Account of Romney’s Bain departure has evolved

Until his run for governor in 2002, Mitt Romney had characterized his departure from Bain Capital more as a “leave of absence” in which he would be a “part-timer.”

Romney fires back at Obama on Bain attacks

Mitt Romney on Friday and repeated his assertion that he left the Boston private equity firm in 1999 and not years later as some documents indicate.

Adrian Walker

Mothers united by enduring pain of senseless death

How, after all these years and so many lives senselessly cut short, can it be that precious little gets done about it? The grieving mothers are tired of asking.

Defendants must prove need for free lawyer, SJC rules

In a decision that stands to save taxpayers money, the state’s highest court ruled that people facing criminal charges have to prove they cannot afford their own lawyer.

Olivia Culpo was happy to be home in Rhode Island for a short while this month after being crowned Miss USA in June.

Victoria Arocho

Olivia Culpo entered pageants on a lark, came home Miss USA

The Boston University sophomore returned home briefly one month after becoming the first contestant from Rhode Island to be crowned Miss USA.

Alexis Medeiros (left) and Nathan Vieira played a round of miniature golf at Oceans 18, which has a glow-in-the-dark course.

The Roads of Summer

Indoor miniature golf beckons for vacationers

For people looking to escape summer heat, Oceans 18 Glow-in-the-Dark Mini Golf, an indoor course with an undersea theme in New Bedford, is the perfect destination.

Advertisers could include airlines and banks and the city will provide public service messages.

Boston to install 400 solar-powered trash cans

The BigBelly trash and recycling receptacles, which have built-in compactors that squeeze trash so each bin can hold more, are going to be free for the city.

Christopher L. Gasper

Joe Paterno chose his legacy over integrity

The Penn State coach looked the other way, enabling a sexual predator and ignoring his victims, in the name of furthering a football brand.

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Dubbed the “Coney Island of New England,” Revere Beach was established as the country’s first public beach in 1896, attracting people from all over the region.

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Tabitha Fitzsimmons puts on grease paint and then sets up in Harvard Square for her street performance as a marionette statue.

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Hot work and long hours but MassArt student’s summer job yields cool cash

Kenny Wiley

Stop pretending racism is over
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Sunday Preview | Ideas

Iran’s network in a bottle

Seguin Island’s lighthouse is the second oldest in Maine and its highest above sea level.

Sunday Preview | Travel

Travel to remote Seguin Island and its historic light station

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Globe Magazine

Hope in the wake of disaster

SCOT LEHIGH

Mitt Romney and his tax returns: Deja vu?
Runners, walkers, and cyclists walked along a path by a flock of geese at the Chesnut Hill Reservoir on Monday.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, July 13, 2012
“Fantastic Monument” by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

Art Review

‘The Invention of Fantasy’ captures romance, imagination

Plume Giant plays an Electric Earth concert at Cathedral of the Pines in Rindge, N.H.

Monadnock Music, Electric Earth try to get along
The Ninth Annual National Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach started Thursday. Justin Gordon from Groveland worked on his entry.

Photo gallery

Masterpieces in sand at Revere Beach

Rose Art Museum names new director
Beth Rimas, an EMT whose son Sean is autistic, says it is critical for rescuers to know if someone in a house is disabled.

Boston special-needs list could aid emergency crews

Sports

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Red Sox 3, Rays 1

Red Sox start 2d half of season with win

David Ortiz hit his 23rd homer of the year and Franklin Morales pitched five scoreless innings as the Red Sox defeated the Tampa Bay Rays.

Metro

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Some Annapolis Way homes on Plum Island are in danger.

Plum Island residents anxious as erosion threatens homes

With just inches of sand keeping four houses from tumbling ­onto the beach, homeowners are anxiously awaiting word from the state about how far they can go to save their homes.

Columnists

Boston school superintendent Carol Johnson mishandled the discipline of a former headmaster.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Carol Johnson’s mind-boggling blunders

Christopher L. Gasper

Joe Paterno chose his legacy over integrity

Adrian Walker

Mothers united by enduring pain of senseless death
The Clam Shack in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Brian McGrory

Maine seafood shack owner claws to the top

Boston Capital

Why the Libor scandal matters to everyone

joshua green

George W. Bush is the winner in tax cut duel

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Your identity, adrift

SCOT LEHIGH

Mitt Romney and his tax returns: Deja vu?

Juliette Kayyem

BC case throws cold water on IRA, academia

Tech Lab

A most capable cable box
Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard during a game against the Knicks on March 28 in New York.

Bob Ryan

For NBA big men, LA is a big draw

edward l. glaeser

Public pension difficulties for Mass. towns

Business

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A floor official monitored JPMorgan trades at the NYSE.

JPMorgan Chase loss could reach $7 billion

The bank’s traders may have intentionally tried to obscure the full extent of losses on its botched credit bet.

Politics

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President Obama spoke in Roanoke, Va., Friday. Virginia ranks third among states in which the Obama campaign has spent money on TV ads.

President Obama spends $100m in swing states

More than one-fifth of the president’s ad spending has been in Ohio, a state that looms as a must-win for Mitt Romney more so than for Obama.

Nation & World

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Kerry Kennedy is the former wife of Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Kerry Kennedy arrested after crash

The daughter of Robert F. Kennedy was detained Friday morning after striking a tractor-trailer, but tests showed no drugs or alcohol in her system.

Arts

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Sudbury teen joins ‘Annie’ for the fourth time

Lauren Weintraub, 13, has the title role in North Shore Music Theatre’s “Annie.” It’s her fourth time doing the play, and her third as the singing redhead.

“I left on the basis of a leave of absence, indicating that I, by virtue of that title, would return at the end of the Olympics to my employment at Bain Capital.”

Mitt Romney,  before the state Ballot Law Commission in 2002

Magazine

The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
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A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
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What if spanking works?
The cover for the June 10 2012 issue

5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson

Opinion

“New York won’t always have a disaffected Medford native as mayor, but Boston will always have to work around a much larger neighbor not far to the southwest.”

Globe editorial 

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