US stocks soar on help for Europe
The Dow gained 490 points - its seventh-highest point gain ever in a single day - after a move by the world’s central banks to cut short-term borrowing rates.
Archdiocese to reorganize management of its parishes
The archdiocese proposes to create about 125 “pastoral service teams’’ that would be free to merge programs among churches and make recommendations about closing and selling buildings.
Hearing offers glimpse of Police Dept. tensions
Officer David C. Williams, who faces disciplinary action in an arrest that left a man injured, requested an open hearing to show he has nothing to hide.
State honors its most heroic firefighers
Three Massachusetts firefighters were posthumously awarded yesterday with medals of honor at the annual Firefighter of the Year ceremony in Worcester.
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Charity can be all consuming for next Sox pilot
New Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine devoted decades to giving so much to so many that at times he has risked allowing his good works to interfere with his job performance.
Bob Ryan
Valentine a risky choice for Sox
Bobby Valentine is constitutionally incapable of staying out of the news. Shame on the management of the Boston Red Sox if they think otherwise.
Tech Lab
Motorola’s Droid Razr is thin, fast, flawed
The new Droid Razr is as thin as a supermodel and quick as a Porsche. Alas, battery life is pitifully short. But for a few hours at least, you’ll feel like one of the 1 percent.
Joan Vennochi
Bielat’s challenge pushed Frank toward exit
After a difficult reelection race in 2010 against Sean Bielat, Barney Frank may have lost his desire to go through such an ordeal again.
“Markey and Lynch were protected, and the rest of us got what they didn’t want.”
US Rep. Barney Frank, on the new congressional map
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
State honors its most heroic firefighers
Three Massachusetts firefighters were posthumously awarded yesterday with medals of honor at the annual Firefighter of the Year ceremony in Worcester.
Business
Digitas CEO to lead Time magazines
Time Warner Inc. has named Laura Lang, the chief executive of Digitas, to head its magazine division, leaving the top position vacant at the Boston marketing company.
Politics
For Santorum, the issue of health care is personal
Rick Santorum’s ailing daughter spurs his top policy goal of dismantling the health-care reform law. The new rules, he says, are a threat to those like her.
Nation & World
Brotherhood leading election in Egypt
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was leading in initial, partial results from the nation’s parliamentary elections but was facing stiff competition in many places.
Sports
Stamford, Conn., always has been home to Bobby Valentine
The new man at the helm of the Red Sox, Bobby Valentine, is a larger-than-life figure in his hometown of Stamford, Conn. — an athletic and civic icon.
Style
STYLE
Elle magazine’s Joe Zee talks hot holiday looks
The magazine’s creative director says that sequins and velvet will get you in the spirit.
Arts
Book Review
‘Life Upon These Shores’ by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
In this coffee table book, Gates offers a rich, illustrated history of black America.
Opinion
“Perhaps those who aren’t concerned about climate change will be persuaded by hail on their roofs or cracks in the foundations of their homes.”
Derrick Z. Jackson
Ideas
With quantum computing, today’s researchers are trying to perform a sort of jujitsu.
Joshua Rothman