Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder whose vision gave life to the iPhone and iPad, has died at the age of 56, only weeks after resigning as chief executive of the company in the midst of his battle with pancreatic cancer.
The former Red Sox manager said in a radio interview that he felt ownership “was not being supportive” of him.
STAGE REVIEW
Not many productions of “Twelfth Night’’ are eager to let the Bard rain on their parade, but the one at Actors’ Shakespeare Project goes for his water music hook, line, and sinker, and acts up a storm to boot.
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The Orient Heights Blue Line station in East Boston will get a $27 million makeover, and another $29 million will be spent to build a new Orange Line station at Assembly Square.
Earvin “Magic’’ Johnson Jr. is part of a development group trying to reinvigorate the $2 billion project in Cambridge, which has been stalled since 2007 because of legal and financial issues.
When asked to comment on Elizabeth Warren’s claim that she “didn’t take her clothes off” to pay for college, Brown quipped “Thank God.”
President Obama defiantly challenged lawmakers today to vote for his jobs plan or explain why not, adding that ‘‘this is not a game.”
“There may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.’’
President Obama, on Steve Jobs
The Orient Heights Blue Line station in East Boston will get a $27 million makeover, and another $29 million will be spent to build a new Orange Line station at Assembly Square.
Petitioners in Wellesley collected signatures in hopes of getting a question to repeal the individual health care mandate on next year’s state election ballot.
Texas Governor Rick Perry hauled in $17 million since entering the race 49 days ago, dwarfing the sum Romney has raised in 92 days.
The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose surrealistic works explore the mysteries of the human mind.
The Bruins were nothing close to broken last year. So, there was nothing to fix. GM Peter Chiarelli’s philosophy was simple: stay the heck out of the way.
For a such a big undertaking, the introduction of last week’s Tent at Boston Fashion Week flowed as smoothly as a bolt of silk charmeuse, with the occasional minor snag.
“Personal petulance rules the day in Menino’s Boston. It shapes policy and triumphs over economic principle.”
Joan Vennochi
“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
