Post-Watergate campaign reforms fade away

The linchpin of reforms enacted in the aftermath of Watergate — public funding for presidential campaigns — is all but dead.

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AMC to close Harvard Square theater

The theater on Church Street, which is known for hosting weekly showings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” will close in July.

Supreme Court throws out FCC indecency policy

The court threw out sanctions against broadcasters who violated the rule on curse words and nudity, but didn’t rule on the policy’s constitutionality.

Brigham implants first total artificial heart in New England

Surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital implanted the heart in a 66-year-old former teacher from the South Shore.

Friday Preview | Movie Review

‘Brave’ is a mixed bag

Uh-oh: The first Pixar movie that doesn’t feel like a Pixar movie.

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Take 2: ‘Brave’

Janice Page and Ty Burr review the latest animated movie from Pixar.

Anthony Mackie (left), and Benjamin Walker as Lincoln.

Movie Review

‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ a sin against entertainment

Benjamin Walker makes a sturdy Lincoln, but Timur Bekmambetov directs with frantic, humorless 3-D bombast.

Embattled college president steps down

Trustees removed Dr. Robert J. Gee as president of the Falmouth-based National Graduate School of Quality Management amid three separate inquiries.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been touting the health care plan to the press.

Joan vennochi

Obama tries to sell health care law, but it’s too late

The administration has recently been talking up the positive aspects of the health care law, but its efforts have been too tepid for too long.

Bob Ryan

Robert Parish among fine group at Tradition

Last year, The Tradition set the bar high by honoring Larry Bird. This year, it will fete Bird’s indispensable championship teammate.

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TECH LAB

Google vs. Bing: Which search engine hits the spot?
From left: Scott H. Severance, Maureen Keiller, Diego Klock-Perez, and Leigh Barrett in “Car Talk: The Musical!!!”

Stage Review

A finely tuned ‘Car Talk’

7 hot summer sunglasses

A hard road from public aid recipient to public servant

BIO sets up potential partners through speed meetings
Nearly two-dozen Abba songs are incorporated into the production. Themusical will be presented at the Boston Opera House through Sunday.

theater review

Joy, catchy melodies lift ‘Mamma Mia!’
Elinor Ostrom, pictured in 2009, won a Nobel Prize in economics.

Opinion | Health Care

In Elinor Ostrom’s legacy, a lesson for Beacon Hill
Clockwise from top left: No parking signs in the South End; Mayor Menino; and a ‘parklet’ in Philadelphia.

Brian McGrory

Mayor Menino’s war against cars
From left: SungAe Choe, daughter InAe Choe, and husband and chef SungJo Choe serve a kimchi seafood pancake, okdol bibimbap, and soon dae bokum, along with an array of side dishes.

Cheap Eats

A little bit of Seoul in Arlington

Opinion | Adam Gray

Excellence in education
The 80-foot-high video mast outside the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center holds seven fullcolor LED screens onametal spine.

Plans develop for new video billboards in Boston

Criticism barred in Roxbury college severance

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Boston Bruins' Patrice Bergeron won the Selke Trophy for best defensive forward during the 2012 NHL Awards show at the Wynn Las Vegas Resort in Las Vegas.

Patrice Bergeron wins Selke Trophy

Eight seasons into a career that was nearly truncated by concussions, the Bruins center was named the NHL’s top defensive forward.

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Former House speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi left a courthouse after his sentencing last year.

DiMasi faults prison for medical care delay

Former House speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi’s attorney said DiMasi was denied care for his cancer while authorities prepared him for grand jury testimony.

Columnists

Bob Ryan

Robert Parish among fine group at Tradition
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been touting the health care plan to the press.

Joan vennochi

Obama tries too late to sell health care law

Juliette Kayyem

Immigration can be solved in the middle

scot lehigh

Scott Brown bests Vicki Kennedy

jeff jacoby

Forget the facts; our minds are made up
Roger Clemens walked out of federal court a vindicated man on Monday.

Bob Ryan

I’m happy Roger Clemens was acquitted
Kites fill the sky over Ahmadabad, India, as residents compete from their rooftops during the annual kite festival in January.

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A man, a movie, and a kite
Clockwise from top left: No parking signs in the South End; Mayor Menino; and a ‘parklet’ in Philadelphia.

Brian McGrory

Mayor Menino’s war against cars

Joanna Weiss

Revealing the boundaries of taste

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The darker side of the bio industry

Adrian Walker

A hero in the war on poverty

Innovation Economy

Lighting the way for better bulbs

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Roslindale, MA -- 06/20/12 -- Josef Porteleki checks on the stock in the Roslindale Hardware store, which he has owned for 45 years. Porteleki is 65 years old, and plans to work full-time until he is 70 years old in order to feel financially secure enough to retire. (Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe)

In the 401(k) era, 70 may be the new age to retire

A new study from Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research shows less than half of US workers will have enough money saved to retire at 65.

Politics

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Romney to hold retreat for big donors

Mitt Romney plans to spend this weekend strategizing and fraternizing with his biggest bundlers at a posh resort in Park City, Utah.

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Obama invokes executive privilege in gun inquiry

The president invoked the privilege in response to a House panel that subpoenaed the documents as part of its investigation of the program.

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Movie Review

“Payback” is based on a book by Margaret Atwood.

‘Payback’ asks what it means to pay back a debt to society

Inspired by Margaret Atwood’s book, this documentary is conceptually audacious, if intellectually muddled.

Style

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Who buys a $10,000 watch these days?

Plenty of people. The luxury watch business in Boston — and nationwide — is on the rebound.

“These are issues I haven’t talked about to anyone . . . not even my closest friends.”

A therapy patient,  on mental care privacy

Magazine

The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?
The cover for the June 10 2012 issue

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?

Opinion

“Much of the public already thinks of health care reform as the end of America as they know it, because that’s the way opponents relentlessly portrayed it.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“Bashar Assad was, relatively speaking, normal, even a bit of a computer nerd. I should know: I spent more time face-to-face with him than perhaps any other American.”

David W. Lesch,  on the making of a Syrian dictator