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Why fiction is good for you

Jonathan Bartlett/Special to the Globe

The beautiful lies of novels, movies, and TV stories have surprisingly powerful effects — and may even help make society tick.

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Should people have the right to die?

Should terminally ill patients have the right to get a fatal prescription? Massachusetts voters are expected to weigh in this November.

Photography review

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If you were to pick someone whose poetry had an affinity with the photography of Edward Weston, would it be Walt Whitman?

Alex Karpovsky has written, directed, and/or starred in 23 feature films, short films, and television shows.

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Newton’s Alex Karpovsky takes indie-film stardom in stride

Karpovsky has written, directed, or starred in 23 feature films, short films, and TV shows, including the new HBO series, “Girls.”

Tax returns show Brown, Warren among top earners

Senator Scott Brown’s income rose from more than $294,000 in 2009 to almost $840,000 in 2010, while Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren averaged nearly $846,000 over the past 4 years.

opinion | The Podium

Time to evaluate investing through tax exemptions

The process to reduce or eliminate tax expenditures must move into the realm of data-based decision making.

House approves Republican-backed student loan proposal

The proposal extends college loan subsidies by siphoning funding from health care programs.

Health law rebates due from Mass. insurers

The rebates are the result of President Obama’s health care law, which requires insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on delivery of care.

Christopher L. Gasper

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Perhaps it was the last-minute loss in the Super Bowl, or the aging that both he and Tom Brady are doing, but Belichick has gone all in during this NFL draft.

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College students vulnerable to bipolar disorder
David Auburn used Joseph Alsop as his inspiration for “The Columnist.’’

Book Review

‘The Columnist’ by David Auburn
A rendering from the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe for the proposed Taunton casino.

Mashpee tribe unveils $500m casino plan
Alex Libby is a 12-year-old from Iowa in “Bully.”

editorial

‘Bully’: A must-see for teens, now at PG-13
Barack Obama speaks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in March.

NICHOLAS BURNS

The rise of Turkey as a superpower
Jay Atkinson, who teaches writing at BU, captures the game of rugby like no other.

Book Review

‘Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man’ by Jay Atkinson

Joshua Green

The likability factor and mudslinging

yvonne abraham

Cut health bills for all
Mark Bollman’s second Ball and Buck, on Newbury Street, resembles a well-curated hunting lodge.

Mark Bollman hunts for just the right spot

editorial

Chris Christie hurt East Coast by rejecting tunnel
Alex Karpovsky has written, directed, and/or starred in 23 feature films, short films, and television shows.

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Newton‘s Karpovsky takes indie-film stardom in stride

Sports

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Racist reaction to finale tarnishes Bruins’ run

The bigoted comments made on Twitter after a black Capitals player scored the series-clinching goal once again put a focus on Boston’s turbulent racial history.

Metro

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BU remains frank about recent bad news

President Robert Brown has been open with parents despite recent incidents of murder, fire, sexual assault, hazing, and a bad joke.

Columnists

Boston Capital

Former Boston bank partners back with separate ventures

SCOT LEHIGH

The economy, on paper and in practice

Dan Shaughnessy

Bruins’ season comes to sudden end

opinion | Juliette Kayyem

Saudi Arabia’s un-Olympic spirit

Joan Vennochi

In Eastie, anti-casino rumblings

Opinion | Jeff Jacoby

Jim McGovern’s flawed war

yvonne abraham

Cut health bills for all

Scot Lehigh

A breath of fresh air on Beacon Hill

Bob Ryan

NBA stiffing fans with stars’ absence

Joanna Weiss

Attacking drinking on campus

BOSTON CAPITAL

Europe’s economic agonies

Brian McGrory

Lots more to Liberty Mutual pay story

Arts

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Stage Review

Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Anikulapo Kuti in the London production of “Fela!”

‘Fela!’ dazzles at Cutler Majestic

The show is a testament not just to the charisma of one remarkable, if flawed, man, but to the power of music to capture, channel, and communicate the spirit of rebellion.

Politics

Governor Deval Patrick read the Gettysburg Address during a ceremony at the State House earlier this year.

Governor Patrick continues to increase national presence

Patrick will speak at an Iowa Democratic Party dinner in June.

Business

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FTC hires outside litigator in Google antitrust case

The Federal Trade Commission said it has hired a litigator to take charge of an antitrust investigation of Google, a sign it was preparing to go to court.

Nation & World

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Russia’s space agency ground personnel checked the Soyuz capsule shortly after landing on the sweeping steppes of central Kazakhstan, ending the men’s 163-day stay on the International Space Station.

Russian-made space capsule lands safely in Kazakhstan

The capsule carrying two Russians and an American touched down safely, ending the men’s 163-day stay on the International Space Station.

Movies

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Movie Review

Hugh Grant lends his voice to the Pirate Captain in “The Pirates! Band of Misfits!”

‘Pirates! Band of Misfits’ sees Aardman animation back in fine form

The pirates have a knack for leaving us smiling almost as goofily as one of their claymation creations.

“I am very bitter about it. It’s one extra thing I have to deal with that other people don’t. And my life is harder because of it.”

Jessica Feldish,  a Northeastern junior with bipolar disorder

Magazine

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144 free things to do around Boston
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In an artist’s garden
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Are fat baseball players a problem?
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45 best breakfast joints around Boston

Opinion

“As long as we're assured that we'll be free to sell our labor to the highest low bidder, we're apparently comfortable with stripping away everything else from entry-level work.”

Carlo Rotella 

Ideas

“John Singleton Copley’s life, his works, and his words defined him as a subject of the British empire, not a citizen of the American republic.”

Jane Kamensky,  on the great American painter who wasn’t American