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Greig to plead guilty, won’t be forced to testify

Catherine Greig, the girlfriend of James “Whitey” Bulger, plans to plead guilty Wednesday to charges that she helped him escape capture, according to an agreement filed in federal court today.

Romney close with Santorum, Gingrich in Southern states

Victories for Mitt Romney in Alabama or Mississippi tomorrow could lay to rest nagging doubts about his ability to win in the Deep South.

Warren attacks AIG tax deal

Democratic US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said a tax exemption given to American International Group amounts to another bailout for the insurance giant.

Analysis

Killings threaten Afghan mission

The fatal shootings of 16 civilians could undermine US support and reinforce Afghan suspicions that foreigners seek to conquer the country.

Chris McKenzie

EXCLUSIVE TUESDAY PREVIEW | STAGE REVIEW

Finding the personal drama in ‘Recent Tragic Events’

Craig Wright’s play, at the Factory Theatre, is sweet and poignant and, in the end, heartbreaking. And the acting is superb.

Wild animals moving farther into human spaces

We should get used to bears, beavers, and fishers, never mind the already common deer, wild turkeys, coyotes, and, to a lesser extent, bald eagles, wildlife specialists say.

Abigail and Alex Cebula of Weston donned flip flops and went for ice cream today in Wellesley.

Temperature breaks 110-year-old record in Boston

The mercury hit 71 degrees in Boston shortly before 3 p.m. as a spell of unusually warm and snow-free weather continued.

Study: Eating less red meat may lengthen lifespan

For heavy red-meat eaters, having one less serving a day could lead to a longer life, according to a Harvard study released today.

“This is clearly a tragedy, but it should not be allowed in any way to change the mission."

NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu  

Globe Insiders

Globe Insiders event | April 3, 6 p.m.

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/03/12/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/12302009_30lfenway.jpg ‘100th Anniversary Fenway Park’ book release

Join the Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy, John Powers, and other writers for a discussion on the fabled home of the Red Sox, moderated by Bill Littlefield of WBUR’s Only a Game.

Inside The Boston Globe

Jack Kerouac in New York in 1958, a year after he wrote his full-length play, ‘‘Beat Generation.’’

’57 Jack Kerouac play to be staged in Lowell

Notes from Lizzie Borden trial revealed
Alaa (left) and Dalal Alhomaiz, twins and third-year psychology students from Kuwait, launched the campaign SPEAK, or Standing for Psychological Education and Awareness in Kuwait. The twins, both Northeastern University students, want to change attitudes about people with mental illness in their homeland.

Twins work for change in Kuwait

G Cover

Taking a break from eating

MUSIC REVIEW

Van Halen, David Lee Roth still deliver

Midnight fitness class tailored to restaurant workers

NCAA Tournament

Printable bracket for the 68-team NCAA Tournament
Teacher Katy Burns at work with Pedro Veras and Oscar Coello (right).

Deaf students new to US find their footing
A Modiv phone app and a hand-held scanner.

Smartphone apps may help retail scanning catch on

Start-up aims to be the Twitter of video

globe magazine | Perspective

Why Mitt Romney is going the distance

Drivers get a break as parking tickets decline

Business

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! sues Facebook over patents

Yahoo! accused Facebook of infringing on patents related to Internet advertising and information sharing.

Metro

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DiMasi loses bid to stay in R.I. prison

A judge ordered former House speaker Salvatore DiMasi returned to a Kentucky prison.

Columnists

Patriots coach Bill Belichick will lead his team through the start of free agency this week.

Tony Massarotti

Time could be right for Patriots to spend big

James Carroll | WEATHERING CALLS FOR US-IRAN CONFLICT

United by ‘A Separation’

JULIETTE KAYYEM | WEATHERING CALLS FOR US-IRAN CONFLICT

Tough poses in a political theater
Dion Waiters (above) and Syracuse are the No. 1 seed in the East.

Bob Ryan

What to expect from NCAA Tournament

Adrian Walker

Off course in Cambridge

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Company sees video games as therapeutic

Joanna Weiss

Contraception, the economic miracle drug

GARETH COOK

Community chest
Although paralyzed, shooting victim Marcus Hurd, questioned by attorney John Amabile in Suffolk Superior Court last week, says he accepts the code of the streets.

Joan Vennochi

As victims accept ‘code,’ more victims are created

Jeff Jacoby

Medallion system shackles cabbies

LOVE LETTERS

Her boyfriend’s ex keeps calling and calling and calling...

Christopher L. Gasper

Seguin is causing idol talk

Nation & World

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Homs

Civilians ‘massacred’ in Syria, activists say

Syrian activists said Monday that pro-government gunmen killed at least 16 people, including children, in a rebel stronghold in the embattled city of Homs.

Politics

Cambridge couple gets prize-winning dinner with Obama

Mitch and Judy Glassman joined two other couples for dinner last Thursday at a Washington restaurant with the president and first lady Michelle Obama.

Sports

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Red Sox shortstop Mike Aviles steps over the Orioles' Adam Jones after he was thrown out trying to stretch a RBI-single into an extra base hit during the first inning of Sunday’s spring training game.

Mike Aviles handling move to shortstop nicely

Aviles doesn’t have a ton of experience as an everyday shortstop, but he may emerge as the starter on Opening Day.

Arts

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Opera Review

Soprano Sarah Coburn as Rosina and baritone Jonathan Beyer as Figaro in Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘‘The Barber of Seville.’’

BLO returns to the familiar with amiable ‘Barber of Seville’

Unlike the more experimental BLO productions of “Carmen’’ and “Macbeth,’’ this one has no interpretive agenda for Rossini’s timelessly effervescent comedy.

Health and wellness

G Force

“So many people [in the Dominican Republic] are affected by arthritis — people who want to be able to walk without continuous pain, just to get a job,” said Dr. Mercedes Concepcion.

Mission of healing is joint effort

Dr. Mercedes Concepcion is a leader of Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s annual, weeklong orthopedic surgery mission in the Dominican Republic.

Spring Style Magazine

SPECIAL MAGAZINE

Spring Style

The season’s freshest fashion feels airy and easy — think fluttery shapes, pretty prints, and nothing too structured or serious.

Magazine

The cover for the March 11 2012 issue

Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out
The cover for the March 4 2012 issue

Putting college degrees to work
The cover for the February 26 2012 issue

24 hours in Kendall Square
The cover for the February 19 2012 issue

Renovated Newport firehouse is calm, cool, and collected

Opinion

“Figuring out how to handle Iran is not the same as playacting. Yet the week-long AIPAC conference looked like high school debating trials.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“The best-selling board game today is the board game that was the best-selling board game in 1936. That is Monopoly.”

Game publisher Eric Hautemont