Driver charged in crash that killed 3 BU students

A 20-year-old US citizen is charged in New Zealand with three counts of careless driving causing death and four counts of careless driving causing injury.

Two decades later, Morning Star Baptist violence still resonates

A 1992 stabbing and shooting during a solemn funeral turned the Mattapan sanctuary into just another street corner, and Boston reached a breaking point.

Effort to honor Vietnam veterans is sputtering

This Memorial Day is supposed to be the curtain-raiser for a series of gatherings to mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of US involvement in Vietnam. Yet few events are planned.

Path to success with Posse Foundation

The 23-year-old leadership development program places diverse groups of 10 students from the same urban communities in prestigious colleges and universities each year.

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High-risk video game venture has R.I., Schilling reeling

After missing a $1.1 million payment and a plea from Schilling for more assistance, 38 Studios has said it does not not have enough money to pay its employees.

brian mcgrory

Schilling a hypocrite on small government

Maybe this experience will give Schilling a greater appreciation for government. But that, like his video game, is probably pure fantasy.

Jonathan Papelbon

Jonathan Papelbon makes a seamless switch to Phillies and National League

After a quiet introductory period with his new team, the former Red Sox closer is no longer hesitant to open his mouth.

art review

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The Pop artist’s show at the Museum of Fine Arts exudes style, spirit, and humor. So what’s missing? That’s part of the point.

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

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From left: Bassist François Moutin, pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, and drummer Ari Hoenig balance the familiar and the abstract, the reassuring and the adventurous in their music.

With jazz trio Pilc Moutin Hoenig, anything can happen
Craig A. Wheeler, chief executive of Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Momenta: The perfect Mass. success story
In a circle from left forefront: Actors Alexander Cook, Michael Fordham Walker, Kerry Dowling, director Richard McElvain, playwright Tom Grady, and actors Jen Alison Lewis (far right) and Carly Waldman rehearse Grady’s “Hand Down the Chesterfield” at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

Stages

Boston Theater Marathon XIV: 53 plays, 10 hours

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics are better than 76ers, and they know it
June 29, 1944: Harvard President James B. Conant and Reginald Fitz, president of the Alumni Association, led graduates down the steps of Widener Library. With combined military and academic ceremonies illustrating – as Conant remarked in his report to the alumni – “the effect of total war on a university dedicated to the arts of peace,” Harvard observed its 293d commencement. In all schools of the university, Conant conferred only 251 degrees, the smallest number since 1875.

From the Archives

College commencements in Boston

Implant uses brain signals to control robotic arm
Burlington, MA., May 16, 2012: Kids at the Pine Glen School in Burlington check out their favorite smartphone and/or tablet apps for a story on apps for kids during the Memorial Day holiday. For Business section. Hiawatha Bray is the reporter. Photo by Evan McGlinn for The Boston Globe.

Tech Lab

Apps to entertain kids on long car trips
Rafael Reif

MIT taps provost Reif as university president
Andrew Taylor with College Fashionista founder Amy Levin (left) and style blogger Shayna Straus at a clinic.

style

12 tips for looking professional at a job interview
The pushcart vendors in Boston’s Haymarket district have resisted new approaches from pre-Big Dig ways.

Opinion | Paul McMorrow

Haymarket pushcart vendors need to embrace change

Yvonne Abraham

Putting on the brakes
MassArt fashion graduate Zachary William Allen with Sarah Atwood. Behind them are (from left) Nikita Washington, Caroline Wells, Jess Clements, and Shauna Matthieu. Allen says the designs were influenced by samurai warriors.

Style

Meet some of Boston’s top fashion graduates

Sports

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Analysis

Kevin Youkilis has been on the disabled list, and may have to compete with Will Middlebrooks for his job when he returns.

If dealing Kevin Youkilis, Red Sox need to go young

The team is so far from contending that it needs to build prospect depth, Peter Abraham says.

Metro

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SJC takes narrow view of DUI convictions

The state’s highest court ruled that drivers who admit to sufficient facts, but are not convicted, cannot face increased sanctions under Melanie’s Law.

Columnists

Boston Capital

Schilling’s cash and credibility crisis
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joan wickersham

The invasion of the garden snatcher
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid failed to support reform, but has since apologized.

JOSHUA GREEN

Taking on the F-word

Yvonne Abraham

Putting on the brakes

brian mcgrory

Schilling a hypocrite about smaller government

Joan Vennochi

Warren’s voice against Wall Street gets tuned out
President Bush, right, met with the all-male joint chiefs and combatant commanders in 2007; there are still no women combatant commanders.

Juliette Kayyem

Urging women to Be All That You Can’t Be

Derrick Z. Jackson

Mitt Romney failed to man up on high school bullying

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics are better than 76ers, and they know it
The loss by LeBron James, left, Dwyane Wade and the Heat on Tuesday dropped Miami into a 1-1 tie with the Pacers in the second round of the playoffs.

Bob Ryan

NBA playoffs a big letdown so far

Jeff Jacoby

On health care, state doesn’t know best

Brian McGrory

Stonehill College dragged into Yahoo scandal

Arts

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Book Review

Above: Jackie Kennedy Onassis (second from left) with Bess Myerson, architect Philip Johnson (left), and Ed Koch after a 1976 press conference about preserving New York’s Grand Central Station.

‘Jackie After O’ by Tina Cassidy

The book argues that Kennedy Onassis became her own person after the 1975 death of her second husband.

Politics

Political notebook

Romney catching up in fund-raising with $40.1m month

The total is just shy of the $43.6 million President Obama and the Democratic National Committee said they raised last month.

Business

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Facebook shares start trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market Friday.

In IPO, Facebook sells 421 million shares priced at $38

The initial public offering generated $16 billion in the third-biggest stock debut in history. The social network is more valuable than Ford and General Motors.

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Prosecutor’s report shows struggle before Trayvon Martin’s death

Medical examiners found evidence of marijuana in Trayvon Martin’s system after he was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, according to an autopsy released Thursday.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

Tadanobu Asano (left) and Taylor Kitsch in a scene from “Battleship,” inspired by the game of the same name.

With ‘Battleship,’ ‘Transformers’ goes to sea

Hasbro’s corporate dreams of duplicating its success with that unabashedly toyetic franchise are precisely what led to “Battleship.”

“It was a major turning point for the city of Boston that had national implications. The church mobilized in a way no one expected.’’

Rev. Eugene Rivers,  on violence in Morning Star Baptist Church 20 years ago

Magazine

The cover for the May 13 2012 issue

The Boston waterfront has arrived
The cover for the May 6 2012 issue

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

Opinion

“Republicans may win control of the Senate and White House this fall. Then they’ll be the frustrated ones.”

Joshua Green, on the filibuster

Ideas

“Genoeconomics is a field with a nightmare scenario already built into it—that banks might demand saliva tests before granting loans, or insurance companies could raise premiums for customers genetically predisposed to risk.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the search for the money gene