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In beating back COVID-19, New York emerges as a leader

While both New York and Massachusetts have charted remarkable roads to recovery, it is New York — the state with the highest total death count in the country — that has emerged as a national leader this summer.
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Colleges are asking students to sign waivers and consent agreements if they want to return to campus

The forms have some students and legal experts worried that the colleges are shifting potential blame to students and trying to protect themselves from lawsuits, even as they invited thousands to return.
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After centuries of picking one candidate per office, should voters rank their preferences instead?

A question on November’s ballot proposes voters rank their preferred choices in both primary and general elections. Implementing the new system would mean in a race with several candidates, the person who receives the most first-place votes could, in fact, lose.
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Mass. attorney general discusses possible lawsuit with other states to prevent cutbacks in US postal operations

Massachusetts’s top prosecutor is discussing a lawsuit with other state attorneys general to prevent the Trump administration from potentially further curtailing US Postal Service operations amid an expected rush of voting by mail in this fall’s general election.
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‘Libraries are about being together.’ So what do they do now?

In recent years, libraries had become far more than their traditional stacks and shelves, offering services ranging from kids’ yoga classes to job hunting. Now, like so many other institutions, libraries are trying to sort out their safe and productive place in this pandemic world.
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Taller cubicles, one-way aisles: Office workers must adjust

Around the country, office workers sent home when in March are returning to the world of cubicles and conference rooms and facing certain post-COVID adjustments: masks, staggered shifts, spaced-apart desks, and sanitizer everywhere.
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An unconventional convention: Democratic event will attempt to recreate in-person feel

With the balloon drop scrapped and the cheering crowds banished, Democratic convention planners faced the grim prospect this summer of throwing Joe Biden a party in a pandemic without any apparent celebration.
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Fearing a ‘twindemic,’ health specialists push urgently for flu shots

There’s no vaccine for COVID-19, but there’s one for influenza. With the season’s first doses now shipping, officials are struggling over how to get people to take it.
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Belarus protests eclipse rally in defense of defiant leader

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Minsk Sunday to oppose President Alexander G. Lukashenko’s declared election victory.
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South Korea warns of another COVID-19 outbreak tied to a church

President Moon Jae-in has vowed to crack down on the Sarang Jeil Church for flouting preventive measures. The church happens to be his most vocal critic.
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How to get ahead of the next housing downturn

The public needs to take a lesson from the private sector and capitalize on the downturn in real estate in order to guarantee affordable housing.
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Calling on white Americans: Reparations for slavery are due

The legacy of slavery is far from resolved. It persists every day and everywhere.
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For students returning to Greater Boston, it’s a radically altered ritual

Images of thousands of parents and students carrying boxes — along with moving trucks mashed beneath low overpasses — have long been a feature of August in Greater Boston, but the process looks very different this year as schools implement strategies to cope with COVID-19 concerns.
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Boston aims to provide child care and remote learning space for thousands of students

Boston Public Schools and its after-school providers stepped up planning to create emergency learning centers where students will be able to gather in person during the fall to study. It’s an effort that several city leaders say is long overdue.
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In beating back COVID-19, New York emerges as a leader

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Same song, different verse: Red Sox lose ninth in row to Yankees, 4-2

Chris Mazza unable to reverse Red Sox woeful fortunes in his first career MLB start.
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Chaim Bloom: ‘There’s a lot of work to do’ in rebuilding Red Sox

The chief baseball officer understands frustrations over the team's poor start to the pandemic-delayed 2020 season.
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Rookie Jack Studnicka makes positive impression on Bruins

The 21-year-old forward earned praise from coach Bruce Cassidy for his play in Game 3, will be back out there for Game 4.
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Selling books in a pandemic, and a brush with humanity

We know by now how unfulfilling it is for professional athletes to play in empty arenas, and how comical it is when fan noise is streamed in. Ditto for musicians performing online, without fans swaying to the sound. I’m here to say it’s the same for authors.
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This East Boston factory supplied Navy peacoats. Now it’s making PPE

The Sterlingwear of Boston garment factory, facing closure, has been tapped by the City of Boston to produce medical gowns for frontline workers.
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‘Libraries are about being together.’ So what do they do now?

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Former Illinois governor Thompson, who fought corruption, dies

Mr. Thompson, whose prosecutions of public officials — including a predecessor — helped catapult him to become the state’s longest-serving chief executive, was 84.
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Julian Bream, maestro of guitar and lute, 87

Mr. Bream pushed the guitar beyond its Spanish roots and expanded its range by commissioning dozens of works from major composers.
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Konrad Steffen; sounded alarm on Greenland ice, 68

Mr. Steffen was an Arctic scientist whose work showed that climate change is melting Greenland’s vast ice sheet with increasing speed.
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