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Spotlight report | Part 1

For Boston cabbies, a losing battle against the numbers

This Kilmarnock Street garage in Boston’s Fenw ay houses the taxi fleet owned by Edward J. Tutunjian.

A nine-month Globe investigation finds a taxi trade where fleet owners get rich, drivers are frequently fleeced, and the city does little about it.

New Red Sox undergoing chemistry test

As they set out to rebuild a team that was the worst in generations, the Red Sox prioritized strong character players who would embrace the challenge of playing in Boston.

globe Magazine | marathon special issue

The great running experiment

Can the right preparation — from a cave-man diet to split-toed shoes to therapeutic tape — really make one person faster than another?

Who will inherit Menino’s political machine?

Mayor Menino has decided not to seek a sixth term and vowed not to try to anoint a successor. Can the machine survive?

Rivals for ‘Southie seat’ make appeal to a wider district

The state Senate race is being seen as a faceoff between Boston’s Irish-American political old guard and its burgeoning multiethnic, multicultural identity.

Waiting periods can be costly for workers

Many companies impose waiting periods to join 401(k) plans — and those delays can end up costing workers tens of thousands of dollars in retirement savings.

Doctors firing back at patients’ online critiques

The lawsuits target former patients, and sometimes their relatives, over negative ratings and reviews they have posted on the Internet.

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Kaiyun Lai accessed the Chinese social media website QQ at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center.

Chinese émigrés in the US flocking to ‘QQ’

Winter All-Scholastics

Honoring the area’s best school athletes

Matt Stone and Trey Parker worked on “The Book of Mormon” over several years.

‘Mormon’ team has made more than fun

Directed by Danny Boyle (center), “Trance” stars Rosario Dawson (top left), Vincent Cassel (top right) and James McAvoy (bottom left).

Danny Boyle talks about his art-heist thriller

Cycling siblings Tom and Laura DiNardo on the final day in Fitzwilliam, N.H., where the family noted the first sign for Boston.

A family bike trip from Montreal to Boston

Says Dustin Pedroia of John Farrell: “He’s very strong-toned. It’s not that guys fear him, but I think they respect him so much that forces them to believe in what he wants us to do. It’s very helpful.”

Exclusive Sunday preview

In John Farrell, Red Sox finally found their man

Students take a swing dance lesson at Savaria Dance Studio in Norwood. Many say they are attracted by the benefits of dancing.

Globe West Sunday preview

Everybody gets footloose

Derrick Z. Jackson

March Madness brings vast graduation gaps

Laura Knight, “Flying the Kite.” 1910, oil on canvas.

Exclusive Sunday preview | Art Review

‘Edwardian Opulence’ at the Yale Center for British Art

Kate Scott says the only one she regularly e-mails is her mother.

E-mail a thing of past for business, young

Jeremy Piven stars as Harry Selfridge, an American retailer in early 1900s London, in the “Masterpiece Classic” miniseries.

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Piven not good as gold in ‘Mr. Selfridge’

“I’ve been looking at her letters, her e-mails, her messages. I’ve been looking at her pictures from her birth right up to her 17th birthday,’’ said Katherine Cremin, as she sat teary-eyed in her Stoneham apartment. “I can still see her funeral. I want answers. Who killed my daughter?”

18 years later, still no answers in Deanna Cremin’s death

2013 MLB preview

“Who am I not to play with a few fingers messed up?” says Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia. “Now it’s my job to make sure everybody knows that every play and every pitch matters.”

Dustin Pedroia ready to set tone for Red Sox

The Red Sox Pedroia joined in 2006 treated every game like it was their last. Somewhere along the way, that changed. Pedroia intends to change it back.