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Mass. jobless rate fell to 6% in May

Employers in the state added about 7,500 jobs last month - the sixth straight month of gains - as the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in more than three years.

AOL board members survive proxy battle at Boston meeting

Dissident investors angry with AOL’s investment in Patch, a network of hyper-local news sites, had tried to unseat several board members.

Scott Walker: Romney needs to do better job of selling ideas

The Republican governor of Wisconsin, who last week won a recall election, said Mitt Romney has to go beyond criticizing President Obama and be seen as a “reformer.”

Report: Surging T ridership could overwhelm system

Boston’s subways could grow so packed that trains would roll past waiting commuters, unable to accommodate more, a land-use think tank says.

While attending a twice-yearly gathering of bishops in Atlanta Wednesday, Cardinal Sean O’Malley (center left) spoke for the first time about a Vatican rebuke to a US nuns’ group.

O’Malley laments discord on nuns

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, the Catholic archbishop of Boston, said he is worried and saddened over the perception the church is inhospitable to women.

Theo Epstein, the president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs, helped guide the Red Sox to two World Series titles.

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Theo Epstein discusses his Red Sox legacy

The Cubs executive, who helped the Red Sox win two World Series, sat down with Dan Shaughnessy before Boston’s weekend series with his new team.

50 years later, Boston Strangler case still captures fascination

Memories are still vivid and uncertainties linger a half-century after the start of the murderous reign.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/06/14/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/yvonne-2221--90x90.jpg In Wellesley High’s you’re-not-special speech, larger truths

The slap-down part of the commencement speech speaks to a popular view of kids today — that they’re coddled and overpraised.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/06/13/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/Rock%20of%20Ages_009%20copy2.jpg Tom Cruise, ‘Rock of Ages’ bring back hair metal glory

This star-studded adaptation of the Broadway jukebox musical, dedicated to the enduring power of cheesy ’80s pop-metal, alternates plastic bombast with moments of comic invention.

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More researchers study themselves
Students worked out to Dance Dance Revolution at the Games for Health conference at the Hyatt Harborside Hotel in Boston. About 400 developers and health professionals participated.

New video games can help people recover from injuries
A woman used an iPhone at a Verizon store in California.

Tech Lab

Pay full price for iPhone, avoid contract
Model Gisele Bundchen attends a photocall to present the new

In praise of flip-flops: the most versatile shoe ever
Tom Chaplin (shown in 2010 in London) gave it his all Tuesday.

Music Review

Keane shines in tour kickoff at House of Blues

editorial

A ref who got it right
Slimming yogurt summer salad.

Food

Make your own Greek yogurt

Opinion

The Podium: Voices of New England
The entrance to Canobie Lake Park and its 85 rides and other attractions.

A Tank Away

Salem, N.H.: Amusement rides, America’s Stonehenge
Larry Hagman as patriarch J.R. Ewing and Josh Henderson as his son John Ross.

Television Review

‘Dallas’ digs deep to relive glory days
“Lime-Stone” by Paul Stopforth.

Galleries

Art explores legacy of apartheid at Spoke Gallery
Novella Brady (left) of Beltsville, Md., and her sister Lexus, of Boston, sample from Cupcake Mojo.

Crowd devours samples at Food Truck Festival

Sports

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Felix Doubront had a terrific outing, giving up just three hits and fanning nine in seven innings.

Felix Doubront seems poised for big things

We are witnessing the maturing of a pitcher. Doubront improved to 7-2 on Wednesday, and could become a key cog for the Red Sox.

Metro

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Harvard resuming work on complex

Harvard University said it expects to resume work in 2014 on its science complex in Allston. The school halted construction in 2009.

Columnists

Juliette Kayyem

Fears of migration add to Europe’s woes

Joan Vennochi

Will attack-ad pact survive until fall?

Edward L. Glaeser

Young workers can’t afford homes in Mass.

Yvonne Abraham

In Wellesley High’s you’re-not-special speech, larger truths
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

Opinion | Scot Lehigh

Moments of GOP truth

Jeff Jacoby

Health care system needs more freedom, not less

Kevin Cullen

A lesson in civics and justice

Brian McGrory

View from the top at Liberty Mutual

joanna weiss

Warren and the deep waters of ethnic identity
Sister Mary Othelia operates a tractor at the Mount Asissi Convent in Illinois in 1942. The nuns did all of the planting and harvesting on the 100-acre farm.

Opinion | Farah Stockman

In singling out nuns, Catholic Church overlooks its history
Graduates walked through Harvard Yard.

Boston Capital

The real cost of higher education
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

Business

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Curt Schilling sued for $2.4 million by bank

Citizens Bank has sued Schilling to recover loans it made to the retired Red Sox star’s bankrupt video game company, 38 Studios.

Politics

Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is seen a news conference during the opening of the Sands Cotai Central resort in Macau, China, on April 11.

Adelson reportedly gives $10m to pro-Romney super PAC

Dorchester native and billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has consummated his new alliance with the presumptive Republican nominee.

Nation & World

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Egypt high court rules parliament is illegitimate

A ruling by Egypt’s highest court makes the parliament from January’s elections illegitimate.

Arts

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Much of the George H.W. Bush documentary “41” was filmed in and around his compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

‘41’ documentary gives H.W. his turn at bat

This film about George H. W. Bush, who turned 88 on Tuesday, isn’t a birthday present. Rather, it’s a valentine.

Style

Members of the Northwestern University championship women’s lacrosse team caused a stir by wearing flip-flops duringaWhite House visit in 2005.

Invasion of the flip flops: an anti-flip-flop rant

It was a deliciously warm evening. Then I heard the dreaded noise: Thwack, slap. Thwack, slap. Over and over.

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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.

“Congestion relief has long been a priority for highway spending; it is past time to recognize that addressing congestion is equally important for the transit system.’’

Stephanie Pollack,  on the MBTA

Magazine

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5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson
The cover for the June 3 2012 issue

40 ideas for your New England summer weekends
The cover for the May 27 2012 issue

What does it take to become a Disney star?
The cover for the May 20 2012 issue

Best beaches guide for New England

Opinion

“The orthodox view is that to shield people with serious medical needs from undue financial hardship, we must suppress the normal workings of a free market.”

Jeff Jacoby 

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