Taunton casino plan includes water park, three hotels

The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe is proposing a 150,000-square-foot project that it estimates would generate $120 million annually for the region.

yvonne abraham

Cut health bills for all

Ronn Garry Jr., an owner of the independent Roxbury market, Tropical Foods, believes in Massachusetts’ health care reform law. But the law Garry supports is kicking his behind.

TD Bank Group CEO Ed Clark, left, with Mayor Tom Menino before Clark's speech to the Boston College executive's club luncheon at the Boston Harbor Hotel. JOSH REYNOLDS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE (Business, Wallack)

TD Bank chief outlines plans to expand in Mass.

The fourth-largest retail bank has about 150 branches statewide and plans to add five more this year.

Warren’s new ad counters earlier student-debt viewpoint

In a new ad, Elizabeth Warren points to Washington, countering a previous writing that blamed universities for the rising cost of college.

Joel Ward, center, scored the game-winning goal for the Capitals.

Racist messages on Twitter follow Capitals’ goal

Reactions with vulgar and racist expressions were made in reference to game-winning goal scorer Joel Ward.

Jason Segel and Emily Blunt in “The Five-Year Engagement.’’

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‘Five-Year Engagement’ is predictably sweet fodder

Jason Segel and Emily Blunt portray a couple whose relationship suffers when he follows her from San Francisco to Michigan in this pleasant, predictable romantic comedy.

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Though the economy has yet to fully recover from the recession, some homeowners are now willing to spring tens of thousands of dollars for a new pool.

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Seven nonprofit organizations are teaming up with local shops and food merchants on a “Eat, Splash, Shop, Learn’’ campaign.

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Robert J. Gee, president of the 400-student National Graduate School of Quality Management, receives a salary above $500,000 and many perks.

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The overuse of exclamation points!

E-mails and text messages have pushed the exclamation epidemic to a dire point. There’s now a name for it – the very unpleasant slang “bangorrhea.”

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editorial

Chris Christie hurt East Coast by rejecting tunnel

Dan Shaughnessy

Bruins’ season comes to sudden end
Mark Bollman’s second Ball and Buck, on Newbury Street, resembles a well-curated hunting lodge.

Mark Bollman hunts for just the right spot

Push for health care an error, Frank says

Group pressures bishop on Kennedy

Joshua Green

The likability factor and mudslinging
Nicole Richie at the premiere party for NBC’s “Fashion Star” in New York.

Nicole Richie: fashion designer turns TV mentor

Pool business warming up
You may have visited here: When did we have that chicken? Are those buns from last Fourth of July? Is that lump in that bag . . . still a food?

Spring clean the freezer of all its odds and ends

Brian McGrory

Lots more to Liberty Mutual pay story
James Reed coated pastries before placing in the oven. He makes homemade ketchup and toaster pastries at home.

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Homemade vs. store-bought

Ken Segall.

Book Review

‘Insanely Simple’ by Ken Segall

Metro

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Video

Fire in Lynn leaves residents shaken

Residents watched as Lynn firefighters battled two-alarm fire in a Green Street apartment building today.

Business

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Airlines report profits despite fare hikes

Rising airfares have not kept passengers away, judging by financial results at Delta Air Lines and US Airways.

Columnists

yvonne abraham

Cut health bills for all

Juliette Kayyem

Saudi Arabia’s Un-Olympic Spirit

Joan Vennochi

In Eastie, anti-casino rumblings

Opinion | Jeff Jacoby

Jim McGovern’s flawed war

Dan Shaughnessy

Bruins’ season comes to sudden end

Scot Lehigh

A breath of fresh air on Beacon Hill

Joanna Weiss

Attacking drinking on campus

BOSTON CAPITAL

Europe’s economic agonies

james carroll

Memorial overstates president’s innocence

Adrian Walker

No room at Senator Brown’s office

innovation economy

Mass. game industry’s energy lures a veteran

juliette kayyem

The military’s persistent gender divide

Politics

Texas Governor Rick Perry talked about the Texas budget earlier this month in Houston.

Rick Perry endorses Mitt Romney

Perry, one of Mitt Romney’s most bitter rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, praised Romney’s “private-sector success.”

Nation & World

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Charles Taylor guilty of war crimes

Ex-Liberia leader Charles Taylor guilty of war crimes

The former Liberian president was found guilty of supporting fighters to commit atrocities during an 11-year civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone.

Sports

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On football

Patriots coach Bill Belichick and girlfriend Linda Holliday attended the Time 100 Gala in New York on Tuesday, two days before the NFL draft.

This NFL draft is about 2013 for Patriots

The Patriots are already AFC East favorites even without a draft class. Their priority will be stockpiling for the future.

Style

Nicole Richie at the premiere party for NBC’s “Fashion Star” in New York.

Nicole Richie: fashion designer turns TV mentor

Over the past decade, she has evolved from “Simple Life” sidekick to a business woman, QVC pitch woman, and now television mentor.

Arts

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Upcoming music events around Boston

Critic’s picks for pop, rock, folk, jazz, world, blues and classical music events around the region.

“If I sat down to write a fictional case study that was designed to wave red flags about an organization that is misusing its tax exemption for personal gain, this would be it.’’

Compensation expert Elizabeth K. Keating, on the National Graduate School of Quality Management  

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?
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45 best breakfast joints around Boston

Opinion

“Isolation from the games would have tremendous impact in a country well aware that public opinion is growing exceptionally suspicious of Arab monarchs.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“John Singleton Copley’s life, his works, and his words defined him as a subject of the British empire, not a citizen of the American republic.”

Jane Kamensky,  on the great American painter who wasn’t American