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National Grid customers face average rate hike of 13.1 a month Business, B5 All, B8 B2 I Li-fJ ONLINE TODAY boston.comcityregion Deaths Weather Spiritual Life Breaking news: Local updates Politics: Political intelligence Commuting: Starts Stops Big Dig: Continuing coverage The Boston Globe Saturday, September 23, 2006 ltd to set agenda Galvin probing Boston election Senate challenger asks recount, as state scrutinizes balloting 4V By Donovan Slack GLOBE STAFF Secretary of State William F. Galvin notified Boston election officials yesterday 4 1 1 .4 Criticizes Patrick on immigration, taxes, and crime By Frank Phillips and Raja Mishra GLOBE STAFF Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey launched a full-scale assault yesterday on her Democratic rival, Deval L. Patrick, using a television ad to accuse him of being soft on crime and bending to teachers unions, while attacking him at a press conference on taxes, immigration, and his refusal to demand that his party chairman resign. Healey began the day telling reporters that she was unsatisfied with Democratic Party chairman Philip W. Johnston's repudiation of his own remarks that she was close to "fear mongering" and "race baiting" by raising immigration issues in the campaign.

She accused him of trying to stifle a debate on the issue to protect Patrick. She pressed her demands that Patrick call for Johnston to step down from his party post, saying his remarks, made Thursday, were "shameful." She had called the press conference to challenge Patrick over his opposition to an income tax rollback. Later in the day, her campaign began airing a television commercial that touts her credentials as a "career criminologist" and quotes Patrick's defeated primary rival, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, accusing Patrick of being "soft on crime." It also criticized him for backing off initial support for merit pay for teachers. Polls indicate that Patrick, fresh off his sweeping victory in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, is leading Healey by a very wide margin.

A CBS4 poll gave Patrick 64 percent and Healey 25 percent of a sample of 608 likely voters. With just six weeks left in the campaign, Healey strategists are moving quickly to highlight Patrick's positions on issues such as crime, taxes and immigration, which the Republicans feel will draw conservative Democrats and independents to her candidacy. Her moves are undoubtedly aimed at setting much of the agenda as she and Patrick, along with independent Christy Mihos and GOVERNOR, Page B3 CHANG-DIAZ that he has launched an investigation of the city's handling of the primary election Tuesday. Boston was forced to conduct a public tally Thursday of some 2,700 ballots that had been overlooked in the Second Suffolk District Senate race. For reasons that remain unclear, ballots for the write-in race were not counted or simply were not entered on tally sheets in eight of the district's 73 precincts.

The problems raised serious ques JOHN TLUMACKIGLOBE STAFF Republican gubernatorial candidate Kerry Healey (above) and her running mate, Reed Hillman (right) arrived at Union Oyster House in Boston yesterday for a press conference. Below, Democrat Deval L. Patrick (center) and Senator John F. Kerry (second left) listened at a science roundtable at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. if If WILKERSON 1 tions about the conduct of the election citywide, and city officials said they expect Galvin's office to review the election process throughout the city.

He will look at the training of poll workers, ballot-counting procedures, and other elements of the election process, theysaid. "I think the issue on Tuesday was disturbing because it was so blatant," Galvin said in an interview yesterday. One of the candidates in the Senate race, Sonia Chang-Diaz, said she has begun procedures to initiate a districtwide RECOUNT, Page B3 EVAN RICHMANGLOBE STAFF 2 in police corruption case are granted bail We didn't notify tenants in advance, so it probably spooked a few people when they heard the noises. Jack Deary, Beacon Capital Partners Management Strict limits set for pair by judge By Shelley Murphy GLOBE STAFF No cellphones. No computers.

No visitors, including their children's playmates, unless they're on an approved list. And absolutely no leaving the house, unless they're strapped to a stretcher and heading to the hospital for emergency care. -Those were just some of the restrictions a federal judge set yesterday while granting bail for two Boston police officers who are charged with conspiring to traffic cocaine and heroin, in one of the department's biggest corruption cases. The homes of Carlos A. Pizarro, 36, and Nelson Carrasquillo, 35, both in Dorchester, will be searched for weapons before the two are released, on Monday at the earliest.

Their home telephones will be monitored, and the officers will be fitted with electronic bracelets that will trigger an alarm if they stray outside. The court must approve all visitors before they come. "I don't want any witness to run any risk," said US District Judge William G. Young, who ordered the restrictions after prosecutors argued that Pizarro and Carrasquillo might try to recruit OFFICERS, Page B2 i ill Celebrity ball Boy tastes stardom after snaring Papi's record blast By Raja Mishra GLOBE STAFF the white ball arced majestically through the September night, 10-year-old Tommy Valeriani craned his head upward and suddenly felt like the only his head, hit the back of his bleacher seat, and lodged there, said Tommy. "Everyone started trying to grab it," he said.

His father, Frank Valeriani, 40, elaborated: "There were hands everywhere. Someone actually took it from him. Then, people shouted to give the kid the J. hi Whoa, there! Hancock test sways a few occupants Building operator says several people complained New England's tallest building, the 60-story Hancock tower, swayed slightly, but unexpectedly, yesterday morning as technicians conducted tests, a little too vigorously, on a device on the 58th floor designed to keep the tower stable in high winds. "It caused the building to creak and groan," said Jack Deary, executive vice president of Beacon Capital Partners Management, which opei ates the building.

"We didn't notify tenants in advance, so it probably spooked a few people when they heard the noises." Calls to tenants on the 39th and the 56th floors found no one who noticed anything when the tests were conducted. But Deary said a handful of the tower's 6,000 tenants and visitors lodged complaints. Shortly after its construction, the building's architects and engineers found that in heavy winds the tower would sway as much as 3 feet off center. It was not a threat to the building's structural integrity, but the motion could cause tenants on upper floors to feel sick or dizzy. The solution was two 300-ton lead weights encased in steel boxes and placed on opposite ends of the 58th floor.

The so-called tuned mass dampers are triggered by computers that move the weights along a lubricated slide in the opposite direction of the winds, diminishing their effect. The system is tested periodically, and in yesterday's test, the building's staff moved the weights slightly more aggressively than they normally do. at Fenway ball back, and he got it back." Fenway security whisked father and son away, and after watching the remainder of the game in a luxury suite, the two found themselves faceta face with Big Papi. "He was cool," said Tommy. Red Sox management had asked the boy to return the record-setting ball so Ortiz could donate it to charity.

Tommy was torn. "I wanted to keep it," he said. "But then I heard they're giving it to charity, and I thought I'm just going to give the ball to charity, because I don't really I need it." Ortiz gave him Sox jerseys and signed baseballs in return. Frank Valeriani said the player's Park. "I saw it coming right at me.

It was coming and coming," he said of David Ortiz's record-setting 52d home run of the season. "It was like it was headed straight only for me. I thought I might have a chance to get it." Hegotit. Tommy left home in Boxford for Fenway Park on Thursday night just another Red Sox fan, but he came home a star, or at least the coolest kid in the fourth grade. "Everyone in school was, like, 'How did you get the said Tommy, who attends Spofford ROBfcRT SPtNCERFOR THE BOSION GLOBE WIQAN ANG FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE The John Hancock Tower is tested periodically, and in yesterday's test, the building's staff moved the weights slightly more aggressively than they normally do.

'We want to apologize for any concern caused by the building movement this morning," Beacon Capital said in a statement to its tenants. "The electronics for this system have just been upgraded, and the system is in the process of being recalibrated. No further tests will be done during office hours." No one was hurt, and the building was not damaged, its management firm said. "Everybody's back to normal, and we've apologized," Deary said. THOMAS FARRAGI1ER Tommy Valeriani, 10, is a hit with his Boxford classmates.

reputation as a gentle giant was genuine. "He made Tommy feel at ease," he said. "He's on cloud nine. If there was a cloud 10, he'd be there." Pond Elementary. "My teacher was really happy for me." A local television crew interviewed Tommy yesterday at school.

He told classmates his tale so many times he grew tired of it, he said. The Globe, of course, asked him to tell it again. The seventh-inning home run ball whizzed over In the first inning, Joel McGrath, 29, of caught the ball that broke Jimmie Foxx's 1938 Red 7 Sox single-season record of 50 home runs. He gave HOME RUN, PagB8.