Collapse has Sox fans feeling blue
During the Red Sox’s soul-crushing September swoon, fans have watched in horror as a team that looked like baseball’s best collapsed like a dying star.
Dan Shaughnessy
Wild card tied, one game left for Sox
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Once hailed as the ‘‘Best Team Ever,’’ the $161 million payroll Red Sox will be playing for their lives and their legacy at Camden Yards tonight.
Senate kills five-year ban on taking casino jobs
A state Senate proposal to impose a five-year ban on former lawmakers taking casino jobs triggered an uproar by Democratic senators, who weakend the measure to a one-year restriction.
Arts groups wage effort to ease impact of casinos
Despite the threat that casinos pose to their businesses, many arts leaders have focused on improving the legislation now before the state Senate, rather than opposing it.
Mass. will seek ‘No Child’ waiver
Massachusetts is joining a growing number of states in seeking a waiver from an unpopular provision of the No Child Left Behind Act that has cast hundreds of schools in a harsh light.
Baker, O’Toole to vie for District 3
Frank Baker and John K. O’Toole triumphed in a hard-fought preliminary election for an open City Council seat representing the heart of Dorchester, finishing first and second.
“People are going to perceive them as more corrupt because they have only put one year between themselves and jobs with the casino industry.”
Peter Ubertaccio, a Stonehill College political scientist
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Metro
Cash-strapped T warns of fare increases, service cuts by July
With the MBTA’s financial woes mounting, state transportation officials said that they expect to approve a fare increase in the spring that would take effect July 1.
Business
Sovereign changes its name to Santander
Boston-based Sovereign Bank, one of the country’s largest regional banks, is adopting the name of its owner Santander, the banking giant based in Spain.
Nation
Prosecutors play Jackson audio as case against doctor opens
Prosecutors portrayed Dr. Conrad Murray as an incompetent physician who used a dangerous anesthetic without adequate safeguards.
World
Israel OK’s more building in East Jerusalem
Israel granted the go-ahead for construction of 1,100 new Jewish housing units in east Jerusalem, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any freeze in settlement construction.
Sports
Red Sox 8, Orioles 7
Sox still tied with one to play
Ryan Lavarnway hit his first two major league home runs and drove in four runs to lead the Sox to an 8-7 victory and keep them tied in the wild-card race with the Rays.
Food and dining
food
Memo from celebrity chefs: Embrace your own kitchen
Fall cookbook roundup: By spreading the simple message of eating good food at home, the season’s newest cookbooks bring a bit of activism to the table.
Arts
TELEVISION REVIEW
BBC’s cop drama ‘Luther’ returns, as spellbinding as ever
Each hour is so intense, you may not realize you’re leaving grip marks on your couch.
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