Watergate figure Charles Colson dies at 80

Mr. Colson, the special counsel to President Nixon who went to prison for his role in Watergate and later became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, has died.

Long-awaited plan for Roxbury site submitted

Developers are moving forward with plans to build a complex that will include retail stores, offices, homes and a museum featuring African-American artists.

Rockport Police Chief John McCarthy, left, and Mass. State Police Spokesman David Procopio spoke to reporters Friday as aircraft and divers searched the water and area near Long Beach in Rockport for two-year-old Caleigh Anne Harrison.

Search resumes for missing toddler in Rockport

Searchers continued looking for two-year-old Caleigh Anne Harrison, who disappeared from Long Beach in Rockport on Thursday.

BU identifies slain 24-year-old as Indian student

Boston University identified the man shot to death early Thursday in Allston as mathematical finance student Kanagala Seshadri Rao.

UN monitors visit Syria opposition stronghold

Residents in the city of Homs asked the UN monitors for foreign military help to oust President Bashar Assad.

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book review

‘God’s Hotel’ by Victoria Sweet

Sweet arrived at Laguna Honda intending to work part-time just until she completed her PhD. As the years passed, though, she found herself mesmerized.

Outcry over absent fiction Pulitzer shames literary world

The Pulitzer Board’s failure to choose a 2012 winner for fiction isn’t as dire as it may first appear.

book review

‘The Cause’ by Eric Alterman and Kevin Mattson

From FDR to Obama, the book traces the evolution, triumphs, and missteps of the American Left.

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Red Sox, Cubs in talks for trade of outfielder Byrd

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144 free things to do around Boston
Junior attackman Will Manny has 32 goals and 55 points to lead the Minutemen in scoring.

UMass is No. 1 in the nation in men’s lacrosse
At Buttonwood Park Zoo in NewBedford, Emily, front, and Ruth poked a ball made from strips of old tires by the Toys for elephants sculpture class at Massachusetts College of Art.

MassArt class solves a huge challenge

Francona returns to cheers, adoration

Smartphone ticketing set for commuter rail

Boston expects surge in cruise business

Nonstop vigil keeps Scituate group hopeful
Stefano Durante of Italy cooled off , with some help from Kathryn O’Friel of Ashby, while climbing Heartbreak Hill on Commonwealth Avenue in Newton.

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Photos of the week
A stairwell in the old Middlesex County courthouse building in East Cambridge, which is for sale - including the jail on the top floors.

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Anybody want to buy a used jail?

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Fenway at 100: A celebration

Rare Honus Wagner card sells for $1.2m

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Brown closer to release of tax returns

US Senator Scott Brown inched closer to fulfilling the Globe request, telling radio host Jim Braude, “Yeah, actually, we’re taking that under consideration.’’

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US Airways reaches pact with American unions

US Airways said Friday that it had reached an agreement with the three main labor unions at American Airlines to support a merger.

Columnists

Outside Fenway Park on its first Opening Day in 1912.

Bob Ryan

For longtime foes, nothing rivals in comparison

lawrence harmon

All is not fair in Boston hotels

Love Letters

Is he stringing her along?

opinion | scot lehiigh

Maher, Nugent pollute the dialogue

Dan Shaughnessy

A day to remember, and a game to forget

Joan Wickersham

Preparing for the Great Flood

Brian McGrory

An untimely award

Edward L. Glaeser

When helpful intentions go up in smoke

Yvonne Abraham

2012, how I miss thee

Joan Vennochi

Tarek Mehanna case puts First Amendment on trial
Thousands turned out to tour Fenway Park during an open house on Thursday.

Dan Shaughnessy

It’s Fenway Park’s time to shine
It’s time for the Patriots to pay Wes Welker, Bob Ryan says.

Bob Ryan

Going through the sports thought process

Politics

Political Notebook

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin among undecideds on presidential vote

Senator Manchin said he is unsure whether he will vote for his party’s leader, President Obama, or the likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

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Egyptian generals urged to give up power

Tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square to demand that generals relinquish the power they took after former president Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

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NHL Playoffs, Game 5 | in progress

Bruins shake up lines for Game 5 vs. Capitals

The Bruins have changed all four lines to squeeze any kind of offensive life out of an attack that has brought knives to a gun fight.

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Music Review

Lucero honors Levon Helm with rowdy country rock

Lucero and J. Roddy Walston and the Business performed Thursday at the Paradise Rock Club, distilling an Americana brew the way Levon Helm himself did for decades.

“When I lose it, I can’t replace it, because it’s like walking around with a $100 bill. Except I don’t slide a $100 bill in and out of a machine all the time.’’

Ryan McGovern,  on commuter rail passes

Magazine

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In an artist’s garden
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Are fat baseball players a problem?
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45 best breakfast joints around Boston
The cover for the March 25 2012 issue

Snorkeling vacations you can’t miss

Opinion

“The federal government attempts a sin tax, 10 percent imposed on tanning beds by the health care law. But the administration hasn’t made us any skinnier, nor will it make us paler.”

Jennifer Graham  

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