South Boston shuns ‘protector’ myth of Bulger

It’s difficult to find anyone who still buys into the romantic idea that “Whitey” was a Southie version of a dark knight defending the community.

After 8 weeks of trial, Bulger’s fate in jurors’ hands

Jurors will resume deliberations Wednesday morning in the sweeping federal racketeering case against James “Whitey” Bulger.

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Lawrence Summers.

AP (left) and Bloomberg/File

Warren, Summers split on economic policy, Fed pick

The relationship between Senator Elizabeth Warren and former Obama economic adviser Lawrence Summers is more complicated than their resumes might suggest.

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Isabella “Belle” Hankey, who filed suit against the Concord-Carisle schools, alleges that nothing was done to stop the bullying she faced.

TD Bank’s “Bank human again” ads are part of an effort by banks to connect with people.

TD Bank’s “Bank human again” ads are part of an effort by banks to connect with people.

Bank of America’s “Life’s better when we’re connected” campaign is just one element of the bank’s refocus after the financial crisis.

Bank of America’s “Life’s better when we’re connected” campaign is just one element of the bank’s refocus after the financial crisis.

Wells Fargo & Co. has adopted the tagline “When people talk great things happen” in its ads.

Wells Fargo & Co. has adopted the tagline “When people talk great things happen” in its ads.

One of Eastern Bank’s commercials highlights the bank’s decision to open a branch in downtown Lawrence.

One of Eastern Bank’s commercials highlights the bank’s decision to open a branch in downtown Lawrence.

With flame of humanity, banks try to melt icy image

Mid-size banks and the nation’s largest institutions are spending millions in ads to stress their relationships with customers.

Anna Volain (center), 20, shopping for snacks at Shaw’s on Commonwealth Avenue with friends Liza Posner (left), 20, and Isabel Monteiro, 21.

Generation Y a tough target for marketers

Millennials — generally defined as people born after 1980 — have become skilled at finding ways to avoid the constant stream of advertising.

Shirley Leung

The case for a sales tax rollback

Keeping the Mass. sales tax at 6.25 percent will end up hurting those who can least afford it, and discouraging spending overall.

“The fact that we are placing the most sweeping tax on the innovation economy is stunning,” said Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.

Business leaders fight technology tax in Mass.

A coalition of business leaders plans to ask voters to repeal the newly imposed sales tax on computer software services.

Opinion

Swanee Hunt

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Yes. Celebrity aside, the nominee for the Japan ambassadorship stands on her own merit.

Globe exclusives

Red Sox broadcaster Don Orsillo preparing his chicken and sausage dish.

Don Orsillo at home in the kitchen
Deviled eggs with tuna and black olives added to the creamy yolk at Oleana.

Dining out

At Oleana, iconic dishes
From left: Jennifer Aniston, Will Poulter, Emma Roberts, and Jason Sudeikis in “We’re the Millers.”

Movie Review

‘Millers’ a safe comedy about drug smuggling
Items from the “light entrees” menu at Hit Wicket in Inman Square include potato sliders (pictured) and South African bunny chow with chicken.

Cheap Eats

Hit Wicket menu calls to cricket fans
The tower will be the first major office building in Seaport Square.

PwC signs lease for Seaport offices
Esperanza Spalding performing Sunday night at Tanglewood. She played both electric and acoutic basses.

Music Review

Spalding lights up Tanglewood
Entrepreneur Sarah Cherry Rice described her curriculum-mapping tool for teachers at a recent Waltham event.

Start-ups take on education’s tangles

Album Review | FOLK/COUNTRY

Tension, grace on ‘The Civil Wars’
Prospective Boston Globe owner John W. Henry (left) talked with graphic designer David Butler on Monday during a newsroom tour.

In Globe visit, Henry plays role of observer
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
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

Sports

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Jacoby Ellsbury (right) had two home runs, walked twice, and scored four runs.

Red Sox outslug Astros in Houston

The 69-46 Red Sox have won as many games as they did all last season and have 47 to play.

Metro

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A spokeswoman for Edward Davis declined to comment Tuesday.

Minority officers call for Edward Davis’s resignation

An advocacy group argues that the police commissioner’s administration disciplines officers of color more harshly.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Caroline Kennedy? Really?

Adrian Walker

The future begins at the Globe

Shirley Leung

The case for a sales tax rollback
A picture taken from inside a car shows Iranians waiting at a bus station in downtown Tehran in June.

Opinion | farah stockman

Tehran calculations
Steve Davis (white hair, in front of microphones), the brother of alleged Bulger victim Debra Davis, spoke to the reporters outside the Moakley federal courthouse as joggers passed by Monday.

Kevin Cullen

The theater of Whitey
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?

Nation & World

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Colonel Steve Hendricks, shown in a courtroom sketch, spoke to jurors as Major Nidal Malik Hasan looked on.

Ft. Hood trial begins with an admission of guilt

Major Nidal Malik Hasan told a jury of senior Army officers that “the evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter.”

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

George W. Bush had the procedure done in Dallas. He is expected to resume normal activities Thursday.

George W. Bush has stent placed in heart artery

The former president had the procedure done in Dallas. He is expected to resume normal activities Thursday.

Business

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Jeff Bezos changed books with the Kindle.

E-book overhaul highlights Jeff Bezos’s strategies

The billionaire and Amazon founder is plunging into the newspaper industry with his deal Monday to buy The Washington Post.

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Television Review

David Tennant and Olivia Colman play mismatched detectives thrown together to solve a murder in “Broadchurch.”

‘Broadchurch’: A town undone

The BBC America’s first-rate show is an eight-part series that was nearly a “Downton Abbey”-sized hit in the UK.

Food & dining

A Tank Away

A garden park on the waterfront in Blue Hill.

Plenty of art, history in Blue Hill, Maine

The handsome village lures travelers with gentle hiking, historic homes, and plentiful galleries.

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The lake house
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Walter Willett’s food fight
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What happened at Deerfield
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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