School board offers little dissent, union reports
Boston School Committee members appointed over the past 17 years have unanimously voted for the administration’s proposals in almost every vote, according to data.
Outside groups fuel Brown-Warren ad war
If you believe the barrage of ads, the 2012 Senate race will pit the oil company pawn against the campus radical.
Servers at Harvard Club file suit over tips
The exclusive Harvard Club of Boston is being sued by its wait staff, who say they have been cheated out of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in tips.
dining
Trade brings international flavors to the Greenway
Jody Adams has operated Cambridge restaurant Rialto since 1994. Now she has a new project, Trade, which opened last month on the Greenway.
Bill Greene/Globe Staff
Iraq, Afghanistan veterans face bleak job prospects
Veterans are returning to a difficult job market that is only expected to get tougher following the pullout of US troops from Iraq this year and from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Suffolk search for president is narrowed to 2 candidates
Suffolk University has narrowed its presidential search from over 100 candidates to two — James McCarthy and Robert Newman — neither of whom is the head of a university.
Dan Shaughnessy
Stop the season, start the healing
The Penn State Board of Trustees would do well to take the next step and announce the cancellation of the remainder of Penn State’s football season.
Poets add rhyme, reason, humor to camp
For the past few weeks, local poets have been showing up at the Occupy Boston site in Dewey Square to lend their voices — and verses — to the protest movement.
“You’re making decisions that are life-and-death. When you come back, you want something more. You want a career.”
Beth Costa, head of veteran employment and training programs in Massachusetts
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Metro
Wellesley school superintendent resigns
Bella Wong, whose administration began to unravel over uncollected lunch fees and a harsh audit of the business office, announced her resignation yesterday.
Business
Objections rise over tower plan
Neighbors worry a 47-story residential building in the Back Bay would worsen traffic problems, darken Copley Square with shadows, and skimp on public art and affordable housing.
Politics
Cain not shying from controversy
Herman Cain was greeted in Michigan yesterday by an enthusiastic crowd as he continued to brush off allegations of sexual harassment by four women.
Nation & World
Grand jury tape reveals snide, insolent Nixon on Watergate
Richard Nixon defended his shredded presidential legacy and shady Watergate-era actions in grand jury testimony released yesterday for the first time.
Sports
Bruins 6, Oilers 3
Bruins extend winning streak to four
After their fourth straight win last night, a 6-3 victory over Edmonton before 17,565 at TD Garden, the 7-7-0 Bruins are back to .500.
Arts
music
Oasis’s Noel Gallagher flying high
The elder Gallagher is now adjusting to the center stage spotlight without his combative sibling.
Movies
Movie Review
‘J. Edgar’ is a tough case to crack
Clint Eastwood’s biopic on the late FBI director is a character study that gets bogged down by the story’s scope.
Special reports
Globe Spotlight Report
Under the influence
Full coverage of the Globe’s investigation into OUI acquittal rates.
Opinion
“In its manic drive to slash budgets, Congress risks cutting the muscle from our extraordinary armed forces.”
Nicholas Burns
Ideas
“Scholars who take on punk find themselves working amid bedeviling contradictions, as they try to methodically define a culture that refuses definition, rejects method, and denies the very idea of expertise.”
Leon Neyfakh