Evan Horowitz | Quick Study
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Cities all around the world seem increasingly reluctant to host the Games.
Shirley Leung
New Boston still acts a lot like Old BostonTo the world, Boston is still the same old, same old ? a difficult place to get anything done, a place where we?re happy as we are.
Mistakes, missed opportunities sank Boston?s Olympic bidThe effort was mortally wounded by controversy, public opposition, and Boston 2024?s inability to find a sales pitch.
KEVIN CULLEN
Cynicism didn?t kill Boston?s Olympic bidTaxpayer liability, not small-mindedness, was always the elephant in this room we call Boston.
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Ben Volin | Three downs
Exactly five weeks since Tom Brady?s appeal at the NFL league offices, we still don?t have any resolution.
Alex Speier
Shane Victorino?s departure leaves only 10 from 2013 Red SoxThe outfielder?s emotional candor after being traded showed how much Boston meant to him.
Where one family?s kitchen is the heart of the villageIn a 250-year-old house in India, more than 50 meals are prepared and served daily ? to family, household staff, and field hands.
Mass. had its best June for home sales in a decadeReal estate sales, slowed this spring by the year?s record-breaking snowfalls, bounced back with a vengeance last month.
Video captured detective?s vulgar threat to driverThe Medford detective told a motorist that he would ?put a hole right through [his] head? and cursed repeatedly.
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Hot, humid conditions to continue through midweekMass. will endure another sweltering day today with thunderstorms likely in the eastern part of the state.
Mulugeta Ayene/AP
The comments in an African Union speech were directed at leaders in the country that attempt to hold onto power.
Hillary Clinton returns to N.H. for town hall meetingTuesday?s town hall marks Clinton?s seventh visit to New Hampshire, with its first-in-the-nation primary.
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Jeff Kinney?s success permitted his family to open An Unlikely Story and transform Plainville into an unlikely destination.
Lego program helps parents, teachers conquer roboticsThe intent is to familiarize adults with concepts in programming and encourage them to work with kids in a Lego robotics competition.
No sign of teens who went missing on Florida fishing tripRescuers endured a fourth night of an anxious search for two 14-year-olds whose boat was found capsized.
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Higher fees propel airlines? profits ? and travelers? ire The airlines? penchant for fees is not going away any time soon in what has become a highly profitable industry.
Inside the presidential primaries with James PindellGlobe reporter James Pindell brings you the latest news from New Hampshire and beyond as 2016 presidential politics take shape.
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A final blow to Olympic bid The bid elicited a citywide conversation about Boston?s future, and the challenge now is to keep that forward-looking energy going.
Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
The Big Picture
President Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia this month. His ancestral home of Kogelo is home to Sarah Hussein Obama, his step-grandmother.
Luminaries join warning against killer robotsElon Musk, physicist Stephen Hawking, and others warned against a ?military AI arms race.?
JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Religious persecution, by both oppressors and the oppressed India showcases the maddening complexity of religious persecution.
Before leaving, the outfielder expressed his appreciation for the opportunity the Red Sox gave him.
The tumultuous effort was racked by acrimonious debate, public relations blunders, and limited public support.
The liberal Massachusetts senator invited the former Republican House speaker to appear at her forum on the importance of scientific research.
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With data from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, you can see what the median wait time is at the RMV in towns all over Massachusetts.
Seif al-Islam Khadafy was sentenced for deaths that occurred during the country?s 2011 uprising.
Jodi Gernon joins the Rock Center team from Launchitivity, a company she founded in 1999 that provides advice for consumer health care startups.
The show, which premiered Sunday, documents the day-to-day unreal reality of Caitlyn Jenner, fresh from her public debut as herself.
Design New England
A home with open spaceA new floor plan for a renovated 1960s ranch-style house makes entertaining easy.
Why slow thinking winsMany decisions and policies are created with intuitive-but-wrong approaches.
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