Taking the lead

Somerville mayor Dorothy Kelly Gay is shaping the development of Assembly Square. Boston mayor Tom Menino should pay attention -- he might learn something.
by Laura A. Siegel

Drug wars

Slashing the prices of AIDS drugs in Africa isn't going to make a difference -- but letting cheap generic drugs onto the market might ease the crisis
by Tom Witkowski

The gang star

Saroeum Phoung may have been the hardest Cambodian gangster in Revere. Now he's pulling kids out of gang life. And 25 years after the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, a culture has the chance to grow again.
by Lisa Birk

Disorderly conduct

Mental-health services for troubled children are so bad in Massachusetts that ER physicians and pediatricians have started speaking out. Will their attention push the state to commit the needed resources?
by Kristen Lombardi

Art: Davis Square goes underwater City hall: the life of Brian Correspondence: fight the power Personally: Scouts, gays, and the illogic of the law Politics: Strange bedfellows

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