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Harvard University alumni attending their 50th class reunion this week are getting updates on classmates -- including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
A new poll shows the race between incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and chief Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren is a virtual dead heat.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told Harvard Law graduates he's not offended that he was the school's fourth choice for Class Day speaker, behind comedians Tina Fey and Jon Stewart, because the school wasn't his first choice either.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee said Wednesday that layoffs at Curt Schilling's video game company are another "terrible" indicator of 38 Studios' troubled finances.
Hundreds of relatives and volunteers have gathered on the historic Boston Common to plant 33,000 flags in tribute to Massachusetts soldiers killed in conflicts as far back as the Civil War.
In a travel story about locations associated with the War of 1812 bicentennial, The Associated Press misidentified the location of the USS Constitution. It is located in Charlestown, Mass., a neighborhood of Boston.
A substantial portion of the funding for Governor Deval Patrick’s two second-term international trade missions has come from a handful of powerful executives and companies with significant financial interests before the state. Through a non-profit established by his administration last year called Moving Massachusetts Forward, the Patrick administration collected $130,000 from five donors, according to ethics disclosure forms filed by the governor. Unlike campaign donations, contributions to the group have no limits and are tax-free.
Shocked that Liberty Mutual paid its former chief executive roughly $50 million a year, three Massachusetts senators proposed budget amendments to discourage other mutual companies from awarding outsized pay packages. Senator Brian A. Joyce would require mutual companies to publicly disclose compensation for top executives. Senator Mark C. Montigny would give policyholders a chance to vote on executive compensation. Senator Patricia D. Jehlen would bar directors at mutual holding companies from serving on compensation committees if they have a conflict of interest.
