Market heats up for office towers
Boston’s office towers are again hot commodities after several years of slow sales, a sign the city’s economic recovery is gathering speed.
GOP voter turnout down in N.H., Iowa
The number of Republican voters taking part in the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses dropped significantly this year, a Globe review of data shows.
Memories of one-on-one with MLK
Retired minister Cornish Rogers, a friend of Martin Luther King Jr., recalls his days with King at BU, from studying theology to their basketball games at a local church gym.
Adrian Walker
When Martin Luther King Jr. came to Boston
Dr. King’s trip to Boston in the spring of 1965 was an early glimpse into the strife over school desegregation that would define the city a decade later.
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Justice is variable as US hears immigrants’ appeals
The starkly different treatment of two men with families and ties to the community underscores the seemingly random decisions meted out by immigration officials.
Ice may have caused Murray crash
Independent analysis suggests that Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray did not fall asleep at the wheel during his Nov. 2 car crash, as police concluded, and more likely skidded on ice.
‘Artist,’ ‘Descendants’ win big at Globes
‘The Artist’’ and “The Descendants’’ were the biggest movie winners at the 69th Golden Globe Awards, with two awards each, while Showtime's “Homeland’’ took home the prize for best TV drama.
“People followed him all over the BU campus.”
Cornish Rogers, who said fellow student Martin Luther King Jr. had a magnetic quality about him
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Columnists
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the gardner grows
Gardner Museum artists get room with a view
New, modern apartments allow artists-in-residence to spend quality time at the museum.
Metro
Absenteeism rife at Boston high schools
More than a third of the students in the city's public high schools were chronically absent last year, even as the city undertook additional efforts to lure students to school.
Politics
Political Notebook
Huntsman will withdraw candidacy, endorse Romney
Jon Huntsman will withdraw today from the race for the GOP presidential nomination and will endorse Mitt Romney at an event in S.C., campaign officials told the AP.
Business
State Police DNA techniques unlock Mediterranean secrets
A Mass. archeologist is using crime-solving DNA methods to reveal what ancient Greeks carried in the clay pots they stacked in the hulls of ships.
Sports
One of Bernie Fine’s accusers says he lied
A prison inmate who accused the former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach of abusing him as a child admitted that he made up his claim.
Health and wellness
G force
The doctor prescribes clean air
Dr. Megan Sandel, an associate professor of pediatrics and public health at Boston Medical Center, is an expert on asthma and air pollution.
Arts
TELEVISION REVIEW
‘Alcatraz’ a new island of mystery
The island of “Lost’’ and the famous prison exist in different worlds, but “Alcatraz’’ has a drop of story DNA from previous J.J. Abrams efforts.
Ideas
“The problem, as Shoup and his allies see it, is that parking on the street is simply too desirable. Because spaces are so cheap, drivers have a powerful incentive to spend time hunting for them.”
Leon Neyfakh on the case for the $6 parking meter