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Sheryl Julian’s dinners with Julia
Julia Child in the kitchen of her vacation home in Grasse, southern France.

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Julia Child was interested in the careers of many young cooks and Sheryl Julian was fortunate to be among them. Lucky, too, that with Child’s interest came many invitations.

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

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.

Bruce Springsteen performed the first of two shows at Fenway Park Tuesday.

Springsteen fans enjoy concert outside of Fenway

The show was inside the stadium, but there were plenty of Bruce Springsteen fans outside of Fenway listening to the concert.

Mark Thompson

Outgoing BBC chief to lead New York Times Co.

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

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Parents recount longtime friendship of 3 women slain in Harlem Street shootings

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

Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine, right, talks with, from left, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz and first base coach Alex Ochoa in the dugout before a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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Soul-searching sessions for Red Sox

Red Sox owners held meetings — with manager Bobby Valentine and with players — during which some expressed concern about the state of the team and their relationship with the manager.

Red Sox starter Josh Beckett was strong through five innings but faltered in the sixth.

Orioles 7, Red Sox 1

Red Sox have no answers in Baltimore

Josh Beckett had another rough outing, giving up six runs in 5 1/3 innings as the Red Sox fell three games below .500.

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Globe exclusives

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

Photo gallery

Bests and worsts of the London Olympics
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.

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

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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
Boston.com has hired six former WFNX staffers, including Henry Santoro, to staff RadioBDC.

RadioBDC goes live — online and via apps

Sports

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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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Kevin Blanchard served in Iraq.

Effort aims to land returning veterans in medical device jobs

AdvaMed 2012, the medical device convention set for October in Boston, will launch a program designed to increase the hiring of US veterans returning to civilian life.

Politics

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie campaigns with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in January.

Christie to deliver keynote at GOP convention

The New Jersey governor will deliver the keynote address and Florida Senator Marco Rubio will introduce Mitt Romney before he accepts the nomination.

Nation & World

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A victim of Saturday's earthquake sat amid ruins Monday in a village near the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran.

Iran says foreign help for quake area now welcome

In a change of heart, Iran said Tuesday it now welcomes foreign aid for victims of the deadly twin earthquakes that hit the country’s northwest over the weekend.

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.

Lifestyle

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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