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The Globe's early edition today got it wrong, printing the Patriots Super Bowl LI run came to "A Bitter End." There’s fake news and then there’s FAKE NEWS! Today’s early edition Boston Globe made a historic blunder with its Super Bowl coverage, running the headline: A BITTER END.

Here’s the Electoral College map we’re going to end up with, assuming that every uncalled state goes to the candidate leading in the vote count there as of 4 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday. There’s a sea of red for President-elect Donald Trump. He earned 306 electoral votes and became the first Republican since 1988 to win Michigan, Wisconsin or Pennsylvania.

In the Golden Era of Hollywood, actors such as Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn spoke with a strange form of English that placed them somewhere between America and Great Britain. The so-called Mid-Atlantic accent actually wasn't an accent at all, but an affectation concocted by a Canadian elocutionist.

So now I have a roommate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July — my wife. She was elected yesterday from North Attleboro as a Donald Trump delegate to the national GOP convention. Unfortunately for Dyin’ Ted Cruz, she is not a double agent for him or any other Canadian-born RINOs.

For Jannie Coverdale, they're two sides of the same dubious face. Nothing about the FBI's latest national blunder (disgrace is a better word) alters the basic truth that haunts Coverdale's life. Timothy McVeigh parked a 5,000-pound bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. It killed her two grandsons, Aaron and Elijah Coverdale. That truth, Jannie will take to her grave. But thousands of bomb-related documents, uncovered just days before McVeigh was set to die, only confirm Jannie Coverdale's darkest suspicions about America's most horrendous self-inflicted wound. She will never believe that McVeigh and Terry Nichols were ...

Evil as it may look, H. Paul Rico's face is disintegrating. It's as if the weight of this sinister old G-Man's poisoned career is burned into the dissolute landscape of his tanned, sagging flesh. Last week, as the House Government Reform Committee in Washington opened hearings into FBI corruption, Rico's lawyer urged him to plead the Fifth. But the silver-haired rogue arrogantly waived off his counsel. ``What do I care? I'm 76 years old,'' Rico was heard to grumble. ``What the bleep are they gonna do to me?'' Indeed. To look at Rico is to know his liver is likely ...

It was touching to see Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger back on the tube again during the Hainan confrontation, with Brzezinski recommending to Jim Lehrer's audience that Kissinger be appointed supreme envoy and mediator for the resolution of the crisis. He wasn't completely clear on the credentials Kissinger would be employing: his usual ones as middleman and facilitator for US corporations in China (and chief justifier of the Tiananmen Square bloodbath in 1989) or his consummate skill as a handler of touchy moments on the Asian mainland. As it happens, the last time US citizens were "held hostage" within the ...

TALLAHASSEE - Surely Katherine Harris never dreamed that becoming Florida secretary of state would involve all this. When she assumed the official title in January 1999, Harris embarked on an international tour to promote trade with the state of Florida, traveling to Rio de Janeiro and Barbados on relationship-building missions. One newspaper dubbed her ''a Florida version of Madeleine Albright.'' The granddaughter of the late Florida citrus baron Ben Hill Griffin, as well as a multimillionaire in her own right, she also was the talk of Republican circles. Some viewed her as a potential US Senate candidate, while others ...

For someone who wanted nothing to do with it, Katherine Harris has gone a long way in politics in a very short time. She was elected to the Florida Senate in 1994, and this year she won the Republican nomination for secretary of state. In both cases she did it the hard way by defeating incumbents. Now, the Sarasota lawmaker is running against Miami Democrat Karen Gievers to succeed Secretary of State Sandra Mortham who lost to Harris in the GOP primary. "I had grown up around politics all my life and didn't like politics," Harris said. "I was determined ...

It can be argued that Florida law requires the ballot to be set up so that the voter's X must be to the right of the candidate's name.For the paper ballot, the law says ( 2000->Ch0101->Section%20151">Specifications for general election ballot)--"(3)(a) Beneath the caption and preceding the names of candidates shall be the following words: 'To vote for a candidate whose name is printed on the ballot, place a cross (X) mark in the blank space at the right of the name of the candidate for whom you desire to vote.' "Then the law addresses the general ballot ( 2000->Ch0101->Section%20191">Form of ...

WASHINGTON - Greg MacArthur, grandson of the billionaire John D. MacArthur, seems a most unlikely player in the effort to win votes for Ralph Nader's presidential campaign. MacArthur would save millions of dollars from George W. Bush's plan to cut estate and income taxes. And as the producer of a children's video called ''Where does my garbage go,'' MacArthur shares environmental concerns with Al Gore. But starting today, MacArthur, whose late grandfather was one of the nation's three richest men, is pouring some of his own money into an unprecedented and independent pro-Nader advertising campaign that says much about what ...

One year ago dust was still rising from the rubble of the NATO air war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. From March 24, 1999, until June 10, 1999, Operation Allied Force conducted 38,000 combat sorties, including more than 10,000 strike sorties - an explosion of violence that sparked furious debate. Those opposed to the NATO bombardment were vilified as friends of genocide, while its supporters clung to a self-justifying vision of humanitarian war. When the air campaign ended, a troubled American people was relieved to put the hard feelings behind, allowing the NATO operation to tumble down what ...

Vice President Al Gore brings a remarkable life story to the presidential race: His father was such an unwavering supporter of civil rights that it cost him his Senate seat. His older sister was the first-ever volunteer in the Peace Corps, that heroic outpost on President Kennedy's New Frontier. By Gore's account: He was raised in hardscrabble Tennessee farm country. He was a brilliant student, in high school and at Harvard. And despite his political pull, he received no special treatment, opting instead to go to Vietnam where he was ''shot at.'' After his Army service, he spent seven years ...

Ten and a half months have passed, and John and Jane Doe have no more clue than last May whether the Red Sox will knock politely on their door for a cup of sugar or bust in with hoods and masks to clean out the safe. Since the team has not yet come clean, it is a bad sign of what is about to happen. The Red Sox are posing as the lovable civic neighbor wanting a minor favor. Behind them, out on the street, is an unmarked truck the size of a moving van. The engines are running. The ...

Stadium subsidies scalp the public By Ralph Nader, Boston Globe, 3/27/2000 Ever since the Boston Tea Party, public debate over whether to pay taxes and how to spend those dollars has been a vibrant part of our democratic process in Massachusetts and across the nation. The debate over taxpayer subsidies for the stadium that is proposed to replace the venerable Fenway Park is shaping up to be an epic battle pitting the public interest and the public well-being against the well-financed powers that be. Despite polls indicating that voters are nearly 2-1 against public subsidies, a well-financed lobbying campaign is ...

'Gilligan's Island': E! Tells The Tale of That Fateful Trip The E! entertainment channel's new documentary about the classically ridiculous sitcom "Gilligan's Island" may be more entertaining than the show itself ever was. Not that "Gilligan's Island" doesn't deserve respect. Any series that has been thriving in reruns for three decades merits admiration and maybe even awe. "Gilligan's Island" has unquestionably become part of the culture--a masterpiece of kitsch--as succeeding generations of kids discovered it on local stations and memorized its universally recognizable expositional theme song. No matter how much you think you don't care about the show, you may ...

NEW YORK—Check out her prim smile and the regal nod. Listen to this intelligent and reserved Midwesterner say how excited and encouraged she is about running for the U.S. Senate. And wonder: Is Hillary Rodham Clinton really ready for this? The thrashing murk of New York politics. The recreational mindlessness of the press. The 918 ethnic spokesmen who want to know her position--now, okay?!--on an undivided Jerusalem, a divided Kosovo and double-parking regulations in Astoria. And, waiting downtown, Rudy the Sonic Bulldog. "I don't have any reaction," the Republican mayor with the very sharp teeth tells a TV talking head. ...

The federal government demands to know my race and threatens to fine me ($500) if I refuse to answer questions it has no right to ask. I received a form letter from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, admonishing me that I have not as yet returned its Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons (Form MB-1 or MB-2). For tax purposes relating to supplemental income, I am considered self-employed, even though my ``business'' has one employee - me. Form MB-2 has six questions. All concern race or gender. ``Is the primary owner(s) of this business of ...

Where is the panic? Where is the hysteria? Where are the men in robes and placards warning of the imminent end of the world? There are just six weeks left before the turn of the millennium, and things are so quiet and sober that one hardly senses a fin-de-siecle atmosphere, let alone millennial trepidation. The hounds are not barking. Why is the most portentous, widely anticipated turn of the calendar being greeted with such apparent equanimity? One answer, I suppose, is that ours is a far less religious age than 100, 200 or certainly 1,000 years ago. The millennium of ...

Fox News dumped Matt Drudge yesterday after extracting a statement of regret from the cyber-gossip for having riddled the network with rhetorical fire. Fox had threatened Drudge with a breach-of-contract lawsuit after he refused to tape his program last Saturday in a dispute over a picture of a fetus. Drudge and Fox News President Roger Ailes had a tense conversation to hammer out the language of their divorce. "In the heat of the moment, in pursuit of a story, I made comments I regret about the innovative Fox News Channel and its executives," Drudge said in the agreed-upon press release. ...