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Obama lays out strategy for exiting Afghanistan

President Obama greeted and thanked US troops in Kabul on the anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

President Obama signed a deal outlining the withdrawal of US combat troops but affirming a continuing commitment to the country.

Two bodies found behind Saugus school

A 54-year-old Lynn woman was named as one of two women found behind an elementary school in a double killing that unnerved residents.

Mitt Romney mum on how to regulate big banks

If elected, Romney is pledging to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, but he hasn’t said how he would regulate Wall Street to prevent another financial crisis.

Second Brown committee lures financial sector funds

Senator Scott Brown has used a joint fund-raising committee to collect $2.9 million in political donations.

Restaurateur finds big success with small details

Boston restaurant impresario Ed Kane, Inc. Magazine’s fourth-fastest growing private business owner in the US, has become a case study for how to beat the odds.

The Nation

5 accused of plotting to blow up bridge near Cleveland

By Thomas J. Sheeran and Kantele Franko

Five men described by federal authorities as anarchists angry with corporate America and the government were charged with plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge linking two Cleveland suburbs.

Political Notebook

Mitt Romney lauds President Obama on bin Laden

“I commend those who planned and conducted the bin Laden raid a year ago, and I applaud President Obama for approving the mission,’’ said Mitt Romney, an infrequent tweeter, said Romney on the social networking site.

Romney paid a Twitter tribute to the president, then spent the day bemoaning that the issue has become politicized.

For the record

Today’s corrections for The Boston Globe.

The World

As News Corp. boss, Murdoch is called unfit

The parliamentary report, issued Tuesday, said three senior executives working for Rupert Murdoch misled Parliament in testimony.

By John F. Burns and Ravi Somaiya

A startlingly damning report on the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers concluded that Murdoch was “not a fit person’’ to run a huge international company.

Overloaded India river ferry capsizes; 103 dead, 100 missing

Abdul Mazid watched rescuers in the hopes that they would find his missing sister.

Rescuers on Tuesday had recovered 103 bodies from a northeastern river after a heavily packed ferry capsized and said they feared that dozens of others had been swept away.

Herdsmen attack village in Nigeria

Muslim herdsmen razed Christian villages along a central Nigerian plain where ethnic and religious violence remains rampant, killing at least six people, authorities said.

Editorial & Opinion

editorial

Equal justice in Ecuador?

The murder of Maria Avelina Palaguachi and her 2-year-old son, Brian, should be tried in Massachusetts, where the killings happened last year.

letters | A push for summer jobs

Senator Brown needs to offer more substantive solutions

“Brown’s reelection campaign claims to focus on jobs, but he has filibustered or voted against bills to support the unemployed or to create jobs.” — Kim Smith

letters | A push for summer jobs

Unfair take on Senator Brown’s record and office staff

“Scott Brown introduced a bill in 2010 to provide funding for summer jobs programs without raising taxes or increasing national debt.” — Lydia Goldblatt

Metro

PLYMOUTH

N-plant workers to take a strike vote

A union that represents nearly 400 employees at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth has scheduled a vote this Friday on whether to authorize their leadership to call a strike.

SALEM

Man sentenced in assault on daughter

A 29-year-old Lynn man was sentenced to nine to 12 years in state prison for inflicting permanent brain and vision damage on his 2-month-old daughter.

BOSTON

Jamaica Plain shooting victim identified

Boston police on Tuesday identified the man found fatally shot Friday in a Jamaica Plain home as Mariano Malave of Boston.

Business

US manufacturing picked up in April

By Christopher S. Rugaber

US manufacturing grew last month at the fastest pace in 10 months, suggesting that the economy is healthier than recent data had indicated.

Poultry prices jump as more develop taste for dark meat

By Steve Karnowski

Thighs and drumsticks are selling briskly as Americans join consumers abroad in seeking flavor that isn’t found in chicken breasts.

Wild Turkey takes its pitch to TV

Wild Turkey’s first US television ad campaign offers a new twist to giving someone the bird.

Obituaries

Billy Neighbors, lineman for Bear Bryant’s Crimson Tide

Mr. Neighbors, a star lineman on coach Bear Bryant’s first national championship team at Alabama, has died. He was 72.

Tomás Borge Martínez, 81, last of Sandinista founders

By Filadelfo Aleman

Tomás Borge Martínez, the last surviving founder of the Sandinista guerrilla movement that overthrew Nicaragua’s US-backed right-wing dictatorship in 1979, died Monday.

Alexander Dale Oen, 26, world swimming champ for Norway

By Louise Nordstrom

Mr. Dale Oen, one of Norway’s top medal hopes for the London Olympics, died of cardiac arrest after collapsing in his bathroom during a training camp.

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Sports

Game 2: Celtics 87, Hawks 80

Celtics topple Hawks, even series

Paul Pierce had 36 points and 14 rebounds in Game 2 against the Hawks.

By Frank Dell’Apa

A combination of stifling defense and Paul Pierce’s ability to take over the game carried the Celtics to victory and tied the series at 1-1.

On basketball

Bench players stepped up for the Celtics

Kevin Garnett beat the Hawks’ Josh Smith to this fourth-quarter rebound in Game 2.

By Gary Washburn

Coach Doc Rivers used nearly his entire bench and then rode the backs of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Avery Bradley to a Game 2 win over the Hawks.

Bob Ryan

Paul Pierce gives Celtics a game for the ages

Paul Pierce scored off the opening tap with a spinning layup, triggering a 36-point, 14-rebound, 4-assist game.

By Bob Ryan

When history examines Celtics playoff performances, Paul Pierce’s output in Game 2 against the Hawks will stand out as one of the best.

G: Food

The Recipe Box Project

We’re looking for recipes for dining outdoors, on the beach, on your back porch for The Recipe Box Project, a collection of readers’ favorites. The dishes can be old standbys like macaroni salad or more modern rice and grain salads. If there’s a picnic chicken you always make in the summer or a dessert that’s become your specialty, please tell us about it and the story of where the dish comes from and how you serve it. Send recipes to recipebox@globe.com.

Recipe for Red quinoa salad with black beans

This red quinoa with black beans can be wrapped individually in large flour tortillas or used as the base for baking fish.

FOOD | TRAVEL

Latin accents spice up old flavors in Louisville, Kentucky

The Silver Dollar is housed in a former firehouse.

By Liza Weisstuch

The Silver Dollar opened in November on a once vibrant, then desolate, strip of Louisville’s Clifton neighborhood.

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Cheap Eats

If you see smoke, it’s just the fajitas

By Glenn Yoder

Galleries

Welcome to their imaginary world

By Cate McQuaid

A Tank Away

In North Conway, N.H., natural beauty

By Eric Wilbur

EVENTS

Boston-area to do list

By June Wulff

Annie's Mailbox

Annie’s Mailbox for May 2

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‘50 Shades of Grey’ author visits Burlington

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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Not all fun and games for Tony Massarotti

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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Celebrities out and about around Boston

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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‘Magic/Bird’ to close on Broadway May 12

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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Chris Cooper’s ‘Corrections’ not moving forward

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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Thespians gather for ‘8’ at Oberon

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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Amanda Palmer launches CD campaign

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

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A Webby honor for comedian Louis C.K.

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein