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Police call attack calculated and deliberate

James Holmes, the suspect in Friday’s shooting at a suburban Denver movie theater, had been preparing for the attack for months, police said today.

Aerial spraying against EEE to continue

Just five of the 21 southeastern Mass. communities scheduled for spraying Friday night were covered, according to state officials.

Murdoch resigns from some News Corp. boards

Rupert Murdoch stepped down from a number of the company’s boards as part of a “corporate housecleaning exercise,” a spokeswoman said.

VP speculation marks latest stage of Kelly Ayotte’s ascent

The New Hampshire senator is being considered as a serious contender to join Mitt Romney’s Republican ticket.

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Movies

6 ways to watch the samurai

The movies don’t lack for masculine archetypes. None of them, perhaps, has quite the mystique of the samurai.

Lucy Liu (left) and Uma Thurman in

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Lucy Liu (left) and Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill Vol. 1."

Ebizo Ichikawa in

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Ebizo Ichikawa in "Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai."

Toshiro Mifune (foreground) in Akira Kurosawa’s

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Toshiro Mifune (foreground) in Akira Kurosawa’s "Seven Samurai."

John Belushi’s samurai was a recurring character on

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John Belushi’s samurai was a recurring character on "SNL."

Richard Chamberlain and Yoko Shimada in the miniseries

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Richard Chamberlain and Yoko Shimada in the miniseries "Shogun."

One of Lassen park’s many volcanic domes.

Travel | The list

Five uncrowded national parks

You will commune with nature, not hordes of people, at these spectacular national parks.

Live pigeon shooting.

ideas

Lost events of the Olympics

Dueling pistols, the aquatic obstacle course, and other sports that didn’t make it to the 2012 games.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/07/18/BostonGlobe.com/Enterprise/Advance/Images/aquarium005--90x90.jpg The New England Aquarium

The aquarium opened in the summer of 1969 and was part of the waterfront urban renewal plan that transformed Central Wharf.

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One of Lassen park’s many volcanic domes.

Travel | The list

Five uncrowded national parks
The line at Dresser Hill’s ordering windows did not deter customers from buying ice cream at the popular destination.

The Roads to Summer

Dresser Hill ice cream offers a summer boost
Lila Hempel-Edgers rode her bicycle on the Bruce Freeman Bike Trail.

Bring the Family

Blazing another bike trail
Above: Dr. Larry Cohan has access to his computer while he talks with patient Isaac Brown.

Living with screens

Clicking with your doctor
Jim Graczyk battles a fish with guide D.J. Shinduke ready with a net. Graczyk’s late son, Jeremy, had loved fishing.

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Fishing, remembering on an island off British Columbia
Members of the sketch-comedy team the Dowry are (bottom row, from left) Natalie Baseman, Laura Clark, and Jackie Arko and (top row, from left) Paul Barner, Brian Goddard, and Hannah Foell.

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Comedy troupe the Dowry prepares for its final bow
Jerenso Figueroa, 5, cooled off in the water fountains in Cordero Park in Chelsea.

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Strip T’s Burger.

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25 best burgers around Boston
Cody Ross won Thursday night’s game with a walkoff, three-run homer against the White Sox.

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Cody Ross loves the pressure
Gino Cappelletti is on all-time All-AFL team.

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Gino Cappelletti retiring from Patriots’ radio booth
At Middlesex Truck & Coach, Mitt Romney suggested that businesses do not owe their success to the government.

In Roxbury, Romney hits Obama’s business message
Boston musician Brian Evans outside Fenway Park. His song was selected to be Fenway's 100th anniversary song.

Singing Fenway’s praises

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British Open

Tiger Woods played a shot off the first tee during the third round of the British Open on Saturday.

Could be a tough road ahead for Tiger Woods

Woods remained five strokes behind leader Adam Scott, but he has never won a major when trailing going into the last round.

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Johnson said that the review of her staff would probably lead to a major shakeup and possibly some departures.

Boston school superintendent announces full review of top staff

Superintendent Carol R. Johnson said a full review of her leadership team would likely lead to a major shakeup.

Columnists

Opinion | DERRICK Z. JACKSON

Time to wake up on gun control

opinion | LAWRENCE HARMON

Schools need justice, not kindness

Adrian Walker

Lowell teens fight for right to vote

Christopher L. Gasper

NBA’s Olympic age-limit proposal isn’t golden

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Romney and Kerry’s seesawing political fortunes

CARLO ROTELLA

Creative impulses help shape our neighborhoods

Steven Syre

A word of caution on Mass. health cost reform

Dan Shaughnessy

Pedroia says he and Valentine get along fine

Juliette Kayyem

Bachmann’s anti-Muslim paranoia

Yvonne Abraham

Boston superintendent controversy not a race matter

Tech Lab

Photo sites worth seeing
The Rev. Michel Louis, (seated left), Lissa Alphonse, and Egyptian tour guide Hithem Mohamed rested at a police station after they were released by their kidnappers in Egypt.

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Kerry, Brown compete for credit after hostage release

Business

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The Saucony marketing team prepared to ship running shoes to London for athletes competing in the Olympics.

Mass. firms sponsor Olympians for chance at global exposure

With 4 billion people expected to watch the Olympics, endorsements can boost sales for companies such as Saucony, New Balance, and Gillette.

Politics

Campaigns take somber tone after shootings

In separate appearances Thursday, President Obama and Mitt Romney muted expected attacks on each other to instead deliver somber tributes to the victims.

Nation & World

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Syrian troops celebrated a rout of rebels in the Damascus neighborhood of Mida on Friday. Nearly 450 people were reported killed Thursday and Friday.

UN approves extension of mission to Syria

The 15-0 vote came only a few hours before the 300-member mission’s authorization was to expire.

Arts

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Stage Review

Lauren Weintraub (left, with Elena Carmichael) in the lead role of North Shore Music Theatre’s production of “Annie.”

On the North Shore, an ‘Annie’ for hard times

Despite the down economy, there’s nothing like hearing “Tomorrow” to make you think that financial security is just around the corner.

‘‘There were bullet [casings] just falling on my head. They were burning my forehead.’’

Jennifer Seeger,  a survivor of the Aurora, Colo., shooting

Magazine

The cover for the July 15 2012 issue

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

“It is time, not just for the two men who would be president, but for all of us to act before the next American gun apocalypse.”

Derrick Z. Jackson 

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