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Profits up at Mass. health insurers

The state’s four biggest insurers posted sharply higher earnings for 2011 while their executives collected higher pay, according to reports.

Scott Brown calls on Harvard to cancel ‘one state’ conference

Brown said the conference on a “one-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict represents “dangerous thinking that gives comfort to Israel’s enemies.”

Backing unions a delicate mission for Elizabeth Warren

Harnessing her support among labor leaders to woo rank-and-file union members carries risk for Warren, as some voters view unions as special interests.

Obituary

James Q. Wilson, 80, co-author of ‘broken windows’ article

Wilson was considered one of the nation’s most significant thinkers about crime and other urban matters.

Santorum forays into Georgia, hoping to upend Gingrich

Rick Santorum suggested that a loss for Newt Gingrich in Gingrich’s home state on Super Tuesday could force the former speaker out of the race.

Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff

In fishing study, US dangles $500 bait

In an experiment being conducted in Massachusetts, the federal government is working to figure out how much it would cost to persuade anglers not to fish off the coast.

Yelp shares surge in stock market debut

Shares in the online reviews site’s initial public offering shot up 60 percent in the first hours of trading today.

Boston Capital

Meyers owes $45 million in stock deal

There’s a simple lesson in the ruling against First Marblehead’s Dan Meyers: It pays to settle disputes while everyone can profit. The future may not be so generous.

Hazing issue ensnares Dartmouth president

Many professors accused Jim Kim of abdicating leadership on the issue, and a fourth of the school’s faculty have signed a petition calling for the banishment of single-sex fraternities.

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Behind ‘The Real Romney’

Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman talk about their new biography of GOP presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.