Mass. must vie with Asia for casino investors
The growth in Asia has caused a seismic shift in the gambling industry, leaving the state competing for limited investment dollars not only in the Northeast, but across the world.
Jim Davis/Globe Staff/File
Celtics season preview
One last run for the Big Three?
The Celtics veterans know how to stay resilient once they get to the playoffs. The trick will be to arrive in the postseason with momentum and energy to burn.
NBA preview 2011-12
Celtics season tips off with dream of 1 more title
A little late starting this year, the Celtics open their new season on Sunday. Rajon Rondo and the aging Big Three are out to re-create the championship ride they had in 2008.
Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe
Educating the poor comes at a price for Pine Manor
Pine Manor, one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse small colleges, is trying to figure out how to financially survive while maintaining its commitment to low-income students.
Brown’s efforts add to moderate credentials
Senator Brown is expected to face a tough reelection race next year against Democrat Elizabeth Warren, and appears to be pushing harder to brand himself as a moderate.
House GOP yields on tax cut bill
House Republican leaders agreed to accept a temporary extension of the payroll tax cut, beating a hasty retreat from a showdown that they saw as a threat to their election opportunities next year.
1 donor, missteps, 3 infected patients
When a child at Children’s Hospital Boston and two people in Kentucky contracted hepatitis C from the same donor, the mistake was traced to preventable errors.
“A lot of the high-rollers that used to come to Vegas are now going to Macau or Singapore.”
Mark Nichols, an economics professor at the University of Nevada, Reno
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Columnists
Metro
Recess brings little joy to some urban students
Educators say students from unstable homes or those struggling financially become anxious and act out as the holiday season approaches.
Business
WHDH-TV, union reach three-year agreement
The union that represents the on-air personalities at Boston’s WHDH-TV has reached a contract agreement with the station after more than two years of contentious negotiations.
Politics
Romney will not reveal tax data, at least for now
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney refused to make his income tax returns public or discuss any tax code advantages, ‘‘but never say never,’’ he said.
Nation & World
Syrian troops tighten grip as Arab League team arrives
As an advance team from the Arab League arrived yesterday, activists said the regime would prevent them from seeing any of the protesters arrested in the latest crackdown.
Sports
Sports Media
Gil Santos, Gino Cappelletti not on their game
This should be Santos and Cappelletti’s final season calling the Patriots’ radio broadcasts. It is difficult to acknowledge that about a team with such a legacy.
Movies
Movie Review
Classic Hollywood rides again in ‘War Horse’
Steven Spielberg’s “War Horse” is full-throated Hollywood classicism that looks back to the craftsmanship and sentimentality of the studio era.
Arts
Art Review
‘Jedediah Caesar: Soft Structures’ at the MFA
Caesar’s work is in many ways promising, but the show is an underwhelming affair - a little overthought, a little underdone.
Best of the new
Best of the New
Boston’s best people and ideas of 2011
Safer neighborhoods, quieter commutes, and one really brainy historian.
Opinion
“Wouldn’t it be something if a Republican or Democratic candidate emerged in 2012 to sign a pledge for peace?”
Nicholas Burns
Ideas
As tempting as it might be to imagine the Christmas trees we see today in public parks and central plazas as a quaint relic of small town life, it turns out that our modern public trees have politics woven right into their roots.
Leon Neyfakh