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What goes around
Last year, when the staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center agreed to give up raises and benefits so the hospital would not have to lay off its lowest-paid workers, the story went viral.
His nightmares have ended
The hardest part was knowing he had nightmares. Cathy Mayo was lying in bed in Jamaica Plain, and she knew that Delmace, the 3-year-old boy she was trying to adopt, was flailing in a bed in the hills above Port-au-Prince.
Nip bullying in the bud at home
The recent apparent suicide of a South Hadley freshman named Phoebe Prince, after persistent bullying in and out of school, has led some to believe that help rests somewhere under that Golden Dome on Beacon Hill.
Too little, too late against bully tactics
Back in September, the town of South Hadley brought in Barbara Coloroso to talk to parents, teachers, and administrators about how to combat bullying in the schools.
Unable to write a wrong
Bill O’Donnell is a Boston guy. He was born in Bay Village before it was called Bay Village. He lived in Boston for years. But his wife, Jean, is a Rhode Island girl, and so they live in Woonsocket.
The untouchable Mean Girls
Like a lot of kids her age, Phoebe Prince was a swan, always beautiful and sometimes awkward.
For Coakley, ominous sign
Blue Hill Avenue runs like a vein through the city. It stretches for 4 miles, from River Street in Mattapan to Dudley Street in Roxbury, and a little more than a year ago there was an Obama sign on every block. There were Obama signs in Mattapan barber shops, in the windows of the apartment buildings opposite Franklin Field and ...
Maternal bonds, strained by distance, worry
Cathy Mayo’s parents spent part of their honeymoon in Haiti, and the wooden salad bowls they brought back were on the dinner table when she was growing up. And so she always had this image of the place, poor and tropical and magic and tragic, in her mind.
Clearing the air on abuse
Last week, during a radio debate on WTKK, Martha Coakley and Scott Brown said they would call on Cardinal Sean O’Malley to release the names of all priests in the Archdiocese of Boston who were credibly accused of sexual abuse.