Less than 24 hours before Sunday night’€™s parliamentary elections, the Sultanahmet neighborhood was a campaign battleground. Flags strung between old brick buildings hung like spider webs of laundry, and motorcars blared campaign rants as minivans wound their way through narrow streets.

Valedictorians applying to Harvard report not only breathtaking grades and SAT scores but also any criminal convictions or high school disciplinary violations. Such mandated disclosures are standard at hundreds of schools, including the University of Massachusetts and most other Massachusetts state colleges.

THE ECHOES grow ever more faint as we move ever farther from their source. George Frazier has been gone for 37 years, and we don’t hear as much about him anymore.

MIAMI – There are plenty of reasons to pull for the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 of the 2011 NBA Finals, which tips off Sunday night, at 8 p.m. Eastern. They share the ball on offense, and despite the advancing age of their players, give maximum effort on defense. They have two veteran future Hall […]

AMMAN, Jordan — Bazar Al Mhirat is a modest antique shop located at the Wasat al Ballad market in downtown Amman. Walking by, customers are drawn in by chunky vintage rings with pigmented stones, necklaces fit for royalty, and a collection of dusty coins.

Research groups at the Tevatron, the proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, have reached starkly different conclusions about a possible sighting of new particles beyond what is expected under the standard model of particle physics.

Investor Peter Thiel has generated attention by making some provocative claims about America’s colleges and universities. Thiel has labeled U.S. higher education “a bubble in the classic sense,” and believes that college degrees are “overvalued.”

Companies that are looking for a good deal aren’t seeing one in new workers.

Summer break is officially here for most American students: time off from early mornings, hitting the books, and taking tests. In years past, many teens looked to the summer months as a time to increase the hours they worked at their part-time jobs or take on summer gigs, such as babysitting, lifeguarding, and festival work. […]

A leading Arab American group dropped a prominent Syrian-American musician from performing at their annual convention in a dispute over a freedom-tinged song that he was set to perform.

Late last month, smack in the middle of the DiMasi trial and right around the time we learned of Arnold’s infidelity, a Science study out of Northeastern University popped into the world and promptly landed itself in headlines across the blogosphere. The title, “€œThe Visual Impact of Gossip,”€ pretty much explains its popularity off the […]

When Amy Black boarded a plane for Nashville, Tenn., last fall, she had no idea -Music City was about to become her personal vortex. Following the route to songwriting renown blazed by fellow New Englanders Lori McKenna and Mary Gauthier, the Lowell resident went to the Americana Music -Association conference to network and see whether […]