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Colorado will pay coach Dan Hawkins around $2 million to go away. His replacement might not get that much to fix the Buffaloes’ broken program. Athletic director Mike Bohn said the school’s financial constraints means he won’t be able to pursue just anyone to be the next coach at Colorado because the higher profile names earn about $4 million annually, way out of the Buffs’ price range. “It’s really not a level playing field of the haves in the Big 12 or the haves in the Pac-12,’’ Bohn said at a news conference to announce the dismissal of Hawkins.

From the bully pulpit of his New York Times column, Paul Krugman has been explaining why numbers matters since 1999. The unabashed liberal took the Bush administration to task, but he hasn't exactly let the Obama administration off the hook, as his new book, "End This Depression Now" makes clear. The Nobel laureate is in town Monday night for a sold-out event sponsored by the Harvard Book Store. BOOKS: What are you reading now? KRUGMAN: The thing with gadgets — I have a Kindle and an iPad — is that I tend to have several things going at once.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Never mind that it was freezing — nearly 500 people waited outside a NewNew Hampshire New Hampshire brewery to get a taste of a favorite beer that's released just once a year. Fans celebrated the release of Kate the Great Russian imperial stout on Monday. It was first brewed in 2005 at the Portsmouth Brewery and has received high marks in beer publications since. Brewmaster Tod Mott brewed 14 barrels. Half was bottled, and half was available for draft.

GEORGE MCGEE > 51 Accountant HIS PERFECT SATURDAY Visit a historic site or go for an easy hike THE LAST THING HE READThe Partly Cloudy Patriot, by Sarah Vowell INTERESTS Member of Historic New England   GARY BRIGGS > 51 Retail store owner and candle manufacturer HIS PERFECT SATURDAY Getting up early, driving to Brimfield, shopping for antiques all day INTERESTS I am an avid tennis player and antiques...

The Colorado Buffaloes showed rare rhythm on their opening drive, marching down the field and taking an early lead. Only one problem: "About 58 minutes left," coach Jon Embree said. "Seven points wasn't going to be enough. " Especially not with Matt Barkley running the show. Barkley torched the banged-up Buffaloes for a school-record six touchdowns to lead No. 21 Southern California to a 42-17 win on Friday night. The Buffs (1-9, 0-6 Pac-12) have faced quite a few elite quarterbacks in their first foray through the conference, and Barkley, who's just a junior, ranks right...

WHO: Lisa Bryant, 70, of Lexington, and Mary Ellen Kiddle, 68, of Arlington. WHERE: Sicily. WHEN: Two weeks in September and October. WHY: "I went to language school there last year and wanted to go back. I mentioned it at bridge group and Mary Ellen wanted to go," Bryant said. "I was a Spanish professor at Boston College, and since I retired I've wanted to study Italian," Kiddle said. "I figured with the location, I couldn't go wrong. " The school, Solemar Sicilia [solemar-sicilia.it]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- After getting a taste of the radio business in college, software designer Craig Patchett never lost his interest in broadcasting. But without a job in radio, it seemed likely to remain one of those unfulfilled passions -- until something called "podcasting" came along. Now, Patchett's creating shows and sending them out to the masses every day -- not over the airwaves to radios but over the Internet, from his personal computer in Carlsbad, Calif. His listeners download his shows to their iPods and other digital music players.

Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today By Alan Huffman Gotham, 328 pp., $27 History buffs obsessed with American slavery are masochists. An American studying World War II, for example, need not do so with much trepidation or controversial agenda. Given the likelihood that any Nazi sympathizers would have long ago been pruned from our family trees, we can all safely consider ourselves among the good guys.

From the bully pulpit of his New York Times column, Paul Krugman has been explaining why numbers matters since 1999. The unabashed liberal took the Bush administration to task, but he hasn't exactly let the Obama administration off the hook, as his new book, "End This Depression Now" makes clear. The Nobel laureate is in town Monday night for a sold-out event sponsored by the Harvard Book Store. BOOKS: What are you reading now? KRUGMAN: The thing with gadgets — I have a Kindle and an iPad — is that I tend to have several things going at once.

The Walmart clerk had no idea what I was talking about. She had DVDs and Blu-Rays aplenty, but what the heck was an UltraViolet movie? An online service, UltraViolet lets you create an Internet-based library of movies that you can watch on any connected device. It's a new solution an old problem: How can you watch your movies whenever and wherever you choose? UltraViolet, established by a consortium of about 75 movie studios, retailers, and technology companies, is going to be very popular with the sort of consumer who'd rather buy a movie than rent access to it. And Hollywood is hoping to...

NEW YORK - Amos Vogel exerted an influence on the history of film that few non-filmmakers can claim, founding Cinema 16, which became the nation's largest membership film society, and directing the first New York Film Festival. Mr. Vogel died on Tuesday at his home in Greenwich Village. He was 91. The cause was undetermined, though his kidneys had been failing, his son Steven said. Cinema 16, the society Mr. Vogel founded in 1947 and ran for 16 years with his wife, Marcia, eventually drew some 7,000 subscribers and provided daring filmmakers from around the world - Roman...

In the off-season, Joe Castiglione, a.k.a. the voice of the Red Sox, has plenty of time to write (his newest "Can You Believe It?" is just out), teach (he's a lecturer at Northeastern University), and read. But now that the Sox have started their season, Castiglione will work every day for the next four months. As he says, "It's part of the living. " BOOKS: What are you reading now? CASTIGLIONE: I just finished "Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost" by Lew Freedman, which I liked.

The Halifax Historical Society will host a presentation by Marc Valentine at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the historic schoolhouse on South Street. Valentine will discuss his 25 years on the road with the Mount Rushmore Flag and National Flag Exhibit. He will also share some interesting local historical tidbits. - Christine Legere

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Never mind that it was freezing — nearly 500 people waited outside a NewNew Hampshire New Hampshire brewery to get a taste of a favorite beer that's released just once a year. Fans celebrated the release of Kate the Great Russian imperial stout on Monday. It was first brewed in 2005 at the Portsmouth Brewery and has received high marks in beer publications since. Brewmaster Tod Mott brewed 14 barrels. Half was bottled, and half was available for draft.

NEW YORK - Flip to just about any page in "Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards" and something fascinating is bound to pop up. In 1997, when "Breathing Lessons," about a man who spent most of his life in an iron lung, won the award for best short documentary, the director, Jessica Yu, stepped to the mike and said, "You know you've entered new territory when you realize your outfit cost more than your film. " "This quote," the 2002 edition of "Inside Oscar" declared, "immediately went into the annals as one of the all-time great...

The first day of winter was just warm enough to get by with a sweater and just cold enough to ice skate. "Yeah, it's one of those weird weather days when you know winter is here, but it's still warm enough to go outside and enjoy yourself," said Mary Gilchrest, 32, of Boston, who spent about an hour yesterday swirling around the Frog Pond on skates. Hundreds of people took to the ice there, some of them wearing T-shirts. At 57 degrees, yesterday's high was above average for the first day of the season, which in Boston, is 39. And typically, the average...

CHATHAM, England -- In Dickens World, rat catchers hunt vermin on London's cobbled streets, pickpockets roam the alleys -- and visitors line up for a fun-tastic water ride. A new theme park inspired by the work of Charles Dickens aims to transform a 70,000-square-foot warehouse near London into a teeming -- and family-friendly -- corner of Victorian England. Literary purists may balk, but the attraction's backers are confident. "Would Dickens approve? Yes," said Thelma Grove of the Dickens Fellowship, a global association of the writer's fans.

A sale to the Texas-based Clear Channel Communications is the second-to-least "alternative" thing that could ever happen to the Boston station WFNX. The only thing more striking would be a change to a commercial-country format, as was rumored Wednesday afternoon. But the iconic alternative-radio outlet, which introduced a generation of local teenagers to Joy Division, the Cure, and other delightfully gloomy British acts, while giving local bands like the Pixies and Throwing Muses a way to be heard, is undergoing the same wrenching transformation as other ad-supported media.

The Colorado Buffaloes showed rare rhythm on their opening drive, marching down the field and taking an early lead. Only one problem: "About 58 minutes left," coach Jon Embree said. "Seven points wasn't going to be enough. " Especially not with Matt Barkley running the show. Barkley torched the banged-up Buffaloes for a school-record six touchdowns to lead No. 21 Southern California to a 42-17 win on Friday night. The Buffs (1-9, 0-6 Pac-12) have faced quite a few elite quarterbacks in their first foray through the conference, and Barkley, who's just a junior, ranks right...

Another road trip, another defeat for Colorado. The mistake-prone Buffaloes got in a first-half hole and never were able to climb out of it in a 37-17 loss at Ohio State on Saturday, extending their road losing skid to a school-record 19 in a row. "We have a long way to go as a program," first-year coach Jon Embree said. "We have a long way to go from the standpoint of getting to where we are competing and not hoping to upset an Ohio State. " Colorado (1-3) has not won a road game since Oct. 27, 2007, at Texas Tech.