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Obama, Romney offer differing takes on jobs data
President Obama spoke Friday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, while Republican presidential candidate Romney spoke at a trucking company in North Las Vegas.

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President Obama seized on a report that showed the US gained 163,000 jobs in July, while Mitt Romney pointed to the rise in the unemployment rate to 8.3 percent.

Curt Schilling says he ‘failed’ 38 Studios employees

The ex-Red Sox pitcher, whose video game company collapsed earlier this year, said he is now “just trying to manage day-by-day.”

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Chris Myers, the wisecracking Boston native who survived the first great white shark attack on a Massachusetts swimmer since 1936, spoke at a press conference on Friday.

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Stage set for sprinting showdown

The marquee event of these Games is the men's 100 meters, writes Chad Finn, which will feature Jamaicans Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake and Americans Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin.

Michael Phelps, right, celebrated after winning gold again.

Michael Phelps is golden again

The American swimmer won his record 17th career Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly, his final individual race.

Missy Franklin, left, celebrated her gold medal with Elizabeth Beisel, who won bronze.

Gold for Missy Franklin, bronze for R.I.’s Elizabeth Beisel

Franklin set a world record in the 200-meter backstroke to claim her third gold medal of the Olympics. Rhode Island’s Elizabeth Beisel won bronze.

John Fine of Bedford carried his kayak to the water’s edge at Walden Pond in Concord on Saturday.

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Join Globe editor Peter Canellos, author Michael Grunwald, and former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker for a look at the US presidential race.

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Can GPS find you a mate?
“Inspirare” rises from a well head in a courtyard at Mount Holyoke College.

Art Review

‘Inspirare’ is a column of light in a center of learning
The author’s son, Alex Filipov, with an illustration in their Hard Days Night Hotel room.

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Travel

Touring Liverpool with a Beatlemaniac son
Kayla Harrison did a victory lap with the American flag after winning the gold medal.

Kayla Harrison overcomes abuse, wins gold medal in judo
Aly Raisman looked up towards the screen after final results were declared.

Bob Ryan

Tiebreaker that cost Raisman bronze hard to figure
“When we chose which songs went on the record, we only chose the ones we thought turned out the best, whether they worked together or not,” says Brandi Carlile.

Brandi Carlile refines her sound on ‘Bear Creek’

Boston Capital

It’s not perfect, but new health law is a start

Howie Good on intersection of poetry, journalism
Whitehaus members (from left) Conrad Benjamin, Adam Kohl, Al and Theresa Polk, and Kate Lee on Boston Common, site of the Busker Buddies event.

Scene & Heard

Busker Buddies brings the fringe out of the basements

Farrell as Doug Quaid with Jessica Biel as his freedom-fighter girlfriend.

Movie Review

Total Recall is unmemorable
The “Big Party” event at Eastern Standard.

Turning networking into an art
The Brea, Calif. Chick-fil-A restaurant was mobbed at lunch time Wednesday.

Burlington Chick-fil-A swamped by supporters

Sports

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Schilling, Burks, others enter Sox Hall of Fame

Curt Schilling, Ellis Burks, Marty Barrett, and others were inducted Friday into the Red Sox Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Fenway Park.

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Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown have differing views on greenhouse gases.

Brown, Warren split on environmental policies

US Senator Scott Brown, who says he regrets having supported the region’s effort to cut greenhouse gases, has dismayed environmental advocates, who have turned to Elizabeth Warren.

Columnists

Joshua Green

White male Democrats fading in Congress

Brian McGrory

Children’s Hospital plans may mark end for Prouty Garden

CARLO ROTELLA

Clear the clutter; get rid of unneeded toys
An Indian man walked past cables and exposed wires at an electricity substation in New Delhi, India, Wednesday.

Juliette Kayyem

India’s blackout a cautionary tale
Aly Raisman looked up towards the screen after final results were declared.

Bob Ryan

Tiebreaker that cost Raisman bronze hard to figure

Joan Vennochi

Patrick backed down on crime bill

Tech Lab

Siri’s limits leave room for competitors

Bob Ryan

Times have changed for US men’s boxing
Lane Kiffin’s Trojans have rebounded after two years of penalties that kept them out of bowl eligibility.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Devastating penalties for Penn State? Just ask USC

Michael Phelps kisses his record-setting gold medal won in the 4x200 freestyle relay, giving him 19 in his Olympic career.

Bob Ryan

Phelps shows mettle, earns Olympic glory

joanna weiss

‘Jeffersons’ showed Americans how to speak frankly about race

farah stockman

Can we judge leaders by how much they give?

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Joanne Ly, a Curry College student, and her sister Amy Ly, 11, searched for backpacks at L.L. Bean in Dedham.

Mass. retailers look for lift over tax-free weekend

Merchants say the sales tax holiday is an important edge to get back-to-school shoppers offline and into stores.

Politics

Mitt Romney spoke to an overflow crowd Wednesday during a campaign stop at a fairgrounds in Golden, Colo.

Romney’s culture remark offers peek at worldview

Mitt Romney triggered a firestorm this week when he said that some economies are more vibrant than their neighbors because of their cultures.

Nation & World

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Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari spoke before a vote on a UN General Assembly resolution on Syria at UN headquarter in New York City.

UN General Assembly denounces Syrian crackdown

The vote came as the more powerful Security Council has been deadlocked on resolutions that would open the door to sanctions.

Arts

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Classical Notes

Sean Shepherd, recipient of the Kravis Emerging Composer award from the New York Philharmonic, has three works to be performed this month on Cape Cod and at Tanglewood.

Composer Sean Shepherd has works performed this summer

It’s always difficult to pinpoint where a composer moves from “emerging” to “emerged.”

Movies

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Movie Review

Farrell as Doug Quaid with Jessica Biel as his freedom-fighter girlfriend.

Total mind games

This remake of “Total Recall,” the 1990 science-fiction movie, has excellent production design and starts well before it works its way toward average.

“I used everything as my fuel. I was able to push it toward something and have a goal and have a dream and I was able to accomplish it.”

Kayla Harrison,  Olympic gold medalist in judo

Magazine

The cover for the July 29 2012 issue

Connected, powerful 21st-century moms
The cover for the July 22 2012 issue

25 best burgers around Boston
The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

12 Bostonians Changing the World
The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame

Opinion

“The issue of race (and to a lesser extent gender) lies beneath many of the current flash points in state and national politics.”

Joshua Green 

Ideas

“It might seem surprising that something as dramatic as a floating neighborhood would ever be proposed in Boston, but the city had a long history of building outward to the water.”

Courtney Humphries,   on Boston’s lost island neighborhood