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							  Nearly everyone in Massachusetts felt the pinch of the recession in 2009 — even Beacon Hill lobbyists had to tighten their belts.
							  Photos of Mariah Carey on her 2010 world tour
							  J.D. Salinger was 91 when he died in his New Hampshire home on January 27, 45 years after he published his last known story, "Hapworth 16, 1924," in the  New Yorker .
							  Karen Schmeer, the brilliant local film editor whose work on Errol Morris's documentary  The Fog of War  helped win it the Best Documentary Oscar in 2004, died January 29 in a tragic accident, struck by a getaway car as she was crossing a street in Manhattan. She would have turned 40 on February 20.
							  After years of shrinking audiences and low-grossing Best Picture nominees, the Academy this year is hedging its bets.
 
				
					
					
							
							  Wakinyan RedShirt has made three films in his life:  Lego Star Wars ,  Bionicle Heroes , and  The Wolf Show . But perhaps his greatest flick, he says, is his latest.
							  Nearly everyone in Massachusetts felt the pinch of the recession in 2009 — even Beacon Hill lobbyists had to tighten their belts.
							  Karen Schmeer, the brilliant local film editor whose work on Errol Morris's documentary  The Fog of War  helped win it the Best Documentary Oscar in 2004, died January 29 in a tragic accident, struck by a getaway car as she was crossing a street in Manhattan. She would have turned 40 on February 20.
							  Sizing up the  Boston Globe 's recent past is easy: simply put, in the past 12 months, the paper has seen enough gut-wrenching drama to change the name of Morrissey Boulevard to Melrose Place. But forecasting the paper's future is another matter.
							  BSO music director James Levine has returned to Symphony Hall for the first time since October, when back surgery put him out of commission.
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