Boston revels in record-high temps

The temperature at Logan Airport climbed to 68 degrees just before 1 p.m. today, breaking the previous high mark for March 8 of 67 degrees, set in 1995.

Diners enjoyed record-high temperatures at Parish Cafe on Boylston Street.

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Diners enjoyed record-high temperatures at Parish Cafe on Boylston Street.

School bus driver Edward Bourgault cleaned his windows in Boston.

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School bus driver Edward Bourgault cleaned his windows in Boston.

A couple dined on the balcony at a restaurant on Newbury Street.

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A couple dined on the balcony at a restaurant on Newbury Street.

One-year-old Lydia Hennighausen watched people from a sunny bench with her mother, Virginia, on Atlantic Avenue in Boston's North End.

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One-year-old Lydia Hennighausen watched people from a bench in Boston's North End.

The lunch-time crowd on the Rose Kennedy Greenway cast shadows.

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The lunch-time crowd on the Rose Kennedy Greenway cast shadows.

Boston University students Leora Kaufman, Helen Chen, Helen Petty, and Brent Coisman enjoyed the record-setting warm temperatures.

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Boston University students enjoyed the record-setting warm temperatures.

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Jennifer Westfeldt wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy about two New Yorkers who have a baby together but claim not to want to date or marry.

House passes bipartisan bill to help startups

The legislation makes it easier for small businesses and startups to raise the capital they need to grow and hire new workers.

Fewer jobs created last year in Mass., new data show

Employment grew by just over 9,000 jobs last year, far below the initial estimates of nearly 41,000, according to revised data.

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Firefighters responded to a three-alarm fire in Milton.

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Four beach houses engulfed in Scituate blaze

A large fire, apparently stoked by strong winds, raged through four homes this afternoon, on the heels of an earlier fire that destroyed a Milton home.

“In an institution characterized by gridlock and partisanship, Scott Brown is a much-needed breath of fresh air.”

Senator Olympia Snowe 

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Wynn renews his push for casino in Foxborough

Casino developer Steve Wynn dispatched a dozen of his executives to meet local residents at a low-key reception.

Business

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AeroShot maker says it will resolve FDA concerns

The FDA had admonished the Cambridge company, saying it’s inhalable caffeine product was being marketed inappropriately.

Columnists

Joan Vennochi

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Ocean planning and Massachusetts

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Penn falls to Princeton, leaving Harvard on top

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Apologize like you mean it, Rush

Scot Lehigh

Releasing fuel could pump economy

Dan Shaughnessy

Dan Duquette returns to Fort Myers with Orioles

Brian McGrory

A man with a good name

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Leaving out the emotion

Joanna Weiss

The elusive task of placing Palin

Juliette Kayyem

NYPD stumbles in terror hunt

BOSTON CAPITAL

iPad with Siri would sound sweet to Nuance

Nation & World

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The Keystone XL pipeline would carry oil derived from tar sands in western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Senate rejects plan to fast-track Keystone oil pipeline

The Senate sided with President Obama, who has said more time is needed to assess the environmental impacts of the pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf Coast.

Politics

Political notebook

Pingree declines to seek Snowe’s seat

US Representative Chellie Pingree, Democrat of Maine, said Wednesday that she will not run for the US Senate seat being vacated by Republican Olympia Snowe.

Sports

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NC State 78, BC 57

Boston College is 9-22, the most losses in school history.

Eagles dropped by Wolfpack

Boston College reached a new record for most losses in school history after falling to North Carolina State in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

Style

Emily Muller to show line at Fashionably Late

Boston designer Emily Muller thought she’d be an architect, but then life intervened.

Arts

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STAGE REVIEW

‘Reflections of a Rock Lobster’ retells a teen’s gay-rights fight

This is a lively and incisive adaptation of Aaron Fricke’s memoir about his 1980 battle for the right to bring a male date to his Rhode Island high school’s prom.

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“To win the GOP nomination, Romney must walk away from the equity principle behind Romneycare and Obamacare, and so he does.”

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Ideas

“The story of St. John’s University reflects the power — and the threat — that such an education still represents to a proud nation that nevertheless hungers for new ideas.”

Patricia Wen  on the lost liberal arts university of China