Senate rivals’ ideas differ on cutting US deficit
Elizabeth Warren has proposed spending programs for transportation and energy. Senator Scott Brown has decried spending in Washington and the inability of the two parties to find common ground.

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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.

Jon Lester’s record fell to 5-6 after he surrendered four earned runs in 4 1/3 innings in a loss to the Yankees last week.

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.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gestured during a speech to the NAACP annual convention in Houston on Wednesday.

In NAACP speech, Romney draws boos from attendees

Mitt Romney spoke today at the NAACP’s annual meeting in Houston and was greeted with the negative reaction when he pledged to repeal “Obamacare.”

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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.

Gambling commission may reach out to Wall Street

The state gambling commission would encourage Wall Street investors to provide the capital for ­casino companies to make bids in Massachusetts.

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.

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Judge Christine McEvoy spoke to jurors in the Mattapan case.

Transcript reflects tension in Mattapan trial
Above: “Bowl of Fruit With Flame Orange Tissue, Week #7’’ by James Aponovich.

Galleries

Art galleries at the Clark and Ningyo

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

Teens confront sexualization of girls in media
At the Hendrick Motorsports team museum, visitors can get a look under the skin of four-time champion Jeff Gordon’s Sprint Cup car.

Driving Forces | Second of Three Parts

At Hendrick Motorsports, they build victories
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
Shrimp grilled on rosemary branches with zucchini wedges and corn.

Food

Grilled shrimp on rosemary branches — then a tasty chowder

Frame by Frame

‘The Death and the Assumption of the Virgin’ by Fra Angelico
Gunther Schuller leading the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra on Sunday night in Lenox.

Music Review

Tanglewood’s opening weekend

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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

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Ray Allen’s silence wasn’t golden.

Blame to go around for Ray Allen leaving Celtics

The increasingly disturbing miscommunication among Allen, Doc Rivers, and Danny Ainge turned Allen’s final season into a nightmare.

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Carol R. Johnson spoke with Mayor Thomas M. Menino and expressed remorse.

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.

Columnists

Scot Lehigh

The duel over tax breaks

Jeff Jacoby

Minimum wage laws are costly for the unemployed
Jon Lester’s record fell to 5-6 after he surrendered four earned runs in 4 1/3 innings in a loss to the Yankees last week.

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’

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A traffic jam in Boston near the Leverett Circle area (pictured) in this June 7, 2012, file photo.

Boston ranks 19th worst in traffic gridlock study

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

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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People watched the flames shoot up from a derailed freight train. Norfolk Southern said it appeared about 11 cars of a southbound train derailed around 2 a.m. near Interstate 71, southeast of the Ohio State University campus.

Ohio freight train derails, causing fiery blast

Part of a freight train derailed and caught fire in Columbus, Ohio, early Wednesday, shooting flames skyward into the darkness and prompting the evacuation of a mile-wide area.

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

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N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
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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