giants 24, patriots 20
Echoes of Super Bowl XLII as Giants win
Eli Manning marched the Giants down the field and found Jake Ballard on a 2-yard touchdown pass, to give New York a victory over the Patriots in a rematch of the 2008 title game.
Sox win big in deal to use streets
Callum Borchers
Over the last nine years, the Red Sox have increased their revenue by an estimated $45 million through the use of two streets that city officials handed over for a relative pittance.
Bus 19
Lifted briefly by the tide
It’s a rhythm in the city’s poorest neighborhoods that outsiders easily miss — the fleeting prosperity of the first of the month.
A judicial haven for accused drunk drivers
Plymouth County’s courts may be the most lenient in OUI trials. Judges hear most cases without a jury and acquit just about everyone, leaving police and victims appalled.
G cover
How willpower works
Why can't you resist that cookie? How can you stick with your exercise routine? New research is helping us understand.
Gareth Cook
The truth about autism
It is now clear that many autistics have specific areas of mental superiority that have been overlooked.
chill
A thrilling ride through Stowe’s wild side
I steadied myself with outstretched arms against the rock face in front of me and eased out onto the unstable ridge.
“We know the people get their checks every month, and we get ready for them.”
Julio Dasilveira, manager of a McDonald’s at the Roxbury Mall
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Tough race for Latino in Springfield
Jose Tosado’s campaign for mayor seems like an inevitability after 10 years on the City Council. His election, though, is anything but inevitable.
Top Places to Work
Special section
Top Places to Work - 2011
The Globe’s 2011 Top Places to Work survey ranks 100 of the best workplaces in Massachusetts.
Business
On the Hot Seat
Making ‘re-commerce’ second nature
Israel Ganot is CEO and cofounder of Boston’s Second Rotation Inc., whose Gazelle.com service lets owners of used electronic devices trade them in for cash.
Nation & World
Initial power-sharing deal reached in Greece
Greece’s embattled prime minister and main opposition leader agreed today to form an interim government to ensure the country’s new European debt deal and oversee early elections.
Sports
Heckmann brings a world of talent to BC
When Patrick Heckmann committed to BC - choosing Div. 1 college basketball over the chance to play for club teams in his homeland - it was an easy decision.
Arts
music
Joan Baez and Kris Kristofferson: Touring together at last
They’re two icons who are emblematic of their eras and genres, even as they eventually outgrew them.
Travel
Ecuador
A mother-son bonding adventure in the Galápagos Islands
Globe staff writer David Abel and his mother sidestep marine iguanas and peer at sea lions in the remote Galápagos.
Books
BOOK REVIEW
‘Saladin’ by Anne-Marie Eddé
Historian Anne-Marie Eddé's comprehensive biography, “Saladin,’’ examines the birth and elaboration of a legend that casts a shadow even into the present day.
Opinion
“Thanks to [President Bill] Clinton, the bar for sexual misconduct is a lot higher, or lower, depending on your perspective.”
Joan Vennochi
Ideas
“Scholars who take on punk find themselves working amid bedeviling contradictions, as they try to methodically define a culture that refuses definition, rejects method, and denies the very idea of expertise.”
Leon Neyfakh