Deficit committee failing to reach deal
The 12-member congressional supercommittee seems poised to miss a crucial deadline to submit a plan to address the country’s mounting deficit.
Advocates for clergy abuse victims welcome Law’s departure
Attorneys and advocates for clergy abuse victims in Boston reacted to the news of Cardinal Bernard Law’s resignation in Rome.
opinion
Immigration-law remorse
Anti-immigrant legislation is the public policy equivalent of Black Friday. Now a few states are waking up with their own version of buyer’s remorse, writes Juliette Kayyem.
Petitions begin on Occupy Harvard
Harvard factions gathered support with dueling online petitions, one supporting the Occupy Harvard demonstrators and another urging them to leave Harvard Yard.
Brockton dons Santa hats, shatters its own record
At the corner of Main Street and Crescent, a sea of residents converged to try to break the city’s record for the most people wearing Santa hats in one place.
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Brockton first set an unofficial Santa hat record in 2008. This year, the city amassed 1,792 happy revelers, crushing the record once again.
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Many hoped the Santa Hat Challenge would draw people back to the once-thriving city.
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To hit this year’s number out of the park, organizers passed out more than 14,000 Santa hats to city schoolchildren and others.
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Jaci Reed completed her festive ensemble with a pair of sunglasses.
Health care? N.H. residents not buying it
In Ashland, a central New Hampshire working class town, health care is an afterthought for many as they sort through their choices in the upcoming GOP primary.
Now a rock for Patriots, Brian Waters ready to face old team
Though the Pro Bowler signed with the Patriots just over a week before the first regular-season game of the season, Waters’s transition has been seamless.
“The economy killed affordable housing just like the market-rate.”
Bob Engler, an affordable housing developer
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Plan to untangle avenue divides Charlestown
Rutherford Avenue is ugly, crumbling, and must be rebuilt, but the decision on how much it should resemble its old self is roiling the community.
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Black Friday discounts, but no lines
New sites and mobile apps offer deals and bargain-hunting tips for shoppers looking to take advantage of Black Friday sales.
Politics
Brown invited to White House bill-signing today
Senator Scott Brown has been invited to the White House to witness the first part of the president’s jobs package becoming law.
Nation & World
At least 24 killed in Cairo clashes
The third straight day of violence in Cairo’s Tahrir Square has turned into the most sustained challenge yet to the rule of Egypt’s military.
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Patriots’ keys to a Week 11 victory vs. the Chiefs
The Boston Globe breaks down the X’s and O’s for the Patriots’ Week 11 matchup with the Chiefs and offers a prediction for who will win.
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Anaïs Mitchell’s folk opera worthy of the night
Anaïs Mitchell’s folk opera — a riff on the Orpheus myth set, as she put it, ‘‘in a post-apocalyptic Depression era’’ — worked just fine with or without the program notes.
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Better living with technology
Frank Moss is head of the New Media Medicine group at the MIT Media Lab and author of ‘‘The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices.’’
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Holiday Arts Preview
Our critics give their top picks for what to see and experience this holiday season in the worlds of theater, dance, movies, DVDs, classical music, and pop music. This is your guide to holiday season entertainment.
Opinion
“Vast government resources are now being used to ensure that local pee-wee football leagues are not filled with undocumented Mexican children.”
Juliette Kayyem, on Alabama’s new immigration law
Ideas
The improvements coming to air travel amount to a long-awaited application of new thinking and new technology to a complex system that has been slow to accommodate change.
Leon Neyfakh, Ideas staff writer