At Fort Point studios, artists feel betrayed

Midway Studios was a cherished housing enclave for artists until hopes were dashed and a military helmet firm moved in.

GOP candidates take aim at Afghanistan policy

Mitt Romney said Sunday that President Obama should listen more to his military commanders. Meanwhile, also on a Sunday television show, Rick Santorum said the US should commit to winning the war or “get out.”

Once a model, state medical board lags badly

Thousands of records of physician malpractice and misdeeds are routinely expunged, leaving the public in the dark about whether to trust their doctor — or find another.

Harvard Pilgrim set to launch a lower cost network

The insurer is forming what they call a “focused network’’ of medical care groups that excludes Partners HealthCare System Inc. and other high-priced providers.

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For the Kennedy clan, he is Generation Next

Joseph P. Kennedy III brings the best name in the game to his race for Congress, but the unpretentious manner, academic pedigree, and drive are all his own.

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As manufacturing rebounds and becomes more technical in Massachusetts, skilled workers are now in high demand.

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Cartoon: On St. Patrick’s Day

Sage Stossel is articles editor of The Atlantic Online and author of the children’s book ‘‘On the Loose in Boston.’’

Sunday baseball notes

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Red Sox president/CEO Larry Lucchino has a greater role in baseball operations than he did in the later years of the Theo Epstein regime.

“I don’t think it should be a cakewalk because of the name, of course. But I think he is going places and I would like a photo of him.”

Charlie Shapiro,  on Joseph P. Kennedy III’s race for Congress

Globe Insiders

To Grammar’s House

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/03/16/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/SPRINGCLEANING2.jpg Spring cleaning for grammar rules

Grammar’s House can get a bit cluttered sometimes, often with rules that are capricious, spurious, or flat-out erroneous.

Inside The Boston Globe

Josh Crary (left) will run one leg of the Marathon with guide Doug Trudel.

Runners in it for the long haul

Starts & Stops

Wellington Circle all tied up — again
Egypt protests

The Internationalist

The lost dream of Egyptian pluralism

Guarding the Fort in Gloucester

Travel | New York

The arts of crafts in Williamsburg

St. Patrick’s Day holds mixed emotions for some
Rick Santorum in Missouri

Santorum campaigns in Missouri as caucuses begin
Quincy Nang (right) waited to enter the Apple Store in Boston today to purchase the new Apple iPad.

In Boston, Apple fans line up for new iPad

Movies

Fans hope ‘The Hunger Games’ will deliver

A battle within cancer fight

New gambling era arrives at Maine casino
Stone tools were found at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania that could be 15,000 to 17,000 years old..

Did the Solutreans settle America first?

Metro

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Tutor Annie Query talked with Malia Cajuste at the Match Community Day Charter School in Jamaica Plain.

Charter school focuses on teaching youngsters English

The mission of the Match Community Day Charter School in Jamaica Plain is to help youngsters overcome language barriers.

Business

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ON THE HOT SEAT

Lord Sassoon, commercial secretary to the UK Treasury.

Expanding firms hear London’s call

Lord Sassoon, commercial secretary to the British Treasury, recently toured three financial centers in the United States: Boston, Chicago, and New York.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

The road to wisdom

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Not all was lost when Apple bought Quattro

Jeff Jacoby

On mandate, Romney plays both sides

Gareth Cook

Why do nations fail?

Joan Vennochi | Whitey Bulger: Living large?

DiMasi should be so lucky

Joanna Weiss | Whitey Bulger: Living large?

Zest up the memoir

Christopher L. Gasper

Throwing a net around the Bruins’ problems

Love Letters

Should they get engaged before the move-in?

Lawrence Harmon

A start-up center for Roxbury?

Adrian Walker

Cooking as rehabilitation

opinion | RENÉE LOTH

Mass. assets aren’t rosy for everyone

Brian McGrory

The powerful and the powerless

Nation & World

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“We just hope it doesn’t affect our mission. We are trying to reduce our forces here and that could affect that.” — Sergeant Ricardo Panchana

In Afghanistan, trust among allies erodes

Hard-earned trust has frayed between Afghan allies and US and NATO troops, eroded by violent incidents after the accidental burning of Korans by American soldiers.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Put end to oil industry tax breaks, Obama says

President Obama said that Congress should kill tax breaks for the oil and gas industry and help develop alternative sources of energy.

Sports

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Bruins 3, Flyers 2

Bruins snap losing streak

The Bruins finally turned in an honest performance that better represented their game’s foundations. Appropriately, they earned a 3-2 shootout win over the Flyers.

Travel

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Glasgow chefs put fresh accents on Scottish fare

Glaswegian chefs have taken creative liberties with fusty standards, swapped fried for fresh and, in the process, exchanged the title “cook’’ for “chef.”

Books

Book review

'Coral Glynn' by Peter Cameron

Characters follow twisting trajectories in this Gothic romantic comedy.

Arts

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Jen Chia and her disco-mirror shark

The former MIT student and model found her way through life, with the help of a mirror-covered shark.

Magazine

The cover for the March 18 2012 issue

Grover Norquist: Emperor of no
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

Opinion

“They say all things must end, but the wrangling over Mitt Romney’s support for an individual health insurance mandate persists without letup.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“If the Solutrean hypothesis becomes widely accepted, it would mean that the sea played a central part in human expansion. And in the matter of ‘who came first,’ it would mean that all the Americas have a new origin story to contend with.”

Gareth Cook