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Ray Allen to join Heat

The Celtics’ free agent guard told the Miami Heat on Friday night that he intends to accept their contract offer and leave Boston after five seasons.

Jarrod Saltalamacchia walked towards the dugout after striking out in the ninth inning.

Yankees 10, Red Sox 8

Bats dominate but Yankees win

David Ortiz and Adrian Gonzalez had three hits apiece and Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit a three-run homer, but the Yankees held on in the first game of the series.

Students, doctors protest easing of gift ban

Governor Deval Patrick is scheduled Sunday to sign a new $32.5 billion budget that would likely loosen the state’s ban on gifts from drug and medical device firms to doctors.

Analysis

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President Obama has four more Friday jobs reports before November, and his reelection path will get increasingly difficult if they turn out like today’s.

The T’s economic troubles may have consequences for the economic development of Boston.

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MBTA’s troubles bode ill for region

Greater Boston wants a world-class future, but without a functioning transit system those hopes will go off the rails, writes Derrick Z. Jackson.

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When computers listen to music, what do they hear?

A new generation of scholars is turning music into data — and uncovering truths beyond human ears.

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They’ve dwarfed us in size, eclipsed us in culture, and dominated us on the diamond. And now they’re coming for the one thing we have left: Our smarts.

Billowing costumes helped the dancers in “Mana” look like modern-day monks.

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Israeli troupe runs on its own special fuel

The members of Vertigo Dance Company defy logic by appearing to defy gravity.

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The first of three underwater crossings beneath Boston Harbor, the Sumner Tunnel opened on June 30, 1934.

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Norris Campbell wound up to make a throw.

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Cricketers get their wicket fix in Dorchester
Navy SEAL Parachute Team Chief Brad Woodard sprayed smoke while parachuting down to the Boston Common.

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Globe photos of the week, July 6, 2012
Farms across the state are stepping up their efforts to attract customers for their roadside stands, including (clockwise from up- per left) a strawberry festival and hayrides at Wilson Farm in Lexington and arrays of produce at Volante Farms in Needham.

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Farm stands and farmers markets offer much more
Women’s professional soccer is still coming to grips with two failed leagues and being labeled a niche sport.

Is there a future for women’s pro soccer?
A knife sharpener was a common sight of the streets of Boston in the decade leading up to the 1940 Census.

Census records bring 1940s Boston to life
Tourists on the Fort Independence on Thursday viewed tall ships berthed at Fish Pier for Navy Week festivities.

Boston business boomed during holiday week
Efforts to provide an ideal environment for the birds led to the nest building and egg laying, a zoo official said.

Hummingbird lays egg at Franklin Park Zoo
“Beasts of the Southern Wild” stars Quvenzhané Wallis as a girl living in a small hamlet on the coast of Louisiana in the days before and after Katrina.

Movie Review

‘Beasts’ a four-star fable
“In the Still of the Night” by Carmen Cicero.

Art Review

Harrison and Cicero on exhibit in Provincetown
Homes like this one in Wellesley are putting an end to the idea that prefabs are boxy, cheaply made structures.

Prefab homes go upscale, with prices to match
Chandler Studios Boston, a 12-room property in the South End, will be Boston’s newest hotel when it opens in August.

Hundreds of hotel rooms planned for Boston
Lupone kicked off the “Broad­­way at the Art House’’ series.

Stage Review

Patti LuPone delivers vocal fireworks in Provincetown

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Pedroia out at least 3 weeks with thumb injury

Dustin Pedroia had his right thumb in a cast after injuring it Tuesday when he tried to make a diving catch in shallow right field.

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Mug shot of Myles Connor.

Notorious art thief arrested in R.I. cellphone heist

Myles Connor, 69, who at one time was suspected of having information on the Gardner Museum theft, was arrested for allegedly robbing two women outside a store.

Columnists

MITT ROMNEY

opinion | Joshua green

Avoiding risk with the Romney Fog Machine

Opinion | SCOT LEHIGH

Former hitchhiker recalls a more trusting past

CARLO ROTELLA

Put down the phone; real life abounds

Boston Capital

Time to cut off Boston Beer’s investors

Juliette Kayyem

Immigrants, native-born see eye to eye
Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney took to a jet ski on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H., on Monday.

Joan Vennochi

Romney on a jet ski — his Kerry moment?

Scot Lehigh

We need more statues

Jeff Jacoby

Celebrating, royal-free

Yvonne Abraham

Nonprofit came to family’s aid

Boston Capital

Stock pickers need years to regain trust
Ma Ying-jeou, now president of Taiwan, rallied supporters in 2006.

Farah stockman

How a Harvard rivalry changed Taiwan

Juliette Kayyem

The politics of disaster

Business

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Curt Schilling, wife defend 38 Studios over auditor report

The former Red Sox pitcher and his wife Shonda are disputing an Associated Press report that said state auditors were blocked from accessing the failed company’s records.

Politics

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and top adviser Eric Fehrnstrom (left) seemed at times not to be on the same page on the Supreme Court’s health care decision.

Mitt Romney’s team taking fire from right

Prominent conservatives excoriated Romney’s campaign, ridiculing his advisers and suggesting they are bungling the presidential race.

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George Zimmerman left Seminole County Jail after posting bond Friday in Sanford, Fla.

George Zimmerman leaves jail on $1m bond

Zimmerman was released for a second time while he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.

Arts

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Howard Jones brings double the memories to Foxborough

Jones is performing two whole albums, his mid-’80s classics “Human’s Lib” and “Dream Into Action,” in their entirety.

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Movie Review

Taylor Kitsch (left) and Aaron Johnson in Oliver Stone’s “Savages.”

Oliver Stone rolls with brute force in ‘Savages’

Despite a lousy ending, the film is Stone’s strongest work in years — a propulsive ultra-violent thriller with a mean streak and a devilish sense of humor.

“The labor market isn’t making the grade.”

Jonathan Basile,  director of US economics at Credit Suisse

Magazine

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A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
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What if spanking works?
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5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson
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40 ideas for your New England summer weekends

Opinion

“At stake in even the most minor everyday episode is how you connect to other people and the world around you.”

Carlo Rotella 

Ideas

“In a growing body of work, Timur Kuran argues that the blame for the Islamic world’s economic stagnation lies with a set of institutions that Islamic law created over centuries.”

Thanassis Cambanis,  on the economic toll of Islamic law