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Woman named in affair with Petraeus was a high achiever

Paula Broadwell, the woman alleged to have been involved in an affair with resigning CIA director David Petraeus, was a West Point graduate with a degree from Harvard.

Bills at Patriots, 1 p.m. Sunday

Patriots’ keys to a win vs. Bills

The Patriots will be looking to restart their pre-bye week luck and win their third straight game when the Bills arrive in Foxborough.

Memorials dedicated to three killed in Iraq

A gathering was held in South Weymouth to dedicate memorials honoring three local soldiers who were killed while serving in Iraq.

President Obama wins Florida

Florida officials said Obama won the state by about 74,000 votes, bringing the president’s electoral vote count to 332.

Massachusetts laws prevent supervisors from sharing in tips pools.

Court: Starbucks owes more than $14m to Mass. baristas

Starbucks baristas had challenged the Seattle coffee chain’s practice of requiring them to share tips with shift supervisors.

BBC Director General George Entwistle resigned Saturday, just two months into the job.

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BBC chief quits after saying TV report was wrong

George Entwistle, BBC Director General, said it was the “honorable thing” to resign after a show wrongly implicated a politician in a child sex-abuse scandal.

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A sampling of stories from this Sunday's Globe.

 

Travel

Smackdown: Cambridge vs. New Haven

Fans of Harvard and Yale football are anxiously anticipating this year’s matchup in the rivalry that dates to 1875. Here’s how the two college towns stack up when it comes to town-gown essentials.

Travel

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/10/30/BostonGlobe.com/Travel/Images/_IGP1721.jpg A revamp in Valparaíso, Chile, looks to spark an influx tourists

This glorious yet dysfunctional port has always harbored a darker alter ego, but following a six-year redevelopment program, the city looks to attract tourists.

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., (second from left) with his sons (from left) Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy in 1938.

book review

‘The Patriarch’ by David Nasaw

Nasaw’s “The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy” is the sort of biography that begs to be called “magisterial.”

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/11/08/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/03%20Messiah%20Web.jpg Handel and Haydn Society Dress Rehearsal

How does a performance get from rehearsal to the concert hall? Join us for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how the music happens.

Globe exclusives

There is debate on campus and in the wider community about slaughtering Green Mountain College oxen Bill and Lou, left.

Editorial

Doomed oxen: A lesson in sustainability
The Republican candidate Mitt Romney delivers his concession speech.

Sunday Preview | Magazine

Why Mitt Romney lost
Rosie Flores is touring behind her new album, “Working Girl’s Guitar,’’ and singing the praises of one of her idols, Janis Martin, an unsung hero of early rock ’n’ roll.

Rosie Flores honors a rockabilly foremother

Sunday Preview | Magazine

Things to do during a New England winter
Elizabeth Warren said she needed to be more discreet on issues now that she is preparing to become a US senator.

Elizabeth Warren holds back with reporters

Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren and Governor Deval Patrick held a press conference at the State House Thursday.

Brian McGrory

Elizabeth Warren a woman of few words
Tierney volunteers, from left, Mary Condon of Danvers, Marjie Crosby of Lynn and Rachel Tose of Lynn fell asleep at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem while waiting for results in the Sixth Congressional District race between Representative John F. Tierney and GOP challenger Richard Tisei.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Nov. 9, 2012

Video

How a photo of a Dracut baby went viral
Medical marijuana that was packaged for sale in 1-gram packages at a facility in Seattle. Massachusetts is grappling with implementing its own law.

Medical marijuana law will challenge overseers
Boston Scientific is moving 800 employees to Marlborough, where it already has operations, and developing its headquarters there.

Marlborough lands new Boston Scientific headquarters
Melissa Shook’s “Dover, the Orange Line, Washington Street.”

Photography review

‘An Elevated View: The Orange Line,’ at the BPL

Boston Capital

Financial industry’s risky election wager

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Notre Dame at BC | Saturday, 8

With inner strength, Manti Te’o has overcome personal tragedy to help put the Irish in the national title hunt.

Through grief, Manti Te’o leads Notre Dame

One of the best college players in the country has overcome the deaths of his grandmother and girlfriend to galvanize No. 4 Notre Dame.

Metro

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JOSEPH D. EARLY

Joseph Early, tireless advocate for House district, dies at 79

The Worcester Democrat served in the US House of Representatives from 1975 to 1993.

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“Our job now is to get a majority in Congress to reflect the will of the American people.” - President Obama

Obama seeks end to ‘dysfunction’

The president used his first formal appearance since reelection to call on Congress to immediately make tax cuts permanent for the middle class.

Columnists

Spacer cable consists of three small wires protected by a larger one, all separated by insulated spacers.

opinion | Lawrence Harmon

A world of wires

Renée Loth

Money, fuzzy math plague voting system
Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the interstate highway system in 1956.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Obama’s Eisenhower moment

Boston Capital

Financial industry’s risky election wager
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in the 2012 film

Carlo Rotella

The uneasy censor
Supporters of Washington state’s gay marriage law celebrate it passing Tuesday.

Joshua Green

Voters start a liberal landslide
Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren and Governor Deval Patrick held a press conference at the State House Thursday.

Brian McGrory

Elizabeth Warren a woman of few words

Scot Lehigh

The GOP’s election-denial disorder

Christopher L. Gasper

Aqib Talib worth the gamble for Patriots

Juliette Kayyem

Obama has a mandate — immigration reform

joan vennochi

How Brown lost support from women

Yvonne Abraham

Expensive lessons of 2012

Nation & World

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About 9,000 Syrian refugees crossed into Turkey in the past 24 hours, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.

Syrian refugees flee by thousands, UN says

The United Nations reported that 11,000 Syrians fled to neighboring countries Friday, in one of the largest single-day torrents of refugees.

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Massachusetts laws prevent supervisors from sharing in tips pools.

Court: Starbucks owes more than $14m to Mass. baristas

Starbucks baristas had challenged the Seattle coffee chain’s practice of requiring them to share tips with shift supervisors.

Arts

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Graduate student Jonas Naham, here riding a rented Hubway bike along Massachusetts Avenue, doesn’t own a helmet. “If I had one, it wouldn’t be where my bike was,’’ he says.

Boston goes aggressively after helmetless bicyclists

Pro-helmet forces have launched initiatives meant to encourage cyclists to don headgear. The question is whether cyclists will be convinced to change their ways.

“People are just sort of sitting on their hands, and that has implications for the economy.”

Raymond G. Torto,  economist

Magazine

The cover for the November 4 2012 issue

How to be a New England vegetarian in winter
The cover for the October 28 2012 issue

The PANDAS puzzle: Can a common infection cause OCD in kids?
The cover for the October 21 2012 issue

A new home with a traditional feel
The cover for the October 14 2012 issue

How grocery shopping got personal

Opinion

“If, as the US Supreme Court has ruled, money equals speech, then the 2012 campaign broke the sound barrier.”

Renée Loth 

Ideas

“This growly and pugnacious Canada bears little resemblance to the nation of unobtrusive peacekeepers that Americans have known. And the change in tone has been nothing if not deliberate.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the new Canadian nationalism