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Greenway deserves public support

The Rose Kennedy Greenway is well-loved but severely underfunded, and someone has to pay, writes Renée Loth.

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Children learn yo-yo tricks at Boston’s Race Amity Day.

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Cafe tables await diners at High Street.

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Parkgoers cool off in a fountain.

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James Surls’s “Walking Flower Times the Power of Five.” is on on parcel 21.

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The Armenian Heritage Park on the Greenwayincludes a labyrinth of grass and stone.

06/19/2012 NEWBURYPORT, MA A Peregrine Falcon (cq) carousel character. Artist Jeffrey Briggs (cq), works on a custom carousel, commissioned by the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy (cq). The finished carousel is set to be installed on the Greenway next year. Briggs works out of a studio at his home in Newburyport. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)

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A peregrine falcon will be in a custom carouselset to be installed next year.

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A critic’s first Olympics

The Globe’s Matthew Gilbert has reluctantly found that astounding athletics and human drama make the Games TV gold.

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.

New Bedford infant, mother found dead

A young mother and her infant daughter were found dead in their apartment Friday, but foul play is not suspected at this time.

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Red Sox lose third straight

The Red Sox suffered yet another loss to the Twins Friday night, this one in 10 innings, as they squandered a four-run lead.

Obama, Romney offer differing takes on jobs data

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.

Father, son recall details on surviving shark attack in Mass.

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

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Kayla Harrison did a victory lap with the American flag after winning the gold medal.

Kayla Harrison overcomes abuse, wins gold medal in judo

The author’s son, Alex Filipov, with an illustration in their Hard Days Night Hotel room.

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Touring Liverpool with a Beatlemaniac son

“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

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.

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Busker Buddies brings the fringe out of the basements

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

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Total Recall is unmemorable

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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.

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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.