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Lawsuit claims Duxbury student was raped by teacher

The Duxbury schools superintendent said that administrators have been on “high alert” for years regarding a physical education teacher who was put on administrative leave in November after a Duxbury couple alleged the teacher sexually assaulted their son in the mid-2000s.

A police officer outside a building were multiple people were killed in a shooting in Orange, California.
Child among 4 dead in shooting at California office building
A child was among four people killed Wednesday in a shooting at a Southern California office building that left a fifth victim and the gunman critically wounded, police said.

Company at heart of Johnson & Johnson vaccine woes has series of citations

The company at the center of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard an unknown amount of its coronavirus vaccine has a string of citations from US health officials for quality control problems.
J&J vaccine manufacturing error affects 15 million doses Mass. officials not told to expect delays in shipping J&J vaccine

YVONNE ABRAHAM
English language learner Fredy Solis rubbed his face while studying on his laptop in his Dorchester apartment.
Students’ dreams made impossible by the pandemic
When Boston schools went into lockdown last spring, English language learners were hit hard.

Gary Washburn | MAVERICKS 113, CELTICS 108
Jaylen Brown and the Celtics mounted a comeback against Kristaps Porzingis and the Mavericks, but fell short yet again.
Another comeback fell short, and the Celtics’ rallies are no longer valiant
Another slow start for Boston, another furious comeback, another defeat.

Brad Stevens questions Celtics’ toughness after another lackluster loss, and other observations
Nurse Esther McCollin prepared a dose of the Moderna vaccine at a mobile site in Roxbury last month.

The next stage of the vaccine drive: Persuading the hesitant

A new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll suggests an increasing number of people are warming to the COVID-19 vaccines after initial anxieties. The survey of 500 state residents found that more than 78 percent have either already been vaccinated or intend to be as soon as possible.

Mass. residents divided over school reopenings, teacher vaccinations, poll shows

Read the full results of the latest Suffolk/Globe poll

A child participating in a clinical trial for those between 12 and 15 was given a shot in December.
Vaccinating children has become new front in fight against coronavirus
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech reported their vaccine fully protected kids ages 12 to 15 in a closely watched US clinical trial. The finings could pave the way for regulators to clear the vaccine for adolescent use in the coming months. But questions about safety linger for many parents.

Suspected in-school coronavirus transmission forces Tyngsborough Elementary School into remote-only learning

Opening Day 2021 | Tara Sullivan
The Fenway Park grounds crew put some finishing touches on the field in preparation for Thursday's opener.
A Red Sox Opening Day that feels almost normal is cause to celebrate
With Opening Day 2021 upon us, the tumultuous sports calendar of the last COVID-ravaged year approaches something — dare we say it? — almost normal. Fans, albeit in smaller numbers, are returning to Fenway Park. And all the teams, all 30 of them, are playing on Opening Day for the first time since 1968.

See the schedule for the Red Sox’ Opening Day ceremonies With new faces, Red Sox begin quest to start anew, and put 2020 in the distance
President Biden delivered a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center on Wednesday in Pittsburgh.

Biden announces huge infrastructure plan to ‘win the future’

President Joe Biden on Wednesday outlined a $2.3 trillion plan to reengineer the nation’s infrastructure over the next eight years in what he billed as “a once in a generation investment in America.”
A closer look at Biden’s infrastructure and tax proposals
In this image from police body cam video, Minneapolis police officers attempted to remove George Floyd from a vehicle outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis.
Derek Chauvin Trial

Officer video shown during Chauvin trial gave full view of Floyd struggle, then takedown

The body-camera footage was part of a mountain of witness testimony presented Wednesday during the third day of the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin charged for the murder and manslaughter of George Floyd.
Key moments from the third day of the Chauvin trial
A livestream of an intersection in Salem where drivers often fail to stop at a stop sign went viral on Twitch.

A Twitch livestream of drivers rolling through stop signs in Salem has caught the eye of city officials

Its viewership started off small. But its popularity exploded after a TikTok video about the livestream was viewed more than 2 million times last Monday.
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TV CRITIC'S CORNER
Kathryn Newton from an earlier "Masterpiece" version of "Little Women."
You’d be a fool to ignore these new shows
Just in time for April Fools' Day, a bevy of viewing options.

TELEVISION
Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary, at their home in Cuba in the 1950s.
This American larger than life
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s "Hemingway" shows that the writer’s greatest creation was also his darkest: himself.

ben volin | on football
Cam Newton and Robert Kraft talk before a November game against Arizona.
Robert Kraft acknowledges Patriots need to find a solution at quarterback
Robert Kraft confirmed an important bit of news: The Patriots do, in fact, value the quarterback position.

Maria Mossaides, director of the Office of the Child Advocate, detailed the agency's investigation report into the death of teen David Almond on Wednesday.
A ‘multi-system failure’ at DCF, Fall River schools preceded abused teen’s death, investigators find
A series of government agencies did not protect or properly monitor a 14-year-old intellectually disabled boy before he died in October, starved and with fentanyl in his system, according to a state investigation into his death.

Melissa Ing alleges she faced retaliation for complaining about sexual harassment by a fellow professor at Tufts. “I need to do the right thing, not just for me but for my students, for womankind," she says.
Denied a promotion after she alleged sexual harassment, professor of dentistry sues Tufts
At least six of Melissa Ing’s male colleagues have been promoted since she was denied, according to her complaint, Tufts had no comment other than to say it bars sexual harassment as well as retaliation.

Gregory Skomal, a Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries shark scientist, tagged a shark using a pole.
White sharks off Cape Cape spend almost half their time in shallow water, study says
White sharks tracked during the summer and fall of 2017 spent 95 percent of their time at depths of 100 feet or less and water temperatures from 48 to 69 degrees, and 47 percent at depths less than 15 feet, according to a recent study by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy

Opinion

America’s infrastructure has a grade of C-. Here’s a report card.
Decades of research show the costs of segregation are enormous. Academic performance suffers. Adult earnings, too. And students of all races miss out on vital opportunities to prepare for life in an increasingly multicultural society.
EDITORIAL

Time for state lawmakers to act on school integration

A decades-old problem is still a problem. And possibly worse.
President Joe Biden Biden's infrastructure plan, part of his “Build Back Better” package, would boost clean power.
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Biden’s infrastructure plan calls for tax increases, and that’s a good thing
If the California high-speed rail project were an aberration, it wouldn’t be of interest to anyone except California taxpayers. But it’s no aberration. It is an extreme example of a general phenomenon.
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner

For infrastructure projects to succeed, think slow and act fast
If infrastructure money comes through for the east-west rail link, no one expects such drama in Massachusetts. It’s more a question of priorities, and who’s driving the train — Baker or “Governor” Neal?
Joan Vennochi

With infrastructure money, who’s driving the train? Gov. Baker or ‘Gov.’ Neal?
The reality is that many people currently serving sentences for violent crimes did not physically harm their victims.
IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The fallacy behind tougher penalties for ‘violent’ crime

Recommended reads

Seventy-one percent of those surveyed said they approved of Governor Charlie Baker’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
‘I wouldn’t want his job.’ Despite criticism, Baker gets high marks for pandemic handling in new poll
Most Commonwealth residents are giving Governor Charlie Baker the benefit of the doubt as he grapples with an unenviable situation, navigating a tight supply of COVID-19 vaccines and a stubborn virus that’s upended nearly every aspect of daily life, a survey by Suffolk University and The Boston Globe found.

Read the full results of the latest Suffolk/Globe poll

‘One of the weirdest interviews I’ve ever conducted’: Matt Gaetz appears on Tucker Carlson amid misconduct allegations

The segment left Carlson so befuddled that once the conversation wrapped up, he concluded: “That was one of the weirdest interviews I’ve ever conducted.”
First person

For young Asian Americans like me, the rise in hate crimes reinforces a lifetime of racial trauma

I weep for 13-year-old me and Asian girls like me. I am learning that fortune, privilege, and adoration do not erase racial trauma I’ve experienced being a Chinese American woman in this country.

Slain Cambridge man, 19, remembered for ‘touching the lives of so many people’

Louis-Jacques was fatally shot early Saturday near the Rindge Park courts in Cambridge.

Prominent executive at NETA parent company fired after husband opens competing marijuana store

The parent company of NETA, the largest marijuana operator in Massachusetts, has fired a prominent executive and longtime advocate after her husband opened a competing cannabis store.

metro

A sign outside the Hynes Convention Center.

Read the full results of the latest Suffolk/Globe poll

The poll surveyed Mass. residents about their opinions on Governor Charlie Baker, the coronavirus vaccine rollout, schools, and more.

Vaccinating children has become new front in fight against coronavirus

Mass. residents divided over school reopenings, teacher vaccinations, poll shows

Sports

Jaylen Brown and the Celtics mounted a comeback against Kristaps Porzingis and the Mavericks, but fell short yet again.
Gary Washburn | MAVERICKS 113, CELTICS 108

Another comeback fell short, and the Celtics’ rallies are no longer valiant

Another slow start for Boston, another furious comeback, another defeat.

Francisco Lindor signs 10-year, $341 million contract extension with the Mets, reports say
MAVERICKS 113, CELTICS 108

Brad Stevens questions Celtics’ toughness after another lackluster loss, and other observations

business

A nurse filled a syringe with a dose of the Johnson & Johnson's one-dose COVID-19 vaccine.

Company at heart of Johnson & Johnson vaccine woes has series of citations

Under pressure, some Georgia corporate leaders slam voting bill

Chris Cook to direct Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy

politics

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and United States Forces Korea commander Gen. Robert B. Abrams in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.

Reversing Trump, Pentagon to release new transgender policy

Supreme Court justices take on NCAA restrictions on athlete compensation

‘One of the weirdest interviews I’ve ever conducted’: Matt Gaetz appears on Tucker Carlson amid misconduct allegations

Living Arts

Text and photographs from MARTHA STEWART’S VERY GOOD THINGS. Copyright © 2021 by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Martha Stewart wants to help you turn up the charming

‘Boston Back In Motion’ campaign aims to keep kids active as schools reopen
MUSIC

A very good podcast about songs and songwriting

education

Schools have been an issue throughout the pandemic. Above, a protest in Lexington last July.

Mass. residents divided over school reopenings, teacher vaccinations, poll shows

Parents file lawsuit against Duxbury Public Schools alleging gym teacher abused middle school student in mid-2000s

To reopen high schools faster, vaccinate teens, says BPS superintendent

rhode island

The staff of Pane e Vino outside of the Providence restaurant, which has had to rethink its Restaurant Weeks menu in light of the pandemic.
RI BUSINESS

‘Worst year ever’: This year, tax season in R.I. is full of uncertainties
RI POLITICS

Who is Sabina Matos?
RHODE MAP

Sabina Matos just shook up Rhode Island politics in a big way

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

Cooking | Magazine
Rigatoni With Roman Broccoli Sauce.
Recipes: Pasta dishes that take a break from red sauce
Broccoli, spinach, and asparagus step in for tomatoes in these three simple weeknight dishes.

COMFORT ZONE
Six horticulturists are charged with transporting the nasturtiums from the museum’s Hingham greenhouse Tuesday.
Hope blooms again as nasturtiums return to the Gardner Museum
The spring tradition is especially sweet after a cancellation in 2020.

TELEVISION
Ernest Hemingway at his home in Cuba in the 1950s. The new Ken Burns-Lynn Novick documentary about the writer premieres next week.
Ken Burns on getting beyond the ‘toxic masculine’ myth of Ernest Hemingway
The new Ken Burns-Lynn Novick documentary about the writer premieres next week.

COMFORT ZONE
Antonia Gentry as Ginny and Brianne Howey as Georgia in Netflix's "Ginny & Georgia."
The idyllic New England town of Wellsbury from ‘Ginny & Georgia’ is closer than you think
While the show takes place in the fictional town of Wellsbury, Mass., the filming was done in Ontario. However, publications and fans alike are naming the town of Wellesley as the top contender for the inspiration.

COMFORT ZONE
Ellie Biscoe.
One South Boston woman brings her antiquing journey to TikTok, 60 seconds at a time
Ellie Biscoe set off on a journey to visit as many of the New England’s antique stores as she could. As of mid-March, her TikTok follower count had grown to 12,100 with her videos garnering more than 55,000 likes.

Special Projects

The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
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

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation
Evening light sets upon stores and restaurants on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.

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

Flitting between a keen awareness and some hallucinatory otherworld, I somehow pieced together what was happening. The cookies, I realized, were infused with pot.
David Abel

Marijuana edibles and the risk to children
As our new mascot, we must now adopt the mole, a species that uses its eyes so infrequently they cannot properly be said to see.
Scot Lehigh

In Trumpland, history isn’t being erased — it’s being reestablished

Though Harvard offered him a pay raise, an endowed chair position, and a 10-year contract earlier this year, tenure review was not on the table — that is, until his negotiations with the school spilled into the news.
Abdallah Fayyad

Cornel West, Harvard, and the need for more transparency in tenure review
Justice Stephen Breyer in 2018.
Renée Graham

It might be time for Stephen Breyer to retire from the Supreme Court
Misdemeanor charges are too often applied unfairly — is that broken tail light and lapsed license a crime or another case of “driving while Black”?
EDITORIAL

Cutting low-level offenders a break really works
The foreign ministers of China and Iran — Wang Yi, left, and Mohammad Javad Zarif, right — posed for photos after signing a 25-year cooperation agreement last Saturday.
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Despite Biden’s pledge, he’s unlikely to rejoin the Iran deal

STAT

Road ahead illo
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.

Ahoskie Mayor Weyling White, left, and Hertford County Magistrate Deborah Morrison, right, pose for a portrait on railroad tracks that divide the predominantly White and predominantly Black parts of town in Ahoskie, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo © Landon Bost 2020)
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.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: People walk through the snow and sleet in Manhattan on February 12, 2019 in New York City. New York City, in a winter that has been light on snow this season, is expected to receive two inches of snow before the storm moves later this evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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.

Boston, MA -- 06/04/2020 -- Yoldana Desir displays a photograph of her late sister, Marie Deus, who died of Covid-19, after contracting it as a food service worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
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
A ball of dry brown garden grass.
Perspective

Lawn care for the lazy: Turns out being eco-friendly can be the easy way
Illustration highlighting popular home renovation trends, including touchless faucets and backyard putting greens.
Globe Magazine

Most-wanted COVID-19 home renovations: More space, touchless faucets, and ... putting greens?
Savory Bread Pudding With Mushrooms, Gruyère, and Tarragon.
Cooking

Make-ahead recipes for Easter brunch
An illustration of William Shakespeare peeking through writing quills.
On the cover

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

sports

Kiké Hernández is one of the new players on the Red Sox, and their new leadoff hitter.

With new faces, Red Sox begin quest to start anew, and put 2020 in the distance

Two more women sue Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson

Robert Kraft acknowledges Patriots need to find a solution at quarterback

metro

Gregory Skomal, a Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries shark scientist, tagged a shark using a pole.

White sharks off Cape Cape spend almost half their time in shallow water, study says

Lawsuit claims Duxbury student was raped by teacher

Parents file lawsuit against Duxbury Public Schools alleging gym teacher abused middle school student in mid-2000s

Nation

Sarah Palin says she tested positive for COVID-19 and is urging people to take steps to guard against the coronavirus, including wearing masks in public.

Palin confirms COVID-19 diagnosis, urges steps like masks

Officer video shown during Chauvin trial gave full view of Floyd struggle, then takedown

Child among 4 dead in shooting at California office building

World

A general view of the prestigious Hampstead School on March 28, 2021 in London, England. Students at the school walked out of classes on Thursday to protest against what they believe is a cover up of 'rape culture'.

Women are calling out ‘rape culture’ in UK schools

Macron returns France to lockdown as vaccinations lag

Upbeat official report on race in Britain draws backlash

politics

Demonstrators stole a Metropolitan Police riot shield while attempting to enter the US Capitol building during a protest in Washington.

Some Capitol attack suspects apologize as consequences sink in

D.C. is obsessed with the filibuster. But Biden has already hinted at what will happen with it

Here’s how Democrats’ sweeping voting rights law would work

business

People demonstrated in front of the Oklahoma state Capitol in Oklahoma City to protest the lack of unemployment payments for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or PUA, for the self-employed. Many said they have been unable to get a response to their unemployment claims.

States have given out billions in unemployment benefit overpayments during pandemic, watchdog reports

US hiring surge expected for March with more growth ahead

Volkswagen hoaxes media with fake statement on name change

lifestyle

A herd of Asiatic wild elephants gather at a national park in Minneriya, Sri Lanka.

Love animals? Here are some things not to do on your next vacation

When she needs a break, she zips down to the Cape for a lobster roll

Discounts on Rhode Island hotels, a Maine makeover, and shampoo that won’t leak in your luggage

marijuana

New York legalizes recreational marijuana

Prominent executive at NETA parent company fired after husband opens competing marijuana store

New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana

opinion

The reality is that many people currently serving sentences for violent crimes did not physically harm their victims.

The fallacy behind tougher penalties for ‘violent’ crime

Time for state lawmakers to act on school integration

We fail to view gun violence through a racial equity lens

food & dining

The potato corn dog at Kimchipapi Kitchen.

Mastering the cheese pull at Kimchipapi Kitchen

Serve slices of these sweet date rolls for a healthy treat

In his quest to bake the perfect baguette, he had to think about the box

travel

The author’s son, Sam Wright, 9, explores a wintery landscape while hiking along the Nooksack River in Washington’s Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, during a winter camping trip in February.

Reflecting on a winter of snow camping and its many peaceful pleasures

Love animals? Here are some things not to do on your next vacation

When she needs a break, she zips down to the Cape for a lobster roll

Books

Text and photographs from MARTHA STEWART’S VERY GOOD THINGS. Copyright © 2021 by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Martha Stewart wants to help you turn up the charming

‘Captain Underpants’ book pulled for ‘passive racism’

Caught in between in ‘Of Women and Salt’

Movies

Oscar Isaac in "The Letter Room."

Features? Forget about them

Idris Elba saddles up for ‘Concrete Cowboy,’ on Netflix

Michelle Pfeiffer in ‘French Exit’ is ‘upset in a general sense,’ and gloriously so

Television

Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary, at their home in Cuba in the 1950s.

This American larger than life

You’d be a fool to ignore these new shows

Streaming services and interface fails

music

Elton John after performing "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again," at the 2020 Oscars. John is celebrating his 74th birthday on Thursday — and he's sending fans a very rare present. Six deep cuts have been made available on streaming and digital formats for the first time.

It’s Elton John’s birthday, and he’s got rare music for fans

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

Theater/Dance

Robert Eagle shares a backstage laugh with the Lennon Sisters — (from left) Kathy, Mimi, and Janet — before a Mother's Day concert on the Reagle stage in 2014.

Reagle Music Theatre founder Robert J. Eagle to retire after 52 years

Bevin O’Gara is named interim artistic director at New Rep

On April Fools’ Day, The Jar will keep it light

globe local

Lauren Farley (right) and her mom Susan attended a rally Tuesday for her aunt, Lisa Stockman Mauriello, outside Biogen headquarters.

A woman, surrounded by friends and family, issues a heartbreaking, life-or-death plea to a big drug firm

State Ethics Commission clears Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins in alleged road rage incident

Watch live: Governor Baker signs climate legislation

Obituaries

In this Jan. 16, 1973, file photo, Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy is seen in Washington during a break in his trial.

G. Gordon Liddy, undercover operative convicted in Watergate scandal, dies at 90

Jack Bradley, photographer of Louis Armstrong and jazz luminaries, dies at 87

Thaddeus Buczko, former state auditor and judge, dies at 95