Globe contributors Anne Driscoll and Kathy McCabe interviewed students across the North Weekly region on the subject of violence. The following is a sample of what the youngsters had to say. Lauren MacDonald, 13 Grade 7, Parlin Junior High, Everett "When I think about violence, I think of South Boston and what just happened in school there. I think there are too many fights going on between boyfriends and girlfriends. If someone sees their boyfriend or girlfriend flirting,...
DUBRAVE, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Her blonde head poking out of the Humvee's machine gun turret, Army gunner Lisa Adams assessed the caliber of the two men with whom she patrols former front lines in northeast Bosnia.``Andy, he's only 5 percent sexist. He's pretty good,'' said Adams, nodding toward driver Ryan Anderson. ``Now him, he's about 99.9 percent sexist,'' the 23-year-old Adams said with a...
Nick Lowe has just finished 90 minutes of solo music here at the Birchmere, a set that included all of his best-known songs - except one. The silver-haired daddy of British pop hasn't played "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding," a track that he wrote and that helped make Elvis Costello famous in the 1970s. So everybody knows what's coming when Lowe returns to the stage for an encore. He strums...
SEX, Lies and Videotape's Laura San Giacomo plays beauty to George Segal's beast in the latest United States sitcom to crash these shores.Just Shoot Me, premiering on Channel 10 next week, is a clash-of-heads comedy from the creators of The Larry Sanders Show ~ one which pits the ferociously feisty Maya Gallo (Giacomo) against her babe-crazed father Jack (Segal). She's a journalist with a serious grudge against bimbos....
Nick Lowe has just finished 90 minutes of solo music at the Birchmere, a set that included all of his best-known songs -- except one. The silver-haired daddy of British pop hasn't played "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding," a track that he wrote and that helped make Elvis Costello famous in the 1970s. So everybody knows what's coming when Lowe returns to the stage for an encore. He strums the...