NStar says power restored

The utility urged customers to call if the electricity is still out this morning, as the power outages that kept parts of the Back Bay in darkness for more than two days appeared to end.

Brian McGrory

The powerful and the powerless

In the eerie silence that hung over most of Back Bay for the better part of two days, you could all but hear the dollars evaporate into the dark sky.

DiMasi says he testified to grand jury

Former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi insisted that he didn’t provide significant information that prosecutors could use against current or former legislators.

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The Beverly police officer who was shot by a Hamilton police sergeant told superiors that he had never been intimate with the sergeant’s wife.

Harvard shows changes at primate lab

Low-tech fixes are intended to increase accountability of workers and add backup systems to prevent mistakes in animal care, which had contributed to the deaths of four monkeys.

Quincy Nang (right) waited to enter the Apple Store in Boston today to purchase the new Apple iPad.

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In Boston, Apple fans line up for new iPad

About 200 people waited this morning outside the Apple Store on Boylston Street to get the company’s newest gadget.

Actor George Clooney was led to a police vehicle after being arrested during a protest at the Sudan Embassy in Washington.

George Clooney arrested in protest at Sudanese Embassy

US Representative Jim Moran of Virginia and NAACP President Ben Jealous were also arrested after protesting the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.

A disappointed Corbin Miller walked back to the Harvard bench in the second half.

Bob Ryan

Harvard can be proud of basketball team

This group did what Harvard folk have talked about, and some may actually even have dreamed about, for decades.

Derrick Z. Jackson

In NCAA, record equality, unchanged inequalities

A record five schools in the NCAA tournament had a 100 percent graduation rate for African American players on men’s and women’s teams. But a racial divide in the men’s game remains.

“You always hear, does MIT have a basketball team? People don’t really think we’re going to be that good, just a bunch of nerds playing basketball.”

Jamie Karraker,  guard for MIT’s basketball team

Globe Insiders

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The Back Story is a new video series where Globe journalists tell the stories behind their stories. Exclusively on BostonGlobe.com, it is hosted by photographer and multimedia journalist Dina Rudick.

Inside The Boston Globe

Final Four run gives MIT team a crash course

names

Judd based character on Harvard friend
During the NCAA Tournament, Dick Vitale doesn’t have the courtside seat he keeps during ESPN’s regular-season access.

SPORTS MEDIA

Even in studio, Vitale loves Tournament

Stage Review

Reimagined ‘Les Miserables’ triumphs

Group asks Google to extend rooftop park

Movie Review

‘21 Jump Street’ brings new love to the buddy comedy
Caren Carew gave information sheets to passersby as union leaders pressed their case for higher pay for teachers.

Teachers go public in bid for pay raise

Irish whiskey makes a comeback

Critic’s Notebook

The devil wears pastels

For mothers of the accused, a separate anguish

Political partners reunite to fight ALS

G Cover

For the Celtics dancers, the clock never stops

Metro

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Boston’s public schools shelve ‘pink slime’

All products made with ground beef have been temporarily stricken from lunch menus.

Business

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Clergy calling for boycott of OneUnited Bank

A group of religious leaders urged customers to withdraw their funds because the bank is planning to foreclose on the nearby Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Columnists

A disappointed Corbin Miller walked back to the Harvard bench in the second half.

Bob Ryan

Harvard can be proud of its basketball team

Derrick Z. Jackson

Record equality, unchanged inequalities in NCAA

Boston Capital

Lower investment bar for Mass. pension fund

Brian McGrory

The powerful and the powerless

Joan Vennochi

Gingrich’s ego is a win for Romney

Kevin Cullen

A crack in Cathy Greig’s hard facade

Tech Lab

Galaxy Tab 7.7 an admirable also-ran
Vanderbilt's Jeff Taylor practiced with the team at the Pit in Albuquerque, N.M., on March 14.

Bob Ryan

Vandy could pose a big problem

Carlo Rotella

Intersection of rude and anonymous
Dennis Seidenberg and the Bruins were blown out by Tampa on Tuesday.

Tony Massarotti

Bruins in downward spiral from best to worst

Juliette Kayyem

The links to violence

Joanna Weiss

Cheesy marketing: The new taco from Taco Bell

Nation & World

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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

Rowan Williams to step down as Archbishop of Canterbury

The Anglican leader’s decision ends a tumultuous decade that was marked by sharp divisions over sexuality and gender.

Politics

Political Notebook

Paul says GOP rivals itching for another war in Mideast

Ron Paul shied away from naming his Republican rivals but suggested they all want to plunge the US deeper into military conflicts.

Sports

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Panthers 6, Bruins 2

Claude Julien and the Bruins lost their fourth straight game on Thursday.

Bruins routed again as slump worsens

The Bruins have been outscored 12-3 in their two-game stay in Florida and have now lost four straight games.

Movies

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Movie Review

In ‘Casa de mi Padre,’ Will Ferrell comes with subtitles

The movie is a genial but awfully thin goof on cheap Mexican telenovelas.

Arts

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Stage Review

One nation, divided, in ‘Ameriville’

The play delivers a fierce and scorching reminder of the lives that were shattered by Hurricane Katrina, and the governmental incompetence or indifference that allowed it to happen.

Spring Style Magazine

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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

“Kennedy can’t start sentences with ‘my family.’ He has to avoid looking like the latest Kennedy to run for office based on a divine right.”

Dan Payne, advising congressional candidate Joseph Kennedy III

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