Suspect in Afghanistan killings identified
US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, left, during an exercise at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., on Aug. 23, 2011.

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The lawyer of a soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians confirmed Friday the suspect is 38-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.

Former Rutgers student convicted of hate crime

Dharun Ravi faces up to 10 years in prison for filming and broadcasting the intimate encounters of his gay roommate, who later committed suicide.

Lehigh 75, Duke 70

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Duke dropped its opening tournament game for only the second time in the past 16 years.

A worker paved steel plates that covered temporary power lines running near the Marriott Hotel on Huntington Avene in Boston on Friday.

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NStar won’t pay damages; more outages planned

NStar’s top official said the utility will not pay area businesses for lost business, income, or food. The utility also said it will cut power to 8,000 customers overnight.

Animal advocates hounding Romney

Members of a group called Dogs Against Romney are upset that the candidate once drove to Canada with the family’s dog in a box on his car’s roof.

Samah and Grover Norquist with daughters Grace and Giselle

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Grover Norquist: America’s most powerful (unelected) man

How anti-tax crusader Norquist rose from Weston to Washington, all in the politics of no.

“This has been going on for too long. You have heard me before. It is by all means the end of the rope here.”

Afghan President Hamid Karzai,  on civilian deaths

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To Grammar’s House

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Grammar’s House can get a bit cluttered sometimes, often with rules that are capricious, spurious, or flat-out erroneous.

Inside The Boston Globe

THEATER

Daisey fabricated parts of Jobs monologue, host says
Stone tools were found at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania that could be 15,000 to 17,000 years old..

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

Did the Solutreans settle America first?
Quincy Nang (right) waited to enter the Apple Store in Boston today to purchase the new Apple iPad.

In Boston, Apple fans line up for new iPad

Photos

Globe staff photos of the week

Stage Review

Reimagined ‘Les Miserables’ triumphs

names

Judd based character on Harvard friend
During the NCAA Tournament, Dick Vitale doesn’t have the courtside seat he keeps during ESPN’s regular-season access.

SPORTS MEDIA

Even in studio, Vitale loves Tournament

Final Four run gives MIT team a crash course

Editorial | Inside Goldman Sachs

The Death Star of finance?
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

Group asks Google to extend rooftop park

Movie Review

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

Metro

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Sal DiMasi

DiMasi said to give lengthy testimony in Probation case

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

Business

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Clergy calling for boycott of OneUnited Bank

A group of religious leaders urged customers to withdraw their funds because the bank is planning to foreclose on the nearby Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Columnists

Brian McGrory

The powerful and the powerless
A disappointed Corbin Miller walked back to the Harvard bench in the second half.

Bob Ryan

Harvard can be proud of its basketball team

Derrick Z. Jackson

Record equality, unchanged inequalities in NCAA

Boston Capital

Lower investment bar for Mass. pension fund
Bobby Valentine in trying to install a fresh outlook for the Red Sox in his first season as manager.

Tony Massarotti

Are the Red Sox champs or chumps?

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

Nation & World

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Actor George Clooney was led to a police vehicle after being arrested during a protest at the Sudan Embassy in Washington.

George Clooney shares jail time with McGovern, Olver in Sudan protest

George Clooney was joined by Representatives Jim McGovern and John Olver, both of Mass., in a protest over the ongoing strife in Sudan. All were subsequently released.

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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Nick Punto’s importance to Red Sox could grow

A utilityman, Punto’s value is hard to calculate but can’t be denied. His can-do attitude could be just what the Red Sox need.

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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Gwar makes good theater

The troupe’s arrival to the Wilbur Theatre on Tuesday is just one more indicator that the mayhem-making dudes have earned a bit of cultural respect.

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Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out
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Putting college degrees to work
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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