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US: AstraZeneca may have used outdated info in vaccine trial

Results from a US trial of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine may have included “outdated information” and that could mean the company provided an incomplete view of efficacy data, American federal health officials said early Tuesday.
AstraZeneca vaccine could boost US supply next month, but heighten skepticism Reputation of AstraZeneca’s vaccine marred by missteps See more COVID-19 vaccine news, resources, and guidance

State COVID-19 call center, set up as vaccine demand skyrocketed, cost at least $4.2 million for first weeks

The day after nearly half a million seniors became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, the Baker administration engaged three companies to set up a call center to manage the mad scramble for appointments, costing the state at least $4.2 million so far.
Inside the state’s $3.3 million scramble to build a better vaccine website

Boston seeking delay on full-time in-person learning

Boston school officials announced on Monday they will seek state approval to delay a return of full-time in-person learning in its elementary schools on April 5, but remain committed to bringing students back to classrooms five days a week later in the month.

Grizzlies 132, Celtics 126
Shorthanded Celtics pushed around in the paint in overtime loss to Grizzlies, and other observations
Jeff Teague scored 26 points in a starting role for the Celtics, who were outscored, 80-54, in the paint.

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Street vendors outside Fenway Park told they can’t open until at least June

Fenway Park street vendors received an e-mail on Friday from the permitting office of the Boston Public Works Department, informing them they can’t reopen until at least June.

Duxbury High addresses ‘highly offensive language’ used by varsity football team in play-calling

School officials termed the incident at Plymouth North on March 12 a “systemic failure” and said education is needed for all members of the team.

Healey says she thinks COVID-19 vaccine should be mandatory for State Police, corrections officers

Healey’s comments came after the Globe reported that 30 percent of the State Police have not been vaccinated despite being eligible as first responders under the first phase of the state’s vaccination distribution plan.

Spring fever is real. And it’s a mess
With the clocks moved forward an hour and daylight stretching past 12 hours, the annual phenomenon has arrived in full, fidgety force.

Forecast: The first week of spring will be unseasonably dry and warm

These photos and videos show the packed spring break crowds in Miami Beach
Thousands of people flocked to Miami Beach in recent days for spring break, resulting in revelers fighting in the streets and destroying property, prompting the city to implement and then extend an emergency curfew, a prominent bar temporarily closing, and police struggling to contain the crowds.

Police chief says Miami partying ‘couldn’t go on any longer’

Woman charged with manslaughter in death of ex-husband, popular Democratic operative

A Brookline woman has been charged with manslaughter in the death last year of her former husband, a well-known environmental consultant and a Democratic aide to former governor Michael S. Dukakis.

LOVE LETTERS
I’ve been a bully
Help a self-proclaimed bully.

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins to drop charges, convictions in tens of thousands of cases tied to troubled state lab

Prosecutors plan to work with attorneys to resolve drug convictions tied to examinations at the state-run William A. Hinton lab between May 2003 and its closing in August 2012.

USPS chief DeJoy said to cut post office hours, lengthen delivery times in 10-year-plan
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will unveil on Tuesday the largest rollback of consumer mail services in a generation as part of his 10-year plan for the US Postal Service, including longer first-class delivery windows, reduced post office hours, and higher postage prices.

DC’s long-simmering statehood push begins in Congress
Washington, D.C.’s bid for statehood finally got a congressional hearing Monday, but Mayor Muriel Bowser’s clashes with Republicans on the panel made clear that the issue is far from settled.

Evanston, Ill., approves nation’s first reparations program for Black residents
The nation’s first government reparations program for African Americans was approved Monday night in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, action that advocates say represents a critical step in rectifying wrongs caused by slavery, segregation, and housing discrimination.

Opinion

MARCELA GARCÍA

Border ‘crisis’ misses the big picture

The nation has a new chance at passing historic immigration legislation. Instead, we’re debating semantics.
EDITORIAL

Money talks: The MBTA walks back service cuts
Joan Vennochi

Change the system that allowed for 76 COVID-19 deaths at Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke
Elizabeth Dugan

How Massachusetts can become a living laboratory for aging
LETTERS

For Janey, ‘acting’ should mean action
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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.

Nine Zero terminates majority of staff, the latest Boston hotel to cut workers

The Kimpton Nine Zero Hotel, a high-end property in downtown Boston, terminated the majority of its staff Monday, the fourth hotel in the city to terminate furloughed workers as the industry struggles to recover from devastating financial losses brought on by the pandemic.

Supreme Court to consider reinstating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence

The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, presenting President Biden with an early test of his opposition to capital punishment.

What we know about the victims of the Atlanta shootings

One was a newlywed bride getting a massage with her husband. Another was an immigrant from China who proudly built her business from nothing. The youngest was 33. The oldest was 74.

‘You are my sunshine’: For nursing homes, COVID-19 vaccinations bring hope amid an uncertain future

No corner of Massachusetts life was more devastated by the coronavirus a year ago than long-term care. And none has seen infection rates drop faster since COVID-19 vaccines rolled out at the end of last year.

metro

Mayor Walsh steps down after confirmation as labor secretary

Walsh said he will travel to Washington on Tuesday to be sworn in.
RI HEALTH

Eleanor Slater Hospital ‘stuck in the past,’ official says in defending plans to change R.I.’s state-run ‘hospital of last resort’

‘She’ll go down in history books’: In Roxbury’s Nubian Square, residents hail Janey’s history-making

Sports

Shorthanded Celtics pushed around in the paint in overtime loss to Grizzlies, and other observations

Jeff Teague scored 26 points in a starting role for the Celtics, who were outscored, 80-54, in the paint.

Hunter Henry says Patriots ‘put the tight end on the map again’

Aaron Nesmith has returned to the Celtics’ rotation

business

US: AstraZeneca may have used outdated info in vaccine trial

Reputation of AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine marred by missteps

Biden to nominate antitrust expert to FTC

politics

Analysis

Three things Kim Janey needs to do right now if she wants a full term as Boston’s mayor

DC’s long-simmering statehood push begins in Congress

Biden eyes $3 trillion package for infrastructure, schools, families

Living Arts

LOVE LETTERS

I’ve been a bully
COMFORT ZONE

With vast streaming libraries, what’s old is new again
COMFORT ZONE

By reading (and stretching, and walking, and cooking), employees are rising to the challenge

education

Boston seeking delay on full-time in-person learning

Harvard is studying its ties to slavery, but is that enough?

Somerville builds for future with $256 million high school

rhode island

RI HEALTH

Eleanor Slater Hospital ‘stuck in the past,’ official says in defending plans to change R.I.’s state-run ‘hospital of last resort’
Coronavirus

Department of Health to R.I. nursing homes: You must allow visits

RI FOOD

Plant City X finds success during the pandemic

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
With vast streaming libraries, what’s old is new again
The streamers know that if they have a solid catalog of old series, they are more likely to attract — and, more important, keep — subscribers.

COMFORT ZONE
By reading (and stretching, and walking, and cooking), employees are rising to the challenge
Columbia, a North Reading construction management firm, is among many companies setting wellness goals for their workers.

COMFORT ZONE
Market Basket launches its very own version of March Madness
Looking for a sweet diversion? Donut Madness happens all week.

COMFORT ZONE
Sudbury singer-songwriter Lauren Weintraub on her Nashville dreams and the ‘random thing’ that got everyone’s attention
The TikTok of her singing “She’s Mine,” recorded in her car, has been viewed over 1.7 million times.

OUTDOORS
Imagination reigns on the lawns of Watertown with YardArt project
More than 120 residences are festooned with original artwork for the inaugural YardArt Watertown.

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

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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

OPINION

How to build a living laboratory
Jean Accius

A living laboratory must close the equity and opportunity gaps

EDITORIAL

Dragging state prisons into the 21st century
IDEAS | VICTOR BENJAMIN

Divisive, demoralizing bots are winning, so big tech needs to think bigger
JEFF JACOBY

This is no time to bring back earmarks

IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

Just what is the BettyLab cooking up for girls?

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?

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On the cover

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

Inside the effort to build trust in COVID vaccines
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I told him to ignore any weird snoring cause my dog was sleeping’
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do online, March 22-28

sports

Gonzaga dominant as ever, within four of perfection after trouncing Oklahoma

GM Don Sweeney hopeful Bruins can resume season Thursday, but roster is in flux

Eduardo Rodríguez not sharp Monday, but just seeking strength in runup to opener

metro

Boston seeking delay on full-time in-person learning

AstraZeneca vaccine could boost US supply next month, but heighten skepticism

Walsh: Being elected mayor of Boston was the dream for me

Nation

Three things Kim Janey needs to do right now if she wants a full term as Boston’s mayor

What to know about the Colorado grocery store shooting

Photos: The scene in Colorado as the shooting unfolded

World

Some nations could wait years for COVID-19 shots. That’s bad for everyone

Australia’s worst floods in decades quicken concerns about climate change

Saudi Arabia offers cease-fire in Yemen and lifting of blockade

politics

Senate confirms Walsh as labor secretary; Janey becomes acting Boston mayor

Watch live: Marty Walsh speaks after Senate confirms him as labor secretary

On federal death row, inmates talk about Biden, executions

business

Street vendors outside Fenway Park told they can’t open until at least June

Fed’s Powell: Public should understand risks of bitcoin

Stores that defined American malls eye a freestanding future

lifestyle

A half-decade later, a chapter of ‘Harry Potter and the Sacred Text’ ends

When we all gather again in restaurants, we will do so changed

Could I have been more patient about the bad timing?

marijuana

Five will exit White House over past use of 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

opinion

Change the system that allowed for 76 COVID-19 deaths at Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke

Hello, Boston — it’s a new day for the city

Goodbye and thank you, Boston

food & dining

Market Basket launches its very own version of March Madness

When we all gather again in restaurants, we will do so changed

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

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

‘Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal’ reenacts and reorients a scandal

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

Zack, Joss, and me

Television

With vast streaming libraries, what’s old is new again

This week’s TV: The life of Tina Turner, ‘City on a Hill,’ and the return of ‘Shtisel’

New Apple TV+ series may have a ‘Forever’ feel

music

Sudbury singer-songwriter Lauren Weintraub on her Nashville dreams and the ‘random thing’ that got everyone’s attention

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

The era of genius worship must end with James Levine

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

A president’s visit, Little League heroics, fires and funerals: A small town rallies to save its history

Tom Brady’s one-time condo in Back Bay is now on the market

Should sports betting be legalized in Massachusetts?

Obituaries

George Bass, archaeologist of the ocean floor, dies at 88

Marianne Carus, whose Cricket magazine reached young readers, dies at 92

Famed Tiffany jewelry designer Elsa Peretti dead at age 80