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Monday, December 25, 2023


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Business


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‘This I became a beggar for’: Millions in donations pour into a Catholic school in Lawrence

Six years ago, the dilapidated school launched a Hail Mary attempt to raise millions of dollars to build a new urban campus. What’s happening now feels nothing short of a miracle.
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Massachusetts


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For these first-time buyers, a new meaning to being home for the holidays

Nate Smith planned to host her first Christmas in a space that is truly her own. She is among more than 230 families and individuals who received assistance from the city of Boston to purchase a home for the first time in 2023.
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Clemency was a political third rail for decades. Healey and other governors are starting to embrace it.

Governor Maura Healey's move to pardon 13 people is positioning Massachusetts among a growing number of states where chief executives are again embracing clemency.
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World


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Israel says it is intensifying its campaign against Hamas

Israeli leaders vowed Sunday to pursue their war against Hamas, even as Israel’s own casualties mounted, with 15 soldiers reported killed in the Gaza Strip since Friday.
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Trump asks appeals court to toss election case on immunity grounds

Lawyers for former president Donald Trump asked an appeals court in Washington on Saturday night to toss a federal indictment accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, arguing that he was immune to the charges because they arose from actions he had taken while he was in the White House.
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Nation


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How Russian and Chinese interference could affect the 2024 election

The US government is preparing for its adversaries to intensify efforts to influence American voters next year. Russia has huge stakes in the presidential election. China seems poised to back a more aggressive campaign. Other countries, like Iran, might again try to sow division in the United States.
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As conflicts rage abroad, a fractured Congress tries to rally support for historic global challenges

As the Senate wrapped up its work for the year, Senator Michael Bennet took to the floor of the nearly empty chamber and made a late-night plea for Congress to redouble support for Ukraine: “Understand the stakes at this moment.”
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In a troubled world, Christians strive to put aside earthly worries on Christmas Eve

Christians around the world were striving on Christmas Eve to put aside the worries and fears of an unsettled, war-torn world as they prepared to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
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On Christmas Eve, Bethlehem resembles a ghost town

The typically bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town Sunday after Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the Israel-Hamas war.
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With Israeli raids in the West Bank, ‘there’s no such thing as sleeping at night’

Mangled pipes poured sewer water into what remained of the road. On either side of the runoff were piles of broken pavement, churned up by bulldozers. The archway at the entrance to the neighborhood had been demolished; the gnarled hull of a black car sat nearby.
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The empty seats at the table

Especially during the holiday season, Americans can make clear that the families grieving a loved one held hostage overseas are not alone.
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The Action Plan for Franklin Park offers the best vision for Boston

The Action Plan for Franklin Park is not perfect. Much work is still needed to engage and resolve the many competing interests it surfaces. Yet it offers the best example the city has of a holistic vision since the park’s original design.
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LETTERS


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Two stories: women chafing at doing it ‘all,’ women blamed in SIDS grief

With affluence, women can offload their labor and anxiety onto housecleaners when their social status is at risk. For people like Emily Cross, there is no offloading.
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Leadership changes in Massachusetts’ child welfare system prompt hope for a new vision

A changing of the guard is coming for the state’s child welfare system and with it, perhaps, an unusual opportunity to overhaul an overburdened system responsible for the well-being of more than 40,000 children.
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T commutes are getting so long, some riders resort to walking or finally getting a driver’s license

Discouraged by slow zones, wait times, and closures, MBTA riders found other ways to get around. One woman got her driver’s license. Another took her first Uber ever. An East Boston man decided to walk.
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Half a century of remembering Globe Santa

Joseph A. Milano, president of Boston’s Union Oyster House, has many titles and many interests, but an initiative that’s particularly close to his heart is Globe Santa.
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Celtics


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‘I’m learning how to be emotionally open.’ A 1-on-1 with Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla on surrender, family, and a championship quest

Mazzulla sat down with the Globe for an honest and wide-ranging conversation.
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Tara Sullivan


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Patriots’ problems are epitomized by the handling of their third-string quarterback

There were issues on the roster everywhere, but none so glaring as the backup to the backup QB.
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The market for free agent pitchers is heating up, and the Red Sox have a number of possibilities

With Tyler O’Neill representing the team’s biggest acquisition of the offseason, there is plenty for the Red Sox to do.
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‘This I became a beggar for’: Millions in donations pour into a Catholic school in Lawrence

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THE FINE PRINT


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A snapshot, a headstone, and a final wish realized

At age 95, Frank Agresti has finally fulfilled a final wish: to have a smiling photo of him and his late wife made into a “porcelain portrait” and permanently fixed to the headstone where he will someday be buried.
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From helping people on the autism spectrum to improving driver safety, Rana el Kaliouby wants AI to be ‘humans first’

El Kaliouby, who serves as the Deputy CEO of the Swedish company Smart Eye, helped develop technology that is used to help reduce the risk of distracted driving.
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Yacouba Sawadogo, African farmer who held back the desert, dies at 77

A farmer, Yacouba Sawadogo was known as “the man who beat the desert” in Burkina Faso for revolutionizing agricultural methods and creating a 75-acre forest on barren land, an effort that won international acclaim.
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Laura Lynch, a co-founder of the Dixie Chicks, dies at 65

On social media, the Chicks called Ms. Lynch a “bright light” whose “infectious energy and humor gave a spark to the early days of our band.”
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ASK AMY


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Siblings ponder obligation to former stepmother

Advice from Amy Dickinson.
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TV CRITIC'S CORNER


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From across the pond, a steady stream of excellence

When premium cable channels like HBO and streaming platforms like Netflix began to offer the kind of showcases and challenges that the best actors from the UK are always seeking, they leaped at the opportunities.
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