Title: Boston Globe Page One Podcast for Mar 31, 2009

" Thank you for downloading today's podcast from the newsroom of the Boston global. Here's a look at today's top stories."

" Hello it's -- on Tuesday march 31. President Obama roiled stocks have riled his critics in the free market yesterday. But I rebuffing carmakers turnaround plans in imposing strict new conditions for rescuing General Motors and Chrysler. Globe business writer -- Weisman reports that the president's tough love ultimatum. Came a day after the government threatened to withhold further bailout money. And forced the removal of GM chief executive Rick Wagoner. The action upset investors looking for signs of recovery and sent the Dow Jones average tumbling more than 250 points. Critics called -- the most direct government intervention in the economy since the Great Depression. Alleging the White House was taking on a managerial. Role it's ill suited for. But Obama who gave GM and Chrysler short news deadlines to re address their business woes. We cannot continue to excuse for decisions the president said. And we cannot make the survival of our auto industry dependant on an unending flow of tax dollars. These companies to hand this industry must ultimately stand on their own. Not as wards of the state. Two strangers made that catch of a lifetime in Lawrence the other night. After they raced to save a toddler that one of them happened to notice just before she tumbled down from a third floor window. Robert Lanier and Alex de managed to open their arms and -- eighteen month old Celia Clarke on Sunday evening only by several strokes of luck. Reports the globe's Brian Duluth. Lanier had decided on pizza for dinner. And as he walked outside the pizza joint across the street from the girl's apartment he spotted something dropping out of an upper story window. The object was a toy. It was followed a second later by another toy and then in a breathtaking moment a small child appeared in the window. Dangling his two kids inside desperately clutched her arms. Lanier a 45 year old remodeling contractor. Took off for the house dodging her car as he crossed the street and yelling Nancy ran. Alex -- it was in an apartment on the first floor of the same house settling into a Bible study class. When he heard the shouts and ran out. Thinking there was a fire in the neighborhood. He -- near looked up and arrived under the window of justice Kelly was dropping its. The two men delivered the toddler unharmed to their third floor apartment. Where her father said he was putting his two month old child to bed and his three other kids played in another room. When -- save my daughter's life they save my own life he said. Because if she would have been hurt I don't know what I do. A group of taxi drivers and medallion owners is suing the city of Boston to block the requirement that all licensed cab drivers using hybrid cars. By two when he fifteen. Globe reporter Jonathan Saltzman writes that the Boston taxi operators association. Claims the measure could put many of them out of business. This group according to member Brady feels little fear isn't against hybrid cars for sake. But opposes a requirement that the vehicles must be purchased near. They cabbies also want the city to give some more time to make the change over. Andrew Hebert a manager at a Dorchester taxi garage. Who publishes a cabbies trade magazine called rear view mirror. Told the globe. The owners are essentially saying look we're not against going green where against going broke. In response city officials said Boston has already shown sensitivity agent camp drivers. Letting them increased fares last summer to one of the highest rates in the country and phasing in a hybrid rule over seven years. Ken O'Brien of bookseller in Harvard Square and the first and only homeless person to belong to the squares business association. Says he's tired of fighting Cambridge city. After nearly three years of operating his -- business. Including thousands of used volumes he's given -- he's closing up shop -- bella English. Because he wants to end a bureaucratic hassles that have plagued him. MBTA property rights liability insurance requirements. Peddlers permits and even a couple of arrests. City officials recited their side of a long series of issues which today you know Brian in disagreed. And they say Ali needs now is one more permanent. But O'Brien who lives on the street next to his book stands with his girlfriend their cash and -- dog they rescued from up top female. Says he can't stand up paperwork and a man says stand disclosing today. With that goes one more quirky piece of Harvard Square. But O'Brien 55 a Cambridge native and longtime wanderer. Who would come back to the city to every tire. Will probably be fine. He's going to pitch a tent in a park until far then heads for Arizona. With his little family. We'll try to get some Lamas and will watch in the mountains so Brian said. Inside the globe today a Milton man who attacked three of his younger sisters with a kitchen knife. And killed two of them before he was shot dead by police. Will be buried this week in a joint ceremony was his sister's. The parents of the -- his family released a statement yesterday voicing their sorrow. And asking for people's prayers. On the sports pages a favorable report from spring training. Where Daisuke Matsuzaka gave the Red Sox five strong innings against the Atlanta Braves. Boston didn't win the game but then it is spring training and the sunlight shining. The sun also -- in Boston today. Our forecast calls for a late freeze and high temperatures in the low fifties great trip getting outside. And now I've come to the end. Our page one time guest service ends today as the globe reorganize its staff and revamp some of the ways we deliver the paper online. I hope that podcast will return in the future in an improved form that we have no plans for that right now. Two while who have come here for news in the past. Thank you for your interest your feedback and your -- it's been a pleasure and an honor. Have a beautiful sunny day and a lovely spring could die."

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