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As Obama, Senate collide, courts caught short

The partisan deadlock in Washington hits much more than budgets. More than ever, judicial picks are ideological cannon fodder.

Decades after the Gardner heist, police focus on guard

For the first time, former museum night watchman Richard Abath discussed publicly what happened.

As housing, job markets improve, homeowners spend on remodeling

Area contractors and others tied to the home construction industry are seeing business surge as homeowners start remodeling again.

Harvard secretly searched deans’ e-mail

Administrators secretly searched accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, looking for a leak to the media about the school’s cheating case.

Cardinals focused on prayer last week at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Italy, where some of them spoke about women gaining leadership.

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Pondering a pope and the gender divide

Some cardinals, including Boston’s Sean P. O’Malley, have expressed a desire to open new leadership opportunities for women.

Man having a beer in every Mass. town to benefit cancer research

Todd Ruggere of Grafton hopes to visit all 351 towns and cities in Massachusetts to nail down donations for Dana-Farber.

Dan Shaughnessy

Sweet revenge for Tuukka Rask

The goalie for one of the worst flops in Boston sports history shut out the Philadelphia Flyers Saturday.

‘Roger Rabbit’ a precursor to animation revolution

When it was released, in 1988, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” seemed like a glorious one-off. What’s now evident is that Robert Zemeckis’s film was less one-off than way station.

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Cable talk hosts loosen up

Joel Brattin, an English professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has an unreleased recording of a Jimi Hendrix concert in London from Feb. 18, 1969.

Mysterious Hendrix recording makes for a unique Experience

Taylor Grohe, 8 (left), and Davis Walker, 11, run cameras during a taping of Marblehead’s a student-run newsmagazine program. At the anchor desk are, from left, Sean Heffernan, 10, Dalia Loughlin, 11, and Cameron Winch, 11.

‘Youth News’ draws audience on Marblehead TV

Van Cliburn, who died Feb. 27 at age 78, is pictured as a 23-year-old performing at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow.

third ear

When a Texas pianist became ‘the American Sputnik’

Detail of an 1894 portrait of Frieda Schiff by Anders Zorn.

art review

Seeing Zorn once again as a ‘Prince of Art’

Marc Schermerhorn of Seattle scaled a grass carp in class, with interpreter Zhang Nan Yu beside him. The class made the pork wontons served in cups of chicken broth.

Travel

Learning Sichuan style at the source

The Bay Bridge in San Francisco with its new look, courtesy of Philips Color Kinetics.

Calif. bridge is seen in a new light

A man shoveled along Commonwealth Avenue.

Editorial

Snow removal: Carrots and sticks

Pushcarts lined Washington Street in 2009.

Downtown Crossing pushcarts to leave soon

Photos

A look at the Globe’s Style Magazine covers

Boston Police recruits stretched out before their last workout at the Boston Police Academy before the June 2011 graduation.

Lawrence Harmon

Boston’s police test

Though he has an outstanding defensive reputation, Avery Bradley stretched the rules while trying to slow down Hawks guard Jeff Teague.

Celtics Notebook

There’s no stopping the Celtics’ bench

Sports

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Bruins 3, Flyers 0

A huddle of happy Bruins means it must be a goal — and it is, a first-period strike by Tyler Seguin (center) that started a three-goal flurry.

Bruins blank Flyers behind total team effort

Tuukka Rask stopped 23 shots, and Tyler Seguin, Chris Kelly and Daniel Paille scored as the Bruins beat the lifeless Flyers, 3-0.

Metro

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Stephen and Sharon Bresnahan watched as crews tore down their home, which fell from its foundations early Saturday morning.

Plum Island residents assess storm’s devastation

A severe winter storm that battered the Massachusetts shore Friday and dumped 2 feet of snow on some inland communities hit Plum Island especially hard.