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Zeinab Yusuf, who was admitted to Cornell University, believes she wouldn't have been accepted if the SAT had been required.

The pandemic has upended college admissions with more surprises and more wait lists

Many selective colleges have admitted a more racially and economically diverse first-year class. But they have also rejected more students than ever before.
Editorial: The pandemic changed college admissions. That’s a good thing.

COVID-19 cases in Boston are ‘flat’ but there is some increase among young people, Janey says

Acting Mayor Kim Janey said that COVID-19 cases in the city have remained “relatively flat” with “some increase” among younger Bostonians. She said Boston’s current positivity rate is 5.1 percent.
New Hampshire to lift vaccine residency requirement Monday See more COVID-19 vaccine news

Ryan and Stephanie Fattman.
State officials refer senator, MassGOP chief to prosecutors for potential campaign finance violations
Massachusetts’s top campaign finance regulator says he has evidence a state senator, his wife, and the head of the state Republican Party may have violated campaign finance laws.

Judge denies bid by senator, wife to block officials from referring probe into them to state prosecutors

Boston Public Garden used to have baby alligators — yes, alligators — and people fed them rodents

Great Floridian beasts these were not. But the alligators were, as you’d expect, quite a spectacle in often-chilly New England.
President Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, spoke about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden at the White House on Thursday.

‘We’ve got a long way to go’: Biden unveils actions on guns, says much more needed

President Biden, calling gun violence in the United States “an international embarrassment,” took a set of initial steps to address the problem, starting with a crackdown on the proliferation of so-called ghost guns, or firearms assembled from kits.
Analysis: Joe Biden promised more on guns
Police respond to a shooting at Kent Moore Cabinets on Thursday in Bryan, Texas.

1 dead, 5 injured in wake of Texas cabinet plant shooting, suspect arrested

A man opened fire at a Texas cabinet-making company where he worked, killing one person and wounding five others before shooting and wounding a state trooper prior to his arrest, authorities said.
Baker supports assault weapons ban, would advocate Mass.-style gun laws to national GOP
Eastern chief executive Bob Rivers has made no secret of his desire to buy up smaller banks.

Eastern-Century deal could put Boston back on the banking map

Finally, a locally based retail bank with considerable heft is emerging, following Eastern’s 2020 IPO. The bank’s chief executive Bob Rivers has made no secret of his desire to make more bank acquisitions, with the next target likely to be within Eastern Massachusetts or southern New Hampshire, or in neighboring regions, such as the Worcester area.
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College during COVID | Globe Magazine

Clockwise from top left: Jack Clohisy, Tuft's men's track; Taylor Soule, BC women's basketball; Soren Colstrup (No. 14), Framingham State men's hockey; and Sophie Trachtenberg (No. 12), Brandeis women's basketball.

College athletes are getting a lot of practice — in disappointment

Four student athletes describe seasons of frustration, and resilience, in their own words.
MassArt student Bobbi Colburn wearing a face mask she created.

‘There’s so much beautiful work that’s come out of this’: College art students in the COVID era

How visual and performing artists are channeling their experiences into new and original expression.
The writer logs into her Emerson classes from home in Chicago.

I’ve never set foot in the college that I attend 1,000 miles away

I daydream of escaping the Chicago suburbs and the computer screen, and pine for the bustle of Boston streets.
Two people share a moment near Berklee College of Music.

Dating in college is more difficult than ever. Students have found ways to keep romance alive

Why some students say they prefer "situationships" at least for now.

US Representative Katherine Clark and first-grade student Yanelys Canales looked over school work together at a desk with clear plastic shielding at McGlynn Elementary School in Medford on Thursday.
‘This is our moment’: In Medford, Katherine Clark says federal funding makes full-time, in-person learning possible
Representative Katherine Clark on Thursday toured McGlynn Elementary School, greeting first graders and seeing its pool testing program in action.

A Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Company bus.
South Shore bus service Plymouth & Brockton plans May restart
The bus company had held back even though competitor Peter Pan resumed service months ago.

Dan Shaughnessy
The Red Sox offense has been electric since its three-game hiccup to start the season. On Thursday, Ryan Mountcastle watched Boston's second home run of the day (by Kiké Hernández) reach the seats in the eighth inning.
Red Sox go worst to first? Great! Let’s see where they stand down the road
What we have seen thus far only validates you’re never as good as you look when you win or as bad as you look when you lose.

Derek Chauvin Trial
King Boston Executive Director Imari K. Paris Jeffries.
For those in Boston watching Chauvin case, ‘it’s like racism is on trial’
Many in Boston and elsewhere see Derek Chauvin’s trial as an opportunity to take measure of the whole criminal justice system.

CDC Director Walensky declares racism a ‘serious public health threat’

Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg.
Indicted Gaetz associate is expected to plead guilty, lawyers say
A former local official in Florida facing an array of federal charges in an inquiry that is also focused on Rep. Matt Gaetz was expected to plead guilty, lawyers said in court, an indication that the defendant is likely to cooperate as a key witness against Gaetz.

MURRAY WHYTE
"Orpheus Charming the Animals" by Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp, created in about 1640.
MFA’s Netherlandish art center raises difficult questions. And it hasn’t even opened yet
A four-day symposium digs into connections between the trans-Atlantic slave trade and museum's vast trove of 17th-century Dutch art.

Opinion

Elijah Baay, a student, speaks in support of transgender rights during a rally outside the Alabama State House last month.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Republican anti-trans legislation is an assault on children

A slew of proposals underscore the hateful lie that trans youth do not deserve the right to be who they are.
The Biden administration announced in March that Gene Sperling, a former top economic official in the last two Democratic presidential administrations, will oversee the rollout of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law.
RENÉE LOTH

GOP lawmakers’ rejection of Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan doesn’t add up

SCOT LEHIGH

A filibuster work-around with long-term implications
The US capitol building on Dec. 25, 2019 and surrounded by a security fence on Jan. 8, 2021.
EDITORIAL

Keep the US Capitol open to the public
Producer, actor, filmmaker, and author Tyler Perry is 2,674 on Forbes' list of billionaires.
Kimberly Atkins

Why the racial wealth gap hitting Black American billionaires matters

Recommended reads

REVIEW
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as seen in "This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist."
‘This Is a Robbery’ on Netflix revisits the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft
The docuseries — about one of the world’s most famous art heists — might not solve the three-decade old case, but does transform it into a frustrating and irresistible mystery.

From 2018: Listen to 'Last Seen,' our podcast on the Gardner art heist Here's a look at what the stolen Gardner paintings look like

Lynnfield parent charged in ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions scandal sues Netflix over portrayal in TV series

John Wilson’s civil complaint against Netflix maintains that he’s innocent of all charges and unfairly grouped with several other well-known defendants in the case who have pleaded guilty in the TV series.

The COVID 19 is real: Weight gain has been a problem for many during the pandemic

While plenty of people have relied on exercise to cope during a year filled with fear and loss, a recent survey found a startling level of weight gain, particularly among millennials and Gen Z.
CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

‘We’ve never seen anything like it.’ The rush is on to book summer rentals

It’s shaping up to be a blockbuster vacation year for the pandemic weary, now that they’ve got shots in their arms.
TRAVEL

Move over, Austin: These towns are weirder

Seeing America this summer? Put these offbeat burgs on your list.

metro

A Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Company bus.

South Shore bus service Plymouth & Brockton plans May restart

The bus company had held back even though competitor Peter Pan resumed service months ago.

Boston Public Garden used to have baby alligators — yes, alligators — and people fed them rodents

State officials refer senator, MassGOP chief to prosecutors for potential campaign finance violations

Sports

UMass celebrates after Thursday's 5-4 overtime win against the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs.
NCAA Men's Frozen Four | UMass 3, Minnesota Duluth 2 (OT)

UMass dominates overtime, stops Minnesota Duluth to reach NCAA men’s hockey championship

The Minutemen will face St. Cloud State for the NCAA title Saturday night.

Report details Tiger Woods’s confusion, low blood pressure in wake of February car accident

Three suspended in Lakers-Raptors brawl

business

Eastern chief executive Bob Rivers has made no secret of his desire to buy up smaller banks.

Eastern-Century deal could put Boston back on the banking map

Alyce growing on heels of latest funding round

Auto insurers profited unfairly from pandemic and should return money to consumers, AG says

politics

President Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, spoke about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden at the White House on Thursday.

‘We’ve got a long way to go’: Biden unveils actions on guns, says much more needed
James Pindell | Analysis

Joe Biden promised more on guns

Number of kids alone at border hits all-time high in March

Living Arts

Soprano Amanda Forsythe will be the special guest when Boston Baroque streams live from GBH’s Frasier Studio on April 10.

What’s happening in the arts world
THEATER

‘Hype Man’ returns, this time online, and it’s even more compelling
MURRAY WHYTE

MFA’s Netherlandish art center raises difficult questions. And it hasn’t even opened yet

education

Zeinab Yusuf, who was admitted to Cornell University, believes she wouldn't have been accepted if the SAT had been required.

The pandemic has upended college admissions with more surprises and more wait lists

‘This is our moment’: In Medford, Katherine Clark says federal funding makes full-time, in-person learning possible

Mass. reports new weekly high of coronavirus cases among public school students: 821 cases

rhode island

University Hall on Brown University's campus in Providence, R.I., was built by enslaved people.
RI EDUCATION

Will Brown University consider reparations after students voted to do so? Answer: It’s complicated
CORONAVIRUS

Bill would shield R.I. residents who refuse COVID-19 vaccine
RI BUSINESS

Brown University Medical School dean Dr. Jack Elias to focus exclusively on Lifespan-Care New England merger

Newton

‘The lesson of Passover is we are faced with challenges.’ Newton’s Jewish community celebrates with resilience, hope

video

Comfort Zone

BOTTLES
Travis Roy greets supporters at the Travis Roy Foundation Whiffle Ball Tournament in 2013.
Breweries team up for a Travis Roy tribute beer
Dorchester Brewing Co. and Worcester’s Wormtown Brewery come together to brew a beer called “24,” and $1 from every beer sold will be donated to the Travis Roy Foundation.

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
The Waltham theater's namesake reflects on a half-century of memories.

THE WAITING
We've been holding on the phone much longer during the pandemic
‘Your call is important to us.’ Really?
Yes, you've been spending a lot more time waiting on the phone during the pandemic.

NAMES
Amanda Gorman in a Louis Vuitton by Virgil Abloh Dress (left) and a Dior Haute Couture dress and headband (right).
Amanda Gorman, poet and Harvard graduate, stuns on the May cover of Vogue
Gorman appears on two versions of Vogue's cover, both shot by Annie Leibovitz.

At Raynham Flea Market, dealers sell inside the mart and outside in the lot.
These five outdoor flea markets come to life on Sundays this spring
In Grafton, Hubbardston, Raynham, and other towns, vendors are returning to hawk everything from jewelry to power tools.

Special Projects

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.
See the full project Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

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

PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

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.

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The author's father, Arthur Loewengart, returning to Rexingen c. 1970.
IDEAS | MIMI SCHWARTZ

When the Nazis came, not everyone divided neatly into ‘good’ neighbors and ‘bad’
A person smokes a Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarette.
Shaleen Title and Andy Tan

Big tobacco is coming for legal marijuana
President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center in Pittsburgh in March.
SCOT LEHIGH

The senility-mongering of Biden
Roberto Dos Reis prepares a takeout order at Soleil in Roxbury, in January.
Michelle Wu and Sheldon Lloyd

To tackle racial injustice in city contracting, start with food
An arial view of Soldier's Home in Holyoke.
EDITORIAL

Holyoke veterans deserve more than a new building
Bystanders watch as demonstrators march against anti-Asian violence in New York City on March 27.
IDEAS | NOAH Y. KIM

The power and the perils of an Asian American political awakening

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
The Little River flows through the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge in Wells, Maine.
Perspective

Terry Tempest Williams: We have to bridge our divides. My uncle reminded me how to begin
MISS CONDUCT

In the pandemic era, can you invite people to a shower if they're not invited to the wedding?
Muhammara.
Cooking

Recipes: A weeknight meal that makes the most of classic Middle Eastern ingredients
Malcolm Cawthorne at Brookline High School.
on the cover

The exhaustion of being a Black teacher in a school when you’re one of too few educators of color

sports

Bruins left wing Anton Blidh (right) celebrates his first goal of the season with defenseman Connor Clifton (75) during the first period of Thursday night's win vs. the Capitals.

Rookie goaltender Jeremy Swayman (31 saves) steady again in net for Bruins in win vs. Capitals

Rafael Devers has made himself feel at home at Camden Yards

Eduardo Rodriguez’s return about more than the victory

metro

Zeinab Yusuf, who was admitted to Cornell University, believes she wouldn't have been accepted if the SAT had been required.

The pandemic has upended college admissions with more surprises and more wait lists

‘This is our moment’: In Medford, Katherine Clark says federal funding makes full-time, in-person learning possible

William Gamson, BC sociologist who created a forerunner of Rotisserie League Baseball, dies at 87

Nation

Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg.

Indicted Gaetz associate is expected to plead guilty, lawyers say

‘We’ve got a long way to go’: Biden unveils actions on guns, says much more needed

The COVID 19 is real: Weight gain has been a problem for many during the pandemic

World

Expedition 65 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, and Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov.

US-Russian trio blast off on mission to space station

Northern Ireland sees spasm of violence as old tensions resurface

In Asia, John Kerry urges bold action on climate to avoid global ‘suicide pact’

politics

Representative Matt Gaetz spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 26, 2021.

Amid reported federal sex trafficking investigation, Matt Gaetz slated to speak at pro-Trump event hosted by women’s group

Opening of baseball season showcases how those in red states and blue states are living different realities

Senate ruling gives Democrats a back door around an infrastructure filibuster

business

Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union held a sign outside an Amazon facility where labor is trying to organize workers in Bessemer, Ala.

E-mails show that Amazon pressed the Postal Service for a mailbox, a move a union says violates labor law

Sixty-week delay on router orders shows scale of chip crisis

Chip shortage forces more production cuts by General Motors

lifestyle

Issues with the neighbors? Not in Monowi, Neb. The population in Monowi is one — that would be Elsie Eiler, shown here.

Move over, Austin: These towns are weirder

Reopenings abound from Cambridge to the South End, and a star chef signs off

At Deep Cuts Deli, music and sandwiches exist in perfect harmony

marijuana

Stem founder Caroline Pineau stands inside her unfinished Haverhill marijuana store in 2019.

Marijuana store sues Haverhill, saying steep ‘impact’ fees are not justified

New York legalizes recreational marijuana

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

opinion

Elijah Baay, a student, speaks in support of transgender rights during a rally outside the Alabama State House last month.

Republican anti-trans legislation is an assault on children

Eagerly anticipating a return to ‘the best kids’ ride in town’

GOP lawmakers’ rejection of Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan doesn’t add up

food & dining

Cuban sandwich at Deep Cuts Deli.

At Deep Cuts Deli, music and sandwiches exist in perfect harmony

8 things for diners to get excited about this spring

Chocolate lovers are going to want to make The Dean’s List

travel

Issues with the neighbors? Not in Monowi, Neb. The population in Monowi is one — that would be Elsie Eiler, shown here.

Move over, Austin: These towns are weirder

Bike camps for girls, a whimsical glass exhibit in Vermont, and getting ready to ride the rails

How to plan a national park visit in 2021

Books

Taking on the Sacklers in ‘Empire of Pain’

A novel about theater and life in ‘Good Company’

Hanif Abdurraqib on reading poetry, becoming a poet

Movies

Netflix scored a multi-year deal that will make it the new streaming home to Sony Pictures’ top releases in the U.S. Beginning next year, Sony’s new films will stream domestically on Netflix after their theatrical runs. That includes movies in popular franchises like “Spider-Man,” “Venom” and “Jumanji.” (Hiram Garcia/Sony via AP)

Netflix scores streaming rights to new top Sony films

Famous producer, infamous boss

Doc Talk: Medical practice, paternity test, musical inspiration

Television

From left: William H. Macy as Frank Gallagher, Noel Fisher as Mickey Milkovich, Cameron Monaghan as Ian Gallagher, Emma Kenney as Debbie Gallagher, and Christian Isaiah as Liam Gallagher in "Shameless."

Shamelessly devoted to the Gallaghers, right to the end

‘Pam and Tommy’ will spotlight a sex tape’s backstory

HBO’s ‘The Nevers’ is subtle not ever

music

The six-week lineup announced Thursday features all the usual suspects. Clockwise from bottom left: Andris Nelsons, John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, Keith Lockhart, and Emanuel Ax.

Tanglewood’s 2021 season looks almost normal

Art, activism, optimism: Jazz pianist Vijay Iyer navigates uneasy times

The Wang stage isn’t too big for 9-year-old Louie Phipps

Theater/Dance

From left: Michael Knowlton, Rachel Cognata, and Kadahj Bennett in the online production of Idris Goodwin's "Hype Man: a break beat play."

‘Hype Man’ returns, this time online, and it’s even more compelling

Erica Rhodes gets her laughs at the drive-in

Neil Diamond musical will have a pre-Broadway premiere at the Colonial in 2022

globe local

"Save Webster Woods!" signs displayed along Langley Road in Newton in 2016.

Newton, Boston College spar in court over value of Webster Woods

Newton to hold public hearing on updated Riverside proposal that includes two life sciences buildings

Four-alarm fire in Somerville quickly extinguished

Obituaries

William Gamson

William Gamson, BC sociologist who created a forerunner of Rotisserie League Baseball, dies at 87

David Kantor, innovative psychologist of group dynamics and halfway houses, dies at 93

‘Chernobyl’ and ‘Harry Potter’ actor Paul Ritter dies at 54