Boston police to seek more diversity

Hoping to end decades of tension over the advancement of minority officers, the department plans to overhaul a promotion system.

Brown criticizes voter registration mailing to Mass. welfare recipients

Senator Scott Brown said sending voter registration forms to 478,000 people was a ploy to boost the ranks of Democratic voters and help rival Elizabeth Warren’s election bid.

Cambridge firms develop software to check campaign facts

The new digital tools allow TV viewers to see things such as which group paid for for an ad or how its purported facts stack up against reality.

Yvonne Abraham

Teen Empowerment chasing a miracle in Boston

The youth movement that began in one of the city’s darkest hours is celebrating its 20th anniversary. So much has changed since then, and so little.

Sarah Attar is one of two women to represent Saudi Arabia, which had never before sent females to the Games.

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Female Muslim Olympians try to inspire, bring more progress

Women from countries that strictly follow Islamic law simultaneously offer hope of social change through sports and highlight the great distance left to cover in women’s rights.

American Bruce Jenner won the decathlon — and the unofficial title as world’s greatest athlete — at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

In decathlon, ‘world’s greatest athlete’ a title without the fame

While the Olympic champion still is considered the world’s best athlete a century after Jim Thorpe set the standard, he no longer gets a ticker-tape parade.

Eric Rosengren joined the Fed in 1985.

Boston Fed chief embraces advocacy role

For Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, speaking out has been part the job. And this week he’s ratcheted it up, urging the Fed to do more.

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Seven potential baby sitters (across table) were interviewed at Coco Baby, a South End boutique.

Finding a baby sitter, in 3 minutes or less
Melissa Glorieux picks giant African marigolds at Aster B. Flowers, her farm in Essex.

A flower farm — and a new farmer — bloom in Essex
Kirsten Amann says at first she was reluctant to write a book about racy cocktails, but then remembered that cocktails are supposed to be about having fun.

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The saucier side of getting sauced

Bargain Bin

End-of-season discounts from thrift stores to Beacon Hill
Joseph Reading, 10, of Fall River cheered Tom Brady at a Patriots’ practice Tuesday.

Fans pouring into Patriots training camp

Photo Gallery

Brady bunch: Tom Brady, family at practice
Aly Raisman won the floor exercises, a first for an American gymnast, after taking the bronze on the balance beam.

For Raisman, individual gold worth the wait

Photos

Best images from the London Olympics
A new seven-story learning center for the New England Conservatory on Huntington Avenue and Gainsborough Street would include 60 practice rooms and a public jazz cafe.

New England Conservatory to expand campus
At Cafe Beirut in Jamaica Plain, lamb kebab with rice pilaf and homemade pickles and moujadara.

Cheap Eats

Authentic Lebanese cooking in JP
Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep in the comedy/drama “Hope Springs,” directed by David Frankel.

Movie Review

Getting older, not necessarily better in ‘Hope Springs’
Organic cucumbers being readied for fermenting in a drum.

food

Locavores turn to fermenting crock to preserve their veggies

Sports

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Tom Brady (left) will be in very good hands behind Dan Connolly & Co. once the games begin for real this season.

Patriots offensive line shouldn’t be a concern

The real games don’t start for a month. Reinforcements are coming. And those charged with the duty of protecting Tom Brady know the stakes.

Metro

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Iva Dochi helped her 14-month-old son, Arber, practice walking at Red Rock Park in Lynn.

Lynn’s sin label outdated, residents insist

Plagued by the seedy rap since the days of flappers in the Roaring '20s, Lynn plans to embark on a national TV advertising campaign celebrating the city’s charms.

Columnists

Fishing boats in Gloucester in April 1933.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Gloucester 2.0

Tech Lab

Latest, greatest technology may be overkill for most students

Joan Vennochi

Joe Kennedy III sails on, amid a storm of family troubles

Juliette Kayyem

Ebola outbreak is quelled — this time

Yvonne Abraham

Teen Empowerment chasing a miracle in Boston.
The Zakim bridge in 2002.

Brian McGrory

A bright idea for the Zakim Bridge

Kevin Cullen

Bulger wants to do it his way

Bob Ryan

NBA proposal to change Olympics isn’t moving

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Romney’s fanciful tax plan

Jeff Jacoby

Rich Americans pay their fair share in taxes — and then some

Farah Stockman

Tea Partiers see UN plot to take over America
Bobby Valentine watched batting practice before Monday’s game.

Dan Shaughnessy

Are the Red Sox really backing Valentine?

Business

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Analysts said big US banks like Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase are making higher profits on mortgages than the historical norm.

Banks are biggest winners as mortgage rates drop

Banks are making unusually large gains on mortgages because they are taking profits far higher than the historical norm, analysts say.

Politics

President Obama, with Sandra Fluke, and Mitt Romney campaigned in Colorado and Iowa, respectively, yesterday.

Obama makes pitch to women voters

The president said Republicans intent on undoing his health care law would be eliminating benefits for women and funding for contraceptive services.

Nation & World

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Participants held a moment of silence outside the White House Wednesday to remember victims of the shooting.

Investigators seek clues on gunman’s last weeks before temple murder

Federal investigators are developing theories as to Wade Michael Page’s motives but also may never know for certain why he chose to attack total strangers in a holy place.

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Movie Review

Jeremy Renner stars in “The Bourne Legacy,” the fourth movie of the action-packed series.

‘Bourne Legacy’ can’t revive the franchise without Matt Damon

Even Jeremy Renner’s runty determination can’t wake this dormant series.

Style

Joe Corey, of Billerica, wore a Kansas City Monarchs uniform at the “media day” event preceding the Oldtime Baseball Game charity event in Cambridge.

Oldtime Baseball Game brings uniforms out of mothballs

It’s time, once again, for the annual Oldtime Baseball Game, a charity contest held at St. Peter’s Field in Cambridge in which players wear uniforms plucked from baseball history.

“In moving forward with this plan to change the current testing system, we will continue with our mission and help create a more diverse department throughout all ranks.”

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino 

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Opinion

“In Gloucester, the lines separating scientists and fishermen are quietly blurring.”

Derrick Z. Jackson 

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