Many T riders favor late-night service

A flood of survey responses could provide a road map for night-owl MBTA service if legislators choose to pay for it.

Unions collide in Lynch-Markey Senate contest

Ill will over the AFL-CIO’s decision not to endorse Stephen F. Lynch in the Democratic primary against Edward J. Markey has roiled Mass. unions.

Siyani Chambers (left) and Laurent Rivard celebrate Harvard’s first NCAA Tournament victory, a 68-62 decision over third-seeded NewMexico.

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No. 14 Harvard stuns New Mexico

The Crimson earned the first NCAA Tournament victory in school history by defeating the third-seeded Lobos.

3 dead in Marine base shooting

Three people, including the suspect, were killed in a shooting at Marine Base Quantico, a base spokesman said.

Rabbi Keith Stern will patch in his children in Africa and California for the family’s seder.

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Technology brings far-flung families together at Passover

Integrating modern technology into this family-oriented ritual is becoming more of a resource for families as they grow older and split apart.

State scours Twitter for sharing of MCAS test

During testing, officials troll Twitter for students who might be sharing answers or discussing questions on the Massachusetts exams.

“In some states, like if we play in California four times in a certain season, it gets pretty complicated, from what I understand,” said Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia.

Figuring athletes’ taxes is, well, taxing

The complicating factor for pro athletes is where they earn their money. With few exceptions, athletes owe income taxes in every state they play.

Kevin Cullen

Philly connection to Gardner Museum heist

So, 23 years later, the feds think it was pulled off by a combination of wiseguys from Boston and Philadelphia. Makes sense.

Snow days push schools into session on Good Friday

Caught in a scheduling bind ­after a harsh winter, Massachusetts schools are trying to squeeze in make-up days wherever they can.

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Former New England Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe, who owns a Washington winery, was on Beacon Hill to lobby for a bill that would allow out-of-state wineries to ship directly to customers.

Drew Bledsoe goes on lobbying blitz for wine bill
Touré.

Book REview

‘I Would Die 4 U’ by Touré
John Dennis suggested during Thursday’s “Dennis and Callahan’’ program that Kirk Minihane was relegated to the Kevin Winter Memorial Sports Flash booth because NESN had cut back on a camera during its simulcast.

Sports media

WEEI simulcast on NESN giving odd vibe
From left: Selena Gomez as Faith, Ashley Benson as Brit, Rachel Korine as Cotty, and Vanessa Hudgens as Candy in Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers.”

Movie Review

‘Spring Breakers’ is mesmerizing
Top (from left): Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Kristen Stewart as Marylou, and Garrett Hedlund (right) as Dean Moriarty in “On the Road.”

MOVIE REVIEW

This ‘Road’ does right by Kerouac
May 4, 1936: Ellen Colpoys McDonough posed by the tulip bed in the Public Garden.

From the Archives | Photo gallery

Springtime in the Public Garden
Tina Fey is a Princeton admissions officer and Paul Rudd (right, with Nat Wolff) is director of a farm school in “Admission.”

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Admission’ a pleasant comedy
Participants in a two-day conference at Harvard aim to hash out the future of buying and selling via smartphones and other mobile devices. Pictured: Gary Flood, president of global products and services for MasterCard.

Not paying by smartphone? You soon will, many bet
No vacations: Anne Desjardins (left) and son Messiah Ambrose. Relying on aid: Keri-Ann Aubin (right) and son Kevin Ranney.

Single-mother families struggling in Mass.
Charles Woodson’s hit on Tom Brady in this 2002 playoff game prompted the use of the tuck rule that helped the Patriots propel their run to the Super Bowl.

Dan Shaughnessy

What if the ‘Tuck Rule’ never was?
Adding to underlying friction is the sense that, when adult children parent differently than their own moms, it’s an implicit rebuke.

Attack of the (well-meaning) grandparents
Gloria Steinem spoke at Simmons’ commencement.

Steinem’s message persists

Sports

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Bruins 2, Senators 1

It was a group hug for the Bruins after Dennis Seidenberg (far left) scored from the point with 1:04 left in the third.

Dennis Seidenberg gets Bruins back on track

Seidenberg’s goal with 64 seconds left lifted the Bruins past the Senators on Thursday night.

Metro

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Boston officials and representatives of three pavement material companies assembled on Bowdoin Avenue in Dorchester Thursday for a demonstration of products for fixing potholes.

City tests new weapons in fight against potholes

The innovative, eco-friendly pothole filling materials the city will test over the next six months could help repair the craters more quickly than ever.

Columnists

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Two days in court

Kevin Cullen

Philly connection to Gardner Museum heist

JOAN VENNOCHI

Dancing with the Democrats

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Fascism’s nascent comeback in Europe
Homes along the coast on Plum Island on March 9, 2013.

Yvonne Abraham

A line in the sand on Plum Island

Edward L. Glaeser

An ice place to live

Tech Lab

New Wi-Fi delivers more data faster, but at a cost

JOANNA WEISS

The green movement’s green tactic
Charles Woodson’s hit on Tom Brady in this 2002 playoff game prompted the use of the tuck rule that helped the Patriots propel their run to the Super Bowl.

Dan Shaughnessy

What if the ‘Tuck Rule’ never was?
The scene at Iraq’s crossed swords monument has changed since US soldiers were photographed at the site in 2008. Iraqi officials had started tearing down the archway in 2007 but quickly halted those plans and began restoring the monument tw o years ago.

JEFF JACOBY

Iraq war worth it?

The Dominican Republic’s Carlos Santana (left) and Fernando Rodney celebrated after beating Puerto Rico in the championship game of the World Baseball Classic.

Christopher L. Gasper

Why isn’t WBC a hit in the US?

Farah Stockman

Going Dutch with Uncle Sam

Nation & World

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President Obama and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas criticized Israel for building settlements in the West Bank.

Obama tells Israelis, Palestinians to negotiate

Addressing an enthusiastic crowd of more than 2,000 people, Obama offered a fervent, unsparing case for why a peace agreement was both morally just and in Israel’s self-interest.

Politics

Representative Paul Ryan’s budget proposal for next year clashes dramatically with one offered by Senator Patty Murray, the first annual budget advanced by Senate Democrats in three years.

House passes 6-month plan for spending; few cuts shifted

The shortterm funding bill ends the possibility of a federal government shutdown next week, but a broader budget battle is only beginning.

Business

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Peter Voser of Royal Dutch Shell spoke Thursday at a lunch sponsored by the Boston College Chief Executives’ Club.

Shell’s CEO says gas will lead way

Peter Voser said abundant natural gas supplies present the most straightforward way to a cleaner future.

Arts

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Classical Notes

Pianist Jonathan Biss (with student Yoko Fukumura) teaches a visiting artist master class last week at New England Conservatory in Williams Hall.

Jonathan Biss explores Schumann at Jordan Hall

For the pianist and music writer, playing Schumann has always provided a guide to realms of the soul that are otherwise inaccessible.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

Top (from left): Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Kristen Stewart as Marylou, and Garrett Hedlund (right) as Dean Moriarty in “On the Road.”

This ‘Road’ does right by Kerouac

“On the Road” is a surprisingly effective adaptation of the Jack Kerouac classic, if no substitute for reading the book.

Magazine

The cover for the March 17 2013 issue

Could rookie Jared Sullinger be the next Kevin Garnett?
The cover for the March 10 2013 issue

Where the jobs are now
The cover for the March 3 2013 issue

Getting through to your kids in the digital age
The cover for the February 24 2013 issue

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger & Catherine Greig’s story

Opinion

“When did the rich decide that their voices were more important than the voices of the rest of the American people?”

Representative Stephen Lynch 

Globe Insiders

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Ideas

“That presidents have stopped wielding the pardon power in a way that matters, critics say, has made the United States a less fair place.”

Leon Neyfakh  on the case for presidential pardons