All sides pressing John Kerry on pipeline

The secretary of state is facing one of the most difficult decisions of his career: whether to approve the Keystone pipeline.

Laura Martinelli was accepted by the college of her choice, Emerson, but can’t attend because she didn’t receive a scholarship.

Colleges grapple with merit-based aid

Critics say a shift by colleges to offer more merit scholarships to attract top students is leaving financially strapped students on their own.

A free spirit who took to competition, Chelone Miller carved a path that had him bound for glory.

MATT CLAUSEN

Dream dies with Bode Miller’s brother, Chelone

Chelone Miller, 29, was trying to channel his daring nature and spirit into an Olympic berth with his brother next year before his unexpected death in April.

The Red Sox and Phillies paid tribute to veterans on Memorial Day, wearing uniforms and caps that featured US Marine Corps military camouflage.

Christopher L. Gasper

Red Sox got it right with John Farrell

The new manager has restored the luster of starters Clay Buchholz and Jon Lester and the dignity to Boston baseball in expedited fashion.

Representative Rick Nolan, a Minnesota Democrat, greeted students from his district on Capitol Hill in April.

DREW ANGERER FOR THE GLOBE

Broken city

Lawmaker finds new realities in return to Congress

Minnesota Representative Rick Nolan, back in the House after 32 years, decries the disunity and focus on money he now sees.

Daniel F. Conley, who has been Suffolk district attorney for a decade, began his bid for mayor of Boston with $868,000 in his campaign war chest.

Lawyers help fill Daniel Conley’s war chest

Conley, who has been Suffolk district attorney for a decade, began his campaign for mayor with three times more money than any other candidate.

BRA seeking extension of Red Sox license deal

Despite facing criticism, the agency plans to renew the Red Sox’s no-bid contract to sell concessions and souvenirs on a portion of Yawkey Way.

Kare Sojka of Acushnet helped Becky Kobza of Fairhaven take to the water Sunday at Indianhead Resort in Plymouth, while Kobza’s son Peter watched from the beach. Last year, 141.9 million Americans took part in outdoor activities, according to the industry research.

The great outdoors is still a great bargain

Participation in outdoor activities like camping, hiking, and canoeing continues to grow, even as the nation recovers from tough economic times.

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By the time Monday’s sunshine chased away the cold, wet weather, Cape Cod merchants knew their Memorial Day weekend business wasn’t a washout.

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From left: Lisa Whalen, Joan Eppich, Mary Ellen Dean, and Lesley Keays at Keays’s home in North Attleborough. The four relatives have all taken steps to reduce their cancer risk in recent months.

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Striking before cancer can
Clockwise from top left: Rod Laver Arena at the Australian Open; balls lined up at the French Open’s Court Philippe Chartrier; Arthur Ashe Stadium at the US Open; and Centre Court at Wimbledon.

Scenes from the Grand tour of tennis
Saturday performers included (clockwise from top left): lead singer Nate Ruess of Fun., singer Marina Diamandis of Marina and the Diamonds, and Matt & Kim.

Concert review

Boston Calling fest a two-day hit with crowds
Soprano Natalie Dessay as Violetta in director Philippe Béziat’s documentary “Becoming Traviata.”

Movie review

‘Becoming Traviata’ is becoming to Verdi
Once a designer of reactors, Jessica Brewer cares for sons Benjamin and Samuel.

Many women with top degrees stay home
Cabdrivers waited in line for fares in Logan International Airport’s taxi pool.

Spotlight follow-up

1st steps for city on cab abuses
Josep Dalmau, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and his lab have conducted important research into anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.

Health and Wellness

When the brain is under attack
Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about her decision to have a double mastectomy.

Jolie’s aunt dies of breast cancer
The Boston Housing Authority Administration Building in Charlestown.

Federal cuts hit housing subsidy program
Volunteers and organizers, including race director Steve Balfour (in black) prepared packets for runners in Boston’s Run to Remember.

Runners return to finish Marathon, remember the victims
Warren wondered how many had been harmed or killed by tainted pharmaceuticals since 1997. “Why don’t you know?’’ she asked. “You’re the federal drug administration.”

Warren uses liberal clout selectively in new role
William Lautzenheiser, who lost his limbs due to an infection, said he is considering a transplant of arms and possibly in the future his legs.

Doctors set sights on leg transplants

More coverage of the bombings

Concert promoter Don Law leads the benefit effort.

Many details to orchestrate for Marathon concert

In barely two weeks, Don Law and his team assembled Boston Strong, a star-studded benefit for Marathon victims this Thursday.

Sports

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Jacoby Ellsbury congratulated Dustin Pedroia after he hit a two-run blast in the first inning.

Dustin Pedroia, Red Sox handle the Phillies

Pedroia homered, walked, and started two double plays, leading the Red Sox to a 9-3 victory.

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Mayor Thomas M. Menino has had a string of ailments

Menino to have prostate surgery

Mayor Menino will undergo elective surgery Friday for an enlarged prostate, which his doctor said was not cancer.

Columnists

Kenyan demonstrators write the names of members of parliament in blood on pigs to illustrate greed during a demonstration in Nairobi May 14.

Farah Stockman

In Kenya, it’s not about the pigs
A dancer in “The Rite of Spring.”

JAMES CARROLL

Revolt at the ballet — and everywhere else

Juliette Kayyem

The VA’s generational problem

JOHN E. SUNUNU

Not Apple’s fault
It was bear hugs all around after fourth-line center Gregory Campbell (11) sealed Game 5 with an empty-net goal, his second tally of the night.

Dan Shaughnessy

Never a doubt the Bruins were better
Dave and Calvin Laituri, a father and son team, are embarking on a project to design 100 new products that they will raise money for online and have manufactured within 100 miles of Wayland. The project is called Onehundred.

Innovation Economy

Getting to know more than the product

Yvonne Abraham

Immigrant students tell their stories

Mike Iacobucci

Innovation Economy

At call service, it’s humans to the rescue

JEFF JACOBY

The most useless job in the state
Blades awaited installation in Denmark.

Opinion | Derrick Z. Jackson

New Bedford looks to ‘Wind City’

JOANNA WEISS

First-grader, or cloud-based data stream?

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

Mayoral race — a battle of two Bostons

Nation & World

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Security forces inspected the scene of a car bomb attack on Sadoun Street in downtown Baghdad Monday.

Coordinated car bombs slay scores in Baghdad

The bombings tore through mostly Shi’ite areas, killing at least 66 people and injuring nearly 200.

Politics

President Obama honored the military in his Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.

Obama offers reminder that Afghan war persists

The president paid homage to the military — especially troops serving in Afghanistan — in his Memorial Day address.

Business

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Chief executive Cynthia Arcate said state was like Wild West.

PowerOptions entering the solar energy market

The state’s largest power-buying consortium is starting with four local colleges and schools that will add solar arrays to their properties.

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Book Review

Dan Brown puts an amnesic Robert Langdon at a Florence hospital before sending him off to decipher clues in Dante’s writing and solve a mystery.

‘Inferno’ by Dan Brown

Compared to Brown’s last novel, the schlocky “The Lost Symbol,” his latest feels like a literary masterpiece.

Opinion

“Are radicals a key ingredient of any healthy society, whether they manage to convince the rest of us to join them or not?”

Farah Stockman 

Magazine

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The great froyo gold rush
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10 best amusement and theme parks in New England
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Restart: The future of the Marathon
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Greater Boston’s top spots to live

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The best-selling author discusses his craft with Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory. Proceeds will go to the One Fund Boston.

Ideas

“The instinct to preserve the Copley Square shrine is understandable, even noble. But the question of how to preserve spontaneous memorials is raising new kinds of problems for archivists, pitting the limits of our capacity to preserve against our unlimited capacity for testimony and grief.”

Ruth Graham, on the challenge of preserving memorials