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Obama, Boehner meet to discuss ‘fiscal cliff’

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met as the White House and Congress try to find a way to stop impending tax increases and spending cuts.

Two teenagers killed, four others injured in Taunton crash

Two 18-year-olds were killed in the crash, which occurred before 12:30 a.m., and four others were taken to a hospital, according to the Taunton Police Department.

Soldiers were on guard as protesters stood on top of cement blocks near the presidential palace in Cairo Sunday.

Egyptian opposition calls for more protests

The opposition was not satisfied after the president made a concession but refused its main demand that he rescind a draft constitution.

Justice in the shadows | Secret criminals

Many freed criminals avoid deportation, strike again

The US prison system for immigrants, stymied when it tries to deport some criminals, has quietly released thousands, including killers, a Globe investigation shows.

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A look at the crimes committed by convicts whose home countries rejected them.

Samuel Kabeya, 11, sprinted down the pitch during a rugby tournament on Saturday at Joe Moakley Park in South Boston.

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Middle schoolers entertain a new pitch: rugby

Organizers of a middle school rugby tournament in South Boston said the sport is the perfect extracurricular for public school students in the city.

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The senator-elect said she will choose her tactics carefully, keeping quiet when it suits her objective and making noise when she sees the need.

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8 great spots for urban birding in Boston and beyond

Grab your jacket and your binoculars. Even as temperatures drop, Boston’s rife with places to see some fascinating avian species.

To stop the Texans Monday night, the Patriots will likely need to curb the NFL’s top rushing/receiving duo. As they did in 2010, Houston’s Andre Johnson (left) and Arian Foster lead the league in combined yards from scrimmage.

Texans at Patriots | Monday, 8:30 p.m.

Balanced Texans have what it takes to beat Patriots

To stop the Texans Monday, the Patriots will likely need to curb the NFL’s top receiving/rushing duo of Andre Johnson and Arian Foster.

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The attack on Pearl Harbor left over 2,400 dead, 68 of them civilians, after waves of Japanese carrier-based fighters and bombers turned the naval base in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor into an inferno.

Globe exclusives

New England Compounding was located in the same Framingham complex as a business owned by his wife’s family.

Little scrutiny as drug compounder expanded

Meet the Fall All-Scholastics
The Browns are 4-8 after going 5-11 in 2010 and 4-12 in 2011.

Sunday Football Notes

Could Michael Lombardi lead Browns to some glory?

How to donate to Globe Santa

Ideas

The end of days?
Director Peter Jackson.

‘The Hobbit’ emerges

Holiday gift guide
Among those who have significantly influenced the contemporary television landscape (from top): director Robert Altman, “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling, author Charles Dickens, mockumentary filmmaker Christopher Guest, “Candid Camera” creator Allen Funt, vaudevillians like Fannie Brice, author Edgar Allan Poe, screenwriter Nora Ephron, “Sherlock Holmes” creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and founding Surrealist, Andre Breton.

The towers of TV
Angela Menino, filling in for her recuperating husband, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, cheered the arrival of Santa Claus as the holiday trolley tour came to Readville on Friday night.

Menino’s absence is felt as holiday trolley tour kicks off

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The analyzed gift
Ralph Stewart held a vintage silver platter from restaurant Locke-Ober at an auction on Friday.

Locke-Ober auction marks an end to the venerable restaurant

Sunday Preview | Diversity Boston

Why is TV still so white?

Diversity Boston

Diversity Boston

Photographed in Boston’s Paul Revere Park, the Rev. Eric Markman of Hartford Street Presbyterian Church (left), Priti Rao of the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, and Ed Walker of Independent Consultants of Education are among a devoted group of diversty champions.

Diversity champions

From fields as different as banking, education, politics, health care, and the clergy, these men and women are passionately committed to leveling the playing field for all in Massachusetts.

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Sunday Baseball Notes

The avoidance of Josh Hamilton by so many teams is fascinating.

Josh Hamilton’s agent is doing him no favors

Agent Michael Moye has been secretive and silent about the client he’s supposed to be doing his best for.

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Miri and John Parrucci made fruit kabobs for ruwenzori longhaired fruit bats at the Franklin Park Zoo on Saturday. They later visited a bat lab at Boston University.

Bat fan visits Boston to learn about disease

Miri Parrucci, a third-grader from Havertown, Pa., who is worried about white-nose syndrome in bats, visited the Kunz Bat Lab at Boston University and Franklin Park Zoo.

Columnists

Shohreh Moldenhauer and her son, Robert, at Children’s Hospital.

Kevin Cullen

A miracle story that needs just one more

Joan Vennochi

The Kevin White legacy after release of FBI files

Jeff Jacoby

Powerball’s other big winner: the taxman

Christopher L. Gasper

Texans must prove themselves against Patriots

Yvonne Abraham

Ban tackle football for players under 14
Thanks to new rules, the royal baby will inevitably bump Prince Harry down the line of succession.

JOANNA WEISS

Kate Middleton’s royal baby and the myth of the firstborn

Innovation Economy

After feast of seed funding, famine may be near

Renée Loth

Extend the rights of victims

Lawrence Harmon

Declaring peace in teacher contract talks
General manager Ben Cherington signed autographs last Saturday before going to Nashville to sign new free agents like Mike Napoli and Shane Victorino.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox moving in right direction
Buddy Guy performing at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Carlo Rotella

Bluesy time for the blues

Boston Capital

Still battling over a sale gone bad

Nation & World

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sat next to Vice President Nicolas Maduro, right, and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello during a national broadcast.

Hugo Chavez says he needs cancer surgery again

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez named his vice president as his successor and was heading back to Cuba on Sunday after announcing his cancer had returned.

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Chemist Nick Bencivenga worked in Ariad’s Cambridge lab, testing samples for purity.

Ariad readies for launch of first cancer treatment

Cambridge biotech company Ariad Pharmaceuticals is focusing on sales — along with science — as its promising first therapy awaits approval.

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Former “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi discusses teaching Hit Songwriting at Berklee.

How to write pop songs that make the grade

Tunesmith and former “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi teaches Berklee students the fine art of the hit song.

Books

book review

The Beatles stirred a cultural shift.

‘The Eve of Destruction’ by James T. Patterson

If the digits 1941 and 2001 signify catastrophe and if the digits 1968 summon rebellion and violence, then what does 1965 evoke?

Travel

In the East Liberty neighborhood in Pittsburgh, the menu at Union Pig and Chicken is all about barbeque.

Weekend in Pittsburgh

Scrappy, energetic, and entrepreneurial, Pittsburgh is actively reclaiming its abandoned places after the economic calamity of the past five years.

Magazine

The cover for the December 9 2012 issue

The drug lab scandal: Who’s cleaning it up?
The cover for the December 2 2012 issue

5 inspired rooms
The cover for the November 25 2012 issue

Cambridge’s Bluefin Labs decodes social media chatter
The cover for the November 18 2012 issue

7 holiday styles that shine

Opinion

“The batterers don’t care about citizenship or sexual orientation when they terrorize their partners. Neither should Congress.”

Renée Loth on Congress stripping the Violence Against Women bill of protections for gays and immigrants.

Ideas

“Gift-giving has long been a topic of fascination for experts on human behavior...Their work has produced insights that cast an analytical--and helpful--light on the trials of our yearly quest to delight family and friends.”

Leon Neyfakh on the analyzed gift 

“I want to use every tool in the tool box because I want to help get things done.”

Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren