In rare public plea, Boston Fed chief urges action

Eric Rosengren is urging the nation’s central bankers to ignore election-year pressures and do more to jump-start the economy.

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The picture of Wade M. Page that is beginning to develop suggests he was a white supremacist who wanted to see his beliefs advanced with action.

Sikhs held a vigil at the New England Gurdwara Sahib in Milford Monday for the victims of the Wisconsin attack.

Sikhs feel misunderstood, at risk since 9/11

Sikhism, the major religion at the center of the Wisconsin shooting, remains little known and widely misunderstood in the US.

Calculating the cost of tax breaks in Mass.

Over the past 16 years the state has more than doubled the amount of tax breaks it offers but has only a vague idea whether they are worthwhile.

Bulger plans to take stand in his defense

James “Whitey” Bulger will for the first time address the charges against him, hoping to convince a jury that federal officials once granted him immunity for his many crimes.

Aly Raisman performed on the balance beam en route to the bronze medal.

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Aly Raisman wins bronze medal on beam

The Needham gymnast originally appeared to finish fourth, but a scoring change elevated Raisman onto the podium.

Light welterweight Jamel Herring was down after a loss to Kazakhstan’s Daniyar Yelessinov. He was one of five US fighters to lose in their first bout.

Lean times for US men’s boxing

Unless welterweight Errol Spence Jr. can beat Russia’s Andrey Zamkovoy on Tuesday, the US males will leave the Olympics without a medal for the first time.

Maryanne O’Hara at the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown.

Author revisits a long-submerged history

Maryanne O’Hara’s debut novel takes place in a fictional town modeled on those that were wiped from the map to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir.

Bobby Valentine watched batting practice before Monday’s game.

Dan Shaughnessy

Are the Sox backing Valentine?

John Henry issued an ultra-defensive vote of confidence for his beleaguered manager, but it doesn’t look like the team will let Bobby be Bobby.

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Best images from the London Olympics
Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine chatted with Red Sox Scholar Ben St. Fort at the Dimock Center in January.

Red Sox top charitable giving list

Special section

Globe investigations
“Hull” by Hyman Bloom

Frame by Frame

From an eviscerated body, spiritualism emerges
Staff at the Children’s Museum in Dover, N.H., helped youngsters and parents create sculptures from cardboard tubes.

Student’s site taps Amazon sales to help charities
Maryanne O’Hara at the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown.

Author revisits a long-submerged piece of Central Mass.
David Byrne of Talking Heads

14 songs in which artists take on television
Usain Bolt leans at the line, crossing in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds to win the gold ahead of Yohan Blake (5, silver) and Justin Gatlin (6, bronze).

Bob Ryan

Usain Bolt again makes fast work of the 100
Following a car accident involving the band’s original bassist, Deftones are touring again and will release a new album in October.

Deftones bounce back after tragedy strikes
Dianne Reeves performing on Saturday at Newport.

Music Review

Diversity in style, substance at Newport jazz fest
The GLANSER sends location data back to a command post.

Firefighter tracker to be unveiled
Sean Cullen and Elisabeth Waterston in the production.

Stage review

Time passes slowly in ‘A Month in the Country’

Sports

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Backed by his owner and GM, Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine responds to a pregame media question about his job safety by giving a thumbs up.

Red Sox stand behind Bobby Valentine

With many calling for Valentine’s firing, John Henry and Ben Cherington offered support and said they weren’t planning to make a change.

Metro

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Governor Deval Patrick shook hands with Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo after signing a health care cost containment bill into law on Monday morning.

Health bill signed amid hopes for $200b in savings

In a State House ceremony, Governor Deval Patrick signed the sweeping bill that seeks to rein in the state’s spiraling health costs.

Columnists

Farah Stockman

Tea Partiers see UN plot to take over America
Bobby Valentine watched batting practice before Monday’s game.

Dan Shaughnessy

Are the Red Sox really backing Valentine?
The Bulls were not happy that injury-prone Luol Deng (center) played for Britain. “I have no regrets,’’ Deng said.

Bob Ryan

Not all is lost for Great Britain basketball

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The $600,000 budget thorn

james carroll

Dark fantasy in action

Adrian Walker

Alarm bells in Roxbury health center
Usain Bolt leans at the line, crossing in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds to win the gold ahead of Yohan Blake (5, silver) and Justin Gatlin (6, bronze).

Bob Ryan

Usain Bolt again makes fast work of the 100
First lady Michelle Obama campaigns in Manchester, N.H., Thursday.

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

This time, Mass. gives Obama little help in N.H.
Bicyclists and pedestrians travel in Stockholm, where traffic has decreased significantly since the city started charging drivers a fee to enter congested areas.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Finding the cure for traffic

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Dropbox’s tale speaks to a Bay State weakness
Roger Federer put in a long workday, taking more than four hours to eliminate Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro.

Bob Ryan

Federer wins an Olympic classic at Wimbledon

Adrian Walker

Gregory Sullivan, crusading inspector general, calls it a career

Business

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Footprint Power LLC of New Jersey announced it has acquired the aging Salem Harbor Power Station,

N.J. firm seals deal on Salem power plant

The company plans to replace the Salem Harbor Power Station with a state-of-the-art gas-fired plant on a portion of the site

Politics

Mitt Romney’s joint committee — which collects money for his campaign, the Republican National Committee and several state GOP committees — now has $185.9 million cash on hand.

Romney tops Obama in July fund-raising

Mitt Romney’s joint fundraising committee announced a July haul of $101.3 million, outraising President Obama’s joint committee for the third straight month.

Nation & World

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Marvin Hamlisch

Composer Marvin Hamlisch dies at 68 in Los Angeles

Marvin Hamlisch, who composed the scores for dozens of movies and won a Tony for ‘‘A Chorus Line,’’ has died in Los Angeles at 68.

Arts

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Book Review

Jane Barnes

‘Falling in Love With Joseph Smith’ by Jane Barnes

The details of Barnes’s idiosyncratic pilgrimage will please neither Mormon true believers, nor Christians, nor those skeptical of all unsubstantiated religious claims.

Lifestyle

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G Force

Kristen Kelliher at 14,000 feet on Mount McKinley, above Kahiltna Glacier.

Vermonter becomes youngest female to ‘highpoint’ all 50 states

Norwich’s Kristen Kelliher, 18, became the youngest woman to climb the highest peak in every state when she summited Alaska’s Denali in June.

“We don’t want to say, ‘We are not Muslims,’ because that has the implication of, ‘Don’t ­attack us; attack them.’ ”

Harpreet Singh,  a doctoral student in ­religion at Harvard, on American Sikhs

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Connected, powerful 21st-century moms
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25 best burgers around Boston
The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World

Opinion

“Tea Party activists can read between the lines — even lines that aren’t there.”

Farah Stockman 

Ideas

“If Willen is right, then the finger-pointing that’s occurred since the financial meltdown is all beside the point. Instead, we need to accept the frightening fact that when an economic delusion takes hold, none of us may be able to tell.”

Leon Neyfakh, on a Federal Reserve economist bearing very bad news