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  • Bulger trial The hit man of Country Club Lane

    A man working on the roof of a Philadelphia apartment building fell through into one of the units, where a girl watching TV was hit by ...

  • Daily Talker Should Boston Schools Distribute Condoms

    The Boston School Committee has approved a plan to make condoms available at allpublichigh schools in the city.Previously, only a handful of schools distributed thecontraceptive. Students will receive counseling on safe sex before getting condoms, and parents have the right to exempt their children. What do you think? Should public schools hand out condoms? Let us know in today’s Daily ...

  • Mass. Senate to debate plan to reform welfare

    The bill scheduled for debate on Thursday would require that able-bodied people demonstrate they have tried to find work before they can become eligible for public ...

  • Victims relatives to testify in Bulger trial

    BOSTON (AP) - After hearing three days of testimony from a hit man who admitted killing 20 people, jurors in the trial of James ‘‘Whitey’’ Bulger will soon get to hear from the families of some of those ...

  • Conn. health exchange to offer seminars for CPAs

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut’s health care exchange is hosting several seminars to help educate certified public accountants about the Affordable Care ...


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Movie Review

Crumb [DVD]

Crumb [DVD]

Terry Zwigoffs Crumb is an absolutely disarming documentary and one of the very best of its kind. Ostensibly a film about the great counterculture artist Robert Crumb, whose obscenely hilarious and frequently antisocial cartoons both reflected and helped define the ideology of a generation of ... ...

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  • Bloombergs anti-gun group includes Boston bombers name on list of gun violence victims

    , the older Boston Marathon bomber who was killed in a gunfight with police, was mentioned in a list of gun-violence victims who've diedsince the Newtown shooting at a Mayors Against Illegal Guns rally yesterday. Therally, which is part of the group's 25-state bus tour, was heldin New Hampshire to protest Senator Kelly Ayotte's vote against the Toomey-Manchin gun-control ...

  • Lackey opposes Tigers rookie Alvarez in opener

    Jose Alvarez carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning of his Major League debut. What could the Tigers southpaw possibly do for an encore? "He came up. He did a wonderful job," said Detroit manager Jim Leyland. "I think he'll do fine [Thursday] if he has that same [presence]. The kid did a fantastic job. And we said if something came up, he would deserve a start, and ...

  • Uncle Patriots player had link to homicide victim

    BOSTON (AP) -- New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had a connection to a homicide victim found in an industrial park near the athlete's home, but family and officials were mum on the nature of their relationship, two days after police first visited the upscale ...

  • Parents students protest orchestra teacher’s reassignment

    A decision by Wellesley school district officials to reassign a popular high school orchestra conductor to the elementary level has struck a bad chord with local students and their ...

  • Letter Printing story brings back fond memories

    "North Andover museum makes printing indelible " Globe North, June 13). When I got off my destroyer at the end of World War II (February 1946), I went to work for the Milford (N.H.) Cabinet, a weekly dating back to 1798 and owned by my wife’s family since ...

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