After fall, Mass. insurers’ auto rates up again

Auto insurance rates, which tumbled after Massachusetts opened the state to more competition four years ago, are marching steadily upward again.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/05/15/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/15rccpic--90x90.jpg Roxbury college under federal scrutiny for crime data

Officials are auditing Roxbury Community College for suspected lapses in its reporting of crimes committed on campus — the latest in a series of controversies for president Terrence Gomes.

Senator Scott Brown has managed to put Warren on the defensive.

Brown aide calls ancestry issue test of Warren’s integrity

Senator Scott Brown has turned questions over Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry into a key strategy in his bid to retain his Senate seat.

Warren seeks to refocus campaign on Wall St.

Elizabeth Warren is seizing on a $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase to steer her Senate campaign toward comfortable territory: recklessness in the financial sector.

Abutter Bill Massaro fears harm to the water supply and to the recreational use of the Charles River.

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In Medfield, tug of war over a toxic cleanup

Residents say a plan by the state, which would remove only about 15 percent of an estimated 75,000 tons of toxic waste in a landfill adjacent to the Charles River, isn’t enough.

Bob Ryan

This time, Celtics couldn’t close it out

Game 2 was set up for another comeback victory, but the Celtics couldn’t impose their will on the 76ers, and now the series is heading to Philadelphia tied at 1-1.

House quietly acts to reassign Chelsea court

The Mass. House leadership used a late-night budget amendment to place the Chelsea District Court under the auspices of Boston Municipal Court, long a target of patronage charges.

Internships may slow Boston’s student ‘brain drain’

Public agencies and business groups have launched initiatives to connect students to internships and similar job programs, in an effort to keep them in the Boston area.

DeLeo plan would help start-ups make it in Mass.

House Speaker Robert DeLeo unveiled a proposal to encourage the development of young technology companies and to urge innovative businesses to grow and stay.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2011/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/05books1.jpg A conversation with Ben Mezrich

The New York Times best-selling author discusses his books “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

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The Boston Rugby Football Club’s next home game takes place Saturday in Easton.

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Rugby club tackles sport with enthusiasm
Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a despot who winds up working at a Brooklyn food co-op.

Movie Review

‘Dictator’ tweaks broadly and carries a big shtick

Frame by Frame

Flippant ‘Rock Fan’ fits well in college setting
Above: Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally of Beach House.

Album Reviews

New albums from Beach House, Best Coast fall short
Last month, MIT professor Amy Finkelstein became the third woman in the last five years to gain the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, which recognizes the top US economist under 40.

Women making gains in economics, but progress is slow

Open-water swimmer focusing on the Olympics
Stacey Burns

Yvonne Abraham

Three years later, no answers

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Poetry Out Loud gets high schoolers excited about verse

Newcomer boosts profile of Black Heritage Trail
“When you bury things for so long, it damages you internally,” said Jennifer Norris, who says she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depression, and anxiety, resulting from military sexual trauma.

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Helping survivors of military sexual trauma

More college presidents hail from outside academia

E-retailer hopes to boost Boston’s hip factor

Sports

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Game 2 | 76ers 82, Celtics 81

With the Celtics trailing, 78-75, Kevin Garnett (15 points, 12 rebounds) was called for an offensive foul with 10 seconds left. The 76ers scored their final 6 points from the free throw line.

Celtics fail to execute late, 76ers tie the series

The Celtics were their own worst enemies as late-game execution miscues contributed to an 82-81 loss to the 76ers in Game 2.

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Westborough drowning victim was severely autistic

A severely autistic 4-year-old boy who drowned in a murky pool at his apartment complex Sunday had been seen walking alone around the spacious facility, authorities said.

Columnists

Representative Barney Frank.

JOANNA WEISS

Barney Frank reflects on the change he’s seen

BOSTON CAPITAL

Business guru’s tips for living

Bob Ryan

This time, Celtics couldn’t close it out
A lone worker picks tomatoes on an Alabama farm in 2011. Much of the crop rotted after migrant workers moved to other states when a strict immigration law took affect.

Juliette Kayyem

A crackdown avoided

Innovation Economy

A new twist on the home office

JEFF JACOBY

Benefit of doubt on ‘evolution’

JOANNA WEISS

Why not let the bake sale crumble?
The Celtics are widely perceived as gritty and the embodiment of team spirit.

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics giving their all, as Fenway draws boobirds
Stacey Burns

Yvonne Abraham

Three years later, no answers
BzzAgent founder Dave Balter (left) has become an angel investor since it was sold.

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Mass. IPOs don’t create many angel investors

Adrian Walker

Roxbury Community College needs a change
Bernie Fitzgerald, chief of probation in Dorchester District Court, is retiring after 41 years.

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Probation chief retires as a legend

Arts

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STAGE REVIEW

McCaela Donovan and Ryan Overberg in the SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Xanadu.”

Exuberant comedy ‘Xanadu’ rolls along

SpeakEasy Stage Company’s enjoyably unhinged adaptation of the legendarily execrable 1980 movie “Xanadu” is a feat of theatrical alchemy.

Politics

Pesident Obama’s reelection team unveiled its first ad Monday attacking Romney’s business record, using laid-off steel workers in Missouri to paint Mitt Romney as a callous “vampire’’ and “job destroyer’’ who is out of touch with the average working person.

President Obama strikes at Mitt Romney on jobs

The Obama campaign unveiled its first ad attacking Romney’s business record, in an attempt to turn the former Bain Capital chief executive’s credentials into a liability.

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Walmart to install solar panels on 27 stores in Mass.

The retail giant said it plans to install solar panels on top of about half of its roughly 50 Mass. stores as early as August as part of an expansion of solar power in the state.

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New test offers hope for easier colon screening

A CT scan may be as effective as a standard colonoscopy in identifying potentially cancerous polyps, Boston researchers and others found.

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Local comedian firmly in the clouds

Lamont Price, 29 (“22 in Hollywood”), a Dorchester native, was recently named one of Comedy Central’s “Comedians to Watch.”

“We’re talking about a hundred years of waste, and the state, which created this mess, is refusing to clean it up.”

Bill Massaro,  an activist in Medfield

Magazine

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The Boston waterfront has arrived
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Homes for sale for $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, and $1 million
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Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
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144 free things to do around Boston

Opinion

“Now, Barney Frank jokes that his big problem is that members of Congress keep inviting themselves to his gay wedding.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“Genoeconomics is a field with a nightmare scenario already built into it—that banks might demand saliva tests before granting loans, or insurance companies could raise premiums for customers genetically predisposed to risk.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the search for the money gene