NStar says it won’t pay for lost business or wages

The utility, which cut power to portions of the Back Bay and South End at 3 a.m., will not pay for business, income, or food lost during the two-day blackout.

Illinois primary could be pivotal

Mitt Romney and his allies have significantly increased their advertising and are ramping up the type of negative attacks that have been a hallmark of his narrow wins.

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A battle within cancer fight

A lawsuit pitting the University of Pennsylvania against Cambridge-based Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc. highlights the competition for control over biomedical discoveries.

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St. Patrick’s Day holds mixed emotions for some

The joys of embracing Irish roots are complicated by the challenges of being multiracial for some descendants of Irish immigrants.

Politicians sharpen knives for annual roast

From Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray to US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, local politicians are busily working on material for the St. Patrick’s Day breakfast.

Suspect in Afghan massacre identified

The lawyer of a soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians confirmed Friday the suspect is 38-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.

Can a visit to the Flower Show help her learn to love gardening?

One woman visits the Flower Show on a quest to keep even one plant alive.

“I always feel this deep kinship with Irish people in Boston. But I don’t always feel like they have this kinship with me.’’

Kelly Bates,  a mixed-race Irish-American

Globe Insiders

To Grammar’s House

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/03/16/BostonGlobe.com/Special/Images/SPRINGCLEANING2.jpg Spring cleaning for grammar rules

Grammar’s House can get a bit cluttered sometimes, often with rules that are capricious, spurious, or flat-out erroneous.

Inside The Boston Globe

Austin Rivers appeared glum after Duke’s loss to Lehigh Friday night.

Lehigh 75, Duke 70

Lehigh posts upset over Duke

THEATER

Daisey fabricated parts of Jobs monologue, host says
Stone tools were found at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania that could be 15,000 to 17,000 years old..

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas

Did the Solutreans settle America first?

Photos

Globe staff photos of the week
Quincy Nang (right) waited to enter the Apple Store in Boston today to purchase the new Apple iPad.

In Boston, Apple fans line up for new iPad

Stage Review

Reimagined ‘Les Miserables’ triumphs

names

Judd based character on Harvard friend
During the NCAA Tournament, Dick Vitale doesn’t have the courtside seat he keeps during ESPN’s regular-season access.

SPORTS MEDIA

Even in studio, Vitale loves Tournament

Final Four run gives MIT team a crash course

Editorial | Inside Goldman Sachs

The Death Star of finance?
Caren Carew gave information sheets to passersby as union leaders pressed their case for higher pay for teachers.

Teachers go public in bid for pay raise

Group asks Google to extend rooftop park

Metro

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The annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in South Boston is expected to draw about 500,000. Neighborhood residents often do not appreciate the excessive consumption of alcohol during the parade, police say.

City urges restraint at St. Patrick’s Day parade

Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis and Mayor Thomas M. Menino said police will have zero tolerance for public consumption of alcohol.

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Loc Tran of Salem, N.H., holds his new tablet.

Buyers say new iPad a real eye-opener

Buyers who picked up Apple Inc.’s new iPad Friday raved about its Retina display, which has twice the resolution of the previous version.

Columnists

Christopher L. Gasper

Throwing a net around the Bruins’ problems

Love Letters

Should they get engaged before the move-in?

Lawrence Harmon

A start-up center for Roxbury?

Adrian Walker

Cooking as rehabilitation

RENÉE LOTH

Mass. assets aren’t rosy for everyone

Brian McGrory

The powerful and the powerless
A disappointed Corbin Miller walked back to the Harvard bench in the second half.

Bob Ryan

Harvard can be proud of its basketball team

Derrick Z. Jackson

Record equality, unchanged inequalities in NCAA

Boston Capital

Lower investment bar for Mass. pension fund
Bobby Valentine in trying to install a fresh outlook for the Red Sox in his first season as manager.

Tony Massarotti

Are the Red Sox champs or chumps?

Joan Vennochi

Gingrich’s ego is a win for Romney

Kevin Cullen

A crack in Cathy Greig’s hard facade

Nation & World

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Dharun Ravi left court with his father.

Former Rutgers student found guilty of hate crimes

Dharun Ravi could be headed to prison in a case many say serves as a lesson for young people about cruelty and consequences in the Internet age.

Politics

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Analysis shows higher deficit

Friday’s Congressional Budget Office report said Obama’s budget would produce a $977 billion deficit next year — $75 billion more than predicted by the White House.

Sports

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Hockey East semifinals | Maine 5, BU 3

Alex Chiasson (9), Garrett Noonan (13), and Patrick MacGregor (4) had the look of dejection following BU’s 5-3 loss to Maine in the Hockey East semifinals.

Black Bears deny Terriers shot at title

The Terriers proved no match for the University of Maine, which overcame the loss of their best player, Spencer Abbott, in the third period to take a 5-3 victory.

Arts

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Longwood gets its turn with ‘Sidereus’

Questions about the creative process behind “Sidereus’’ — which is on the Longwood Symphony Orchestra’s program — have given rise to either a scandal or a tempest in a teapot.

Spring Style Magazine

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Spring Style

The season’s freshest fashion feels airy and easy — think fluttery shapes, pretty prints, and nothing too structured or serious.

Magazine

The cover for the March 11 2012 issue

Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out
The cover for the March 4 2012 issue

Putting college degrees to work
The cover for the February 26 2012 issue

24 hours in Kendall Square
The cover for the February 19 2012 issue

Renovated Newport firehouse is calm, cool, and collected

Opinion

“It is health care — our proudest asset and the region’s largest employer — that also poses the greatest threat to the future.”

Renée Loth 

Ideas

“The best-selling board game today is the board game that was the best-selling board game in 1936. That is Monopoly.”

Game publisher Eric Hautemont