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Developer pitches new design for Filene’s site
The empty Filene’s site (left) and a rendering of the proposed tower (right).

Pat Greenhouse/Globe File (left); Handel Architects

The proposal would feature a 606-foot glass skyscraper with 500 residences at the former Filene’s department store in Boston.

State Street Corp. plans to build an 11-story office building at the Channel Center complex off A Street in South Boston.

State Street to get tax break for waterfront office

Boston officials will give the financial firm $11.5 million in tax cuts to construct a new office building on the South Boston waterfront.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/04/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/05lettersb--150x150.jpg Victoria Kennedy invites Brown, Warren to debate

The widow of Edward M. Kennedy has invited Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren to a September debate that would be moderated by Tom Brokaw.

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On basketball

Celtics not guaranteed to break up Big Three

The future of the Kevin Garnett-Ray Allen-Paul Pierce era is uncertain. But it’s no sure thing they won’t return.

A soldier scans across the border at houses in Pakistan during a June patrol in Afghanistan.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Suicide is the biggest foe for US troops

While the Pentagon has made serious and sustained efforts to address suicide, the growing number of these cases suggests that the message isn’t taking hold.

Melinda Doolittle (left) and Crystal Aikin performing Saturday at Symphony Hall.

Music Review

Gospel with the Pops resonates with joy, reverence

The Boston Pops’ Gospel Night is a testament to how much the genre has adapted to modern tastes in music.

New England’s newest casino opens in Maine

The Oxford Casino, built on former farmland, opened early this month, two years after voters narrowly approved it in a statewide referendum.

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Join a conversation with US Representative Barney Frank, who represents the Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts.

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Prisoners at Dachau cheer US troops who liberated the concentration camp in May 1945.

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Recognizing delayed PTSD in Holocaust survivors

Europe’s financial crisis hits firms in Mass.
The Great Works Dam is among those on the Penobscot River in Maine that will be dismantled.

Maine dam removal aims to rescue fish species
The Objet 3-D printer can produce a single object containing both hard and soft materials.

A high-tech step forward for prosthetics

Cristin Milioti (left) and Steve Kazee performed in a scene from “Once” at the Tony Awards.

2012 Tony Awards

‘Once’ is big winner at Tony Awards
Sutton Foster (center) plays a showgirl whose dreams of Broadway have been dashed.

Television Review

Funny ‘Bunheads’ in step with ‘Gilmore Girls’
Melinda Doolittle (left) and Crystal Aikin performing Saturday at Symphony Hall.

Music Review

Gospel with the Pops resonates with joy, reverence
Dr. Lisa Wong, a pediatrician, author of the new book “Scales to Scalpels: Doctors who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine.”

G Force

Linking music and medicine
Cheryl A. LaFleur, commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

On the Hot seat

Energy is now the cool field
A Rorschach test image

IDEAS

What the Rorschach tells us

2012 valedictorians

Boston’s faces of excellence
Austin Rivers was a shoot-first, shoot-second guard at Duke and will have to establish a position in the NBA.

Sunday Basketball Notes

Draft will be time for Doc Rivers’s son to rise

Sports

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Rajon Rondo was the only Celtic able to score in the final 6:10 of Game 7. During that time, the score was Miami 13, Rondo 4.

Celtics’ Rajon Rondo defiant after loss to Heat

Rondo, who had his fourth triple-double of the playoffs in Boston’s Game 7 loss, felt the Celtics’ downfall was the result of simply missing shots they normally make.

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One freezer contained about 150 brain samples from people who had died with a neurological or psychiatric condition.

Freezer failure at brain bank hampers autism research

A malfunction at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital has severely damaged one-third of the world’s largest collection of autism brain samples.

Columnists

A soldier scans across the border at houses in Pakistan during a June patrol in Afghanistan.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Suicide is the biggest foe for US troops

Innovation Economy

E Ink founder has nuclear ambitions

Adrian Walker

In search of transparency at Brookline High

opinion | jeff jacoby

The end is near for public-sector unions

joan vennochi

Politicians still seek the labor vote
Boston’s Game 7 record is 21-8. For the third time in franchise history, the Celtics lost a series after taking a 3-2 lead.

Bob Ryan

Celtics’ Big Three run ends, with honor

joanna weiss

High-tech PR in the hands of rubes
The Celtics’ 101-88 loss was likely the last time Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen will play together.

Heat 101, Celtics 88 | Dan Shaughnessy

NBA Finals dream ends, along with an era
Michael Smerka, a clinical prosthetist, puts in battery into a BiOM worn by Rick Knapton, a full-time ankle test specialist.

Innovation economy

Local firms at forefront of technology for prosthetics

LAWRENCE HARMON

Talent, not time, marks a teacher
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, at podium, stands with local ministers at a Get Out the Vote rally in Wisconsin Monday.

DERRICK Z. JACKSON

A divided Wisconsin

Adrian Walker

While Pilgrim workers are locked out, Plymouth worries

Business

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Facebook apps on iPhones were pictured during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Apple integrates Facebook into iPhone software

With the next version of Apple’s software, users will be able to update their Facebook status by talking to their phones.

Nation & World

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US Commerce Secretary John Bryson.

Commerce Dept.: Seizures led to secretary’s crashes

John Bryson suffered a seizure in connection with two traffic accidents in the Los Angeles area that left him injured and unconscious, the department said.

Arts

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Music Review

Aston Magna marked its 40th year with Friday’s performance at Brandeis of Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell, and Handel.

Aston Magna celebrates 40 seasons

The early music festival kicked off its 40th anniversary with Friday’s performance at Brandeis of Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell, and Handel.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

How to rewire your brain to be more optimistic

A new book, “Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain,” redefines what optimism is. Try the following four measures to alter your outlook on life.

Diversity Boston

Head to head

Can Boston compete with Silicon Valley?

Shawn Harris of Nyopoly.com and Niraj Shah of Wayfair, who have been building businesses in the region for more than a decade, talk about running start-ups.

“You can’t ignore Europe as a market. The growth may not be as high, but in terms of buying power Europe is right behind the US.”

Josef von Rickenbach,  CEO of Parexel International Corp. in Waltham

Magazine

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5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson
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40 ideas for your New England summer weekends
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What does it take to become a Disney star?
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Best beaches guide for New England

Opinion

“Suicide in the ranks is the military’s problem and, given the numbers, must be its core mission.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Ideas

“With two presidents in the White House, our leaders would be forced to spend their time building on all the things they have in common, instead of pretending they have fundamentally opposed visions for the country.”

Leon Neyfakh  on the case for two presidents