The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston funneled $1.8 million from outside donors to help turn around some of the Massachusetts’ most depressed midsize cities.

Boston Fed’s Latest Role: Community Organizer

Some farmers are raising their pigs more humanely in wide open spaces, instead of tight quarters, and selling them to restaurants and grocers increasingly interested in how animals are treated.

Demand Grows for Hogs That Are Raised Humanely Outdoors

The leaders of some of the largest and most transformative companies are demonstrating, with their absence, the difficulty of convening a global conversation with all the main stakeholders, writes Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Notable in Their Absence From Davos

François Hollande once vowed to be on his most exemplary behavior as president of France. But an affair has exposed a more politically calculating side and threatens to undercut his economic agenda.

Hollande’s Romances Turn Into a Political Spectacle in France

When the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos meet in the Super Bowl on Feb. 2 at MetLife Stadium, the high-decibel help of their hometown crowds will be missing.

Super Sunday, and the Crowd Goes, Um, Silent

Abortion is becoming an unexpectedly animating issue in the 2014 midterm races, with Republicans using it to stoke enthusiasm among core supporters and Democrats looking to rally female voters.

Parties Seize on Abortion Issues in Midterm Race

Florida is under a court order to begin serving kosher food to eligible inmates, alarming officials who report a surge in prisoners, many of them gentiles, interested in going kosher.

You Don’t Have to Be Jewish to Love a Kosher Prison Meal

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s offer of $1.5 billion to expand prekindergarten is likely to be seen as an attempt to outmaneuver Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said on Tuesday he would still seek to tax the rich to pay for the program.

Pre-K Plan Puts Cuomo at Odds With de Blasio on Funding

A storied New York restaurant makes a move on Los Angeles.

At Rao’s in Los Angeles, Red Sauce and Rivalry

Mohamed El-Erian is unexpectedly resigning from the giant asset manager Pimco, dashing expectations that he would take over management of the firm.

Heir Apparent at Pimco to Step Down

The Oxford English Dictionary, now under the leadership of Michael Proffitt, is looking to serve traditionalists and the users to come.

Language by the Book, but the Book Is Evolving

“Broad City,” starting Wednesday on Comedy Central, skewers the millennial generation as hapless, with no ambition, talent or self-respect. But these slackers happen to be women.

They’re Young, Female and, Darn It, Need to Work

A new vanguard of women emerges as the next generation of leaders in the nation’s best restaurants.

A Change in the Kitchen

Last year, the Government Accountability Office estimated that the price tag could range from a few trillion dollars to over $10 trillion.

Recession’s True Cost Is Still Being Tallied

The Cuban writer Leonardo Padura’s novel “The Man Who Loved Dogs” weaves the story of Trotsky, his murder and his murderer.

Trotsky’s Pursuer Finds a Pursuer to Call His Own

Michael Evans came to Argentina on vacation and stayed, leaving his career as a political consultant to go into the vineyard business.

American Starts a Luxury Resort to Share the Argentina He Loves

If there is any way to unlock the immigration stalemate in Washington, colleagues say that Esther Olavarria, a Democrat, and Rebecca Tallent, a Republican, might find it.

2 Friends Reach Across the Aisle on Immigration

The glut of Shakespeare plays and other star-studded classical productions has led to happily overwhelmed theatergoers and to marketing challenges for theater companies.

To See or Not to See? A Season for High Art

Bixi, which designs and builds bike-sharing systems used around the world, owes the city of Montreal millions of dollars.

Canadian Company Behind Bike-Sharing Programs Seeks Bankruptcy Protection

Corrections appearing in print on January 21, 2014.

Corrections: January 21, 2014

Quotation of the day for Tuesday, January 21, 2014.

Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Reviews of the new video games The Room Two, Nidhogg, République and Cut the Rope 2.

Puzzles, Mysteries and a Dragon

A string of senior executives at three credit card companies offered to resign on Monday after a huge theft of client data may have affected 20 million people.

Theft of Data Fuels Worries in South Korea

JPMorgan withdrew as a potential underwriter of a stock offering for Tianhe Chemicals. The bank once employed the daughter of Tianhe’s chairman.

JPMorgan Is Said to Drop Out of Another Offering in China

A 1992 concert honoring Bob Dylan is coming out in video and a refreshed CD edition.

A Dylan Tribute Concert Is Getting New Life

The Rojava Conflict, also known as the Rojava Revolution, is a political upheaval and military conflict taking place in northern Syria, known among Kurds as Western Kurdistan or Rojava.

Rojava conflict: The Jazira Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.

January 21, 2014

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Boston Fed’s Latest Role: Community Organizer

Demand Grows for Hogs That Are Raised Humanely Outdoors

Notable in Their Absence From Davos

Hollande’s Romances Turn Into a Political Spectacle in France

Super Sunday, and the Crowd Goes, Um, Silent

Billboard 200

Frozen

Beyonce

The Marshall Mathers LP 2

PRISM

Pure Heroine

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Historical Context for January 21, 2014