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The Globe Feels the Pinch

Crunching the numbers on a possible endgame for the Times Co. and our venerable broadsheet.

Come for the Beaches, Stay for the Blizzards

Developer Bill Catania is betting that with the right amenities, visitors will flock to Hyannis year round. All he has to do is get people to reimagine what a Cape vacation can be.

A Turncoat’s Manifesto

Why I left Boston, and why that’s not the unforgivable offense it once would have been.

Reversal of Fortune

In Palm Beach, Boston’s Jewish elite created a glittering world that unwittingly helped make Bernie Madoff possible. Laurence Leamer reports from behind the winter retreat’s manicured hedges on what it looks like now that the party is over.

Harvard Prez Left Blushing Crimson

Can Drew Gilpin Faust take the faculty’s heat?

Counsel Requests the Right to Appeal

Smokin’-hot lawyer Wendy Savage defends her buzzy turn as a pinup.

Coming to a Sephora Near You: MIT-Engineered Hair Care

Bob Langer and his fellow eggheads at Living Proof fight frizz with advanced science.

Save the Common? Not Without a Fight.

What the push to make over our most symbolic park really needs to accomplish.

Let Them Eat Chicken

When Chris Kimball founded Cook’s Illustrated, he broke all the industry rules. Now he’s beating the glossies at their own game. Has his scrappy, undeniably geeky enterprise in Brookline Village come up with a new recipe for successful magazines?

Invasion of the Policy Snatchers

It may be a long time before Massachusetts matters again to presidential candidates, but the blitz of out-of-town cash that hit our state this election season showed there’s another way for us to be relevant: as guinea pigs for crackpot causes.