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Iran’s network in a bottle

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Forget censoring the World Wide Web. Why not just build a state-controlled internet of your own?

Seguin Island’s lighthouse is the second oldest in Maine and its highest above sea level.

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Travel

Seguin Island’s landscape, lighthouse embody history

The 64-acre Maine island can be reached seasonally by boat or, for the experienced and adventurous, sea kayak.

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Globe Magazine

Bringing hope in the wake of disaster

This Sunday, the Globe Magazine is naming 12 people as Bostonians Changing the World. Meet four of our honorees now, including Linda Mason, a luminary in humanitarian work.

“Fantastic Monument” by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

Art Review

‘The Invention of Fantasy: Eighteenth-Century Venice’ captures romance, imagination

The Museum of Fine Arts exhibit is a casual collection of prints that capture 18th-century romance and imagination.

Latest news

 

Defendants must prove need for free lawyer, SJC rules

People facing criminal charges have the burden of proving they cannot afford their own lawyer before getting a court-appointed one, the state’s highest court ruled.

Dow jumps 204 points, led by JPMorgan earnings

Strong earning from the bank launched a stock market rally that gave the Dow Jones industrial average its best day of the month.

UN chief urges action after new Syria attack

The UN secretary general and an international envoy stepped up pressure on the divided UN Security Council to promise “consequences” if the violence in Syria does not end.

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In a letter to season ticket holders, Red Sox president Larry Lucchino urged fans to “keep the faith” as several key players were set to return from injury.

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Dubbed the “Coney Island of New England,” Revere Beach was established as the country’s first public beach in 1896, attracting people from all over the region.

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SCOT LEHIGH

Mitt Romney and his tax returns: Deja vu?
Runners, walkers, and cyclists walked along a path by a flock of geese at the Chesnut Hill Reservoir on Monday.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, July 13, 2012
Plume Giant plays an Electric Earth concert at Cathedral of the Pines in Rindge, N.H.

Monadnock Music, Electric Earth try to get along
The Ninth Annual National Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach started Thursday. Justin Gordon from Groveland worked on his entry.

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Masterpieces in sand at Revere Beach

Rose Art Museum names new director
An internal report sanctioned by Penn State said late football coach Joe Paterno was partly to blame as the school failed to protect victims before Jerry Sandusky was convicted of sexual abuse.

Dan Shaughnessy

Penn State should shut down football program
Work to rebuild the Whittier Memorial Bridge, along with four other major bridge projects, is expected to begin in the next few months.

Union-only labor for bridge project irks firms
Beth Rimas, an EMT whose son Sean is autistic, says it is critical for rescuers to know if someone in a house is disabled.

Boston special-needs list could aid emergency crews
Robert Kraft and Ricki Noel Lander

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Robert Kraft and girlfriend Ricki Noel Lander go casual
LevelUp lets users make payments with their smartphones.

LevelUp ending merchant payment processing fees

Sunday Preview | Magazine

The team trap
“The article I read this morning was so ... scientific. I didn’t really get all of it,” said Brian Connor, a math teacher.

Higgs boson particle stirs some, perplexes many

Sports

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Chris Wilcox to return with Celtics

Expected to serve as a backup at forward and center, Wilcox agreed to a 1-year deal believed to be at the league's minimum.

Metro

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Alben named head of the Massachusetts State Police

Governor Deval Patrick named Timothy P. Alben to replace outgoing Colonel Marian McGovern.

Columnists

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Your identity, adrift

Boston Capital

Why the Libor scandal matters to everyone

joshua green

George W. Bush is the winner in tax cut duel
The Clam Shack in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Brian McGrory

Maine seafood shack owner claws to the top

SCOT LEHIGH

Mitt Romney and his tax returns: Deja vu?

Juliette Kayyem

BC case throws cold water on IRA, academia

Tech Lab

A most capable cable box
Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard during a game against the Knicks on March 28 in New York.

Bob Ryan

For NBA big men, LA is a big draw

edward l. glaeser

Public pension difficulties for Mass. towns

Yvonne Abraham

Boston school chief fails test

Scot Lehigh

The duel over tax breaks

Jeff Jacoby

Minimum wage laws are costly for the unemployed

Business

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Workers raised the corporate flag of JPMorgan Chase at the bank's headquarters in New York on Friday.

JPMorgan traders may have sought to conceal losses

The bank said that its traders may have tried to conceal the losses from a soured bet that cost almost $6 billion.

Politics

Mitt Romney’s campaign asked for a correction on Thursday’s Globe story, but did not dispute any facts in the article

Romney attacked on Bain exit date

Obama’s campaign accused Mitt Romney of lying about the length of his tenure at the helm of Bain Capital, while the Romney team called the charge “reckless.”

Nation & World

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a toast with Pham Binh Minh, Vietnam’s minister of foreign affairs, at the ASEAN Gala Dinner in Phnom Penh on Thursday. During the meetings, Clinton warned that more confrontations over the South China Sea would occur if there was no cooperation.

Clinton seeks regional deal to South China Sea dispute

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Thursday of more confrontations in the South China Sea without a region-wide solution.

Arts

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Art Review

“Fantastic Monument” by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

‘The Invention of Fantasy: Eighteenth-Century Venice’ captures romance, imagination

The Museum of Fine Arts exhibit is a casual collection of prints that capture 18th-century romance and imagination.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

Tomer Sisley (with Lizzie Brocheré) plays a flawed cop and father in the French crime thriller “Sleepless Night.’’

In ‘Sleepless Night,’ crime pays (or does it?) in Paris

Another one of those French crime thrillers that wants nothing more than to run its hero and its audience entertainingly ragged.

“Taxpayers are already beleaguered. The governor is piling on more construction costs so he can curry more favor with organized labor.’’

Ronald N. Cogliano,  president of Merit Construction Alliance

Magazine

The cover for the July 8 2012 issue

N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
The cover for the June 24 2012 issue

A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset
The cover for the June 17 2012 issue

What if spanking works?
The cover for the June 10 2012 issue

5 casual feast recipes from Sam Jackson

Opinion

“Judging by this week’s headlines, Democrats would like to raise taxes on the rich — but can’t even seem to agree on a definition of the term.”

Joshua Green 

Ideas

“By taking massive numbers of songs, symphonies, and sonatas, turning them into cold, hard data, and analyzing them with computers, we can learn things about music that would have previously been impossible to uncover.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on what computers are teaching us about music