Bail granted for Trayvon Martin shooter

The judge set bail for George Zimmerman at $150,000, with conditions barring use of any firearms, alcohol, or drugs, and imposing a curfew.

MIT seeks to invest $450m at Hanscom

The Department of Defense has quietly approved an MIT proposal to build a $450 million research facility at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford.

Brian McGrory

An untimely award

A recent award given to the Liberty Mutual board of directors screams that the entire tawdry system of corporate oversight and governance has to be blown up and rebuilt.

President Obama’s supporters expand efforts in swing states

The well-oiled Obama machine is flexing its organizational might with as much, if not greater, urgency as in 2008.

opinion | scot lehiigh

Bill Maher, Ted Nugent pollute the political dialogue

Maher and Nugent have each made highly offensive comments about women, and the presidential campaigns seem pleased to have their support.

Thousands turned out to tour Fenway Park during an open house on Thursday.

David L Ryan/Globe Staff

Dan Shaughnessy

It’s Fenway Park’s time to shine

Forget the team’s lousy record for a day. This is about celebrating 100 years of a special home for baseball.

Fenway at 100 | Book excerpt

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Why is the park so beloved? Explore in this excerpt from the Boston Globe’s keepsake book on the ballpark’s centennial.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/03/21/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/46264442H6837779.JPG The Wall is an icon of more than just Fenway

The park’s signature feature has undergone a few facelifts but remains a towering presence and a symbol for baseball and for Boston.

Sports Media

Peter Gammons wrong to call out Globe reporter

Gammons asserted that Globe reporter Bob Hohler should reveal the anonymous sources from his Red Sox collapse story.

Boston Globe ePaper

ePaper

What is an ePaper?

The complete print edition, in its exact layout. Browse the print edition page by page, including stories and ads.

Globe Insiders

Globe Event, Friday, April 27, 8 p.m.

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Globe Insiders are invited to attend the must-see performance and enjoy a Q&A after with the artistic director and several of the dancers.

Inside The Boston Globe

Rev. Bradley M. Schaeffer

Priest quits BC board as uproar grows
Itzhak Perlman will perform as both conductor and soloist.

Itzhak Perlman to open BSO season
The Globe has asked Senator Scott Brown and Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren (center below) for six years of their tax returns.

Brown mum on request for taxes

special section

Fenway at 100: A celebration

Game 4: Capitals 2, Bruins 1

Capitals even series

DINING

China King opens in Boston’s Chinatown
Alpha male Freddie (above) teaches a younger chimp about life.

Movie Review | Ty Burr

‘Chimpanzee’ plays to 6 year olds, and Tim Allen fans

Obituaries

Levon Helm, drummer and singer for the Band

PHOTOS

Fans dropped in on Fenway Park’s open house

MIT physicist leads effort to scrap the penny
Divina Grossman

New leader chosen for UMass Dartmouth

Tick explosion is the price of mild weather

Metro

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Marching to a familiar sad refrain

Funerals like Chief Michael Maloney’s have a new significance for five members of the honor guard from Woburn’s Police Department, who buried one of their own in 2010.

Business

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Liberty Mutual’s revenue tripled to nearly $35 billion while Edmund F. Kelly was chief executive.

Liberty Mutual critics decry executive’s pay package

The revelation that Liberty Mutual paid chairman Edmund F. “Ted’’ Kelly roughly $200 million over the past four years has angered some customers and watchdog groups.

Columnists

opinion | scot lehiigh

Bill Maher, Ted Nugent pollute the political dialogue

Joan Wickersham

Spaulding Rehab puts climate change in concrete terms

Brian McGrory

An untimely award

Edward L. Glaeser

When helpful intentions go up in smoke
Thousands turned out to tour Fenway Park during an open house on Thursday.

Dan Shaughnessy

It’s Fenway Park’s time to shine

Joan Vennochi

Tarek Mehanna case puts First Amendment on trial

Yvonne Abraham

2012, how I miss thee
It’s time for the Patriots to pay Wes Welker, Bob Ryan says.

Bob Ryan

Going through the sports thought process

Derrick Z. Jackson

A vibrant Boston needs major avenues for bikes

Opinion | Joshua Green

In Roger Clemens, a useful idiot

Scot Lehigh

Mass. should make Amazon pay sales tax

Brian McGrory

Soaring greed at Liberty Mutual

Politics

Political Notebook

White House backs Secret Service head

The White House expressed renewed confidence Thursday in the director of the Secret Service in the midst of a sordid prostitution scandal.

Nation & World

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Sarkozy’s reelection in jeopardy

Nicolas Sarkozy appears to be running neck and neck with his main challenger, the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, in the first round of voting Sunday.

Sports

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On Hockey

Capitals goalie Braden Holtby made a stop against Rich Peverley in Game 4.

Bruins doing little to help themselves

Unable to establish solid, productive net-front presence, the Bruins do not have the look of a confident team now.

Movies

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Movie Review | Steve Morse

Bob Marley, who died in 1981 at the age of 36, emerged out of a Jamaican ghetto to become an international music star and an icon to his country.

‘Marley’ a long, uplifting journey of reggae legend

Bob Marley became a reggae music legend, but this film happily does not try to turn him into a saint.

Arts

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Pub rock pioneer Graham Parker reunites with the Rumour

As a Graham Parker fan, Mike Gent was happy to hear that Parker was reuniting with his old band, The Rumour, later this year.

“Harnessing the synergy with Hanscom will ensure the best talent, technologies, and innovations continue to come from Massachusetts and stay in Massachusetts.”

Senator John Kerry 

Magazine

The cover for the April 15 2012 issue

In an artist’s garden
The cover for the April 8 2012 issue

Are fat baseball players a problem?
The cover for the April 1 2012 issue

45 best breakfast joints around Boston
The cover for the March 25 2012 issue

Snorkeling vacations you can’t miss

Opinion

“C’mon, campaigns. Show some integrity. Take a stand for civility and against misogyny.”

Scot Lehigh  

Ideas

“The complexity of federal rules may not be just a reflection of bad style, but a direct and possibly unavoidable result of how our government works.”

Leon Neyfakh