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Baseball threatens Rodriguez with lifetime ban

Major League Baseball is threatening to kick Alex Rodriguez out of the game for life unless he agrees not to fight a lengthy suspension, according to a source.

House approves lower rates on student loans

A bipartisan bill that would reduce the costs of borrowing for millions of students passed the House on Wednesday and was heading to President Obama for his signature.

Keating wants FBI to offer answers on bombings

US Representative William Keating, a Mass. Democrat, asked the new FBI director to “answer pressing questions” about the investigation into the Boston Marathon attacks.

Shakespeare & Company’s production of “Love’s Labour’s Lost’’ sets the Bard’s early comedy in the postwar 1940s.

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Free spirits, fine Shakespeare in ‘Labour’s’

The Shakespeare & Company version of the Bard’s early romantic mayhem is punctuated by banjo-playing, finger-snapping, and the singing of ’40s tunes.

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Late Wednesday, lawyers for James “Whitey” Bulger filed a series of photos chronicling his life that they will ask the judge to let them present as evidence to jurors.

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The prisoner is in critical condition after he was shot while allegedly stealing a deputy sheriff’s gun.

Ibragim Todashev

Fla. officials won’t investigate Todashev death

Despite a federal probe into the shooting of a Chechen man linked to Marathon bomb suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the ACLU had urged state officials to investigate.

Opinion

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With 20 cents of every tax dollar going to the military, it’s time for a reduction in defense spending to help address the federal budget crisis.

Globe exclusives

Residents complain the Faxon Field track, which is not part of Quincy’s flood-control project, still floods during storms.

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Quincy’s flood-control projects get mixed reviews

Jim Koch, founderof the Boston Beer Co.

Opinion | Shirley Leung

Brewer gives women cold shoulder

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Mayoral candidates on the issues
The Graves Island Light Station near the entrance to Boston Harbor has no plumbing or utility services, and getting to the front door requires a climb on a 40-foot ladder.

Not your average fixer-upper
Bicycle

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Safe or savage? The state of bicycle safety in Boston
“It’s every bit as bad of an addiction as a substance abuse addiction,” Bill Walczak said.

Bill Walczak opposes a casino

All but one of the 12 mayoral candidates said they would boycott South Boston’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade unless gay rights activists are allowed to participate.

Globe survey finds issues that split mayor race
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said Edwin Alemany will now be charged with the September 2012 crime.

Detective ignored calls, says Davis
Boston, MA -- 07/18/13 -- Owner Tammy Luu makes Vietnamese iced coffee at New Dong Khanh restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18, 2013. In the final step, ice is poured over the sweetened condensed milk and coffee mixture. (Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe)

Iced coffee crawl
ByteLight founders Dan Ryan (left) and Aaron Ganick use LED light waves to send data as the bulbs flicker.

Bringing GPS-like technology indoors
The Salamehs collaborate to run their renovated Cafe Barada. Claude Salameh, the cook, makes fattoush, picutred with lamb; chicken shish kebab; ful mumadamus, and hummus.

Cheap Eats

Cafe Barada fills your table Lebanese-style

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Geographic advantages in Boston mayoral race

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Roger Clemens was on hand to honor ex-Red Sox manager Joe Morgan.

Roger Clemens unfazed by MLB’s PED probe

Clemens, seemingly free of the controversy that hounded him in the past, came to Fenway Park to honor ex-Sox manager Joe Morgan.

Metro

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The mask and gun allegedly seized during the traffic stop

Gun, mask seized after routine traffic stop in Burlington

A man and woman were arrested after police found a loaded, semi-automatic firearm and a black mask in a car.

Columnists

Joe Louis Arena and an abandoned house in Detroit.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Motor City hustle

Adrian Walker

Let whole city vote on casino

Kevin Cullen

Will Whitey testify, or won’t he?
Righthander Jake Peavy was the compromise candidate for the Red Sox.

Christopher L. Gasper

Jake Peavy was worth the risk

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‘Getting to Yes’ in the Middle East

Kevin Cullen

Don’t believe the hyperbole

Yvonne Abraham

Pier 4 a savior for Albanians

Adrian Walker

Bold stands hard to come by
Celtics executive vice president Dave Gavitt consoles Dee Brown (left) and Rick Fox (right) during a news conference following the death of team captain Reggie Lewis in 1993.

Dan Shaughnessy

Reggie Lewis’s death still hurts, 20 years later
Fareed Mosavat, Chas Wagner, and Jason Jacobs looked at support tickets at RunKeeper, which is jockeying for position in the digital fitness universe.

Innovation Economy

Can more Boston tech firms open up?
Huma Abedin listened as her husband spoke at a press conference Tuesday.

JOANNA WEISS

Kate and Huma, the image-makers

JOAN VENNOCHI

Can state GOP find a winner?

Nation & World

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The Obama administration said it wanted to work with lawmakers who seemed intent on putting limits on that authority.

Senate panel looks at limits on NSA surveillance

The Obama administration said it wanted to work with lawmakers who seemed intent on cutting back its sweeping domestic surveillance powers.

Politics

Political analysis

Senate Majority Leader Stanley Rosenberg.

In Mass. Senate leadership fight, no punches thrown

The bloodless victory claimed by Senate Majority Leader Stanley Rosenberg heralds the smoothest transition of power since Therese Murray took the presidency.

Business

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (center) applauds at the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market on May 18, 2012, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

Facebook passes IPO price

The company’s stock price has passed its $38 IPO price for the first time since its rocky initial public offering more than a year ago.

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Galleries

For “Bloatation,” Kathryn Parker Almanas filled a cheesecloth sack with dough and tapioca.

What’s up at Boston-area art galleries

The opening of Kathryn Parker Almanas’s show at Yellow Peril Gallery draws a balance between attraction and repulsion.

Food & dining

At The Thinking Cup, Cabell Tice uses Stumptown beans to make espresso, then marries it with Giovanna gelato (here it’s vanilla) in this affogato (pictured).

Affogato to take a coffee lover’s breath away

Affogato, the dish of ice cream covered with espresso, satisfies two cravings at once.

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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield
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Kitchen overhaul
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Rethinking the golden years

Ideas

“Alfred Barr’s Wellesley class, small as it was, launched a generation of students into prominent roles in the art world, helping to spread the gospel of contemporary art as curators, journalists, and critics.”

Christopher Shea,  on how a young professor helped invent contemporary art in America