State Dept. aided Clinton-backed Rwanda effort

President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton listened in 1999 to a Rwandan woman?s stories of surviving the 1994 genocide. Bill Clinton has said he is haunted by the massacres.

TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images

Bill Clinton wanted to build a new health system in Rwanda. Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department delivered big time.

Emerson College is considering new uses for the Colonial Theatre, which  was lit up for performances only 100 days over the past two years.

Rapid-fire shifts have Boston?s theater community rattled

Are recent transformations ? concussive and breathtakingly swift ? simply coincidence? Or are they somehow related?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/17/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/wiggs_Cohen_490988.jpg Amputee?s high heels come courtesy of bombing survivor

Hillary Cohen is set to be the first person to receive a prosthetic leg donated by a foundation established by Marathon bombing survivor Heather Abbott.

JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC

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Bishops may find themselves accused of having spent the last three weeks fiddling, while everyplace other than Rome burns.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/15/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/YankeeDemo-2A-1267211.jpg Local economies take a hit when nuclear plants close

Lower tax collections, loss of jobs, reduced donations to nonprofits ? just some of the impacts from when the local ?sugar daddy? closes.

BOSTON, MA - 10/14/2015: The close connection between viewer and object in the modern museum. The Institute of Contemporary Art, which strives to be a place where dynamic things happen. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff Photo) SECTION: METRO TOPIC 18experience

Museums special section

What?s happening in local museums

Exploring how we keep museums vital today, plus a look at Vermeer groupies, late-night museum-going, and, of course, things to see and do.

Hospital personnel were escorted out of Brigham and Women?s Hospital after a shooting there in January.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

KEVIN CULLEN

Brigham security fight shows failure to communicate

Nurses at the hospital say more security is needed after a doctor?s killing there, and say their calls have nothing to do with contract talks.

Year-round creepiness abounds at these attractions

Amputation saws, disembodied hands, bloodletting bowls, and a preserved extinct giant sloth await visitors to London?s Hunterian Museum.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/06/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/HotelonNorthexteriorA.jpg Pittsfield gearing up as go-to destination once again

While there have been many unsuccessful attempts to revitalize the city?s downtown, word has spread that momentum is finally taking hold.

Terry Rozier may not play much as a Celtics rookie but he dreams of becoming an All-Star eventually.

David Maxwell

Terry Rozier?s long outside shot

The speedy Celtics rookie outran a lot: a turbulent childhood, a father behind bars. Talent and love ? including his father?s from afar ? saved him.

Concern mounts on opioid crisis? toll on children

Doctors, judges, and drug counselors say they are seeing more and more cases of neglect and abuse of children due to opioid-addicted parents.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/17/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/Gasper-7753.jpg For the Patriots, it?s not about revenge

They?re going to romp because that?s what they do against the Colts. It?s like breathing.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/14/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_gost2_spts.jpg Patriots? Stephen Gostkowski not afraid to talk about perfection

The veteran kicker is 17 for 17 on extra points and 10 for 10 on field goals this season.

BEN VOLIN I SUNDAY FOOTBALL NOTES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/17/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/de16068f75354cbda590cc24be5850be-e6efa03d27c84ea8bc7effa1ed777255-4.jpg In the twilight of his career, Matt Hasselbeck is still getting it done

Hasselbeck?s best days are certainly behind him, but his career is quietly remarkable.

Aisling Brady McCarthy.

Keith Bedford/Globe Staff

Yvonne Abraham

Middlesex DA?s office shows troubling attitude toward evidence

Prosecutors are supposed to make their cases on the merits, and not by sitting on evidence that could benefit the accused.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/13/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/12282007_28registry(2)-6370923.jpg Revisiting the world of ?Back to the Future Part II?

Smartphone glasses? The Cubs winning the World Series? A look at how far off are we from the 2015 that the movie predicted more than 25 years ago.

Woman accused of endangering ailing son by fleeing Pa.

The woman triggered an Amber Alert after she allegedly drove more than seven hours to Boston to have her son treated at Children?s Hospital.

The Big Picture

Protesters opening their umbrellas, symbols of the pro-democracy movement, in 2014.

Reuters

The Umbrella Movement, one year later

A year after Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas at pro-democracy protesters, a Reuters photographer revisited the scenes.

BetaBoston

Innovation Economy

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/16/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/reminder-tease-4914--90x90.jpg Startups serve up ways to get patients to take meds

They?re part of the entrepreneurial drive to solve a problem that costs the health care system hundreds of billions of dollars.

Crux

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/10/16/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/africa150-970.jpg A conversation with Catholic Africa?s lion in winter

Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria is unyielding in his defense of Catholic orthodoxy.