City should get more money from Red Sox, watchdog says

The state’s inspector general said the city should demand significantly more for turning over Yawkey Way to fans on game days.

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Eight years after same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts, the Rintala case is shining a light on domestic violence among gay couples.

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A controversial program that checks the fingerprints of those arrested against an immigration database has caught East Haven residents off guard.

Alex Beam

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There’s a price to be paid for preferring to tip only when absolutely necessary, writes Alex Beam.

Probation promotions are invalid, judge says

A Suffolk Superior Court judge has vacated 11 promotions made by disgraced former commissioner John J. O’Brien.

Exclusive Sunday Preview | The Oscars

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Viola Davis has repeatedly defended herself and her movie, “The Help.”

Video | Take 2

The Oscars: Best Picture

Globe movie critics Ty Burr and Wesley Morris discuss the nominees and their picks for Best Picture of 2011.

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Who will win, who should win, who was robbed, and who shouldn’t be nominated? Globe film critic Ty Burr gives his Oscar picks.

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Some races are tight, while others seem to be a lock. Globe film critic Wesley Morris handicaps Sunday night’s awards.

“Yawkey Way and Lansdowne Street are public property. The public should receive fair market value for the use of its property.”

Inspector General Gregory W. Sullivan 

Globe Insiders

Globe Insider Event | March 5, 5:30 p.m.

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Globe editorial page editor Peter S. Canellos moderates a discussion with Globe writers Scott Helman, Scot Lehigh, and Frank Phillips on the Republican presidential candidate.

Inside The Boston Globe

Epstein relishes challenge of building Cubs

names

Beer run for Samuel Adams

Kerry, Brown push to keep wind energy tax credits
Artist and author Kadir Nelson with one of his picture-book paintings, of Josh Gibson, on display at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst

Picturing baseball’s Negro League greats
Richard McDonough

State suspends pension for McDonough over ‘no-show job’
Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston play a couple trying communal living in “Wanderlust.’’

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Wanderlust’ provides a good ride, but it’s a short trip

How the French are influencing a generation of helicopter parents
Real Navy SEALs - either staging a ground assault or dropping from the sky - star in “Act of Valor.’’

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Act of Valor’ comes with a real SEAL of approval

The Boston Globe honored with sports journalism awards

How Callista Gingrich makes her hair stay still

BOOK REVIEW

‘The Wolf Gift’ by Anne Rice

PHOTOS

Scenes from Red Sox spring training

Columnists

Alex Beam

The 15 percent non-solution

Boston Capital

Clean Harbors Inc. cleans up financially
New Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine (center, in shorts) has the attention of his players (mostly pitchers) as he addresses them before a workout yesterday in Fort Myers, Fla.

Dan Shaughnessy

Pedroia still smarting from failures of 2011

Scot Lehigh

Santorum’s faith is too extreme

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Excitement deserves a tax break
An attendee uses the Samsung Galaxy Note to draw a portrait at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. The 2012 CES trade show, which runs through Jan 13, features more than 2,700 global technology companies presenting consumer tech products and is expected to draw over 140,000 attendees. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Tech Lab

Galaxy Note misses mark

Yvonne Abraham

Spinning deadly lies

Joan Vennochi

BU hockey team needs to change its jock culture
Rajon Rondo’s suspension after an incident in Sunday’s game raises questions about his maturity.

Christopher L. Gasper

Rajon Rondo may not be a building block

Brian McGrory

A new light on a Kennedy line

Kevin Cullen

Rooting for Jeremy Lin

Juliette Kayyem

A dramatic shipwreck, a daring rescue

Metro

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BU to investigate school’s hockey culture

After the arrests of two hockey players on sexual assault charges, a task force will be launched to determine whether some players believe they are above campus rules and the law.

Business

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Avid already big winner at the Oscars

Products from Avid Technology Inc., of Burlington, were used on seven of the nine Best Picture nominees.

Nation & World

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The crash in a remote desert was the fifth since March involving Marine aircraft in training in California.

Helicopter crash kills 7 Marines in Calif.

Two Marine Corps helicopters collided over a remote section of the California desert during a nighttime exercise, in one of the Corps’s deadliest training accidents in years.

Politics

Political Notebook

Jon Huntsman calls for alternate party

The former presidential hopeful called for a third political party “to compete against a duopoly that is getting old and tired.’’

Sports

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Braun's 50-game suspension is overturned

Reigning National League MVP Ryan Braun has become the sport’s first player to successfully appeal a positive drug test and escape a 50-game suspension.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Addiction Incorporated’ puts Big Tobacco under a microscope

An eminently watchable documentary about how the tide turned against Big Tobacco.

Arts

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ART REVIEW

Radcliffe Bailey looks back to move forward

He explores the Middle Passage in the impressive “Memory as Medicine” show at Davis Museum.

Magazine

The cover for the February 19 2012 issue

Renovated Newport firehouse is calm, cool, and collected
The cover for the February 12 2012 issue

Boston wedding venue guide
The cover for the February 5 2012 issue

What if the lights go out?
The cover for the January 29 2012 issue

Reversing a restaurant curse

Opinion

“Authenticity ... loses its mainstream electoral appeal when what’s genuine about a candidate is a rigid, intolerant, fundamentalist perspective.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“Rich people have a harder time connecting with others. They are less charitable. They are less likely to help someone in trouble. And if you think you’d behave differently in their place, you’re wrong.”

Britt Peterson, on the psychology of being rich