Warren stands firm in Senate debate
Elizabeth Warren used her first debate last night to solidify her position as the front-runner in the race for the Democratic Senate nomination.
Campaign 2012
GOP elite still not sold on Romney
The search for a more perfect candidate underscores how Mitt Romney, for all his strengths, has yet to win over part of the Republican elite.
Bill Brett for The Boston Globe
A year later, Boston school buses still late
Late school buses continue to bedevil Boston parents and teachers a year after a new system was instituted to manage the routes.
Museum of Fine Arts
MFA exhibit reveals a genius’s all-too-human flaws
The MFA’s “Degas and the Nude” exhibit offers a candid, and occasionally uncomfortable, look at the tensions at work in an artist’s life.
62 Restaurant & Wine Bar
Bewitchingly delicious
The finest reason to go to Salem this month has nothing to do with Halloween.
Torrential rains leave Essex County reeling
Drenched communities in Essex County began drying out and taking stock yesterday, following a flurry of morning thunderstorms that pummeled the region north of Boston.
“What people are really looking for today is authenticity, and they like bold and brash, especially on the Republican side right now.”
Mark McKinnon, a Republican strategist
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Longy launches new El Sistema program with Bard
The Longy School of Music will launch a program based on the El Sistema philosophy of empowering students, a move that creates tension with the New England Conservatory.
Business
Raytheon gives $1m to help cultivate engineering
Raytheon is expected to say today that it will contribute $1 million to a Museum of Science initiative to spark grade schoolers' interest in engineering.
Nation
Christie says he won’t run for president this time
Saying ‘‘now is not my time,’’ Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey confirmed that he would not seek the Republican nomination for the presidency.
World
At least 50 killed in blast in Somalia
A massive truck bomb killed at least 50 people in Somalia’s capital, raising fears that the extremist al-Shabab Islamist group is gaining strength.
Sports
Dan Shaughnessy
Top priority right now is Theo Epstein
Red Sox management needs to clarify GM Theo Epstein’s status with the team. Only then can the Sox go about rebuilding a club that went down in flames this season.
Food and dining
Cheap Eats
At El Paisa, Colombian and Italian co-mingle
Dinner brings a quiet atmosphere; brunch is a madhouse - and quite worthy of it.
Arts
TELEVISION REVIEW
‘American Horror Story’ is frighteningly familiar
It’s a very standard creep-fest, an aggressively stylized mash-up of familiar haunted-house movies including “The Amityville Horror,’’ “The Haunting,’’ and “The Shining.’’
Opinion
“How critical community gardens are to preserving a city’s fabric is now becoming clear.”
Derrick Z. Jackson
Ideas
“To become a citizen of a nation is a choice that involves more sacrifice and pain than tearing down the sculpture of a dictator.”
Gal Beckerman, on the challenges facing some Middle Eastern countries