Man, 25, dies after confrontation at pub – Police say victim cut by glass shards
By Thomas Byrne and Jack Nicas – Globe Correspondents / August 15, 2010
A 25-year-old man died early yesterday after shards from a broken glass cut his neck during a late-night confrontation at a Lansdowne Street bar, according to police.
Just after midnight yesterday, two groups were fighting in The Lansdowne pub when Hector Guardiola, 25, of Boston, allegedly threw a glass or a bottle that shattered and sliced the victim’s neck, police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said. The victim was taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he later died. His name was being withheld pending notification of relatives, police said.
A 22-year-old man and 23-year-old woman also struck by the broken glass were treated at Brigham and Women’s for nonlife-threatening injuries.
Driscoll could not say whether the three victims were involved in the fight. Guardiola has been charged with manslaughter and two counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. He is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow in Roxbury District Court.
Three people who were in the pub said yesterday that it quickly transformed from a loud, crowded club with a live rock band to a crime scene.
Fans were ready for this house party – Thousands turn out for local rock legends
By Sean Teehan and Stephen Smith – Globe Correspondent | Globe Staff / August 15, 2010
Their music was the summer soundtrack for millions during the ’70s and ’80s, their bad boy ways capturing the public’s imagination and fueling record-setting album sales (yes, they were still called albums in those days)
Last night, for the first time, the two legendary bands born and bred in New England — Aerosmith and the J. Geils Band — shared a stage, choosing sacred home turf for a sold-out show: Fenway Park.
These boys of summer drew a throng 38,000 strong, a crowd that reflected the transgenerational appeal of musicians whose careers were born in the crucible of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.
There were mothers and sons like 51-year-old Lori Guerra and 18-year-old Zack, who had traveled from Merrimack, N.H. Mom figured she had been to an Aerosmith concert 30 years ago. For Zack, this would be his Aerosmith baptism.
“Aerosmith has been talking about it their whole tour, coming to Fenway,’’ Zack said.
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Partners reports $5m loss – Declining investments push numbers down despite operating gain
By Robert Weisman – Globe Staff / August 14, 2010
Partners HealthCare Systems Inc. yesterday posted a narrow loss for the three months ending June 30 as operating gains at its chain of leading Boston area hospitals could not offset declines in investments.
The overall third-quarter loss for the state’s largest health care system was about $5 million, Partners reported. It recorded $56 million in operating income, but a nonoperating loss of $61 million due to tumbling financial markets and a drop in interest rates. In the same quarter last year, it recorded an overall gain of $133.4 million.
“It just shows you the volatility you can have on the investment side,’’ said Peter K. Markell, Partners vice president of finance.
An erosion of its stock portfolio was not the only investment problem for Partners during the April-to-June period. The company was also stung by a drop in the value of financial instruments called fixed interest rate swaps. Partners bought the swaps to hedge against the risk from 30-year variable rate bonds it uses to finance capital projects.
Markell said the swaps would prove to be a long-term liability for Partners only if they were sold. Over time, he said, the investment is likely to improve as the instruments’ variable rate adjusts to a higher level than the fixed-rate bonds. “We plan to hold them to maturity,’’ he said.
Partners, which owns Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, two Boston academic medical centers, reported an overall income gain of $134.7 million for the first nine months of its 2010 fiscal year. That compared with a loss of $17.5 million for the same period in the last fiscal year.
For him, excitement was in fashion – Energy, artistry meet in Avedon’s stylish photos
By Mark Feeney – Globe Staff / August 15, 2010
Ideally, the name would be spelled Avidon.
There was an avidity to Richard Avedon’s eye, a hungry taking in of what was going on around him and an even hungrier desire to arrange and record it. That avidity is everywhere present in “Avedon Fashion 1944-2000,’’ which opened last week at the Museum of Fine Arts and runs through Jan. 17.
Fashion, though, was only one of the realms in which Avedon’s avidity operated. He was very nearly as famous for his portraits as for his photo shoots for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. What’s a fashion photograph, anyway, but a portrait of features and figure and attire? There are also Avedon’s celebrated visual essays: a Louisiana mental hospital; his dying father; the landmark issue of Rolling Stone, “The Family,’’ devoted to political power in the United States; his book “In the American West.’’
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