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Moody’s cuts credit ratings on 15 major banks

Moody’s downgraded large banks including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup, stating their long-term prospects for growth are shrinking.

Will Middlebrooks was pumped after hitting a two-run home run in the eighth inning.

Red Sox 6, Marlins 5

Red Sox rally to sweep Marlins

The Red Sox broke out for a three-run eighth inning as they came back to sweep the Miami Marlins in their interleague series at Fenway.

Adopted son of Jerry Sandusky claims abuse

As jurors deliberated, a lawyer for one of Sandusky’s adopted children said the man told authorities the former Penn State assistant football coach abused him.

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Mitt Romney offered a series of proposals on the issue and recast some of the hard-line positions he took during the GOP primary race.

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‘Your Sister’s Sister’ is graceful indie farce

Two sisters and a guy in a backwoods cabin, talking and drinking and occasionally misbehaving — that’s all there is to Lynn Shelton’s low-budget comedy-drama, writes Ty Burr.

Take 2: ‘Your Sister's Sister’

Janice Page and Ty Burr review the independent film 'Your Sister's Sister' in this edition of Take 2.

Josiah McElheny’s “Island Universe.”

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Infinity up on trial

Josiah McElheny’s exhibit at the ICA questions assumptions about art, museums — even science.

From left: Thomas Sadoski, Sam Waterston, and Jeff Daniels in “The Newsroom,’’ about a fictional 24-hour TV news network.

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‘The Newsroom’ delivers the goods

The strong ensemble cast navigates through dialogue that is clever, funny, inspiring, and frequently exhausting.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, left, introduces Mitt Romney, right, as Paul Ryan looks on during a campaign stop Monday in Janesville, Wis.

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Campaigning with connections vs. cash

The sudden infusion of huge sums of money into races is changing the way the two parties approach campaigns, writes Joshua Green.

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Nine firefighters died in the June 17, 1972 fire, making it one of the most heartbreaking tragedies in Boston Fire Department history.

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Frank McClelland, an award-winning chef and owner of L’Espalier and Sel de la Terre in Boston and Natick, grows much of the food for his restaurants at his Apple Street Farm.

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Chef Frank McClelland delivers fresh food from field to fork
New York tries to lure biotech companies to its state during the BIO conference in Boston.

Opinion | The Podium

BIO convention — or travel show?
Steve Carell and Keira Knightley play neighbors thrown together on a road trip by the news that an asteroid will strike Earth in a week.

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Carell and Knightley join forces

Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld in 1991.

Opinion | Making Health Care Affordable

Weld’s 1992 action at root of health care cost crisis
Kevin Youkilis is the subject of many trade rumors.

On Baseball

Where might Kevin Youkilis be traded?

A hard road from public aid recipient to public servant
The fiery Merida shows off her archery skills in Pixar’s new animated movie, “Brave.’’

Friday Preview | Movie Review

Pixar’s ‘Brave’ new world is a mixed bag
From left: Scott H. Severance, Maureen Keiller, Diego Klock-Perez, and Leigh Barrett in “Car Talk: The Musical!!!”

Stage Review

A finely tuned ‘Car Talk’

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Who buys a $10,000 watch these days?

BIO sets up potential partners through speed meetings

Post-Watergate reforms fade

TECH LAB

Google vs. Bing: Which search engine hits the spot?

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NHL DRAFT PREVIEW

Henrik Samuelsson, son of Ulf, could be fit with Bruins

Will Bruins President Cam Neely, famously sidelined by an Ulf Samuelsson hit, sign off on drafting his son?

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Two found guilty in 2010 killing of teen in Dorchester

The two men pulled 14-year-old Nicholas Fomby-Davis off his scooter and shot him to death, a jury found.

Columnists

Bob Ryan

Robert Parish among fine group at Tradition
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been touting the health care plan to the press.

Joan vennochi

Obama tries too late to sell health care law

Juliette Kayyem

Immigration can be solved in the middle

scot lehigh

Scott Brown bests Vicki Kennedy

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Forget the facts; our minds are made up
Roger Clemens walked out of federal court a vindicated man on Monday.

Bob Ryan

I’m happy Roger Clemens was acquitted
Kites fill the sky over Ahmadabad, India, as residents compete from their rooftops during the annual kite festival in January.

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A man, a movie, and a kite
Clockwise from top left: No parking signs in the South End; Mayor Menino; and a ‘parklet’ in Philadelphia.

Brian McGrory

Mayor Menino’s war against cars

Joanna Weiss

Revealing the boundaries of taste

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The darker side of the bio industry

Adrian Walker

A hero in the war on poverty

Innovation Economy

Lighting the way for better bulbs

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Roslindale, MA -- 06/20/12 -- Josef Porteleki checks on the stock in the Roslindale Hardware store, which he has owned for 45 years. Porteleki is 65 years old, and plans to work full-time until he is 70 years old in order to feel financially secure enough to retire. (Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe)

In the 401(k) era, 70 may be the new age to retire

A new study from Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research shows less than half of US workers will have enough money saved to retire at 65.

Politics

Obama to hold fund-raisers in Boston

President Obama will make his first trip of the year to Mass. on Monday when he appears in Boston for a series of fund-raisers.

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US Commerce Secretary Bryson resigns

John Bryson resigned less than two weeks after being treated for a seizure following a series of minor traffic accidents.

Arts

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Movie Review

“Payback” is based on a book by Margaret Atwood.

‘Payback’ asks what it means to pay back a debt to society

Inspired by Margaret Atwood’s book, this documentary is conceptually audacious, if intellectually muddled.

Style

India Hicks at the Boston Design Center.

India Hicks is inspired by her father’s designs

Hicks returns to Boston with a lot on her mind.

“These are issues I haven’t talked about to anyone . . . not even my closest friends.”

A therapy patient,  on mental care privacy

Magazine

The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?
The cover for the June 10 2012 issue

5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson
The cover for the June 3 2012 issue

40 ideas for your New England summer weekends
The cover for the May 27 2012 issue

What does it take to become a Disney star?

Opinion

“Much of the public already thinks of health care reform as the end of America as they know it, because that’s the way opponents relentlessly portrayed it.”

Joan Vennochi 

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