Students fight sexual assault accusations

A growing number of alleged assailants ? including some at area schools ? are pushing back.

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It was the second high-profile legal setback this week for the attorney general and gubernatorial candidate.

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Some of the people who became sick at an Avicii concert showed signs of a Molly overdose, police said.

The roses were in bloom in Boston Public Garden recently ? a decade after a tough winter destroyed two-thirds of the bushes

Public Garden?s roses delight after winter?s bite

A decade after a devastating winter destroyed two-thirds of the bushes, the roses are enjoying their most beautiful bloom yet.

kevin cullen

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Kevin Cullen on what the new documentary ?Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger? does?and doesn?t?reveal.

Boston, MA 6/26/2014 Billy Joel (cq) in concert at Fenway Park on Thursday June 26, 2014. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) Topic: 27joel Reporter: Sarah Rodman

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Billy Joel rocked the house at Fenway Park on Thursday night.

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In a set list 24 songs strong, the hits were plentiful.

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Rabid fans were treated to a few gems as Joel dug deeper for tunes.

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The piano man remains in remarkably strong voice and spirit.

Music Review

Billy Joel hits all the right notes for adoring Fenway crowd

A deeply satisfying show proved that the piano man still has a remarkably strong voice and spirit.

NBA Draft

Celtics bolster backcourt with Marcus Smart, James Young

In selecting the two guards, questions seem likely to arise about Rajon Rondo?s future with the team.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

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It looks like the Celtics are taking the long road back to NBA relevancy. There are no backdoor cuts back to contention.

Opinion

OPINION | Steve Almond

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What NFL officials really only care about is the league?s massive profit margin.

Capital

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Tracking the stories that the Massachusetts political community is talking about on Twitter.

Globe must-reads

Cape Cod Things to Do
The yellow line will no longer be used as a buffer.

JOANNA WEISS

Court is naive on buffer zones
Ashley Urquhart (left) and her mother, Arline, will benefit from the minimum wage increase signed into law by Governor Deval Patrick, but ?it?s still not enough to survive,? said Arline.

Analysis

Higher wages, lingering depths
Children posed under a sculpture of the Olympic rings in England.

Shirley Leung

Olympic dreams need public input
The deeper the public delves into the debate, it seems, the more skeptical it grows.

Weekly poll

An Olympic-sized split over bringing games to Boston
Former IRS official Lois Lerner.

Ex-IRS official sought audit involving GOP senator
Mugshots of Whitey Bulger in 1959 at Alcatraz.

Movie Review

The victims are the star of ?Whitey?
Eighty-five percent of male boomers and 61 percent of female boomers report sexual satisfaction is critical to their relationships and quality of life.

Magazine

The complicated sex life of baby boomers
Fans at the Banshee in Dorchester celebrated the US advancing to the Round of 16 in the World Cup.

SPORTS MEDIA

US soccer in World Cup a ratings success
Beluga, or white, whales usually live in Canadian waters; one has been reported in the Taunton River, officials said.

Beluga whale spotted in Taunton River
The historic Freedom Trail in Downtown Crossing.

Pedestrian-friendly development leads to profits
El Salt archeological site, where scientists recovered the remains of Neanderthal excrement, providing evidence they ate both meat and plants.

Study shows Neanderthals ate their vegetables

Sports

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ON SOCCER

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US got help in World Cup ? now it must get wins

Surviving the ?Group of Death? was admirable, and as their coach said, it?s a new tournament now.

Metro

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Celebrants tossed Makenzie Lukas, 22, of Somerville at City Hall Plaza in Boston.

US fans look past loss as team advances in World Cup

Bostonians celebrated the US soccer team?s advancement into elimination phase of the tournament.

Columnists

JOAN WICKERSHAM

A waterbus on the Charles?
An apartment and retail building on Albany Street is one of many construction projects in Boston.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Why Boston should scrap the casino
Word of mouth is what first tipped off Red Auerbach (right) to Bill Russell; that couldn?t happen today. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green)

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Draft process different for Red Auerbach

Yvonne Abraham

Consider the children

ALEX BEAM

Level playing field? Not a chance
John Boehner attends a press conference last week in Washington.

JOSHUA GREEN

It?s still Boehner?s game
Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba.

JEFF JACOBY

Free Cuba, then lift embargo

Shirley leung

Winners and losers in casino decision

Adrian Walker

Longer odds for casinos
Democratic gubernatorial candidates Treasurer Steve Grossman and Attorney General Martha Coakley.

SCOT LEHIGH

Coakley, Grossman fail casino test
After opting out of his contractLeBron James has another ?decision? to make. AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

LeBron scenarios are intriguing

Boston Capital

National Grid?s shifty route to lower tax bills

Politics

Hillary Clinton recently made a series of statements about her wealth that did not sit well with her critics, who could try to get back at her party for President Obama?s attacks on Mitt Romney?s wealth in the 2012 election.

Hillary Clinton?s wealth becoming political question

Opponents may seek to cast her as too out of touch.

Nation & World

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A woman and youths, one carrying a wounded baby, fled the site of a bomb attack in the city of Aleppo on Thursday.

Obama seeks $500m to train Syria opposition

The move could significantly escalate US involvement in the civil war.

Business

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Sarah Flint, 25, of Lincoln, is on the rise in the fashion world ? her shoes are popular with celebrities, they are sold at prestigious boutiques, and they are produced in a famed Italian factory.

Sarah Flint?s shoes earn a place on the shelf

The most remarkable thing about the Lincoln native making a name for herself: she?s just 25.

Arts

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Stage Review

?The Events? stars Derbhle Crotty as a gay minister and Clifford Samuel as a young man who shoots up her choir rehearsal.

The unspeakable in ?The Events?

The quietly moving drama presented at Yale Repertory Theatre explores the tortured aftermath of a killing spree.

Movies

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Optimus Prime and his fellow robots return in the fourth Transformers movie, starring Mark Wahlberg and Nicola Peltz.

A loud explosion of CGI in ?Transformers:Age of Extinction?

Mark Wahlberg joins the Transformers franchise.

Globe Insiders

Design New England

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A hill-crest compound creates its own sense of drama on the former estate of a film legend.

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Considering parole for a teen murderer
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Things to do around New England every weekend of summer 2014
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Aereo wants a TV revolution, if the Supreme Court will let it
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Vertical living in the South End

Ideas

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They?re perfectly engineered to push psychological buttons you didn?t even know you had. Here?s how.