Harvard shows changes at primate lab

Low-tech fixes are intended to increase accountability of workers and add backup systems to prevent mistakes in animal care, which had contributed to the deaths of four monkeys.

Power restored for most customers, Prudential tower

Those customers still without power late Thursday night were expected to have electricity restored some time Friday morning, an NStar spokeswoman said.

A Tuesday power outage caused Boylston St. to go dark, with exception of the Prudential Center and Hynes Convention Center, as well as a few other larger buildings with generators.

Blackout means red ink for many

As the blackout at the Prudential Center continued, businesses began inventorying the losses from the power outage.

DiMasi says he testified to grand jury

Former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi insisted that he didn’t provide significant information that prosecutors could use against current or former legislators.

Joseph Kennedy III speaks with the press while visiting Morin's Hometown Bar and Grille in Attleboro on Feb. 16.

Dan Payne

4th District race: All politics is vocal

Advice for Joseph Kennedy III from someone who has worked in the Fourth Congressional District since 1970.

Jay Connor for the Boston Globe

Final Four run gives MIT team a crash course

The NCAA is fond of talking about its student-athletes, but MIT’s basketball team, which is playing Friday in the Division III Final Four for the first time, truly lives that dual role.

Beverly police Officer Jason Lantych and Hamilton police Sergeant Kenneth Nagy talked inside of a Starbucks minutes before Nagy allegedly shot Lantych in the parking lot.

A 3-way tangle preceded shooting

The Beverly police officer who was shot by a Hamilton police sergeant told superiors that he had never been intimate with the sergeant’s wife.

For app makers, an appetizing iPad

Software developers say the iPad’s new video screen will let them present images with richness and clarity that will rival the look of ink on paper.

Boston’s public schools shelve ‘pink slime’

All products made with ground beef have been temporarily stricken from lunch menus as the district awaits word from the federal government about the presence of “pink slime.”

“You always hear, does MIT have a basketball team? People don’t really think we’re going to be that good, just a bunch of nerds playing basketball.”

Jamie Karraker,  guard for MIT’s basketball team

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Movie Review

‘21 Jump Street’ brings new love to the buddy comedy
Danny Ainge

Celtics make no moves as trade deadline passes
Newt Gingrich spoke at Judson University Thursday in Elgin, Ill.

Gingrich exit might not give Santorum major boost

Little room for error in city’s grid

Irish whiskey makes a comeback

Critic’s Notebook

The devil wears pastels

For mothers of the accused, a separate anguish

Political partners reunite to fight ALS

G Cover

For the Celtics Dancers, the clock never stops

Smoking rules on area college campuses vary

Celtics’ Wilcox is out for season

US begins to dismantle five Cape cottages

Metro

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Caren Carew gave information sheets to passersby as union leaders pressed their case for higher pay for teachers.

Teachers go public in bid for pay raise

The Boston Teachers Union launched a media blitz in hopes of convincing the public to side with them in tense contract negotiations over pay.

Business

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Group asks Google to extend, not halve, rooftop park

A community planning group will ask the Cambridge City Council to call for changes in Google Inc.’s plans for an urban campus in Kendall Square.

Columnists

Bob Ryan

Harvard can be proud of basketball team

Derrick Z. Jackson

Record equality, unchanged inequalities

Boston Capital

Lower investment bar for Mass. pension fund

Brian McGrory

The powerful and the powerless

Joan Vennochi

Gingrich’s ego is a win for Romney

Kevin Cullen

A crack in Cathy Greig’s hard facade

Tech Lab

Galaxy Tab 7.7 an admirable also-ran
Vanderbilt's Jeff Taylor practiced with the team at the Pit in Albuquerque, N.M., on March 14.

Bob Ryan

Vandy could pose a big problem

Carlo Rotella

Intersection of rude and anonymous
Dennis Seidenberg and the Bruins were blown out by Tampa on Tuesday.

Tony Massarotti

Bruins in downward spiral from best to worst

Juliette Kayyem

The links to violence

Joanna Weiss

Cheesy marketing: The new taco from Taco Bell

Nation & World

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Karzai calls for US troop curtailment by 2013

President Hamid Karzai insisted Thursday that the US confine its troops to major bases in Afghanistan by next year, as the Taliban declared they were suspending peace talks.

Politics

Political Notebook

Paul says GOP rivals itching for another war in Mideast

Ron Paul shied away from naming his Republican rivals but suggested they all want to plunge the US deeper into military conflicts.

Sports

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Vanderbilt 79, Harvard 70

Oliver McNally and his Crimson teammates put up a fight, but came up short in Harvard’s first NCAA Tournament game in 66 years.

Harvard falls to Vanderbilt in NCAA Tournament

The Commodores fought off the final surge by the Crimson, who cut the deficit to 5 late, before holding on for a 79-70 victory at The Pit.

Movies

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Movie Review

In ‘Casa de mi Padre,’ Will Ferrell comes with subtitles

The movie is a genial but awfully thin goof on cheap Mexican telenovelas.

Arts

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Stage Review

One nation, divided, in ‘Ameriville’

The play delivers a fierce and scorching reminder of the lives that were shattered by Hurricane Katrina, and the governmental incompetence or indifference that allowed it to happen.

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Spring Style

The season’s freshest fashion feels airy and easy — think fluttery shapes, pretty prints, and nothing too structured or serious.

Magazine

The cover for the March 11 2012 issue

Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out
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

Opinion

“Kennedy can’t start sentences with ‘my family.’ He has to avoid looking like the latest Kennedy to run for office based on a divine right.”

Dan Payne, advising congressional candidate Joseph Kennedy III

Ideas

“The best-selling board game today is the board game that was the best-selling board game in 1936. That is Monopoly.”

Game publisher Eric Hautemont