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Police identify driver in bus crash
The Calvary Coach bus involved in the crash on Soldiers Field Road.

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The owner of Calvary Coach told a television station that the driver may have been checking his GPS at the time of the crash.

Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce looked for an opening around Los Angeles Clippers forward Matt Barnes.

Celtics 106, Clippers 104

Celtics hold on for the win over Clippers

Paul Pierce scored 22 points in Boston’s fourth straight victory since losing Rajon Rondo to an ACL tear.

Three Wilmington churches vandalized

Police said two Catholic churches and one Congregational church in Wilmington were vandalized late Friday night or early Saturday morning.

Man charged in fatal shooting of ‘American Sniper’ author

A man has been charged in the deaths of former Navy SEAL and author Chris Kyle and another man at a Texas gun range.

49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and Ravens coach John Harbaugh.

JIM MONE/AP (left); DANNY MOLOSHOK/ REUTERS

Dan Shaughnessy | Super Bowl XLVII Ravens vs. 49ers, 6:30 p.m.

Harbaughs make family history in Super Bowl

Not many folks were aware of Ravens coach John Harbaugh and his brother, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh. Sunday night, everything changes.

On Super Bowl Sunday, local fans can only sulk

Boston sports fans used to be connoisseurs of losing, then of winning. Now, the championships we didn’t win haunt us.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived at the State Department in Washington on Sept. 12 to speak about the deaths of Americans in Libya.

Opinion | JEFF JACOBY

One of the greatest secretaries of state? Not Hillary Clinton

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was popular and diligent, but she was hardly a giant of American statecraft.

book review

‘How Literature Saved My Life’ by David Shields

The critic and reformed novelist gives an intimate—and very entertaining— explanation of what he reads and why.

After reading to a kindergarten class at Linden School in Malden last February, Governor Deval Patrick sat in on a music lesson for a P.A.C.E. class (Practical Academic Community Education).

Opinion | JOANNA WEISS

Deval Patrick’s public school legacy

The governor’s past growing up on Chicago’s South Side and attending public schools there informs his hopes for education in Massachusetts.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/01/30/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/bridge003a-930[2].jpg The (Mystic) Tobin Bridge

The Mystic Bridge opened for traffic on Feb. 26, 1950, and was renamed in honor of former Boston mayor and Massachusetts governor Maurice J. Tobin in 1967.

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Going back to her days on the Boston Latin Academy track team, Annie Dookhan relentlessly pursued prestige.

Chasing renown on a path paved with lies
Bertil Hult, founder of EF Education First, in front of a piece of the Berlin Wall at the company’s Cambridge office. EF is doubling the size of its Cambridge campus.

Education First aims to bridge barriers
Dr. Gerard Hayes, who specializes in pulmonary and critical care, monitors patients remotely from the “e-ICU” command center in Westwood. Video screens show patients in Steward hospital intensive care units from Methuen to Fall River.

Steward reshapes Mass. health care business
Broadway tryouts could bring weeks of work to Boston theaters, the bill’s proponents say. But even some producers wonder if there is an audience here for so long a run.

Bill aims to woo Broadway-bound shows

Mystery surrounds ‘Side Effects’ and Soderbergh
Peter Catanese III started JustForJeeps.com out of his family’s auto dealership in Norwood.

On The job

Riding the worldwide ‘Jeep wave’
Professor Jonathan Garlick and his co-teacher, Lara Park, got into the groove at a recent class.

Tufts professor turns to rap to reach students
“Omnibus Paris,” from 1892, the first painting Anders Zorn sold in the US, was purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner, who became a patron of Zorn’s.

winter arts guide: art

Revisiting Anders Zorn at the Gardner
The aesthetic of the Brazilian company Grupo Corpo (above in “Parabelo”) reflects its founders’ training in classical ballet and Graham technique.

Winter Arts guide: dance

Brazilian dance troupe inspired by heat and happiness
Nicholas Hoult starts in “Warm Bodies”

movies

Exploring the plight of the loving dead in ‘Warm Bodies’
Zack Dillahunty, here in a Newbury Street meeting spot, uses an iPhone app called Grindrto instantly find potential dates in his area.

Instant gratification is making us perpetually impatient
Globe writer Shira Springer (left) learned the finer points of pole vaulting from Olympic gold medalist Jenn Suhr.

Gold medalist provides novice instruction in pole vaulting

Sports

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Sunday Baseball Notes

Red Sox PA announcer Carl Beane died last May.

Red Sox still searching for a new PA voice

The Red Sox are narrowing down their search for a new public address announcer to replace the late Carl Beane.

Metro

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Gerard Leone says he may run for US Senate

The Middlesex district attorney is giving “serious consideration” to running in the special election to fill John Kerry’s seat, he said Saturday.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Small ending, big results?

JOAN VENNOCHI

How Patrick is shaping the face of Mass.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived at the State Department in Washington on Sept. 12 to speak about the deaths of Americans in Libya.

Opinion | JEFF JACOBY

One of the greatest secretaries of state? Not Hillary Clinton
After reading to a kindergarten class at Linden School in Malden last February, Governor Deval Patrick sat in on a music lesson for a P.A.C.E. class (Practical Academic Community Education).

Opinion | JOANNA WEISS

Deval Patrick’s public school legacy
49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and Ravens coach John Harbaugh.

Dan Shaughnessy | Super Bowl XLVII Ravens vs. 49ers, 6:30 p.m.

Harbaughs make family history
Erika Murphy works at Enservio, a Needham company that creates software for the insurance industry.

Innovation Economy

Investment in enterprise firms is picking up

JOAN VENNOCHI

Despite loss, Brown taught Democrats a lesson

RENÉE LOTH

A path or a roadblock to citizenship?
Bill Parcells left the Patriots after coaching them to a loss in Super Bowl XXXI.

Dan Shaughnessy

Bill Parcells’ legacy with Patriots still strong
Cambridge Eagle Scout Tano Holmesson of Derrick Z. Jackson, raises the flag at a Boy Scouts event in 2006.

Derrick Z. Jackson

A troop before its time

Kevin Cullen

The virtues of inexperience
Bill Weld was governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to ’97.

SCOT LEHIGH

The search for a big senator

Nation & World

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Mourners attend a commemoration ceremony Saturday for a protester who was killed Friday during a clash with Egyptian security forces near the presidential palace in Cairo.

Video of police beating stokes anger in Egypt

Egypt’s interior minister vowed Saturday to investigate the beating of a near-naked man by riot police.

Politics

Political Notebook

The White House on Saturday released a photo of President Obama firing a shotgun at Camp David in August.

Photo evidence offered of Obama’s gun hobby

The White House released a photo of President Obama firing a shotgun at Camp David in August.

Business

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Product Reviews

Canon PowerShot D20

Digital cameras take a big leap ahead

Consumers could benefit from some of the biggest improvements to cameras in years.

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winter arts guide: music

Kingsley Flood (from left): George Hall, Naseem Khuri, Chris Barrett, Jenée Morgan, Travis Richter, and Nick Balkin. The band’s second album, “Battles,” will be released Tuesday, and the group plays Brighton Music Hall Saturday night.

Kingsley Flood is ready for the national stage

A little bit country, a little bit rock ’n’ roll, the local band Kingsley Flood is ready to ascend to the national stage.

Travel

The Yamato-kan is the original Morikami Museum building and sits on Yamato Island. Yamato was the early 1900s utopian community’s name.

Morikami Museum and Gardens is a hidden gem

The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is a quiet hidden gem in what was once Florida pineapple country.

Books

for children | liz rosenberg

An early illustration for Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Winderland.”

‘Splintered’ by A.G. Howard

Howard’s Goth-infused, fantasy novel “Splintered’’ is in many ways a brilliant debut, in others a disturbing one.

Magazine

The cover for the February 3 2013 issue

Back Bay renovation
The cover for the January 27 2013 issue

Cambodian-Americans confronting deportation
The cover for the January 20 2013 issue

My friend Tito
The cover for the January 13 2013 issue

Alfresco fabulous

Opinion

“Massachusetts has a progressive image. But for the longest time, power was vested almost exclusively in a white, male political establishment.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“To rein prosecutors back in, these scholars argue, America should reinstate ordinary citizens to their rightful place in the process, and with them a common-sense vision of fairness.”

Leon Neyfakh on how to solve prosecutorial overreach 

“[Annie Dookhan’s] dedication was far greater than her ability. . . . She just wanted to try. It was amazing because she not only did it, thanks to her the team won first place. That girl never quit.”

Coach Ray Behenna,  who coached Dookhan on the Boston Latin Academy girls’ track team