Around Boston, Wisconsin temple chief praised

The president of the Wisconsin Sikh temple, gunned down along with five others, was recalled as an open-hearted man who died defending the house of worship he helped build.

Sikhs held a vigil at the New England Gurdwara Sahib in Milford Monday for the victims of the Wisconsin attack.

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Sikhs feel misunderstood, at risk since 9/11

Sikhism, the major religion with about 25 million adherents worldwide at the center of the Wisconsin shooting, remains little known and widely misunderstood in the United States.

Wisconsin temple gunman was white supremacist

The gunman in the shooting rampage that left six dead and three wounded was identified as Wade M. Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran who played guitar in racist heavy metal bands.

Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine chatted with Red Sox Scholar Ben St. Fort at the Dimock Center in January.

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Red Sox top charitable giving list

A report released by the Red Sox Foundation reveals that it has donated more than $52 million to nonprofits over the past decade, making it the most charitable team in baseball.

Whether Bulger can raise an immunity defense before jurors remains an open question.

Bulger plans to take stand in his defense

James “Whitey” Bulger will for the first time address the charges against him, hoping to convince a jury that federal officials once granted him immunity for his many crimes.

“We don’t get to pick the timing of a global slowdown,” Eric Rosengren said. “If there’s a slowdown and you have an independent central bank, the appropriate response is to act. I think that’s exactly what we should do.”

Fed must do more, its Boston chief says

Eric Rosengren, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is urging the nation’s central bankers to ignore election-year pressures and do more to jump-start the economy.

The Bulls were not happy that injury-prone Luol Deng (center) played for Britain. “I have no regrets,’’ Deng said.

Bob Ryan

Not all is lost for Great Britain basketball

Great Britain’s win over China, their first victory in Olympic basketball competition since 1948, was arguably the greatest day in the history of British basketball.

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Frame by Frame

From an eviscerated body, spiritualism emerges
Staff at the Children’s Museum in Dover, N.H., helped youngsters and parents create sculptures from cardboard tubes.

Student’s site taps Amazon sales to help charities
Maryanne O’Hara at the Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown.

Author revisits a long-submerged piece of Central Mass.
David Byrne of Talking Heads

14 songs in which artists take on television
Brenda Manning with her son, Brian, 11, who recently underwent a hemispherectomy to try to stop his epileptic seizures.

G Cover

Surgery no longer a last resort in treating epilepsy

Olympics Photos

Best images from synchronized swimming
Usain Bolt leans at the line, crossing in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds to win the gold ahead of Yohan Blake (5, silver) and Justin Gatlin (6, bronze).

Bob Ryan

Usain Bolt again makes fast work of the 100
Following a car accident involving the band’s original bassist, Deftones are touring again and will release a new album in October.

Deftones bounce back after tragedy strikes
The GLANSER sends location data back to a command post.

Firefighter tracker to be unveiled
Sean Cullen and Elisabeth Waterston in the production.

Stage review

Time passes slowly in ‘A Month in the Country’
Dianne Reeves performing on Saturday at Newport.

Music Review

Diversity in style, substance at Newport jazz fest
Hatchery manager Mickey Novak held up a female salmon at the Sunderland hatchery where the fish are mated.

US bid to return salmon to Connecticut River ends

Sports

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Red Sox 9, Rangers 2

Jacoby Ellsbury hit paydirt in the eighth inning when he scored on a double by Carl Crawford, one of three runs the Red Sox scored in the inning.

Red Sox hit eight doubles in rout of Rangers

The Red Sox tuned out the speculation swirling over manager Bobby Valentine’s job status by pumping up the volume on offense in a 9-2 victory.

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Governor Deval Patrick shook hands with Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo after signing a health care cost containment bill into law on Monday morning.

Health bill signed amid hopes for $200b in savings

In a State House ceremony, Governor Deval Patrick signed the sweeping bill that seeks to rein in the state’s spiraling health costs.

Columnists

Farah Stockman

Tea Partiers see UN plot to take over America

Dan Shaughnessy

Are the Red Sox really backing Valentine?
The Bulls were not happy that injury-prone Luol Deng (center) played for Britain. “I have no regrets,’’ Deng said.

Bob Ryan

Not all is lost for Great Britain basketball

JULIETTE KAYYEM

The $600,000 budget thorn

james carroll

Dark fantasy in action

Adrian Walker

Alarm bells in Roxbury health center
Usain Bolt leans at the line, crossing in an Olympic-record 9.63 seconds to win the gold ahead of Yohan Blake (5, silver) and Justin Gatlin (6, bronze).

Bob Ryan

Usain Bolt again makes fast work of the 100
First lady Michelle Obama campaigns in Manchester, N.H., Thursday.

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

This time, Mass. gives Obama little help in N.H.
Bicyclists and pedestrians travel in Stockholm, where traffic has decreased significantly since the city started charging drivers a fee to enter congested areas.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Finding the cure for traffic

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Dropbox’s tale speaks to a Bay State weakness
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

Business

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Footprint Power LLC of New Jersey announced it has acquired the aging Salem Harbor Power Station,

N.J. firm seals deal on Salem power plant

A New Jersey company said that it has finalized its purchase of the aging Salem Harbor Power Station, which it plans to replace with a state-of-the-art gas-fired plant on a portion of the site.

Politics

Mitt Romney’s joint committee — which collects money for his campaign, the Republican National Committee and several state GOP committees — now has $185.9 million cash on hand.

Romney tops Obama in July fund-raising

Mitt Romney’s joint fundraising committee announced a July haul of $101.3 million, outraising President Obama’s joint committee for the third straight month.

Nation & World

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Employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif., celebrated the landing of the space agency’s Curiosity rover on Mars Monday.

‘Touchdown confirmed,’ as rover lands on Mars

NASA followed up its picture-perfect landing of a plutonium-powered rover with pictures of the picture-perfect landing.

Arts

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Book Review

Jane Barnes

‘Falling in Love With Joseph Smith’ by Jane Barnes

The details of Barnes’s idiosyncratic pilgrimage will please neither Mormon true believers, nor Christians, nor those skeptical of all unsubstantiated religious claims.

Lifestyle

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G Force

Kristen Kelliher at 14,000 feet on Mount McKinley, above Kahiltna Glacier.

Vermonter becomes youngest female to ‘highpoint’ all 50 states

Norwich’s Kristen Kelliher, 18, became the youngest woman to climb the highest peak in every state when she summited Alaska’s Denali in June.

“We don’t want to say, ‘We are not Muslims,’ because that has the implication of, ‘Don’t ­attack us; attack them.’ ”

Harpreet Singh,  a doctoral student in ­religion at Harvard, on American Sikhs

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Connected, powerful 21st-century moms
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25 best burgers around Boston
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12 Bostonians Changing the World

Opinion

“Tea Party activists can read between the lines — even lines that aren’t there.”

Farah Stockman 

Ideas

“If Willen is right, then the finger-pointing that’s occurred since the financial meltdown is all beside the point. Instead, we need to accept the frightening fact that when an economic delusion takes hold, none of us may be able to tell.”

Leon Neyfakh, on a Federal Reserve economist bearing very bad news