Brown, Warren release tax returns

Senator Scott Brown’s income rose from more than $294,000 in 2009 to almost $840,000 in 2010, while Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren averaged nearly $846,000 over the past 4 years.

Mass. economy doubles US pace

The state’s economy grew at 4.5 percent in the first quarter, picking up steam and doubling the national rate.

SCOT LEHIGH

The economy, on paper and in practice

Evidence from the real world as well as research results can shed light for moderates trying to evaluate the two parties’ competing world views.

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The bigoted comments made on Twitter after a black Capitals player scored the series-clinching goal once again put a focus on Boston’s turbulent racial history.

On football

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Help is coming for the Patriots’ defense. And don’t be surprised if more arrives in the form of a cornerback or two.

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Exclusive Sunday Preview | Globe Magazine

Mass. voters face moral question on ‘Death with Dignity’

Should terminally ill patients have the right to get a fatal prescription? Massachusetts voters are expected to weigh in this November.

Misa Kuranaga (right) and Jeffrey Cirio during a dress rehearsal for the Boston Ballet’s production of “Don Quixote.”

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‘Don Quixote’ is crowded but pleasing

This Boston Ballet production — staged by Maina Gielgud — of Rudolf Nureyev’s farcical tale will make you laugh with delight, and even tear at your heart.

Thursday’s program opened with “Home,” choreographed by Rennie Harris.

Dance Review

Alvin Ailey has a Battle on its hands

George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Alvin Ailey are all gone; yet the dance companies they founded live on after them — or try to.

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Globe Insiders

Globe Event, Friday, April 27, 8 p.m.

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Globe Insiders are invited to attend the must-see performance and enjoy a Q&A after with the artistic director and several of the dancers.

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College students vulnerable to bipolar disorder
A rendering from the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe for the proposed Taunton casino.

Mashpee tribe unveils $500m casino plan

carlo rotella

Degree of uncertainty
Alex Libby is a 12-year-old from Iowa in “Bully.”

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‘Bully’: A must-see for teens, now at PG-13
Barack Obama speaks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in March.

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The rise of Turkey as a superpower
Jay Atkinson, who teaches writing at BU, captures the game of rugby like no other.

Book Review

‘Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man’ by Jay Atkinson

Joshua Green

The likability factor and mudslinging

yvonne abraham

Cut health bills for all
Mark Bollman’s second Ball and Buck, on Newbury Street, resembles a well-curated hunting lodge.

Mark Bollman hunts for just the right spot

editorial

Chris Christie hurt East Coast by rejecting tunnel
Alex Karpovsky has written, directed, and/or starred in 23 feature films, short films, and television shows.

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Newton‘s Karpovsky takes indie-film stardom in stride

Push for health care an error, Frank says

Metro

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BU remains frank about recent bad news

Boston University president Robert Brown has been open with parents despite unfortunate recent news, including murder, fire, sexual assault, hazing, and a bad joke.

Business

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TD Bank Group CEO Ed Clark, left, with Mayor Tom Menino before Clark's speech to the Boston College executive's club luncheon at the Boston Harbor Hotel. JOSH REYNOLDS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE (Business, Wallack)

TD Bank chief outlines plans to expand in Mass.

The fourth-largest retail bank has about 150 branches statewide and plans to add five more this year.

Columnists

Boston Capital

Former Boston bank partners back with separate ventures

SCOT LEHIGH

The economy, on paper and in practice

Dan Shaughnessy

Bruins’ season comes to sudden end

opinion | Juliette Kayyem

Saudi Arabia’s un-Olympic spirit

Joan Vennochi

In Eastie, anti-casino rumblings

Opinion | Jeff Jacoby

Jim McGovern’s flawed war

yvonne abraham

Cut health bills for all

Scot Lehigh

A breath of fresh air on Beacon Hill

Bob Ryan

NBA stiffing fans with stars’ absence

Joanna Weiss

Attacking drinking on campus

BOSTON CAPITAL

Europe’s economic agonies

Brian McGrory

Lots more to Liberty Mutual pay story

Politics

Governor Deval Patrick read the Gettysburg Address during a ceremony at the State House earlier this year.

Governor Patrick continues to increase national presence

Patrick, who has been traveling the country for political events frequently in his second term, will speak at an Iowa Democratic Party dinner in June.

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Armed police entered a building near Tottenham Court Road in London on Friday.

Man arrested after armed siege in central London

A 49-year-old man is now in police custody after a three-hour siege which shut down a busy part of central London.

Sports

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Red Sox 10, White Sox 3

Boston Red Sox' Jarrod Saltalamacchia watched his second home run of the baseball game during the fifth inning Thursday in Chicago. Kevin Youkilis also scored on the play.

Red Sox offense unloads again in Chicago

Jarrod Saltalamacchia homered twice as the resurgent Red Sox hammered Chicago’s Philip Humber five days after his perfect game.

Movies

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Movie Review

Hugh Grant lends his voice to the Pirate Captain in “The Pirates! Band of Misfits!”

‘Pirates! Band of Misfits’ sees Aardman animation back in fine form

The pirates have a knack for leaving us smiling almost as goofily as one of their claymation creations.

Arts

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Stage Review

Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Anikulapo Kuti in the London production of “Fela!”

‘Fela!’ dazzles at Cutler Majestic

“Fela!’’ is a testament not just to the charisma of one remarkable, if flawed, man, but to the power of music to capture, channel, and communicate the spirit of rebellion.

“I am very bitter about it. It’s one extra thing I have to deal with that other people don’t. And my life is harder because of it.”

Jessica Feldish,  a Northeastern junior with bipolar disorder

Magazine

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In an artist’s garden
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Are fat baseball players a problem?
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45 best breakfast joints around Boston

Opinion

“As long as we're assured that we'll be free to sell our labor to the highest low bidder, we're apparently comfortable with stripping away everything else from entry-level work.”

Carlo Rotella 

Ideas

“John Singleton Copley’s life, his works, and his words defined him as a subject of the British empire, not a citizen of the American republic.”

Jane Kamensky,  on the great American painter who wasn’t American