Lackey to have Tommy John surgery
The Red Sox pitcher will miss all of next season, and a clause in his contract gives the team the option of getting John Lackey for an extra year at the league minimum salary.
Charles Krupa/AP
Ben Cherington vows to make Red Sox MLB’s ‘best’ team
The new Red Sox general manager introduced himself by vowing to make up for what he said was a “painful” end to the 2011 season.
Theo Epstein: ‘it truly feels great’ to join Cubs
The Cubs introduced Epstein, the former Red Sox GM, as their new president of baseball operations today. “I consider myself very, very lucky to be with the Cubs,” he said.
European crisis threatens US, Obama’s reelection bid
No president dealing with a jobless rate as high as the current 9.1 percent has been reelected since World War II, economists noted today.
Quincy landlord pleads guilty in fatal 2009 fire
A Quincy woman is the first landlord convicted under a state law passed after the 2003 Station nightclub disaster.
Perry announces ‘cut, balance, and grow’ plan
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, hoping to reinvigorate his fizzling campaign, unveiled a plan today for a 20 percent flat-tax rate.
Alex Beam
Stirring the pot at MIT
A professor’s account of discussing race, diversity, and inclusion sparks an impassioned response.
“Had you told the 12-year-old me that I would someday walk away from my dream job as general manager of the Red Sox completely of my own volition, I would have thought you were crazy.”
Theo Epstein, former Red Sox general manager
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Superintendent offers expansion plan
Public reaction was divided on a proposal by Superintendent Carol R. Johnson to expand seven top Boston public schools and create about 700 new seats.
Business
Mass. single-family home sales rise in September
Single-family home sales rose 10 percent in September form the same month a year ago, while the median selling price rose 1.7 percent, a report shows.
Politics
Political Notebook
Ex-N.H. staffers rip Bachmann national team
The former staff for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign issued a scathing indictment as they explained their en masse resignation.
Nation & World
Libya agrees to investigate Khadafy killing
Libya’s interim government, under mounting international pressure, said that it will conduct an investigation into the death of Moammar Khadafy.
Sports
On Football
Patriots’ pass defense still a serious problem
Unless the pass defense continues to improve greatly, the odds are seriously stacked against these Patriots making a Super Bowl run.
Arts
FRAME BY FRAME
What is unspoken by such a fool?
“Allegory of Folly,’’ unmistakably of a fool, was painted around 1510 when Quentin Metsys was emerging as the leading painter in Antwerp.
Lifestyle
G Cover
Halloween spending to soar
Halloween’s popularity with kids and “kidults’’ - young adults who still enjoy the trappings of childhood - will push spending to $6.9 billion this year.
Opinion
“Most of us agree that we shouldn’t choose a candidate for gender alone. But gender isn’t just an afterthought, either.”
Joanna Weiss
Ideas
“Warren has spent her career trying to coax more legal scholars to conduct the kind of hands-on research that has driven her own work, which remains relatively rare in the field.”
Leon Neyfakh, on the career of Elizabeth Warren