Today's Paper 05/19/2013 - The Boston Globe

The Nation

Broken City

Washington’s robust market for attacks, half-truths

Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, says donations have more than doubled during the time that Berman has attacked him.

By Michael Kranish

A look inside an industry of distortion, where unnamed corporations pay richly to bend the debate their way.

Women’s haven in Ohio loses takeover fight

Demonstrators rallied on May 8 against the acquisition of Anna Louise Inn by Western & Southern Financial Group.

By Amanda Lee Myers

A Fortune 500 company is turning the historic Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati into a boutique hotel.

IRS office at heart of scandal was understaffed backwater

“Foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient,” former IRS chief Steven Miller said.

By Nicholas Confessore and David Kocieniewski

Employees at the understaffed Cincinnati outpost were alienated from the broader IRS culture and were provided with little direction.

The World

North Korea lofts short-range missiles into sea

Japanese soldiers checked a missile interceptor unit at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Saturday, after reports that North Korea had fired short-range missiles into the sea.

By Choe Sang-Hun

The move was less provocative than what had been feared in the weeks after the country’s nuclear test in February.

English-language proposal in France sparks outrage

By Edward Cody

Higher Education Minister Genevieve Fioraso introduced a bill that would allow French universities to teach more courses in English.

The World Today

French president legalizes same-sex marriage

The country will see its first gay weddings within days.

Editorial & Opinion

JOAN VENNOCHI

Leadership vacuum may be root cause of Obama’s scandals

President Obama paused while making a statement Wednesday at the White House about the IRS scandal.

By Joan Vennochi

It’s as if Barack Obama thinks of himself as the average, outraged citizen, not as the president with the power to set high standards of behavior for everyone who works for him.

TOM KEANE

Big Government is watching you

By Tom Keane

What the Benghazi-IRS-AP scandals suggest — and what victims of drone strikes and people such as Aaron Swartz might testify — is that protections like the Bill of Rights are inadequate.

JOANNA WEISS

What should a shirt cost?

By Joanna Weiss

There are global implications to fast fashion; low-price, low-quality goods have to exact a cost somewhere, and, recently, it was in Cambodia and Bangladesh.

Metro

Retired WCVB anchor fulfills dream of getting degree

Jim Boyd will receive his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Tufts University.

By Jarret Bencks

Over a span of 45 years, Jim Boyd built a successful career in broadcast TV, but there was one goal that eluded him: earning a college degree.

Passenger on derailed train describes collision

Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy said at least five people had critical injuries following the collision.

By Dan Adams

After the derailment but before passengers could make it out of the train, it was violently struck by a train on an adjacent track, a passenger said.

UMass Lowell grads applaud Edward Davis

Dean of College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Luis Falcon laid a hood on Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis during UMass Lowell's commencement exercises.

By Brian Ballou

Boston Police commissioner Edward Davis, who gave the commencement address, was also awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.

Money & Careers

Low-residency programs blend online, campus classes

Joe Lane (right) worked with engineering intern Alexander Rick at UMass Lowell. Lane got an MBA at Babson.

By Joan Axelrod-Contrada

Many working professionals are turning to flexible, part-time programs to retool or change careers without having to uproot families or quit jobs.

Special skills can help land emerging Mass. jobs

By Jay Fitzgerald

Take a look at some of the fields that are in high demand by employers and programs offered by local universities that might help you break in.

Home of the week

Braintree Colonial has large, quiet lot

The visually dramatic black-and-white floor in the entryway of this spacious center entrance Colonial signals what lies ahead.

Globe 100

Letter from the business editor

Celebrating a quarter-century of the Globe 100

By Shirley Leung

Nearly 500 companies have made at least one appearance on our annual list of best-performing public companies in Massachusetts.

Globe 100 at 25: Then & now

Names like Digital Equipment Corp., Polaroid Corp. and Bank of Boston — all gone now — were very big 25 years ago. A look at how things have changes.

Innovators | Education

A classroom for the whole world

By Cindy Atoji Keene

Anant Agarwal, 53, is the president of edX, an ambitous online higher education collaboration created in 2012 by MIT and Harvard University.

Sports

Red Sox 12, Twins 5

David Ortiz, Red Sox crush the Twins

David Ortiz admires his three-run homer in the first. He added an RBI single and a two-run blast for six RBIs.

By Peter Abraham

The Red Sox DH drove in six with a pair of home runs to right field as the Red Sox beat the Twins, 12-5.

Rangers’ John Tortorella has always been intense

John Tortorella didn’t feel much like talking after his Rangers lost to the Bruins Thursday night in overtime in Game 1.

By John Powers

The 54-year-old Concord native and Rangers coach has matched his edgy personality with an insatiable appetite for practice and a relentless will.

Dan Shaughnessy

Toronto folks know nothing of disappointment

By Dan Shaughnessy

The Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy offers his thoughts on random sports topics, including Toronto fans lamenting the disastrous Game 7 in Boston.

Ideas

The too-smart city

By Courtney Humphries

We’re building the metropolis of the future – green, wired, even helpful. But is that really where we want to live?

The long, weird history of the Nigerian e-mail scam

By Finn Brunton

200 years ago, a near-perfect con was already snagging our imaginations—and wallets.

Q&A

Garden hermit needed. Apply within.

By Alice Gregory

British historian Gordon Campbell talks about perhaps the strangest landscaping trend of all time.

Obituaries

Ruth Marshall, 85, supportive librarian, avid photographer

Ms. Marshall enjoyed photographing big events at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge.

By J.M. Lawrence

Ms. Marshall worked at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square for 39 years and acted as church historian for St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge.

Ken Venturi, 82, golf analyst, winner of memorable US Open

Ken Venturi made the final putt on the 18th green during the US Open Golf Championship at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., on June 20, 1964.

By Richard Goldstein

Mr. Venturi won the 1964 US Open while nearing collapse from heat exhaustion.

Geza Vermes, 88, Dead Sea Scrolls scholar

Mr. Vermes was a translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, documents written between 200 BC and AD 200.

By Robert Barr

Mr. Vermes published the first English translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and was renowned for books exploring the Jewish background of Jesus.

Sunday

Movies | Critic’s Notebook

In praise of the less-popular pleasures of the big screen

The big vision like in “The Great Gatsby” can still inspire a communal sense of wonder.

By Ty Burr

Aside from a handful of box office hits, the old-fashioned theatrical film is under assault. Globe critic Ty Burr’s take on how the communal sense of wonder is falling by the wayside.

Summer | art

Turn on, tune in, design a great poster at Smith College

By Sebastian Smee

Full of movement and color, the works in Smith College’s “Summer of Love” show were produced by inventive designers in the Bay Area.

Boston comes alive with summer fests

Australia’s Strange Fruit will perform at the Outside the Box festival.

By Joel Brown

Los Lobos, Ricky Skaggs, and Angelique Kidjo are among an eclectic mix of performers slated to descend on Boston for a pair of festivals.

Travel

Berkshires inns offer high quality, higher costs

The bedroom at Blantyre (left) and the appetizer of grilled foie gras at Wheatleigh.

By Bella English

Two of the state’s top inns, Blantyre and its nearby rival, Wheatleigh, are internationally ranked and exorbitantly priced.

If you go biking in Montreal...

Filmmakers and tour company launch New England ‘Hidden Gems’ trip

The exterior of the Mark Twain House & Museum, featured on the “Hidden Gems on New England” tour.

By Shira Springer

The eight-day itinerary includes stops in Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, highlighting New England in all its unexpected variety.