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New GM pledges openness at MBTA helm

Defending her record in Atlanta, Beverly Scott promised transparency about her past service and about her plans to help lift the beleaguered T to fiscal health.

Safety chief has long list of driving violations

The driving record of the director of the Mass. Highway Safety Division includes seven accidents, four speeding violations, and two failures to stop for an officer.

Work is play for Melissa White (left), Matthew Zalkind, Juan Miguel Hernandez, and Ilmar Gavilán.

Despite woes, Harlem Quartet still plays on

The ensemble, which plays both classical music and jazz, was ready to take off, before it threatened to come apart.

Uncertainty in Washington makes tax planning tricky

Many investors and taxpayers are trying to plot a post-election personal finance strategy as Washington debates the future of Bush-era tax cuts.

In N.H. town, kids grow up fast racing stock cars

At Riverside Speedway, a quarter-mile track in Groveton, N.H., anyone over 10 can start racing in the derbies.

Growing up fast in New Hampshire

At Riverside Speedway, they don’t wait to grow up to race stock cars.

Port cities hope to prosper off ocean again

New England communities built up around fishing and other seafaring industries are now reinventing themselves for the energy industry.

Kevin Cullen

No signs of tradition flagging at annual Harvard-Yale game

Some old-timers have reinstituted the tradition of having the Harvard man who has attended the most Harvard-Yale football games carry the Little Red Flag.

New Boston law targets head injuries

The city is joining the effort to protect young athletes from concussions, and will require teams to have training and management procedures in place.

Amherst looking inward after sex assaults, misogyny

The college is reevaluating its policies on sexual assault after a series of recent incidents ignited the campus.

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The Patriots in the 1970s

In 1971, the team officially became the New England Patriots (formerly the Boston Patriots) and found a new home in Foxborough.

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Holiday arts preview

Baseball Writers Association of America voters wound up giving Miguel Cabrera 22 out of 28 first-place votes.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Miguel Cabrera the worthy MVP, despite complaints

Boston Ballet artistic director Mikko Nissinen showed young dancers the reaction he expects from them as he ran through the actions of the Mouse King.

Holiday arts

Boston Ballet conjures a new ‘Nutcracker’

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell knows there is a long way to go when it comes to brain trauma. Nobody is expecting everything to be solved overnight.

Sunday Football Notes

NFL’s approach still leads to some head shaking

The cast of Boston Camerata’s holiday offering “The Brotherhood of the Star: A Hispanic Christmas.”

Holiday classical music performances that AREN’T the ‘Messiah’

“Lawrence of Arabia” gets a special 50th anniversary treatment.

DVD gifts with sense of nostalgia

90+ Cellars “Holiday Essentials” six-bottle selection, $60 at Pioppi’s, 183 Court Street, 508-746-1943, pioppis.com.

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2012 holiday gift guide

Music Review

A full-throttle show from a slightly diminished Palmer

A wild turkey wandered about in a Newton neighborhood. State officials say people must learn to live with the birds.

Turkeys wear out welcome in Newton

Kenny Chesney fans raise beer bottles to the singer at an August concert in Foxborough.

Lawrence Harmon

Foxborough’s drinking problem

Cheryl Gavazzi said she feared the money she found in a department store was connected to drug dealers, and ‘I’m going to get killed.’

Beverly woman returns bag containing $11,000

Joan Wickersham

If I Ran the Zoo

Living Longer, Living Better

Travel

Jan Theberge of Westport (left) learned about Newport’s history in the rum business during a stop at the Newport Wine Cellar, part of the Newport Gourmet Tour in Newport, R.I. Tour participants also sampled Chef Kevin Thiele’s braised beef shanks on crostini with horseradish cream, aged gouda cheese and truffled micro-greens (top right) at the Hotel Viking. In photo at right, participants Debbie Dollivar of Martha’s Vineyard (left) and Cori Pasqaule of Old Saybrook, Conn., listen to chef Kevin Fitzgerald inside the kitchen of Sardella’s.

Food tours are enriching travel

For many baby boomers, food has become as central to their travel planning as scenery and culture.

Sports

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Colts at Patriots, 4:25 p.m. Sunday

Tom Brady and the Patriots host the Colts on Sunday.

Patriots’ keys to a win vs. Colts

How can Tom Brady and the Patriots overcome Andrew Luck and the Colts? Jim McBride has a path to victory in his scouting report.

Metro

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Jerry Sypek was stunned his abuser’s name was on the list.

Boy Scout files stir painful memories of abuse

For victims of childhood sexual abuse, the publication of thousands of files documenting allegations of sex abuse was a painful reminder of their own experiences.