography by The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, with fellow Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Brian Mooney.

Rezendes

Michael Rezendes is an investigative reporter with The Boston Globe Spotlight Team.

Ron Borges

In 1999, the Boston Globes executive sports editor banned Globe sportswriters from appearing on WEEI's afternoon 'The Big Show' after Borges appeared on it and allegedly used a racial slur to describe New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz wrote, in a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, "Surely Dean Thiemann would not have been asked to resign if he had been found using his Harvard-owned computer to keep track of his private stamp collection. Nor would he have been asked to leave if a cleaning person had found a copy of a pornographic magazine in the desk drawer of his Harvard-owned residence. What, then, is the principle, and where are the lines to be drawn?"

Will McDonough

After graduating from Northeastern University, he started at the Boston Globe as a copy boy in 1955 and was promoted to sportswriter in 1960, working for many years with other legendary Globe sportswriters such as Peter Gammons, Bob Ryan and Leigh Montville.

Yousef Munayyer

In a May 2013 letter to the Boston Globe, Munayyer applauded scientist Stephen Hawking’s academic boycott of Israel.