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In this Wednesday, April 4, 2018, photo Amelia Gapin works out while preparing to run the Boston Marathon during an early morning jog in Jersey City, N.J. Boston Marathon organizers say transgender runners can qualify for the race using the gender they identify with. Gapin, a transgender woman from New Jersey, says running Boston this year will be a victory lap for what she has accomplished. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Boston, other marathons say trans women can compete as women

by Collin Binkley Associated PressApril 8, 2018

High school students in Astoria, Ore., hold up signs during a walkout Wednesday.

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Huge walkout of US students to protest gun violence

by Collin Binkley Associated PressMarch 14, 2018

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2018, file photo, Somerville High School students sit on the sidewalk on Highland Avenue during a student walkout at the school in Somerville, Mass. A large-scale, coordinated demonstration is planned for Wednesday, March 14, when organizers have called for a 17-minute school walkout nationwide to protest gun violence. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via AP, File)

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US students stage school walkouts to protest gun violence

by Collin Binkley Associated PressMarch 14, 2018

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Students physically restrained 9K times last year

by Collin Binkley Associated PressFebruary 23, 2018

It’s the second year in a row in the top spot for Massachusetts, which also had the greatest increase in performance over the last decade.

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Mass. students lead US in Advanced Placement exams

by Collin Binkley Associated PressFebruary 21, 2018

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, Viet Nguyen poses for a portrait on the Brown University campus in Providence, R.I. Nguyen, now an alumnus, helped lead an effort urging Brown and other elite universities to rethink their legacy admissions policies. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Students, alumni challenge legacy preference at top colleges

by Collin Binkley Associated Press, and Jennifer McDermott Associated PressFebruary 14, 2018

Actress Julianne Moore, center, was named Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals woman of the year in 2011. As the theater group prepares to honor its 2018 winners, critics have called for the troupe to start casting women in its burlesque musical productions and to update stage portrayals of women that some say are sexist. The group has had an all-male cast for more than 170 years.

Why aren’t women allowed in Harvard’s Hasty Pudding shows?

by Collin Binkley Associated PressJanuary 26, 2018

John Donovan, head of Cambridge Executive Enterprises, in his office in Cambridge. The former MIT professor, who once staged his own shooting, was indicted Thursday on charges of forging part of his dead son’s will.

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After staging his own shooting, now he’s charged with forgery

by Collin Binkley Associated PressDecember 29, 2017

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at George Mason University Arlington, Va., campus. DeVos is scheduled to speak on Thursday, Sept. 28, at Harvard University. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Lawsuit challenges DeVos’ guidance on campus sexual assault

by Collin Binkley Associated PressOctober 19, 2017

In this Oct. 6, 2017 photo, Vick Liu unrolls his TravlerPack, a lightweight sleeping bag, outside the Kresge Auditorium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass . Liu, a finance and political science major, created a line of lightweight sleeping bags for refugees who have few other options to keep warm during winters in the Middle East. Liu and a team of five classmates are sending sleeping bags to resettlement areas in Syria and hope to send more to refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. (AP Photo/Collin Binkley)

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MIT student making sleeping bags for refugees

by Collin Binkley Associated PressOctober 15, 2017