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Game 2: 76ers 82, Celtics 81

Another thriller, but this time 76ers win

Avery Bradley drove the baseline to get a shot off during the first quarter. He finished with eight points.

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The 76ers made six straight free throws in the final minute to hold off the Celtics and even their playoff series at one game each.

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Exuberant comedy ‘Xanadu’ rolls along

SpeakEasy Stage Company’s enjoyably unhinged adaptation of the legendarily execrable 1980 movie “Xanadu” is a feat of theatrical alchemy.

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‘Dictator’ tweaks broadly and carries a big shtick

“The Dictator” lacks the cultural tension of Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat” and “Bruno,” and is a lazy satire that can’t bring itself to properly satirize anything.

red sox 6, Mariners 1

Red Sox win fourth straight

Jon Lester pitched a complete game and Daniel Nava and Kelly Shoppach each homered as the Red Sox won their fourth in a row.

Harvard professor to head primate research center

Dr. R. Paul Johnson will take over leadership of the troubled facility, where four primate deaths in less than two years revealed gaps in animal care procedures.

Obama attacks Romney's Bain record

The president’s campaign released its first ad against Mitt Romney today, focusing on a steel mill that Bain Capital purchased and shuttered.

Ron Paul will ‘no longer spend resources’ on campaign

Ron Paul says he is done spending money on his campaign, but that he would still fight for delegates all the way to the GOP convention in Tampa.

DA: Autistic boy slipped out of window, drowned in pool

Officials say a 4-year-old who apparently drowned Sunday pushed out a screened window and walked away from his apartment.

obituary

Peter Fuller, ran auto dealerships; owned horse stripped of Derby crown

Peter Fuller, the son of a Massachusetts governor whose horse won the Kentucky Derby in 1968 and was disqualified afterward, died in Portsmouth, N.H. He was 89.

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Globe Talk | May 23, 6 p.m.

A conversation with Ben Mezrich

The New York Times best-selling author discusses his books “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

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Last month, MIT professor Amy Finkelstein became the third woman in the last five years to gain the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, which recognizes the top US economist under 40.

Women making gains in economics, but progress is slow

Open-water swimmer focusing on the Olympics

Yvonne Abraham

Three years later, no answers

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Poetry Out Loud gets high schoolers excited about verse

Newcomer boosts profile of Black Heritage Trail

“When you bury things for so long, it damages you internally,” said Jennifer Norris, who says she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depression, and anxiety, resulting from military sexual trauma.

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Helping survivors of military sexual trauma

More college presidents hail from outside academia

E-retailer hopes to boost Boston’s hip factor

Daily Dose

Six questions to ask before choosing a nursing home

Nathan Brown (left) and Peter Schroer work at Aras Corp., an Andover company Schroer founded in 2000.

Route 128 at center of manufacturing

Dolores O’Riordan (pictured in Italy earlier this year) and the Cranberries were joined by two touring musicians for their 90-minute set at the House of Blues

Music Review

Cranberries in good form for House of Blues

The Celtics are widely perceived as gritty and the embodiment of team spirit.

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics giving their all, as Fenway draws boobirds

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Daniel Bard still hasn’t locked up his spot

With Daisuke Matsuzaka set to return soon, either Bard or Felix Doubront will likely head back to the Red Sox bullpen.

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Mother’s Day peace walk recalls slain youths

Hundreds marched through Dorchester on Sunday to defy the street violence that took their loved ones.

Columnists

A lone worker picks tomatoes on an Alabama farm in 2011. Much of the crop rotted after migrant workers moved to other states when a strict immigration law took affect.

Juliette Kayyem

A crackdown avoided

Innovation Economy

A new twist on the home office

JEFF JACOBY

Benefit of doubt on ‘evolution’

JOANNA WEISS

Why not let the bake sale crumble?