Mayor demands school bus fixes
Mayor Thomas M. Menino threatened yesterday to take the city’s $66 million transportation contract elsewhere if buses don’t start arriving on time.
Pete Mackanin makes case to Red Sox
The iPad-carrying Mackanin has plenty of baseball experience, but has never managed in the big leagues.
SJC will study rate of OUI acquittals
The state’s highest court will look into the acquittal rate in drunken driving trials before judges, a rate that now eclipses 80 percent.
Julian Edelman facing assault charges
The Patriots wide receiver is due in court today to be arraigned on charges of indecent assault and battery on a woman after his arrest at the Storyville nightclub this morning.
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IBM’s Watson edges out students in Jeopardy - barely
The human-versus-machine matchup pitted the supercomputer against students from Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, with the win clinched on the final question.
Nor’easter had right mix
The October nor’easter that dumped more than 2 feet of snow on parts of Mass. was not only unusually early, it was also striking for the large variation in the snowfall amounts.
The almost match: Facebook and Boston
If Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg had to do it over, he might have kept his online social network, which today has more than 800 million users, in Boston.
“I was fine with it. I could just eat chocolate at home anyway.”
Kira Tang, 7, coping with Halloween being canceled
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Metro
Blunders follow high praise for school chief
Since the Boston School Committee extended Superintendent Carol Johnson’s contract six months ago, her accomplishments have been overshadowed by snags and miscues.
Business
Retailers prepare holiday strategy
Retailers who worked hard to lure holiday shoppers last year are putting in even more effort to entice customers this season.
Politics
Cain says he was ‘falsely accused’ of harassment
Denying he ever sexually harassed anyone, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain declared yesterday he was falsely accused in the 1990s.
Nation & World
Agencies detail campaign against Mexican cartel
Law enforcement officials yesterday announced the breakup of a massive ring that moved huge quantities of marijuana and other drugs across the Mexican border.
Sports
Why has Patriots’ offense gone so off course?
Once a lock to register 30 points a game, the Patriots’ offense has stumbled in the past two games. And now other teams may have a blueprint for how to stop them.
Arts
ART REVIEW
Bell provokes, protests with humor
Richard Bell presents an engaging overview of his two-decade career as an activist and provocateur.
Lifestyle
G Cover Story
From warrior to peacemaker
Attorney Eric MacLeish, best known for his combative litigation on behalf of those sexually abused by priests, finds healing with someone who shares his passion for mediation.
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Globe Spotlight Report
Under the influence
Full coverage of the Globe’s investigation into OUI acquittal rates.
Opinion
“The longer the Madoffs stay in the spotlight, the longer everyone remembers the shame.”
Joanna Weiss
Ideas
“The only thing we may know about education is that inquisitive kids respond to it.”
Paul Nix, on exam schools