POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

GOP criticizes Obama over video ad on bin Laden raid

By Callum Borchers

The president’s new video ad questions whether his Republican challenger would have ordered the raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Obama campaign workers try to prepare for new voter ID laws

By Michael D. Shear

Field workers for President Obama’s campaign fanned across the country over the weekend in an effort to confront a barrage of new voter identification laws.

The White House’s top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that the Secret Service’s prostitution scandal did not weaken the president’s security.

Analysts, US say chances of war with Iran have diminished

By James Risen

They cite a series of factors that, for now, argue against a conflict.

By Callum Borchers

President Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that Homeland Security is particularly concerned about Al Qaeda’s presence in Yemen.

A US drone strike killed three suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal belt on Sunday, an official said.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

By Juliette Kayyem

The announcement that the Marine Corps will open up its infantry officer school, as well as some ground battalions, to females was a revolution 236 years in the making.

editorial

Prom dresses: Rebel without a clue

In general, we all have the right to offend. But in most cases, mature people take care not to say things that seem racist or sexist or harmful, because that is the civil thing to do.

JAMES CARROLL

A counterculture of Catholic monks

By James Carroll

Cloistered and detached as it seems now, the monastic life was, in St. Benedict’s day, a model for forward progress.

Part 2

Finding alternatives to potent sedatives

By Kay Lazar

A growing number of nursing homes are treating the agitation and disruptive behavior that often accompany dementia without resorting to antipsychotics.

State GOP’s caucus picks leave Romney slate slighted

By Stephanie Ebbert

When Mass. Republicans went to their caucuses on Saturday, less than half of the 27 delegates Mitt Romney chose to support him at the GOP nominating convention won.

LEOMINSTER

State lawmakers have earmarked $10,000 in the House budget to transport a decommissioned Army tank from North Carolina to Johnny Ro Veterans Memorial Park in Leominster to honor Private First Class Jonathan Roberge, who was killed in Iraq in 2009.

By D.C. Denison

Starting Monday, more than 450 law enforcement officers and prosecutors from across the country will gather in Norwood to get an education in 21st century crime-fighting.

Raytheon system aims to track space trash

By Michael B. Farrell

Raytheon is competing for an Air Force contract to create a so-called Space Fence to monitor the garbage in the earth’s lower orbit.

Blood tests could diagnose depression

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

Two studies have reported evidence that a constellation of telltale markers in blood may one day help diagnose depression, but further testing is necessary, scientists warn.

Amos Vogel, 91, film buff who founded Cinema 16

By Bruce Weber

Mr. Vogel exerted an influence on the history of film that few non-filmmakers can claim, founding Cinema 16, which became the nation’s largest membership film society.

Shokri Ghanem; was Libya’s oil chief prior to revolution

Mr. Ghanem, Libya’s former top oil official, who defected to the rebels in June, was found dead in the Danube River in Vienna, Austrian police said.

Janice Furtado, 31, counselor trusted by veterans

By Bryan Marquard

Ms. Furtado, a readjustment counselor at the Brockton Vet Center, died April 13, a day after becoming ill with what apparently was a blood infection.

Game 1: Hawks 83, Celtics 74

Celtics drop their playoff opener

By Frank Dell’Apa

The Celtics are down a game, and could be down a point guard for Game 2, as Rajon Rondo was ejected after bumping an official in the final minute.

Bob Ryan

By Bob Ryan

In the Hawks’ Game 1 win over the Celtics, Smith showed a national TV audience that the talk about him being one of the NBA’s best may not just be idle propaganda.

On Basketball

Lackluster first quarter costs the Celtics

By Gary Washburn

The Celtics were solid for three quarters, but their slow start against the Hawks doomed them in Game 1.

Names

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

Bruin David Krejci dined at Towne Stove and Spirits over the weekend and Pats tight end Rob Gronkowski was also in for a man-size meal.

Names

Coup Boston celebrates first issue

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

The new online-only quarterly founded by Alexandra Hall and focused on food, fashion, beauty, home design, and travel, had its launch party at Moksa.

Names

Tom Hamilton helps out two worthy causes

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

While he waits for his band’s summer tour to start, the Aerosmith bassist isn’t sitting on his hands.