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Mayoral race brims with plans for Boston’s schools

The candidates who want to be Boston’s next mayor have plenty of ideas about how to bolster the city’s schools, although they differ on how.

Plainridge Racecourse cannot apply for slots license

Citing revelations that a former track president made personal cash withdrawals, state casino regulators disqualified the racecourse.

Bulger trial expected to go to jury Tuesday

The prosecution and defense delivered closing arguments today, meaning the jury could begin its deliberations Tuesday.

Amazon.com founder to buy The Washington Post

Jeff Bezos is buying The Washington Post for $250 million, ending decades of single-family ownership.

Message from Al Qaeda chief spurred embassy closures

A secret message that was intercepted between Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen led to the shutdown of US embassies, officials say.

Tom Strangfeld at home in East Harwich.

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Helping people take back their yards

Eminent landscaper Tom Strangfeld is urging homeowners to avoid the repetitious, the soulless, and the boring in their yards.

John Lackey rolled his ankle throwing on a throw to first base in the second inning but stayed in the game.

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Red Sox are shut out in Houston

The Red Sox mustered only five hits in the first game of a 10-game road trip and saw their lead in the AL East slip to one-half game.

Alex Rodriguez may have his career defined by the Biogenesis scandal.

On Baseball

Alex Rodriguez ban likely just start of process

Alex Rodriguez was suspended through the 2014 season, but he is expected to appeal in a process that could take weeks and he will be allowed to play until it is complete.

The first wave of runners started the Boston Marathon in April.

9,000 more runners expected for Marathon

The 2014 Boston Marathon will feature 9,000 more runners than usual, according to Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis.

Opinion

opinion | Marcela García

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From a few conversations at the Puerto Rican parade, it’s clear that Hispanic allegiances are all over the map.

Globe exclusives

Maria Vasquez was able to keep her home in Revere after a Suffolk Superior Court ruled that the mortgage holder was misidentified in foreclosure proceedings.

Banks accused of rules violation
Archeologists Rosemary Pinales and Scott McGaughey worked at a site undisturbed by centuries of nearby development.

North End dig hits pay dirt
Runners compete in the 2012 Boston Marathon.

Health

How much exercise is too much?
John Henry, center, whose bid for the Globe was accepted by the Times Co., spent Sunday evening watching the Boston Red Sox play Arizona from the EMC Level at Fenway Park.

3 groups say they topped Henry’s bid
Geralda Figueroa, a Boston health inspector, told Kim Crocker and Robert MacClean how to avoid violations.

Food truck popularity outrunning hygiene
Worcester Polytechnic Institute students work on an Atlas robot, which was delivered as part of a Pentagon project.

Vying to give brawny robot a brain
Stephanie Scarcella, as Cenerentola, and Zac Engle, as Prince Ramiro, take center stage in Boston Opera Collaborative’s production of Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” at the Strand Theatre.

Opera Review

BOC’s ‘Cinderella’ triumphs at Strand
Pier 4 developers have proposed using special flood barriers to protect new buildings.

Rising water levels threaten waterfront
(From left to right) Joel Joseph, Rosemary Agbede, and Andre Kurs.

Immigrants vital to Mass. economy
Pianist Herbie Hancock (left) joined Wayne Shorter Saturday, in a set celebrating Shorter’s upcoming 80th birthday.

Music Review

Diversity instrumental to Newport festival

Q&A | Donna Newman-Bluestein

Engaging patients through dance
In his game-review video series “Zero Punctuation,” Benjamin “Yahtzee” Croshaw (below) offers observations delivered as a series of still shots of rudimentary figures.

Game On

A biting wit, and a mission to reform

Sports

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Shane Victorino celebrated after a home run in the eighth inning against the Mariners at Fenway Park on Thursday.

Victorino is named AL Player of the Week

Red Sox right fielder Shane Victorino was 12-for-30 with two home runs, six RBIs, and seven runs scored during the week.

Metro

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Monsignor Arthur Coyle

Boston Archdiocese official charged with hiring prostitute

Arthur Coyle, Regional Episcopal Vicar for the Merrimack Region, pleaded not guilty and has voluntarily taken a leave of absence.

Columnists

Pope Francis waved from his popemobile on the Copacabana beachfront in Brazil.

JAMES CARROLL

The pope’s ‘culture of solidarity’

JOHN E. SUNUNU

‘Grand bargain’ is a grand head fake
Shane Victorino held a little impromptu meet-and-greet with some of the 37,611 Fenway Faithful in Sunday’s game.

Christopher L. Gasper

These Red Sox are Dirt Dogs again
Danny Ainge entrusted the Celtics’ head coaching job to 36-year-old Brad Stevens.

Bob Ryan

Stevens has a tough road ahead in NBA

JOAN VENNOCHI

Mayor’s race looms over Suffolk casino
Dockyard, a small Boston-based company, could be facing a significant cost increase, says principal Brian Cardarella.

Innovation Economy

Tech firms learning a costly lesson
Lucy loves to share online songs and videos with her grandmother.

Beverly Beckham

Would a ‘cure’ change the love?

Christopher L. Gasper

Drawing up a safer way to practice

Kevin Cullen

Once a bully, always a coward

Dan Shaughnessy

Picking up the pieces
Mayoral candidate Bill Walczak would be open to retaining Meredith Weenick.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Next mayor needs no-nonsense CFO

Shirley Leung

It’s time to say yes to Walmart

Nation & World

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An Ergenekon prisoner waved at protestors as police and gendarmerie blocked access to a courthouse in Silivri, near Istanbul, where prosecutors are scheduled to deliver their final arguments in the case against people accused of plotting to overturn the Islamic-leaning government.

Former Turkish military chief’s conviction sparks protests

About 250 people, including Retired Gen. Ilker Basbug, were convicted Monday of plotting to overthrow the Turkish government in 2002.

Politics

In West Roxbury, signs for Conley and Connolly compete.

Will Conley, Connolly confuse voters in mayoral race?

Voters in Boston’s open race for mayor would never get tripped up by the similar sounding names of Daniel Conley and John Connolly. Right?

Business

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FROM THE HIVE

Facebook is getting its own space.

Who’s hiring: taking a tech rundown

A recent study determined which tech companies went on a hiring tear last quarter, and identified other up-and-comers.

Arts

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Music Review

Beck, pictured here in Los Angeles in February, played a freewheeling set — which included mash-ups of his own songs with snippets of others — in Boston Friday.

Beck electrifying at Bank of America Pavilion

At least on this tour, it seems Beck is having a lot of fun with his set lists and tweaking the general tone of his performances.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Can drinking coffee lower your suicide risk?

New research draws a connection between drinking caffeinated coffee and a lower risk of committing suicide.

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Magazine

The cover for the August 4 2013 issue

The lake house
The cover for the July 28 2013 issue

Walter Willett’s food fight
The cover for the July 21 2013 issue

What happened at Deerfield
The cover for the July 14 2013 issue

Kitchen overhaul

Ideas

“There hasn’t been a meaningful rethinking of who should appear on our paper money since 1928, when early versions of the bills we still use today entered circulation.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on American currency