More tax hikes in Patrick’s blueprint

Governor Deval Patrick’s tax plans would eliminate 45 personal tax deduction including those for T passes, college scholarships, and dependents under 12.

More charter schools sought

A group of charter school advocates, business leaders, and legislators is pushing to abolish a state-imposed cap on the number of charter schools.

Among the 161 works Daphne Farago has given the Museum of Fine Arts is John Cederquist’s “Couchabunga” (1992).

Gift boosts MFA’s contemporary stock

A gift from art collector Daphne Farago will dramatically upgrade the Museum of Fine Arts’s holding of contemporary glass and craft.

Standoff in Algeria

Algerian army rescues some hostages, death toll unclear

Some Americans escaped, but other Americans remain either held or unaccounted for after an Algerian military assault against Islamist extremists.

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After two years of surveillance and undercover work, an army of more than 300 law enforcement officers set out at dawn to crush two of Boston’s most violent street gangs.

Paul Sullivan of Captain Marden's Seafoods and Peter Klein, a manager at John Nagle Company, look over escolar (sometimes called white tuna or ex-lax fish) caught off Puerto Rico. Legislation expected Friday would impose fines on places that mislabel seafood and make Massachusetts the first state to ban escolar.

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Fishy business

Bill carries fines for mislabeled seafood

Legislation expected Friday would impose fines on places that mislabel seafood and make Mass. the first state to ban escolar, an oily species known as the “ex-lax” fish.

Running back Danny Woodhead, 5-foot-8, stood tall after a November touchdown.

Smaller players fill vital roles for Patriots

Wes Welker, Danny Woodhead, Shane Vereen, and Deion Branch have more important traits than height and weight.

Patriots-Ravens meetings have been decidedly competitive

Perhaps Baltimore is the Patriots’ fiercest rival, the team that not only talks a lot but can actually back it up.

Rob Ninkovich has an uncanny knack for the big play, just like another No. 50 from the Patriots’ glory days, Mike Vrabel.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots’ Ninkovich is doing his best Vrabel impression

Rob Ninkovich has an uncanny knack for the big play — just like another No. 50 from the Patriots’ glory days, Mike Vrabel.

Scarlett Johansson in the Broadway revival “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

Stage Review

On Broadway, ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ is merely tepid

Tennessee Williams’s title character presents a tricky challenge for any actress, and one that Scarlett Johansson, who plays Maggie in the Broadway revival, proves unable to meet.

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Globe subscribers will get a firsthand look at the “68 Blocks” special project from the journalists who created the series.

Globe exclusives

A blood stain was visible on pitcher Curt Schilling’s right foot on Oct. 24, 2004.

Schilling must part with ‘bloody sock’ to pay loans
Emmanuelle Riva as the deteriorating Anne in the 2012 film

Movie Review

‘Amour’ bears witness to an awful ­­— and intimate — truth
Emeli Sandé (pictured in England in August) sold out her show Tuesday at the Paradise.

Music Review

Sandé finds her footing at Paradise
Lorraine Titus of New Haven, Vt., suffered from gastrointestinal infections but improved after receiving a fecal transplant.

Fecal transplants show promise in infection fight
The numbers for the Patriots secondary show improvement for a unit that had been the Achilles’ heel of the team for going on two seasons before Aqib Talib’s arrival.

Aqib Talib has had big effect on Patriots
US Attorney Carmen M. ­Ortiz

US attorney defends office’s action in MIT hacker case

Book Review

‘Going Clear’ by Lawrence Wright
Lance Armstrong

Armstrong case reflects lesson about human behavior

Joseph Aaron Segal, an adjunct professor at Rhode Island School of Design, creates fashion under the labels JAS and Pretty Snake.

style

Framingham native needles his way into ‘Project Runway’

joan vennochi

Swartz case is sad, but not an overreach
2b design uses items from homes damaged in Lebanon’s conflicts and employs people from diverse religious groups to turn them into home furnishings.

Style

Finding beauty in Lebanon’s broken buildings

Yvonne Abraham

Pressure on to fix transit

Sports

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The Bruins returned to the Garden ice for Tuesday’s scrimmage against Providence, with not much time to prepare for Saturday’s season opener.

Bruins must alter approach during compressed season

What is usually a grueling 82-game season will be squeezed into 48 contests over 99 days once the puck drops Saturday.

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JAMES MCHUGH, of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission

Gaming panel won’t extend deadline

One by one, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission dispatched with appeals from three developers and one mayor seeking extensions to the deadline for gaming license applications.

Columnists

carlo rotella

He beat Mike Tyson

Kevin Cullen

Ortiz should offer answers

Joshua Green

Do gun laws stand a chance?: Electorate wants change

Scot Lehigh

Patrick’s education proposal should reform more
Rob Ninkovich has an uncanny knack for the big play, just like another No. 50 from the Patriots’ glory days, Mike Vrabel.

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots’ Ninkovich is doing his best Vrabel impression

joan vennochi

Swartz case is sad, but not an overreach

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Walmart’s veterans program is temporary relief

Tech Lab

New gadgets bring over-the-air TV to mobile devices

Yvonne Abraham

Pressure on to fix transit

Opinion | scot lehigh

Quaking about shaking

lawrence harmon

Newton needs a police chief from outside system

Adrian Walker

Questioning the price of solitary confinement

Nation & World

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Tom Sullivan (rear left), was among those at Thursday’s reopening of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater where 12 people were killed in a shooting rampage July 20, including Sullivan’s son, Alex. “Nobody is going to stop us from living our lives the way that we lived our lives before,” Tom Sullivan said.

Theater reopens with memorial

The Colorado theater where 12 people were killed reopened with a private screening of the fantasy film ‘‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’’ for survivors.

Politics

Political Notebook

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Half-century later, Kennedy staffers reunite at archives

A handful of surviving members of President John F. Kennedy’s White House staff came together Wednesday to relive those heady times.

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Lines at the TD Garden have been common this week as the Bruins begin their season Saturday. Ticket prices on the secondary market have been 30 percent higher than last year. Below, fans watched the team play its Providence affiliate on Tuesday.

Lockout drives Bruins ticket prices higher

Now that the labor dispute is over, some Bruins supporters are so eager to see the team they are paying much more than face value for tickets.

Arts

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ART REVIEW

“Where is My Hope?

‘Graphic Advocacy’ at MassArt

“Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001-2012” runs at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Gallery through March 2.

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Movie Review

Russell Crowe with Mark Wahlberg in “Broken City,” directed by Allen Hughes.

Breaking and exiting

“Broken City” is a cluttered, formulaic urban thriller, with Mark Wahlberg miscast as a conflicted tough-guy detective caught in an election week conspiracy.

Magazine

The cover for the January 13 2013 issue

Alfresco fabulous
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Best Boston Globe photos of the year, 2012
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Bostonians of the Year: Raisman and Harrison

The cover for the December 16 2012 issue

Best of the New: Diversions

Opinion

“There are common-sense gun control policies like those adopted here in Mass. nearly 15 years ago which would make a huge difference.”

Argeo Paul Cellucci  

Ideas

“In places like Boston, boardinghouses were a key part of how 19th-century cities grew…and as Americans flock back into cities, they may offer some insights into where we’re going.”

Ruth Graham on the heyday of boardinghouses 

“We want to make sure if you’re led to believe that you’re eating fish off the bay, it really is off the bay in Massachusetts, and not 3,000 miles or 6,000 miles away,”

State Representative Ted Speliotis,  cochair of the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure