DeLeo, others targeted in probation inquiry

Federal prosecutors are focusing on Democratic legislators, including House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, who may have benefited from the Probation Department’s allegedly rigged hiring system.

“The addictive lure is believing that if you just play long enough you will win,” said Deborah Greenslit.

Jackpot fueled therapist’s gambling addiction

Deborah Greenslit had modest dreams after winning big at Mohegan Sun. Two years later, she has gambled them away.

Health cost bill may not attack key problem

As Mass. legislative leaders close in on a major health cost-control bill, key efforts to attack the market power of caregivers that demand high prices appear to be in jeopardy.

Two from Mass. held in Egypt

A Bedouin tribesman said he kidnapped two American tourists — the Rev. Michel Louis of Dorchester and Lisa Alphonse of Everett.

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Two killed in early morning crash in West Bridgewater

Parts of Route 24 remain closed after the three-car crash early this morning, State Police said in a statement.

MIT’s Rehmi Post, Thad Starner, and Steve Mann with professor Alex Pentland, part of the Perceptual Computing Group.

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INNOVATION ECONOMY

Former MIT ‘borgs’ still back wearable technology

A group of MIT alumni who were part of the first wave of wearable computing in the 1990s have reunited in Silicon Valley, where they work for Google.

Many wonder whether the statue of former football coach Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium should remain.

On Second Thought

One suggestion for Penn State’s first step

If Penn State wants to turn around its football program, it should begin by empowering women within the program and placing them in significant roles.

opinion | tom keane

In the dumps with the American Dream

We used to be ambitious and enthusiastic; now the new normal is malaise. Shouldn’t we strive for more?

Matt Kenseth, who sits atop the Sprint Cup points list, isn’t sure when he’ll announce his plans for next season.

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Roush prepares for Kenseth’s departure

Matt Kenseth’s decision to not re-sign with Roush Fenway Racing seemed to mirror the exits of Ray Allen from the Celtics and Kevin Youkilis from the Red Sox.

The house at the left was built in 1867 and is listed at $2.35 million. It includes a three-family house on a separate parcel.

South Boston’s storied mansions up for sale

Longtime residents worry the only people who can afford the two estates in Southie are developers who will tear them down and build condominiums.

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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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“To make more progress in the education of leaders, we have to get better at translating knowing into doing,’’ says Nitin Nohria, the 10th dean of Harvard Business School.

Modernizing the Harvard MBA program

Clues sought for cause of 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire
Linda Mason.

12 Bostonians Changing the World

Movie reviews

Hit the theaters
The Clemens trial, though he was acquitted, was a reminder of the Mitchell Report’s impact since Roger Clemens was mentioned prominently in the report that became the official document of steroids in baseball.

Sunday Baseball Notes

Mitchell Report laid groundwork for major strides

movies

‘Knight’ time is the right time
It was barely two years ago that Kyle Arrington was overjoyed at making a roster out of Patriots training camp.

Sunday Football Notes

Kyle Arrington won’t pick this time to slack off

Opinion | Linda J. Bilmes

Afghanistan is missing from the campaign

Just what’s wrong with doping?

opinion | Kenny Wiley

Stop pretending racism is over
The members of Aerosmith (including, from left, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, Steven Tyler, and Joe Perry) say their fans are a big part of the band’s new energy.

music

Aerosmith puts the ‘function’ in ‘dysfunction’
Monitors let every “student’’ see chefs’ techniques up close.

Travel

At Maine cooking school, classes are as varied

Sports

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Pedro Ciriaco heads back to the dugout after failing to execute an eighth-inning bunt with the Sox down by a run.

Red Sox failing to come up with clutch hits

It’s good that they had a pitcher of David Price’s caliber on the ropes. But to have the Rays pitcher there and not finish him off was tough.

Metro

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Justin Gordon of Groveland carved out one of the faces on his sand sculpture at the competition on Revere Beach Friday.

Sand sculptors compete for title on Revere Beach

Ten sculptors competed for the top prize of $5,000 in the National Sand Sculpting Festival.

Columnists

(From left) John Stockton, Chris Mullin, and Charles Barkley had a golden experience in Barcelona in 1992.

Bob Ryan

‘Dream Team’ book a must read for fans
MIT’s Rehmi Post, Thad Starner, and Steve Mann with professor Alex Pentland, part of the Perceptual Computing Group.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

MIT ‘borgs’ still back wearable technology

Jeff Jacoby

Life sentence not ‘unusual’ for minors

Yvonne Abraham

East Boston shipyard has an ugly beauty
Boston school superintendent Carol Johnson mishandled the discipline of a former headmaster.

LAWRENCE HARMON

Carol Johnson’s mind-boggling blunders
Joe Paterno was pictured in this Sept. 30, 2008 file photo.

Christopher L. Gasper

Joe Paterno chose his legacy over integrity

Adrian Walker

Mothers united by enduring pain of senseless death
The Clam Shack in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Brian McGrory

Maine seafood shack owner claws to the top

Boston Capital

Why the Libor scandal matters to everyone

joshua green

George W. Bush is the winner in tax cut duel

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Your identity, adrift

SCOT LEHIGH

Mitt Romney and his tax returns: Deja vu?

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Iris Matos carves fruit into bouquets and other creations as the production manager at at Edible Arrangements.

‘Fruit artist’ puts her skills on display

Iris Matos prides herself on beautifully arranged bouquets and arrangements of sculpted fresh fruit that she creates for Edible Arrangements in Methuen.

Politics

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Republicans are nervous about what some see as the Romney campaign’s relative passivity in the face of the onslaught by the Obama team.

Wisconsin governor offers Mitt Romney advice

Governor Scott Walker, who survived a tough recall election last month, has some advice for Romney: Get on offense and stay on offense.

Nation & World

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Adnan Hawash (right), a former Syrian army officer staying in Antakya, Turkey, learned that his son had been killed in fighting Thursday.

Reports of Syrian massacre challenged

New details emerging about what activists called a massacre of civilians near Hama indicated that it was more likely an uneven clash between the military and local fighters.

Arts

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theater & art

Olympia Dukakis posed with some props used in the Shakespeare and Company production of “The Tempest.’’

Olympia Dukakis channels the storm within

At 81, Olympia Dukakis seems to be having the time of her life as she explores the violent undercurrents of Shakespeare’s last play as Prospera in “The Tempest.”

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

Travel to remote Seguin Island and its historic light station

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

Books

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‘When we were the Kennedys’ by Monica Wood

Shattering loss darkens a sun-drenched life in Monica Wood’s memoir of the early ’60s.

“Every kid in Southie loved those houses. I would hate for them to tear it down.”

Joanne Sweeney,  a lifelong South Boston resident

Magazine

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12 Bostonians Changing the World
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?

Opinion

“The American-led intervention in Libya may have given Al Qaeda one of its greatest triumphs since 9/11.”

Stephen Kinzer 

Ideas

“Iran’s so-called halal Internet will be a kind of anti-Internet—a self-contained loop within Iran’s borders featuring only regime-approved sites, and cut off from the World Wide Web.”

Abraham Riesman,  on bottled, national Internets