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Valentine’s way

The next Red Sox manager has a social condition: a charitable impulse he sometimes can’t control.
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The Controversy Over the Arab World’s First Female Prime Minister

I asked Valentine M. Moghadam, a professor at Northeastern University who researches women’s rights in the Middle East and the author of books including ‘From Patriarchy to Empowerment,’ what she thinks of the appointment. Is it more than just a fig leaf? “Definitely,” she says. “Even if — similar to several recent male prime ministers — she is unable […]
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Three strange words that might just save you this Valentine’s Day

Gearing up for Valentine’s Day? So are retailers. We spend a fortune trying to get cupid on our side-last year’s sales climbed to nearly $19 billion. And even though the dipped berries, roses, and wining and dining can be nice, two new research studies reveal we just may want to rethink our Valentine’s M.O. It […]

College Hockey News: Northeastern’s Power Play Delivers Against Stingy Lowell PK

BOSTON — UMass Lowell had only allowed one power-play goal since Valentine’s Day — a stretch that included the River Hawks killing 19 of 20 straight penalties — but the Lowell’s penalty kill struggled to contain surging Northeastern, and it was costly as the Huskies won a 3-2 game in the Hockey East Championship game […]
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A couple at home and the office? It can work

In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Globe tracked down happily co-employed couples to talk about intertwining their personal and professional lives. Ryan and Abigail Koppes have been inseparable since they were 15-year-olds in Western Massachusetts. They were on the ski team at a private high school in Gill, went to college and grad school together […]
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Awash in social media, cops still need the public to detect threats

On Valentine’s Day weekend, Jonathan Hutson found himself exchanging tweets with somebody unpleasant: a Holocaust-denying anti-Semite, by the look of things. Then Hutson looked up the person’s earlier tweets. This guy was tweeting about shooting up a school. He said that he wanted to execute 30-plus grade-school kids.” So Hutson decided to draw the person […]
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Tow, plow drivers, plumbers prosper

The winter has taken a steep toll on many small businesses and restaurants that have seen customers dwindle thanks to a broken transit system and snow days that force Bay Staters to hunker down — spurring Gov. Charlie Baker to declare this week Valentine’s Week to urge people to patronize shops and eateries. Hourly workers […]
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Bobby Valentine ‘Shot from the Lip’

Everyone said it was coming. The Boston Red Sox fired manager Bobby Valentine Oct. 4, the day after the team ended its worst season in more than 40 years. Former Major League Baseball arbitrator and Northeastern University Law professor Roger Abrams spoke with Boston Public Radio that day about the development. Abrams said the firing […]