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Drug lab scandal costs overblown, Patrick says

Governor Deval Patrick said this morning that the state public defender agency’s $332 million estimate is exaggerated.

President Obama and Mitt Romney will meet for the first time sinde the election.

Romney, Obama to have lunch at White House on Thursday

The meeting between Mitt Romney and President Obama will be their first extended conversation since the election.

In 2004, John Kerry, as the Democrats’ presidential nominee, bestowed upon Barack Obama an honor that would catapult his career — delivering a keynote address at the party’s convention.

Amid wrangling on Hill, Kerry keeps visibility low

Senator Kerry, who is under consideration to be the next secretary of state, has kept a low profile recently that contrasts with his previously outspoken tendencies.

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Former House speaker Thomas Finneran has been given immunity to testify about the state’s Probation Department, people close the investigation said.

Suffolk University will build an eight-story complex on Somerset Street and create a public park.

Chan Krieger Sieniewicz

Suffolk University shifts core of campus downtown

The school, long a controversial neighbor on Beacon Hill, will shift its campus closer to Boston’s downtown and build a $62 million classroom complex.

Brian McGrory

Our governor’s turmoil

Deval Patrick’s got this small problem on his hands, and it goes like this: His governorship is basically falling off a cliff.

Mayor Tom Menino is in his fifth term after being elected in 1993.

scot lehigh

End of the Menino era?

If Mayor Menino opts to call next year his last, he goes out unbeaten, with a valedictory period in which his time at City Hall will be celebrated.

Kevin McHale and his wife, Lynn, lost their daughter, Alexandra, to a battle with lupus.

Dan Shaughnessy

McHale dealing with saddest loss of all

Celtics legend Kevin McHale and his wife, Lynn, have become devastated new members of the saddest club in the world; they are parents who have lost a child.

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Join Jay Calderin of Boston Fashion Week and Christopher Muther, fashion reporter for the Boston Globe for a discussion and audience Q&A.

Globe exclusives

A chief problem for Deval Patrick is the state budget gap.

Road ahead may get rocky for Governor Patrick

High school football playoff results
An electronic billboard off Interstate 93 in Medford was part of a state pilot program and posed no safety hazard.

Mass. gives the go-ahead for electronic billboards

How to donate to Globe Santa
Superintendent Carol R. Johnson talked with Adib Morshed, eating an orange, during lunch on a visit to the Roger Clap Innovation School in Dorchester.

Boston schools chief reflects on year
An image from Kinfolk, a food quarterly headquartered in Portland, Ore., which focuses on homey and outdoorsy dining and living.

The unstyled look of hipster food magazines
Thin-crust pizza with beef tenderloin, mashed potato, and truffle oil.

dining out

French-inspired Mistral remains constant

Shurrasco (a shredded beef mixture) quesadilla.

Cheap Eats

Outside of Union Square, potatoes every which way
Asia Graves (center) spoke to Liliana Guandique (left), 17, and Lenisha Carter, 16, in Washington, D.C., in October.

From victim to impassioned voice
Jack Lemmon” by Rachel Harrison.

Frame by Frame

‘Jack Lemmon’ is frivolous fun
Steve Wynn, left, and Robert Kraft talked to reporters about their casino plan for Foxborough on Dec. 5, 2011.

Steve Wynn may bid for casino in Everett
At NewBridge on the Charles in Dedham, a retirement community and assisted living facility, residents participate in an art therapy class for Alzheimer’s patients.

G Cover

Art therapy to treat dementia?

Sports

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Shane Vereen, left, and Stevan Ridley have injected a new threat into the Patriots offense.

Running back duo boosting Patriots’ offense

Stevan Ridley and Shane Vereen give the Patriots two contrasting styles, and give a new threat to what was already a dominant offense.

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Ravi Patel sold a Powerball ticket at Lanzilli’s Groceria in East Boston. Powerball sales surged at the shop.

Powerball fever hits peak with $500m jackpot

In anticipation of Wednesday night’s jackpot drawing, scores of Mass. residents are expected to purchase last-minute tickets to get in on the action.

Columnists

Kevin McHale and his wife, Lynn, lost their daughter, Alexandra, to a battle with lupus.

Dan Shaughnessy

McHale dealing with saddest loss of all

jeff jacoby

A free market will help fix health care
Mayor Tom Menino is in his fifth term after being elected in 1993.

scot lehigh

End of the Menino era?

Brian McGrory

Our governor’s turmoil

Kevin Cullen

The long reach of injustice
Larry Hagman, who died last week, played J.R. Ewing with a glint in his eye.

Joanna Weiss

America’s fantasy villain
BC football is looking for a new coach after a 2-10 season that resulted in the firing of Frank Spaziani.

Christopher L. Gasper

If BC finds the right coach, don’t get too attached
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke in Ramallah on Sunday.

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Rockets vs. resolutions

Boston Capital

US companies keep up bond binge
Former Massachusetts treasurer Timothy Cahill (left) stood beside his attorney, Brad Bailey, before the start of his trial on public corruption charges.

Adrian Walker

Tim Cahill’s real mistake

James Carroll

The Earth experiment
“Naked cushion triple earrings” range from $1,109 to $1,688.

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Jewelry maker’s earrings a star on ‘Oprah’

Nation & World

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An anti-Morsi protester ran to throw back a tear gas canister during clashes with riot police in Cairo on Tuesday.

200,000 protest Mohammed Morsi in Egypt

Protesters packed Egypt’s Tahrir Square in the biggest challenge yet to the Islamist president.

Politics

President Obama will negotiate with Republicans while taking his agenda outside the Beltway.

Obama will make public appeal on averting fiscal cliff

President Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with a potential fiscal crisis.

Business

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Americans appear to be more confident — and are shopping more — as hiring picks up.

Varied data suggest the economy is healing

Consumers are more confident about the job market, companies are ordering more equipment, and home prices are rising.

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Book Review

‘Brothers’ by George Howe Colt

Growing up in a family of four boys, George Colt was stunned to read about John Wilkes Booth and his brothers.

Food & dining

Cookbook Review

Sara Forte’s book and blog share the same name.

Whole foods startle with new tastes and imagination

We’d never heard of Sara Forte and her blog, “The Sprouted Kitchen,” until her book arrived.

Magazine

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Cambridge’s Bluefin Labs decodes social media chatter
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7 holiday styles that shine
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Vacation options for single seniors and gays and lesbians
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How to be a New England vegetarian in winter

Opinion

“On the cusp of the fourth year of his fifth term, one can almost feel the Menino era beginning to end.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“To its fans in the plastics industry, and there are many, the supermarket shopping bag—or ‘T-shirt bag,’ as it’s known in the business—is a triumph of cost-effective engineering.”

Leon Neyfakh 

“Anything he spoke out and said at this point, people would be dissecting it and analyzing. It wouldn’t be helpful.”

Douglas Brinkley,  a historian, on Senator John Kerry