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BC’s win puts Jerry York atop NCAA career list

Boston College hockey coach York won his 925th game, taking sole possession of first place in the NCAA.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/12/29/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/Obama.jpg Senate leaders look for fiscal cliff solution

Just days away from the Dec. 31 deadline, Senate leadership searched for a last minute bargain that could win bipartisan support.

Fiscal cliff could cost Mass. 50,000 jobs

The state is one of the most vulnerable to the deep budget cuts because it receives a disproportionate share of federal defense, research, and development money.

Flu outbreak hitting Mass. early and hard

The level of illness has already surpassed the peaks of the last two flu seasons.

Winter storm wallops region; First Night unaffected

A winter storm warning is in effect for most of the state, as well as a Boston parking ban, as a major storm arrived this afternoon.

Precipitation in Boston was a mix of rain and snow in the early evening, but other parts of the state already had several inches of snow.

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Precipitation in Boston was a mix of rain and snow in the early evening, but other parts of the state already had several inches of snow.

A major winter storm that could dump up to a foot of snow started pummeling Mass. this afternoon.

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A major winter storm that could dump up to a foot of snow started pummeling Mass. this afternoon.

Snow fell on shoppers leaving the Home Depot in Avon.

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Snow fell on shoppers leaving the Home Depot in Avon.

The storm dumped five inches of snow or more on parts of Pa. That didn't deter this US Postal Service employee.

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The storm dumped five inches of snow or more on parts of Pa. That didn't deter this US Postal Service employee.

Children went sledding in Minersville, Pa. on Friday.

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Children went sledding in Minersville, Pa. on Friday.

Much of the Midwest was hit with snow before the storm headed for the Northeast.

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Much of the Midwest was hit with snow before the storm headed for the Northeast.

A girl tried to catch snowflakes as she made her way through Times Square.

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A girl tried to catch snowflakes as she made her way through Times Square.

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President Obama with Jon Stewart during an October appearance on “The Daily Show.”

2012 in TV: A year of micro-analysis

We’re in the middle of an age of micro-analysis, especially when it comes to TV.

Ty Burr’s top 10 movies of 2012

Movies of 2012 mirrored the world’s chaos, and our attempts to grapple with it.

Wesley Morris’s top 10 movies of 2012

Was it a good year for movies? Was it a dismal one? Are we tired of asking and answering this question?

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The Celtics legend defended personal dignity in the face of institutionalized racism in society as aggressively as he defended the basket on the court.

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The year in books
Damian Lewis in “Homeland.”

Arts

A quiz for the pop culture mavens among us
Rose Island Lighthouse in Newport Harbor offers overnight stays — and even stints as a lighthouse keeper for up to a week.

Travel

18 things to do in New England in 2013
Oscar Epstein rides the Green Line to work at the state’s Highway Division.

Oscar Epstein, Mass.’s oldest employee, keeps on working

In season of resolutions, parents line up to fess up
The Tennant family has participated in study using DNA sequencing in a bid to understand preterm birth.

A tangled debate centers on newborns’ DNA

Interactive quiz

Biz Quiz 2012
Scenes from the Disney classic “Pinocchio” and a century of other movies swirled across the ice at TD Garden.

Stage Review

In ‘Disney on Ice,’ a grand world, after all
A curvy road sign was speckled with fallen snow on Chickataubut Road in the Blue Hills Reservation on Christmas Day.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Dec. 28, 2012
Chalk on the sidewalk on Bowdoin St. at the corner of Bowdoin Park

Opinion | The Podium

In Bowdoin-Geneva, community groups build hope

Sunday Preview | Ideas

2012: What ended
DAN PATRICK

Networks ratchet up challenges to ESPN

Sports

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Rajon Rondo (center) and his teammates had to face the ugliness of Thursday’s rout in LA.

Celtics still looking for winning combination

Are they a contender in the Eastern Conference or a team that will fight for a bottom playoff seeding? Right now, the Celtics are the latter.

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Ian and Graham McKay dismantled the damaged beachside deck on the family home.

On Plum Island, another punishing storm

Crews were dismantling decks from four beachfront homes heavily damaged in this week’s storm and preparing to erect a large sandbag barrier.

Columnists

Mayor Menino greets children at the Catholic Charities Teen Center Monday.

Lawrence Harmon

Second career for Menino: Working with kids

Derrick Z. Jackson

Wistful hopes for US offshore wind energy

Opinion | Joan Wickersham

Schoolyard roulette

Joshua Green

Holiday kudos for Congress

Boston Capital

Manager took mutual fund from beaten up to best
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino greeted children on Christmas Even at the Catholic Charities Teen Center in Dorchester.

Joan Vennochi

Respect for Menino and the status quo

Edward L. Glaeser

College debts but no degree? Reform the Pell grant program
Speculating about Marco Rubio already?

JEFF JACOBY

The endless presidential campaigns
Robbie Parker carried his daughter, Madeline, 4, following funeral services for his 6-year old daughter Emilie Parker, a victim in the Newtown shootings.

FARAH STOCKMAN

The crucial act of forgiveness
Nintendo Wii U gaming console

Tech Lab

Minor flaws keep Wii U from being stellar
Robert Moldenhauer, 14, getting his dialysis treatment at Children’s Hospital in the run up to Christmas.

Kevin Cullen

Family looking for a place to stay

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The year in numbers

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Vladimir Putin signs ban on US adoptions

The Russian president signed a law banning Americans from adopting Russian children in response to a US law targeting Russians deemed to be human rights violators.

Politics

Rep. Ed Markey, who plans to run for John Kerry’s Senate seat if it becomes available, helped Elizabeth Warren campaign.

Leaders in party support Markey

Top state Democrats threw their weight behind Representative Edward Markey in what appeared to be an effort to avoid a divisive primary.

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Andrew Schwartz, cofounder of Lattice Engines in Boston, says we are in the early stages of data science.

Gleaning the secrets from Big Data

Andrew Schwartz, cofounder of Lattice Engines in Boston, says we are in the early stages of data science.

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In season of resolutions, parents line up to fess up

Did I care more than my son did if he made the middle school basketball team?

Books

Best nonfiction books of 2012

Everyone has been talking about what a great year it was for fiction, but nonfiction had its stars as well.

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The cover for the December 23 2012 issue

Bostonians of the Year: Raisman and Harrison

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?
The cover for the December 2 2012 issue

5 inspired rooms

Opinion

“The GOP says voters want smaller government and lower taxes. But if conservatives genuinely believe they are in sync with public sentiment, they should be forthright about spelling out the specific program cuts their vision will require.”

By Len Burman and Joel Slemrod 

Ideas

For all the good they think they’re doing, James Greiner argues, legal services providers are working off untested assumptions and operating largely in the dark

Leon Neyfakh on the case for testing legal aid 

“If you’re screening a child at a young age, you might be identifying conditions that don’t manifest until they’re much older. What do you do with that information? That’s why we want to set up pilot studies.”

Tiina Urv,  program director at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development