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Obama presses for quick action on gun control

President Obama is asking a team led by Vice President Biden to offer ‘‘concrete proposals’’ no later than January.

Firefighters saluted as a hearse passed for the funeral procession to the burial of 7-year-old Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Daniel Gerard Barden on Wednesday.

Connecticut school shootings

Funerals held in Newtown for third day

A 7-year-old boy who dreamed of being a firefighter and a heroic first-grade teacher were among the victims laid to rest on Wednesday.

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The White House has threatened to veto House Speaker John Boehner’s backup plan for averting the fiscal cliff.

opinion | joshua green

Expansion of Medicaid may prevent future tragedies

Though mainly thought of as a safety-net program for the poor, Medicaid provides about half of state mental-health budgets.

68 Blocks: Life, death, hope | Part 4

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Mayhem has a kind of momentum; it can be exhausting to resist. In Bowdoin-Geneva, an anticrime effort flops. And Big Nate explodes. But the peace festival rocks, and a son in jail has started to pray.

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Surveying Bowdoin-Geneva youth

The Globe surveyed a sample of youths aged 11-19 about their attitudes toward school, community, and violence.

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Tata, the neighborhood volunteer
Red Sox GM Ben Cherington has added several new players, such as outfielder Shane Victorino.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox look like last-place team again
President Barack Obama looked to the media as he walks to the Oval Office of the White House as he returns from greeting members of the staff, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, in Washington.

Obama’s fiscal offer gives his party pause
Amy Delaney and daughter Kate, 11, baked cookies for a holiday party. The family has tired of the shopping whirl.

18 percent of Americans take pass on holiday shopping
Kohl’s recently added digital shelf signs and price tags.

Bouncing holiday prices have buyers reeling
Louis Risoli (left), maitre d’ and fromager at L’Espalier, checked the anolini cooking on the stove, while Dorina O’Connell and her uncle Al Botti looked on. “If you don’t have good broth, you won’t have good anolini,” says Risoli.

A family tradition: 600 anolini for Christmas

How to donate to Globe Santa
Molcajete for two includes sizzling meat, seafood, cheese, and cactus.

Cheap Eats

Festive fare at a Mexican-Salvadoran spot in Chelsea
A Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle.

Opinion | The Podium

How to protect our children from guns
Jack Pinto, 6, was mourned at a funeral in Newtown, Conn.

Connecticut school shootings

As investigators hunt for answers, rites begin in Newtown
Despite a hectic schedule since he arrived, athletic director Brad Bates has found the time to focus on all of BC’s teams.

Brad Bates jumping right in at BC

“Girls”

Best TV episodes of 2012

Sports

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Ryan Dempster was all smiles as he was introduced at Fenway Park.

Ryan Dempster ready to win with Red Sox

The team introduced its newest starting pitcher after he officially signed on Wednesday. Dempster said he believes the Red Sox can win right away.

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Dorchester man accused of running prostitution ring

Michael Leoney could go to prison for up to 20 years under the state’s new human trafficking laws.

Columnists

Red Sox GM Ben Cherington has added several new players, such as outfielder Shane Victorino.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox look like last-place team again

scot lehigh

In replacing Kerry: Take special care to be fair

jeff jacoby

Good laws will never abolish evil

Brian McGrory

After Newtown, now is time for change

Instructor Mike Magowan worked with students during a concealed weapons permit class in Florida on Saturday.

Joanna weiss

Finding common ground on guns

Boston Capital

A worrisome year turns out profitable

farah stockman

‘Benghazi Show’ jumps the shark
Tom Brady and the Patriots walked off the field as losers on Sunday.

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots are still AFC’s team to beat

Adrian Walker

A judge’s plea for justice
A teacher at a UNICEF-run school for Syrian refugees rang a bell in October at Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan

juliette kayyem

The nimble king
Andy Palmer’s Koa Labs has space for about 20 entrepreneur.

Innovation Economy

Investment shop senses it’s time for a big play
Tom Brady looks to see if the line judge is signaling touchdown after his run gave the Patriots first and goal inside the 1 in the fourth quarter.

Christopher L. Gasper

Despite loss, Tom Brady was at his best

Nation & World

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Robert H. Bork testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings in 1987.

Robert Bork, conservative jurist, dies at 85

The Senate rejected Bork’s 1987 Supreme Court nomination by a record margin after one of the most bitter confirmation battles in US history.

Politics

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Patrick Leahy, sworn in Tuesday by Vice President Joe Biden, is serving his seventh term in the Senate.

Patrick Leahy now the president pro tempore

As the longest serving Democrat now in the Senate, Leahy moved to third place in the line of presidential succession.

Business

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Shannon Liss-Riordan sued Upper Crust in 2010 on behalf of immigrant workers who claim the company took advantage of employees.

Upper Crust pizza chain leases sold at bankruptcy auction

A private equity firm and lawyer appear to have won leases for several of the chain’s closed stores.

Arts

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Israeli company L-E-V will make its US debut with “HOUSE” at the 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.

Jacob’s Pillow announces 2013 season

The festival revealed Wednesday that 2013 will include ballet, hip-hop, and some works that might not be called dance.  

Food & dining

Bittersweet chocolate brownies.

From our cookie jar to yours

We’ve written a new e-book featuring 20 cookie recipes. Here are five of our favorites, which we offer with good cheer.

Magazine

The cover for the December 16 2012 issue

Best of the New: Diversions
The cover for the December 9 2012 issue

The drug lab scandal: Who’s cleaning it up?
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5 inspired rooms
The cover for the November 25 2012 issue

Cambridge’s Bluefin Labs decodes social media chatter

Opinion

“Some evils we can never hope to eliminate, not even with the best will in the world.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“The big emerging democracies have not only failed to step up as global advocates of democratization but have, in many cases, moved in the other direction, propping up some of the world’s most authoritarian governments.”

Joshua Kurlantzick on new democracies 

“These are people who, honestly, seem just sick and tired of the madness — the trampling on Black Friday as people fight their way into department stores.”

Marshal Cohen,  senior retail analyst for the NPD Group