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$85b in federal budget cuts begin

Obama signed the order to start the sequester — a deep reduction in spending — which might also bring a cease-fire in the budget wars in Washington.

Avery Bradley (right) was saddled for much of the game with foul trouble, but Paul Pierce (left) and other teammates corralled Stephen Curry.

Celtics 94, Warriors 86

Celtics minimize Stephen Curry, beat Warriors

The Celtics won their second straight game carried by Paul Pierce, who scored 26 points and had eight rebounds.

Union can’t agree on Democratic candidate in Senate race

The state AFL -CIO failed to unite around a candidate, dealing a blow to US Representative Stephen F. Lynch, a former iron worker and union leader.

Federal authorities shut down Fung Wah

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shut down Fung Wah after the bus line blocked access to company safety records.

Emily Glass (left) and her husband Venkat Korvi would like to sell their condo and move into a bigger house but they can't find anything suitable. Home inventories are at an eight-year low and everyone is asking: Where are the sellers?

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Local housing market desperately seeking sellers

Home inventories are at an eight-year low and have prompted bidding wars and price inflation in some neighborhoods.

Tom Brady agreed to a three-year, $27 million contract extension that’s well under the market value for a marquee NFL quarterback.

NFL union does not take position on Brady’s contract

Many wondered what the NFL Players’ Association would say about Tom Brady’s contract extension, which could be seen as below market value.

Mike Napoli played his first spring training game for the Red Sox on Friday night.

A busy night for Mike Napoli

The new first baseman played four innings and was involved in eight plays. He also was 1 for 2 with an RBI single and scored a run.

In “Operation Epsilon,” World War II is nearing its end and 10 of Germany’s top nuclear scientists are being held as prisoners of war at a mansion in England.

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Scientists talk among themselves in ‘Operation Epsilon’

MIT professor Alan Brody’s play is based on transcripts of bugged conversations between Germany’s top scientists while they were held at the close of World War II.

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The World’s Only Curious George Store is one of the first in Harvard Square to install tablets that allow donations to the homeless.

In Harvard Square, donations to homeless in a swipe
Sea foam on the beach in Hull.

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Getting through to your kids in the digital age

Chief justice blasted over Mass. comments
Boston Ballet’s Kathleen Breen Combes rehearsing “Tar and Feathers,” a dance by choreographer Jirí Kylián.

Boston Ballet’s Kylián connection
The b.good all-natural burger and food chain will see its first franchise location open in Shrewsbury later this month.

Local burger chain b.good ready to grow
Andrew Dreyfus, president and chief executive officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts at the annual Boston College's Chief Executives' Club of Boston annual luncheon at the Boston Harbor Hotel's Wharf Room in June 2012.

Blue Cross to pay board again
David “Duffy” Dodge, 86, (left), Paul Rich, 84, and George MacNeil, 82, suited up for the Hochgebirge Challenge Cup at Cannon Mountain on Saturday.

Racing past the stereotypes about age
The dancers of Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía are making their Boston debut.

‘Metáfora’ in Boston
The Smith College women's basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament.

Smith makes rare NCAA trip

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A split-squad for NESN?

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Boston Celtics guard Terrence Williams.

Celtics agree to two-year deal with Terrence Williams

After previously signing Williams to a 10-day contract, the team chose to lock up the former lottery pick to an extended deal.

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Timothy Cahill

Cahill to pay $100,000 fine in lottery case

A judge accepted the deal stemming from former state treasurer Timothy Cahill’s alleged misuse of lottery ads for his campaign.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Baby boomers are the economy’s ‘oh, no!’
Magic Slim was a contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf who helped shape the sound of the Chicago blues.

CARLO ROTELLA

The shuffle done right

Kevin Cullen

‘Silver Linings’ a good take
At some point, the Celtics will have to face the facts that the Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett era will run out of time.

Christopher L. Gasper

Hard to believe in these Celtics

Opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

Yahoo’s broken glass ceiling
Children are treated for cholera at a clinic in Haiti. The epidemic was introduced, it is widely believed, by UN peacekeepers.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

UN’s cold, but correct, call on Haiti

NICHOLAS BURNS

Military’s limits show need for America’s neglected weapon
Boston City Councilor John Connolly announced his candidacy for mayor of Boston outside Brighton High School.

SCOT LEHIGH

A tough challenger for Menino
Tom Brady is now signed with the Patriots through 2017.

Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady just wants to win

JEFF JACOBY

Why the fuss on Citizens United?

Adrian Walker

Vet snared in budget battle

Farah Stockman

Two rulings that benefited a powerful few

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US Secretary of State John Kerry talked with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Turkey, on Friday.

Kerry calls Turkish leader’s comments ‘objectionable’

Turkey’s prime minister equated Zionism to a crime against humanity.

Politics

Republican Gabriel Gomez, shown at Brody’s Diner in Shrewsbury, made his debut on the campaign trail on Thursday.

Gabriel E. Gomez makes debut on trail for Senate seat

Gomez introduced himself to voters as a “new kind of ­Republican” and made his first public appearances in Quincy, Shrewsbury, and Springfield.

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Gregory Bialecki, secretary of Housing and Economic Development in 2009.

State legislators launch tech industry caucus

The Tech Hub Caucus will focus on providing more support for this crucial sector of the Massachusetts economy.

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Stage Review

Ingvar Sigurdson, as Herman, grins as his son, played by Gisli Örn Gardarsson, writhes in corner of “The Metamorphosis’’ set.

The Paramount gets Kafkaesque with ‘Metamorphosis’

“Metamorphosis’’ at the Paramount Center Mainstage is faithful to writer Franz Kafka’s pitiless view of human nature.

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Matthew Goode and Mia Wasikowska (above) and Nicole Kidman (below) in “Stoker.”

A Korean horror visionary goes Hollywood in ‘Stoker’

Korean cult director Park Chan-wook makes his Hollywood debut, and the movie is stunningly shot and deeply creepy.

Magazine

The cover for the February 24 2013 issue

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger & Catherine Greig’s story
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A trip to Rio de Janeiro, without leaving Boston
The cover for the February 10 2013 issue

Change on the Mystic
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South End remodel: Rear window

Opinion

“A substantial amount of the longer-term reduction will have to be done, one way or another, on the spending side.”

Scot Lehigh 

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Beginning in the 1930s, New England ski trails quickly expanded, and today skiing isn’t the quaint small business it once was.

Ideas

“Nuns have served as the face of Catholicism to generations of Americans, and have been pioneers in health care, education, and social work…What’s next for nuns affects not just the inner workings of the church, but its future course in America.”

Ruth Graham on nuns