Ryan Lochte brings home gold, beating rival Michael Phelps

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Lochte won the first gold medal for the US, outpacing fourth-place Phelps.

Elizabeth Beisel (right) congratulated Shiwen Ye of China after they competed in the women's 400-meter Individual medley on Saturday.

Elizabeth Beisel wins silver in 400-meter individual medley

The Rhode Island native finished behind China’s Ye Shiwen, who set a world record.

The Olympic rings were illuminated with pyrotechnics during the opening ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics on Friday.

Olympics Opening Ceremony hits ratings high

NBC’s taped coverage of Friday night’s festivities earned the highest overnight rating for a non-US Opening Ceremonies ever, summer or winter.

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Patrick returns 3 strikes bill

Governor Deval Patrick sent the bill back to lawmakers Saturday urging that they amend it to give a sentencing judge more flexibility.

Red Sox at Yankees

Rain delays Red Sox-Yankees

The first pitch is now scheduled for 6:05 p.m. after rain delayed the start of the second game of the weekend series in the Bronx.

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Movies

In ‘Ruby Sparks,’ a writer’s words create perfect mate

The film’s dreamy tale, made by two real-life couples, is almost as romantic as its back story.

Nicholson Baker.

Exclusive Sunday Preview | book review

‘The Way the World Works’ by Nicholson Baker

This collection of essays is Baker’s fourteenth book and prompts reflection on his extraordinary writing career.

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The completion of the Charles River Dam Bridge on June 30, 1910, created the Charles River Basin and gave Boston the waterway that is now integral to our urban experience.

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This stretch of the popular Regent’s Canal towpath is between the Whitmore and Kingsland Road bridges.

London’s edgy East End is game for Olympic influx
Patrons ate clams and fries at a picnic table next to the water outside J.T. Farnham’s in Essex.

The Roads to Summer

Along 9-mile ribbon, a clam lover’s paradise

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Keep up on the latest from the London Olympics

Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Gronkowski focusing on football, not fame

opinion | is that a fact?

Untruths in the liberal camp
Ric Engermann (foreground) and Chris Leon star in Company One’s “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity.’’

Stages

‘Chad Deity’ explores race and class through pro wrestling

How did ‘Monday’ become a racist slur?
A cat named Snow Shoe peeked out of the port window of her cage at the remodeled shelter in Dedham.

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The Soul Rebels Brass Band will perform at this weekend’s inaugural Summer Arts Weekend.

Inaugural Summer Arts Weekend loaded with jazz
Newport Folk Festival producer Jay Sweet (center) with legendary singer Pete Seeger (left) and the festival’s founder, George Wein.

Sweet gives Newport Folk Festival a distinct flavor
Since Mayor Menino’s letter to Chick-fil-A was posted on Facebook Wednesday, about 140,000 people have “liked” it.

Mayor Menino clarifies Chick-fil-A stance

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Rookie linebacker Dont'a Hightower will have Jerod Mayo by his side this season to help make a successful transition to the NFL.

Patriots’ Hightower following in Mayo’s steps

Dont’a Hightower, the linebacker the Patriots took in the first round in April, wants to make the same kind of instant impact Jerod Mayo made in 2008.

Metro

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The German submarine U-550 sank stern first near the waters off Nantucket in 1944.

Sunken German submarine is found off Nantucket

After years of research and days of painstaking searches of the ocean floor, a crew discovered a German U-boat that sank in April 1944.

Columnists

Dan Shaughnessy

The Red Sox are done

lawrence harmon

Privatization of Brighton field would set bad precedent

Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Gronkowski focusing on football, not fame

Adrian Walker

Boston City Council districts should be scrapped

Bob Ryan

In Kenya, successful runners mean more than medals

Boston Capital

Online retailers pressed to collect sales taxes

Brian McGrory

Mitt Romney, lost in translation

Yvonne Abraham

Future Boston breaks the Menino rule
A look at three of the medalists in 1948, when London last hosted the Summer Olympics.

Bob Ryan

In ‘48, London Olympics had different challenges

opinion | joan vennochi

Real Lives bill would empower people with disabilities
Tom Brady and the Patriots are back to begin another training camp.

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots camp brings thoughts of another Super Bowl

Tech Lab

The smartphone as a spending tool

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Nancy Baym (left) and Mary L. Gray are social media researchers at Microsoft Cambridge, becoming anthropologists of the digital age.

Cambridge becoming social media research hub

Some of the Boston area’s brightest minds are studying, in real time, changing attitudes and behaviors for Harvard, MIT, IBM, Google and Microsoft.

Politics

Political Notebook

The Sun ran a headline calling Mitt Romney “Mitt the Twit” following his comments on the London Olympics.

Olympics remarks bog down Romney trip

Mitt Romney struggled Friday to stem political fallout at home after his comments on Britain’s handling of the London Games.

Nation & World

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Syrian rebels withstand assault, activists say

Activists said Saturday rebel forces remained in control of their neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo after the army’s offensive.

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Many of the athletes from around the world will be posting both text and images on Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media, documenting their time in competition and in around the Olympic Village in London.

Welcome to the Socialympics

Thanks to the soaring popularity of social media, fans of the Olympics will have the opportunity to follow the London Games more comprehensively, and obsessively, than ever before.

“Boston has a critical mass of tech companies, universities, computing power, and big brains to pull this off.”

Lee Rainie,   of the Pew Research Center, on social media research

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

“Public agencies, not private colleges, should be accountable for public land.”

Lawrence Harmon 

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