Sequester goes into effect as both sides trade blame

Much of the impact won’t be felt for weeks, but the prospect of absorbing $85 billion in cuts caused waves of anxiety.

Liberty Mutual profits more than doubled despite pre-tax losses due to Hurricane Sandy.

Liberty Mutual, MassMutual CEOs won big pay boosts

Liberty Mutual chief David H. Long received $8.9 million, and MassMutual CEO Roger Crandall earned $11.3 million last year.

BC celebrates its decline in applications

As the number of applications to other colleges rose, Boston College was happy to see its fall as it made applying more difficult to attract more serious students.

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?

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.

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Kerry presses Egyptians to find political consensus

Ahead of talks with the country’s president, Secretary of State John Kerry says fighting Egyptian government and opposition leaders need to reach a consensus.

Women hugged Friday outside court, where two men were ordered held without bail on murder charges.

Roxbury slaying a deadly reminder

A shooting at a bus terminal Thursday left residents wondering whether the nascent turnaround in Dudley Square would be threatened.

Nazalone is credited with reversing more than 1,800 opiate overdoses in Massachusetts.

Nasal spray gives families the power to reverse overdose

Some are pointing to a Mass. program that distributes the drug overdose antidote naloxone as a national model.

Richard Ward, the youth director of the Boston Ski Party, a club that promotes skiing in black communities. “We are part of the fabric here now,” says Ward of African-Americans on the slopes.

Boston Ski Party promotes sport in black communities

A club and nonprofit that promotes skiing in black communities, particularly among children, Boston Ski Party aims to groom black kids for Olympics-level competition.

Dr. Wade Myers described primitive, aggressive impulses and psychotic behavior by Nathaniel Fujita.

Psychiatrist says Wayland’s Fujita had explosive impulse during killing

Nathaniel Fujita felt numb as he wrapped a bungee cord around Lauren Astley’s neck, he told a psychiatrist who testified at Fujita’s murder trial.

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The Brookline Music School All Stars and Jennifer Hicks perform the song “I’m Down,” at the Somerville Theatre on Thursday.

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Sea foam on the beach in Hull.

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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

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Celtics guard Avery Bradley held Stephen Curry in check. The Warriors guard was 6 of 22 from the field, 3 of 11 on 3-pointers.

Celtics clamp down on Curry, Warriors

Stephen Curry was 6 of 22 from the field and 3 of 11 on 3-pointers as Avery Bradley set the tone for the Celtics defensively.

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Saying that he hopes to never “see the inside of Suffolk Superior Court again,” former state treasurer Timothy P. Cahill agreed to pay a $100,000 fine Friday for violating state ethics law during his 2010 campaign for governor.

Cahill to pay $100,000 to settle case

Former state treasurer Timothy P. Cahill agreed to pay the fine Friday for violating state ethics law during his 2010 campaign for governor.

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The modern look of Suffolk University’s planned classroom building (left) contrasts with Beacon Hill’s historic style.

Lawrence Harmon

Town-gown peace

Derrick Z. Jackson

Politics imperil offshore wind sweet spots

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

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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.

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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?

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Residents of Daveyton, South Africa, protested Friday outside a police station over the death of a taxi driver.

Eight S. Africa officers charged with murder

The officers were charged in the murderof a taxi driver dragged by a police vehicle, which became a symbol of police brutality.

Politics

US Secretary of State John F. Kerry bid farewell in Rome on Friday as he departed for Ankara, Turkey.

Kerry chides Turkey on Israel remark

US Secretary of State John Kerry rebuked the comments by Turkey’s prime minister equating Zionism to a crime against humanity.

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A jury had ordered Samsung, which makes the Galaxy tablet (right), to pay Apple, which makes the iPad (left), $1 billion.

Judge cuts $1 billion award to Apple

A judge slashed nearly half of the $1 billion damage award a jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple after a high-profile trial over design and technology rights.

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Dance Review

Grupo Corpo dancers performed “Sem Mim” at a New York venue.

Grupo Corpo both exciting, flat

The virtuosic dancers of the Brazilian troupe bring to life choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras’ works.

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A trip to Rio de Janeiro, without leaving Boston
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Change on the Mystic
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South End remodel: Rear window

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“The success is so great that Suffolk deserves to be a case study in town-gown relations.”

Lawrence Harmon 

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“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