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Sunday, February 13, 2022
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They qualified for unemployment benefits. Then the state asked for the money back.
Months after approving their jobless claims, Massachusetts began telling people that they may need to return the money. Here are the stories of people battling with the Department of Unemployment Assistance.
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Arts
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What does a concertmaster actually do? Our critic pulls back the curtain as the BSO searches for its next leader.
This essential role is part fiddler-in-chief, part virtuoso, part diplomat — and all-important to the life of an orchestra.
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THE GREAT DIVIDE
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Most of Boston’s schools lack fully functioning libraries. The superintendent vowed to change that — but will her successor?
In Boston, after years of decline in library access, a school library with regular hours, dedicated staff, and an up-to-date collection has become an extra bonus amenity, found at exam schools and campuses with robust parent fund-raising efforts — and hardly anywhere else.
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Social Justice
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A month after the tents were cleared in Mass. and Cass, signs of tumult, and hope
More than 154 people who were living in the encampments have transitioned to temporary housing, in what officials say it is the first step toward long-term recovery for the individuals, and for the neighborhood. But, daily signs of vagrancy persist.
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Climate
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How two strong-willed Cambridge moms are working to wean Mass. utilities off fossil fuels
Two activists, who joined forces over a common fear of how climate change would affect their children, have a plan to get the state off gas. Utilities are finally listening.
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The Nation
Nation
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Tennessee parents, teachers push back against ‘Maus’ removal
“My father was of Jewish descent; I'm of Jewish descent. There is nothing more personal to anybody than our heritage,” Cockrum said. “This is very disturbing.”
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Nation
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Teachers tackle Black History Month, under new restrictions
Republican-led legislatures in several states passed laws last year to ban or limit schools from teaching that racism is infused in US institutions.
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Rand Paul urges truckers to disrupt Super Bowl and come to D.C.
When Paul was asked about his thoughts on the convoy and the potential for it to spill over into Los Angeles, home of Sunday's Super Bowl, or into Washington D.C., he said "it'd be great" if the anti-mandate demonstrators came to the United States to "clog things up."
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The World
World
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US battles Putin by disclosing his next possible moves
After decades of getting schooled in information warfare by President Vladimir Putin of Russia, the United States is trying to beat the master at his own game.
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Afghans protest US order to give $3.5B to 9/11 victims
Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the United States for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans.
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Fleeing drought, hunger, thousands trek to Somalia’s capital
This week the United Nations World Food Program warned that 13 million people in the region, including parts of Ethiopia and Kenya, face severe hunger in the first quarter of 2022.
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Editorial & Opinion
EDITORIAL
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NFL’s Super Sunday super mess
League owners can’t punt this time on charges of racism.
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OPINION
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Cuba’s dictatorship, not the embargo, is what needs to go
If commerce and tourism had the power to undo Havana’s repression, they would have done so by now.
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OPINION
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Fried chicken, watermelon, and the origins of racist food stereotypes
How some foods have been weaponized against Black people.
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Metro
Massachusetts
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For sports fans in New England, watching the Super Bowl will be different this year
Legions of Patriots loyalists will take to sports bars and at-home watch parties as they have in years past, only with the stakes much lower this time around.
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Black History Month
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Joseph ‘Wally’ Walcott brought jazz icons to Boston and created a proving ground for the next generation
Walcott, founder of Wally's Jazz Club in the South End, was the first Black man in New England to own a nightclub and the first in Boston to receive a liquor license.
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Politics
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Boston’s city workforce became slightly more diverse over the past year
Last year, 4 percent of city workers identified as Asian compared to 5 percent this year. The percentage of Black employees also increased by 1 percentage point during a 12-month period, from 29 percent to 30 percent.
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Sports
On Football
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Bengals and Rams both bring firepower at wide receiver
Joe Burrow and Matthew Stafford may get most of the attention, but neither would be playing in his first Super Bowl without his horses on the outside.
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Bruins 2, Senators 0
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Jeremy Swayman’s shutout helps Bruins bounce back with win over Senators in Ottawa
Trent Frederic and Curtis Lazar scored first-period goals for Boston that held up.
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Christopher L. Gasper
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Matthew Stafford has set the stage for a Hollywood ending during Super Bowl LVI
Recast as the leading man of the Los Angeles Rams, Matthew Stafford, 34, is one win away from a script re-write worthy of this entertainment epicenter.
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Business
Business
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They qualified for unemployment benefits. Then the state asked for the money back.
Months after approving their jobless claims, Massachusetts began telling people that they may need to return the money. Here are the stories of people battling with the Department of Unemployment Assistance.
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Business
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Ideas
IDEAS
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What are they hiding on Beacon Hill?
The State House is closed to visitors — an apt symbol for the lack of transparency in Massachusetts’ government.
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IDEAS
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An inventor that isn’t human
Stephen Thaler says artificial intelligence deserves credit in patent filings. Most countries are rejecting the idea — for now.
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Obituaries
Obituaries
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Gloria Rojas, trailblazing Latina broadcaster, dies at 82
Billed as New York City’s first Latina broadcast journalist when she was hired by WCBS-TV in 1968, Gloria Rojas went on to work as a journalist for every major network affiliate in the city for 23 years.
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Patricia Moreno, spiritual fitness leader, dies at 57
Patricia Moreno, who injected a dose of spirituality into the world of fitness and created a popular exercise program called intenSati, which became a staple at some Equinox gyms and a presence on YouTube, died Jan. 22 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 57.
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John Wesley, an artist who couldn’t be pinned down, dies at 93
Through the years, critics would describe him variously as a “surrealist secret agent,” a sly eroticist, a latter-day manifestation of rococo, a renegade color field artist, and a “Greek vase painter by way of Aubrey Beardsley.”
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Arts & Lifestyle
Arts
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Inside the BSO’s concertmaster auditions
How some 40 candidates are winnowed down to one
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MATTHEW GILBERT
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You say you want miniseries that aren’t traumatizing? Here are some that stand out.
Most of these shows aren’t light romps, exactly, but they’re entertaining and aren’t here to address social ills.
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Music
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BMOP celebrates 25 years of searching for the new
On Feb. 18, Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project kick off anniversary festivities with a free concert in Symphony Hall.
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Travel
TRAVEL
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Historic Harris Hill Ski Jump celebrates 100 years with a winter carnival
The site of 18 national championships to date, Harris Hill is part of a yearly circuit of event sites for Olympic hopefuls. This year, all five of the US Olympic ski jumpers competing in Beijing have jumped at Harris Hill.
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TRAVEL
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Spirit and Frontier are merging, but what should the new airline be called? We have ideas.
Using customer reviews, we’ve come up with a list of suggested names. No need to thank us, Spirit and Frontier. These are yours to use, free of charge. (Foreign concept to you, we know.)
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