100 years later, Harvard takes swings at Fenway

The current Harvard team took batting practice at Fenway Park Monday to mark the 100th anniversary of the first game ever played in the park.

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Harvard's baseball team held batting practice at Fenway Monday. Sophomore Jack Colton, pictured, sent a pitch sailing over the Green Monster.

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Harvard’s Marcus Way (left) and former Harvard and Red Sox player Mike Stenhouse showed off vintage uniforms.

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A fan compared her hand with the imprinted hand of former Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs on a new brick walkway at Fenway.

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Larry Lucchino (left) and Mayor Menino walked through a room in the right-field concourse that will be used as a lounge for season ticket holders.

Tenants lined up for old Borders site

Three high-profile merchants are planning to open or expand in the Back Bay building on Boylston Street abandoned by Borders.

opinion | Joanna Weiss

‘Texts from Hillary’ meme shows Clinton in charge

The Internet meme puts Hillary Clinton above the political fray, for perhaps the first time in her political life.

MBTA rescue plan in jeopardy

A key Massachusetts legislator sought to divert some of the funds the MBTA is planning on and channel them to other bus systems in the state.

Sheriff dies after I-95 motorcycle crash

A Norfolk County deputy sheriff was killed today after being struck by two vehicles in Walpole.

Northeast Utilities, NStar close nearly $20b merger

The newly merged company will serve about 3.5 million electric and natural gas customers in three states and will continue to be called Northeast Utilities.

UK can extradite 5 terror suspects to US

Europe’s human rights court ruled Tuesday that Britain can extradite a radical Muslim cleric and four other suspects to face terrorism charges in the US.

Pending home sales up 38% in March

It was the 11th straight month of year-over-year gains, according to the Massachusetts Association of Realtors.

Study finds dental X-rays linked to tumor risk

Frequent dental X-rays are associated with an increased risk of developing the most common, noncancerous brain tumors, the study found.

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Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen apologized for his comments about Fidel Castro on Tuesday.

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Boston Marathon charity runners race to find donors
Edith Pearlman, here in her Brookline home, has published more than 250 short stories. Her latest collection is “Binocular Vision.’’

Literary awards pile up for Brookline writer

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren sets Mass. Senate fund-raising pace

Irene still taking toll on trailer park

Frame by frame

The MFA’s telling portrait of Christ

Facebook to buy Instagram for $1 billion
Borrowing from coats of arms European nobles commissioned from Chinese shops on porcelain dinner services, Michael Lin has painted ornamental designs wheeling up a cylindrical stairwell at the museum.

‘Michael Lin’ connects the ancient, contemporary

Album Review

High praise for Kat Edmonson’s ‘Way Down Low’

Red Sox GM Ben Cherington gets married
Dr. Austen performed surgery on Debra Haining at Massachusetts General Hospital. The dots on her face mark the trigger points where she had told the doctor the migraine pain strikes.

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Migraine sufferers turn to surgery

High-tech Fenway Park keeps its charm

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Al Qaeda supporter pleads with judge for leniency

Tarek Mehanna will be sentenced Thursday for his conviction of supporting Al Qaeda. Federal guidelines call for life in prison.

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Customers waited in line outside a Best Buy in Cambridge, Mass., in this November 25, 2011, file photo.

Brian Dunn resigns as Best Buy CEO

The announcement comes a little less than two weeks after Best Buy unveiled a restructuring plan.

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opinion | Joanna Weiss

‘Texts from Hillary’ meme shows Clinton in charge

BOSTON CAPITAL

Profit growth expected to take breather
Josh Beckett may have been smiling on Thursday, but he wasn’t when his first start on Saturday resulted in a 10-0 loss.

Tony Massarotti

Who is to blame for the Red Sox’ many failures?

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The Red Sox wasted 12 runs and 18 hits. They wasted four spectacular innings of relief by Vicente Padilla. They wasted the emotional rescue of Bobby V’s counterculture lineup.

Dan Shaughnessy

Smackdowns getting worse for Red Sox

Adrian Walker

Judging the judge

Bob Ryan

Celtics made right steps to beat Sixers

Juliette Kayyem

The self-destruction of Arizona

JOAN VENNOCHI

Civil liberties, skewed by the Supreme Court

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What’s great, and not, about the Bay State

JOANNA WEISS

Reaching the middle on gay marriage

Christopher L. Gasper

BC’s Johnny Gaudreau delivers on big stage

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Grand jury won’t investigate Florida shooting case

The decision of whether to charge Trayvon Martin’s shooter now rests solely in the hands of special prosecutor Angela Corey.

Politics

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Obama intensifies push for ‘Buffett Rule’

The Obama campaign ramped up its advocacy of the “Buffett Rule,’’ which would impose a minimum effective tax rate of 30 percent on the wealthiest Americans.

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On Baseball

Dustin Pedroia acting like Red Sox captain

Pedroia does not wear a “C” on his jersey. But his heart and actions, especially in the team’s first win, show he’s the real leader.

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Book Review

Novelist John Grisham has taken on the great American pastime with his story of “Calico Joe.’’

‘Calico Joe’ by John Grisham

John Grisham’s new book details a career-ending baseball pitch and a reconciliation sought between two players and an estranged son.

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Billie Jean King: A battler in sport and more

King, 68, who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 39 majors overall during her stellar tennis career, spoke in Boston at the Simmons Leadership Conference.

“Don’t get me wrong, running the Marathon is huge. But what’s more huge is helping this charity.”

Allison Buzzell, 25,  a behavior therapist in Newton

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Opinion

“There was a time, not long ago, when Clinton was the one who seemed to be trying too hard, trying to compete with Barack Obama’s effortless charisma.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Rami Genauer’s project is a kind of experiment — one that asks what happens when you set the powerful urge to watch lawless, explosive violence on a collision course with the blunt tyranny of math”

Leon Neyfakh,  on bringing stats to ultimate fighting