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The gun toll we’re ignoring: suicide
Each gun represents 100 deaths by firearm in 2010.

SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

You wouldn’t know it from the national debate, but most American firearm deaths aren’t murder.

carlo rotella

Local boxer’s one shining moment was beating Mike Tyson

“One punch can change the chapters of anybody’s story,” Dorchester’s Kevin McBride says in a new mini-documentary.

Saxophonist Schiller Joseph, trumpeter E. Daile Beauplant, and organist Jean Louis Daniel played during a service at the New Calvary Cemetery in Mattapan marking the third anniversary of the deadly 2010 Haiti earthquake.

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Globe photos of the week

Musicians performed at a memorial service marking the third anniversary of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and more of the week’s best images.

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Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy recounts how he and former Red Sox manager Terry Francona buried the hatchet and teamed up to write a revealing book.

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Mass. hospital coalition targets Medicare reimbursements

An obscure rule allows Nantucket Cottage, Massachusetts’ sole rural hospital, to set the floor for how much the government reimburses the state’s 81 other hospitals.

Timothy P. Murray

Lt. Gov. Murray says he won’t run for governor

Timothy P. Murray had been laying the groundwork for a run but faced tough political questions.

Lt. Governor Tim Murray.

Scot Lehigh

Murray’s exit good news for Democrats

Tim Murray’s announcement that he won’t run for governor is good news for the Democratic Party and a victory for common sense.

House GOP plan to vote on raising the debt ceiling

Republicans plan the vote on a three-month extension in an effort to force the Democratic-led Senate to adopt a budget plan.

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Boston in 1965 and spoke to politicians and residents about many of the city’s racial issues, including segregation.

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

Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Ninkovich is the new Mike Vrabel
Tom Brady and the Patriots will meet Terrell Suggs and the Ravens for the seventh time in six seasons on Sunday.

Patriots vs. Ravens | Sunday, 6:30 p.m.

Patriots-Ravens has risen into prime NFL rivalry

Kevin Cullen

Ortiz should offer answers
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
At 5-9, Wes Welker, center, is dwarfed by some of his larger Patriots teammates.

Smaller players fill vital roles for Patriots
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.

Fishy business

Bill carries fines for mislabeled seafood
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
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
US Attorney Carmen M. ­Ortiz

US attorney defends office’s action in MIT hacker case

Yvonne Abraham

Pressure on to fix transit
Emeli Sandé (pictured in England in August) sold out her show Tuesday at the Paradise.

Music Review

Sandé finds her footing at Paradise

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NBC hoping viewers tune back in to NHL

NBC Sports boss Sam Flood knows it will be difficult to win back hockey fans, but his network has games ready to go.

Metro

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WOBURN - Edward A. Brown holds a map of the section of Lowell where 15-year-old John McCabe was murdered in 1969.

Witness describes motive behind attack in 1969 murder

Three teens targeted the victim because he flirted with the girlfriend of one of the attackers, a key witness testified.

Columnists

carlo rotella

He beat Mike Tyson

Joshua Green

Do gun laws stand a chance?: Electorate wants change

Scot Lehigh

Patrick’s education proposal should reform more

Tech Lab

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

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Walmart’s veterans program is temporary relief

joan vennochi

Swartz case is sad, but not an overreach

Kevin Cullen

Ortiz should offer answers
Rob Ninkovich, shown at his locker, has an uncanny knack for the big play, just like another No. 50 from the Patriots’ glory days, Mike Vrabel.

Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Ninkovich is the new Mike Vrabel

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

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Strikes by Syria’s air force destroyed buildings in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus in the ongoing violence there.

Gunmen loyal to Syrian regime kill more than 100

Gunmen loyal to President Bashar Assad torched houses and killed more than 100, including women and children, the opposition said.

Politics

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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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State Street to cut 630 jobs

The Boston-based financial firm will lay off 260 employees in Massachusetts, even as its net income rose 26 percent in the fourth quarter.

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.

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Best Boston Globe photos of the year, 2012
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

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