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This principle is no surprise to the University. In a 2001 internal memorandum sent to University President Lawrence H. Summers and uncovered by The Boston Globe, top university planner Kathy Spiegelman wrote, “We propose to present a generous offer for a [payment] agreement with Watertown, knowing full well that such an offer will lead to more generous provisions for property acquisition in Cambridge and Boston...
...revelations gave the Times a hard shove into the company of the nation's other great but occasionally humbled papers: the Boston Globe, whose columnists Mike Barnicle and Patricia Smith resigned in 1998 after charges of serial plagiarism; the Wall Street Journal, whose financial columnist R. Foster Winans was convicted on 59 counts of conspiracy and fraud in 1985 for using his articles to make money in the stock market; and the Washington Post, which had to return the 1981 Pulitzer Prize won by reporter Janet Cooke for the haunting story of Jimmy, the 8-year-old heroin addict...
Blair knew Washington from his days at the University of Maryland and a stint working there for the Boston Globe, so he joined the seven other Times reporters on the story. "Lots of people were told to break news, but he wasn't one of them," says one Times source. "He was supposed to baby-sit the police headquarters and go to the press conferences, not break news." But that changed after Blair caught fire: newsrooms in New York City and Washington fizzed each time he tossed a new scoop on the table--the grape stem found at a murder...
When Ying joined Globe Telecom seven years ago, the firm, based near Manila, claimed about 130,000 subscribers. Today, as he departs, he is credited with helping build Globe to 7 million subscribers and $129 million in profit for 2002. Ying, 45, starts in May as COO of a larger telecom firm, Maxis Communications, based in Kuala Lumpur. First on the to-do list of this wine and cigar lover is integrating the recent acquisition of a rival firm, TimeCel...
Adrian Walker, a Metro columnist for the Boston Globe, said he had known Blair for seven years, since the reporter was a 20-year-old intern at the paper...