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Hampshire starts fund for undocumented immigrants

The private liberal arts college in Amherst has created a financial aid endowment that so far has $300,000 in donations from alumni, parents, and recent graduates.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/08/23/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/Afghanistan%20US%20Ambassador.JPEG-0b0e4.jpg Former ambassador Ryan Crocker arrested in DUI

The former ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan is facing hit-and-run and intoxicated driving charges in Washington state.

Christy Mihos plans tell-all book

Mihos claims the book gives an inside story of the Big Dig, attacks Mitt Romney, and addresses the former gubernatorial candidate’s recent personal troubles.

Cape Wind to purchase Falmouth marina

East Marine on Falmouth Harbor would serve as the maintenance hub for the turbines once they are built. The purchase is contingent on financing for the project.

Movie Review

‘Cosmopolis’: When Robert Pattinson wants his hair cut

In search of a haircut, an impossibly rich young man riding in an impossibly elaborate limo tries to cross an impossibly congested Manhattan.

Video | Take 2

Cosmopolis fascinating, but don’t bring expectations

Mark Feeney and Janice Page tackle the latest movie from director David Cronenberg, “Cosmopolis,” in this edition of Take 2.

“With EleVen, I’m trying to make things that look good on everyone,” says Williams.

style

Venus Williams serves up new fashion line

With her fashion line EleVen, Williams is scaling back her previous attempts to turn the tennis court into a runway.

editorial

Obama has been too slow to name federal judges

President Obama’s strategy has been to nominate centrist candidates, but that doesn’t fully account for his failure to put forward a full slate of jurists.

December 1891: A photo submitted by Globe reader John C. Parsons of Dedham in 1964 showed a double-decked street car operated by the West End Railway Co., which ran from North Avenue, Cambridge, to North Stable, afterward known as the North Cambridge barn. The upper deck had a roof, but no sides. The West End Railway founded in 1887 was the preeminent street car system for the Greater Boston area. In 1897, the West End Railway was integrated into the Boston Elevated Railway.

From the Archives | Photo gallery

The T and its predecessors

Private railroads and horse-drawn streetcar companies served the transportation needs of Boston and outlying towns for decades before the MBTA accepted its first token.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/06/26/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/frame-1010.jpg The Globe’s ‘Frame by Frame’ e-book

The popular column from Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee is available as a unique e-book, offering an up-close look at dozens of individual works.

Globe exclusives

Abortion uproar may hurt GOP bid for Senate control
From left, Jackie Liu, Maddy McAlpine, and Sophia Gerner went shopping before the new school year.

Teens hold off on back-to-school shopping
Michael Brodeur takes on a 650-pound tractor tire as part of the training during a session at Awesome Camp.

How I got awesome
It was a long night on Tuesday for Scott Podsednik, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Cody Ross (left to right) as the Red Sox lost again.

christopher l. gasper

It’s all over for the Red Sox

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“With EleVen, I’m trying to make things that look good on everyone,” says Williams.

style

Venus Williams serves up new fashion line
Shrimp and grits at M3.

Dining Out

M3 offers down-home comfort

Tech lab

Samsung’s new Galaxy shoots for iPad, misses

Dustin Pedroia went 1 for 5 against the Angels in another demoralizing 5-3 loss as the Red Sox dropped five games under .500.

Dan Shaughnessy

Dustin Pedroia gives his side of the story
“Sea Town,” a woodblock print by Roger Martin.

Galleries

Drawing inspiration from a rocky landscape
Cellist Paul Katz.

Flying with a cello is one traveler’s nightmare
Providence-based Citizens, the second-largest bank in Massachusetts, will lose four of its five ATMs at Logan Airport.

Logan Airport changes its ATM landscape

Sports

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Jonathan Fanene, who signed a lucrative three-year deal with a sizable signing bonus, was just cut by the Patriots.

Questions remain about Jonathan Fanene

How much did the Patriots know about Fanene’s injury? And will they be able to recoup some of the $3.85m signing bonus they gave him in March.

Metro

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A Boston police detective collected evidence after a shooting on Columbia Road in Dorchester Thursday afternoon.

Boston police investigate Columbia Road shooting

One man was shot this afternoon in a brazen daylight attack near Edward Everett Square in Dorchester.

Columnists

Joan Vennochi

Romney made Mass. his stepping stone
Chinese police stand guard at an anti-Japanese protest outside the Japanese consulate in Shanghai last week.

Edward L. Glaeser

Putting China at ease

Tech lab

Samsung’s new Galaxy shoots for iPad, misses

It was a long night on Tuesday for Scott Podsednik, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Cody Ross (left to right) as the Red Sox lost again.

christopher l. gasper

It’s all over for the Red Sox

Scot Lehigh

A familiar face stirs the pot in Maine

Jeff Jacoby

Stingy liberals

Dustin Pedroia went 1 for 5 against the Angels in another demoralizing 5-3 loss as the Red Sox dropped five games under .500.

Dan Shaughnessy

Dustin Pedroia gives his side of the story

Joanna Weiss

Todd Akin should read more Cosmopolitan
Trainers tend to Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who took a shot to the ribs in the first quarter and didn’t return to action. X-rays were negative.

Christoper L. Gasper

Patriots defense answers few questions
Beantown Bedding cofounders Kirsten Lambert and Joan Ripple.

Innovation Economy

Start-up creates disposable sheets for dorm beds

james carroll

Bridging the science gap

Business

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Microsoft unveiled a new corporate logo at the store opening in the Prudential Center Thursday.

Microsoft opens Boston store

Hundreds gathered for the 10 a.m. opening of Microsoft’s new Prudential Center store. As the crowd pushed in, they were greeted with high-fives from the enthusiastic staff.

Politics

Missouri Republican Todd Akin during a debate at Washington University in St. Louis on July 6.

Abortion, gay marriage put party platforms in spotlight

These typically obscure documents have been elevated to national prominence by comments by Todd Akin and a widening gap in political philosophies.

Nation & World

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Free Syrian Army fighters trained a gun on a Syrian war plane in the Bustan Pasha neighborhood of Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Thursday.

Fighting across Syria as last UN monitors leave

Across the country, at least 100 people died Thursday in shelling and clashes, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Arts

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Movie Review

“Side By Side,” directed by Christopher Kenneally, examines the differences between film and digital moviemaking.

No comparing film and digital in ‘Side by Side’

This enlightening discourse fails to go deeply into an inexorable irony: Digital is the future but the theater remains stuck in the past.

Style

Bargain Bin

South End wraps season with sidewalk sale

A roundup of sales at area shops and boutiques including sidewalk sales in Wellesley and the South End.

Living Longer, Living Better

Health

JoyceMor, a sleep technologist at Sleep Health Centers in Weymouth, prepares Talia Yourell of Weymouth for a sleep study.

For aging baby boomers, sleep gets harder to come by

As we age, medical conditions can make a good night’s rest elusive. But there are steps we can take.

“It’s not as simple as just remov­ing the overpass. We’d end up with much worse traffic congestion.”

Frank DePaola,  Mass. Department of Transportation’s highway ­administrator

Magazine

The cover for the August 19 2012 issue

Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
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

Opinion

“In the state Romney left behind, even Republicans use words like data-driven and soulless to describe him.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“If the bill becomes law, the identities of people who die in Massachusetts--notably those who, like Bill Cosby, have built up bankable personas over the course of their lives--will become pieces of property that continue to exist long after they do.”

 Leon Neyfakh