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Mass. passes 1 million fully vaccinated in fight against coronavirus

Governor Charlie Baker said Friday that more than 1 million Massachusetts residents are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a key milestone in the battle against a pandemic that’s killed more than 16,000 people in the state.

CDC changes school distancing guidance, recommending 3 feet between students instead of 6 feet

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed its social distancing guidelines for schools Friday, saying students can now sit 3 feet apart in classrooms.
WHAT SHE SAID

Sexual addiction. ‘Temptation.’ In Atlanta, could there be any clearer instance of victim-blaming?

It’s not clear whether spa workers killed in Atlanta were actually involved in commercial sex. Yet as we lament how they died, let’s take an unflinching look at how the women were treated in life.
Georgia officials release names of remaining shooting victims

Strike up the band! Live music will return to Tanglewood this summer

The BSO will host a short season in the Berkshires, with all concerts at the open-air Koussevitzky Music Shed.

NESN to add Ellis Burks, Mo Vaughn, and Kevin Youkilis to Red Sox broadcasts
Jonathan Papelbon is also going to contribute weekly to the studio programs.

In heated exchange, Senator Paul accuses Dr. Fauci of wearing masks after being vaccinated ‘for show’

The debate was over whether to put masks on, but the gloves were certainly off in a tense exchange between Senator Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Child dies in accident involving Peloton treadmill

An accident involving a Peloton treadmill has left a child dead, the company’s chief executive announced Thursday.
Globe Magazine

How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed

Dennis McCarthy, a self-taught scholar working from his dinner table, is challenging decades of scholarship on the origins of the Bard’s greatest work.
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Boston Globe Spotlight Team
Do you know anyone in this Boston class photo?
The photo, taken at a Boston school in the late 1940s, depicts something unusual from that time: Black and white students in roughly equal numbers, as well as one Asian student, sharing an elementary school classroom when the overall system was, in effect, largely segregated by race. A local man now wonders, what happened to my young classmates?

IN THE FAMILY WAY
In the rush to resume normalcy, don’t overlook your teenager’s mental health
Puberty is tough enough. Now add in a pandemic. Here are five things to keep in mind.

A.Z. MADONNA
The era of genius worship must end with James Levine
Elevating the conductor to savior status only enabled the alleged abuse of young musicians.

Lieutenant Governor Polito bought a $1.8 million home on the South Coast

Polito and her husband, Stephan Rodolakis, paid $1.795 million in October for the 4,830-square-foot home in Dartmouth’s Ricketson’s Point, according to assessing records and an online listing.

Veteran center David Andrews returning to the Patriots
Andrews's new deal is for four years.

How Drew Rosenhaus worked with Bill Belichick to help create the Patriots’ free-agent splash

Police investigate sexual assault allegation against Armie Hammer
The Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday that it had opened an investigation into a woman’s allegation that she had been sexually assaulted by actor Armie Hammer.

Armie Hammer is in ‘Crisis’ and they can’t hide it

Curt Schilling decries Boston experience, says he and his family are moving to Tennessee
The former Red Sox righthander says that “outside of our circle of friends, it hasn’t been a real pleasant experience in Boston.”

Home of the Week: Young over-55 town home in Scituate cozies up to ocean view
The property has three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a two-story family room, a private deck, and a walk-out basement.

Opinion

Renée Graham

A massacre targeting Asians in Georgia wasn’t a ‘bad day.’ It was a hate crime.

In America, the only thing more abundant than racism is the willingness to deny its existence.
Kimberly Atkins

When hate in a crime is clear, the gaslighting often follows
EDITORIAL

Plymouth DA evades the sunshine
Alex Beam

Gimme credit!
IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN

Dreaming of a Federal Writers’ Project 2.0
A collaboration between BU's Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe's Opinion team.
Learn more Sign up for the newsletter, 'Unbound' The Emancipator seeks editor in chief based at The Boston Globe

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THE GREAT DIVIDE
Civil rights groups urge state to change ‘discriminatory’ vocational school admissions policies to lottery
The state’s dozens of regional vocational-technical schools consider grades, attendance, and disciplinary histories for admission. The Vocational Education Justice Coalition said those factors are subjective and unfair.

Jeneé Osterheldt

Call the Atlanta killings what they are: racial terrorism

If Tuesday's killing of these eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, is not a hate crime, laws need to be rewritten. And if we cannot see this mass shooting as terrorism, we need to redefine it.
SHIRLEY LEUNG

After Atlanta slayings, this time needs to be different for Asian Americans

History keeps repeating itself because Asian Americans suffer from structural invisibility. This country needs to realize that many groups are targets of hate, and discrimination against Asian Americans counts.

Dick Hoyt, ‘heart and soul of the Boston Marathon,’ dies at 80

Mr. Hoyt, an iconic presence at the Boston Marathon who stopped racing several years ago because of heart ailments, was 80 when he died of heart failure Wednesday morning in his home in Holland, just east of Springfield.

Asian American women shaken by Atlanta-area killings

To many, the rampage in Georgia that left eight people dead, including six women of Asian descent, felt like the culmination of a year in which anti-Asian racism has soared.

metro

Mass. passes 1 million fully vaccinated in fight against coronavirus

Governor Charlie Baker said Friday that more than 1 million Massachusetts residents are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a key milestone in the battle against a pandemic that’s killed more than 16,000 people in the state.

CDC changes school distancing guidance, recommending 3 feet between students instead of 6 feet
Boston Globe Spotlight Team

Do you know anyone in this Boston class photo?

Sports

dan shaughnessy

LeBron James being a Red Sox part-owner is a good thing, and other thoughts

James’s name on the masthead represents progress for a franchise that admits being haunted by the institutional racism of a previous regime.

NESN to add Ellis Burks, Mo Vaughn, and Kevin Youkilis to Red Sox broadcasts

Basketball semifinals at TD Garden will now have statewide appeal

business

Scientist behind coronavirus vaccine says next target is cancer

Child dies in accident involving Peloton treadmill

Top CBRE executive jumps to Beacon Capital

politics

Analysis

This was the wildest job in American politics this past year

House passes bill to give Dreamers path to citizenship over GOP opposition

Walsh one step away from labor secretary after Senate votes to end debate on his nomination; confirmation expected Monday

Living Arts

MUSIC

Strike up the band! Live music will return to Tanglewood this summer

Police investigate sexual assault allegation against Armie Hammer
IN THE FAMILY WAY

In the rush to resume normalcy, don’t overlook your teenager’s mental health

education

CDC changes school distancing guidance, recommending 3 feet between students instead of 6 feet

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Civil rights groups urge state to change ‘discriminatory’ vocational school admissions policies to lottery

rhode island

Rhode Map

Who are Governor Dan McKee’s Top 10 donors?
RI CRIME

Providence Sergeant Hanley found guilty of assault. Is the ‘Blue Wall of Silence’ broken?
RI POLITICS

McKee names 10 finalists for lieutenant governor of Rhode Island

Newton

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Comfort Zone

IN THE FAMILY WAY
In the rush to resume normalcy, don’t overlook your teenager’s mental health
Puberty is tough enough. Now add in a pandemic. Here are five things to keep in mind.

Make the most of spring muck
There are plenty of ways to enjoy New England’s mud season. Here are some ideas.

Podcast
Starstruck since they were tweens in Cambridge, they now have a podcast about celebrity memoirs
Meet the hosts of the new "Celebrity Book Club" podcast, besties Lily Marotta and Steven Phillips-Horst, who bonded in middle school in Cambridge

Television
Berklee grad moves to next round on ‘American Idol,’ performing as sunny persona Beane
Judge Katy Perry likened Brennan Hepler of Brighton to "a pocketful of sunshine"

COMFORT ZONE
Lois Lowry’s latest book finds ‘something human and personal’ in mass tragedy
“On the Horizon: World War II Reflections” is a work in verse about the bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.

Special Projects

PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.
See the full project

On the Street

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

More

Jeneé Osterheldt
A Beautiful Resistance
Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Globe Spotlight Investigation
Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Scot Lehigh

Biden puts a bull’s-eye on today’s lazy faux filibuster
Joan Vennochi

A derailment and packed trains? Sounds like the same old T
Tom Mountain

To my fellow Republican men: Get the COVID vaccine
IDEAS | DIANA SPECHLER

We are totally over TV, though we can’t stop watching
EDITORIAL

Fear and hate in Atlanta
IDEAS | ANDY ROSEN

The next pandemic challenge: Reacquainting ourselves with everyday risks

STAT

The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
Perspective

I’m Asian American and racism makes COVID-19 more than a pandemic for me
Globe Magazine

Inside the effort to build trust in COVID vaccines
Joanna Weiss

I’m keeping an Instagram pandemic diary. When should I stop?
COOKING

Recipes: Three creamy vegetable soups with a twist: no dairy necessary

sports

NFL free agency: David Andrews, Nick Folk set to return to New England

Veteran center David Andrews returning to the Patriots

Drake beats Wichita State for first men’s NCAA Tournament win in 50 years

metro

Who are Governor Dan McKee’s Top 10 donors?

Cold, blustery morning across the region, but snow misses most

Salem Maritime National Historic Site celebrates Black Feminism on social media

Nation

Georgia officials release names of remaining shooting victims

What we know so far about the people who were killed in shootings at Atlanta-area spas

More than 4 in 10 health-care workers have not been vaccinated, Post-KFF poll finds

World

Latest claim in the effort against Aung San Suu Kyi: A bag of cash

Russia erupts in fury over Biden’s calling Putin a killer

German archbishop offers to resign after abuse criticism

politics

John Kerry at center of Twitter spat after maskless flight photo circulates online

Homeland Security head spars with Congress over border surge

Proud Boys leaders in four states are charged in Capitol riot

business

After Atlanta slayings, this time needs to be different for Asian Americans

Fed seeks maximum employment to the max

Hesse to become chairman of Akamai board

lifestyle

Make the most of spring muck

How to chart a course to friendship with an ex

A Palestinian cook is serving specialties from home in his Natick cafe

marijuana

Marijuana-infused ice cream is coming to a dispensary near you, just in time for summer

A green wave? Mexico’s marijuana market may be middling

Mexico set to legalize marijuana, becoming world’s largest market

opinion

Poignant portrait of our COVID year

Plymouth DA evades the sunshine

Gimme credit!

food & dining

Vincent’s replaces Cafe du Pays, Uni takes to the streets, and ‘Top Chef’ contestant Carl Dooley lands at Mooncusser

A Palestinian cook is serving specialties from home in his Natick cafe

Irish feasts and green doughnuts: Here’s where to eat this St. Patrick’s Day

travel

Janet Wu on Africa, Asia, a bar with good onions, and being a grandmother

Make the most of spring muck

How to use your travel vouchers and credits

Books

From Bowie to Beyoncé, Berklee authors look at musicians as models of innovation

Recalling a medium’s first ladies in ‘When Women Invented Television’

A new biography gives us Francis Bacon in full

Movies

The play’s the thing? Not always on screen it isn’t

Zack, Joss, and me

Tinker, tailor, soldier ... ‘The Courier’

Television

Flashbacks and flash-forwards are the latest trend in giving TV viewers a headache

Matthew McConaughey returns to HBO — and a breakthrough role

HBO’s ‘Q: Into the Storm’ takes a deep dive into conspiracy culture

music

Strike up the band! Live music will return to Tanglewood this summer

The era of genius worship must end with James Levine

Scullers joins five other East Coast clubs for a virtual jazzfest

Theater/Dance

‘The Conjurors’ Club’ is not quite magical enough

Jacob’s Pillow is a go with an all-outdoor dance festival

In ‘A Brimful of Asha’ and ‘The Pink Unicorn,’ mothers grapple with the independence and identities of their children

globe local

Olympia Fencing Center expands into Newton

Instead of wrapping paper, PTOs turn to food trucks as a tasty way to raise funds

In Newton, Hebrew College to relocate to Temple Reyim as part of ‘shared campus’

Obituaries

Dick Hoyt, ‘heart and soul of the Boston Marathon,’ dies at 80

James Levine, disgraced former Met Opera maestro and BSO music director, is dead at 77

Ronald DeFeo Jr., whose slayings of family members launched ‘The Amityville Horror,’ dies at 69