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Editor's Letter The Globe newsroom, like every newsroom, is obsessed with time. Seconds matter in posting news online. Minutes matter on deadline for the morning paper. We always crave more time – for one more interview, another splash of color, an extra day to review public records, an hour to refine the writing. But sometimes you have to hit "Send." Read more... Editor's picks for 2014 For Richard family, loss and love Written by David Abel | Globe Staff They had to be in that Boylston Street crowd on Marathon Day, up against the barricade, cheering passing runners. It is part of what bound the Richard family to Boston. The horror that followed, and their quiet courage in the face of it, will bind Boston's hearts to theirs, forever. Read more... The secret world of the Dunkin' Donuts franchise kings Written by Neil Swidey | Globe Staff How men like Mark Cafua, Gary Joyal, and Dan Fireman are building empires, regular by regular. For evidence that Fitzgerald was right about the very rich being different from you and me, pull your car up to the swanky Boston Harbor Hotel. Read more... Chasing Bayla Written by Sarah Schweitzer | Globe Staff Biologist Michael Moore had waited all day — really, all his life — for the whale to surface, the suffering giant he thought he could save, that science had to save. It had come down to this. Read more... Brave and afraid and heading down the longest road Written by Jenna Russell | Globe Staff He was an ebullient boy, quick to laugh and easy to love. And then, at 17, the shadow fell. A devastating diagnosis of mental illness. Trouble, hospital, home, into the depths again. Now, sustained by his mother's unimaginably patient love, he aims to make his way back. Read more... Spotlight Series: A house jammed with students, a life of promise lost Written by Jenn Abelson | Globe Staff It was a quirky, old place, but it was home to Binland Lee and her 13 housemates. It was also blatantly illegal, from basement bedrooms without permits to the unit with only one way out — where Binland happily lived and where she died when fire struck. Read more... More than 60 years later, a love note from a familiar stranger Written by Kathleen Burge | Globe Staff Separated by distance and time, a couple finds the words to connect again. Cynthia Riggs and Howard Attebery wrote notes to each other in a simple code in 1950. Inside an envelope that traveled from his house in San Diego to her post office box on Martha's Vineyard, he added one new message, also in code. "I have never stopped loving you." Read more... A father's unstoppable need to know Written by Evan Allen | Globe Staff Every time Jim Kasper watches the surveillance video, it feels like he's jumping off a cliff. He clenches his fists and forces himself to keep his eyes open as his son's body rolls silently through the frame. Read more... Thomas M. Menino, Boston's longest serving mayor, dies at 71 Written by Bryan Marquard and Jim O'Sullivan | Globe Staff Thomas Michael Menino, who insisted a mayor doesn't need a grand vision to lead, then went on to shepherd Boston's economy and shape the skyline and the very identity of the city he loved through an unprecedented five consecutive terms in City Hall, died Thursday. Read more... For Jared Remy, leniency was the rule until one lethal night Written by Eric Moskowitz | Globe Staff The trail of alleged victims runs back to his teen years. So does the line of judges who somehow saw fit, time and again, to give him one more chance. Read more... A death in restraints after 'standard procedure' Written by Michael Rezendes | Globe Staff Joshua Messier was having a schizophrenic attack, then died as Bridgewater state prison guards subdued him. The medical examiner called it homicide, then changed her mind. Read more... Market Basket board meetings set the stage for family strife Written by Casey Ross | Globe Staff Transcripts of Market Basket board meetings reveal ill will, wide divisions over authority, employee compensation, and where profits should go. The feud between cousins Arthur S. Demoulas and Arthur T. Demoulas has been going on for years. Read more... When routine turned to crisis Written by Andrew Ryan, Evan Allen, and Meghan Irons | Globe Staff In the hours before they died, the lives of Edward J. Walsh Jr. and Michael R. Kennedy could not have been any more ordinary. Read more... Get access now

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