US academia split over boycott targeting Israel
The decision by a US organization of scholars to boycott Israeli academic institutions has ignited debate on college campuses.
The decision by a US organization of scholars to boycott Israeli academic institutions has ignited debate on college campuses.
Two deadly Christmas Day bombings in Baghdad targeted Christian areas of the city.
In his final days in office, Mayor Menino kept up his ritual of walking down the streets of the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood.
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A person was killed early this morning after shots were fired outside a house party early Christmas morning on Wales Street, police said.
Francis spoke from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to some 70,000 cheering tourists, pilgrims, and Romans in the square below.
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Joaquin Phoenix is superb in the touching meditation on what it means to be human and where our machines may be taking us.
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Ben Stiller updates James Thurber’s 1939 short story and creates a trenchant if uneven parable about the fate of the imagination in the digital age.
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Things have improved dramatically — but not enough — in rooting out hospital miscues and keeping patients from being readmitted.
In Sunday’s blowout win, the Patriots unveiled a new running game to neutralize a size disadvantage along the offensive line.
Sixty-three people in Mass. were convicted as juveniles of first-degree murder and are now serving mandatory life sentences without parole.
A powerful blast ripped through a police headquarters in an Egyptian Nile Delta city, killing 15 people and wounding more than 100.
The government extended its deadline to sign up for health insurance for those who were stymied by the federal website.
Students say that fixed tuitions help them hold down costs by allowing them to budget wisely and borrow less.
Members of the Music & Youth Initiative, a nonprofit music training and mentoring program, are learning how to protect their work.
The goal is to create a vision of abundance, yet the selection is practical.
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Video of a discussion with The Boston Globe’s Washington bureau of the gridlock in Washington and what can be done to end it.
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Can you read your way to psychological health? Britain is finding out.