Many MCAS scores fall below federal standards
State officials expressed frustration with federal standards, but 22 of 35 schools that were once identified as “underperforming” saw improvements in English and math.
GOP urges Harvard to end Elizabeth Warren’s salary
The Massachusetts Republican Party is asking the university to consider whether Warren should continue being paid while the law professor runs for US Senate.
ROTC back at Harvard after 40 years
In a ceremony freighted with symbolism, Harvard University President Drew Faust lauded the Navy’s ROTC program and officially welcomed it onto campus yesterday, ending four decades of frosty relations between the university and the military and laying the groundwork for increased recruiting at the school. The event happened the same day the US government formally ended the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’’ policy that barred gay and lesbian members of the military from openly acknowledging their sexuality. Harvard considered the policy discriminatory.
BALTIMORE 7, BOSTON 5
Sox lose but remain 2 games ahead of Rays
The Red Sox lost to Baltimore but the Yankees beat the Rays, meaning the Sox are still two games ahead in the wild-card chase.
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Thai dishes with a home-grown touch
Lanna Thai in Woburn offers selections made with veggies from the owner’s garden.
Transformation taking root in Maverick Square
East Boston’s Maverick Square is undergoing a construction boom that’s revitalizing a neighborhood known only a few years ago as having its share of urban problems.
Harvard details Allston expansion
The university intends to proceed with the first phase of a massive science campus that includes a 700,000-square-foot health and life sciences center in Allston.
“State jobs should not be a dividend for the connected nor for existing state employees in responsible positions.”
Paul F. Ware Jr., the independent counsel who last year found “systemic corruption’’ in Probation Dept. hiring practices
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Columnists
Metro
Big Boy, the plus-sized pig, remembered
It’s a rare pig that gets to die of old age, but Big Boy was no ordinary pig. In Ipswich, he was a celebrity, and his fame was based on one simple fact: He was gigantic.
Business
Bernanke pushes past dissent
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke pushed ahead with a plan to keep short-term interest rates near zero through mid-2013 despite three dissenting votes on the Fed’s policy-making committee.
Nation
Military accepting gay recruits’ applications
The current policy which bans openly gay service, commonly known as “don’t ask, don’t tell,” ends today.
Ga. board denies clemency for Troy Davis
Davis is set to die on Wednesday for the killing of off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail in 1989.
World
Yemeni protesters seize military base; clashes kill dozens
Thousands of protesters backed by military defectors seized a base of the elite Republican Guards, weakening the control of Yemen’s embattled president over the Arab nation.
Sports
Red Sox fans stay confident amid playoff-race crisis
Loyalists are trying to remain calm, even though what was a large Sox lead in the wild-card race has been dramatically trimmed.
Arts
G Cover
At the MFA, glimpses of ‘The Clock’
At the opening of the MFA’s screening of Christian Marclay’s “The Clock,” Globe writers, in shifts, joined museum-goers. Here’s what they saw.
Lifestyle
Alex Beam
Fact check this!
I’m tiring very quickly of these ubiquitous “fact check’’ features that are so popular in journalism. At heart, I’m a fictionalist, and a sucker for a well-told tale.
Opinion
“Nature has conspired, over the eons, to make men a little less like cavemen once their children come along.”
Joanna Weiss
Ideas
“It doesn’t make any difference whether you assign more homework in English, science, or history. Students will still do the same.”
Ozkan Eren, assistant professor of economics at the University of Nevada, on whether homework works