Freed hostage recalls ordeal

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Back home Sunday in the Boston area, the Rev. Michel Louis spoke about his religious trip to the Middle East that turned into a harrowing ordeal.

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Heartbreak hill for Lester, Red Sox

Jon Lester was booed off the mound after giving up a career-worst 11 runs as the Red Sox were swept by the Blue Jays and fell back to .500 and last place in the AL East.

Romney changed stance on gay rights, Boston group says

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender publication Bay Windows wrote this week that Mitt Romney has turned his back on their concerns.

Obama spends time with victims’ families in Colo.

President Obama visited with relatives of those killed in Aurora, Colo., telling reporters he came ”not so much as president as ... a father and as a husband.’’

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People attended a vigil Sunday evening in memory of the shooting victims in Aurora, Colo.

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Denise Paba cried Sunday during the memorial. Paba's 6-year-old niece, Veronica Moser, was the youngest person killed in the attack.

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President Obama addressed a televised press conference Sunday at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora.

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The president spoke about his meeting with family members of those killed in the shooting.

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President Obama arrived Sunday afternoon in Aurora, Colo., where he was greeted by Police Chief Dan Oates, left.

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Also present were Senator Mark Udall, left, and Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado.

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President Obama then met with family members of victims at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora.

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The president's motorcade traveled on the streets of Aurora, Colo.

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Authorities are investigating James Holmes’ relationships to figure out a motive for the early Friday shooting at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater.

Vivien A. Schmidt says the crisis is essentially political.

Opinion | Vivien A. Schmidt

Eurozone crisis reveals lack of clear leadership

What Europe lacks are the institutions, mechanisms, and resources that the US government has at its disposal to stabilize the economy.

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This week, when London becomes the only city to stage the Games three times, it will have spent nearly $17 billion amid the country’s worst recession in a century.

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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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From left: Al Pacino, Marlon Brandon, James Caan, and John Cazale in Francis Ford Coppola’s gangster epic “The Godfather.’’

movies

Looking back on 1972’s sizzling summer of film
“We will scrutinize, looking for the most viable economic development at the most viable location, and that’s the horse that we will ride to the voters and to the Gaming Commission,” said Mayor Domenic J. Sarno.

Springfield a magnet for casino hopefuls
The first player from Merrimack College’s relatively young football program to get a shot in the NFL, Shawn Loiseau feels he is in a familiar position.

Sunday Football Notes

Shawn Loiseau determined to make it in Texas
The greenheads are especially nasty this year, thanks in part to the heat.

Greenhead season plagues Mass. ocean towns
If you want to make a deal this year, you’d better get out in front because if you want a Ryan Dempster, Matt Garza (above), or Francisco Liriano, there are likely 8-10 teams with which you’re competing.

Sunday Baseball Notes

MLB trades may involve sticker shock
Michael Angelakos and Passion Pit returned to Boston in June for a performance at the Bank of America Pavilion.

Boston’s Passion Pit grapples with rising pressures

travel

Cycling on a ‘Cape Cod Pilgrimage’

Live pigeon shooting.

ideas

Lost events of the Olympics
Jim Graczyk battles a fish with guide D.J. Shinduke ready with a net. Graczyk’s late son, Jeremy, had loved fishing.

Travel

Fishing, remembering on an island off British Columbia
Ebizo Ichikawa in “Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai.” Takashi Miike’s 3-D remake of Masaki Kobayashi’s “Harakiri” opens at the Brattle on Friday.

Movies

6 ways to watch the samurai

Globe magazine | Connections

You’ve got mail — and it’s insane
Noah Parets of Sharon rehearsing for “Billy Elliot’’ at Chelsea Studios in New York City. “I can identify with how [Billy] felt about possibly losing the chance to dance,” he says.

Noah Parets of Sharon dances in ‘Billy Elliot: The Musical’

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NCAA to issue sanctions against Penn State

The NCAA announced Sunday that it will levy ‘‘corrective and punitive measures’’ against Penn State in the wake of a child sex-abuse scandal.

Metro

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Robert Eremian lives in this house in Cedar Grove, Antigua, and has had his sister and brother-in-law, Patrice and US Representative John F. Tierney, over for dinner there.

Troubles in paradise Rep. Tierney somehow missed

A review found that US Representative John F. Tierney had many chances to learn of the illegal actions by his wife’s brothers — and by her.

Columnists

opinion | JOANNA WEISS

In the company of women

JOAN VENNOCHI

A business built on hard work — and government
Gen9 lab technician Sherri Wang worked on the Gene Printer at the company’s Cambridge facility. It started shipping DNA in March.

INNOVATION ECONOMY

Gen9 hopes to be the Intel of custom DNA

Yvonne Abraham

Longmeadow senior housing residents share lifetime bonds

Opinion | Jeff Jacoby

How the marriage gap favors Obama

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

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On the job

Julia Dickinson said nurse midwives attend some home births, but do most of their deliveries in a hospital setting.

Midwife by day, lead singer by night

Julia Dickinson, a nurse midwife at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, says many people still do not understand the work that midwives do.

Politics

Victoria Reggie Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy Jr. at the 2011 inaugural ceremony for the institute.

Kennedy’s sons at odds with his widow over institute

The late Senator Edward Kennedy’s two sons are growing increasingly convinced that Vicki Kennedy is mishandling the creation of the institute that bears his name.

Nation & World

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Syrian rebels push into major city

The spread of fighting into Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, displayed the rebels’ growing confidence.

Arts

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Austin Pendelton first saw opera as a child. A producton of “Don Pasquale’’ will be his second time directing opera.

Austin Pendleton relishes role directing ‘Don Pasquale’

This is Pendleton’s second time directing an opera.

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Cycling on a ‘Cape Cod Pilgrimage’

The inaugural weeklong trip was arranged by Adventure Cycling, a Montana-based nonprofit bike touring association.

Books

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‘Crazy Brave’ by Joy Harjo

“How the ’60s changed my life” is a long-exhausted narrative, but Harjo might be the one person who could successfully — and thrillingly — revive it.

“Let me be 100 percent clear . . . I believed at that time that my brother-in-law was working in a legitimate, legal online gambling business in Antigua.”

US Representative John F. Tierney 

Magazine

The cover for the July 22 2012 issue

25 best burgers around Boston
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

Opinion

“In his campaign, tool chests aren’t grimy and government is something to be Photoshopped out of the picture.”

Joan Vennochi, on Mitt Romney

Ideas

“On the fringes of American politics, on conservative radio, and even on the campaign trail, a whole parallel Obama has emerged over the course of the 2012 race—a shadowy figure who has craftily concealed his ideological extremism and is merely awaiting his second term to unleash it.”

Leon Neyfakh