Seven new hotels approved for Seaport District

The Legislature’s authorization paves the way for the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority to launch a $2 billion expansion of its convention center in the Seaport District.

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At issue is whether John F. Tierney should have disclosed more than $200,000 his wife received while managing a bank account that held money from a brother’s illegal gambling business.

Arrests, deaths show Mansfield overtaxed by Comcast Center events

A week after two men died from overdoses at an all-day rave at the Comcast Center, police arrested 35 people at a hip-hop show Wednesday night, mostly for underage drinking.

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Officials and business owners say that while an apparent great white attack in Truro has spooked some swimmers, the publicity is actually boosting revenue.

Globe’s fish mislabeling series wins watchdog journalism award

The award recognizes groundbreaking journalism that creatively uses digital tools.

Serena Williams celebrated after winning the women's singles gold medal match against Russia's Maria Sharapova on Saturday.

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Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova for Olympic gold

Williams won her first singles gold medal Saturday by beating Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1.

US men’s Olympic basketball team beats Lithuania, 99-94

The US men’s basketball team survived its first test of the Olympics Saturday, beating Lithuania after trailing in the fourth quarter.

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Michael Phelps came from seventh place at the turn to win the Olympic 100-meter butterfly, bringing his golden total to 17 with one more likely in Saturday’s 4 x 100 medley relay.

Few of Rhod Sharp’s legion of late-night BBC radio fans know that he’s coming to them live — from Marblehead.

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The BBC, live from Marblehead

Scotland-born Rhod Sharp hosts BBC Radio’s “Up All Night” news show for an estimated 1 million UK listeners, few of whom realize he’s broadcasting from the North Shore.

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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.

Globe exclusives

Josephine Adjei used an umbrella to protect herself from the sun.

Parasols become trendy
From left: Peter Mark Kendall, Johnny Lee Davenport, and Anthony Wills Jr. in “ ‘Master Harold’ . . . and the Boys.”

Stage Review

Gloucester Stage offers explosive ‘Master Harold’
Jo-Ann Sundermeier and Harrison James in “Carmina Burana.’’

Dance Review

Royal Winnipeg Ballet brings diverse program to Jacob’s Pillow

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Globe Magazine

Can GPS find you a mate?
Boston Red Sox Ryan Sweeney dove for the catch at Fenway Park on July 8.

editorial

Red Sox should dock Ryan Sweeney’s pay

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

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Globe photos of the week
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
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

Sports

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Oscar Pistorius of South Africa runs on carbon-fiber prostheses.

Oscar Pistorius will make history, no matter the outcome

On Saturday, the South African made his Olympic debut, achieving a historic milestone for disabled athletes everywhere as the first double amputee in the Games.

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Jumpers at Nelson’s quarry in Gloucester Wednesday.

Natural thrills at Cape Ann quarries test generations of jumpers

The quarries at the northern end of Cape Ann challenge the daring and foolhardy with jumps from cliffs as high as 80-feet above the water.

Columnists

Roger Federer put in a long workday, taking more than four hours to eliminate Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro.

Bob Ryan

Federer wins an Olympic classic at Wimbledon

Adrian Walker

Gregory Sullivan, crusading inspector general, calls it a career

LAWRENCE HARMON

Energy czar put the green in Boston
Tom Brady waves (left) to some of the many fans attending Patriots practice Friday wishing him well on his 35th birthday.

Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady’s 35th birthday presents a dilemma

Brian McGrory

Children’s Hospital plans may mark end for Prouty Garden
Aly Raisman looked up towards the screen after final results were declared.

Bob Ryan

Tiebreaker that cost Raisman bronze hard to figure
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

opinion | Joshua Green

White male Democrats fading in Congress

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

CARLO ROTELLA

Clear the clutter; get rid of unneeded toys

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Job seekers had their resumes reviewed at a job fair expo in Anaheim, Calif. in this June 13, 2012 file photo.

Hiring jumps in July, alleviating recession fears

US employers added the most jobs in five months, cheering economists and markets and exceeding expectations.

Politics

Political Notebook

President Obama praised the work of his ‘regulatory czar,’ Cass Sunstein.

Cass Sunstein, chief of regulations review, to return to Harvard

Sunstein, President Obama’s “regulatory czar,” will return to Harvard Law School after three years in the White House.

Nation & World

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with President Salva Kiir of South Sudan about oil on Friday.

Clinton urges Sudan, S. Sudan to reconcile

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged leaders of Sudan and South Sudan to resolve differences that threaten to reignite a decades-long conflict.

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.

“It’s not to make a fashion statement.”

Irene Liu,  on carrying a parasol

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

“Praise for brave men should not blind us to brave women.”

Cathy Young 

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