Mount Ida College, a small liberal arts school in Newton, closed abruptly in May.

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New England?s smallest colleges are struggling

A Globe review of federal data shows that many small, private colleges in New England are struggling to meet expenses as their tuition revenue has declined.

Boston, MA - 8/09/2018 - (2nd quarter) New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) on the sidelines did not play. The New England Patriots host the Washington Redskins in a pre-season exhibition game at Gillette Stadium. - (Barry Chin/Globe Staff), Section: Sports, Reporter: James M. McBride, Topic: 10Patriots-Redskins, LOID: 8.4.2791165379.

Ben Volin

Managing Tom Brady?s workload in camp is a smart move by Bill Belichick

Brady hasn?t had a full day of practice since Aug. 1, with Belichick instead choosing to give more reps to Brian Hoyer and Danny Etling.

RED SOX sweep, 5-0, 6-4

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/1015348144.jpg Red Sox sweep doubleheader in Baltimore

Price struck out 10 in six shutout innings in the first game of Saturday?s doubleheader. J.D. Martinez went deep twice in the nightcap.

Shirley Leung

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/18/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/leung_20131018.jpg Tom Brady?s agent talks about being mocked by WEEI host in an Asian accent

Don Yee has been experiencing racism in the sports industry since he began his career, but said he felt ?very sad that in 2018 we hadn?t made much progress since the ?70s.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/28/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_28commavepic6_MET.jpg It?s over: Traffic?s back to normal on Comm. Ave., BU Bridge

The two-week-long project met its deadline for reopening on Saturday.

Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff

A dusty diamond is the stage for these stars of summer

At 10 years old, they stand at that blissful intersection of childhood and adolescence, when nothing matters beyond the next inning, the next at-bat.

The author with her family. From left: Lily, 14; Wyatt, 12; the author; her husband, Rob; Rory, 12; and Sam, 17.

Globe Magazine

Happier parents do these 10 things

Raising children shouldn?t rob us of joy. Here?s how one mother restored her sense of contentment.

Names

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/02/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/singing_cops_teze.jpg The ?cop pool karaoke? officers play a bigger stage: at Brad Paisley?s concert

Stephen McNulty and Kim Tavares got a big hand Saturday when they sang for the audience at the Xfinity Center.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/maryland-3rdld-writethru-d93afc22-9d81-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185.jpg University of Maryland puts football coach on leave amid claims of abuse

The accusations came to light last week following the death of a player during an informal workout.

music review

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/11/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/Chin081018BillyJoel_Arts1.jpg At Fenway, Billy Joel comes out swinging

The singer piled on the hits ? and added some some surprises ? for his fifth show in five years at Fenway Park.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Walker_081118_12shopping_2588x.jpg Malls see some more shoppers thanks to sales tax holiday

?It makes you feel like you?re living in New Hampshire for the day,? said one shopper at the CambridgeSide mall.

@LARGE | Michael Andor Brodeur

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/09/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/112746_2998b.jpg Oh, the de-humanity! Reality TV takes a cold turn.

Should we be concerned that hurting each other is trending? That dehumanization is rebranding as entertainment?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/25/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/Cycle11.JPG Hitting for the cycle: Red Sox baseball at four levels

Red Sox fans are unusually blessed with baseball riches, and not all of them involve the high temple of Fenway Park.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/11/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/comment-7a258ab0-9109-11e8-8322-b5482bf5e0f5.jpg Fortnite ploy highlights Google?s Android weakness versus Apple

Fortnite amassed an unrivaled following with kid-friendly, multiplayer action that can be enjoyed on most modern devices.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tlumacki_fogsculpture_metro066.jpg ?Fog x FLO? opens along the Emerald Necklace

Fog rolled down a hill at the Arnold Arboretum Saturday, but it had nothing to do with the rain that fell in Boston.

The hospital that doesn?t really look like a hospital

A variety of native California animal statues populate the Dunlevie Garden at the new Lucile Packard Children?s Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif.

Jakub Mosur for The Boston Globe

Lucile Packard Children?s Hospital at Stanford is billed as the hospital of the future. Could it offer clues about the future of Boston Children?s?

Cambridge, MA--8/12/2018-- A runner decides to walk through the puddle as she tries to navigate a flooded section of sidewalk underneath the Longfellow Bridge which was closed to traffic along Memorial Drive. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: Reporter:

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

Heavy rain floods roads, strands cars

Flooding made sections of Storrow Drive in Boston impassable, and stranded cars in Cambridge and Somerville, according to Lenore Correia, a meteorologist with the national weather service.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/12/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/c7eb5997736e4f16be8624ef11699b59-a2ab5d48998e4eee9d96786d7f7e89b7-0.jpg Omarosa Manigault Newman says she secretly taped her White House firing

Former presidential adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman said she recorded her firing and that she heard a tape of President Trump using disparaging words for African-Americans.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke last week during a meeting with constituents in Woburn.

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?This search for a front-runner is crazy?

Democrats, who lack a clear leader after their rout in 2016, are desperate to rally around someone who can defeat the president the next time around.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/lee_070818_warren5_met.jpg Chiefs criticize Warren for calling criminal justice system ?racist?

Yarmouth?s police chief said the comments were an ?insult.? Another chief called the comments ?false and damaging.?

Mattapan killing is city?s 33rd homicide of 2018

A man was found shot inside a Manchester Street home late Saturday, and he was pronounced dead at the hospital.

David Manfredi is founding principal of Elkus Manfredi.

David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

Downtown skyscrapers and sandwiches in the Seaport: A conversation with David Manfredi

The renowned Boston architect says he cares about ?making social spaces.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/11/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/1015085804.jpg Washington, D.C., braces for rally by white nationalists

The so-called Unite the Right II event will take place tonight in front of the White House.

A large hole and missing concrete on the second floor of the MBTA?s Alewife garage.

Steve Colman

?It?s shocking that the agency has ignored it until now?

As the MBTA scrambles to make repairs on the 2,600-spot Alewife parking garage, regular users wondered why the issues weren?t addressed earlier.

Opinion & Ideas

Ideas | Juan Miró and Edmund Gordon

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/09/BostonGlobe.com/Ideas/Images/AP_268102798157.jpg For universities, diversity is atonement for past sins

Diversity in higher education is part of making amends for historical complicity with systemic racism.

Special reports

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/06/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/RinaldiSnow26-18739-k6uC--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.JPG TSA tracking travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program

Air marshals are conducting a new domestic surveillance program, tracking people as they fly and move through airports. It might be illegal.

Newsletters

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STAT

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/08/10/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/01_Kelvin-Droegemeier_2018-1024x576.jpg Can this man bring science back to the White House?

Meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier could soon become the country?s top-ranking scientist.

Globe event

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/06/08/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/SeattleTimes_10kirsner02_biz.jpg Seattle?s mayor talks growing pains that offer some lessons for Boston

Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.

Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/FlfQGTy9_585.jpg More about Last Seen: The Largest Unsolved Art Heist ever

A true-crime podcast about the most valuable ? and confounding ? art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Cars

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Should I repair my car at the dealer or a local garage?

Should I pick up a used drive shaft and let a local garage do the repair, or should I just have the dealer install a new one? Q. There is a rumble-like vibration when accelerating in my 2012 Toyota Highlander with 165,000 miles on it. The dealer determined that the car needs a center-driveshaft replacement. The [?]

Love Letters: The Podcast

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/05/16/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/lovelettersalbum.jpg Getting over a breakup

Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.

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Real Estate

Address

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2018/04/06/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/stan-fellows-home-nest-illustration$medium.jpg Spring House Hunt: Should parents buy property in a college town?

As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.

The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

Summertime festivals around the world

Photographers capture communities gathering at events organized to celebrate a variety of cultural observances.

Crossword

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/08/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/crossword.jpg Play the crossword

Puzzled? Keep trying your hand at our interactive crossword and see if you can triumph.