Mitt Romney mum on how to regulate big banks

If elected, Romney is pledging to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, but he hasn’t said how he would regulate Wall Street institutions to prevent another financial crisis.

President Obama greeted and thanked US troops in Kabul on the anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Obama lays out strategy for exiting Afghanistan

President Obama signed a deal with Afghan President Hamid Karzai outlining the withdrawal of US combat troops but affirming a continuing commitment to the country.

Second Brown committee lures financial sector funds

Senator Scott Brown has used a joint fund-raising committee to collect $2.9 million in political donations, nearly half of which came from the nation’s financial sector.

Jeff Jacoby

What Brown’s and Warren’s tax returns show

For Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, it appears that it’s easier to criticize other people’s standards than to faithfully adhere to their own.

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Restaurateur finds big success with small details

Boston restaurant impresario Ed Kane, Inc. Magazine’s fourth-fastest growing private business owner in the US, has become a case study for how to beat the odds.

Bob Ryan

Paul Pierce major force in leading Celtics

Big contributors abounded, but no one stood taller than the Celtics captain, who helped carry Boston with a 36-point, 14-rebound, 4-assist effort in their Game 2 win.

Greenway board looks to new sources for funding

The nonprofit that manages the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is seeking contributions from private sources because it is facing the possible end of state funding.

Brian McGrory

At Liberty Mutual, accounting to no one

Phantom stock and phony options still add up to nearly $200 million, all of which Ted Kelly took out of Liberty Mutual in his last four years as chief executive.

US says blind Chinese activist in medical facility

A blind Chinese legal activist who was at the center of a diplomatic tussle between Washington and Beijing left the US Embassy to receive medical care and be reunited with this family.

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Food

8 recipes to celebrate the graduate or newlyweds

Jessica Alba in Cambridge for venture capital firm
Olympia Dukakis (left) and Brenda Fricker in ”Cloudburst.”

LGBT Film Festival as diverse as culture it celebrates
Aaron Cohen of Eat Boston.

Bacon and Beer Festival raises $20,000 for hunger relief
Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School in Easton has a groundbreaking program — the Innovation Academy.

The Podium

Boston’s innovation swagger

Elizabeth Warren had key role in asbestos court case

Brown says daughter insured under health law
Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz handed the ball over to manager Bobby Valentine after allowing 5 runs in the seventh inning against the Athletics.

Dan Shaughnessy

Clay Buchholz keeps winning, somehow

Poor reception plagues Kendall Square
President Obama and his team strongly believe the nation can adequately deter nuclear attacks with a much smaller and less expensive weapons stockpile - which now costs about $50 billion a year to maintain.

Obama’s nuclear plan tangled in election politics
Sony Digital vice president Harald Kraushaar said the goal is to offer medical equipment makers Sony’s expertise in precision manufacturing.

Sony adds Cambridge medical sales office
Angie DeWolf and Mark Kehlet Schou perform in José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s “Absurdus” program.

Dance Review

Dance drives score in José Mateo’s new ‘Risk of Repetition’

Sports

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Game 2: Celtics 87, Hawks 80

Paul Pierce had 36 points and 14 rebounds in Game 2 against the Hawks.

Celtics topple Hawks, even series

A combination of stifling defense and Paul Pierce’s ability to take over the game carried the Celtics to an 87-80 victory, evening the series at 1-1 with Game 3 Friday at TD Garden.

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Two bodies found behind Saugus school

The bodies of a 54-year-old Lynn woman and an elderly female relative were found behind an elementary school shortly after dawn Tuesday, unnerving residents.

Columnists

Scot Lehigh

Massachusetts: The candidate state

Brian McGrory

At Liberty Mutual, accounting to no one

Bob Ryan

Paul Pierce major force in leading Celtics

Jeff Jacoby

What Brown’s and Warren’s tax returns show

joanna weiss

A reason to turn off digital devices

Yvonne Abraham

How far we’ve come on race — and yet must go

JOAN VENNOCHI

Nonprofit greed’s real victims

JULIETTE KAYYEM

A revolution: women fight in Marines

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Start-up ‘finishing school’ awards

opinion | jeff jacoby

The government’s college money pit
Yahya Ahmad Masalma, 6, received a complex kidney transplant at Boston Children’s Hospital.

JOANNA WEISS

For the life of Yahya

Love Letters

He’s great — but where’s the spark?

Arts

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THEATER

‘Porgy and Bess’ gets 10 Tony Award nominations

The revival of the George Gershwin classic that began last fall in Cambridge was second only to “Once,’’ which received 11 nominations.

Politics

Political Notebook

“I commend those who planned and conducted the bin Laden raid a year ago, and I applaud President Obama for approving the mission,’’ said Mitt Romney, an infrequent tweeter, said Romney on the social networking site.

Mitt Romney lauds President Obama on bin Laden

Romney began the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death by paying Twitter tribute to the president, then spent a chunk of the day bemoaning that the issue has become politicized.

Business

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The Boston Globe headquarters on Morrissey Boulevard.

Globe’s paid circulation up for first time since 2004

Sunday circulation averaged 365,512 for the six month period that ended in March, up 2.5 percent for the same period a year ago, while average daily circulation rose 2.9 percent.

Nation & World

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N.Y. man convicted in subway bombing plot

A Queens man was convicted of a host of terrorism charges Tuesday for participating in a plot led by Al Qaeda to stage suicide attacks in the New York subways.

Food & dining

Thanks to ‘Mad Men,’ baked Alaska is back on menus

Baked Alaska was all the rage for a time. But as quickly as it flamed up, it soon disappeared. Now it’s back.

“The guy pays attention to detail like nobody’s business. And in this industry . . . details can make or break you.”

Joe Kane,  on older brother and restaurateur Ed Kane

Magazine

The cover for the April 29 2012 issue

Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
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144 free things to do around Boston
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In an artist’s garden
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Are fat baseball players a problem?

Opinion

“This election demonstrates yet again that Massachusetts produces a perpetual parade of presidential prospects.”

Scot Lehigh 

Ideas

“Fiction’s happy endings make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is. But believing that lie has important effects for society.”

Jonathan Gottschall, on why stories are good for us