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Treasurer wants limit to
designs for schools

State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, trying to head off what he calls "Taj Mahal" high schools, said yesterday that he wants cities and towns to begin using off-the-shelf building designs that could cut school-project costs by 30 percent. (Boston Globe)

Textbooks, free and illegal, online

Faced with soaring prices for textbooks, cash-strapped students have discovered a tempting, effective, but illicit alternative - pirated electronic books, available for free over the Internet. (By Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)

DNC rides Obama coattails

Barack Obama not only revived his own powerhouse money machine after clinching his party's presidential nomination last month, he jump-started the sputtering fund-raising apparatus of the Democratic National Committee. (By Brian C. Mooney, Boston Globe)
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Inequity's end means new start for 31

Jean Janvier spent 17 months locked up for selling about 2 grams of crack cocaine in Dorchester. (By Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe)

Planned relocation of historic graves
stirs up Vermont town

When a former Wall Street analyst from Greenwich, Conn., set his sights on a lush parcel of 150 acres here, he knew he wanted to live atop its highest peak, surrounded by panoramic views and rippling meadows studded with red clover, Vermont's state flower. (By Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff)

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