Mass. health coverage architects in demand

There is a rush on to hire people who helped implement universal medical coverage in Massachusetts as states scramble to comply with President Obama’s health care law.

SCOT LEHIGH

Mitt Romney and his tax returns: Deja vu?

Do I believe Romney’s reassurance that there’s nothing amiss with his federal tax returns? I’d like to, but I would prefer to be able to verify for myself.

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JPMorgan says bad trade losses nearly triple to $5.8b

The bank had originally estimated that losses from the bad trade cost the bank $2 billion.

Norwegian Major-General Robert Mood, head of the UN monitoring mission in Syria, said government forces attacked from the air and ground in ‘‘continuous violence.’’

Syrian activists claim scores killed in attack

Some accounts claim as many as 200 people were killed in an attack by the Syrian regime on a poor farming village.

New head of State Police named

Governor Deval Patrick named Timothy P. Alben to replace outgoing Colonel Marian McGovern.

Webb Chappell

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Globe Magazine

Bringing hope in the wake of disaster

This Sunday, the Globe Magazine is naming 12 people as Bostonians Changing the World. Meet four of our honorees now, including Linda Mason, a luminary in humanitarian work.

Plume Giant plays an Electric Earth concert at Cathedral of the Pines in Rindge, N.H.

Dueling N.H. classical concert series try to get along

As Monadnock Music emerges from controversy with new leadership, it faces the upstart classical series Electric Earth.

The Clam Shack in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Brian McGrory

Maine seafood shack owner claws to the top

Steve Kingston, owner of the unassuming Clam Shack in Kennebunk, Maine, calls himself “The King of the Lobster Roll” after winning a New York event.

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The unnamed officer allegedly directed a racial slur at Crawford during his minor-league rehab stop in New Hampshire.

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Dubbed the “Coney Island of New England,” Revere Beach was established as the country’s first public beach in 1896, attracting people from all over the region.

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Work to rebuild the Whittier Memorial Bridge, along with four other major bridge projects, is expected to begin in the next few months.

Union-only labor for bridge project irks firms
Beth Rimas, an EMT whose son Sean is autistic, says it is critical for rescuers to know if someone in a house is disabled.

Boston special-needs list could aid emergency crews

Rose Art Museum names new director
An internal report sanctioned by Penn State said late football coach Joe Paterno was partly to blame as the school failed to protect victims before Jerry Sandusky was convicted of sexual abuse.

Dan Shaughnessy

Penn State should shut down football program
Robert Kraft and Ricki Noel Lander

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Robert Kraft and girlfriend Ricki Noel Lander go casual
LevelUp lets users make payments with their smartphones.

LevelUp ending merchant payment processing fees

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The team trap
“The article I read this morning was so ... scientific. I didn’t really get all of it,” said Brian Connor, a math teacher.

Higgs boson particle stirs some, perplexes many

Yvonne Abraham

Boston school chief fails test
Stevie Nicks performed in New York City July 2.

MUSIC REVIEW

Stevie Nicks seamlessly weaves old and new
Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard during a game against the Knicks on March 28 in New York.

Bob Ryan

For NBA big men, LA is a big draw
The gala will be held under a massive tent made to resemble a 1930s nightclub. The event will be lit by crystal chandeliers.

style

Behind the scenes of Tanglewood’s 75th Anniversary Gala

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Pedro Ciriaco is 7 for 13 in three games since being called up from Pawtucket.

Pedro Ciriaco gives the Red Sox a boost

Ciriaco has been a much-needed jolt of energy for a stagnant Red Sox team that has lost eight of its last 11 games.

Metro

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Brown backs away from comments that Democrats regularly call him

Senator Scott Brown said Tuesday that President Obama and other powerful Democrats regularly ask him for help to pass legislation. But his campaign said otherwise.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Mitt Romney and his tax returns: Deja vu?

Boston Capital

Why the Libor scandal matters to everyone

joshua green

George W. Bush is the winner in tax cut duel
The Clam Shack in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Brian McGrory

Maine seafood shack owner claws to the top

Juliette Kayyem

BC case throws cold water on IRA, academia

Tech Lab

A most capable cable box
Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard during a game against the Knicks on March 28 in New York.

Bob Ryan

For NBA big men, LA is a big draw

edward l. glaeser

Public pension difficulties for Mass. towns

Yvonne Abraham

Boston school chief fails test

Scot Lehigh

The duel over tax breaks

Jeff Jacoby

Minimum wage laws are costly for the unemployed
Pakistani-made clothes were on display in India. Pakistan is one of the largest producers of textiles.

opinion | Farah Stockman

Trade vs. aid with Pakistan

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The athletes will stay in apartments like these in London, but tourists are likely to find hotel rates doubled during the Games.

Few Massachusetts spectators expected at London Olympics

The Olympic torch lands in London in two weeks, but Boston-area travel companies that sell packages have not found many takers.

Politics

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Senator Susan Collins’s streak began in 1997 when she voted to confirm Madeleine Albright as secretary of state.

Biden urges NAACP to back Obama

Speaking at the NAACP conference in Houston, Vice President Joe Biden rebutted Mitt Romney’s claim that his policies would be better for black families.

Nation & World

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a toast with Pham Binh Minh, Vietnam’s minister of foreign affairs, at the ASEAN Gala Dinner in Phnom Penh on Thursday. During the meetings, Clinton warned that more confrontations over the South China Sea would occur if there was no cooperation.

Clinton seeks regional deal to South China Sea dispute

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Thursday of more confrontations in the South China Sea without a region-wide solution.

Arts

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Art Review

“Fantastic Monument” by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

‘The Invention of Fantasy: Eighteenth-Century Venice’ captures romance, imagination

The Museum of Fine Arts exhibit is a casual collection of prints that capture 18th-century romance and imagination.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

Tomer Sisley (with Lizzie Brocheré) plays a flawed cop and father in the French crime thriller “Sleepless Night.’’

In ‘Sleepless Night,’ crime pays (or does it?) in Paris

Another one of those French crime thrillers that wants nothing more than to run its hero and its audience entertainingly ragged.

“Taxpayers are already beleaguered. The governor is piling on more construction costs so he can curry more favor with organized labor.’’

Ronald N. Cogliano,  president of Merit Construction Alliance

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N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
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A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
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What if spanking works?
The cover for the June 10 2012 issue

5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson

Opinion

“Judging by this week’s headlines, Democrats would like to raise taxes on the rich — but can’t even seem to agree on a definition of the term.”

Joshua Green 

Ideas

“By taking massive numbers of songs, symphonies, and sonatas, turning them into cold, hard data, and analyzing them with computers, we can learn things about music that would have previously been impossible to uncover.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what computers are teaching us about music