Mass. hospitals promise openness, apologies

Seven Massachusetts hospitals plan to offer patients harmed by medical errors a prompt apology and financial settlements before they resort to lawsuits.

Aides say Mitt Romney, shown in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, had difficulty being likable in the rough primaries.

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‘Likability’ a growing issue for Mitt Romney

The probable GOP nominee for president faces a set of numbers any management genius would find daunting: ballooning poll figures suggesting voters don’t much like him.

Senator Brown works hard to woo South Boston

Republican Senator Scott Brown is courting voters in the most fertile neighborhood in Boston for independent and crossover support.

Diverse BC High group heads to Harvard

The friendship of four Harvard-bound seniors at BC High School, each from an immigrant family, offers a glimpse of a generation that’s redefining what inclusion means.

Succeeding together

Four seniors at Boston College High School prove the value of diversity.

US missed state’s bright job growth, report finds

New jobs data indicate the Mass. economy is recovering at a steady pace — a picture clouded by US Labor Department figures last month showing minimal job growth in 2011.

Brian McGrory

Soaring greed at Liberty Mutual

The insurer that just got $46.5 million in city and state tax breaks, and paid former CEO Ted Kelly $50 million a year for the past four years, has its own air force.

Local craft brewers start canning their beers

After decades building a devoted fan base, craft brewers are now attempting what once seemed unthinkable: getting customers to drink expensive beer out of a can.

Police knew suspect was armed before fatal raid in N.H.

Police were aware that Cullen Mutrie might be armed and even watching them through surveillance cameras when they stormed his Greenland home, according to court documents.

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Dan Shaughnessy moderates a panel including Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys and former pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee.

Inside The Boston Globe

Ann Silverman and members of her book club eat a Balkan meal while discussing the book,

Group prepares dishes from books they discuss
The Palm, which shut its Back Bay restaurant in December, will occupy a larger space in its newlocation, and have a patio overlooking the Greenway.

Palm to open at International Place, boosting Greenway
Hannah Tehrani, Melody Madarasz, Gian-Murray Gianino, Barney O’Hanlon, Ellen Lauren, and Akiko Aizawa in “Café Variations’’ at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.

Stage Review

Pairing and unpairing in Anne Bogart’s ‘Café Variations’

Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Clio has recently been spruced up. The signature leopard-print carpet remains in the dining room, while the bar is lighter and more welcoming.

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Clio at Boston’s Eliot Hotel celebrates 15 years
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Lights! Camera! ‘Holliston’?
Wesley Morris addressed colleagues as editor Martin Baron looked on.

Globe film critic Wesley Morris wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize

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Why is Boston so obsessed with exercise?
“I can’t sleep for weeks until the count’s over. The big picture’s really scary right now,” said Dawn Makrinikolas, a North Attleborough letter carrier.

Postal staffers fear what future will deliver
Above: Andrew Wyeth’s “Chambered Nautilus.’’ Below: James Welling’s “End of Olsons,’’ after Wyeth’s painting of the same name.

Exhibits revisit, reprise works of Andrew Wyeth
YouTube dance sensation Marquese Scott is part of the new iRobot campaign designed by advertising agency Mullen.

iRobot turns attention to consumers

MUSIC REVIEW

Alabama Shakes earn their buzz at Paradise
From left: Steve Gagliastro, Nick Sulfaro, Michael Timothy Howell, Corey Jackson, Andrew Oberstein, and Dan Roach in “The Full Monty.”

‘The Full Monty’ is a joy

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Dawnmarie Hines spoke to a reporter outside her home in Dorchester yesterday after her daughter, Samantha Pinson, was killed in a single-car accident in Dorchester, along with two friends.

Three die in predawn crash in Dorchester

On Tuesday morning around 4:30, three young people were killed when their car careened off a curve and slammed into a bridge abutment on Morrissey Boulevard.

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Fewer expected to attend biotech meeting in Boston

About 15,500 people will attend the Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual convention, significantly fewer than the 22,500 who came in 2007, the last time the event was held here.

Columnists

In this April 19, 1943, photo, a group of Jews is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers.

Jeff Jacoby

Anti-Semitism and the culture of victimhood

Scot Lehigh

Mass. should make Amazon pay sales tax

Brian McGrory

Soaring greed at Liberty Mutual

Derrick Z. Jackson

A vibrant Boston needs major avenues for bikes

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Philosophy lessons

Bob Ryan

Joshua Cassidy turns in ride for the ages
Kevin Youkilis, (left) who did not play yesterday, watched late-inning action from the dugout. Manager Bobby Valentine is visible at far right.

Dan Shaughnessy

It’s business as usual for Bobby Valentine

Adrian Walker

Vince Wilfork’s worthy cause

Juliette Kayyem

This is not a test

Yvonne Abraham

Judging the potential jury

DERRICK Z. JACKSON

Prince Herring: Glamourizing the forage fish

Joanna Weiss

Hazing and seeds of humiliation

Politics

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The super PAC ad accuses Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, of plotting to slash social programs while cutting taxes for wealthy Americans, like himself.

Super PAC ad takes swings at Mitt Romney

Priorities USA Action, a super PAC founded by a pair of former aides to President Obama, will spend $660,000 to air a television ad attacking Mitt Romney in four swing states.

Nation & World

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If approved, the deal would be the largest mass settlement of claims over formaldehyde levels in FEMA trailers to date.

Trailer makers OK $14.8m Katrina victims’ deal

Twenty-one trailer manufacturers agreed to pay a combined $14.8 million to settle claims that the units they offered after Hurricane Katrina produced hazardous fumes.

Sports

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New York 118, Boston 110

New York’s Carmelo Anthony took a shot over Boston’s Greg Stiemsma during the second half Tuesday at Madison Square Garden.

Pierce scores season-high 43 points but it isn’t enough

Boston could have claimed its fifth straight Atlantic title but couldn’t overcome Carmelo Anthony’s second career triple-double and a torrent of three-pointers by the Knicks.

Food & dining

Some 10th-grade students receive guidance as they work on their food writing projects in the library at John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science in Roxbury.

Roxbury high school students write food memoirs

Food memoirs in English teacher Ian Doreian’s 10th-grade class are an extension of another project called “Culture Vulture.”

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Gallery reviews

A Heather McGill untitled work at Ellen Miller Gallery.

Art gallery review: Shows at NAGA, Ellen Miller, and Samson

Critic Cate McQuaid reviews exhibits at area art galleries, including work by Heather McGill.

“There are plenty of likable people. I mean, I’ve got blood relatives who I love. I would never let them near the Oval Office.”

Mark Zaccaria,  chairman of the Rhode Island GOP Party

Magazine

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Are fat baseball players a problem?
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45 best breakfast joints around Boston
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Snorkeling vacations you can’t miss

Opinion

“The Jew-haters always see themselves as victims, and their victimhood becomes their license to persecute.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“The complexity of federal rules may not be just a reflection of bad style, but a direct and possibly unavoidable result of how our government works.”

Leon Neyfakh