Red Sox reap $45m from Lansdowne, Yawkey Way lease deal
Over the last nine years, the Red Sox have increased their revenue by millions through the use of two streets that city officials handed over for a relative pittance.
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How willpower works
Illustration by CHRISTOPH HITZ
Why can't you resist that cookie? How can you stick with your exercise routine? New research is helping us understand.
On football
This time, Patriots offense is to blame
Sure, the Patriots offense made plays when it counted in the fourth, but what they put together for the first three quarters was borderline atrocious.
As ex-housing chief’s pay rose, tenants say they were ignored
Some Chelsea public housing residents, who deal with rodents and cracked walls, were outraged to hear about the former housing director’s $360,000 salary.
Adrian Walker
Good move by Paul Epstein
Brookline High social worker Paul Epstein - yes, he’s Theo’s twin brother - has been working for six years to build a youth-oriented community center, and the idea is taking off.
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Harvard students welcome return of Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg is giving a recruiting talk at Harvard today, seven years after he dropped out to start Facebook.
“What we’ve made from more real estate taxes, more jobs, and increased business in that area over the past 10 years more than makes up for it.”
Mayor Menino, on Boston’s lease agreement with the Red Sox
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Metro
Familiar foe joins Yancey on ballot
For all but two of the biennial races for Boston City Council since 1987, Charles C. Yancey has faced a challenge from J.R. Rucker, a 57-year-old community activist.
Business
Time clock handles pizza orders, too
A new device from Kronos Inc. in Chelmsford could make the process of punching a time clock a lot more enjoyable.
Politics
Female voters drawn to Romney this time
Mitt Romney’s strength with female voters — they support him by about five percentage points more than men do — was not something he saw in his 2008 presidential run.
Nation & World
Greek rivals reach deal to forge government
A new Greek unity government will move ahead on a debt agreement with the EU under an agreement reached by Prime Minister George Papandreou and the opposition leader.
Sports
Giants 24, Patriots 20
Patriots foiled again by Eli Manning, Giants
A critical pass interference call against the Patriots defense on the Giants’ final possession killed a come-from-behind effort and led to a New York victory.
Arts
Opera Review
Verdi’s ‘Macbeth,’ set in a dark dream
The dead never really die in Boston Lyric Opera’s exceedingly dark and psychologically driven new staging of Verdi’s “Macbeth.’’
Health and wellness
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A policy’s smoke screen
Dr. Michael Siegel, a tobacco researcher and professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, talks about tobacco use in modern times.
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Top Places to Work - 2011
The Globe’s 2011 Top Places to Work survey ranks 100 of the best workplaces in Massachusetts.
Opinion
“Elections are traditionally a mechanism of restoration, yet the GOP, by reducing itself to the absurd, has undercut faith in the entire enterprise.”
James Carroll
Ideas
“Scholars who take on punk find themselves working amid bedeviling contradictions, as they try to methodically define a culture that refuses definition, rejects method, and denies the very idea of expertise.”
Leon Neyfakh