Keating won’t run against Lynch after redistricting
Representative William Keating will move to a newly created district on the Cape and South Coast and won’t run against Representative Stephen Lynch under a redistricting plan unveiled today.
Woman accuses Cain of bold sexual advance
A Chicago-area woman today accused Herman Cain of making a sexual advance more than a decade ago when she was seeking his help finding a job.
Doctor convicted in Michael Jackson’s drug death
Dr. Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver.
District 7 campaign focuses on community
For city councilor Tito Jackson, the campaign never seems to end. But when done well, he says, governance and campaigning are the same thing.
Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff
Facebook’s Zuckerberg returns to Harvard
Mark Zuckerberg, who dropped out of the university seven years ago, was in Cambridge to scout for new employees and said he hopes to open a Facebook office in Boston.
Joe Frazier, 67, dies after fight with cancer
The former heavyweight champion who handed Muhammad Ali his first defeat yet had to live forever in his shadow, has died after a brief battle with liver cancer.
BOOK REVIEW
‘Into the Blue’ by Joseph J. Corn
“Into the Blue’’ looks at flying in all its forms, from early open-cockpit biplane flights to 1969’s first moon landing.
Juliette Kayyem
Paychecks as a defense weapon
There are many reasons to support military spending, but job creation is not one of them.
“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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Columnists
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
Barnes & Noble’s unveils $249 Nook Tablet
The book reader includes more features of a full-blown tablet than its prior offerings as the tablet wars heat up ahead of the all-important holiday season.
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
Large asteroid will pass close to Earth Tuesday evening
A large asteroid will swing close to Earth tomorrow, missing it only by 201,700 miles - a shorter distance from Earth than the moon, NASA said.
Sports
Bruins 6, Islanders 2
Bruins, Rask take care of Islanders
Nathan Horton had two goals and an assist, and Tuukka Rask stopped 24 shots to earn his first win of the season and lead the Bruins to a win over the Islanders.
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
G force
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.
Top Places to Work
Special section
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