I didn't know Charlotte Ericson, but after reading her obituary, I'm sure I would have liked her. I would have liked Virginia Larson, too. And John Sala.

SUDBURY -- An overflow crowd of somber residents came to Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School last night, seeking to understand how the school's seeming safety was shattered when a 15-year-old freshman was stabbed to death last week and a special needs student was charged in the killing.

Word of the death of Mary Forni arrived by mail this week. The lengthy obituary, sent by a friend in New York, is from the ...

1. The history of economic thought in the twentieth century is a bit like the history of Christianity in the sixteenth century. Until John Maynard Keynes published The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in 1936, economicsat least in the English-speakin g worldwas completely dominated by free-market orthodoxy.

Bradford Washburn, the founder of the Museum of Science and an explorer who spent three-quarters of a century unlocking the secrets of such sites as Mount McKinley and Mount Everest, died Wednesday of heart failure. He was 96.

James M. Kelly, the powerful city councilor from South Boston who was considered a pugnacious neighborhood champion by his supporters but a polarizing symbol of intolerance by others, died yesterday morning after a long battle with cancer. He was 66.

After one particularly serious bout of depression, humorist Art Buchwald once joked that he had decided against committing suicide because he was afraid The New York Times wouldn't find his death sufficiently newsworthy for a story.