Timothy Cahill’s defense undercut by record

The former state treasurer's defense that a $1.5 million Lottery ad campaign was launched because of a dip in sales contradicts his statements and interviews from that period.

Fund-raising game upended in 2012 race

For the first time in the post-Watergate era, neither candidate will use public funds, while the super PACs created as a result of a 2010 Supreme Court ruling dominate.

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Wages haven’t kept pace with recovery, study finds

The study showed that workers’ salaries and wages are stagnant amid high unemployment — even while stock markets rebound and corporate profits soar.

CEO compensation continued to rise in 2011

The biggest pay packages seem to keep getting bigger, according to a preliminary analysis of executive compensation at major US public companies.

All that was left of First Baptist Church were the steeple and some walls after it was consumed by fire in January 2005.

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Yvonne Abraham

A story of rebirth, ending still to come

For this Easter Sunday, a resurrection story. This one is about a fire, the congregation that rose again, and two enormous antique pipe organs, one lost and one found.

The long, hard half-life of Lawyer Johnson

The last man sentenced to die in Massachusetts was freed 30 years ago. But his struggle has just begun.

Scholars at Risk took in Tararith Kho of Cambodia.

Harvard provides temporary refuge for persecuted scholars

Scholars at Risk, an international program with a small branch at Harvard, offers a year of support to academics who face persecution in their home countries.

Travel

Make room for five historic Boston hotels

To get up close and personal with the city’s past you need to slip between the sheets and bed down in a historic hotel.

200 march in Trayvon Martin case protest

Demonstrators at a rally in Roxbury to denounce the death of Trayvon Martin said the case has galvanized Boston’s communities of color.

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“From the Archives” is a new series that highlights scenes of the city from the Globe’s rich, 140-year history. The Boston Common, in the heart of the city, is a good place to start.

Inside The Boston Globe

Patrolman Dennis Pearse of the Avon Police Department arrived, dressed as the Easter bunny, for the Easter egg hunt attended by more than 300 children.

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Easter in Boston
Riverdance,” which made its Boston debut in 1997, has played in more than 350 venues in 40 countries.

FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT

‘Riverdance’ returns to say goodbye

movies

In theaters this week

Ideas | The Word

Taking back ‘Obamacare’

After Trayvon Martin, it’s time for ‘the talk’

Bird watchers keep eye out for piping plovers

Bring the Family

A family nature walk in Copicut Woods

Ideas

Ultimate Fighting vs. math: no holds barred
Thomas Kinkade

Popular painter Thomas Kinkade dies

Butcherie takes guesswork out of Passover

Faithful keep hopes up for church

Roman statue of Juno settles in at the MFA

Metro

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Roy Kring of the Bedford Minutemen was nabbed by British soldier after climbing the pole.

Hundreds gather in Bedford for pole capping ceremony

For the past 47 years, the Bedford Minutemen have preluded Patriots Day by marching a quarter-mile through town and capping a pole in Wilson Park with a red hat.

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ON THE JOB

Museum showcases music, along with art

Since becoming the MFA’s lead concert manager, Jasmine Hagans has reinstituted year-round concerts at the museum.

Columnists

Dan Shaughnessy

Josh Beckett defeat looks a lot like September

JOANNA WEISS

Reaching the middle on gay marriage

Christopher L. Gasper

BC’s Johnny Gaudreau delivers on big stage

JOAN VENNOCHI

Civil liberties, skewed by the Supreme Court

Gareth Cook

Beehive management

Lawrence Harmon

Saving Fenway

Love Letters

He’s tired of treating

Christopher L. Gasper

Ferris State has little in common

Dan Shaughnessy

Beckett has plenty to prove
Bobby Valentine used four relievers en route to a loss in Detroit on Opening Day.

Tony Massarotti

Red Sox bullpen is embarrassingly unprepared

Brian McGrory

An outside perspective

scot lehigh

Romney is clueless on who is ‘out of touch’

Nation & World

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Pilots in fiery Navy jet crash faced tough choices

Zooming along at 170 miles per hour in a fighter jet, two Navy pilots faced nothing but bad choices when their aircraft malfunctioned over Virginia’s most populated city.

Politics

Political Notebook

Pennsylvania holds its primary on April 24, and there has been intensifying speculation that Rick Santorum, hoping to avoid the embarrassment of losing in his own home state, would bow out of the race.

Rick Santorum aims to rev up sputtering campaign

Santorum will resume his campaign Tuesday with a slate of events in his home state, according to a schedule released by his campaign this morning.

Sports

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Tigers 10, Red Sox 0

Josh Beckett was gone before the fifth inning was complete Saturday, having allowed seven runs.

Josh Beckett rocked as Tigers beat Red Sox

The Red Sox righthander, one of the September culprits, allowed five home runs Saturday as the Tigers beat the Red Sox, 10-0, in Detroit.

Arts

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FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT

Imagination Movers will sing, dance, and teach during shows at the Orpheum and hte Zeiterion theaters.

Pop picks for family entertainment

Globe critics give you a guide to the best events for the whole family this spring season.

Travel

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10 New England road races

The region boasts a calendar impressively packed with spring, summer, and fall road races of all distances.

Books

BOOK REVIEW

‘Revelations’ by Elaine Pagels

Religion professor Elaine Pagels traces origins of book of Revelation and finds hope in the chaos.

““My case is over, but I can’t let go of it. The majority of my life since I got out has been about getting that acknowledgment.”

Lawyer Johnson,  the last man sentenced to die in Massachusetts

Magazine

The cover for the April 8 2012 issue

A Titanic obsession
The cover for the April 1 2012 issue

45 best breakfast joints around Boston
The cover for the March 25 2012 issue

Snorkeling vacations you can’t miss
The cover for the March 18 2012 issue

Grover Norquist: Emperor of no

Opinion

“When it comes to gay marriage, who exactly are the bigots?”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Rami Genauer’s project is a kind of experiment — one that asks what happens when you set the powerful urge to watch lawless, explosive violence on a collision course with the blunt tyranny of math”

Leon Neyfakh,  on bringing stats to ultimate fighting