Top lawyer helped win many college chiefs’ perks

Raymond Cotton is the common link between two recent Massachusetts controversies over large salaries and corporate-style perks for university presidents.

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New Framingham plant lifts Genzyme’s prospects

Cambridge-based Genzyme has recaptured control of the US market for Fabry disease drugs and opened a new plant, a shift of fortunes following production troubles in Allston.

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The Supreme Court justices’ probing questions during the second day of hearings over the constitutionality of Obama’s health care overhaul served to jolt the law’s supporters.

In a speech Tuesday at the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, Mayor Thomas M. Menino said the stalled talks hurts schools.

Teacher contract talks with city at impasse

Boston teachers and the School Department will request a state mediator to help resolve pay and other issues after 21 months of negotiations ended in an impasse.

Scroll through ‘pages’ of a cookbook with your fingertip

For all those who favor electronic devices over frayed cookbooks and clippings, download the Globe's new ‘Sunday Supper & More’ e-book.

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A feast of options for online reservations

Several start-ups are challenging the reign of OpenTable Inc., the go-to destination for Web reservations that has become vulnerable to competition because of its fees.

Brown transfers to Guard in Maryland

Senator Brown has transferred out of the Mass. Army National Guard to a unit in Maryland, allowing him to work in a major position at the National Guard’s Pentagon office.

Brian McGrory

Go first class for a change

While there is crime, serious crime, happening all over this great metropolis, Boston police are making sure the liquor license situation at Logan’s airline clubs is under control.

James Cobery, (standing, left), a vice president at The Kraft Group, addressed Foxborough town officials Tuesday night.

Kraft firm can publicly speak to Foxborough board in dispute

After winning the right in federal court, a representative for The Kraft Group criticized officials at town hall for blocking company representatives from speaking two weeks ago.

MGM pulls $600m Brimfield casino plan

The company is abandoning its plans to build a $600 million casino in the small town, and will instead search for another location in Western Massachusetts.

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MUSIC REVIEW

At BSO, a Greek violin soloist takes up the baton
A Cook & Brown seasonal salad with acorn squash, fennel, farro, apple, roasted cippolini, and walnuts.

Dining out

In Providence’s restaurant scene, two local favorites shine
Bruce Springsteen performed Monday at TD Garden in Boston.

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Bruce Springsteen to play Gillette Stadium Aug. 18

CHEAP EATS

At Dosa Temple, vegetarian Indian cuisine

Oldest living Red Sox still follows his team
“He’s my son, I’m happy with the decision,’’ Doc Rivers said after the Celtics’ 102-95 win over the Bobcats Monday night.

Celtics Notebook

Doc Rivers talks about his son’s decision to go pro
The Globe’s new ePaper is formatted the same as the print version, with the sections, articles, and photographs laid out just as in the paper, meaning readers will be able to browse through it in the same familiar fashion but using digital scroll features.

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The angular single-story innovation center in the Seaport District will include 9,000 square feet of meeting space and a restaurant.

Seaport District adding innovation center
Red Sox shortstop Jose Iglesias hit a single in spring training March 1.

Shortstop Iglesias sent to Pawtucket

Hyde Park residents get rightful ZIP code
Monday night, Bruce Springsteen and his stalwart contracting and expanding E Street Band brought their restorative powers to a sellout crowd of 18,210 at the TD Garden.

MUSIC REVIEW

Bruce Springsteen conducts energy in a Garden party

Album review | POP COUNTRY

Richie takes airy ride in country

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Beloved teacher’s slaying saddens Vermont town

As authorities investigated the slaying of Melissa Jenkins, a 33-year-old teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy, residents were awash in grief, anger, and a bitter sense of betrayal.

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Eric S. Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Boston Fed chief warns against complacency

In a speech, Eric S. Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, cited positive economic signs but said the Fed must continue its stimulation efforts.

Columnists

Jeff Jacoby

From Reagan, a way for GOP to win young voters

scot lehigh

Must issues for Boston schools

Brian McGrory

Go first class for a change

Joanna Weiss

The ‘Mad Men’ of the GOP race

Kevin Cullen

Cutting corners at National Grid
Despite his troubles in 2011, John Lackey (right) is rehabbing with the Sox this year.

Dan Shaughnessy

Catching up with Red Sox pitcher John Lackey

BOSTON CAPITAL

The MBTA’s big debt problem

Innovation Economy

Former Vertica executive hears call of ‘big data’

Juliette Kayyem

A new ocean passage, with not enough rules

Yvonne Abraham

Mattapan verdict shows jury system works
Excited supporters cheer when Mitt Romney arrives for a campaign stop at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Rockford, Ill., in March.

Jeff Jacoby

Young voters should flock to GOP

Joan Vennochi

Romney’s Fehrnstrom problem

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EPA rule targets new coal-fired power plants

The Environmental Protection Agency imposed limits on heat-trapping pollution from new power plants, drawing complaints from Republicans and the coal industry.

Politics

Newt Gingrich spoke at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md., Tuesday. His campaign said Tuesday that it is curtailing its efforts.

Newt Gingrich scales back his campaign

Gingrich is dramatically curtailing his campaign schedule and laying off about a third of his staff, and will focus on the nominating convention.

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The Bruins’ Shawn Thornton flipped the puck over the hip of Lightning goalie Dwayne Roloson for a first-period goal that tied the game at 1-1. Tampa Bay's Brandon Mikkelson is in the middle.

Surging Bruins defeat Tampa Bay

The Bruins won their third straight on three assists by Zdeno Chara, who was honored before the game for playing in the 1,000th game in his career.

Food & dining

Persian New Year is a time of renewal - and a traditional table

At family tables, traditional dishes evoke spring.

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Poet, playwright, and performer Michael Mack in ‘‘Conversations With My Molester: A Journey of Faith.’’

In ‘Conversations With My Molester,’ confronting memories of abuse

In 1968, when he was 11 years old, Michael Mack was molested by his parish priest in North Carolina. It changed him in ways that took years to reveal themselves.

“Increasingly, presidents are represented by specialized counsel, and universities don’t have the same advantage.”

Jim Finkelstein,  a George Mason University policy professor

Magazine

The cover for the March 25 2012 issue

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The cover for the March 18 2012 issue

Grover Norquist: Emperor of no
The cover for the March 11 2012 issue

Stoughton’s Lori McKenna is writing her heart out
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Putting college degrees to work

Opinion

“[Ronald Reagan] never had to tell young voters they should be ‘working like crazy’ to elect him. So many of them already were.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“Even people with no direct experience with street life — whose exposure to the criminal underworld comes mainly from “The Wire” — have a sense that it is governed by its own set of rules and ethics.”

Leon Neyfakh