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Their refuge includes a kitchen
University of Vermont senior Caroline Casey is compiling recipes from those who resettled in the area, including Suhad Murad, who cooks home meals after coming from Iraq three years ago.
red sox 8, orioles 7
In a nail-biter, Red Sox win and stay tied with Rays
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Boston held off a late come-back attempt by Baltimore while Tampa Bay defeated the Yankees, meaning the wild-card chase stays deadlocked.
Mass. to seek ‘No Child’ waiver
Massachusetts will join a growing number of states in seeking a waiver from a key provision of the “No Child Left Behind” law that a top state education official said today had lost credibility.
Transportation officials warn of looming fare hikes
State transportation officials said today that sometime this spring they anticipate approving the MBTA’s first fare hike in five-and-a-half years to help close a projected deficit of $161 million.
Baker, O’Toole triumph in City Council race
Frank Baker and John K. O’Toole triumphed today in a hard-fought preliminary election for an open City Council seat representing the heart of Dorchester, finishing first and second in a field of seven candidates.
“Just the fact that Liz even offered to do this blew me away.”
Kidney recipient Ying Su, on her donor, Liz Kennedy
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Northeast shares top billing in high-speed rail study
A study released by a Cambridge think tank makes the case for long-term investment in bullet trains — and for targeting the money to the Northeast and California.
Business
Stocks survive late selloff; close up on Europe debt plan
US stocks advanced today as pledges by European officials to once and for all resolve the region’s debt problems helped soothe market jitters.
Nation
US shutdown avoided by disaster aid accord
The Senate reached a bipartisan spending agreement yesterday to avert a government shutdown, sidestepping a bitter impasse over disaster financing.
World
Civilians flee Khadafy’s hometown
Hundreds of civilians fled Moammar Khadafy’s hometown to escape growing shortages of food and supplies, as fighting escalated between revolutionaries and regime loyalists.
Sports
red sox 8, orioles 7
In a nail-biter, Red Sox win and stay tied with Rays
Boston held off a late come-back attempt by Baltimore while Tampa Bay defeated the Yankees, meaning the wild-card chase stays deadlocked.
Arts
Stage Review
Yale Rep's ‘Three Sisters’ sparkles in its melancholy
This production at Yale Repertory Theatre reminds us that few writers have ever seen into the human soul with more acuity and understanding than Chekhov.
Lifestyle
Transplant bonds former classmates
Two years ago, Liz Kennedy learned that Ying Su, a former classmate, needed a kidney transplant. A special connection evolved, one that would come to link organ donor to recipient.
Opinion
“Community colleges have a chance to be an engine in Massachusetts instead of a caboose.”
Derrick Z. Jackson
Ideas
“Could it be true, Pinker wondered, that humans had actually become less violent with time, as opposed to more? And if so, how had we done it?”
Leon Neyfakh, on Steven Pinker’s new book about violence in history