Boston school chief hit with new criticism

Several city councilors questioned the leadership of Superintendent Carol Johnson for her actions after one of her headmasters was arrested, but Mayor Menino is steadfast in his support.

Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston division, spoke during a press conference announcing the takedown of an alleged multimillion-dollar drug ring.

Suspects’ affluent ways helped spur drug inquiry

Fancy cars, expensive nights out at clubs, and overseas trips were big clues that the Boylston Street gang was doing more than just peddling drugs on the street.

Senate rivals’ ideas differ on cutting US deficit

Senator Brown and Elizabeth Warren provided five ideas for bridging the nation’s $1.2 trillion deficit, with the results highlighting why the problem has deadlocked Washington.

Scot Lehigh

The duel over tax breaks

President Obama and Mitt Romney have different ideas for tax cuts, but both are guilty of engaging in fiscal fantasy.

Maine residents Izzy Labbe, Julia Bluhm, and Maya Brown are in SPARK.

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Teens confront sexualization of girls in media

The group of girls and young women behind SPARK — which stands for Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge — are not afraid to speak up and take action.

Dan Shaughnessy

What happened to the Red Sox?

The Red Sox franchise has become a parody of itself, led by an ownership group that has lost all sense of accountability. They are simply a trainwreck.

Transcript reflects jury tension in Mattapan murder trial

The 77-page transcript yields fresh insight into tense deliberations that ended in mistrial, and confirms earlier reports of the panel’s abiding frustration with the lone holdout.

Jessica Reinhard, a graphic designer, took notes at the JavaScript boot camp.

Software company wants all workers to know code

Hoping to narrow the tech divide between workers, FreeCause is requiring all of their employees to learn the programming language JavaScript.

Boston ranks 19th worst in traffic gridlock study

According to TomTom, a manufacturer of GPS devices, Boston is the 19th most congested city in North America, behind such cities as Vancouver and Miami.

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Shrimp grilled on rosemary branches with zucchini wedges and corn.

Food

Grilled shrimp on rosemary branches — then a tasty chowder
Above: “Bowl of Fruit With Flame Orange Tissue, Week #7’’ by James Aponovich.

Galleries

Art galleries at the Clark and Ningyo

This Fudgsicle-like snack plated with avocado whipped cream is a creation of Tryst pastry chef Anne Moynihan.

Anne Moynihan makes desserts just like her favorite snacks
Salvadoran Carne asada, a mar-inated skirt steak.

Cheap Eats

In Somerville, Latino cuisine meets American diner

Frame by Frame

‘The Death and the Assumption of the Virgin’ by Fra Angelico
Globe staffers Michael Vega and Barry Chin followed the No. 88 car hauler on its trek from Sparta, Ky., to Concord, N.C.

First in a three-part series

Making the long trek with NASCAR truckers
Gunther Schuller leading the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra on Sunday night in Lenox.

Music Review

Tanglewood’s opening weekend

Special section

Globe investigations
Jessica Pohl of Weston has kids who have largely outgrown their toys, but she can’t give them away. “I’m saving them for my grandchildren.”

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Today’s families are prisoners of their own clutter

Elizabeth Warren raises $8.67m in quarter
Debra Jo Rupp as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Barrington Stage Company’s production of “Dr. Ruth, All the Way.’’

Stage Review

The life of Dr. Ruth before she became famous
Amelia Earhart relocated from California to the Boston area in 1925 and often flew from what was then Dennison Airport in Quincy.

Amelia Earhart search revives her local connections

Sports

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NL 8, AL 0

Melky Cabrera didn’t get a hand from AL second baseman Robinson Cano on his two-run homer in the fourth, but he did grab All-Star MVP honors.

NL rocks David Ortiz, AL Stars

The National League had a five-run lead in the All-Star Game on Tuesday night before the Red Sox slugger got to swing a bat.

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Boston police said that the stabbing occurred at Dudley and Washington streets shortly before 2 p.m. and that one of the three male victims later died at Boston Medical Center.

3 stabbed, 1 fatally, near film shooting

A Boston police officer working a security detail on the Dudley Square set of a movie starring Sandra Bullock helped chase down and capture the suspect.

Columnists

Scot Lehigh

The duel over tax breaks

Jeff Jacoby

Minimum wage laws are costly for the unemployed

Dan Shaughnessy

What happened to the Red Sox?
Pakistani-made clothes were on display in India. Pakistan is one of the largest producers of textiles.

opinion | Farah Stockman

Trade vs. aid with Pakistan

Boston Capital

More angst over the European economy
Ray Allen looked for the pass in Game 5 of the Celtics’ Eastern Conference Finals playoff series against Miami.

Bob Ryan

Bashing Ray Allen for leaving is just wrong
A downed tree took out power lines last week in Washington, D.C.

Juliette kayyem

Pulling the plug on nation’s security

Tech Lab Plus

Samsung serves up a worthy iPhone rival
Fashion Project is Boston-based.

Innovation Economy

New site peddles high-end apparel to benefit charities

joanna weiss

‘The Newsroom’ and the news: There’s too much of both
US citizenship candidates wait at a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles last month.

jeff jacoby

Time to rethink notion of immigration quotas

joan vennochi

When Mitt Romney’s campaign struggles, don’t blame the ‘Boston boys’

Business

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“We had conference calls through the night. . . . When we couldn’t get that done, it was . . . the last straw,” said William Thomas, 38 Studios president and uncle of Curt Schilling.

38 Studios sought investors up until its filing

Curt Schilling’s video game company was speaking with potential investors until just hours before the company filed for bankruptcy, former executives testified at a hearing.

Politics

Political Notebook

London is one of the world banking hubs, with many Americans involved in the securities and investment industries that Mitt Romney has courted.

Mitt Romney reveals London fund-raising events

On the eve of the Olympics, Romney is planning two separate fund-raising events in central London hosted by banking industry officials.

Nation & World

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The president called back the members of Parliament on Tuesday, and this time the generals did not try to keep them out.

Egypt’s Parliament meets; court strikes back

Egypt’s Parliament met for the first time since the nation’s military rulers dissolved it, heightening a power struggle between the Islamist elected officials and the top generals.

Arts

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Book Review

Author Robin Shulman has organized “Eat the City’’ in seven chapters ordered like the courses of a meal.

‘Eat the City’ by Robin Shulman

Robin Shulman looks at New York’s food heritage through history into the present day.

Food & dining

Ziskin’s cicchetti can include fried sage leaves with anchovy.

Cicchetti have become popular little plates

Some of the trendiest new restaurants have menus favoring small plates. While everyone knows about Spanish tapas, cicchetti are less universal. They’re found in only one place: Venice, Italy.

“It’s not enough these days to tell girls these images are Photoshopped. We need to empower them to do something about it.”

Megan Williams,  of the group SPARK

Magazine

The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?
The cover for the June 10 2012 issue

5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson

Opinion

“Minimum-wage laws are typically thought of as a mandate on employers. In reality they constrain employees.”

Jeff Jacoby 

Ideas

“By taking massive numbers of songs, symphonies, and sonatas, turning them into cold, hard data, and analyzing them with computers, we can learn things about music that would have previously been impossible to uncover.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what computers are teaching us about music