 Fidel Castro resigns as Cuba’s president
Anita Snow
HAVANA — An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.
The end of Castro’s rule — the longest in the world for a head of government — frees his 76-year-old brother Raul to implement reforms he has hinted at since taking over as acting president when Fidel Castro fell ill in July 2006. President Bush said he hopes the resignation signals the beginning of a democratic transition. Full story
School, volunteers aid victims of Blue Hill blaze
Kyle de Beausset
Lisa Grace Wigfall was a scared kid, just 7 years old when her childhood Dorchester home was engulfed in flames. When she thinks back, she can scarcely recall the details of the incident on Bunswick Street — just the fire, and the fear.
“All I remember was my big brother just snatching me off the bed and running down the steps,” she said. Full story
 Cambridge’s new Madame Mayor
Brian Wright O’Connor
CAMBRIDGE — It’s public comment time in the Sullivan Chamber at Cambridge City Hall, and newly elected Mayor E. Denise Simmons is making sure everyone gets a turn at the microphone.
Sitting in a high-backed chair with the city seal carved into the oak, she listens impassively as speaker after speaker comes forward to share observations on everything from the history of sewage overflow in the Miller’s River to proposals teaching drunks to drive.
Every petitioner from the People’s Republic gets the mayor’s undivided attention — for three minutes. Then the gavel comes down. Full story
 50 years later, ‘Things Fall Apart’ is still required reading
Hillel Italie
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — At age 77, author Chinua Achebe is living in grace and in exile, housed in a cottage built just for him on the campus of Bard College, lonely for his native Nigeria and the people for whom his stories have been written. Full story
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