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AFTER more than 200 years as a wholly family-owned company, Crane & Company, a famed producer of fine stationery based in Dalton, Mass., sold a minority share to the New York investment firm Lindsay Goldberg last summer. The sole paper supplier for United States currency, the company has been on a deal-making spree. Last May, it signed an agreement to produce stationery under the Disney brand. And in December, it purchased Atlanta-based Visual Physics, whose anticounterfeiting technology will allow Crane to enhance the security of paper money in the United States and other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Throws light on the recycling of the old worn out bills discarded by the Federal Reserve, by Crane & Company, the Dalton, Massachusetts, concern, involved in making stationery. Focus on the letterheads released by the latter.

Reports about Boston University's filed suit against several companies in different states, charging them with illegal selling of term papers over the Internet. Charges placed by the Federal court in Boston on the companies; Features of term papers sold by companies; Amendment protecting companies; Cost of term papers sold.

The article reports that the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts has upheld a $2 million libel verdict in a lawsuit against the newspaper "The Boston Herald" and one of its reporters. The lawsuit concerns a series of articles and columns about Judge Ernest B. Murphy of the Superior Court in Massachusetts. The articles said that Murphy made disparaging comments about crime victims and was lenient with criminals.

Presents a travel guide to attractions at the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts. Hours and admission at the Arrowhead farmhouse; Direction in reaching the location of the Crane Museum of Papermaking; Rate of admission at The Mount.

Reports on the conversion from a factory building of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Installation of the room "Corpus" in the largest of the museum's galleries; Interior design of the balcony; Number of cone-shaped speakers move up and down in 15-minute cycle in the main room.

Discusses the release of documents held by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts in the court cases against Father Paul R. Shanley and other priests accused of sexually abusing young children. Documents that allegedly show that top ranking church officials, including Cardinal Bernard F. Law, knew more about cases of sexual abuse than they said; Documents that allege Boston officials placed an incoming priest they knew had just been treated for pedophilia; Recommendation that Father Robert Brown not be placed in a situation where he could be around children; His placement as pastor of a Boston church where he would be in contact with children.

Discusses the release of documents held by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts in the court cases against Father Paul R. Shanley and other priests accused of sexually abusing young children. Documents that allegedly show that top ranking church officials, including Cardinal Bernard F. Law, knew more about cases of sexual abuse than they said; Documents that allege Boston officials placed an incoming priest they knew had just been treated for pedophilia; Recommendation that Father Robert Brown not be placed in a situation where he could be around children; His placement as pastor of a Boston church where he would be in contact with children.

Provides information on a document at the archives of the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in which the university's administration methodically harassed a number of young men for being gay.

Reports the plans of the officials of Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts to install scanners that can check the authenticity of driver's licenses and passports.

Reports the publication of a photograph of the severed head of Daniel Pearl, newspaper reporter of 'The Wall Street Journal,' by 'The Phoenix' in Boston Massachusetts on June 6, 2002.

Focuses on the documents which show that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts knew the psychiatric problems of priest Paul R. Shanley, an accused child molester, in 1991.

Focuses on the editorial of the March 14, 2002 issue of 'The Pilot,' the official newspaper of the Boston Archdiocese in Massachusetts, which reflected on issues about celibacy of priests.

Reports on the contents of documents regarding the pedophilia of a priest in Boston, Massachusetts. Preoccupation of the Roman Catholic archdiocese in the area with avoiding scandal; Allegations of the church's knowledge of the pedophilia; Public apology made by Boston cardinal Bernard F, Law.

Reports that the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began accepting online Internet applications by way of a process called, Grad Advantage, which was developed by John Pyrovolakis, an MIT graduate. What was the motive for the online applications; Comments from Rod Garcia, Sloan's director of admissions; Sloan's web site address.

Reports that according to a statement from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, photographs claiming to show two of the Rembrandt paintings stolen from this museum in March 1990 have been obtained by two news organizations. Comments made by the museum's director, Anne Hawley; Identity of the news organizations that has the photographs.

Representative Michael E. Capuano said he had taken out nomination papers and would announce next week whether he will join the race to succeed Edward M. Kennedy in the Senate. Mr. Capuano, a six-term Democratic congressman, said that of any candidates mentioned so far, he most closely mirrored Mr. Kennedy's positions on issues of war and peace. He is the second member of Congress to draw nomination papers. Representative Stephen F. Lynch did so last week. Attorney General Martha Coakley was the first declared Democratic candidate to succeed Mr. Kennedy, who died on Aug. 25. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

States that Ethan Becker, son of Marion R. Becker who wrote the original cookbook `The Joy of Cooking' with her mother Irma S. Rombauer, donated the papers of the two authors to the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College. Details on the papers; Information on the library; Detailed information on the revised edition of `The Joy of Cooking.'

Reports that Mike Barnicle, the columnist who resigned for "The Boston Globe" newspaper in 1998, has been hired as a columnist at the "The Boston Herald." Barnicle's resignation in 1998 after failing to credit comedian George Carlin as the source of a series of jokes in one column and for his failure to verify the identities of two cancer patients in another; Work done by Barnicle for "The Daily News" of New York after his resignation from the Boston, Massachusetts paper.

Discusses the controversy over Peter Manso's book 'Ptown: Art, Sex and Money on the Outer Cape.' Overview of the book, which offers a gossipy history of Provincetown, Massachusetts; Reactions of residents, including author Norman Mailer, who are writing protest letters to the local paper; How the book has created problems, including its impact on a child custody case; Comments of residents; Background on Manso; Details of Manso's feud with Mailer.

Reports that Framingham, Massachusetts-based office supply retailer Staples has narrowed a review for its television creative account.

Features the Japanese postcard collection of Leonard A. Lauder shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Schedule for the exhibition of the postcard collection; Research made on the Japanese artists who made the postcards; Views of Joe V. Earle, chairman of the department of art at the Museum of Fine Arts, regarding the style used to create postcards.