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Cuts in place, Obama and GOP brace for next fight

Attention is turning to the next major budget hurdle, with less than a month remaining to negotiate a plan to fund the government beyond March 27.

Kerry presses Egyptians to find political consensus

Opposition leaders did not seem receptive to the US secretary of state’s calls for compromise Saturday.

US Senate candidate Dan Winslow (center) spoke with Sophia Davis, 9, and her mother Angela Davis of Foxboroug during the straw poll event.

Winslow wins Republican straw poll for US Senate

State Representative Daniel Winslow won in a straw poll of nearly 200 Republicans held today at the Danversport Yacht Club.

Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron (37) stood near the goal after Boston Bruins left wing Brad Marchand (63) scored on Tampa.

Bruins 3, Lightning 2

Bruins edge Lightning on late Marchand goal

Brad Marchand snapped home a 20-foot wrist shot with 2:16 remaining in regulation, breaking a 2-2 tie and leading the Bruins to a win at the Garden.

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The Providence Riverwalk culinary tour is a two-hour-plus walking tour of Providence's hot food spots, and includes Hemenway's Restaurant.

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The Providence Riverwalk culinary tour is a two-hour-plus walking tour of Providence's hot food spots, including Hemenway's Restaurant.

A chef's course of scallops was offered at Hemenway's Restaurant.

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A chef's course of scallops was offered at Hemenway's Restaurant.

Chef Steven Long of Hemenway's Restaurant.

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Chef Steven Long of Hemenway's Restaurant.

The food tour began at XO Cafe, located in the historic 1799 John Updike House on North Main Street.

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XO Cafe, on the food tour, is located in the historic 1799 John Updike House on North Main Street.

Chef Martin Lyons of XO Cafe.

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Chef Martin Lyons of XO Cafe.

Pot au Feu is the oldest French bistro in the United States.

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Pot au Feu is the oldest French bistro in the United States.

The Dorrance restaurant and bar is housed in a former Federal Reserve Bank.

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The Dorrance restaurant and bar is housed in a former Federal Reserve Bank.

Bob Burke demonstrated how to flip a crepe at Pot au Feu.

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On the tour, Bob Burke demonstrated how to flip a crepe at Pot au Feu.

An entree and dessert crepe.

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An entree and dessert crepe.

Travel

A gourmet food tour of Providence

A jam-packed, behind-the-scenes walking tour takes visitors to some of Providence’s top kitchens to meet chefs and sample signature dishes and drinks.

At the end of a road through peat bogs, the circa 1856 Miscou Island Lighthouse looks over the Bay of Chaleur and beyond to Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula.

Travel

Remotely beautiful, with Acadian accents

Essentially an unending expanse of undeveloped beach, Miscou Island has been called “one of the single most beautiful spots in the world.”

The Land of Oz in the film

Movies

Oz remains a wonderful destination

L. Frank Baum’s series populates popular culture, and the latest example of his ongoing impact is “Oz the Great and Powerful.”

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

Roxbury slaying a deadly reminder
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
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
Nazalone is credited with reversing more than 1,800 opiate overdoses in Massachusetts.

A simple nasal spray gives parents the power to reverse a child’s overdose
A robot

Sunday Preview | Ideas

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

Music Review

A community expresses itself in ‘Song Reader’

Sunday preview | Magazine

Getting through to your kids in the digital age
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.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week

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

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Shane Victorino also played in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

Shane Victorino excited to play for US

The outfielder said his only concern about playing in the World Baseball Classic was missing part of his first spring training with the Red Sox.

Metro

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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.

Columnists

The modern look of Suffolk University’s planned classroom building.

Opinion | Lawrence Harmon

Town-gown peace

Opinion | 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

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?

Nation & World

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President Obama spoke to reporters after meeting with congressional leaders. House Speaker John Boehner, below, left moments before Obama took the lectern.

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.

Politics

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waved to supporters at an election night rally in Boston.

Romney returning to national stage

Mitt Romney re-emerged in a broadcast interview this week to criticize President Obama’s leadership and will address a conservative gathering this month.

Business

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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.

Arts

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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.

Magazine

The cover for the February 24 2013 issue

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger & Catherine Greig’s story
The cover for the February 17 2013 issue

A trip to Rio de Janeiro, without leaving Boston
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

Opinion

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

Lawrence Harmon 

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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