Church sermons address Mattapan verdict

During services in several churches Sunday, and outside the churches, the talk was of the surprising verdict reached Thursday in the Mattapan killings case.

For homeless families, hotel is a life in limbo

With shelters overflowing, the state uses hotels to meet the needs of a surge of Mass. families who have become homeless in the past few years.

President Obama used binoculars to look at North Korea on Sunday from Observation Post Ouellette in the Demilitarized Zone, which separates the two Koreas in the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom.

Obama: N. Korean rocket test would isolate regime

Speaking in South Korea, President Obama said Pyongyang risks deepening its isolation if it proceeds with a planned long-range rocket launch.

French gunman’s brother is charged

Investigators looking into the recent killings of seven people in and around Toulouse believe Abdelkader Merah helped his brother plot the attacks, which he denied.

Rick Santorum greeted supporters at a rally in Bellevue, Wis., on Saturday. Wisconsin’s GOP primary is April 3.

Santorum says La. win shows he’s viable candidate

A day after winning Louisiana’s primary, Rick Santorum said the results show he is a strong contender for the GOP nomination.

As at all Apple Stores, on Boylston Street there are Geniuses (above), customers who return for classes, and those who come to buy.

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Apple has become a retailing star

The Globe was given a rare inside look into how the Apple Store works, and how some of its 36,000 employees spread across 363 stores worldwide are helping to change shopping.

Friends, students gather for auction of minister’s treasures

The art and furniture collection of the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes was auctioned, in an event that was part Harvard reunion, part bittersweet memorial service.

John Williams writes tune for Fenway Park

Members of the Boston Pops assembled at Symphony Hall to record John Williams’s new composition, “Fanfare for Fenway,’’ with the composer on the podium.

Kentucky’s Anthony Davis put in a dunk against Baylor in the first half of their South Regional final Sunday in Atllanta.

Kentucky dominates Baylor

Top-seeded Kentucky cruised into the Final Four for the second year in a row, blitzing Baylor with a dominating first half on the way to an 82-70 rout Sunday.

“No state can be a health care island.”

Wendy Parmet,  a Northeastern University law professor

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As the Supreme Court meets Monday to hear three days of arguments over the constitutionality of President Obama’s signature health care overhaul, Massachusetts’ own experience with reform will serve as a guidepost.

Health care battle focuses on Mass. model
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Ideas

The truth about the ‘code of the street’
The power, the pure hitting are already there with catcher Ryan Lavarnway.

Sunday baseball notes

Lavarnway, Iglesias could offer major help for Sox

War of words over Shutesbury library plan
For years, the Menino administration used the nonprofit to collect donations that were akin to rent payments from advertising firms, movie companies, and other commercial entities that used City Hall Plaza and other public land, taking in more than $250,000 in site fees since 2009.

Mayor Menino reveals donors to city charity

GLOBE MAGAZINE

Spring Travel Special

Madonna sticks to her guns on ‘MDNA’
Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park.

Travel

See Chicago with the help of a volunteer Greeter

The Word

How baseball gave us ‘jazz’

City moves to preserve iconic three-deckers

Ex-probation chief, 2 aides indicted in hiring scandal

Movies

Hollywood’s latest love affair with fairy tales

Metro

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John Williams writes tune for Fenway Park

Members of the Boston Pops assembled at Symphony Hall to record John Williams’s new composition, “Fanfare for Fenway,’’ with the composer on the podium.

Business

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As at all Apple Stores, on Boylston Street there are Geniuses (above), customers who return for classes, and those who come to buy.

Apple has become a retailing star

The Globe was given a rare inside look into how the Apple Store works, and how some of its 36,000 employees spread across 363 stores worldwide are helping to change shopping.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Mattapan verdict shows jury system works
Excited supporters cheer when Mitt Romney arrives for a campaign stop at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Rockford, Ill., in March.

Jeff Jacoby

Young voters should flock to GOP

Joan Vennochi

Romney’s Fehrnstrom problem

Gareth Cook

Inconvenient truth

Joanna Weiss

A calculated risk for at-risk kids

Innovation Economy

Mobile payment app aims to create loyalty

Christopher L. Gasper

Power struggle may weaken Red Sox

BOSTON CAPITAL

Bay State Banner publisher’s two hats in bank-church dispute

LAWRENCE HARMON

The case for orphanages

SCOT LEHIGH

The economy, generically oversimplified

bob ryan

For Wisconsin, depth leads to despair

Brian McGrory

A mystery on the side

Nation & World

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A US Army soldier stood guard near a government building in Laghman province, Afghanistan. Dozens of former insurgents and their families took part in a graduation ceremony on Sunday after finishing various livelihood training workshops given to them by the provincial government and the US military.

Afghans: US paid $50,000 per shooting spree death

The US paid $50,000 for each Afghan killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in the shooting spree allegedly committed by a US soldier, two Afghans said.

Politics

Political Notebook

Rick Santorum sets sights on Wisconsin voters

Santorum told Wisconsin Republicans that Mitt Romney is an inconsistent conservative who should not be trusted with their party’s presidential nomination.

Sports

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Red Sox pitcher Felix Doubront has a 2.70 ERA in four spring starts and has improved steadily, giving up four earned runs in his last 14 2/3 innings.

Felix Doubront taking a positive step for Red Sox

At 24, the Red Sox lefthander appears on the verge of fulfilling the potential the organization long has believed he has.

Arts

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‘‘It is pop music, but I think there’s a whole other ethical level to Grimes,’’ says Claire Boucher (performing as Grimes earlier this month at South by Southwest).

Breakout star Grimes creates pop of a darker hue

As Grimes, Claire Boucher makes music that splits the difference between upbeat pop and darker electronics.

Travel

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Travel

Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park.

See Chicago with the help of a volunteer Greeter

The free service matches visitors with their own private greeters who have volunteered to tout their hometown.

Books

BOOK REVIEW

‘The New Republic’ by Lionel Shriver

It’s a satiric look at the nature of magnetism.

Magazine

The cover for the March 25 2012 issue

Montreal: Full of chic charm
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

Opinion

“This is a cold reality of the child welfare system: It is a matter of calculated risk, built around risk-laden lives.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Even people with no direct experience with street life — whose exposure to the criminal underworld comes mainly from “The Wire” — have a sense that it is governed by its own set of rules and ethics.”

Leon Neyfakh