Banking sector puts its money on Mitt Romney

Donors from big banks are betting on Romney to defeat President Obama and repeal new restraints on risky, large-scale investments.

One wind turbine in Falmouth will be turned off, officials said, while the other will continue to operate during the day.

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Mass. moves to shut turbine over noise levels

Officials have recommended shutting down a wind turbine in Falmouth because of elevated noise levels that they described as unacceptable to local residents.

Brian McGrory

Stonehill College dragged into Yahoo scandal

Who lies about a degree from Stonehill? The answer, of course, is Scott Thompson, the freshly ousted chief executive of the struggling Internet giant.

Work to fix the 1930s Sagamore Bridge has caused delays for drivers like these trying to get off the Cape on Tuesday.

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Sagamore Bridge work frays tempers, hurts shops

Repairs to the aging bridge throughout the spring have slowed traffic leaving Cape Cod to a crawl most nights and backed it up for miles on Sundays.

Speaking to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Governor Patrick did not explicitly put his support behind either of the two cost-containment bills being debated in the Legislature.

Patrick pushes health care cost controls

Governor Patrick said he is confident that health care cost increases can be slowed to no more than the annual growth of the Mass. economy without harming hospitals and doctors.

Official drops call for shift of Chelsea court

Rep. Eugene O’Flaherty dropped his push to shift control of the Chelsea District Court to the Boston Municipal Court, saying his plan could give the impression of a misuse of power.

Blue Jay Recording Studio may not look like much from outside, but it has brought some of music’s biggest names to Carlisle over the years.

Old-school Blue Jay studio up for sale

With the music industry going through seismic changes, classic studios like the Blue Jay Recording Studio in Carlisle are becoming rare.

Curt Schilling moved his 38 Studios LLC from Maynard to Providence last year after Rhode Island officials offered him $75 million in loan guarantees.

R.I. races to save Curt Schilling’s company

The former Red Sox pitcher’s video game company, 38 Studios, appears to be in financial trouble, and Rhode Island officials are scrambling to save their $75 million investment.

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The New York Times best-selling author discusses his books “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

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Michael Natkin in the How2heroes test kitchen in Cambridge.

Food

Michael Natkin adds spice to vegetarian recipes
Phil Tayler, Harry McEnerny V, and Davron S. Monroe in the Lyric Stage production of “Avenue Q.”

STAGE REVIEW

Lyric Stage makes ‘Avenue Q’ feel like home
Guacamole comes in a number of versions. The best is just avocado, cilantro, salt, and onion.

Dining Out

Painted Burro is raucous, fun, ready to party
The pushcart vendors in Boston’s Haymarket district have resisted new approaches from pre-Big Dig ways.

Paul McMorrow

Haymarket pushcart vendors need to embrace change

Opinion | Farah Stockman

Racism and infant mortality
Representative Barney Frank.

Joanna Weiss

Barney Frank reflects on the change he’s seen

Warren seeks to refocus campaign on Wall St.

Design for Bill Russell statue unveiled
Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a despot who winds up working at a Brooklyn food co-op.

Movie Review

‘Dictator’ tweaks broadly and carries a big shtick

Frame by Frame

Flippant ‘Rock Fan’ fits well in college setting
Last month, MIT professor Amy Finkelstein became the third woman in the last five years to gain the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, which recognizes the top US economist under 40.

Women making gains in economics, but progress is slow

Open-water swimmer focusing on the Olympics

Sports

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Red Sox 5, Mariners 0

Josh Beckett gave up no runs over seven innings and tallied nine strike outs against the Mariners.

Red Sox extend winning streak

Josh Beckett atoned for a dismal performance in his previous outing by striking out a season-high nine as the Red Sox won their fifth straight.

Metro

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Boston boosting community policing efforts

Police Commissioner Edward Davis, counting more than 140,000 walking beats last year, wants to add at least 60,000 more, and is hoping to make social media a part of the effort.

Columnists

Derrick Z. Jackson

Mitt Romney failed to man up on high school bullying

Bob Ryan

Injuries take excitement out of the East

Jeff Jacoby

On health care, state doesn’t know best

Brian McGrory

Stonehill College dragged into Yahoo scandal
Representative Barney Frank.

Joanna Weiss

Barney Frank reflects on the change he’s seen

BOSTON CAPITAL

Business guru’s tips for living

Bob Ryan

This time, Celtics couldn’t close it out
A lone worker picks tomatoes on an Alabama farm in 2011. Much of the crop rotted after migrant workers moved to other states when a strict immigration law took affect.

Juliette Kayyem

A crackdown avoided

Innovation Economy

A new twist on the home office

JEFF JACOBY

Benefit of doubt on ‘evolution’

JOANNA WEISS

Why not let the bake sale crumble?
The Celtics are widely perceived as gritty and the embodiment of team spirit.

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics giving their all, as Fenway draws boobirds

Arts

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MOVIE REVIEW

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan sustains an atmosphere of jocularity, beauty, and dread in “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.”

‘Once Upon a Time in Anatolia’ a Turkish procedural

The murder remains elusive, but the filmmaking is exquisite.

Politics

Political Notebook

Former President George W. Bush offered a four-word endorsement of Mitt Romney as the doors of his elevator were closing after a speech Tuesday in Washington.

George W. Bush offers quick support to Mitt Romney

The former president is backing presumptive Republican White House nominee Mitt Romney.

Business

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FBI starts review of $2b loss at JPMorgan

Shareholders called for pay givebacks from executives responsible for a stunning $2 billion trading loss and the FBI opened a preliminary review of the debacle.

Nation & World

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Ex-newspaper editor in UK charged with obstructing justice

Rebekah Brooks was formally charged Tuesday of perverting the course of justice in the hacking scandal that has engulfed the British press.

Food & dining

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Martha Holley-Paquette and Dann Paquette of Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project try a sample at their Somerville office.

How Pretty Things Beer became ubiquitous in Boston

If you go out for a beer in Boston, chances are the list offers something made by Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project. How did it become a beloved local institution in such a short time?

“Whoever conceived of this plan should be fired. If I were a tourist and I was caught up in that thing on Sunday, I would never go to the Cape again.”

Anne Kilguss,  a Boston social worker

Magazine

The cover for the May 13 2012 issue

The Boston waterfront has arrived
The cover for the May 6 2012 issue

Homes for sale for $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, and $1 million
The cover for the April 29 2012 issue

Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
The cover for the April 22 2012 issue

144 free things to do around Boston

Opinion

“Romney’s ‘I don’t remember’ is either preposterous or a penetrating window into a void of human feeling.”

Derrick Z. Jackson 

Ideas

“Genoeconomics is a field with a nightmare scenario already built into it—that banks might demand saliva tests before granting loans, or insurance companies could raise premiums for customers genetically predisposed to risk.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the search for the money gene