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Thursday, October 12, 2023


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Higher Education


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Campus disputes over Israeli-Palestinian conflict turn uglier

Tensions escalated on Wednesday as an out-of-state group drove trucks through Harvard Square with images of students, and Tufts denounced a statement from one of its own student groups.
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Politics


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A blue state, but Massachusetts’ electorate has become something else: the cradle of independents

The number of unenrolled voters is surging and they now account for 61 percent of the state’s 4.7 million voters. That, by one analysis, is the highest share of independent voters in any state.
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Crime & Courts


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‘This touches everybody’: As war rages, local rabbis focus on safety and solidarity

Offering comfort, support, and a secure place to worship, Jewish religious leaders in Massachusetts are trying to keep community members safe in both body and spirit.
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‘I was very uncomfortable’: Dozens of women file class action suit against ex-Brigham doctor accused of sexual abuse

The lawsuit casts a wide net among defendants, laying blame not just on Dr. Derrick Todd but on those who employed him or under whose auspices he practiced.
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World


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Israel forms unity government and bombs Gaza in the wake of Hamas attack

After the deadliest assault on Israel in 50 years, the right-wing government and members of the centrist opposition formed a unity government Wednesday to navigate the crisis, while its warplanes rained destruction on the Gaza Strip and both sides braced for an escalating war between Israel and Hamas.
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Boston Globe Today | October 11, 2023

Watch the full episode of Boston Globe Today from October 11, 2023.
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Dramatic showdown in Braintree kills housing project

WATCH: A proposed housing complex in Braintree dies after intense community debate. Reporter Andrew Brinker explains the controversy.
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Biden administration names a book ban coordinator. Now what?

WATCH: Deputy Washington bureau chief Tal Kopan talks about the Biden administration’s plans to combat book bans in public schools across the country.
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Politics


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GOP nominates Steve Scalise for speaker amid bitter party divisions

Mere minutes after a slim majority of Republicans voted in a closed-door party meeting to select him as the party’s candidate, Scalise’s fate was thrown into doubt. Several Republican lawmakers announced they would not back him on the House floor without concessions, complaining of a rushed process to choose a new speaker.
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ACT test scores for US students drop to new 30-year low

High school students’ scores on the ACT college admissions test have dropped to their lowest in more than three decades, showing a lack of student preparedness for college-level coursework, according to the nonprofit organization that administers the test.
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Memorial honors 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire deaths that galvanized US labor movement

So after years of effort, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition on Wednesday dedicated a new memorial that has no chance of being overlooked, welcoming a crowd that included victims’ descendants, union members, and elected officials.
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Another powerful quake hits Afghanistan, days after deadly temblors

A powerful earthquake struck Herat province in Afghanistan near the border with Iran early Wednesday, several days after two major quakes in the same area killed more than 1,000 people.
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Zelensky, at NATO headquarters, denounces Putin and Hamas as terrorists

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a surprise appearance at NATO headquarters on Wednesday.
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French troops are starting to withdraw from Niger and junta leaders give UN head 72 hours to leave

More than 100 troops left in two flights from the capital Niamey on Tuesday in the first of what will be several rounds of departures between now and the end of the year.
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LETTERS


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Stepping back from a housing showdown in Braintree

"People have a right to protect their neighborhood," writes one reader. Another wonders why Beacon Hill can't "interfere with the town of Braintree when it votes down building sorely needed housing."
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LETTERS


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BPS has to face hard task of closing schools it no longer needs

Closing schools is the hardest task of all. The pushback from parents and, often, community leaders is intense and unrelenting.
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OPINION


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To my House GOP colleagues: Choose bipartisanship, not extremism, with next speaker

Since they took the majority in January, House Republicans haven’t been guided by the duties of public service but by a desperate, obsessive desire to out-MAGA one another.
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Transportation


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Lynn commuter rail service slated for December return

Since last fall, something strange has happened every time a commuter rail train approached Lynn’s main station. It just kept going.
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Politics


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The new head of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO ascends at a golden moment for unions

A Gallup poll shows a whopping 71 percent of Americans approve of unions.
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K-12


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Mass. school superintendents draw criticism over statements on Israel-Hamas war

Critics argued some district leaders did not adequately condemn the terrorist attack against Israel that left more than 1,000 of its citizens dead over the weekend.
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Dave Bush was not stunned to be fired as Red Sox pitching coach: ‘It’s the results that matter’

Ultimately, Bush had four years on the job (2020-23), matching John Farrell for the longest run of any Red Sox pitching coach this century.
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Bruins notebook


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Bruins legends walk the gold carpet at TD Garden prior to season opener against Blackhawks

The alumni gathering prior to the home opener against the Blackhawks was the first in a series of events marking the franchise’s centennial season.
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Bruins open their 100th season by beating Connor Bedard and the Blackhawks

David Pastrnak scored twice for Boston.
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Real Estate


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City planning $4 million, plus tax breaks, to jumpstart planned Franklin Cummings Tech campus in Roxbury

The $75 million project depends on the sale of the existing South End campus, which has been held up by permitting delays and rising interest rates.
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The future of work has arrived — and the CEO of Slack isn’t looking back

Jones said she believes technological innovation will be essential to unlock collaboration between those working from home and those in the office.
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Business


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During Amazon Prime sales, you can get a 55-inch TV for $249. But is that really good for consumers?

The company’s big discounts benefit shoppers — even though Amazon’s overall behavior has drawn regulatory scrutiny.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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Florence Fisher, advocate for opening adoption records, dies at 95

Florence Fisher was an adoptee who spent decades searching for her birth parents and then spent another half-century fighting to open adoption records for millions of others.
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Hughes Van Ellis, Tulsa massacre survivor, dies at 102

He was 5-months-old when a white mob destroyed much of Tulsa's thriving black neighborhood.
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Author and activist Louise Meriwether, who wrote the novel ‘Daddy Was a Number Runner,’ dies at 100

“Daddy Was a Number Runner,” published in 1970, tells of a poor Black community in Harlem during the 1930s as seen through the eyes of 12-year-old Francie Coffin. It is widely regarded as a groundbreaking and vital portrait of race, gender. and class.
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Arts & Lifestyle






FILM


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Boston Palestine Film Festival cancels in-person screenings, will offer only virtual programming this year

"Things are happening so rapidly. We are being sensitive to the experience on the ground," says BPFF programming director Michael Maria.
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MUSIC REVIEW


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A (mostly) solo Nick Cave reinterprets his vast songbook at the Wang

The singer-songwriter's set tackled disparate corners of his discography by paring down songs to their base elements. Through reduction came revelation.
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‘Landscape enthusiast’ Ben Cosgrove has composed music for the likes of NASA and Acadia National Park

Concentrating in music at Harvard, Cosgrove says he was a "geography nerd on the sly."
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