Mitt Romney’s ’02 Olympics short on transparency

Romney promised “complete transparency” when he took charge of the scandal-plagued Salt Lake City Olympics, but archivists say most key records about the Games were destroyed.

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Twenty-two years old and openly gay, Alex Morse was an unlikely victor in November’s mayoral race in Holyoke, where he became the youngest mayor in state history.

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Romney to blast Obama defense cuts in speech to VFW

The presumptive Republican candidate seeks to contrast his view of the country’s national standing with President Obama’s in today’s speech.

Mass. home sales in June post best month in two years

Single-family home sales rose to the highest level for any month in two years, more evidence that the local housing market could be on the mend, the Warren Group reported.

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He knows what you’re thinking

Westborough’s Eric Dittelman brings his mind-reading act to “America’s Got Talent” Tuesday night, but he says he has no idea if he’ll win the show’s prize.

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Big time on his mind

Dittelman’s knack for knowing what people think could end up netting him a million bucks.

Opinion | Farah Stockman

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Here in America, a key thing that defines us — that sets us apart from the rest of the world — is our willingness to die by gunfire.

Christopher L. Gasper

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For once, the NCAA didn’t hide behind its rule book or some obscure bureaucratic bylaw. It applied the rule of common sense.

Frame by Frame

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This anonymous depiction of a whale calf in the mouth of its mother, in the New Bedford Whaling Museum, might have been painted by someone who observed such a scene.

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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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“Conceivably the expertise we’ve developed here could be useful in other states,” said James Roosevelt Jr., Tufts Health Plan chief executive.

Two insurers see new markets beyond Mass.
Frédéric Rivière, a.k.a. Anoraak, performing at Brighton Music Hall on Sunday.

Music Review

Drive Tour turns movie soundtrack into live, moody pop
Jonathan Fielding plays Rev. José, one of four reverends in the cast of “Church’’ at Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet.

Stage Review

Seeking communion in Young Jean Lee’s ‘Church’
Competitors ages 5 to 15 had to swim, bike, and run in the New England Kids Triathlon Sunday.

Athletes as young as 5 taking on triathlons

Apps abound for 2012 Games

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Complete the daily puzzle online
“Vito,’’ an HBO documentary, chronicles the life of Vito Russo (above), an outspoken activist in the gay-rights movement who died in 1990.

Television Review

‘Vito’ the story of a man and a movement
From left: Russell Posner, CJ Wilson, and Rachel Bay Jones in Berkshire Theatre Group’s “A Thousand Clowns.’’

Stage Review

Pure pleasure, comic craft in ‘A Thousand Clowns’
“Let’s Talk About Bikes’’ uses text, photos ­— and bicycles — to celebrate cycling.

Art Review

‘Bikes’ exhibit extols freedom of two-wheelers
“I start out with cells. And I ask, for a fat cell: Are any of the things in our environment making this fat cell store more fat?” said Barbara Corkey, an obesity researcher at Boston University School of Medicine.

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BU researcher looking for obesity’s origins
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
“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

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Rangers 9, Red Sox 1

Red Sox starter Felix Doubront (5 IP, 6 R) is pulled by manager Bobby Valentine during the sixth inning.

Red Sox no match for Rangers

The losing streak hit four games on Monday night as Texas pounded Boston, 9-1, putting the Red Sox back under .500 for the first time since June 16.

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Natalianna Andrade-Terry, 15, saw the toddler floating in the pool next door and was one of the first to try to resuscitate her.

Inspector: Pool where 2-year-old drowned lacked safety measures

Multiple law enforcement and child welfare agencies are investigating the toddler’s death.

Columnists

An employee helps a customer at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas.

Opinion | Farah Stockman

Acceptable risk

Joanna Weiss

In dieting study, human guinea pigs carry a lot of weight

Boston Capital

Bank of America still paying for Countrywide
New coach Bill O’Brien’s team is on life support.

Christopher L. Gasper

NCAA did the right thing on Penn State
Army veteran Christopher May protests with Iraq Veterans Against the War in Chicago in May.

Opinion | Juliette Kayyem

As veteran population changes, services must adapt

Adrian Walker

Governor Patrick can still act on Three Strikes

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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.

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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

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“Conceivably the expertise we’ve developed here could be useful in other states,” said James Roosevelt Jr., Tufts Health Plan chief executive.

Two insurers see new markets beyond Mass.

Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care are looking to boost business outside Massachusetts when the US health law takes hold.

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Foreign affairs made a rare move to the fore of the campaign as Republican Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, prepared for a closely watched trip overseas.

Obama, Romney return to acid tone of campaign

Days after the Colorado movie theater massacre brought reflection and talk of national unity from both camps, the fight was on again.

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James E. Holmes was informed of his rights and of the likelihood of murder charges in a Colorado courthouse Monday.

Hearing provides first look at alleged Colorado gunman

James E. Holmes, 24, the man accused of striding into a theater and fatally shooting 12 people, sat wordlessly through his first court appearance.

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Book Review

Author Tana French brings homicide detective Mick “Scorch-er” Kennedy back to be the protagonist of her fourth novel.

‘Broken Harbor’ by Tana French

As Tana French’s fourth novel opens, someone has brutally attacked a family, the Spains, who had been living in a desolate housing development on the Irish coast.

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Cyclists raise money to provide free medical flights

Scott Havemeyer is coordinating a September bike ride that will benefit Angel Flight Northeast, which provides free flights for people who need access to medical care.

“Sometimes when I watch Mayor [Alex] Morse take some political actions . . . it’s like watching my children dive off a cliff into the ocean.”

Michael J. Sullivan,  former Holyoke mayor

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25 best burgers around Boston
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12 Bostonians Changing the World
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N.Y. vs. Boston: The endgame
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A West Falmouth home where sea meets sunset

Opinion

“No matter how many mass shootings we live through, the laws will never change as long as guns occupy such a central place in our culture.”

Farah Stockman 

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