New rule offers glimpse at how hedge funds work

Boston’s largest hedge funds control more than $130 billion in assets, with some of the top firms run by executives who used to manage Harvard’s endowment, according to analysis.

US, Afghanistan finalize strategic pact

The agreement sets forth guidelines for US involvement in Afghanistan as forces draw down, the two governments said.

Arrest made in stabbing death of 67-year-old woman

Timothy Kostka, 24, of South Boston, has been charged with stabbing Barbara Coyne in her Seventh Street home on April 16, Boston police said.

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Bruins 4, Capitals 3

Bruins beat Capitals in OT to force Game 7

Tyler Seguin scored at 3:17 of overtime to beat the Capitals 4-3 on Sunday, tying the first-round Eastern Conference playoff series at three games apiece.

Illustration by John Jay Cabuay

Perspective

It’s time to stop romanticizing coyotes

 The coyotes can have conservation land, but draw the line at the corner of Lincoln and Summer streets in Boston, where a coyote was captured outside a Starbucks a few weeks ago.

Connections

Could hypnotherapy with ‘The Mad Russian’ cure my heartache?

Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein turned to hypnotherapy with “The Mad Russian” to get over a painful breakup.

Alpha Omega

Return of the Alpha Omega family

As creditors settle for pennies in the $30 million bankruptcy case against Alpha Omega, the former owners, the Handa family — at least the younger generation — are back in the United states, and once again selling luxury.

Hilltop yoga at Carmel Valley Ranch in the Santa Lucia Mountains south of San Francisco.

10 places where pleasure is the plug-in

Step away from the keyboard. Power down your phone. At the following destinations, getting unplugged has never been easier.

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Globe Insiders

Globe Event, Friday, April 27, 8 p.m.

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Globe Insiders are invited to attend the must-see performance and enjoy a Q&A after with the artistic director and several of the dancers.

Inside The Boston Globe

There has been speculation that the Jets will be running two distinct offenses: a traditional scheme led by Mark Sanchez and a spread option with Tim Tebow.

Sunday football notes

Selective information on the division rivals

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Casino czar Steve Crosby’s impossible mission

Independent Film Festival Boston celebrates 10 years
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” was made famous by the 1964 film “Mary Poppins.”

Ideas | The Word

America’s longest word is a contentious subject
Jiro Ono and Yoshikazu Ono appear in “Jiro Dreams of Sushi,’’ a film about the traditional Japanese craft.

Connoisseurs find sushi in Boston often lacking
‘‘Sometimes veteran teams just take longer to get going,’’ said Orioles general manager Dan Duquette (right). ‘‘We were fortunate to get off to a good start, but there are a lot of good teams in this division.”

Sunday baseball notes

Slow start by AL East keeps Red Sox in picture

Terry Francona adjusting to life in the booth

Book review

‘The Cause’ by Eric Alterman and Kevin Mattson
Copley’s “Paul Revere” (1768) has become an icon of Revolutionary-era America.

ideas

Portrait of the artist as an Englishman
“The style is what holds everything together with my work,’’ says Alex Katz, here checking the sequencing of pieces for a show at the Museum of Fine Arts.

art review

Alex Katz, prince of prints
Robert Battle (center) rehearses his work “Takademe” with Linda Celeste Sims and Yannick Lebrun.

Robert Battle looks within to lead Alvin

Globe Magazine

144 free things to do around Boston

Metro

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MIT exhibit highlights climate change science

The new exhibit at the MIT Museum, “Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya,’’ contributes to the sometimes perplexing study of climate change.

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ON THE HOT SEAT

Kazuo Inamori, chairman emeritus of Japan Airlines

Human touch helped to save JAL

When Japan Airlines declared bankruptcy in 2010, the government called on renowned businessman Kazuo Inamori to turn around the beleaguered carrier.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Reducing weighty obstacles
Isolated long stem red rose bud. Focus = front of rosebud. 12MP camera.

joanna weiss

‘Bachelor’ lawsuit shows reality TV is behind the times

Jeff Jacoby

Obama a unifying force? Hardly

Dan Shaughnessy

So far, nothing but bad times for Red Sox

Joan Vennochi

Vatican targets nuns, not enablers of clergy sexual abuse scandal

INNOVATION ECONOMY

‘Accelerator’ programs help start-ups take off
Outside Fenway Park on its first Opening Day in 1912.

Bob Ryan

For longtime foes, nothing rivals in comparison

lawrence harmon

All is not fair in Boston hotels

Love Letters

Is he stringing her along?

opinion | scot lehiigh

Maher, Nugent pollute the dialogue

Dan Shaughnessy

A day to remember, and a game to forget

Joan Wickersham

Preparing for the Great Flood

Politics

Rubio leaves the door open to VP role

The comments by Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio were softer than his remarks last week, when he said he would not want to be Mitt Romney’s running mate.

Nation & World

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Francois Hollande, the Socialist party’s candidate in the first round of France’s presidential elections, was ahead with about half the votes counted.

Hollande, Sarkozy set to advance in French election

Socialist Francois Hollande and conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy are heading for a runoff in their race for France’s presidency.

Sports

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Terry Francona adjusting to life in the booth

The ex-Red Sox manager has been welcomed by viewers for his homey style, his honesty, his fresh-out-of-the-dugout opinions.

Arts

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Jazz

Fred Hersch found inspiration in the American poet Walt Whitman. Hersch’s song cycle premieres in Boston this week.

Pianist Fred Hersch brings verve to Whitman’s verse with ‘Leaves of Grass’

Hersch composed a singular evening-length work that unmistakably flows from his jazz sensibility, but that subordinates the role of improvisation.

Travel

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Every age enjoys a pool at The Spa Hot Springs Motel in White Sulphur Springs, Mont.

Montana’s hot springs are stops on a mother-daughter road trip

My daughter, Sylvie, 8, and I left home in Red Lodge to embark on a grand Montana tradition: a hot springs road trip.

Books

book review

Lillian Hellman’s life and politics ignited controversy.

‘A Difficult Woman’ by Alice Kessler-Harris

Worth reading just for its portrait of the mid-twentieth century politico-cultural cauldron.

“For all the miscalculation . . . I take the blame, and I take the full responsibility. Every day I toss and turn, feeling like I let my congregation down.”

Rev. Gregory Groover,  of the Charles Street AME Church

Magazine

The cover for the April 22 2012 issue

144 free things to do around Boston
The cover for the April 15 2012 issue

In an artist’s garden
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Are fat baseball players a problem?
The cover for the April 1 2012 issue

45 best breakfast joints around Boston

Opinion

“With Nixonian bile, [Barack Obama] fans the flames of grievance.”

Jeff Jacoby  

Ideas

“John Singleton Copley’s life, his works, and his words defined him as a subject of the British empire, not a citizen of the American republic.”

Jane Kamensky,  on the great American painter who wasn’t American