New threads invigorate Mass. textile industry

Worker stiched a zipper pocket for men?s hooded sweatshirt at 99Degrees Custom in Lawrence.

Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff

Young entrepreneurs, agile veterans, and transformative technologies are injecting new life into the industry.

DANTE RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/danteramos-1667.jpg Harvard placemats and the limits of diversity training

Amid concerns about diversity on campus, the misguided placemat episode hints at the limits to what bureaucratic action can achieve.

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Secretary of State William F. Galvin said the proposed law had exceeded a minimum petition signature requirement of 64,750.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/19/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/kreiter_torchiana3_biz.jpg Partners says it?s unlikely to expand further in Mass.

The health care giant now acknowledges that its long period of expansion by acquisition in Massachusetts is over.

Boston12/19/15 Seventeen-yr-old D'Andre King-Settles was shot and killed Friday night on Annunciation Road as his mother (center)is helped to a makeshift memorial of candles on the ground in his honor. Boston Globe staff photo by John Tlumacki(metro)

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Teen who was shot and killed Friday is mourned

D?Andre King-Settles, 17, was killed Friday in a playground behind Boston Police headquarters.

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Carole Stepanek had just hung up the phone when a bullet smashed through her kitchen window.

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President Obama met with families of the San Bernardino shooting victims and then flew to Hawaii with his family.

TOPSHOT - Foreign Ministers vote during a UN Security Council meeting on Syria at the United Nations in New York on December 18, 2015. The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution endorsing a peace process to end the nearly five-year war in Syria. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARYTIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

UN pushes for peace process in Syria

The Security Council?s unanimous support for talks and a cease-fire is its strongest move yet to end the civil war.

Family of Lawrence convict pardoned by Obama grateful for commutation

Carlos Lopez, one of the 95 offenders who received commutations from President Obama, will be reunited with his daughters by spring.

Democrats bicker over voter data ahead of debate

The controversy about efforts by Bernie Sanders? staffers to get voter information compiled by Hillary Clinton?s campaign creates drama before tonight?s debate.

Checking In

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The first POTUS stayed here, at what is now The Merchant hotel, on Oct. 29, 1789, a few months after his inauguration.

Cam Newton, Ron Rivera, and their Panthers are the eighth team in the Super Bowl era to hit 13-0.

BEN VOLIN I SUNDAY FOOTBALL NOTES

Should the Panthers go for the perfect regular season?

The answers take you in circles, so we asked a coach and a player ? Tony Dungy and Troy Brown ? who have faced the same question.

Stephen Curry hits five straight three-pointers from deep. Very deep.

Curry of the Golden State Warriors showed why he?s the NBA?s reigning MVP during a shoot-around.

The women biographer?s group during a recent meeting in Brookline. From left are Joyce Antler, Roberta Wollons, Susan Quinn, Fran Malino, and Megan Marshall. In total, the writers have published 33 books.

Chronicling women?s history, writers celebrate their own

Over 30 years and 33 books, the biographers have met monthly to support each other on the long, slow slog to publication.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/10/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/Getaway1.jpg Need a little time away? Try a tiny home

With its rustic cabins in the woods of southern New Hampshire, Cambridge-based Getaway joins the tiny-house movement.

The Gildan New Mexico Bowl featured the 6-6 Arizona Wildcats and the 7-5 New Mexico Lobos.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

The college football bowl game is the participation trophy of sports

Sixty-three percent of FBS teams will play in a bowl game.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/15/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/498679206.jpg When ?home for the holidays? doesn?t mean going home

The idea of spending the holidays in an unfamiliar setting can be jarring, but there are ways to add homey touches.

Santa arrives to the T-Wharf in Rockport on Saturday, December 5, 2015 by lobster boat, to a crowd of families anxiously awaiting to see him. Mark Lorenz for the Boston Globe

Mark Lorenz for The Boston Globe

Season?s greetings from the north

We visited four of the many local places where people gather to share and celebrate Christmas.

Game on

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?How to Talk About Videogames? by Ian Bogost is engaging, enjoyable tour of video game commentary.

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Ten deliciously dark holiday classics

In no particular, here are the 10 most miserable, despairing, angry, or just plain weird holiday classics.

movies

Head games: The story of ?Concussion?

Hollywood has long had a fascination with movies about someone uncovering a wrongdoing, then setting out to right it.

Ground Game

Ground Game | Q&A

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/12/18/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/dab578a202b4499c90aadf824564628c-dab578a202b4499c90aadf824564628c-0.jpg DNC chairwoman discusses timing of Saturday debate

A Q&A with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz before Saturday?s Democratic debate.

Globe Santa

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Globe Santa delivers holiday gifts to local children in need.

Globe investigations

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A look at high-impact investigations from The Boston Globe, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning report on abuse in the Catholic Church.

The Big Picture

Danny Moloshok/Invision for Jakks via Associated Press

Star Wars mania

The decade wait is over for ?Star Wars? fans with the opening of the seventh film, ?The Force Awakens,? this week.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

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?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.