Today's Paper 03/08/2013 - The Boston Globe

The Nation

Senate confirms Brennan to CIA

John Brennan is a former CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia and has served as President Obama’s principal counterterrorism adviser for the past four years.

By Peter Finn and Aaron Blake

The Senate voted to confirm John Brennan as CIA director after a 13-hour filibuster.

Convicted Ohio Amish face unfamiliar lives in US prison

The Amish men convicted in beard- and hair-cutting attacks will be allowed to keep their religiously important beards in prison. Jumper dresses will be an option for the women.

By Thomas J. Sheeran

Sixteen Amish men and women are facing regimented routines in a federal prison system after being convicted in beard- and hair-cutting attacks.

Scholarship can exact cost

By Janet Lorin

Scholarship programs are taking aim at practices used by wealthy colleges, rescinding aid once they find out they have awards from outside sources.

The World

China joins in rebuke against North Korea

By Rick Gladstone and David E. Sanger

The country’s participation in writing the sanctions suggests North Korea’s longtime ally has lost patience with its neighbor.

Thousands flock to say goodbye to Chavez

Hugo Chavez’s brother Adan, mother, Elena Frias, and father, Hugo, viewed his body in Caracas Thursday.

By William Neuman and Christine Hauser

The lines, steeped in loyalty and grief, started Wednesday and stretched through the night at a military academy Hugo Chavez attended.

Dutch peacekeeper not prosecuted for massacre

By Mike Corder

The retired general who commanded Dutch peacekeepers when Serb fighters killed some 8,000 Muslims won’t be prosecuted.

Editorial & Opinion

In defense of ‘dead white males’

Statue of the ancient Greek philosopher and teacher Socrates.

By Cathy Young

The West is attacked as uniquely oppressive even though it has gained unprecedented rights and freedoms for women, for gays and lesbians, and for individuals in general.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The children of ‘1984’

By Joan Wickersham

In telling their fathers’ stories, these memoirists remind us that words have power, and that memory itself has the last word.

SCOT LEHIGH

Charter school results too good to ignore

By Scot Lehigh

This state’s charter school results have become too compelling for policymakers truly concerned about education to ignore.

Metro

Kevin Cullen

Bill Bratton is America’s most wanted

By Kevin Cullen

Bratton, a Dorchester boy made good, has led New York and LA police. Could a top US post or job in London be next?

Nathaniel Fujita found guilty in Wayland murder

Nathaniel Fujita was sentenced to life in prison without parole by Middlesex Superior Court Judge Peter Lauriat. “I am Lauren Dunne Astley’s mother. But never again will I be called mom, or mommy or mother,” said Mary Dunne, below left, with Lauren’s father, Malcolm Astley.

By Evan Allen and Lisa Kocian

Fujita, 20, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing his former high school girlfriend, Lauren Astley, in 2011.

Lynch’s health care vote at issue in Senate campaign

Representative Stephen Lynch recalled a long struggle that brought him to his final vote on health care legislation. In the end, he said, “this bill was not good enough.”

By Eric Moskowitz

US Representative Stephen F. Lynch’s opposition to President Obama’s health care overhaul remains one of the better known moments of his career.

Business

AG wants utility chief’s pay revealed

By Erin Ailworth

Martha Coakley called to eliminate the reporting technicality that allowed Northeast Utilities to withhold a full accounting of Thomas J. May’s pay in 2012.

State sues firms over tactics on home loans

By Jenifer B. McKim

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley claims the two companies unlawfully required upfront payments from homeowners seeking to avoid foreclosure.