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Crowds gather at the intersection of Causeway St. and Lomasney Way near TD Banknorth Garden where the Boston Celtics won the final game of the NBA Championship finals on June 17 by beating the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92.

Fireworks are launched from the Charles River barge in front of the Boston skyline on July 4.

Workers of Pyro Spectaculars Inc. load fireworks shells into firing tubes on the Charles River barge on July 2.

Fireworks light up the night sky over the Charles River as Boston celebrates Independence Day 2008. See pages 10–11 for more photographs from the Fourth of July.

Paul Pierce, 2008 NBA Finals MVP, holds up his trophy during the Celtics’ Rolling Rally on June 19 on Tremont St. The Boston Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers to clinch their first NBA Championship in 22 years.

Keith Lockhart, longtime conductor for the Boston Pops, tries to set a record for the most people singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” at the Hatch Shell on July 4.

MIT students and friends watch the fireworks display from the penthouse of McCormick Hall on July 4.

Crowds watch as fire extinguisher-wielding residents spray down the fire pit right after it was lit to kick off Steer Roast 2008. MIT Senior Haus’ annual weekend-long Steer Roast party started at 5 p.m. on Friday, May...

Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy plays Charlie Parker’s “Yardbird Suite” on trumpet as a fun, yet appropriate diversion in a lecture entitled “The Music of the Primes,” held yesterday evening in 26-100.

Dancers strike a pose at the end of “Greasy Bois & Girls,” a piece choreographed by Bettina H. Tso ’08, in MIT Dance Troupe’s annual spring show, entitled Summer Nights. The show, held in Kresge Little Theatre, runs t...

MIT Steel Bridge Team members Adam Benjamin Talsma ’10, left, and Quinn A. Vollmert ’08, right, construct a bridge in front of the Student Center on May 5 while their teammates Jose G. Cano ’09, Tracy R. Takemura ’08,...

Jessica D. Luttkus ’08 strikes a pose in “Heatwave,” a piece choreographed by Tarikh C. Campbell ’09, in MIT Dance Troupe’s annual spring show, this year entitled Summer Nights. The show runs through Sunday, May 11, i...

Steer Roast 2008 Veep Erik D. Fogg ’09 (right) and Hani Sallum ’96 (left) pose for the cameras in their armored costumes at the kickoff for Steer Roast 2008. MIT Senior Haus’ annual weekend-long Steer Roast party star...

Marcus du Sautoy presents a large die with a single prime number P on it. Sautoy used the prop to help explain the prime number theorem, which describes the density of the primes, in a lecture entitled “The Music of t...

Hannah J. Hsieh ’09 dances in a piece called “Tell Me Something Good” in the MIT Dance Troupe’s annual spring concert, this year entitled Summer Nights and held in Kresge Little Theatre. The piece was choreographed by...

Chris Liu ’10 (center), and Chukwuka C. Mbagwu ’11 (right) dance in a piece entitled “Candy and Caprice,” choreographed by Alexandra M. Beyer ’10, Jason A. Scott ’10, Kamo Jurn ’10, Tarikh C. Campbell ’09, Thaddeus R....