Tea Party followers warm up to Mitt Romney

Romney’s choice of Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate has improved his standing with the advocates of minimal government.

A convention worker covered up from the rain Monday as she walked near the site of the Republican gathering.

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Storm may alter scenario for Romney’s celebration

As Isaac barrels toward New Orleans seven years after Katrina, Mitt Romney’s campaign advisers are quickly rewriting the script for the convention.

Joanna Weiss

Scott Brown and the near-extinct GOP moderate

Brown could help create a less rigid Republican party, but only if he works hard from within and is willing to speak up.

Gain, strains in Vermont a year after Irene

Tropical Storm Irene’s handiwork is fading, thanks to months of repairs and millions of dollars of aid, but the lives of residents still remain altered.

Last year, Chris Webster tried to ride his bike on a flooded playground in Rutland, Vt.

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Last year, Chris Webster tried to ride his bike on a flooded playground in Rutland, Vt.

Residents have mostly rebuilt over the damage at the playground.

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Residents have mostly rebuilt over the damage at the playground.

The backyard of Louis Ross in Rutland, Vt., was flooded last August. He and his wife lived in a motel for 3½ months.

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The backyard of Louis Ross in Rutland, Vt., was flooded last August. He and his wife lived in a motel for 3½ months.

A year later, Ross’s backyard has undergone much improvement.

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A year later, Ross’s backyard has undergone much improvement.

State acts on Boston schools impasse

The state said it would step in and attempt to break the stalemate over a new teachers’ contract, a move that could end the negotiations that have stalled a new teacher evaluation system.

Tom Sommers of Wayland was pleased with his roommate from Chicago, who was assigned by Amherst College.

Many freshmen still let colleges pick roommates

Amherst is among the colleges eschewing a digital push that allows students to pick their roomates in favor of the school’s time-tested methods for matching freshman.

One DivcoWest executive said the firm intends to market its properties like 330 Congress St. to a range of companies.

Boston, Cambridge lure Silicon Valley investor

California firm DivcoWest is hoping to replicate its success on the West Coast with developments in the Seaport District and East Cambridge.

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China Altman and Carl Foster in one of the four rose beds at the Public Garden last week. Altman and her fellow volunteers are called the Rose Brigade.

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The rose maven of the Public Garden
John Douglas Thompson plays multiple roles, most importantly Louis Armstrong, in “Satchmo at the Waldorf” at Shakespeare and Company.

Stage Review

‘Satchmo’ an impassioned bio-play about the jazz legend

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EL Putnam solicits, exhibits anonymous postcards of love and loss
John Harbison takes a bow following the premiere of his “Koussevitzky Said:,” with Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (left) and John Oliver (right) at Tanglewood.

Music Review

BSO, Pops pay tribute to past at Tanglewood

IN PRACTICE

For physicians and patients, time is best medicine

Daily Dose

Why we lie and how we can become more honest
Men’s gymnast Kohei Uchimura vaults at the 2011 NHK Cup in Tokyo.

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Will men always be the swifter sex?
When umpire Dan Bellino ruled Dustin Pedroia had been thrown out at first base in the fifth, manager Bobby Valentine argued and got thrown out, too.

Christopher L. Gasper

Will the Red Sox stick with Bobby Valentine?
The cloth sling James Dichter was fitted with cost his insurer $83; it can be bought online for $7.

For $83, a sling and no simple answers
Environmental scientists Lucas Chapman and Emily Coumbassa got stormwater samples at a manhole in the Fenway last week. Finding pollution sources is a painstaking process.

New effort to curtail sewage in Boston
Olympic gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman waved to her hometown fans Sunday.

Needham rallies behind gold medalist Aly Raisman
Tim McGraw (left) and Kenny Chesney (shown in Las Vegas in April) shared the stage at the end of the Gillette concert.

Music Review

Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney shine at Gillette

Sports

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Red Sox 5, Royals 1

Daisuke Matsuzaka allowed one run and struck out six Royals in seven innings to record his first win in more than a year.

Matsuzaka sharp as Red Sox overpower Royals

Daisuke Matsuzaka gave a tantalizing glimpse of his abilities with a brilliant performance in Monday’s 5-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals.

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500 were arrested, held at country music festival

Concert-goers lined up to face charges Monday stemming from a country music concert at Gillette Stadium.

Columnists

Boston Capital

Ironwood awaits FDA decision on new drug

Joanna Weiss

Scott Brown and the near-extinct GOP moderate
Russian beach volleyball players Anastasiia Vasina and Anna Vozakova practice at the Olympic Village in London.

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London could show how to build a better Olympics

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‘Guardian Angels’ won’t fix a flawed Afghan war policy
When umpire Dan Bellino ruled Dustin Pedroia had been thrown out at first base in the fifth, manager Bobby Valentine argued and got thrown out, too.

Christopher L. Gasper

Will the Red Sox stick with Bobby Valentine?
Vercheesa Thompson (above left) of Dorchester, facilitator Candace Keshwar, Michelle Eunis, and Suheil Riveramet in Jamaica Plain last week while Sherina Hendrix (below) played with their children. The mothers’ group is creating its own child-care cooperative.

Yvonne Abraham

Program helps families create own solutions
Laila Ali is one of eight celebrities competing on the war-based reality show “Stars Earn Stripes.”

JOANNA WEISS

Does ‘Stars Earn Stripes’ glorify war?

JEFF JACOBY

Both parties are too extreme on abortion

INNOVATION ECONOMY

What happens when a trend never touches down
Jackie, Sue, and Lynn as seen in “49 Up,” a 2005 British film that is part of a decades-long series of documentaries.

Joan Wickersham

A study of class captures shape, sweep of real lives

Lawrence Harmon

Mass. needs to update wiretap laws

SCOT LEHIGH

The GOP’s big tent collapses

Business

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Both President Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, are seeking to appeal to a broad swath of financially struggling voters who identify as middle class. Recent data show that America’s middle class has been shrinking.

Poll highlights income divide in US

A majority of Americans say the growing income gap between the rich and poor is bad for the country and believe that the wealthy are paying too little in taxes, according to a new survey.

Politics

Political Notebook

Alex Casetta of Denver held up a sign in support of Ron Paul in Tampa.

Ron Paul delegates try to strike down new GOP rules

Rep. Paul’s delegates are trying to mount a floor fight over rules designed to limit the ability of insurgent candidates to amass delegates to future conventions.

Nation & World

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Anthony Peden (left) and Isaac Aguigui are charged in the killings of a former comrade and his girlfriend.

Murder case reveals alleged terrorist plot

Four Army soldiers based in southeast Georgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group they formed, prosecutors told a judge Monday.

Arts

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Filmmaker Austin Chapman, 23, was born deaf.

Deaf filmmaker hears music — and can’t stop listening

Deaf filmmaker Austin Chapman was never quite sure about the soundtracks of his award-winning short films, but state-of-the art hearing aids have changed his world forever.

Lifestyle

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Jason Santos, owner and executive chef at Blue Inc., says the dog he adopted was the only one that didn’t bark at his blue hair.

Local chef and reality contestant adopts from MSPCA

Jason Santos, owner and executive chef at Blue Inc. in Boston’s Financial District, once owned an illegal African cat and recently adopted a dog from the MSPCA.

“You ask my wife. I’m lucky if I sleep two or three hours a night, especially when it rains.”

Louis Ross,  whose Vermont home was flooded during Tropical Storm Irene

Magazine

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Did Beatrice Munyenyezi lie to get into this country?
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Can a Woburn company’s flying car someday be a fix for traffic?
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The man who nourished Boston’s literary scene
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Can GPS find you a mate?

Opinion

“From a voter’s standpoint, there’s an argument for having a voice, within the Republican Party, for moderate Massachusetts values.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“In decades of researching American political lobbies, we have found that there are huge gaps in who is represented in Washington.”

—Kay Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady