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Police identify the three women fatally shot in Dorchester

Boston police today released the names of the women fatally shot in Dorchester Sunday, as investigators continued to probe the slayings.

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A group of players, including Dustin Pedroia and Adrian Gonzalez, met with owner John Henry and president Larry Lucchino to complain about manager Bobby Valentine, Yahoo! Sports reported.

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Thompson, the top executive at the British media giant BBC, will take over in November as CEO of the Times Co., which also owns the Globe.

From left: CJ Adams, Jennifer Garner, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Joel Edgerton in “The Odd Life of Timothy Green.”

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Wednesday Preview | Movie Review

A kids’ movie with a strained message for parents

CJ Adams is likeable as the title character in “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” but the movie’s really about the fears and neuroses of parents.

Mo Farah and Usain Bolt demonstrate each other’s signature move after each won a gold medal in their respective events.

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The bests and worsts of the London Olympics

Skeptics didn’t expect much from the Summer Olympics, but London was a gold rush for the US. Here’s our list of bests and worsts from the Games.

Exclusive Wednesday Preview | Editorial

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The former shortstop, who died Monday at 92, was a daily, living reminder of the Red Sox of the ’40s and the teams that came afterwards.

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Globe exclusives

Bruce Springsteen (left) and his multitalented right-hand man, Steven Van Zandt, performing recently in New York.

E Street Band’s Little Steven hits the big time
Representative Paul Ryan (left), ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, appeared with Senator Judd Gregg, ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committeeat a news conference in 2009 to discuss President Obama’s fiscal 2010 federal budget.

Ryan sought stimulus funds while decrying program

Aly Raisman of Needham received a gold medal in women’s gymnastics floor exercise at the London Olympics.

Raisman, team ready for talk shows
“Flushing Meadow” is one of Philip Jones’s nocturnal urban images.

Photography review

Looking out and in at the Photographic Resource Center
Carrying a trademark fungo bat, Johnny Pesky salutes the crowd on Sept. 28, 2008, when the Red Sox retired his No. 6 at Fenway Park.

Dan Shaughnessy

Johnny Pesky dead at 92
Johnny Pesky

Red Sox legend Johnny Pesky dies
Kenya Jackson swallows his morning dose of HIV medication.

G Cover

Community health workers help HIV patient change attitude, life
Peter Houk has been director of the MIT glass lab since 1997.

G cover

Glassblowing is hot at MIT

editorial

Appalachian Trail, at 75, is a portal to the natural world

Bob Ryan | his farewell column

Bob Ryan says goodbye after 44 years

JOHN E. SUNUNU

Amtrak’s $16 burger
Boston.com has hired six former WFNX staffers, including Henry Santoro, to staff RadioBDC.

RadioBDC goes live — online and via apps

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Red Sox catcher Kelly Shoppach was pictured in this July 30, 2012, file photo.

Red Sox trade Kelly Shoppach to the Mets

Reliever Andrew Bailey, who has not pitched for the Sox the entire season, will be activated.

Metro

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Scott Brown spoke about taxes at Lombardo's in Randolph.

Brown accuses Warren of seeking $3.4 trillion in new taxes

In one of his more confrontational speeches, Scott Brown leveled accusations at Elizabeth Warren, who dismissed his charges.

Columnists

Joanna Weiss

Unbaby.me, the hipsters, and the Ryan Plan
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (L) attend a memorial service for six people killed in an attack the day before on a Wisconsin Sikh temple on August 6, 2012 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Sikh Religious Society of Wisconsin -- a temple just 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the scene of the August 5 bloodshed -- to honor the six people killed and three critically wounded in what police are calling a

Farah Stockman

A culture of hate

Adrian Walker

TSA employees had to go outside system to report profiling

Tech Lab Plus

German tech gets teeth ultra-clean
Mitt Romney will no longer be able to hide behind strategic ambiguity about his budget and tax cut plans with Paul Ryan as his running mate.

opinion | Scot Lehigh

With Ryan, Romney faces tougher sell to undecided voters
Kyra Sedgwick has a few of her emotionally devastating moments in tonight’s “Closer” series finale.

Critic’s Notebook

A eulogy for TNT’s ‘The Closer’
Xian Wen Li said he was among those cheated by May Woo of Sky Energy Travel in Chinatown.

Yvonne Abraham

Chinatown travel agency gives immigrants a tough lesson

Dan Shaughnessy

A few thoughts come bobbing up

JOAN VENNOCHI | welfare and the election

An old wedge issue returns in the campaign

jeff jacoby | welfare and the election

Why should we beg anyone to vote?

Bob Ryan | his farewell column

Bob Ryan says goodbye after 44 years

LAWRENCE HARMON

Does anthrax risk end at city limits?

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Bank, N.Y. regulator settle Iran money laundering probe

Standard Chartered settled with New York for $340 million, but still faces federal investigations.

Politics

Brown praises Ryan, but keeps distance

Senator Scott Brown remained cautious in lauding Mitt Romney’s new running mate as Democrats tried to tie Brown to Paul Ryan’s policy proposals.

Nation & World

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CORRECTS AGE TO 35 INSTEAD OF 43 - This undated photo provided by the City of College Station, Texas shows Thomas Caffall. Caffall, 35, has been identified by authorities as the shooter who opened fire from inside his home in College Station as he was being served an eviction notice, killing Brazos County constable Brian Bachmann and another man, on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/City of College Station)

Gunman shot dead after killing 2 near Texas A&M

A gunman opened fire on police near Texas A&M University Monday, killing at least two people and wounding four others before being killed by police, officials said.

Arts

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Photography review

“Flushing Meadow” is one of Philip Jones’s nocturnal urban images.

Looking out and in at the Photographic Resource Center

Three photographers at a showcase at the PRC offer images of the external world, and three are showing an internal world of emotion and states of mind.

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G Force

Professor Nancy Cott (above) says the sympsosium on Julia Child will take a holistic approach.

Julia Child turns 100 at Radcliffe

For her centenary, the library is sponsoring a symposium Sept. 21, free and open to the public.

“If rents keep going up, you’re going have to be some superstar lawyer or businessman to afford a decent place in Boston.”

David Mailloux, 37 

Magazine

The cover for the August 12 2012 issue

How Bain Capital is trying — reluctantly — to clean up its name
The cover for the August 5 2012 issue

Can GPS find you a mate?
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

Opinion

“There is a growing sense, even from the hipsters, that one person’s entitlement is somebody else’s personal burden.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“The changing ways we’ve seen summer reading — first as an indulgence, then as a vice, and now, somewhat surprisingly, as a source of pride — says a lot about our changing attitudes toward just what leisure should be.”

Craig Fehrman