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NYC Marathon canceled, mayor says

The decision Friday came after mounting criticism that this was not the time for a race, as the city recovers from Sandy’s impact.

Obama, Romney trade shots into final weekend

On Friday, President Obama accused Mitt Romney of scaring voters, while the Republican candidate warned of another recession if Obama is reelected.

Rudy Giuliani, who ran for president four years ago, said Senator Scott Brown would help “keep our expenses and taxes under control.”

Brown campaigns with Giuliani in North End

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani denounced Elizabeth Warren as a liberal who would be a “force for partisan gridlock in Washington.”

Sheila Bair

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Sheila Bair, pro-regulation Republican

The former chief of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, who endorsed Elizabeth Warren, thinks we still need to push back on big finance.

Heavy surf pounded the Outer Cape along the Truro-Wellfleet line.

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Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week

Waves from Hurricane Sandy pounded Cape Cod, a woman had her face painted in Salem on Halloween, and more of the week’s best images.

The fight for progress in women’s athletics continues — just as it does here for Harvard-Radcliffe’s Lenica Morales in a rugby match against Columbia.

Despite great gains, is there now a Title IX stall?

Harvard has added women’s rugby as a varsity sport but few colleges have followed their lead, which makes critics talk about Title IX stall.

Gael Garcia Bernal (left), his fiancee, Hani Furstenberg, and their guide, Bidzina Gujabidze, trek in the Georgian Caucasus in writer-director Julia Loktev’s “The Loneliest Planet.”

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Loneliest Planet’ a journey worth taking

An engaged couple take a vacation in the Georgian Caucasus, where a small, dangerous incident provokes a response that changes the rest of the trip.

JING WEI FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The choice to end a life

Discussing physician-assisted suicide is almost beside the point. What matters more is the nature, and the meaning, of a death.

New development plan for Lovejoy Wharf

A new development team has filed plans to restart a long-delayed residential and office complex near the bridge to Charlestown.

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Join The Boston Globe’s Greg Bedard and former Patriots tight end Jermaine Wiggins as they give Insiders an exclusive look into how they break down the Patriots’ film each week.

Globe exclusives

Hubbard squash grown at Ward’s Berry Farm in Sharon are a new offering this fall at the sprawling, efficiency-focused Greater Boston Food Bank.

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Food bank grows to meet a growing need
“I had no other options,” said Dr. Sujatha Balija, “so I booked a taxi.”

Philly to Boston, door to door, after Hurricane Sandy: $750

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The Senate race in Mass.
Employees like Helen Yuan, David Marr, and Jorge Romero helped make the Boston Harbor Hotel the top medium employer in this year's survey.

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Top Places to Work list expands
A special counsel found that in some courts, nearly all drunken driving defendants who waive jury trials are acquitted.

Change urged for drunken driving cases
The Obama campaign targeted Ohio State students, some of whom cast early ballots.

Obama campaign targets younger voters
Mobile games Angry Birds, Bejeweled, and Fruit Ninja are free or 99 cents and have been downloaded tens of millions of time.

Apps shake up video game industry

SCOT LEHIGH

Medical marijuana is not a threat
A gong sounds every time a client’s employee appreciation program goes live at Globoforce, a Southborough company that practices what its markets by rewarding employees for their good ideas and hard work.

Top Places to Work | Top Small Employer

At Globoforce, just rewards
The fight for progress in women’s athletics continues — just as it does here for Harvard-Radcliffe’s Lenica Morales in a rugby match against Columbia.

Despite great gains, is there now a Title IX stall?
President Obama resumed campaigning with stops in Colorado (above), Nevada, and Wisconsin, while Mitt Romney panned the president at a rally in Virginia.

Back on trail, candidates resume their salvos

Special section

Romney’s record

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David Ortiz, Red Sox ‘getting close’

The designated hitter said he and the team are closing gaps as a deadline to prevent him from becoming a free agent looms Friday night.

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A utility worker helped in the repair effort on Tuesday in Needham.

Fewer than 1,000 Mass. residents without power

Power was restored to all but about 690 National Grid customers, mostly residents in remote areas or on smaller streets, officials said this morning.

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Medical marijuana is not a threat

Boston Capital

Hurricane Sandy unlikely to torment Mass. insurers
Obama’s camp placed a premium on building what was called a “snowflake” model.

JOSHUA GREEN

Campaigns bet on their long games

Brian McGrory

Diary of a powerless man

Dan Shaughnessy

Why Boston is lucky to have the Celtics
JING WEI FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

JOAN WICKERSHAM

The choice to end a life
President Obama hugged Donna Vanzant in Brigantine, N.J., during a tour of devastated areas with the state’s governor, Chris Christie.

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Politicians push back

Edward L. Glaeser

Debate government quality, not size

Tech Lab

Surface tablet, Windows 8 may test users

Joan Vennochi

Mitt Romney backtracks on FEMA
Kevin Garnett tried to cover Ray Allen, but off the court, Garnett kept his distance.

Dan Shaughnessy

For joining Heat, Ray Allen gets cold shoulder

Yvonne Abraham

When the middle man is the new radical

Business

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Boston’s Fed chief says latest stimulus efforts helping economy

Buying billions of dollars of long-term bonds appears to be helping the economy, said Eric S. Rosengren.

Politics

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Economic data show more growth under Democrats

Despite the view that the GOP is the party of economic prosperity and soaring stock markets, the opposite has historically been true.

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Customers lined up Thursday at a gas station in Keyport, N.J. Fistfights occurred at some stations in New York and New Jersey as tempers flared.

Long lines, gas shortages bedevil N.Y., N.J.

Widespread gas shortages stirred fears among residents and disrupted some rescue and emergency services Thursday.

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A still from the DVD “Unba Unba.”

Boston to experience Human Sexual Response again

The wild, seven-piece freakshow of Human Sexual Response was a central act in Boston’s late-’70s rock underground. On Nov. 10, Boston gets another chance to live their unique mayhem.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

Denzel Washington plays an alcoholic pilot who is a hero after he makes an emergency landing of a passenger airplane.

‘Flight’ shows why Denzel Washington is a true star

You know what’s still worth $15 plus the cost of a baby sitter, popcorn, and parking? Two hours with Washington at the height of his everything.

“Whether it’s the mayors, the governors, county officials, if they need something, we figure out a way to say yes.”

President Obama,  on helping Hurricane Sandy victims

Magazine

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The PANDAS puzzle: Can a common infection cause OCD in kids?
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A new home with a traditional feel
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How grocery shopping got personal
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AP classes: A problem for Massachusetts high schoolers?

Opinion

“The issue itself may be peripheral to your life. But it is central to the lives of others.”

Scot Lehigh, on medical marijuana

Ideas

“In examining the scribblings once dismissed as detritus at best and graffiti at worst, they are unlocking real insights into the way people in the past read, thought, worked, loved, and joked.”

Ruth Graham  on the study of notes in the margins