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Friday, May 24, 2024


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🕶️ Memorial Day weekend weather: Overall, the long weekend is looking pretty good. But Monday might dampen some plans.
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Higher Education


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Hundreds of Harvard students walk out of commencement ceremony in protest of Israel-Hamas war

“Let them walk,” some of the protesters chanted as they walked out, a reference to the university’s decision to prevent 13 student protesters from receiving their degrees with their peers.
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‘We’re kicking the can down the road’: Critics say BPS is slow-walking decisions on school closures

BPS spends tens of millions each year just to keep the lights on at its underenrolled schools, rather than, say, investing in the kinds of programs that would enrich the student experience — a practice that even district leaders admit is unsustainable.
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‘Going to be missed’: Viewers, contributors of GBH’s ‘Basic Black’ mourn show being taken off air

GBH suspended the TV program on Wednesday as part of cost-cutting measures. Longtime viewers and contributors worry that its audience won’t be able to find the type of programming anywhere else.
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Transportation


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Soon, T riders will be able to hop on the subway or bus with a tap of their phones or credit card

The announcement marks the long-awaited rollout of the T’s new fare system that is years behind schedule and hundreds of millions over budget.
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Business


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US sues Ticketmaster owner to try to break up monopoly

The Justice Department on Thursday sued Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, asking a court to break up the company over claims it illegally maintained a monopoly in the live entertainment industry.
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Boston Globe Today | May 23, 2024

WATCH: Thursday's show. Stories include: AAPI and Asian-owned businesses to support in Greater Boston.
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OPINION: Why are we captivated by the Karen Read trial?

WATCH: Columnist Joan Vennochi analyzes how something bland and ordinary has morphed into the dark and dangerous.
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Is Boston going to be underwater in our lifetimes?

WATCH: And, why has it rained so much this year? Lead meteorologist Ken Mahan answers reader questions.
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Politics


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Supreme Court sides with Republicans over South Carolina voting map

The vote was 6-3, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent.
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Nation


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This hurricane season could be among the worst in decades, NOAA warns

Government meteorologists predicted 17 to 25 tropical storms and said eight to 13 of them are likely to become hurricanes, including four to seven “major” hurricanes. The forecast underscores how record-hot ocean temperatures have increased the risk of destructive weather.
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Nation


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Louisiana lawmakers vote to make abortion pills controlled substances

Louisiana lawmakers passed legislation Thursday to make the state the first in the nation to designate abortion pills as dangerous controlled substances. Possession of the drugs without a prescription would be a crime punishable with jail time and thousands of dollars in fines.
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World


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Israel pushes deeper into Rafah, defying growing pressure

As the fighting raged, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, said it would respond on Friday to a South African petition to order an immediate halt to the ground assault in Rafah.
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World


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Taiwan scrambles jets and puts missile, naval, and land units on alert over China’s military drills

China’s military said its two-day exercises around Taiwan were punishment for separatist forces seeking independence.
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Work on new Rome subway line under the Colosseum and Forum enters crucial phase

During a tour Thursday of the construction site at Piazza Venezia, chief engineer Andrea Sciotti said work on the nearly 3 billion euro ($3.3 billion) project, considered one of the most complicated of its kind in the world, was likely to be completed by 2034.
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EDITORIAL


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Why a contested mayor’s race in 2025 would be a good thing

Nothing against the mayor, but the city is better off when voters have real choices at the ballot box.
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OPINION


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The Supreme Court is a potential threat to our democracy

How can we trust that the court’s gerrymandering decision wasn’t biased by Justice Samuel Alito’s favor of conservative causes? We can’t.
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Here’s how blue state voters can help the Democrats’ swing-state efforts

The 2024 election results are all but preordained for Democrats voting in blue states, but they can still help President Biden win in swing states.
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Politics


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Healey recommends three more pardons, including two against the advice of her advisory board

Should a state panel approved each of Governor Maura Healey's three recommendations, she will have issued more pardons in roughly 17 months than either Charlie Baker or Deval Patrick did across each of their eight years as governor.
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Crime & Courts


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Police returned a fleeing patient to Tewksbury Hospital this week... for the fourth time

The escape is the latest incident at a state psychiatric hospital that has increasingly faced criticism over safety and security.
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Higher Education


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At UMass Boston, graduates praised for their ‘indomitable spirit’

While other area schools, which have been roiled by protests of the Israel-Hamas war, experienced disruptions during their commencement ceremonies, UMass Boston’s ceremony proceeded without interruption.
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Celtics notebook


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Jaylen Brown, Celtics teammates talk All-NBA snub: ‘I don’t got the time to give a [expletive]’

Jayson Tatum was the only Celtic to make an All-NBA team, being named to the first team for the third season in a row.
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Did being left off the All-NBA team fuel Jaylen Brown’s 40-point outburst in Game 2 against the Pacers?

On Thursday night at TD Garden, on the biggest showcase, Brown gave a master class to the national audience as to why he’s one of the NBA’s 15 best players.
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The Pacers had no answer for Jaylen Brown and his 40 points, and other observations from the Celtics’ 126-110 win

Game 3 is Saturday night in Indianapolis.
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US sues Ticketmaster owner to try to break up monopoly

The Justice Department on Thursday sued Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, asking a court to break up the company over claims it illegally maintained a monopoly in the live entertainment industry.
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Fatal opioid overdoses tied to workplace injuries, state study finds

Working-age Massachusetts residents who died were more likely to have died of opioid-related overdoses if they had previously been hurt on the job.
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Trendlines


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Let’s just shut up about the ‘millionaires tax’ for a while

It will take a couple of years, at least, to know whether the state’s new 4 percent tax on high earners has been a blessing or a bane. Until then, everyone is spinning opinions, not facts.
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Obituaries


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Sam Butcher, artist who created Precious Moments figurines of teardrop-eyed children, dies at 85

Some of the Christian-themed figurines feature Bible verses or children praying. Fans have collections numbering in the hundreds, while critics deride them as kitsch.
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Wayland Holyfield, hit-making songwriter for Nashville’s stars, dies at 82

Wayland Holyfield, a hit-making songwriter who arrived in Nashville after quitting an advertising job and soon had country music’s stars recording his odes to cheating hearts, second chances and good buddies - among them the barroom anthem “Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer” - died May 6 at his home in Nashville. He was 82.
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David Redden, who brought ingenuity to the auction block, dies at 75

Mr. Redden, who specialized in rare manuscripts, collectibles, memorabilia, and celebrity bric-a-brac — and also in generating excitement around such objects, turning auctions into high entertainment — died May 11 at his home in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y. He was 75.
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Arts & Lifestyle






MOVIE REVIEW | ★★★★


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‘Hit Man’: Richard Linklater’s comic neo-noir is right on target

This sexy and superb neo-noir takes some wild swings before fadeout. A major part of what makes it work so well is Glen Powell’s performance. The actor has cowritten a star-making part for himself, a role filled with twisty surprises and major personality shifts.
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STAGE REVIEW


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In the Huntington’s ‘Toni Stone,’ a player in a league of her own

As Stone, the first woman to play professionally in the Negro Leagues, Jennifer Mogbock is a force of nature.
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Music


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Boston Calling is bringing some country to the city

If you have a hankering for down-home music, there’ll be plenty of that in the Saturday lineup, headlined by Tyler Childers.
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