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Sellout streak likely to end, Sox officials say

A crowd of 30,000 is expected for Wednesday’s game, about 7,000 short of capacity, meaning the streak will end at 794 regular-season games.

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Hospital publishes its errors in a move toward openness

Brigham and Women’s Hospital is recounting mistakes in an employee newsletter in an effort to help make sure those errors are not repeated.

Murray balks at new tax hikes in transportation bill

Senate President Therese Murray said that the price tag for the bill could be raised through “existing funds,” but that “we’re not adding taxes.”

Harry Reid sets Senate vote on gun control bill

With backers of gun safety laws increasingly optimistic, the Senate majority leader scheduled a showdown vote for Thursday.

Bon Me’s roasted pork sandwich.

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Bon Me brick and mortar gets customers in and out

The popular Bon Me food truck opened a restaurant in February adjacent to The Friendly Toast in a Kendall Square courtyard.

Pappardelle in a sauce of wild boar, juniper berries, and trumpet mushrooms.

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New ideas are steeped in Italian tradition at Giulia

The Italian restaurant in Cambridge is warm, welcoming, sophisticated without being pretentious, and very, very good.

Red Sox voice/host Jon Rish quits WEEI

Rish, who has been a fill-in play-by-play voice as well as studio host for WEEI’s Red Sox broadcasts, gave his two weeks’ notice after being asked to take a pay cut.

Connecticut players and head coach Geno Auriemma celebrated after defeating Louisville in the national championship game in New Orleans.

Connecticut 93, Louisville 60

UConn women rout Louisville for 8th title

The win tied Geno Auriemma and the Huskies with Pat Summitt and Tennessee for the most titles in women’s basketball history.

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The mill under renovation in Lowell will house offices for tech start-ups, a movie theater, yoga studio, restaurant, and lounge/library in the style of an English manor.

Mill No. 5 being reborn in Lowell
With his pathway toward more power and responsibility in the US House uncertain, Edward Markey is trying to make an unprecedented transition to a seat in the Senate.

SENATE RACE | THE RECORD

Markey now a mover in House
Sergeant Robert Griffin of the Chelsea Police Department had an automatic license plate reader on a cruiser.

License plate-reading devices fuel privacy debate
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher attended the Franco-British summit in 1980 Paris.

Editorial

In Margaret Thatcher, tough stances and a can-do spirit
With seven shutout innings, Clay Buchholz earned approval from the Red Sox dugout and Fenway crowd.

Christopher L. Gasper

Red Sox aces key to team’s early surge
Sam Feller of Somerville, a mechanical engineer, has invented a glass that makes dunking cookies easier and pins his hopes on a Kickstarter campaign.

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Kickstarter boosts funding — and angst
Matthew Milo Sergi (left) and Ronald Lacey in the Apollinaire Theatre Company production of “Luther.’’

Stage Review

No peace on the homefront in ‘Luther’

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Eight not enough to ‘Catch an Octopus’

Anna Deavere Smith

Q & A

Anna Deavere Smith in fresh territory
The Schifters plan to move their buildings back from the shore in a never-ending battle with erosion.

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Money can’t buy a break from nature’s fury
The best reason to put a new Fenway front and center today is the ball club.

ON SECOND THOUGHT

Why it’s time to tear down Fenway Park
The flag was readied Sunday for its Opening Day unfurling.

Dan Shaughnessy

The new Red Sox come home

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Daniel Nava is pumped as he rounds first base and sees that his three-run homer in the seventh has cleared the wall.

Daniel Nava’s inspirational tale grows

The man whose home run won the home opener for the Red Sox has been a spare part for most of his pro baseball career.

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City Councilor Felix G. Arroyo announced his plans to run for mayor Tuesday.

Arroyo formally enters Boston mayoral race

Felix Arroyo told cheering supporters at the headquarters of Service Employees International Union Local 615 that he will run for mayor.

Columnists

It was a picture-postcard day at Fenway Park, where baseball-loving fans filed in to see their Red Sox.

Dan Shaughnessy

Red Sox fans always come back

farah stockman

Three reasons for hope in Afghanistan

Kevin Cullen

The Irish education of Margaret Thatcher
With seven shutout innings, Clay Buchholz earned approval from the Red Sox dugout and Fenway crowd.

Christopher L. Gasper

Red Sox aces key to team’s early surge

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Take burden off Veterans Affairs

Adrian Walker

Making good close to home
A US guard tower overlooks a gate at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

James Carroll

Guantanamo is America’s moral failure
The flag was readied Sunday for its Opening Day unfurling.

Dan Shaughnessy

The new Red Sox come home
Will MLB commissioner Bud Selig push for the DH to be implemented across both leagues?

Christopher L. Gasper

MLB needs one set of rules for the DH

Tech Lab Plus

Tablet stand a nice device, but not perfect
Aaron O’Hearn heads Startup Institute.

Innovation Economy

Group lures teen programmers

JOANNA WEISS

Left’s money play on the environment

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Law enforcement personnel gathered near the scene of a mass stabbing at the Cy-Fair campus of Lone Star College in northwest Houston.

Student arrested after at least 14 hurt in Texas stabbing

A student went on a building-to-building stabbing attack at a Texas community college Tuesday.

Politics

At the University of Hartford, President Obama comforted Ian Hockley, whose son died in the Newtown, Conn., shootings.

Obama makes emotional appeal for gun laws

The president pressed Congress to enact gun controls and voiced his determination to families of the Newtown, Conn., killings.

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Dow reaches another record high

The Dow gained almost 60 points to 14,673 Tuesday, driven by a surge in materials companies.

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Album review | Country

Brad Paisley, ‘Wheelhouse’

The country star keeps his contemporary edge sharp with various production tweaks and guest appearances on his latest album.

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The complete guide to Boston’s food trucks
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The great running experiment
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Azores, a perfect destination for Boston travelers
The cover for the March 17 2013 issue

Could rookie Jared Sullinger be the next Kevin Garnett?

Opinion

“The Legislature is now poised to advance a $500 million transportation tax plan that would leave basic maintenance for the aging transit system, like new buses and subway cars, unfunded.”

Paul McMorrow 

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Attend a session on photography and videography with the host of BostonGlobe.com’s “Back Story” series.

Ideas

“Tax season doesn’t have to feel like a root canal. According to a group of tax scholars, Americans could just as easily take pride in paying our share, and the government ought to be trying to help get us there.”

Leon Neyfakh, on the joy of taxes