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Elizabeth Warren faces caucus test

The likely challenger to Senator Scott Brown faces her first serious challenge: rallying enough state convention delegates to clear the primary field.

Opinion | Tom Keane

Mass. moderate?

By almost every important factual measure — economic, educational, and socioeconomic — Massachusetts is vastly better off than the nation’s most right-wing states.

UMass leaders among state’s top earners

The University of Massachusetts once again has the distinction of employing all but one of the state’s 50 highest-paid public workers, 2011 state records show.

Patrick’s budget would cut senior meals

The proposed $1.5 million cut would be a major blow to the Elderly Nutrition Program, lauded for providing nutritional and psychological benefits to seniors.

Top 10 love letters of the year

Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein fields questions from hundreds of lovelorn Boston Globe readers throughout the year. Here are her top ten most popular letters for 2011.

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Back Story: Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein

In this edition of The Back Story, we talk to Boston Globe Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein.

Rain, snow marks Truck Day at Fenway Park

It’s that annual sign that spring is right around the corner in Boston. Truck Day, the day when the Red Sox moving van loads up for a trip to Fort Myers, Fla., is today.

Christopher L. Gasper

With Tom Brady, there's no time to waste

We’ve reached the point where maximizing Tom Brady’s remaining prime years trumps any business model, value system, or organizational ethos.

Globe Insiders

Globe Talks | Feb. 15, 6 p.m.

Talk movies with Ty and Wesley

Join the Boston Globe’s movie critics, Ty Burr and Wesley Morris, for a conversation about this year’s Academy Awards.

Inside The Boston Globe

An architectural rendering of Boston City Hall, which was the subject of an unusual design competition in the early 1960s.

Sunday preview | Ideas

How Boston City hall was born

Loving to hate Valentine’s Day

Sunday Preview | Globe Magazine

In defense of getting married

During a year of record snow fall, the roofs of buildings had to be cleared of snow. Snow removal crews got rid of the snow from roof of the Shaw’s supermarket in Dorchester one bucket at a time.

Photos

Boston Press Photographers Pictures of the Year 2011

Small cities, big dreams

Raptors 86, Celtics 74

Celtics fall to young Raptors team

Moe’s has 444 locations in 32 states, as well as locations in Russia and Turkey. The majority of its restaurants are in Southern states, such as Georgia, where the privately held chain was founded in 2000.

A hearty welcome for Moe’s Southwest Grill

Arlington, MA., 01/30/12, Seventy-three-year-old Anne DeFeo is blind. Her guide dog, Viv, is a 5-year-old yellow labrador. Anne and Viv will be attending the Feb. 14 ceremony at the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library in Watertown celebrating the release of the US Postal Service's

Photo gallery

Photos of the week

A Libyan fighter leaves Mass. for home

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Star-crossing our favorite characters

02-04-12: Indianapolis, IN: Red Sox 3B Kevin Youkilis (bottom left) with one of Tom Brady's sisters (bottom right) as Brady and his parents pose for a photograph on the field at Lucas Oil Stadium the day before the Super Bowl. section: Living topic:unknown(Globe Staff Photo/Jim Davis)

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Tom Brady’s sister engaged to Kevin Youkilis

Dave Maynard in an undated handout photo from WBZ.

Boston broadcaster Dave Maynard dies at 82

Columnists

LAWRENCE HARMON

A visit to the ‘friends and favors’ office

Adrian Walker

Rethinking the Esplanade

SCOT LEHIGH

Money, machine, but no message

Bob Ryan

Lakers’ win nothing to get nostalgic about

Josh Bekcett and the Red Sox will begin spring training next week.

Tony Massarotti

Josh Beckett must take responsibility

Edward L. Glaeser

Gaffe gives Romney chance to redesign safety net

Opinion | Brian McGrory

I’ll take Tom, and hold the Mayo

Joan Wickersham

A valentine to Ella

ALEX BEAM

Poe — we hardly knew ye

Boston Capital

Shrinking the foreclosed real estate glut

Mattapan, MA 020412 Jennifer Smith (cq), of Mattapan picks up her son Sammy Aaron, (cq), 6, his Mather School in Dorchester elementary school every day. She doen't let him ride the school bus since he was dropped off at the wrong stop on January 4, 2012.(Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff)/MET

Yvonne Abraham

Wrong bus stop, wrong response

Brian McGrory

Joey’s long legacy

Metro

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Some at conservatory may protest Zander’s ouster

Some in the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra say they won’t play until former conductor Benjamin Zander is allowed to return.

Business

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Greece in state of political chaos

Amid protests, the country’s embattled Cabinet approved unpopular austerity measures which could be passed by Parliament as early as tomorrow.

Nation & World

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: President Barack Obama makes a statement in the briefing room at the White House on February 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Obama announced a reversal of his administration's health care rule requiring religious employers to provide women free access to contraception. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Obama bends on birth control mandate

President Obama said religious-affiliated institutions would not be forced to provide birth control coverage, but that insurers must offer free contraceptive coverage to the employees of such institutions.

Politics

Mitt Romney addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference today.

Mitt Romney says he’s a true man of the right

While Romney repeated his opposition to abortion and gay marriage, Rick Santorum took veiled digs at Romney’s conservative credentials.

Sports

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Faulk contemplates if it’s time to retire

Despite a difficult season mentally and physically, running back Kevin Faulk isn’t quite ready to call it quits.

Arts

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dance Review

Boston Ballet’s ‘Simply Sublime’ inspires awe

The dances may leapfrog decades, moving from 1909 to 1972 to 2001, but they are contemporaries under the skin.

Magazine

The cover for the February 5 2012 issue

Feb 5, 2012

What if the lights go out?

The cover for the January 29 2012 issue

Jan 29, 2012

Reversing a restaurant curse

The cover for the January 22 2012 issue

Jan 22, 2012

Mother worries about her Occupy Wall Street protester son

The cover for the January 15 2012 issue

Jan 15, 2012

Mass. voting maps reflect State House evolution

Opinion

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