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• Stories from the wet, weary across the region  |  Forecast
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• Insurer details its unequal payments (By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff)
• Rivers flood roads, force hundreds from their homes in Eastern Mass. (By Peter Schworm and Noah Bierman, Globe Staff)
• Grocer gives $20m for Catholic education (By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff)
• Flooded basements, besieged dams, and other scenes from the wet and weary in Eastern Mass. (Globe Staff)
• Witness, confession led to arrests of pair in ’76 murder case (By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff)
• Kevin Cullen Stories of a man who looked at the poor and saw himself (By Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist)
• Velázquez, Sargent paintings meet ‘face to face’ in Madrid (By Dale Fuchs, Globe Correspondent)
• Former Homeland Security official’s trial starts (By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff)
• Fiancee of Yale suspect is asked for DNA (By John Christoffersen, Associated Press)
• New England in brief Dorchester man guilty in fatal stabbing (Boston Globe)
• FBI billboards seek help in museum heist (By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff)
• Prosecutor sees no Bulger link to Gardner Museum theft (By Stephen Kurkjian, Globe Staff)
• Arthritis drug shows promise in diabetes study (By Karen Weintraub, Globe Correspondent)
• Mihos accuses GOP of discouraging potential rivals to Tisei (By Kyle Cheney, State House News Service)
• Grandmother mourns baby killed in crash (By Stewart Bishop, Globe Correspondent)
• Courts consolidation could save state up to $10m in budget (By Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff)

• Larry Pinkham, professor, inspired scores of journalists (By Gloria Negri, Globe Staff)
• Rose Devine; helped Globe newsroom operate smoothly; at 73 (By Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff)

• Obama makes urgent pitch for health bill (By Matt Viser, Globe Staff)
• River, apprehension rise as residents prepare in Fargo (Associated Press)
• Arteries improve after smokers quit (Associated Press)
• A jumbo surprise under Antarctic ice (Associated Press)
• Census begins with mail-it-in appeal (Associated Press)
• Key bipartisan unemployment bill passed (Associated Press)
• Dodd introduces plan to overhaul financial regulatory system (By David Cho and Brady Dennis, Washington Post)
• Key provisions of financial regulation legislation (Associated Press)
• Political Notebook Stevens considers retirement decision (Boston Globe)
• New ethical guidelines complicate research on stem cell lines (By Rob Stein, Washington Post)
• Earmarks rule likely to have little effect (By R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post)
• States going all in to expand gambling (By Michael J. Crumb, Associated Press)

• No compromise on settlements, Netanyahu says (By Mark Landler and Ethan Bronner, New York Times)
• Pro-Uribe party leads in Colombia vote for congress (Bloomberg News)
• Militants join Somali government (Associated Press)
• ANC official convicted of hate speech (Associated Press)
• Bomb materials seized in Pakistan (Associated Press)
• Iran says it bans key opposition party (Associated Press)
• Hints of political change in Iraq (By Anthony Shadid, New York Times)
• General tightens oversight on special forces (New York Times)
• Irish cardinal won’t resign over abuse case (By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press)
• Gangs blamed for killing 3 with US consulate tie (By Olivia Torres, Associated Press)
• Thai protesters vow to spill their blood on government building (By Grant Peck, Associated Press)

• Globe Editorial If serious about peace, Israel should drop housing plan
• Globe Editorial Politics: Forced merriment at its best
• Globe Editorial Mothers’ lives at stake
• Derrick Z. Jackson NCAA fouls on grad-rate commitment
• Lawrence Harmon A new kind of student
• Julianna Baggott Tag for the gamer generation

• Celtics 119, Pistons 93 Home improvement (By Julian Benbow, Globe Staff)
• Dan Shaughnessy Belief here is that the Celtics are saving their best for last (By Dan Shaughnessy, Globe Columnist)
• Devils 3, Bruins 2 Bruins floored early (By Kevin Paul Dupont, Globe Staff)
• On baseball Red Sox’ Lowell not bad at all in his first try (By Nick Cafardo, Globe Staff)
• Group effort all the way for UConn (By Monique Walker, Globe Staff)
• Red Sox’ Ortiz finally swings into action in spring training (By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff)
• Former scout’s case dismissed (Boston Globe)
• Sports Log Quinn expects to compete in Denver (Boston Globe)
• Red Sox notebook Red Sox’ Matsuzaka feels better, but not enough to throw BP (By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff)
• Baseball notebook Big deal only big talk (Associated Press)
• Bruins notebook GM backs proposed rule (By Kevin Paul Dupont, Globe Staff)
• Hurricanes thumbnails (Boston Globe)
• Celtics notebook Celtics’ Davis a bit shaken after rough plane ride (By Julian Benbow, Globe Staff)
• NBA roundup Rockets escape (Associated Press)
• NHL roundup Wings nip Flames (Associated Press)
• Finley has jumper cables to give Celtics a spark (By Frank Dell’Apa, Globe Staff)
• College notebook Calhoun says rumors interfered with recruiting (Associated Press)
• Harvard accepts postseason CIT invite (Boston Globe)
• Soccer notes Burpo wants to be a keeper (By Frank Dell’Apa, Globe Staff)
• Franlin Pierce 82, Holy Family 79 Ravens advance to Elite Eight (From Staff Reports)

• Top executive resigns at struggling Blue Cross (By Todd Wallack, Globe Staff)
• Cities, towns pull out stops for superfast Google network (By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff)
• Stock slides as Boston Scientific halts sales of some devices (By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff)
• Genzyme inspection finds drug impurity (By D.C. Denison, Globe Staff)
• Rehoboth research firm defends itself against Toyota criticism (By Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff)
• Qdoba beset by tax problems, supplier’s lawsuit (By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff)
• Boston Captial Puzzling exit at Blue Cross (By Steven Syre, Globe Columnist)
• Debt puts US credit rating at risk, agency says (By David Jolly and Catherine Rampell, New York Times)
• Broadband goals won’t be met easily (By Joelle Tessler, Associated Press)
• Ex-banker charged in first TARP case (Associated Press)
• PayPal targeting small businesses (Bloomberg News)
• Facebook to open an office in India (Associated Press)
• Around the Region Dunkin’ opened 171 US stores in ’09 (Associated Press)
• Around the Region Alkermes, others rise on Byetta news (Bloomberg News)
• Around the Region Javelin, Myriad set buyout votes date (Associated Press)
• Around the Region Pegasystems to buy a software maker (Associated Press)
• Around the Region Athenahealth profit plunges 84% (Associated Press)
• Around the Region Angiotech says new stent meets goals (Associated Press)
• Industrial production is up (By Daniel Wagner, Associated Press)
• Twitter lets others display its tweets (By Joseph Galante, Bloomberg News)
• Treasury limits pay for GMAC executives (By Daniel Wagner, Associated Press)
• Deal matches Hilfiger with Calvin Klein, Izod (By Mae Anderson and Anne D’Innocenzio, Associated Press)
• Treasury bill rates rise (Associated Press)
• Governors seek to boost wind energy (Associated Press)
• Study finds target-date funds outperformed balanced offerings (By Margaret Collins, Bloomberg News)
• Dow gains as investors look to Fed meeting (Boston Globe)
• MARKET MOVERS Google slips on China pullout speculation (Boston Globe)
• MASS. MOVERS Beacon Roofing falls after downgrade (Boston Globe)
• MannKind Corp. (Boston Globe)
• Sterling Construction (Boston Globe)
• Consol Energy Inc. (Boston Globe)
• Toyota questions runaway Prius story (Bloomberg News)
• Automakers join electric car effort (By Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press)

• Meet Samuel Adams Wisner, Boston’s answer to Asher Roth (By Leah Mennies, Globe Correspondent)
• Voices Alex Beam: A new diagnostic psych manual calls for some new disorders (By Alex Beam, Globe Columnist)
• TELEVISION REVIEW In ‘Justified,’ a portrait of the man as a good man (By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff)
• Air keeps cool and continues to chill out (By Christopher Muther, Globe Staff)
• STAGE REVIEW ‘We All Will Be Received’ tests the boundaries of gender (By Sandy MacDonald, Globe Correspondent)
• BOOK REVIEW Biography dishes on the life and death of Tammy Wynette (By Carlo Wolff, Globe Correspondent)
• OPERA REVIEW Searching for direction in ‘Don Giovanni’ (By Matthew Guerrieri, Globe Correspondent)
• MUSIC REVIEW At Gardner, Messiaen’s cosmic keyboard cycle (By Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff)
• G FORCE | INGRID MICHAELSON Ingrid Michaelson draws notice while maintaining her independence (By Sarah Rodman, Globe Staff)
• THREE TO SEE Portrait of 'Gardner Heist' (By Alex Spanko, Globe Correspondent)
• Names All about the Benjamin (By Mark Shanahan & Meredith Goldstein, Globe Staff)
• More celebrity news Stalker sentenced (Boston Globe)
• MUSIC REVIEW From the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, an influential program (By Matthew Guerrieri, Globe Correspondent)
• TV critic’s picks (By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff)
• On Demand movie picks (Boston Globe)
• Daily TV and radio guide (Boston Globe)
• DEAR MARGO Dear Margo: These siblings may be better off apart (Boston Globe)
• Poker: When to stick with a bluff, and when to give up (By Steve Rosenbloom, Boston Globe)
• Reflection for the day (Boston Globe)
• Things to do Author to discuss “The Gardner Heist’’ in Winchester (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
• Things to do Chocolate tasting at Finale in Brookline (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
• Things to do Black 47 and Enter the Haggis at Showcase Live (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
• Things to do Irish and American artists exhibited in Andover (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)
• Things to do Henry Rollins Spoken Word at Somerville Theatre Wednesday (By June Wulff, Globe Staff)

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