Bulger’s girlfriend considers guilty plea

Catherine Greig’s plea could come without a plea bargain, according to the brother of one of “Whitey” Bulger’s alleged victims.

Paul Pierce slammed one down in the second quarter.

Celtics 104, Trail Blazers 86

Pierce and Allen lead Celtics’ rout

Paul Pierce and Ray Allen each scored 22 points Friday as the Celtics rebounded from Wednesday’s lopsided loss to the Sixers.

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Obama praised her husband’s record on job creation, his Supreme Court picks, and the federal health care overhaul at a fund-raiser in Boston tonight.

Obama: New jobs report a sign economy on rebound

President Obama applauded another burst of job growth Friday as proof the economy is recovering from the recession.

Patrick to miss vaunted St. Patrick’s Day breakfast

Governor Deval Patrick will not attend one of the most hallowed traditions of Beacon Hill politics next week.

CHRISTINE PETERSON FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

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Royal Southern Brotherhood satisfies a hunger

The band is neither a brilliant turn nor a crazy risk for the five musicians involved — it’s both.

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Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out

Fifteen years after she broke into the Boston folk scene, Lori McKenna is becoming one of Nashville’s most in-demand country songwriters. But the Stoughton mother of five is still home for dinner.

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Would you wait in line 8 hours for a beer?

Why the beer known as Kate the Great creates such mania on the one day it’s available.

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Can a cardboard box take over your mind? What the new generation of board game designers is doing to an old-fashioned pastime.

“For anyone who thinks this isn’t life-changing, consider that more than 90 percent of the kids at East Somerville Community, where we’ll start our El Sistema, are recipients of the free instruments.”

Joanne Sadler,  teacher in Somerville

Globe Insiders

Globe Talk | March 21, 6 p.m.

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Matthew Emmi, 12, jumped into the arms of his father, Michael Emmi, after his bar mitzvah. Since Matthew, who is autistic, couldn’t recite all the prayers and blessings, he used an iPad during the ceremony at Temple Emanuel in Andover.

Globe photos of the week, March 9, 2012
Louise White went to the store in search of rainbow sherbet and wound up buying a lottery ticket worth $336.4 million -- and put her winnings into an account labeled The Rainbow Sherbert Trust.

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The scoop on labels

obituary

Ros Farbush, South Shore painter

Somerville builds on music education program
The left field wall at Jet Blue Park opens into a corridor that leads to the clubhouse for Kevin Youkilis and the Red Sox.

JetBlue Park’s ‘Monster’ has its own quirks

Group’s video may aid hunt for Kony’s militia

Companies scramble to use Pinterest

New Hampshire seeks to rein in loud motorcycles
Freshman Johnny Gaudreau has accounted for 15 points in the Eagles’ 11-game winning streak.

Johnny Gaudreau fitting in nicely at BC

Movie Review

In ‘John Carter,’ sci-fi goes back to its roots
Tanisha Andrade, center, was honored by the 911 for Kids organization Thursday at the Yard House Restaurant in Boston.

Two children honored for making critical 911 calls

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Will Tom Brady suffer Peyton Manning’s fate?

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The Luxury liner Titanic departs Southampton, England, for her maiden Atlantic Ocean voyage to New York.

Scientists unveil complete map of the Titanic wreckage

A group of scientists hope to learn more about what happened the night the ship sank.

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In this March 6, 2012 file photo, an ironworker carried steel rods at a construction site in Los Angeles.

Strength of US jobs data shows breadth of recovery

The country added 227,000 jobs in February, making the past three months the strongest period of pure job growth since the recession.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Maybe it’s not Mitt’s fault
John Barros is both a School Committee member and head of a nonprofit which supplies school services.

LAWRENCE HARMON

A little too close for comfort

Boston Capital

Markets rebound. Now what?

Brian McGrory

The politics of panic

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Ghosts of artists past

Joan Vennochi

Taking measure of health and wealth

Juliette Kayyem

Ocean planning and Massachusetts

Tech Lab

New Windows has a different touch
The Penn bench - including Dau Jok (standing) - watches a chance at an Ivy League title (and NCAA berth) slip away in a loss to Princeton.

Bob Ryan

Penn falls to Princeton, leaving Harvard on top

Jeff Jacoby

Apologize like you mean it, Rush

Scot Lehigh

Releasing fuel could pump economy

Dan Shaughnessy

Dan Duquette returns to Fort Myers with Orioles

Nation & World

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US urges greater efforts to curb teenage smoking

Almost one in five high school-aged teen smokes, according to the US Surgeon General’s office.

Politics

Bay State GOP chief taking some heat

Some GOP critics see symbolic danger in Robert A. Maginn Jr.’s ties to Mitt Romney.

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UMASS 77, TEMPLE 71

Chaz Williams and UMass survived to play again in the Atlantic 10 tournament.

UMass stuns Temple, stays alive in Atlantic 10

The eighth-seeded Minutemen (22-10) ousted the top-seeded Owls, 77-71, on the strength of a 15-0 run to open the second half.

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Movie Review

Catch and release: ‘Salmon Fishing’ is harmless, flavorless

The movie is about the big vat of “I think you’re swell’’ the leading stars fall into, and it couldn’t be more dull, writes Wesley Morris.

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Ed Harris is John McCain and Julianne Moore is Sarah Palin in HBO’s “Game Change.’’

‘Game Change’ more complex than a caricature of Palin and McCain

HBO’s portrayal of the Republican side of the 2008 presidential campaign isn’t a Sarah Palin hatchet job. But it’s no love letter either, writes Sarah Rodman.

Magazine

The cover for the March 4 2012 issue

Putting college degrees to work
The cover for the February 26 2012 issue

24 hours in Kendall Square
The cover for the February 19 2012 issue

Renovated Newport firehouse is calm, cool, and collected
The cover for the February 12 2012 issue

Boston wedding venue guide

Opinion

“Unless the GOP is suicidal, [Mitt] Romney will ultimately persevere, and with good reason: He’s the only remotely plausible president in this field.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“The story of St. John’s University reflects the power — and the threat — that such an education still represents to a proud nation that nevertheless hungers for new ideas.”

Patricia Wen  on the lost liberal arts university of China