Harvard, BU trustee conflicts are cited

A new report finds that 70 percent of Massachusetts’ wealthiest private colleges did business in fiscal 2009 and 2010 with companies affiliated with trustees on the schools’ boards.

Police investigated the discovery of two bodies near the Lynnhurst Elementary School in Saugus this morning.

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Foul play suspected in deaths of women found near school

The two women whose bodies were found early today behind a Saugus elementary school are victims of foul play, the district attorney said.

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Senator Scott Brown said he takes advantage of President Obama’s health care law, which he opposed, to keep his oldest daughter on his health insurance.

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In a 2009 Supreme Court appearance, Warren, who has gained fame for defending consumers against big business, worked on behalf of the nation’s largest insurer.

‘Hunger Games’ boosting archery’s popularity

The blockbuster has helped spark a rise in the sport, especially in some schools where archery is empowering non-traditional athletes.

The popularity of

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The popularity of "The Hunger Games" has shined a light on the rise of archery as a competitive sport for young people.

Sean Callanan, a world class archery competitor, leads a program teaching the sport at a Wakefield high school.

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Sean Callanan, a world class archery competitor, leads a program teaching the sport at a Wakefield high school.

Callanan says archery is a great sport that students of all athletic abilities can succeed at. ''Anybody can do it,'' he says. ''It's the ultimate diversity program.”

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Callanan lauds archery as a sport for students of all athletic abilities. ''Anybody can do it,'' he says. ''It's the ultimate diversity program.”

'''The Hunger Games' came at the perfect time, '' Callanan says. ''When this thing went viral we added an evening program for adults, inspired by their kids. We're running out of floor space in the gym.''

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“The Hunger Games” came at the perfect time, '' says Callanan, who is also teaching more adults. ''We're running out of floor space in the gym.''

Jamie Ross, 16, said she was inspired by

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Jamie Ross, 16, said she was inspired by "The Hunger Games" to take up archery.

Success in archery depends more on concentration and hand-eye coordination than on traditional athletic abilities.

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Success in archery depends more on concentration and hand-eye coordination than on traditional athletic abilities.

Callanan and his colleagues currently offer archery programs in 11 Massachusetts schools.

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Callanan and his colleagues currently offer archery programs in 11 Massachusetts schools.

THEATER

Diane Paulus’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ gets 10 Tony Award nominations

The revival of the George Gershwin classic that began last fall in Cambridge was second only to “Once,’’ which received 11 nominations.

Rupert Murdoch “turned a blind eye and exhibited willful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications,” the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee said in a report published in London today.

Rupert Murdoch ‘not fit’ to lead News Corp., lawmakers say

A report by UK lawmakers said that Murdoch “turned a blind eye” and misled Parliament about phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid.

Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz handed the ball over to manager Bobby Valentine after allowing 5 runs in the seventh inning against the Athletics.

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Clay Buchholz keeps winning, somehow

Buchholz leads the Red Sox with three wins and has an ERA of 8.69. He is the first Sox pitcher to give up five or more earned runs in five consecutive starts in 72 years.

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From left: Grace Carney, Billy Hough, and Olive Another in Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans’ “Mary Poppers.”

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Rajon Rondo (9) was ejected for bumping referee Marc Davis (left). It could have a huge impact on the series.

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Playoff suspensions can be a knockout
Sony Digital vice president Harald Kraushaar said the goal is to offer medical equipment makers Sony’s expertise in precision manufacturing.

Sony adds Cambridge medical sales office
Angie DeWolf and Mark Kehlet Schou perform in José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s “Absurdus” program.

Dance Review

Dance drives score in José Mateo’s new ‘Risk of Repetition’

SPECIAL REPORT

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President Obama and his team strongly believe the nation can adequately deter nuclear attacks with a much smaller and less expensive weapons stockpile - which now costs about $50 billion a year to maintain.

Obama’s nuclear plan tangled in election politics
Nathaniel Raymond, Brittany Card, Isaac Baker, Ziad Al Achkar, Jody Heck, Vincenzo Bollettino, Luis Capelo, Caitlin Howarth, Benjamin Davies, and Sunetra Bane of Harvard’s Satellite Sentinel Project.

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Birdseye in Canada’s Labrador, circa 1912, where he began thinking of building a frozen-food business.

How Clarence Birdseye conquered the freezer

Why I stayed in Boston

Daily Dose

How to get better treatment for migraines

Sports

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On Basketball

With Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo out, the Celtics will be counting on Mickael Pietrus for quality minutes.

Celtics face pressure, but they’re used to it

The Celtics hoped to proceed through the first round of the playoffs quietly. Rajon Rondo’s suspension spoiled that, but they remain confident they can win.

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Globe circulation grows for the first time since 2004

Sunday circulation averaged 365,512 for the six-month period ending in March, up 2.5 percent from the same period a year ago.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

How far we’ve come on race — and yet must go

JOAN VENNOCHI

Nonprofit greed’s real victims

JULIETTE KAYYEM

A revolution: women fight in Marines

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Start-up ‘finishing school’ awards

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The government’s college money pit
Yahya Ahmad Masalma, 6, received a complex kidney transplant at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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For the life of Yahya

Love Letters

He’s great — but where’s the spark?

Bob Ryan

Josh Smith has starring role with Atlanta
Rajon Rondo enters the playoffs on a run of 24 consecutive double-figure assist games.

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Surprising Celtics ready to take on Hawks
Co-Owners Derrick Cheung, left, and Howard Travis sold clothing on Newbury Street out of their mobile retail truck.

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No-innovation district

Brian McGrory

Lots more to Liberty Mutual pay story

Adrian Walker

No room at Senator Brown’s office

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Carrie Underwood finds fraternal Twain

“Blown Away,” Underwood’s fourth release, is an archetypal modern country record with hit singles you can spot a mile away.

Politics

Many conservatives are hoping Mitt Romney will pick a staunch social and economic conservative as his vice presidential nominee, as a sign that he will not abandon conservative principles as he refocuses on swing voters and the general election.

Mitt Romney striving to win over the right

Even as Romney begins courting moderates and independents, his campaign is still working to gain support from conservatives who have yet to fully embrace him.

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Faster Internet coming to Cape businesses

Nonprofit OpenCape Corp. is building a $40 million broadband network offering speeds up to 10 times faster than the region’s fastest commercial service.

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One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, claimed the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper on Monday, as workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a little more than 1,250 feet high.

Trade Center tower reclaims top spot in NYC

One World Trade Center claimed the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper as new steel columns raised it above the Empire State Building.

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Love by the pound

The Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem is one of New England’s oldest and largest no-kill adoption shelters for cats and dogs.

“Because Kendall is perhaps the densest concentration of geeks, it also has to be among the densest concentrations of smartphones anywhere.”

Tim Rowe,  founder of the Cambridge Innovation Center

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Opinion

“We are all susceptible to the ego boost of the remote device, the minor thrill of being needed at all times.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Fiction’s happy endings make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is. But believing that lie has important effects for society.”

Jonathan Gottschall, on why stories are good for us