Stage Review
Ebb and flow in ‘South Pacific’
This is one of those rare musicals that manages to outlast changes in taste and to be largely unharmed by the passage of time.
Orioles 4, Red Sox 3
Red Sox’ collapse is complete after Orioles’ comeback
Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
There have been nights of anguish over the years for the Red Sox. But nothing quite like what transpired at Camden Yards last night.
Reebok to pay $25m over shoe claims
Customers will receive $25 million in refunds, after one of the largest settlements ever reached between a company and the federal government over deceptive advertising claims.
Mass. man faces terrorism charges
An Ashland man was charged with an Al Qaeda-inspired plot to send remote-controlled aircraft with explosives into the Pentagon and the US Capitol.
Program aims to transform school labs
The Massachusetts School Building Authority announced the $60 million pilot program that it hopes will transform old labs into state-of-the art centers.
Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
Affordable housing investment in Allston clicks for Google
Google is investing $28 million to help construct 240 units at the Charlesview residences, one of the largest low-income housing developments in the country.
Florida GOP may upend timetable for primaries
Officials in the Sunshine State are targeting Jan. 31, a move that would force New Hampshire to push its primary into January to remain the first in the nation.
“We’re not a playoff team. The Rays deserved it and we didn’t. You can’t say we were a good team.”
David Ortiz
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Speedy new fireboat is cleared for action
The city’s newest firefighting tool is a tight-turning, quick-stopping 52-ton vessel with five water cannons capable of shooting about 13,000 gallons of water per minute.
Business
Amazon undercuts rivals’ prices
At $199 the Fire is less than half the price of the Apple iPad, which starts at $499. It is the first tablet from a major company to seriously undercut the iPad in price.
Nation
Jackson’s final days described at trial
The testimony on the second day of the trial helped shed light on what Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray did and did not do after he found Jackson unconscious in June 2009.
World
Khadafy probably with nomads
Fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy is likely to have taken refuge near the Algerian border under the protection of sympathetic nomadic tribesmen who have fought for him.
Sports
Orioles 4, Red Sox 3
Red Sox’ collapse is complete after Orioles’ comeback
There have been nights of anguish over the years for the Red Sox. But nothing quite like what transpired at Camden Yards last night.
Style
boston fashion week
Taking a big step forward
In its new home, Boston Fashion Week welcomes established designers and new faces.
Arts
TELEVISION REVIEW
‘Gentleman’ mans-up by dumbing down
“How to Be a Gentleman’’ depicts masculinity in the way “The Odd Couple’’ did in the 1960s and ’70s, with the persnickety Felix and the slobby Oscar locking horns.
Opinion
“Patrick’s ultra-liberal response (to sending fingerprints of arrested suspets to the FBI and immigration officials) reflects one side of a stubborn and ever-polarizing national debate.”
Joan Vennochi
Ideas
“Could it be true, Pinker wondered, that humans had actually become less violent with time, as opposed to more? And if so, how had we done it?”
Leon Neyfakh, on Steven Pinker’s new book about violence in history