Globe poll favors life term for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

By a wide margin, Boston residents favor life without parole instead of the death penalty for the Marathon bombing suspect if he is convicted of the attack.

Federal agents spoke in May with Edward Tutunjian outside one of his garages on Kilmarnock Street in Boston.

SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW-UP

Amid criminal probe, taxi owner looks to sell

Edward Tutunjian, who was the focus of a Globe Spotlight Team investigation, is seeking to sell more than half his cab empire — an estimated $120 million divestiture.

Innovation economy stars offered their suggestions for what Boston’s next leader must do to keep the city buzzing.

Innovation sector leaders have to-do list for next mayor

Prominent members of Boston’s innovation economy weigh in on what the next mayor needs to do to keep the city buzzing.

Rep. Martin Walsh

Foes critique Martin Walsh’s City Hall sale plan

The Boston mayoral candidate announced a proposal Sunday to revitalize downtown by selling City Hall Plaza to a private developer.

Mike Napoli was met at the plate by David Ortiz after his two-run home run in the first inning.

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Red Sox 9, Yankees 2

Red Sox rout Yankees to finish off sweep

The Red Sox now have a 9½-game lead in the AL East and their magic number to clinch the division is down to 4.

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Spurred by the state, bidders are pitching plans for composting programs, solar installations, and rain-harvesting systems.

Lawrence Summers won’t seek Fed post

The Harvard professor is asking not to be considered for chief of the Federal Reserve as opposition mounts over his style and his record.

Adrian Walker

Martha Coakley’s redemption tour begins

The attorney general’s run for governor is about removing a stain — the memory of her loss to Scott Brown in the 2010 Senate race.

Opinion

JOHN E. SUNUNU

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Adult participation in the workforce has fallen to its lowest level in 35 years — and nobody knows why.

Globe exclusives

In July, Queen Latifah and singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz looked over plans for the Kravitz-designed set of her new daytime TV talk show.

Latifah the new Queen of daytime?
An image from the latest virtual Iraq/Afghanistan system, called Bravemind and developed by the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies.

Health

Virtual reality helping veterans
Nicole Beharie as police officer Abbie Mills and Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane in Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow.’’

Television Review

‘Sleepy Hollow’ mythology gums up works
Ethel Weiss is a 99-year-old Brookline woman who’s still running her toy and card shop on Harvard Street.

In Practice

Lessons learned from older patients

No clear leader in mayor’s race, Globe poll shows

Special section

Boston Ballet at 50

Special section

Style magazine: Fall fashion
Leo Villani told people he had inherited money.

UMass worker stole millions

Ideas

The psychology of heroes and villains
The Triumphal Arch of Sergius.

travel

Istria and its secrets of the soil

Your Home

Waste not
From left to right: Mary Lynne Hedley, Deborah Dunsire, and Susan Windham-Bannister.

Innovation economy

Influential women in biotech

Boston mayoral race

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John Barros played a drum as actor Danny Glover (left) and Gus Newport, the former mayor of Berkeley, Calif., backed him up on stage.

For mayoral campaigns, Sunday’s no day of rest

Many of the 12 candidates running for mayor of Boston fanned out across the city.

Sports

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On Football

Tom Brady deserves a fair portion of the blame for the offense’s struggles because he was uncharacteristically inaccurate.

Rare bad reviews for Patriots’ Tom Brady, Vince Wilfork

It was shocking to see Brady missing so many wide-open throws, and to see Wilfork pushed around by the Jets’ interior offensive line.

Metro

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“We can either grab this moment and move forward together, or risk falling behind,” said Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, in a statement.

Coakley in governor’s race, with backing, baggage

Attorney General Martha Coakley will announce her bid for governor of Mass. in her hometown of Medford on Monday, an aide said.

Columnists

Dan Shaughnessy

Picked-up pieces from sports world

JAMES CARROLL

Earnest atheists look for God

Yvonne Abraham

From pals to pariahs
From top: John Barros in “The Difference,” Bill Walczak’s “Only one says no,” Mike Ross literally runs for mayor, Dan Conley in “Innovation,” and Rob Consalvo in “All in for Boston.”

JOANNA WEISS

Boston’s mayoral race doesn’t need TV ads

JOAN VENNOCHI

Patrick’s tech tax wakes up a sleeping giant
From left to right: Mary Lynne Hedley, Deborah Dunsire, and Susan Windham-Bannister.

Innovation economy

Influential women in biotech

Derrick Z. Jackson

A gridlocked city

SCOT LEHIGH

Rob Consalvo earns A+ in pandering to teachers union

Tech Lab

Internet video with a brain

JOAN VENNOCHI

Menino, stop the heavy action agenda

alex beam

The Rapture People are back
Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano makes an over-the-shoulder catch to rob Will Middlebrooks in the sixth.

Dan Shaughnessy

Yankees have surprising staying power

Nation & World

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In his ABC interview, Obama said the United States was not going to “get in the middle of somebody else’s civil war.”

Obama hails US-Russia deal on Syrian weapons

President Obama said the framework with Russia could become a first step toward a political settlement of the conflict.

Business

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Boston Beer shares have increased tenfold since mid-2009, driving founder Jim Koch’s net worth above $1 billion.

How Boston Beer’s founder became a billionaire

Boston Beer shares have increased tenfold since mid-2009, driving founder Jim Koch’s net worth above $1 billion.

Arts

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Stage Review

The production features flowery, 17th-century costumes and speech.

‘The Libertine’ is must-see debauchery

Seeing “The Libertine” is like visiting a decadent secret society that the titular Earl of Rochester might have enjoyed.

Health and wellness

Boston Medical Mysteries

This is what Dr. Lester saw under the microscope.

A breast disease that wouldn’t go away

For a pathologist, like for any clinician, diagnoses aren’t always straightforward.

Globe Insiders

Insider Event | Sept. 25

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Attend a book signing and presentation by Qais Akbar Omar, author of the internationally acclaimed memoir.

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Magazine

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Beauty of the bottle
The cover for the September 8 2013 issue

Jefferson slept here
The cover for the August 25 2013 issue

Little folk
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Sharks Inc.

Ideas

“If we call something war, the instinct is that the military should really be in charge……But if you say it’s not actually military conflict, it’s not war in any sensible way, then you raise questions about whether the Department of Defense should really be responsible for this.”

Thomas Rid,  on cyberwar