Harvard, MIT in $60m online partnership

The universities will offer free online courses under the superbrand “edX,” making them major players in the burgeoning online education sector.

One woman identified in Saugus deaths

A 54-year-old Lynn woman was named as one of two women found behind an elementary school in a double killing that unnerved residents.

Paul Pierce scored off the opening tap with a spinning layup, triggering a 36-point, 14-rebound, 4-assist game.

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Bob Ryan

Paul Pierce gives Celtics a game for the ages

When history examines Celtics playoff performances, Pierce’s output in Game 2 against the Hawks will stand out as one of the best.

Greenway board looks to new sources for funding

The nonprofit that manages the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is seeking contributions from private sources as it faces the possible end of state funding.

The Big Dig was completed five years ago, resulting in the creation of 15 acres of public land called the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.

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The Big Dig was completed five years ago, resulting in the creation of 15 acres of public land called the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.

The group that oversees the Greenway wants to gradually raise its annual budget to $6 million. But how it will fund that increase remains a work in progress.

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The group that oversees the Greenway wants to gradually raise its annual budget to $6 million.

People were seated at a table on the Greenway near the Boston Harbor Hotel.

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People were seated at a table on the Greenway near the Boston Harbor Hotel.

Officials have begun pursuing the creation of a business improvement district, similar to one now in place in Downtown Crossing.

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Officials have begun pursuing the creation of a business improvement district, similar to one now in place in Downtown Crossing.

A walking maze at the Greenway was under construction on April 18, 2012.

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A walking maze at the Greenway was under construction on April 18, 2012.

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If elected, Romney is pledging to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, but he hasn’t said how he would regulate Wall Street to prevent another financial crisis.

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Phantom stock and phony options still add up to nearly $200 million, all of which Ted Kelly took out of Liberty Mutual in his last four years as chief executive.

Restaurateur finds big success with small details

Boston restaurant impresario Ed Kane, Inc. Magazine’s fourth-fastest growing private business owner in the US, has become a case study for how to beat the odds.

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President Obama greeted and thanked US troops in Kabul on the anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Obama lays out strategy for exiting Afghanistan

Jeff Jacoby

What Brown’s and Warren’s tax returns show
Chicken salad in spring greens with lemony dressing.

Food

8 recipes to celebrate
Jessica Alba was the keynote speaker at an investor event in Cambridge.

Jessica Alba in Cambridge for venture capital firm
Olympia Dukakis (left) and Brenda Fricker in ”Cloudburst.”

LGBT Film Festival as diverse as culture it celebrates
Aaron Cohen of Eat Boston.

Bacon and Beer Festival raises $20,000 for hunger relief
Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School in Easton has a groundbreaking program — the Innovation Academy.

The Podium

Boston’s innovation swagger

Elizabeth Warren had key role in asbestos court case

Brown says daughter insured under health law

Poor reception plagues Kendall Square
Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz handed the ball over to manager Bobby Valentine after allowing 5 runs in the seventh inning against the Athletics.

Dan Shaughnessy

Clay Buchholz keeps winning, somehow
Angie DeWolf and Mark Kehlet Schou perform in José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s “Absurdus” program.

Dance Review

Dance drives score in José Mateo’s new ‘Risk of Repetition’

Sports

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Athletics 5, Red Sox 3

Felix Doubront walked back to the mound as the A’s Kurt Suzuki celebrated with teammates after scoring a run in the fourth inning.

Red Sox offense cooled off by A’s

Sox starter Felix Doubront cast some doubt on his future, lasting only four innings against the light-hitting A’s on a wet and cold night.

Metro

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In a tough speech at Tufts University, Governor Deval Patrick called Alabama and Arizona immigration policies hysterical and poisonous and compared them to JimCrow laws and McCarthyism.

Patrick rips Ariz., Ala. immigrant legislation

Using his strongest language yet, Governor Deval Patrick lambasted immigration laws adopted by Arizona and Alabama.

Columnists

Scot Lehigh

Massachusetts: The candidate state

Brian McGrory

At Liberty Mutual, accounting to no one
Paul Pierce scored off the opening tap with a spinning layup, triggering a 36-point, 14-rebound, 4-assist game.

Bob Ryan

Pierce gives Celtics a game for the ages

joanna weiss

A reason to turn off digital devices
Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz handed the ball over to manager Bobby Valentine after allowing 5 runs in the seventh inning against the Athletics.

Dan Shaughnessy

Clay Buchholz keeps winning, somehow

Yvonne Abraham

How far we’ve come on race — and yet must go

JOAN VENNOCHI

Nonprofit greed’s real victims

JULIETTE KAYYEM

A revolution: women fight in Marines

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Start-up ‘finishing school’ awards

opinion | jeff jacoby

The government’s college money pit
Yahya Ahmad Masalma, 6, received a complex kidney transplant at Boston Children’s Hospital.

JOANNA WEISS

For the life of Yahya

Love Letters

He’s great — but where’s the spark?

Arts

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THEATER

‘Porgy and Bess’ gets 10 Tony Award nominations

The revival of the George Gershwin classic, which began in Cambridge, was second only to “Once.”

Politics

Second Brown committee lures financial sector funds

Senator Scott Brown has used a joint fund-raising committee to collect $2.9 million in political donations, nearly half of which came from the nation’s financial sector.

Business

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Liberty Mutual isn’t alone in using phantom stock

So-called phantom stock programs are used by many large private companies to recruit and retain talented executives, industry executives say.

Nation & World

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Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is seen in a wheelchair pushed by a nurse at the Chaoyang hospital in Beijing.

Blind activist fears for his safety, wants to leave China

Chen Guangcheng says a US official told him that Chinese authorities threatened to beat his wife to death had he not left the American Embassy.

Food & dining

Thanks to ‘Mad Men,’ baked Alaska is back on menus

Baked Alaska was all the rage for a time. But as quickly as it flamed up, it soon disappeared. Now it’s back.

“The guy pays attention to detail like nobody’s business. And in this industry . . . details can make or break you.”

Joe Kane,  on older brother and restaurateur Ed Kane

Magazine

The cover for the April 29 2012 issue

Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
The cover for the April 22 2012 issue

144 free things to do around Boston
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?

Opinion

“This election demonstrates yet again that Massachusetts produces a perpetual parade of presidential prospects.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“Fiction’s happy endings make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is. But believing that lie has important effects for society.”

Jonathan Gottschall, on why stories are good for us