The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that Larry Summers, the Director of the National Economic Council, would be leaving his post in Washington at the end of the year and go back to teaching at some school in Boston.

Glenn Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, debates Fox News’ James Pinkerton about Summer’s legacy and Obama’s economic policies in a recent Bloggingheads video: Was Summers a Mistake?

As the semester gets underway and the classwork is starting to pile up, here’s something I think we should all do every day. Not only is this little girl adorable, she seems extremely happy. She might be on to something.

DJ Pauly D — of Jersey Shore fame — has been getting his hair styled at the same barbershop for almost ten years. It’s a unique and original cut. Lots of hair, lots of gel, lots of muscle. The Herald investigates.

— Blanca Begert, Adelaide Mandeville, Brigitta Greene