Political Analysis

With Santorum’s exit, Romney completes nomination quest

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Since 2004, Mitt Romney has pursued the GOP presidential nomination, and Rick Santorum’s exit from the race clears the way for the former Mass. governor.

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Rick Santorum, who bowed out of the presidential contest Tuesday, was the last formidable challenger to Mitt Romney.

Economy will be key to election, analysts say

Speaking at Harvard, a former Mitt Romney adviser said economic uncertainty makes President Obama vulnerable, but he stopped short of predicting a Romney victory.

Dreama Walker (left), Krysten Ritter, and James Van Der Beek star in “Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23.’’

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ABC’s ‘Apartment 23’ is a home for laughs

“Apartment 23” might be more than your average “friends in New York get up to hilarious hijinks” fare, and could turn into a new address for laughs.

Boston schools overspending on books, state finds

The Boston School Department paid more for novels, plays, and other literary works than what members of the general public would spend, an inquiry found.

Holliston-bred Kevin Systrom, cofounder and chief executive of Instagram, was drawn to photography and computers early.

Instagram cofounder’s success story has Holliston roots

Chief executive Kevin Systrom, whose company was bought by Facebook for $1 billion, is suddenly one of Holliston’s wealthiest exports: worth $400 million.

BU students in suspected hazing face charges, suspension

Fourteen people involved in an apparent hazing incident Sunday night face criminal charges and will likely be suspended from Boston University, officials said.

Attorneys for shooter of Trayvon Martin withdraw as counsel

Lawyers for George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen, say they have lost contact with him.

Boston 115, Miami 107

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After defeating the Heat in Boston April 1, the Celtics led most of the game for the victory Tuesday in Miami.

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The Blue Jays' Kelly Johnson scored Toronto’s third run behind Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia during the third inning Tuesday.

Toronto 7, Boston 3

Red Sox can’t find the answer in Toronto
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 10, 2012. U.S. stocks were little changed, following a four-day drop in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, ahead of the start of the first-quarter earnings season. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

Stocks drop for fifth straight day

Prosecutors seek 25-year sentence for Tarek Mehanna
His 6-foot-10-inch frame, high top fade, and pink sneakers make Nerlens Noel a standout - as do his basketball skills.

Top recruit Nerlens Noel facing dizzying choices

Tenants lined up for old Borders site

Frame by frame

The MFA’s telling portrait of Christ

Album Review

High praise for Kat Edmonson’s ‘Way Down Low’
Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen apologized for his comments about Fidel Castro on Tuesday.

Ozzie Guillen suspended 5 games for Castro comments
Edith Pearlman, here in her Brookline home, has published more than 250 short stories. Her latest collection is “Binocular Vision.’’

Literary awards pile up for Brookline writer

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren sets Mass. Senate fund-raising pace

Irene still taking toll on trailer park

Boston Marathon charity runners race to find donors

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Tropical Storm Irene still taking toll on trailer park

Seven months after the storm hit Williamstown, nearly 200 residents of The Spruces mobile home park no longer live there.

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Pending home sales up 38% in March

The state marked 11 straight months of year-over-year gains, according to the Massachusetts Association of Realtors.

Columnists

opinion | Joanna Weiss

‘Texts from Hillary’ meme shows Clinton in charge

BOSTON CAPITAL

Profit growth expected to take breather
Josh Beckett may have been smiling on Thursday, but he wasn’t when his first start on Saturday resulted in a 10-0 loss.

Tony Massarotti

Who is to blame for the Red Sox’ many failures?

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The Red Sox wasted 12 runs and 18 hits. They wasted four spectacular innings of relief by Vicente Padilla. They wasted the emotional rescue of Bobby V’s counterculture lineup.

Dan Shaughnessy

Smackdowns getting worse for Red Sox

Adrian Walker

Judging the judge

Bob Ryan

Celtics made right steps to beat Sixers

Juliette Kayyem

The self-destruction of Arizona

JOAN VENNOCHI

Civil liberties, skewed by the Supreme Court

INNOVATION ECONOMY

What’s great, and not, about the Bay State

JOANNA WEISS

Reaching the middle on gay marriage

Christopher L. Gasper

BC’s Johnny Gaudreau delivers on big stage

Nation & World

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EU rules UK can extradite 5 terror suspects to US

Britain can extradite a radical Muslim cleric and four other suspects to face terrorism charges in the US, Europe’s human rights court ruled Tuesday.

Politics

Senator Scott Brown (right) was at a press conference about the extradition of double murder suspect Luis Guaman in this April 2, 2012, file photo.

Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren deadlocked in new poll

The Republican senator is in a statistical tie with Warren, his likely Democratic challenger, a new poll shows.

Sports

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On Baseball

Dustin Pedroia acting like Red Sox captain

Pedroia does not wear a “C” on his jersey. But his heart and actions, especially in the team’s first win, show he’s the real leader.

Arts

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Book Review

Novelist John Grisham has taken on the great American pastime with his story of “Calico Joe.’’

‘Calico Joe’ by John Grisham

John Grisham’s new book details a career-ending baseball pitch and a reconciliation sought between two players and an estranged son.

Lifestyle

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Billie Jean King: A battler in sport and more

King, 68, who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 39 majors overall during her stellar tennis career, spoke in Boston at the Simmons Leadership Conference.

“Don’t get me wrong, running the Marathon is huge. But what’s more huge is helping this charity.”

Allison Buzzell, 25,  a behavior therapist in Newton

Magazine

The cover for the April 8 2012 issue

Are fat baseball players a problem?
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

“There was a time, not long ago, when Clinton was the one who seemed to be trying too hard, trying to compete with Barack Obama’s effortless charisma.”

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