Red Sox sellout streak proves to be a real numbers game

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The Sox embrace a definition of “sellout” that permits them to declare a game sold out even if hundreds of tickets go unsold but others are distributed for free.

UMass Medical quietly gaining star quality

A hiring spree at UMass Memorial Medical School in Worcester will add 100 faculty to fill a $400 million biomedical research building set to open this year.

Insurer’s past woes appear overstated

Reports from the early 1990s show Liberty Mutual executives may have engaged in hyperbole in describing the company as close to bankrupt, but the firm was facing challenges.

Rondo grateful, confident about Game 3

Rajon Rondo believes he has learned from the mistake that earned him a suspension for Game 2 of the Celtics’ playoff series with the Hawks.

Brian McGrory

Bland Zakim Bridge leaves us feeling blue

Our famous blue bridge is awash in a dreary glaze of white, from the lanes to the cables to the towers.

Romney’s plan may undercut Mass. law

A proposal by Mitt Romney to curtail Medicaid spending would dramatically undercut the way the state health care overhaul law has achieved near universal coverage.

State GOP prepares for center stage at convention

Massachusetts Republicans heading to their party’s national convention are being treated as the kings of the court, by virtue of their connection to presumptive nominee Mitt Romney.

Bill Greene/Globe Staff

Commercial food waste to be banned

Environmental officials are preparing to ban big businesses and institutions in Massachusetts from discarding food waste in the trash beginning in 2014.

Cash found on stricken Teamster is in dispute

A Charlestown business owner hopes to claim the $180,000 in cash William P. Coyman was carrying when he had a fatal heart attack in New York City.

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The New York Times best-selling author discusses his novels “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

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Bunny Yeager with her camera.

Iconic photos are more than skin deep
About 30,000 people jammed City Hall Plaza in 1974 to see the Celtics in post-playoff celebrations. The ceremony included Johnny the Most, then-owner Bob Schmertz, and legend Red Auerbach. NBA Finals MVP John Havlicek (pictured) shook hands with fans in the parade motorcade.

From the Archives | Photos

Celtics in the NBA playoffs

Yvonne Abraham

Bound by a shared act of heroism

Sex assault case haunts gambling director
Fred DeVito of Superior Landscape uses a gas-powered leaf blower in Marblehead, where a vote on limiting the devices is scheduled.

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Marblehead considers ban on leaf blowers
70-acre Nantucket compound

Nantucket home on sale for $59m

Munch’s ‘Scream’ sells for $119.9m at auction
Harvard President Drew Faust (left) and MIT President Susan Hockfield announced a new partnership in online education at the Hyatt Hotel in Cambridge.

Harvard, MIT plan free Web classes
Robert Covelle of the Medford Housing Authority

Housing chief’s removal sought
Paul Pierce led the Celtics to a win in Game 2 in Atlanta.

Dan Shaughnessy

Paul Pierce may be one of Celtics’ greatest now
Blake Pfeil as Seymour with the blood-thirsty plant Audrey II in “Little Shop of Horrors.”

STAGE REVIEW

‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is serious fun

INSIDE GOLF

Boston Golf Club charts own course now

Sports

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David Ortiz has seen the results he wanted after dropping 25 pounds in the offseason.

Ortiz isn’t getting carried away by his performance

David Ortiz claimed the figures he put up last month — a .405 average with 34 hits, 20 RBIs, and 6 home runs — didn’t amount to the best April of his career.

Metro

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Church finds home for historic organ

The organ’s countless pieces were moved to Westborough, where they will stay until the people of First Baptist find the money to finish rebuilding the church.

Columnists

Edward L. Glaeser

The keys to keeping Boston free of riots

Tech Lab

Latest Nook e-reader is apt to make customers glow
A vessel monitored an oil burn in the area of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

Opinion | Joan Vennochi

The BP aftermath? Nothing

Juliette Kayyem

Al Qaeda loses its way

Scot Lehigh

Massachusetts: The candidate state

Jeff Jacoby

What Brown’s and Warren’s tax returns show

joanna weiss

A reason to turn off digital devices
Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz handed the ball over to manager Bobby Valentine after allowing 5 runs in the seventh inning against the Athletics.

Dan Shaughnessy

Clay Buchholz keeps winning, somehow

JULIETTE KAYYEM

A revolution: women fight in Marines

Yvonne Abraham

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

JOAN VENNOCHI

Nonprofit greed’s real victims

Innovation Economy

What if? The question that powers Boston’s innovation economy

Arts

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“Woody Sez” stars (from left) Andy Teirstein, Darcie Deaville, Helen Jean Russell, and David M. Lutken as Woody Guthrie.

Woody Guthrie’s words still ring true

American Repertory Theater’s “Woody Sez” captures Guthrie’s vision as a political agitator and spiritual influence on everyone from Bob Dylan to Wilco.

Politics

Political Notebook

Obama, Romney run close in battleground states

President Obama and Mitt Romney are in a dead heat in Florida and Ohio, while Obama holds a slim lead in Pennsylvania, according to a poll released Thursday.

Business

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Igor Vovkovinskiy, of Rochester, Minn., currently the tallest man in the United States at seven feet eight inches, right, spoke with Trevor Kirby, center, a shoe engineer, at Reebok headquarters.

Reebok measures feet of tallest man in US for new shoes

Igor Vovkovinskiy had started a social media campaign to get new shoes to help ease his pain, and Reebok offered to fit him for a free pair of shoes.

Nation & World

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Syrian forces raid student dorms

Syrian forces stormed student dormitories during an antigovernment protest at Aleppo University on Thursday, firing tear gas and bullets and killing at least four students.

Movies

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Movie Review

“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’’ includes Tena Desae and Dev Patel.

‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ does not require checking out

Proof that art-house movies can be as clichéd as multiplex fare.

“Biological sciences move very fast and there are fields that didn’t exist 10 years ago, so UMass has as good a chance in those fields as Harvard does.”

Philip Perlman,  of UMass Medical School

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?

Opinion

“So far, he hasn’t displayed the bigness or boldness required to tackle truly thorny, polarizing problems.”

Scot Lehigh, on Senator Scott Brown

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