A visual collage from The Boston Globe's photo department. His mother, Ellen Leavitt, who is battling a recurrence of the disease, was his inspiration. She was first diagnosed in 1994 and is being treated now at Massachusetts General Hospital. After a decade in this North Shore town, Ralph Boyd is packing up for another suburb, this time near Washington, where Boyd has been nominated by President Bush to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. In the wake of the tour bus crash that killed four Newton middle school students, two Massachusetts congressmen said they will lobby the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require passenger restraints in all new buses.
Gardens can be many things.
They can be Fourth of July rockets, with bold swatches of hot colors, often in a formal, institutional planting. They can be thought-provoking, like a restored prairie, pulling the viewer into mental discussion of history and horticulture. William T.G. Litant of Boxborough has been named communications director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. He has a degree in communications from Emerson College. He rarely has more than a few dollars to his name.