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Insurers set off a fight on replacement parts
Some repair shop owners and consumer advocates argue that alternative parts don’t always fit correctly or match the performance of new licensed parts.

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Repair shops in Mass. are considering lobbying state regulators to prevent insurers from insisting on using only used or generic parts to fix cars.

Nudibranch Stripe fish in the documentary “The Last Reef 3D.”

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‘The Last Reef 3D’ illuminates beauty, fragility of reef life

The new documentary is a cautionary tale with great visuals, but the message needs more urgency.

“Happy People: A Year in the Taiga” offers mesmerizing scenes described by the mesmerizing voice of Werner Herzog.

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Werner Herzog goes to Siberia in ‘Happy People’

The new film focuses on fur trappers, and director Herzog clearly loves, and envies, the trappers’ elemental existence and connection to nature.

Ana Moreira (with Carloto Cotta) as the young Aurora in “Tabu.” A reappearing crocodile also has an important part.

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Fever dream ‘Tabu’ has ties to Murnau film

Portuguese director Miguel Gomes has made a black-and-white fever dream whose undertow sucks you in as often as it strands you on shore.

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Elizabeth Warren grills regulators

After a quiet first month in office, Senator Warren rebuked federal regulators for settling cases with banks instead of taking them to trial.

Mass. GOP candidate won't limit outside groups

State Rep. Daniel Winslow said Thursday his campaign would welcome ‘‘positive’’ help from any outside group.

epa03584737 The crippled Carnival Triumph cruse ship with 3,143 passengers and a crew of 1,086 docks in downtown Mobile, Alabama, USA, 14 February 2013. The 900 foot long (247m) ship lost power after an engine fire on 10 February as it was returning to Galveston, Texas, USA from Cozumel, Mexico. Passengers have reported squalid conditions as sewage systems failed and food supplies dwindled. EPA/MARK WALLHEISER

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A crippled cruise ship docked in Mobile, Ala., on Thursday after losing power Sunday.

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Lower floors of the ship overflowed with sewage, forcing many passengers to the deck.

The Carnival Triumph cruise ship is towed towards the dock as spectators watch at the port of Mobile, Alabama, February 14, 2013. The 893-foot (272 meter) vessel, notorious for reports of raw sewage from overflowing toilets, has been without propulsion and running on emergency generator power since Sunday, when an engine room fire left it adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. REUTERS/ Lyle Ratliff (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH TRAVEL MARITIME TRANSPORT BUSINESS)

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An engine room fire left the ship adrift in the Gulf of Mexico for four days.

Carnival Cruise Lines President and CEO, Gerry Cahill talks with reporters in Mobile, Ala., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. The Carnival Triumph is docked at rear after spending nearly a week idled in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4,200 passengers and crew members following an engine room fire. (AP Photo/John David Mercer)

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Carnival Cruise Lines CEO Gerry Cahill (left) apologized to guests.

Crippled cruise ship docks in Ala.

A cruise ship disabled for four days at sea docked, but passengers still had hours to wait to disembark.

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Catherine Cagle of Waltham was among the customers checking out the closing sale.

The end of a yarn shop
Representative Edward J. Markey owns two homes: the one from his childhood in Malden, Mass., and the one he and his wife bought in 1991 in Chevy Chase, Md.

Edward Markey’s residency is a tale of two homes
Samantha Reckis was 7 in 2003 when she became ill.

Family awarded $63 million in Motrin case
Erica Shaps advised students on social media strategy.

Job-hunters aim to fix e-trail troubles
James “Whitey” Bulger is charged with participating in 19 killings.

‘Whitey’ Bulger’s lawyer says mobster was never informant
Piles of snow blocking parts of Perrin Street forced people into the roadway Wednesday, a situation seen in other parts of the city, too.

Snow makes for stormy relations on Boston streets
John Kenney (left) and Bill Landay grew up together and both have become successful authors.

John Kenney and Bill Landay discuss new books, old dreams

Alexander Wang

Leather leads the way at New York Fashion Week
Stephen F. Lynch (left) and Edward J. Markey said they would extend the pledge through the general election, as long as the GOP candidate signs on.

Lynch, Markey sign pledge to limit third-party ads

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The 137th Westminster Dog Show
As snow blanketed the field at Fenway Park, Red Sox players began workouts Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla.

Dan Shaughnessy

For Red Sox, 2013 is about redemption

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“We’re still going to fill this ballpark with lots of people a lot of times,” Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino said.

Fenway sellout streak could end in April, Lucchino says

Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino talked about Fenway attendance and the state of the team as the season approaches.

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The spotlight on the Penn State sex abuse scandal, perpetrated by Jerry Sandusky (above, in October), may have served to help other victims come forward.

As attitudes change, more report sexual abuse at schools

Recent reports of abuse in the Boston area expose the neglect of past decades, and reflect a growing awareness and fading stigma surrounding the crimes.

Columnists

Opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

A strong message for Beth Israel
Flooding on the New Jersey shoreline following Superstorm Sandy.

Opinion | JULIETTE KAYYEM

Obama: The Master of Disaster
Jon Lester realizes his demeanor on the mound could be better.

Dan Shaughnessy

Jon Lester out to reprove himself

Tech Lab

Vine offers an easy entry into social video apps
Tuukka Rask and the Bruins fell into a hole that was too deep for them to dig out of.

Christopher L. Gasper

Bruins make loss feel like a win
The Liberator, edited by William Lloyd Garrison, was published weekly in Boston from 1831 to 1865.

JEFF JACOBY

The battle of ideas that defeated slavery

Derrick Z. Jackson

Bipartisanship elusive on greenhouse gas

JOANNA WEISS

Time to expand the Family Medical Leave Act

Adrian Walker

A mother’s mission for meaning
As snow blanketed the field at Fenway Park, Red Sox players began workouts Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla.

Dan Shaughnessy

For Red Sox, 2013 is about redemption
John Henry faced a gaggle of reporters’ questions on Monday.

Dan Shaughnessy

John Henry finally has answers

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Did ‘broken windows’ work in NYC?

Nation & World

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Oscar Pistorius wore a hood over his head as he left a police station on Tuesday.

Olympian Oscar Pistorius charged with murder

Pistorius, known as the “Blade Runner” for his high-tech artificial legs, was charged with the murder of his model girlfriend in South Africa.

Politics

Secretary of State John Kerry listened to his wife, Teresa Heinz, during his ceremonial swearing-in.

Heinz deal could grow Kerry’s portfolio

Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife could make up to $1 million after the H.J. Heinz Co. was purchased Thursday.

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H.J. Heinz Co. says it agreed to be acquired by an investment group that includes billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a deal valued at $28 billion

Buffett part of group to buy Heinz in $23 billion deal

Heinz says the acquisition would be the largest deal ever in the food industry.

Arts

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Lena (Alice Englert, center, with Viola Davis and Alden Ehrenreich) faces a momentous event when she turns 16.

‘Beautiful Creatures’ conjures a little magic, lots of mischief

Adapted from the first of four “Caster Chronicles” novels, it may play better if you’re not a convert.

Style

Designer Michael Kors and actress Zoe Saldana pose backstage at the Michael Kors Fall 2013 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Theatre at Lincoln Center on February 13, 2013 in New York City.

Stars come out for Kors, Khan, and more

If there is a Michael Kors show at New York Fashion Week, there will be celebrities.

Magazine

The cover for the February 10 2013 issue

Change on the Mystic
The cover for the February 3 2013 issue

South End remodel: Rear window
The cover for the January 27 2013 issue

New England traditional, with a twist
The cover for the January 20 2013 issue

The last days of Sylvia Plath

Opinion

“Where we build and where we live may no longer be sustainable.”

Juliette Kayyem 

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Ideas

“Though speech is far more open in Egypt, it now carries a new and different kind of risk, one more unpredictable and sudden.”

Thanassis Cambanis,  on Egypt’s free-speech backlash