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Monday, February 19, 2024


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🎞️ Black History Month: Join Globe writers and editors, filmmakers, and talent for a series of film screenings and post‑viewing discussions about the stories of strength, joy, and love. 🎟️
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Climate


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In Eastie, an early glimpse at Boston’s existential and expensive struggle to hold back the sea

Boston began planning for sea level rise almost a decade ago. Now, as the city’s climate adaptation strategy takes shape, it’s raising thorny questions about cost and gentrification.
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Politics


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DCF said she and others neglected their children. Hundreds of times last year, investigators were wrong, officials say.

State hearing officers reversed DCF’s findings against parents and caregivers 40 percent of the time last fiscal year, new data show, while dozens of others were partially overturned.
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Housing


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How Everett became a housing boomtown in the Boston area

Everett has added more housing in the past few years than any community in Greater Boston. What do they know that the rest of us could learn?
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Religion


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‘It is a humanitarian crisis’: Religious groups mobilize to support migrants

Faith groups and leaders are working to shepherd thousands of migrants into American society, facilitating access to basic needs, as well as connections to social services and financial support.
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World


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City’s fall leaves Ukraine with an even tougher fight ahead

With the Russian military’s capture of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka on Saturday, the front line has shifted substantially, setting the stage for the war’s next grueling chapter as Ukrainian forces retrench and Russian troops reform for future assaults.
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Nation


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These small towns have a big-city problem: The rent is way too high

An intensifying housing crisis has gripped New York City and urban areas around the country, fueled by the rising costs of homeownership, surging rents, and limited housing stock. Now, some places that were long considered more affordable are contending with those same factors.
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Nation


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Two officers, one first responder killed at the scene of a domestic call in Minnesota Sunday; suspect dead

Officers were responding to a call involving an armed man who had barricaded himself inside with family, including seven children.
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POLITICAL NOTEBOOK


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Haley’s bid to go the distance against Trump relies on handful of states, donors

Despite big losses in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, and the steep odds facing her in South Carolina, her home state, Nikki Haley is showing no signs of relenting.
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The World






World


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Israel vows to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza as War Cabinet member threatens a Ramadan deadline for Rafah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is brushing off growing calls to halt the military offensive in Gaza as the United States prepared to veto a UN resolution calling for a permanent cease-fire.
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World


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US fears Russia might put a nuclear weapon in space

Another launch may be in the works, and the question is whether Russia plans to use it to put a real nuclear weapon into space — a violation of a half-century-old treaty.
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Hundreds risk arrest, and Kremlin’s wrath, to lay flowers for Navalny

Hundreds of supporters have risked arrest in the repressive climate of wartime Russia and braved bitter winter temperatures, to contribute to various memorials, which in some cases were quickly swept away by the authorities.
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EDITORIAL


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Pain of child sex abuse victims knows no limits

Neither should the Massachusetts law that would allow civil lawsuits against institutions that violated their trust.
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OPINION


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Biden has done much to relieve student debt, but he can do more

He needs to cancel even more student debt.
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LETTERS


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Housing stop: And it’s back to the zoning board in Milton

"Private ownership should not grant exclusionary privileges," writes one reader. Another writes, citing the Mattapan trolley, that "Milton shouldn’t be classified as rapid transit."
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Massachusetts


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In Dorchester, a different kind of Lunar New Year celebration

The afternoon event, hosted by the Circle of Vietnamese Parents, aimed to provide a comfortable space for children with disabilities and their families, who may otherwise struggle to connect with new year celebrations, according to founder Oanh Bui.
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Politics


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Boston Fire continues to fail to reflect the community it serves, new data show

The current fire academy class is comprised of 46 members. Thirty three of them, or 71 percent, are white. Only three of the academy’s participants are women.
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Money, Power, Inequality


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Bay State Banner founder Melvin B. Miller: ‘Young people need to know where we came from’

Dubbed by Harvard Magazine as “an important voice” for Boston’s African-American community, the Banner has remained a local institution since it was established in 1965.
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Sports






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Nick Pivetta has shown he has the right stuff to solidify the Red Sox rotation

The righthander had an encouraging final four months of the 2023 season, and he's approached spring training with an unusual intensity.
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Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy resting at home after heart surgery

He would like readers to know he will respond to e-mails when he returns to work, and he also thanked the Brigham and Women's Hospital for their care.
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ON BASKETBALL


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NBA commissioner Adam Silver wanted to restore luster to All-Star Game, but talk of that was just a long shot

The East’s 211-186 victory over the West was nothing more than a glorified exhibition game with no defense from the All-Stars.
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TALKING SHOP


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New vintage in Central Square; Homeware store comes downtown

A string of secondhand stores in Central Square and a Downtown Crossing home goods shop are among the newest small businesses in the region.
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Trendlines


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Healey feels the squeeze as state revenues fall and the economy cools

The state is curbing spending as it heads for a second straight decline in annual tax receipts.
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Obituaries






Obituaries


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Julia Lieblich, who opened herself to the pain of others while writing about torture and trauma, dies at 65

“She tried to save the world but could not save herself,” her brother wrote of Ms. Lieblich, who traveled the world shining a light on human rights abuses.
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Obituaries


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Charles Sallis, 89, dies; upended the teaching of Mississippi history

Dr. Sallis formed and helped lead a group that produced a ninth grade history textbook so vigorous, frank, and unsparing in its review of the state’s grim history that the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board barred its use in schools almost as soon as it appeared.
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Obituaries


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Randy Sparks, founder of the New Christy Minstrels, dies at 90

A creative impresario, Randy Sparks's musical ensemble, the New Christy Minstrels, helped jump-start the folk revival of the early 1960s and launched the careers of performers like John Denver, Steve Martin and Kenny Rogers.
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Arts & Lifestyle






Documentaries


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Outrage echoes among executive producers of ‘Navalny’ doc following Alexei Navalny prison death

"This is what [the Putin] regime does, and the world has to hold him accountable," says Boston-area producer Geralyn White Dreyfous.
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OPERA REVIEW


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Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘Anonymous Lover’ is a sweet treat

BLO’s cast had the comic acuity to carry the dialogue as well as the vocal chops to (mostly) handle the music.
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Theater


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Westford Academy selected as New England’s sole high school to perform ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Broadway adaptation

To apply for consideration, students had to describe why their school or community is the most “magical” place to put on the production.
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