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Reports on the libel suit filed by Massachusetts Superior Board judge Ernest B. Murphy against the "Boston Herald." Murphy's assertion that the paper misstated facts about his handling of a young rape victim's case which resulted in thousands of angry letters and at least two death threats directed at him; His claim that his personal and professional reputation had been damaged; Appearance of a Herald reporter on a Fox News television program.

Reports on Superior Court judge Ernest Murphy's testimony in his libel suit against “The Boston Herald” that he never told lawyers that a 14-year-old victim of statutory rape needed to “get over it.”

Reports about Boston University's filed suit against several companies in different states, charging them with illegal selling of term papers over the Internet. Charges placed by the Federal court in Boston on the companies; Features of term papers sold by companies; Amendment protecting companies; Cost of term papers sold.

The official newspaper of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston has apologized for a column that said that homosexuality is caused by Satan. The column's author, Daniel Avila, is a lawyer and policy adviser at the Catholic bishops' conference in Washington, where he works in the office that opposes the spread of same-sex marriage. Mr. Avila wrote, ''The scientific evidence of how same-sex attraction most likely may be created provides a credible basis for a spiritual explanation that indicts the devil.'' The church's Boston newspaper, The Pilot, apologized for ''having failed to recognize the theological error in the column before publication,'' and it deleted the column from its Web site. A spokeswoman for the bishops' conference said that Mr. Avila's column was not approved by the bishops, and that the church does not have a definitive theory on the origins of same-sex attraction. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When local bloggers rallied last week in an online forum about how to save the embattled Boston Globe, readers offered loads of sympathetic advice and surprisingly little of the ''let 'em rot'' attitude that has colored so much debate over the future of newspapers. Ever since The New York Times Company threatened 11 days ago to sell or close The Globe unless it accepted deep cost cuts, Boston has been in a state of near shock. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article cites a report which states that warnings were issued to construction officials in Boston, Massachusetts in 1999 and 2000 about the safety of tunnels in the city.

Discusses the release of documents held by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts in the court cases against Father Paul R. Shanley and other priests accused of sexually abusing young children. Documents that allegedly show that top ranking church officials, including Cardinal Bernard F. Law, knew more about cases of sexual abuse than they said; Documents that allege Boston officials placed an incoming priest they knew had just been treated for pedophilia; Recommendation that Father Robert Brown not be placed in a situation where he could be around children; His placement as pastor of a Boston church where he would be in contact with children.

Discusses the release of documents held by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts in the court cases against Father Paul R. Shanley and other priests accused of sexually abusing young children. Documents that allegedly show that top ranking church officials, including Cardinal Bernard F. Law, knew more about cases of sexual abuse than they said; Documents that allege Boston officials placed an incoming priest they knew had just been treated for pedophilia; Recommendation that Father Robert Brown not be placed in a situation where he could be around children; His placement as pastor of a Boston church where he would be in contact with children.

Reports the plans of the officials of Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts to install scanners that can check the authenticity of driver's licenses and passports.

Reports the publication of a photograph of the severed head of Daniel Pearl, newspaper reporter of 'The Wall Street Journal,' by 'The Phoenix' in Boston Massachusetts on June 6, 2002.

Focuses on the documents which show that the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts knew the psychiatric problems of priest Paul R. Shanley, an accused child molester, in 1991.

Focuses on the editorial of the March 14, 2002 issue of 'The Pilot,' the official newspaper of the Boston Archdiocese in Massachusetts, which reflected on issues about celibacy of priests.

Reports on the contents of documents regarding the pedophilia of a priest in Boston, Massachusetts. Preoccupation of the Roman Catholic archdiocese in the area with avoiding scandal; Allegations of the church's knowledge of the pedophilia; Public apology made by Boston cardinal Bernard F, Law.

Reports that according to a statement from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, photographs claiming to show two of the Rembrandt paintings stolen from this museum in March 1990 have been obtained by two news organizations. Comments made by the museum's director, Anne Hawley; Identity of the news organizations that has the photographs.

The article reports on the publication of a paper "Paying Not to Go to the Gym" which reveals the number of Americans who join a gym in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has received a bonanza from one of its longtime trustees, according to a report in The Boston Globe. Saundra Lane has given the museum 6,000 photographs, 100 works-on-paper and 25 paintings. Included in the donation is the entire photographic estate of Charles Sheeler, which amounts to some 2,500 photographs, along with the same number of images by Edward Weston. There are also 500 photographs by Ansel Adams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BOSTON -- Andy Gomez, a ninth grader at Brighton High School, was not sure why hamburgers and meatballs had disappeared from the cafeteria, but he was not happy about it. ''Today I just ate peanut butter and jelly,'' he said. ''I don't like the chicken patty.'' The absence of ground beef at lunch last week -- at Brighton High and 43 other public schools here -- could be explained by a peek into the freezer, where 21 boxes of ground beef products sat, cordoned off from the rest of the meat by a clinical-looking cover of white paper reading ''Do not use.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ON paper it resembles a subplot from David Foster Wallace's deliriously satiric novel ''Infinite Jest'': a billionaire heiress builds a spectacular art museum on family property somewhere in the Deep South and gives it the suspiciously New-Agey name Crystal Bridges. But this is nonfiction. On Nov. 11 Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, will unveil the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in the small city of Bentonville, Ark. Ms. Walton will always be remembered by New York's cultural custodians for absconding six years ago with Asher B. Durand's ''Kindred Spirits,'' a key piece of Hudson River School painting. (The New York Public Library let it go for about $35 million.) But Ms. Walton, 61, is no harebrained carpetbagger. A serious, lifelong art collector, she intends to make Crystal Bridges a major comprehensive repository of American art from Colonial to contemporary. In 2005 she hired the distinguished art historian and former National Gallery of Art curator John Wilmerding to advise on acquisitions and went on a buying spree that netted a George Washington portrait by Gilbert Stuart; Norman Rockwell's ''Rosie the Riveter'' (1943); Jasper Johns's ''Alphabets'' (1960-62); and a 2009 portrait of Bill Clinton, a friend of Ms. Walton's, by Chuck Close. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BOSTON -- A spin of the marketing wheel has brought abstract painting back into the spotlight, and much of the new stuff turns out to be rewrapped old stuff. At the same time there are enough artists seriously rethinking existing models that very basic definitions -- What does abstract mean? What qualifies as painting? -- are in flux. Mark Bradford, a 49-year-old Californian, is one of these rethinkers, and a lean, bright 10-year survey of his work at the Institute of Contemporary Art here gives a sense of what he's been up to. Mr. Bradford first gained national attention in 2001 in ''Freestyle,'' the self-designated ''post-black,'' new-talent survey at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He was one of the oldest people in the show, but his art looked fresh, and it came with an intriguing history. He had a graduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts, known for its theory-intensive curriculum. But he supported himself as a stylist in his mother's beauty salon in South Central Los Angeles and used hairdressing supplies -- curling paper, gels -- in his art, the large abstract collages that he called paintings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Although the Art of the Americas installation is the main event, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is using the special exhibitions gallery in the new, Norman Foster-designed wing to spotlight another of its institutional strengths: Asian art. In 2006 the museum invited nine Chinese artists and a Chinese-American artist each to select a work from the collection and create a response to it. Both the pieces chosen and the new art have been assembled in an ingenious and engrossing show called ''Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition'' (through Feb. 13), organized by the museum's curator of Chinese art, Hao Sheng. Some pairings are straightforward, others oblique. The youngest artist, Qiu Ting, born in 1971, chose a misty Northern Song landscape from the museum's great Chinese holdings and made his own version of it. Two artists, Li Huayi and Zeng Xiaojun, went for masterpiece gold in the form of Cheng Rong's renowned ''Nine Dragons'' and came back with landscapes, but in unorthodox formats: Mr. Li's stretches over several large sheets of paper; Mr. Zeng's is framed as a free-standing screen. Li Jin updated an 11th-century scroll of scholars at a gathering by adding his Falstaffian self to the company. The show's sole female artist, Yu Hong, paid homage to the 12th-century scroll ''Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk'' by -- beautifully -- transforming its figures into contemporary women. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports that Mike Barnicle, the columnist who resigned for "The Boston Globe" newspaper in 1998, has been hired as a columnist at the "The Boston Herald." Barnicle's resignation in 1998 after failing to credit comedian George Carlin as the source of a series of jokes in one column and for his failure to verify the identities of two cancer patients in another; Work done by Barnicle for "The Daily News" of New York after his resignation from the Boston, Massachusetts paper.

Features the Japanese postcard collection of Leonard A. Lauder shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Schedule for the exhibition of the postcard collection; Research made on the Japanese artists who made the postcards; Views of Joe V. Earle, chairman of the department of art at the Museum of Fine Arts, regarding the style used to create postcards.