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New research jumbles SAT requirements at top colleges

The recent move by a few elite universities, including Yale and Dartmouth, to reinstate standardized test requirements has reignited the long-running debate over the SAT and whether it is helpful or harmful to applicants.

High winds leave thousands without power in Mass. and N.H.
Downed wires and trees were reported across Massachusetts.

Map shows peak wind speeds from storm; trees crash onto homes, power lines down across region

See where power is out in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire

In Boston’s battle against rats, the rodents appear to be winning: ‘They seem quite content coexisting’

Boston has long battled this stealthy foe, but by many accounts, the city’s rat problem is getting worse. With trash providing bountiful food, rats seem to be more visible, almost brazen, as they make their rounds.

Flash floods are increasingly dangerous and expensive in the Northeast. These charts and maps show why.

Here’s four things to know about more extreme precipitation.
Larry Edelman | Trendlines

The good, the bad, and the ugly of private equity

Most dealmakers aren’t Gordon Gekko. Nor are they Robin Hood.

Rumors swirl amid concern over Catherine, Princess of Wales

Judge blocks Texas law that gives police broad powers to arrest migrants who illegally enter US

Woman arrested after bystander sees red smoke coming from pockets and stops her after South Boston bank robbery, police say

Tell us: How did social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic shape your life?
Globe Magazine

An ice climbing disaster on Mount Katahdin. A desperate rescue mission.

It was a mild winter day in 1974 when six climbers set out on a route no one had ever attempted. Then came a storm of unimaginable fury.

Seeing sports in all 50 states? Bob Ryan completes journey with a flourish in South Dakota.
The author's vocational duties and avocational interests have taken him to games all over the country — quite literally.

A Globe podcast investigated the Carol Stuart murder. Then Boston responded.

Globe reporters were in the room when Michelle Wu told Boston’s Black community, “I am so sorry for the pain that you have carried.” Listen to a bonus episode of the "Murder in Boston" podcast.
Listen | 'Long Overdue': Murder in Boston, Episode 10 Read | The Globe’s eight-part series on the Charles Stuart case

The city apologized after 'Murder in Boston' wrapped. Was it enough?

Watch: Columnist and host Adrian Walker describes the city's reaction and an emotional full-circle moment.

Peter King says botched Deflategate story was ‘probably the biggest mistake’ of his career

King said the NFL's discipline of Tom Brady was like killing an ant with a sledgehammer.
Several teams responded to NFLPA survey with better facilities, services, but not Patriots
TABLES

A Michelin-starred chef opens a Bay Village sushi counter; MonteVerdi debuts along the Charles River this spring

Plus, more sushi for Chestnut Hill, and the return of Sharon’s A La Esh.
A little neighborhood restaurant was named a James Beard semifinalist. Then rumors swirled that it closed.
CONNECTIONS

My grandmother in Kansas could’ve held her own at the best bakeries in Rome

At 10 years old, I learned about hard work from my grandparents on their farm.
TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER

I paid extra to get to my cruise. Why can’t I get reimbursed?

After Elaine Simmons’ flight reservation is lost, she pays an extra $1,796 to get to her cruise on Norweigan Cruise Line. Why won’t the cruise line help her recover the money?

Stacy Wakefield, wife of late Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, has died

The Wakefields were battling different forms of cancer. Their diagnoses were made public last year, days before Tim died.
LOVE LETTERS

I disapprove of my daughter’s affair, but now it’s hard to see my grandkids

How do I have a relationship with them, despite my rift with her?
Opinion
IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI

Give Quincy Market an unsentimental reboot

Once this retail and dining complex was a prime attraction. Today it’s crying out for something that looks to the future more than the past.
IDEAS | RACHEL SLADE

Turn empty offices into little factories
IDEAS | MILES HOWARD

Downtown needs an infusion of artists
Karen Shiffman

The Green Line shutdown has made me appreciate the journey
Robert Kuttner

Steward Health Care should face a full-scale criminal investigation

More recent News

About as many abortions are happening in the US monthly as before Roe was overturned, report finds
The #WeCount report also finds that prescriptions of abortion pills by telemedicine have become common, accounting for about one in every six abortions in the most recent three months of survey results.

Richard Lewis, comedian known for his neurotic, stream-of-consciousness act and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ role, has died
A regular performer in clubs and on late-night TV for decades, Richard Lewis also played Marty Gold, the romantic co-lead opposite Jamie Lee Curtis, in the ABC series “Anything But Love” and Prince John in “Mel Brooks’ Robin Hood: Men In Tights.”

Palestinian deaths in Gaza pass 30,000 as witnesses say Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid
Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials.

Assessing the Bruins’ top trade chips ahead of the deadline
If the Bruins want to add at the trade deadline, they'll need to shed cap space from their NHL roster.

The US is bracing for complex, fast-moving threats to elections this year, FBI director warns

The United States expects to face fast-moving threats to American elections this year as artificial intelligence and other technological advances have made interference and meddling easier than before, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday.

What would happen without a Leap Day? More than you might think.

The math is mind-boggling in a layperson sort of way and down to fractions of days and minutes. There's even a leap second occasionally, but there's no hullabaloo when that happens.
Leap year software glitch shuts down gas pumps across New Zealand

tara sullivan
Kenley Jansen is with the Red Sox — for now. But it’s hard to envision a place for him.
Things changed quickly since he signed before last season, and he now finds himself an elite closer on a rebuilding team.

A wildfire scorching the Texas Panhandle has grown to the largest in state history
The Smokehouse Creek Fire has merged with another blaze and is just 3% contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.

US applications for jobless benefits rise but remain historically low despite recent layoffs
Massachusetts reported 9,276 new “advance” initial claims for unemployment insurance last week.

Recommended reads

A documentarian spent the summer asking strangers in a Cambridge park for their stories. Here’s what he found.

A kickboxing coach. A child devastated by a lost soccer tournament. A father and son bonding over RC cars. These are the people you meet in Danehy Park.

YVONNE ABRAHAMLetting go of the myth
Americans hold an almost religious devotion to the notion of meritocracy, and with it, to the fiction that all one needs to succeed is to work hard. Economist Jeff Fuhrer argues otherwise.

‘We are on our own’: Mass. Democrats weighing tightening shelter program amid migrant influx, lack of federal help
Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano said state policymakers need to reconsider how they handle a shelter program where costs are expected to reach nearly $1 billion this fiscal year and another $1 billion in the next.

These 10 homes were among the most expensive sold in Massachusetts in 2023
In the past year, a number of properties across the state came with eight-digit price tags. The most expensive home, a sprawling estate on Nantucket, went for more than $38 million.

Culture & Lifestyle

International stars of flamenco music and dance kick off four-night festival on Saturday

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

How a Boston Freedom Trail tour guide ended up on the ‘Jeopardy!’ Tournament of Champions

Paula Cole talks about her new album, ‘Lo’

Special Projects

Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

Republicans need to put up or shut up over the IVF mess they created
JOAN VENNOCHI

Healey, Willis, and the dangers of hiring someone you slept with
Antonio Gargiulo

Six lessons the US can learn from Italy’s restrictions on IVF treatments
Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos

Alabama lawsuit reveals what happens when IVF industry wants it both ways
RENÉE LOTH

Will ‘The Holdovers’ return us to a time when exalted public school buildings were valued?
Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Car flips on its side in Dunkin’ drive-through in Londonderry, N.H.

A 30-year-old Londonderry woman, the driver and only sole occupant of the car, was able to crawl out of her sunroof, and was not injured, police said.
RI ARTS

Jamie Lee Curtis spotted at Providence pizza restaurant

The actress is in Rhode Island’s capital filming “Ella McCay.”
ADDRESS

A neighbor saw her moving in and screamed, she said. ‘Well, I looked back at him and screamed.’

Two Black moms integrated public housing in South Boston. Decades later, they call the move courageous.
INFRASTRUCTURE

Lawmakers want RIDOT to provide more information on Washington Bridge fix

East Bay lawmakers have introduced legislation that would mandate monthly reports from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation about the Washington Bridge project, underscoring rising frustrations about the bridge closure.

Sports

red sox

Andrew Bailey, a man with a background in finance, is now fully invested in the Red Sox pitching staff

The pitching coach believes his experiences with the ups and downs of the game put him in a great position to help.
patriots

24 years later, Tom Brady attempts to beat his NFL Combine 40-yard dash time

Brady ran a 5.28 second 40-yard dash at the 2000 NFL Combine, one of the slowest quarterback times ever recorded.
RHODE MAP

The RIC women’s basketball bandwagon is getting crowded

Coach Jenna Cosgrove's team is 27-0 and ranked No. 3 in the country in Division III as it prepares for the NCAA Tournament Friday. Oh, and the coach is 8 months pregnant.
Bruins

Assessing the Bruins’ top trade chips ahead of the deadline
Golden Knights at Bruins | 7:00 p.m. (NESN)

Golden Knights at Bruins: Boston looks to stop skid against Bruce Cassidy and Vegas

Seeing sports in all 50 states? Bob Ryan completes journey with a flourish in South Dakota.

Business

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector

Dozens of companies have reduced their workforces, ranging from the regional offices of the tech giants to startups that have only been in a business a few years.
RI FOOD & DINING

A little neighborhood restaurant was named a James Beard semifinalist. And then rumors swirled that it closed.

Here’s what the next chapter of Bywater in Warren, R.I., looks like
Larry Edelman | Trendlines

The good, the bad, and the ugly of private equity

US applications for jobless benefits rise but remain historically low despite recent layoffs
magazine
MISS CONDUCT

How to handle harassment at a restaurant from a fellow diner
COOKING

Bake away the winter blues with two Mediterranean-inspired cakes
PERSPECTIVE

I used to live in a Michigan child-care desert. Then I came to Cambridge.
Globe Magazine

The quest for psychedelics in the Amazon would push a Harvard botanist to his limits

metro

New research jumbles SAT requirements at top colleges

A little neighborhood restaurant was named a James Beard semifinalist. And then rumors swirled that it closed.

The RIC women’s basketball bandwagon is getting crowded

sports

Connor McDavid scores highlight-reel OT winner to end 10-game goal drought, lift Oilers past Blues

No. 28 Weymouth boys’ hockey stuns No. 5 Archbishop Williams in Division 1 first-round upset

Caitlin Clark’s 33-point game moves her past Lynette Woodard for major college scoring record

business

Will fast-food restaurants try surge pricing? Here’s how that might work.

Rhode Island surpasses neighbors in business tax rankings as Massachusetts plummets following ‘millionaires tax’

Leap year software glitch shuts down gas pumps across New Zealand

politics

Judge blocks Texas law that gives police broad powers to arrest migrants who illegally enter US

Biden and Trump try to work immigration to their political advantage during dueling trips to Texas

Senator Cornyn announces run for GOP leader as scramble to succeed McConnell begins in the Senate

Nation

Tell us: How did social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic shape your life?

About as many abortions are happening in the US monthly as before Roe was overturned, report finds

A wildfire scorching the Texas Panhandle has grown to the largest in state history

World

Palestinian deaths in Gaza pass 30,000 as witnesses say Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid

Rumors swirl amid concern over Catherine, Princess of Wales

Putin warns that sending Western troops to Ukraine risks a global nuclear war

opinion

Give Quincy Market an unsentimental reboot

Turn empty offices into little factories

Why downtowns matter

lifestyle

He lied about blocking his ex

My ex from high school is back in my life

Even after 22 years of competitive eating, Crazy Legs Conti still has the hunger

food & dining

Car flips on its side in Dunkin’ drive-through in Londonderry, N.H.

A Michelin-starred chef opens a Bay Village sushi counter; MonteVerdi debuts along the Charles River this spring

A little neighborhood restaurant was named a James Beard semifinalist. And then rumors swirled that it closed.

travel

Film, TV, and stage actor Jim Ortlieb on escaping his phone and living every day like it’s vacation

I paid extra to get to my cruise. Why can’t I get reimbursed?

Getaway spots in New Hampshire and Florida, and a blender for on the go

Arts

Yiddish Book Center head to step down

Rothko’s power takes shape on paper, at the National Gallery of Art

Roxbury Community College celebrates five decades with Golden Jubilee Gala

Books

Author readings around Boston through March 9

Nathan Tavares gets a chance to rewrite a story from years ago in ‘Welcome to Forever’

Local bestsellers for the week ended Feb. 25

Movies

A single mother from Tunisia lost two of her daughters to ISIS. ‘Four Daughters’ tells their true story — using actors.

Richard Lewis, comedian known for his neurotic, stream-of-consciousness act and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ role, has died

Taylor John Smith to star in film based on Lowell author’s memoir

Television

BC Law student. Boston Marathon hopeful. Now ‘Survivor’ contestant. Meet Massachusetts native Charlie Davis.

How a Boston Freedom Trail tour guide ended up on the ‘Jeopardy!’ Tournament of Champions

Richard Lewis, comedian known for his neurotic, stream-of-consciousness act and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ role, has died

music

Even with a cold, Audra McDonald shines at Symphony Hall

Paula Cole talks about her new album, ‘Lo’

Universal Music escalates TikTok fight, pulls Coldplay, Harry Styles songs

Theater/Dance

International stars of flamenco music and dance kick off four-night festival on Saturday

In ‘Golda’s Balcony,’ the Israeli prime minister in crisis in 1973

Boston Ballet dances up a storm in ‘Winter Experience’

Health

‘An extremely aggressive timeline’: Rhode Island Life Sciences Hub to hire inaugural CEO by May

Prospect Medical Holdings wants to sell its 2 R.I.-based hospitals. Here’s what a proposed deal could look like, executives say.

Timeline: Proposed sale of Rhode Island hospitals preceded by years of regulatory fights, funding problems

Obituaries

Richard Lewis, comedian known for his neurotic, stream-of-consciousness act and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ role, has died

Niklaus Wirth, software developer who saw power in simplicity, dies at 89

Jacob Rothschild, financier from a family banking dynasty, dies at 87