Boston's Amazon bid

Shirley Leung

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/21/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/leung-5748.jpg A lesson hard for Boston to buy: We?re good

It almost doesn?t matter if Amazon picks Boston for its next headquarters. We?ve already won.

The Enfield Square Mall has lost its anchor stores and many smaller shops. Could it be the new Amazon headquarters?

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

In Enfield, Conn., a bid for Amazon tinged with irony

As in many communities across the US, the local mall was killed by Amazon and its e-retail ilk.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/04/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/AFP_T367T.jpg Here are Amazon bid videos from other cities

As part of their pitches to Amazon for their $5 billion second headquarters, a number of cities are boasting of their charms in slick videos.

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Cora, 42, is expected to be named Boston?s skipper sometime in the next two days.

Falcons at Patriots | 8:30 p.m. (NBC)

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

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Their visit to Foxborough only underscores what happened against the Patriots the last time they played.

A mural on Paris Street in East Boston is part of the #ToImmigrantsWithLove campaign.

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Boston is making a visibile effort to celebrate immigrants

Descriptive displays and murals are popping up around the city during a time of turmoil for newcomers.

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What happens when you?re invited to talk with the writer-director and outspoken liberal about ?Suburbicon?? Well, first, you say yes.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/19/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/3b311092-b430-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98.jpg He was the king of late night, but David Letterman doesn?t miss it ?for a second?

The man who will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday looks different from the guy you remember from television.

Ralph Ravesi prepares a selection of oysters at Eventide Fenway.

quick bite

Eventide Fenway a sleek setting for seafood lovers

This is a consolidated version of Portland?s fancier restaurant in a counter-service setting.

Globe Magazine

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A gut rehab turns an awkward space from cramped and awkward to modern and user-friendly.

A bride poses for her wedding pictures on a pier along the shore of Lake Paranoa, on the 100th day without rain in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. The capital's drought record occurred in 1963, when the capital was without rain for 164 days, or about five months. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Ideas | Mark Peters

?Love yourself? is more than just good advice

?Sologamy? is part of a family of marriage-centric words going back centuries.

Bob Ryan

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Even without Gordon Hayward, this team still can be decent and entertaining.

ADDRESS

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This traditional summer vacation spot is increasingly a four-season destination, luring downhill and cross-country skiers, snowmobilers, and ice fishing enthusiasts.

NAACP report card slams Walsh on promises on race

The report graded Walsh on economic development, public safety, education, and diversity in the city?s workforce. There were no As.

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While some praise the mayor, others blame him for the crowds of people ? clearly in the throes of addiction ? who have become increasingly visible.

7-year-old boy killed in pit bull attack in Lowell

A preliminary investigation suggested that the boy was attacked after he entered a fenced area where two pit bulls were located.

Boston 1967

Louise Day Hicks and Kevin White met before a debate on Oct. 30, 1967.

Frank O?Brien/Globe Staff/File

How the 1967 mayoral race changed Boston

In the 1967 mayoral election, the future and image of Boston seemed at stake ? and they were.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/22/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/2b40229ebbf14f1b887a22fdeb98b4c0-2b40229ebbf14f1b887a22fdeb98b4c0-0.jpg McConnell says he would support bipartisan health bill, if Trump does, too

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he?s willing to push bipartisan health care legislation if President Trump makes clear he supports it.

Hundreds of people waited in line to use an ATM in Caguas, Puerto Rico.

Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

The trials of reporting from hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico

Getting to Puerto Rico was hard. Getting around, staying over, and getting off the island? Even harder.

Crewmembers passed under the Western Avenue Bridge on Saturday.

John Tlumacki/Globe staff

photo gallery

Head of the Charles Regatta

The annual festival kicked off Saturday in Cambridge.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/22/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/6ee957f1c7b949a9ab4b6078d1923fb2-6ee957f1c7b949a9ab4b6078d1923fb2-0.jpg 5 former presidents aid hurricane relief effort

It was the first time Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama gathered since 2013.

Yvonne Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/20/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abrahamy-9286.jpg So this is how the world works now

Thanks to Facebook, angry mobs were set upon a Lynn coffee shop. The owner?s livelihood has been destroyed.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/21/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/d69042bad3a745079371a8a6bec9961d-f9cbf1b75f44446f87c75d2dcd667f17-2.jpg For some veterans, Kelly?s remarks add to a worrying divide

The deaths of four soldiers this month have sparked wider debate about the civilian-military divide in the United States.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/21/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/ec86132e478a45438d00a61ba5c845a0-ec86132e478a45438d00a61ba5c845a0-0.jpg Months before firing, Bill O?Reilly struck $32m deal in harassment case

Last January, Bill O?Reilly struck a $32 million agreement to settle sexual harassment allegations against him.

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Broadcaster Al Michaels is on the call for this week?s Sunday Night Football game between the Patriots and Falcons.

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The Amazon bid

newsroom commentary

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/13/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/drone-5771.jpg Dear Jeff Bezos: Come and help us build a better Boston together

An open letter to the owner of Amazon, proposing a true partnership that rewrites the relationship between a city and the big companies that call it home.

STAT

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Without Dr. Pablo Juan Ross the groundbreaking creation of a part-human, part-animal chimera might not have been possible.

Crossword

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Puzzled? Keep trying and see if you can triumph.

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The town Nathaniel Hawthorne once described as a ?bare, bleak spot fit, for nothing but sheep?? is still largely off the grid (broadband is available only in town buildings).