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Thursday, May 23, 2024


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K-12


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BPS scales back plans for sweeping school closures

The district spends millions each year to keep half-empty schools afloat, prompting calls from some community members for more efficiencies.
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Higher Education


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Harvard’s governing board overrules faculty, bars 13 students who participated in pro-Palestinian encampment from receiving degrees

Impacted students will be able to participate in commencement ceremonies Thursday but will not receive diplomas.
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‘Microfeminism’ may be the most widespread movement you’ve never heard of. But what is it?

When a woman refuses to yield to an oncoming man on the sidewalk, makes the default pronoun for a doctor “she,” or asks a girl about her dreams, not her dolls, that’s microfeminism.
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Is Josh Kraft mulling a run for mayor? Many Boston political insiders seem to think so.

Rumors are swirling that the younger son of billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is contemplating challenging Mayor Michelle Wu in 2025.
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World


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Spain, Norway, and Ireland recognize Palestinian state, further isolating Israel

In closely coordinated announcements, the leaders of the three countries said that Palestinian independence cannot wait for a negotiated peace deal with Israel’s right-wing government.
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Boston Globe Today | May 22, 2024

WATCH: Wednesday's episode. Stories include: Revolutionary program harnesses tech to make electric vehicles affordable.
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Remote work is a hole-in-one for local golf clubs

WATCH: Ironing out business on the links isn't new, but how about wedging in calls with a sand wedge in hand? It's a thing. Reporter Mark Shanahan explains why.
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Boston run of ‘A Strange Loop’ closes May 25

WATCH: Director Maurice Emmanuel Parent and actor Kai Clifton discuss how the show exposes the heart and soul of an artist wrestling with his thoughts.
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Politics


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Another provocative flag was flown at another Alito home

Last summer, two years after an upside-down American flag was flown outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel Alito, another provocative symbol was displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to interviews and photographs.
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Uvalde settles with victims’ families over school shooting

The settlement, announced at a news conference in Uvalde, involved the largest group of potential plaintiffs: 17 families of children who were killed during the May 24 massacre, and two families of children who were wounded.
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Nation


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Biden administration cancels an additional $7.7 billion in student loans

With the election months away, President Biden is lauding his administration’s achievements in delivering loan cancellation to nearly 4.8 million people through a mix of existing programs and new policies.
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Sunak announces UK elections for July 4, months earlier than expected

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain on Wednesday called a snap general election for July 4, throwing the fate of his embattled Conservative Party to a restless British public that appears eager for change after 14 years of Conservative government.
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Iran’s supreme leader leads funeral prayers for president

Crowds packed the streets of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, performed funeral prayers Wednesday for the country’s president, with senior officials from the Iranian-backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah joining the commemorations.
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It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees

While Mexico’s brutal heat wave has been linked to the deaths of at least 26 people since March, veterinarians and rescuers say it has killed perhaps hundreds of howler monkeys.
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EDITORIAL


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Taiwan’s thriving democracy struts its stuff as Beijing fumes

A new president reaches out across the strait but knows the road ahead is rocky.
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OPINION


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To be on the right side of history

History is more like a succession of random events to which we later assign certain meanings. Its complicated perspectives are hard to see, in real time or even in hindsight.
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Why do we treat airplanes like Greyhound buses?

Why do we have so little respect for our fellow travelers that we delay their flights with our ginormous bags and then confront them for six hours with our most slovenly selves?
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North Shore


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After contentious debate, Ipswich voters support removal of controversial dam

The town select board took the temperature of voters with a non-binding ballot question. And that temperature is hot.
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Crime & Courts


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Magellan Diagnostics of Billerica to pay $42 million to resolve criminal charges in lead-test case

Magellan Diagnostics has admitted that it misled its customers and the Food and Drug Administration about a serious malfunction in its “LeadCare” devices.
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Sisters who vacationed with Read and O’Keefe weeks before his death testify about rocky trip

Marietta Sullivan and Laura Sullivan testified that Karen Read fought with John O’Keefe during a trip to Aruba because Read falsely accused him of kissing Marietta Sullivan.
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Christopher L. Gasper


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The steady hand of the NBA’s best teammate, Jrue Holiday, was exactly what the Celtics needed in Game 1

“He’s the reason why we won this game,” Jaylen Brown said after Holiday’s heroics.
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Don Sweeney says he’d prefer to keep both Bruins goaltenders ‘in a perfect world’

Though it might make sense to trade Linus Ullmark, the GM said he'd like to keep the tandem of him and Jeremy Swayman "because I think it’s damn good."
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Bruins brass doesn’t foresee major changes after another early playoff exit

Losing in the playoffs looks and feels way too comfortable and familiar around the Black and Gold these days.
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Housing


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Despite high-profile losses, most towns passed their MBTA Communities plans this spring

At least 67 communities have approved zoning they think will meet the law’s requirements, and roughly 50 of those votes have come in the last couple of months. Still, the opposition movement is gaining some momentum.
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Business


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Biogen buys California biotech for $1.15 billion

The deal comes as the Cambridge drugmaker seeks to bolster its pipeline of experimental medicines.
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Media


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GBH lays off 31 employees, suspends production of 3 TV shows

The job losses affected 13 departments and represented 4 percent of the workforce.
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Obituaries


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David Shapiro, who gained fame in poetry and protest, dies at 77

David Shapiro, a cerebral yet deeply personal poet aligned with the so-called New York School, whose highly lyrical work balanced copious literary allusions with dreamlike imagery and intimate reflections drawn from family life, died May 4 in the Bronx. He was 77.
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Samm-Art Williams, playwright, producer and actor, dies at 78

Samm-Art Williams, who made his mark in several fields — as an executive producer of the sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” as an actor on both stage and screen and as a Tony-nominated playwright for “Home,” died Monday in Burgaw, North Carolina. He was 78.
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C. Gordon Bell, creator of a personal computer prototype, dies at 89

C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer designs for Digital Equipment Corp. fueled the emergence of the minicomputer industry in the 1960s, died Friday at his home in Coronado, California. He was 89.
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Timothy Hyunsoo Lee maps out Greater Boston with ‘Our Family Portrait’

"I really wanted to highlight how we are all in different parts of Boston, yet we remain connected to the shared experience," Lee said.
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Lifestyle


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So many ways to savor Memorial Day Weekend in and around Boston

Here are some epic ways to welcome the warmth of summer.
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Museums


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The West End Museum reopens after two-year closure because of flooding

The museum, which celebrates and honors the history of the West End, returns with a newly renovated space and a new exhibition.
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