Mass. insurers to pay $45m in rebates

The rebates are the result of President Obama’s health care law, which requires insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on delivery of care.

Warren 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.

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

opinion | Juliette Kayyem

Saudi Arabia’s un-Olympic spirit

Only one country is refusing to allow its female athletes to compete in the summer Olympics.

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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.”

Alex Karpovsky has written, directed, and/or starred in 23 feature films, short films, and television shows.

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Newton’s Alex Karpovsky takes indie-film stardom in stride

As proud as festival organizers are that their 10th year is underway, they’re prouder yet of the festival’s history of nurturing breakout stars like Karpovsky.

Chandler Jones (99) walloped quarterback Jake Locker of the Washington Huskies in Sept. 2010.

nfl draft

Patriots trade up, select twice in first round

The Patriots traded up in the first round of the NFL Draft twice, selecting Syracuse defensive end Chandler Jones and Alabama linebacker Dont'a Hightower.

Quaterbacks Robert Griffin III, left, and Andrew Luck arrived at Radio City Music Hall in New York City Thursday night.

nfl draft

Luck, Griffin III go one and two

As expected, Indianapolis selected quarterback Andrew Luck, while Washington chose Robert Griffin III in the NFL Draft Thursday night.

Kevin Youkilis hit his second career slam into the right-field bullpen during a five-run third inning for the Red Sox.

Red Sox 10, White Sox 3

Red Sox win big in Chicago

Kevin Youkilis hit a grand slam and Jarrod Saltalamacchia homered twice as the Red Sox cruised to a 10-3 win over the White Sox.

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Joshua Green

The likability factor and mudslinging

yvonne abraham

Cut health bills for all

editorial

Chris Christie hurt East Coast by rejecting tunnel
Mark Bollman’s second Ball and Buck, on Newbury Street, resembles a well-curated hunting lodge.

Mark Bollman hunts for just the right spot

Pool business warming up

Dan Shaughnessy

Bruins’ season comes to sudden end

Group pressures bishop on Kennedy
Alex Karpovsky has written, directed, and/or starred in 23 feature films, short films, and television shows.

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Newton‘s Karpovsky takes indie-film stardom in stride
Nicole Richie at the premiere party for NBC’s “Fashion Star” in New York.

Nicole Richie: fashion designer turns TV mentor

Push for health care an error, Frank says
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
Ken Segall.

Book Review

‘Insanely Simple’ by Ken Segall

Metro

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Royal Cloyd, 86, founding director of Boston Center for the Arts

Royal Cloyd, who helped convert unused and underappreciated South End buildings into a campus of theaters, galleries, and studios, died Feb. 23.

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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.

Columnists

Dan Shaughnessy

Bruins’ season comes to sudden end

opinion | Juliette Kayyem

Saudi Arabia’s un-Olympic spirit

Joan Vennochi

In Eastie, anti-casino rumblings

Opinion | Jeff Jacoby

Jim McGovern’s flawed war

yvonne abraham

Cut health bills for all

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.

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Celtics 87, Bucks 74

Kevin Garnett played just over 11 minutes against the Bucks, all in the first half.

Celtics close out season with win

’Doc’ Rivers used his returning starters sparingly Thursday night as the Celtics defeated the Milwaukee Bucks in the final game of the regular season.

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