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Pro-bailout party projected to win Greek election

The winning party immediately proposed forming a pro-euro coalition government, a development that eased fears of potential widespread economic turmoil.

Military makes move as Egyptians vote

The ruling military issued an interim constitution Sunday that gave it the lion’s share of power over the new president.

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Webb Simpson wins the US Open

Simpson won the US Open Sunday for his first major title.

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What women want in the maternity ward

From aromatherapy to jacuzzis and acupuncture, hospitals are using a range of personalized services to woo mothers-to-be.

In Pescadero, Calif., a restored lighthouse keeper’s quarters is a family hostel next to one of the tallest lighthouses in the country. On the French Riviera in Nice, the Villa Saint Exupéry hostel has a restaurant and lounge.

Kid friendly

Nine family-friendly hostels in the US and beyond

Today, hostels are more boutique hotel than dirty digs, where vacationing families, with children of all ages, are welcome.

President Obama said, “the private sector is doing fine.”

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Panic sets in at the White House

The White House and the Obama campaign have been exposed as adrift and out of touch, writes John E. Sununu.

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Chief of Commonweath Development Doug Foy attend a press conference in 2003, where Romney announced a plan to redirect the focus of the Renewable Energy Trust.

opinion | tom keane

Is good Gov. Romney still there?

The Mitt Romney who strides the national stage today is almost unrecognizable from the man who was once Massachusetts’s governor.

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Introducing the human computer

How a circuit made of people could be the building block of a new field.

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Join a conversation with US Representative Barney Frank, who represents the Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts.

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After some games at Turner Field in Atlanta, kids get to run the bases.

Kid friendly

10 top US baseball parks for families
Director Alex Timbers (forefront) onstage with Ruthie Ann Miles (left) during the first rehearsal of “Here Lies Love” at Mass MoCA.

The immersive tale of Imelda Marcos
Robert C. Hinckley painting,

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Milestones in 200 years of the New England Journal of Medicine

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Theater audiences are growing older
A DNA display was ready to be unpacked for the BIO convention at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

BIO convention comes back to Boston
Joe Resnek has gone from a ‘‘Chelsea punk’’ to a Harvard student to a speechwriter in the Obama administration. He recently listened as Alan Solomont, the US ambassador to Spain, practiced a speech.

Joe Resnek is writing his way to the top
From Josiah McElheny’s curiosity about cosmology came “Island Universe’’ (2008), a collection of glass and chrome starburst-like sculptures that some critics consider his most ambitious work.

Josiah McElheny’s expanding universe
Derek Fisher, 37, has emerged as the first guard off the bench for the Thunder as he seeks his sixth NBA title.

Sunday basketball notes

Amid calls for ouster, Derek Fisher keeps going

Sunday football notes

Steve Spagnuolo eager to get started with Saints

On second thought

’76 Yale crew stood up for women’s rights
Cruise’s latest film is the new release “Rock of Ages.”

Critic’s Notebook

Tom Cruise continues his odd trajectory

Syrian President Bashar Assad (center) at a 2011 ceremony in Damascus to mark the 38th anniversary of the Arab-Israeli war.

The world according to Bashar Assad

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Andrew Wheating is chasing an Olympic berth

Recent injuries and up-down-up performances make Wheating an unpredictable quantity, very similar to the way it was in 2008, when he secured a spot on the US Olympic team.

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A father’s sacrifice is his son’s calling

For the sons and daughters of the nine firefighters killed in the 1972 Verdome Hotel fire, including BFD District Fire Chief Richard Magee Jr., Father’s Day remains bittersweet.

Columnists

opinion | jeff jacoby

Vulgar speech can’t be banned, but should be curbed

joan vennochi

Another Kennedy spin?

YVONNE ABRAHAM

Still a long way to go for gay youth

Opinion | JOANNA WEISS

The word from dads at home

Dan Shaughnessy

Some bad vibrations at Wrigley Field
Verastem executives (from left) Robert Forrester, Robert Weinberg, and Christoph Westphal.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Some venture firms find both ideas and the money
Actor Robert Young, the perfect dad in “Father Knows Best,” is surrounded by his television family.

Beverly Beckham

The things today’s dads do

Adrian Walker

For immigrants, a sigh of relief

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Look to Canadian authors for a good read
Nik Wallenda walks a cable to practice for his walk over Niagara Falls Friday.

opinion | Scot Lehigh

Going over the top at Niagara Falls

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Scott Brown stuck in neutral

Yvonne Abraham

In Wellesley High’s you’re-not-special speech, larger truths

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On The Job

Greg Tremelling inside a truck container built for a large-scale battery system.

A123 engineer making batteries better, bigger

Greg Tremelling, 31, is an electrical engineering manager who leads the big battery team at the Waltham advanced battery maker.

Politics

Mitt Romney appeared at a campaign stop in Brunswick, Ohio, on Sunday.

Romney says he would help young immigrants

The candidate’s comments represent a further softening of his rhetoric on immigration since the GOP primary campaign ended.

Nation & World

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Polls: Socialists win French parliament race

French President Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party was projected to win a solid majority in parliamentary elections Sunday, fortifying his anti-austerity push.

Arts

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Critic’s Notebook

Cruise’s latest film is the new release “Rock of Ages.”

Tom Cruise continues his odd trajectory with ‘Rock of Ages’

Remember when we thought we knew who Tom Cruise was? Our mistake.

Books

book review

‘The Obamians’ by James Mann

Mann’s “Obamians” is the successor volume to “Rise of the Vulcans,” his sketch of the foreign-policy worldview of those surrounding George W. Bush.

Travel

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On N.H.’s Isles of Shoals, spend a night at the Oceanic Hotel

A day or overnight on this New Hampshire gem in the Isles of Shoals pares away centuries of clutter.

“When you tell me or my father we want something done, we get it done. We either do it the Chelsea way or the right way, but it gets done.”

Joe Resnek 

Magazine

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What if spanking works?
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5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson
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40 ideas for your New England summer weekends
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What does it take to become a Disney star?

Opinion

“Would [Mitt] Romney do better [than President Obama]? The pragmatic man who was once governor might; one feels less certain about the presumptive GOP nominee.”

Tom Keane 

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