Facebook sets price range for IPO

The company, which will seek between $28 and $35 a share, is valuing itself at as much as $96 billion in its initial public offering.

Poll: Romney gains on Obama in three swing states

A new poll shows a virtual tie between President Obama and Mitt Romney in Florida and Ohio, and a single-digit lead for the president in Pennsylvania.

Gasless BP stations get new supplies

Many of the stations that had been without gas for weeks finally got some relief when new suppliers stepped in with shipments.

Osama bin Laden

Documents show frustrated bin Laden

In letters from his last hideout, Osama bin Laden fretted about dysfunction in his terrorist network, according to documents released today.

“This Is Not a Film” considers the plight of Iranian director Jafar Panahi, confined to his home and banned from making films.

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‘This is Not a Film’ a sly commentary on Iran

Iran’s Jafar Panahi has been banned from making movies for 20 years, so this is, technically, “not a film.” What is it, then? It’s the world within an apartment, and it’s quietly devastating.

Igor Vovkovinskiy being fitted for custom-made new shoes by workers at Reebok in Canton.

Reebok measures feet of tallest man in US for new shoes

Igor Vovkovinskiy had started a social media campaign to get new shoes to help ease his pain, and Reebok offered to fit him for a free pair of shoes.

Edward L. Glaeser

The keys to keeping Boston free of riots

Confrontational methods that authorities have traditionally used could easily have turned Occupy Boston into a bloody urban explosion.

About 30,000 people jammed City Hall Plaza in 1974 to see the Celtics in post-playoff celebrations. The ceremony included Johnny the Most, then-owner Bob Schmertz, and legend Red Auerbach. NBA Finals MVP John Havlicek (pictured) shook hands with fans in the parade motorcade.

From the Archives | Photos

Celtics in the NBA playoffs

This selection from our archives looks back at the 1960s and 1970s, when Celtics championships seemed as expected as snow in December or fireworks on the Fourth of July.

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70-acre Nantucket compound

Nantucket home on sale for $59m

Yvonne Abraham

Bound by a shared act of heroism

Sex assault case haunts gambling director

Munch’s ‘Scream’ sells for $119.9m at auction
Harvard President Drew Faust (left) and MIT President Susan Hockfield announced a new partnership in online education at the Hyatt Hotel in Cambridge.

Harvard, MIT plan free Web classes
Robert Covelle of the Medford Housing Authority

Housing chief’s removal sought
Paul Pierce led the Celtics to a win in Game 2 in Atlanta.

Dan Shaughnessy

Paul Pierce may be one of Celtics’ greatest now
Blake Pfeil as Seymour with the blood-thirsty plant Audrey II in “Little Shop of Horrors.”

STAGE REVIEW

‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is serious fun

INSIDE GOLF

Boston Golf Club charts own course now
Paul Pierce scored off the opening tap with a spinning layup, triggering a 36-point, 14-rebound, 4-assist game.

Bob Ryan

Pierce gives Celtics a game for the ages

Baked Alaska is back on menus

Brian McGrory

At Liberty Mutual, accounting to no one

Sports

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Junior Seau, 1969-2012

NFL stunned by Junior Seau’s death

The league, beset by deaths of players with brain trauma, must now hunt for answers after Seau died in what police said was likely a suicide.

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Joseph Wright at his arraignment in Lynn District Court on Thursday.

Double-murder suspect ordered held without bail

A 23-year-old man was arraigned today in Lynn on charges that he murdered his mother and grandmother, slitting their throats from “ear to ear.”

Columnists

Edward L. Glaeser

The keys to keeping Boston free of riots

Tech Lab

Latest Nook e-reader is apt to make customers glow
A vessel monitored an oil burn in the area of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

Joan Vennochi

The BP aftermath? Nothing

Juliette Kayyem

Al Qaeda loses its way

Scot Lehigh

Massachusetts: The candidate state

Jeff Jacoby

What Brown’s and Warren’s tax returns show

joanna weiss

A reason to turn off digital devices
Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz handed the ball over to manager Bobby Valentine after allowing 5 runs in the seventh inning against the Athletics.

Dan Shaughnessy

Clay Buchholz keeps winning, somehow

JULIETTE KAYYEM

A revolution: women fight in Marines

Yvonne Abraham

How far we’ve come on race — and yet must go

JOAN VENNOCHI

Nonprofit greed’s real victims

Innovation Economy

What if? The question that powers Boston’s innovation economy

Arts

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MOVIE REVIEW

Superhero stars (from left) Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo join together.

‘Marvel’s The Avengers’ is action-packed comic book fun

There’s almost nothing to dislike; it’s as close as a movie can come to the fantastical reality of a good comic book.

Politics

DeFranco collects enough signatures to challenge Warren

Marisa DeFranco, a North Shore immigration lawyer, has collected enough voter signatures to qualify for a primary race with Elizabeth Warren.

Business

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Beyond vegetables: Chris Kurth’s Siena Farms in Sudbury raises free-range chickens whose eggs are sold in a wide variety of venues.

Farmers put focus on retailing

Agriculture’s new retail-oriented entrepreneurs are finding success by becoming more diverse — offering everything from baby lettuces to farm tours.

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Blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, in wheel chair, met his wife Yuan Weijing, right, daughter Chen Kesi, in blue shirt at second right, and son Chen Kerui, left, at a hospital in Beijing on Wednesday.

US confirms blind activist wants to leave China

The rural Chinese activist at the center of a diplomatic standoff between Washington and Beijing now wants to leave China with his family, a US spokeswoman said.

Style

Philip Treacy creates infamous hats for the famous.

Philip Treacy is a man of many hats

The celebrated milliner is creating a hat for a historic fashion show in Portsmouth, N.H.

“I’m very angry and very upset about this. Someone has made a huge mistake. It’s going to have to be dealt with.”

Sylvia Jean Baumeister,  on the Medford Housing Authority scandal

Magazine

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Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
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144 free things to do around Boston
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In an artist’s garden
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Are fat baseball players a problem?

Opinion

“If only what people see in Congress got them mad, and kept them mad.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“Fiction’s happy endings make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is. But believing that lie has important effects for society.”

Jonathan Gottschall, on why stories are good for us