A girl who soared, but longed to belong

Elizabeth Warren grew up amid the infinite expanse of Oklahoma, the finite expectations of her place and time, and financial pain at home. The lessons of those years still drive her.

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Elizabeth Warren started life in a small home in Norman, Okla., with wheat fields all around.

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Warren with her parents and one of her three brothers in 1955. Their home was a little drab, but the children didn’t know it.

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In Oklahoma City, her parents bought a three-bedroom house that was a bit of a step up.

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She discovered the debate team in Oklahoma City, which besides yielding trophies gave her a ticket to the wider world.

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Warren's 1966 class photo.

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Elizabeth Warren outside her first home in Norman, Okla. Other than her family, she has maintained only sporadic ties to the state.

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Warren was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. She was accompanied by her three older brothers, John, Don, and David Herring.

Friendly’s Ice Cream warming up to supermarket sales

Friendly’s, the famed maker of Fribbles, is switching from scoops to supermarkets as a way to boost its struggling ice cream business and expand its brand.

Living/Arts: Pop Music: Adele British vocalist Adele performs before a sold out House of Blues in Boston, Sunday, May 15, 2011. (Robert E. Klein for the Boston Globe)

The Grammy goes to ...

Globe critics pick the probable winners and also single out who really should win on music’s biggest night.

US judges balk at rigid child porn sentences

A battle between policymakers, prosecutors, and public defenders is bound to play out as judges defend their sentences for distribution and possession of child pornography.

Auditors noted, then ignored, McLaughlin pay

State auditors did nothing about former Chelsea Housing Authority chief Michael E. McLaughlin’s salary until the gap between his disclosed and true paychecks reached $200,000.

A dream exactly as old as Fenway

Charlie Gilbert, 100, who was born on the day of Fenway Park’s first game, wants to throw out first pitch April 20 when the Red Sox commemorate the centennial.

Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies

Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, has died. She was 48.

“I couldn’t go off to OU. I couldn’t maintain the fiction anymore, not at OU, not there, not with kids living in dorms and buying formals for dances.”

Elizabeth Warren 

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

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

Ideas

How Boston City hall was born

Weddings

Boston wedding venue guide

Brandeis professor traces efforts to reshape health care

Sunday hockey notes

Thomas needs a save to restore his legacy

DESTINATIONS

Bands meet the middle, bowling meets punk
TELEVISION SHOWS 2012: DOWNTON ABBEY -- In an undated handout picture released by TMC – NBC Universal on December 8, 2011 British actress Maggie Smith plays her role as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham in a scene of the hit British television series Downton Abbey. The popular period-drama series Downton Abbey, that centers on the Crawley family and their servants in the years leading up to the start of World War I, will hit screens in France on December 10, underlining the popularity of this

The Word

Linguistic gotcha at ‘Downton Abbey’

Romantic inns in New England

Top 10 love letters of the year
Boston, MA 021112 Red Sox truck left Fenway Park enroute to FLA., Saturday, February 11 2012. (Globe Staff Photo/Wendy Maeda) section: Sports slug: Red Sox reporter:

Truck Day at Fenway Park

99 Bottles

In the beer world, spring has sprung early

Loving to hate Valentine’s Day

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Playing with women’s rights

Jeff Jacoby

A second look at ‘The Third Jihad’

Joan Vennochi

The ‘Mad Men’ era of contraception
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Joanna Weiss

The Barstool podium

Adrian Walker

Rethinking the Esplanade

Opinion | LAWRENCE HARMON

A visit to the ‘friends and favors’ office

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

Metro

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Dunkin’s Cruller lovers have a hole in their lives

The French Cruller, with its distinctive twisted ridges and airy interior, disappeared three years ago from North Quincy to Falmouth, and its followers were left bereft.

Business

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On the Job

A home office away from the homestead

Charlie Weisman recently opened Oficio, a shared workspace that offers a “home office away from home’’ and a swanky address to put on business cards.

Nation & World

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Mary Todd Lincoln portrait, and legend behind it, are frauds

A portrait of a serene Mary Todd Lincoln that hung in the governor’s mansion in Springfield, Ill. was discovered to be a hoax when it was sent to a conservator for cleaning.

Politics

Mitt Romney wins Maine caucuses

Mitt Romney pulled out a narrow win in the caucuses in Maine today, averting an embarrassing defeat in a state he won handily in 2008.

Sports

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Bruins 4, Predators 3

Bruins beat Predators in shootout

Tyler Seguin and Patrice Bergeron scored shootout goals to lift the Bruins over the Nashville Predators last night.

Travel

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Making tracks at a Chinese Nordic skiing extravaganza

Vasaloppet China is the 10-year-old cousin of a historic Swedish ski race.

Books

BOOK REVIEW

‘Thinking the Twentieth Century’ by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder

Unpacking a mind: Dying from ALS, Tony Judt reviews his life and that of modern Europe.

Arts

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REVIEW

Old friends show their wares across the pond

London’s great art institutions have lined up a series of ambitious exhibitions for 2012.

Magazine

The cover for the February 12 2012 issue

Boston wedding venue guide
The cover for the February 5 2012 issue

What if the lights go out?
The cover for the January 29 2012 issue

Reversing a restaurant curse
The cover for the January 22 2012 issue

Mother worries about her Occupy Wall Street protester son

Opinion

“When it comes to sexual assault on campus, it’s amazing how little has changed over the years, and how wrongheaded some rape-prevention messaging remains.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“In the 50 years since the competition, architects have declared Kallmann and McKinnell’s City Hall one of the greatest buildings of the 20th century. Yet its relationship with the people of Boston has remained uneasy, even hostile.”

Leon Neyfakh on Boston’s City Hall