Brown, Warren neck and neck in Globe poll

Scott Brown leads Elizabeth Warren 39 percent to 37 percent, largely unchanged from the Globe’s March poll that also showed Brown leading by two percentage points.

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Economy sputters into summer again

The cycle of robust activity in the early months of the year, followed by a relapse in the early summer, feels like a replay of 2011, writes Steven Syre.

Traders worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday.

Dow plunges 275 points after dismal jobs report

The stock market suffered its worst day of the year Friday amid concern about a global economic slowdown.

Marian McGovern was the first woman to command the Massachusetts State Police.

State Police head McGovern to retire

After three decades of service with the Massachusetts State Police, Superintendent Marian McGovern plans to retire in July, officials said.

Clay Buchholz improved to 5-2 on the year.

Red Sox 7, Blue Jays 2

Buchholz leads Red Sox past Blue Jays

Clay Buchholz won for the first time in four starts and got his sixth straight victory in Toronto, the most ever by a Red Sox pitcher.

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Celtics 101, Heat 91

Celtics defeat Heat, series now at 2-1

Kevin Garnett had 24 points and 11 rebounds and Rajon Rondo scored 21 points to give the Celtics their first win in the Eastern Conference finals.

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Red flags on the beach

The red flags now used to warn bathers about high bacteria counts are about as useful as putting up old dish rags on the life guard stands at Boston Harbor beaches, writes Lawrence Harmon.

Abraham Lincoln

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Whassup, citizens!

Many of us have grown accustomed to chatty informality — but why would politicians let this style overrun their usual tones of statesmanship and decorum?

Photo released by the Keegan family shows Marina Keegan and her brother, Pierce, of Wayland.

The Podium

Marina Keegan and the gift of time

Channel 7 news reporter Janet Wu reflects on the sudden death of young writer Marina Keegan.

Jason Zimmer, a supervisor for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, held a northern red-bellied cooter being released into Burrage Pond in Hanson.

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The best photos taken this week by Globe staff photographers, as chosen by the Globe’s photo desk.

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Gaspee Days Weekend.

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2012 New England Weekend Fun Guide

Brian McGrory

Warren: ‘I won’t deny who I am’
Businessman showing an ID card

To Grammar’s House

Identification, please

Opinion | The Podium

Thanks to government, Monson is back

Katy Hayes, with her husband, Al, in 2010 at a Dallas hospital, lost all four limbs to a flesh-eating disease two years ago.

Brigham considers first US double arm transplant

Boston Capital

Perils of health care price controls

Curt Schilling put up $5m in gold
Miami's Dwayne Wade and the Celtics’ Paul Pierce scrambled for a loose ball in the second game of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals Wednesday.

Bob Ryan

Feel great about the Celtics despite the loss
Jacqui Grilli and Ahmad Maksoud rehearse a skating routine from “Roller Disco the Musical!”

Stages

Roller disco inspires parody musical in Cambridge
The Joachim Koester show includes “Tarantism”

Art Review

Joachim Koester at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center
Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd pitching at Fenway Park for the Red Sox in 1986.

Book review

‘They Call Me Oil Can’
Nov. 22, 1963: Stunned readers saw the first pictures and read the first news clips from Dallas reporting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The simple sign “President is dead” alerted those further back in the crowd to the terrible news.

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Boston’s Newspaper Row

Sports

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Mets 8, Cardinals 0

Mets’ Johan Santana no-hits Cards

Johan Santana, who missed last season following shoulder surgery, pitched the first no-hitter in New York Mets’ history Friday night over the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Jermaine Goffigan Park, overgrown with weeds, at the corner of Blue Hill Avenue and Quincy Street in Roxbury.

Memorial site for youngsters targeted for housing

A proposal to build a mixed-use development at Jermaine ­Goffigan Park in Roxbury has alarmed some neighbors.

Columnists

Mitt Romney was the governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007.

SCOT LEHIGH

What Romney did and didn’t do for Mass.

Boston Capital

Perils of health care price controls

opinion | Joan Wickersham

‘I forgot I had a baby’

Yvonne Abraham

Together at the end
Miami's Dwayne Wade and the Celtics’ Paul Pierce scrambled for a loose ball in the second game of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals Wednesday.

Bob Ryan

Feel great about the Celtics despite the loss

Brian McGrory

Warren: ‘I won’t deny who I am’

Joan Vennochi

What cool, hip entrepreneurs want from Mass.

Edward L. Glaeser

Does US need another imperial president
Chinese architect Wang Shu stands in front of the Xiangshan campus of the China Academy of Art.

Juliette Kayyem

Election season requires listening, not just talking

Tech Lab

Google, Yahoo, Bing search for new users
Doc Rivers had Rajon Rondo’s back on this non-call in OT, in which Rondo scored all 12 Celtics’ points.

Dan Shaughnessy | Heat 115, Celtics 111

Rondo couldn’t have given more

Brian McGrory

A miserable start to Mass. Senate race

Business

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Job seekers gathered at a career fair Thursday in Los Angeles.

Weak US jobs report shows growth slowing

The unexpectedly dismal report may have an impact on everything from the presidential election to the actions of the Federal Reserve.

Politics

Mitt Romney spoke at a rally Tuesday in Las Vegas, Nev.

Mitt Romney still worth $190m to $250m

Forms filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission showed his financial holdings, but oftentimes only in the broadest of values that federal law requires.

Nation & World

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George Zimmerman appeared at a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla., in April.

George Zimmerman’s bond revoked

A judge has revoked the bond of the man charged with killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, ordering him returned to jail within 48 hours.

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Boston Pops’ Keith Lockhart to conduct Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert

Lockhart will conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra in the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II.

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Jared Gilman stars as Sam in Wes Anderson's ”Moonrise Kingdom.”

Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ rises to the occasion

He lives up to his promise in the tale of very young love.

“My insurance only covered the roof and the inside of the attic.’’

Ismael Luna,  on the Western Massachusetts tornado in 2011

Magazine

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
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At a tiny Provincetown house, a sweet terrace
The cover for the May 6 2012 issue

Homes for sale for $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, and $1 million

Opinion

“Our issue is not that we don’t graduate enough exceptional scientists, but rather that the funding is uncertain.”

Lorraine Egan 

Ideas

“Super-empowered and quickly deployable, the Pentagon has become a one-stop shop for any policy objective, no matter how far removed from traditional warfare.”

Thanassis Cambanis,  on the amazing expanding Pentagon