To grammar’s house
Wait, there’s a word for that?
When you work on a news copy desk, you come across a certain number of grammatical problems. And then occasionally, there’s just something downright bizarre.
Police investigate double homicide in Andover
Bill Greene/Globe Staff
A couple in their 60s was found fatally shot this morning in their Andover home, and their black Lexus was set on fire in Boston’s North End last night.
Rabbi balks at plea deal in abuse case
Rabbi Stanley Z. Levitt decided he would not plead guilty to charges that he molested sixth graders at a Brookline school and instead take his case to a jury.
New MIT center to focus on autism
The new Simons Center for the Social Brain is funded by a $26.5 million gift and will drive research and treatment of autism spectrum disorders.
Democrats may drop millionaire tax demands
Democrats may drop the demand as President Obama and Congress seek agreement on a number of year-end bills without triggering a partial government shutdown.
Business is booming at luxury retailers
Even as unemployment remains high and job growth is anemic, luxury spending is up, with some retailers reporting business at prerecession levels.
“Why? Shouldn’t the gift be more about quality, emotional attachment, something from the heart?”
Amy Bucher, 32, on buying gifts at resale stores
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Occupy protesters arraigned; some get probation
24 Occupy Boston protesters were arraigned yesterday in what has become a familiar place to the movement, Courtroom 17 in Boston Municipal Court.
Business
Lindt launches high-tech chocolate bear
The star of the Swiss chocolatier’s holiday collection has a premium milk chocolate figure, a fancy gold foil wrapper, a red ribbon necklace, and yes, its own iPhone app.
Politics
Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich rift has old roots
The divide began in 1994 when Romney labeled Gingrich’s Contract with America “a mistake.’’
Nation & World
US panel urges a ban on cellphones for all drivers
A federal agency yesterday called for a ban on all cellphone use by drivers — the most far-reaching such recommendation to date.
Sports
Sox trade Lowrie for Astros hurler Melancon
The Red Sox may have acquired their next closer, picking up Mark Melancon from Houston for Jed Lowrie and reliever Kyle Weiland.
Food and dining
In weak economy, buying coffee is a small reward
An informal Greater Boston survey suggests that coffee drinkers are unwilling to starve the habit that gets them going.
Arts
STAGE REVIEW
‘Priscilla Dreams the Answer’ has a quirky heart
In Walt McGough’s new comedy, two aliens drop in on our beleaguered heroine and offer her the chance to save life as we know it.
Fall All-Scholastics
All-Scholastics
Fall All-Scholastics: Honoring the area’s best
A Boston Globe tradition continues as we toast local athletes from Barnstable to Georgetown for their achievements this fall.
Opinion
“It is promising that the black graduation rate at UMass has risen from 41 percent three years ago. Let’s see what happens in the MAC.”
Derrick Z. Jackson
Ideas
The ability to coordinate among the different senses seems to be something the brain learns; we’re not born being able to do it.
Courtney Humphries